Locked safe.
This elegant bike locking concept by Lee Sang Hwa, Kim Jin Ho and Yeo Min Gu is one of those rare product design moments when you wonder how a solution so obvious – now you see it – hasn’t been arrived at before. The saddle simply folds back over the rear wheel and a cutout section locks it. Quick. Simple. Done. Problem-solving design thinking of the highest order. MDKtm
For more information see red-dot.sg
Vertigo.
For their Beautiful Steps installation series, artists Lang/Baumann build daring staircases in surreal real-life situations. Certainly beautiful (and sometimes scary), installation #2 on the side of a building in Switzerland definitely leans towards the latter category. Vertigo sufferers look away now. MDKtm
For more information see langbaumann.com
Pop classic.
The classic Eames Lounge chair has been given a bright new twist with this homage in colour-block plastic. The Mal 1956 can be used indoors and out and comes in a range of statement making colours – or try it in white for a restrained silhouette. MDKtm
Available online from do-shop.com
Beauty and the beat.
Instead of listening to your favourite track over and over again, wouldn’t it be great if there was software that dynamically created an ever-changing mix that played – well – forever? Infinite Jukebox does just that and was created during Music Hack Day at MIT by Paul Lamere. The software creates a circle out of the track, slices it into distinctive segments and analyses which of these can be seamlessly linked to create a continuously-varied mix. Some tracks work better than others, especially if there is a regular electronic rhythm, and the results can be pretty incredible. All this is coupled with particularly beautiful infographic showing the track being analysed and linked in real-time. Music and visuals for your perfect party. MDKtm
Try it out at labs.echonest.com
‘Artists are good or bad, not fashionable or unfashionable. The tragedy of art today is that it is caught up in an empty fashion game that goes against the very nature of creativity, as artists are judged to be in or out, not for their merits, but their supposed buzzy immediacy.’
Jonathan Jones The Guardian
Number one.
A logo that is simple yet embodies everything about the company it represents is a rarity. This logo for the Official Charts Company by Give Up Art is a perfect example. Charts are about the struggle of entries that rise up and then fall down the rankings, each of them after that coveted number one spot. The one is simply created out of the overlap from the up and down arrows. Two repeated elements that make a third and say everything that needs to be said. Great graphic thinking. MDKtm
