Posts tagged with 'Friday Fun'
Friday Fun: Musical Bikes
Friday Fun: Musical Bikes
Dutch designers Merel Sloother, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong created a prototype of a bicycle that plays vinyl records as it rides. They call their project “Feats per Minute” and are travelling the world showing off their creation. ...
Friday Fun: Bright Wheels Light Up Bike Path
Friday Fun: Bright Wheels Light Up Bike Path
Carnegie Mellon University industrial design students Jonathan Ota and Ethan Frier developed the Aura system that brings attention to bicyclists by lighting up their bike. The students incorporated six groups of three tri-colored LEDs attached to the rims of a ...
Friday Fun: Bicycle Animation
Friday Fun: Bicycle Animation
Katy Beveridge, a student of media, illustration and graphic design, created short animations using bicycle wheels. Part of her final year dissertation, Beveridge created the project as an attempt to understand how animation gets created. The animation can only be ...
Friday Fun: Fine Dining in New York City Public Transit
Friday Fun: Fine Dining in New York City Public Transit
Petit filet mignon with pomme puree and asparagus; hamchi crudo with bone marrow, trout roe, laproaig and sweet lime; foie en brioche with port wine and raisin; and a chocolate and gold leaf panna cotta with raspberry. Salivating, yet? What ...
Friday Fun: Safest Bike Lock
Friday Fun: Safest Bike Lock
As part of the “3 teams, 14 days, 150,000 options” campaign, a team of engineers and technology experts created the “safest bike lock” ever invented. The campaign is part of Conrad, an online shop for electronics. The bike lock is ...
Friday Fun: Stockholm’s Metro Station Art
Friday Fun: Stockholm’s Metro Station Art
No wonder Stockholm receives some of the highest customer satisfaction scores in all of the world’s public transit services. In addition to placing an emphasis on service, value for money and customer information, Stockholm’s metro system also works to create ...
Friday Fun: Bicycle Parts Inspire Figurative Sculptures
Friday Fun: Bicycle Parts Inspire Figurative Sculptures
Yeong-Deok Seo, an environmental sculptor based in Seoul, Korea, created human figures using bicycle chains. Tcheon-Nahm Park, a curator at the Sungkok Art Museum where Seo exhibited his work, describes the artist’s message as a satire depicting the social reality ...
Friday Fun: Water Calligraphy on a Tricycle
Friday Fun: Water Calligraphy on a Tricycle
Nicholas Hanna, an installation and media artist working in Beijing, premiered his water calligraphy device during Beijing Design Week this month. Mounted on a tricycle, the device mimics the Chinese performing art of writing calligraphy on the ground with water. ...
Friday Fun: Tempered Steel Wheels for a Good Cause
Friday Fun: Tempered Steel Wheels for a Good Cause
Designer Ron Arad created a bike with sprung steel wheels as part of a collaborative fundraising effort with W Hotels in London and the Elton John AIDS Foundation. As part of the fundraising event, six top creative designers were invited ...
Friday Fun: Painting Favelas in Rio de Janeiro
Friday Fun: Painting Favelas in Rio de Janeiro
Dutch artistic duo Haas&Hahn worked with local residents to create a piece of art out of painted favelas, or informal housing settlements, in Brazil. The duo attempted the piece to counter the negative coverage and imagery of the favelas in Rio de ...
Friday Fun: Lightsaber Hand Rails in Tokyo
Friday Fun: Lightsaber Hand Rails in Tokyo
Hold on to your Stormtrooper gear, Star Wars fans, because we’ve got some galactic transport news for you! To promote the release of the Blu-ray DVD boxset release of Star Wars: The Complete Saga, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Japan installed ...
Friday Fun: Overlapping Digital and Physical City Centers
Friday Fun: Overlapping Digital and Physical City Centers
German artist Aram Bartholl has installed physical versions of Google Map’s red place markers in the middle of cities around the world. The urban art installation, “Map,” is meant to question the boundaries between the physical environment, the digital world and censorship. ...
Friday Fun: Fashionable and Inflatable Bike Helmets
Friday Fun: Fashionable and Inflatable Bike Helmets
   Hövding is an invisible bike helmet that inflates like an airbag in the event of a crash. (We previously wrote about it as a “Best of 2010” technological innovation.) Created as an industrial design thesis project by Anna Haupt ...
Friday Fun: Jeans for Bike Commuters by Levi's
Friday Fun: Jeans for Bike Commuters by Levi's
Levi Strauss & Co., creator of Levi’s brand of denim jeans, designed a new product, optimized specifically for the needs of the urban commuter cyclist. The “Commuter” series of jeans by Levi’s features fabric and construction upgrades that increase mobility ...
Friday Fun: Typographic Subway Maps
Friday Fun: Typographic Subway Maps
Fadeout Design created maps out of typography for the transit systems of Boston, Chicago, London, New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The maps are minimalist in design and the lines are made up of strings of words that ...
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