Another sweet commercial from Blackberry, love the way the narrative is being demo—d via the capabilities of the phone.

A sleek concept car has introduced a new design theme for Japanese car maker Mazda. Mazda has revealed its future design direction with the sleek Shinari concept car. The coupe-like four-door embraces the new Kodo design theme, which replaces the Nagare look that has formed the basis for Mazda design for years. Kodo translates to “soul of motion”, something Mazda designers are trying to capture with an athletic, low slung stance that melds distinctive creases with flowing character lines.

Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case, 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally “performs” its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and assembled by hand—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself.

Moshun a beautiful animated font by Calango T,M,I and R would have to be my favourite ones being animated.

Ciclotte’s incredibly expensive (1ok), but beautifully designed exercise bike makes getting in shape a bit more visually appealing. Built out of steel, glass and carbon fiber, the Ciclotte also houses an impressive internal mechanism: Push the pedals and the epicycloid crank system—a set of eccentric gears like you’d find in a pencil sharpener—spins the magnetized main wheel. This in turn generates a magnetic field and plenty of thigh-burning resistance. (from pfk)

An architecture design studio based out of beautiful but cold Vermont. Birdseye known for its beautiful modern farmhouses, interpreting what is considered the old and recreating the what’s new. Just lovely.

Loving Cee-Lo Green of Gnarls Barkley simple motion lyric style on the video for his new single.

Prague-based designer Pavel Fuksa, ambitiously designed 178 different matchbox designs for use in a new music video by Navigators – My Place.

The Telsa Model S is coming deliveries start 2012, great thing about the car not only is it electric you can choose from one of three battery pack options to suit typical driving needs: 160, 230, or 300 miles per charge. Concerned with Range Anxiety? Like the Roadster, the Model S is engineered to plug into nearly any outlet, anywhere in the world. Plus, with the 45 minute QuickCharge or 1 minute battery swap, the car begs to be driven everywhere you want to go, it can seat 7 people and teh greatest thing of it all has a beast interior display a gigantic 17-inch touchscreen with in-car 3G connectivity means with a few quick taps, access to streaming radio, gps navigation, restaurant recommendations, and movie showtimes. Can’t wait till they start showing the experience around the UI for this. oh all under 50k cha ching!.

Making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed tower design, Choi + Shine Architects have created a series of towers that are powerful, solemn and variable. These iconic pylon-figures will become monuments in the landscape. Seeing the pylon-figures will become an unforgettable experience, elevating the towers to something more than merely a functional design of necessity. The pylon-figures can be configured to respond to their environment with appropriate gestures. As the carried electrical lines ascend a hill, the pylon-figures change posture, imitating a climbing person. Over long spans, the pylon-figure stretches to gain increased height, crouches for increased strength or strains under the weight of the wires. Despite the large number of possible forms, each pylon-figure is made from the same major assembled parts (torso, fore arm, upper leg, hand etc.) and uses a library of pre-assembled joints between these parts to create the pylon-figures’ appearance. This design allows for many variations in form and height while the pylon-figures’ cost is kept low through identical production, simple assembly and construction. Like the statues of Easter Island, it is envisioned that these one hundred and fifty foot tall, modern caryatids will take on a quiet authority, belonging to their landscape yet serving the people, silently transporting electricity across all terrain, day and night, sunshine or snow.

The Truncheons are a family of lamps consisting of a suspension, an articulated task lamp, and a freestanding Truncheon to be rested against a wall. Harnessing the tooled traces left by a CNC lathe, the Truncheon body is surfaced with a delicate, metered scallop. At close viewing, the rhythm of this cross-grain scalloping creates a soft interplay with the more linear wood grain of the maple and walnut. Each lamp holds an LED bulb which is warm in color, yet cool to the touch. Viewed indirectly from the lamp’s interior hardwood surfaces, the light emitted is rich in quality while maintaining the efficient characteristics that has driven the development of LED light. The Truncheon task lamp sits in a poured, weighted base of gypsum and marble. Free of electrical components, the heavy base allows the arm of the lamp to make a soft rotation. Avoiding unnecessary knobs or switches, the Truncheons adhere to their namesake- precise, compact sticks fashioned out of traditional materials. Created by New-York studio Commonwealth.

Sketch Chair by Greg Saul is a exploration in using computation and rapid manufacturing techniques to allow users to design and build their own products or in this case their own chairs. Created in Processing, the application allows users to take part in the entire process of designing and building their own chairs. Chairs are designed using a simple 2D sketch-based interface and design validation tools. Thereafter chairs can be fabricated from sheet materials cut by a laser cutter, CNC milling machine or papercutters. I love the “simulation” & “simulation figure” feature, amazing. But the narrator’s voice on the video seems like he needs to stand back from the mic a bit, I can hear drop of saliva in his mouth.

Meta-Mirror is a concept application that delivers an enhanced television experience without disrupting the conventional expectations of home entertainment. It allows viewers to access content relevant to the program currently being viewed. The product is a software platform which runs on a secondary device of the users choice, displaying this contextual content over a mirror of the television broadcast. By bringing together live television, real-time contextual information and an intuitive user interface, Meta Mirror is positioned to update television from uni-directional broadcast to two-way interaction. In lifestyle programming (image above) tagged objects, in this case ingredients, become clickable. This in combination with 3rd party supermarket plugins makes putting together shopping baskets simple. More information can be found at notion, fingers crossed hopefully this proof of concept becomes a reality.

