Paul Villinski

Posted on March 21, 2008 Under Art

Look. Up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's New York artist Paul Villinski. The glider-flying sculpture artist makes it no secret that flying is at the heart of his work. Whether it's the fragile beer can…

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Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today

Posted on March 14, 2008 Under Art

We'll admit that there have been times when we've wanted to chuck our color wheel out the window. We've stood in Home Depot and really tried to discern the different between antique, eggshell, and albino ferret white. So, we can…

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Chris Levine: The Lightness of Being

Posted on March 14, 2008 Under Art

Have you ever wanted to see the Queen of England"¦IN YOUR FACE?!? Thanks to revolutionary light artist Chris Levine's heralded series of Royal 3D and light based portraits, entitled The Lightness of Being, now you can. Not previously recognized for…

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Wave of Innovation

Posted on March 13, 2008 Under Design

When most people think of cabinets and shelves, they often envision perfect right angles nestled up against a flat wall or surface. However, there's only so much you can do with ninety degrees"¦and that only so much usually results in…

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BedUP

Posted on March 10, 2008 Under Design

If Stanley Kubrick were to design a Murphy bed, this would be that furniture piece. This one comes to us from the good, surface area concerned Frenchies over at Décadrages. They recognized that one of the major problems of having…

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Adidas Celebrate Originality: Adi Dassler

Posted on February 28, 2008 Under Design

Most people think the name ADIDAS is merely an acronym for dreaming about something that starts with an 'S' all day. However, there is a bigger story behind those famous three stripes and that story began with the dreams of…

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Kluster's 72 Hour TED Challenge

Posted on February 27, 2008 Under Life

Kluster, founded by friend and young punk Ben Kaufman is in full force here at TED. The former iPod accessory entrepreneur recently (ie: last week) launched his new platform to allow groups of people (just like you and me) to…

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Choplery

Posted on February 27, 2008 Under Design

Plenty of people love to showoff their chopstick chops while chowing down on Chinese food. They'll specifically ask for the troublesome utensils in order to impress their friends as soon as they reach the table...and sometimes, if you look over…

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Studio Mango

Posted on February 19, 2008 Under Design

The modern design aesthetic has influenced a lot of everyday objects: furniture, lighting...nursing beds. Two years ago Paul Hendrikx and Frank Hanssen, the Dutch designers over at Studio Mango (Mixed Art and eNGineering...O), took on a project for Schell Industries…

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Flight404: Magnetic Ink x Solar

Posted on February 1, 2008 Under Design

We covered Flight404 several months ago and even then we were blown away by the work Robert Hodgin was doing with Processing. Nearly ten months later, we're still in awe of his stunning visuals, but this time around we're crushing…

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