A new and as-always fun and functional project from New Orleans genius musician/inventor, Quintron. It’s really a beautiful idea, especially the rain drop trigger. In my perfect parallel universe every home would come equipped with this set of devices.
Thanks Stephen Fishman
New York-based Graphic designer Mike Joyce made a whole slew of super-clean versions of old punk, post-punk, hardcore and indie flyers which he appropriately titles “Swissted.” The concept comes from “his love of punk rock and Swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another.”
More after the jump…
Now we know…it was those cigar-chomping traffic managers, with their difficulties over volume that led to the flat-pack sofa. Or, so it seems in this stylish film S-73 by designers, artists, and film-makers, Ray and Charles Eames. Interestingly this 1954 film shows the Herman Miller flat-pack sofa pre-dates Christian Gillis’s idea of ready-to-assemble furniture by 2 years, which would mean IKEA owes it all to Miller, and their team of designers, which included the Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, and Robert Propst, who gave us the “Noguchi Table,” “Eames Lounge Chair,” “Marshmallow Sofa,” “Ball Clock,” and Nelson’s own “Hang-It-All,” and the “Sling Sofa.”
Previously on Dangerous Minds
I mean, just look at it! It’s an exact carbon copy of him!
The Steve Jobs 12” action figure is manufactured by toy company In Icons with a U.S. release date in late-February. Steve’ll be retailing for $99.00.
(via BuzzFeed)
Jello Biafra throbblehead just in time for the Holiday Season.
This figure capturing his look from the 80s is limited to 1000 numbered units, stands at 7 inches tall, and is made of super strong polyresin.
Jello is accurately sculpted right down to the piercing glare, star belt buckle and Alternative Tentacles tee.
A little bobbing Dead Kennedy can be yours for only $19.95. Pre-order at Aggronautix
If you spire to roll something more complicated than a braided joint, perhaps you may want to test your skills with the Scorpion Joint.
(via KMFW)
Saul Bass was a genius. His title designs for films have influenced graphic artists and fontists for decades.
Ian Albinson put together this montage of Bass’s indelible creations for films that have become classics and a few that are primarily memorable for their title sequences.
20-year-old Tokyo-based artist Mayuko of Tama Art University created this rather odd typeface using human leg hair.
I’m assuming it’s not hers.
(via Nerdcore)
This looks splendid! Eames: The Architect and The Painter opens on November 18, 2011 at Laemmle Music Hall in Los Angeles. For more playdates go here. From the movie’s webiste:
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life—from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age—has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.
Eames: The Architect and The Painter
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Charles and Ray Eames: Mystical toys
Eames Inspired Prosthetic Leg
(via Kotte)
The Berioska Dance Company of Russia gets in an ultra-mod frame of mind in this video from 1969.
With great national pride our young and fashionably hip comrades dance a folkloric boogaloo while off in the distance Moscow’s Ostankino TV Tower (the fourth largest in the world) looms like a giant hypodermic needle.