PUMA Social honors the After Hours Athlete. Forget calorie counting, fitness training, and hydration levels. PUMA Social reminds us that we are all athletes, even if the only time we run is to catch a cab home.  From ping pong and foosball to darts and karaoke, PUMA Social is dedicated to after hours sports. Because we know it takes just as much effort to score a phone number as it does to score a goal. Nicely thought-out brand niche/category.

Nice spot from BlackBerry. When “fun meets business”.

The DBA Pen is the only 98% biodegradable pen in the world. It’s also the only pen to use ink composed of simple, environmentally responsible ingredients. Produced at a wind-powered facility in the United States, it was designed as a responsible alternative to the wasteful and often toxic pens we use almost every day. And with its straight forward design and rollerball tip, made by dba.

Sneak Peek is an interactive window installation in Banana Republic’s flagship London store. Users could run their hand across the window to spin a projected carousel of looks from the forthcoming collection. Nice concept and nicely executed.

Pretty nice. An interactive music video for Broken Bells by Sony Music. There site is pretty as well.

Mercedes Benz Museum, designed by dutch architects UN Studio, is based on the geometry of a clover, with the spaces connected between two helical ascending ramps, around a central atrium. Ben van Berkel, joint founder and director of UNStudio “The Mercedes?Benz Museum sets up an interface for a series of radical spatial principles in order to create a completely new typology”. And by this, he refers to how visitors experience the museum: They do not begin their visit to the exhibition at a conventional entrance at the base of the building. They are transported by lift to the top floor. Here they have the choice of two tours, during which they descend through the building. The paths of each tour meet on each floor, enabling visitors to switch between tours – the Collections tour and Legend tour – should they wish to do so. (from archaily)

Precious’s brain is an on-board device that captures all of his experiences, combined with a cloud-based system that analyzes those experiences. Put this all together and get a bike that’s able to express itself in his own words. He shares his up-to-the-moment thoughts, and has a subconscious which allows him to dream about all he’s been through.

Loving the gorgeous architecture and environments from Uglycute. A design and architecture office based in Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 1999 by Andreas Nobel, interior designer, Fredrik Stenberg, architect, Markus Degerman and Jonas Nobel, artists. Working on expanding the concept of design by crossbreeding it with our different professions and trying to analyze its impact on society by not only practicing but also writing, teaching and organizing workshops.

Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Roger Duffy, the training center is focused on improving the performance of the players and team. This extends to the building’s bold and aggressive graphics designed by Michael Gericke and his team at Pentagram. Using the identity which they previously developed for the Jets, the graphics have been integrated into the architecture to create a holistic environment that fosters a sense of pride, focus and competition for the team and carries the spirit of the Jets onto the training field.

Architecturally the Jets Training Center has a transparency that allows it to be an extension of the playing field or game space, making the headquarters unmistakably about the game. The complex includes four outdoor fields (three natural turf, one artificial) and one indoor field with a 95-foot-high ceiling. The building straddles the main field, and all entry points to the building and many of its offices, rooms and interior spaces have a view of the field. The main entrance for the headquarters has been designed to evoke the tunnel that players run through when they go out onto the playing field. (The Jets themselves enter the building through this space, unlike at other camps or playing centers, where the players’ entrance is usually at the back of the building or even the loading dock.) The designers have extended the field into the building in internally illuminated yard lines, and these integers help define the interior spaces, appearing in the lighting, flooring, walls and ceiling. The lines even extend through the front desk in the lobby is just simply beautiful. (more at pentagram)

The DIY kit is a makeshift trolley that’s really durable and is made from self-adhesive cardboard parts. It transforms from reckless pieces of cardboard to a functional cart for parcels within minutes. You don’t have to be a genius to piece the cart together because its construction is very basic and simple.

It’s strong enough to take in up to 20 kgs and the parts stay bonded strong thanks to the special repulpable contact adhesive. Consisting of a set of wheels and two different types of handle, a combination of these components allows you to move boxes of almost any size and shape! Once home, you can literally recycle the whole trolley (wheels and adhesive included) because once used, you can’t dismantle it and reuse again. This is its the only downside. (from yank0)

Senior Degree Project for the Kansas City Art Institute. DJ touch screen interface and gesture interaction concepts.

OpenIDEO is a ‘web platform for facilitating social innovation. It is designed as a collaborative creative space where everyone (designer or not) can come together and participate in the design process, through inspiration, concepting and evaluation. It is based around design challenges which start out as simple questions but tackle significant global challenges’. Jamie Oliver – following his influential TED talk and known for his infectious energy – sets the first challenge. This is a great idea and represents how the design industry is responding to a more open, social, connected society.

The flame thrower vs. the common fire extinguisher need I say more, oh also slow mo what more do you want.

The floor plan clearly shows why this is “The Minimalist House”. Living in the house would probably make me go insane a “little to minimalist” for my likes. Location: Okinawa, Japan, designed by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates / Urbanist Architect.

Nice and long, time consuming video on Anthony Burrill’s now trademark technique for direct communication.

It’s been out for a while but just recently found out that this was initially a crowd-sourcing competition from Amazon. Tho I personally do not believe in crowd sourcing as it plainly cheapens the industry as a whole, the end product the commercial is great and is one of my fab 5 commercials out there. So whats the next TV spots going to be you ask? Why not do the same thing again. The Amazon Kindle has a new look, and the online retailer is launching another edition of its “Your Kindle Commercial Contest” in an effort to find the next fan-made ad for the e-reader. When Amazon hosted this same contest last year, Angela Kohler and Ithyle Griffiths were the victors for their stop-animation spot. The award for the new commercial is 15k not in cash but in gift cards hmmmm.