Motorcycle Rocking Chair

More for my Milwaukee Harley-owning friends, here's a way to get your kid started young - "Because hes got no drivers license and because of his own room being the only safe district, he needs a hybrid of chopper and rocking horse. With this machine he could learn to keep his balance and most of all to sit on it in easy position. So he closes his eyes and his arms broad."Made by Felix Götze

A Chair Chair

Sadly, this would be difficult to do with an ottoman:

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Danger Dog!

In Asiatic countries, you can buy just about anything a craftsman can make, and usually right in front of your eyes. Want a 'beware of dog' sign? These people have numerous examples, from various artisans. Danger Dog!


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Knocked Up Poster: Food & Tadpoles

The movie Knocked Up is still alive and kicking, as evidenced by this living movie poster: tadpoles and a spherical food source are mounted in a public space, emulating an egg and sperm. Creative and visually disturbing all at once, and not really telling anything about the film whatsoever. Worthy of winning design competitions, but, movie studios, fire these guys immediately:

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Typographic Tesselation

What's it from? Poster, wallhanging, sign? Go over to the Double-Breasted Dustjacket to find out.

Recycled Auto Parts Chess Set

Made from the sweepings from the garage floor, NOVICA's Auto Part Chess Set makes its pieces from used auto parts:


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Braille Map

Wonder how sight-impaired people read a map? With their fingers, silly:

Between The Legs

Print magazine gives us the most crotch ever seen on the internet -- er, I think that came out wrong... They have a rather-full compilation of a stylistic crutch: the view through a person's parted legs -- you'll be surprised just how often it is used:

H.R. Geiger Harkonnen Chair

I've never been more afraid that my office chair will eat me -- the H.R.-Geiger-style seat:

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Vintage Microphone Gallery

It's amazing how many different styles and shapes these old microphones come in, it's no wonder they end up being used for other things:

The Phonophone

The Phonophone: a passive amplifier, using centuries-old technology to make your iPod (or any earbuddified audio machine) perform for an audience.

Chalk Chess

The site looks more 'theoretical' than actually applicable in the real world, but it's an intriguing idea, with a product suited for unique materials (so long as they're two complimentary colors) -- Chalk Chess:

Pedal-Powered Monowheel

The monowheel concept has been around over a hundred years, but it hasn't ever really improved on things we've already got. Modern ones tend to be motor-powered, but the guy below put together this pedal-powered monobike as a design project:


Personally, in my technical eye, the gearing ratio from pedal to gears to wheel is much, much too small; the reason there's a small gear at the back of a bike is because the big wheel is attached to it and spins once for every time the small gear spins, but you can't transfer that to the monobike design seen here; the monobike above counteracts the gear-reduction with that tiny, tiny 'pusher' wheel the transfers the energy to the big wheel. I can't imagine a human ever being able to pedal fast enough to stay upright Huge pedal gear, tiny transfer gear, huge 'pusher' wheel...Gosh, darn it -- now I'm designing one. I gotta stop thinking so much.

Be Careful With The "Home Row"

Giving a new, more-girlfriend-friendly definition to the concept of "HOMEROWED!", some over-creative design student has come up with the idea of embedding a flexible keyboard into your crotch. Well, in front of your crotch, but be careful when you have impure thoughts lest your keyboard inadvertently type "NTHUJUY66NHYYHIUY7UTNH75BBBBB" accidentally.

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Merry Christmas, Neonatal Ward!

I couldn't hold on to this until next Christmas -- what a disturbingly cheery way to express Christmas, from lee ki seung:

Requires An Organizational Chart?

From The Infomercantile, the most basic and straightforward organizational charts that ever existed:

New Atomic Wallpaper

Bradbury & Bradbury, wallpaper manufacturers, have a line of 50's-inspired wallpaper, things certain to remind you of your grandma's bathroom:

From Eternity to Eternity

I actually own a new reprint of this poster -- I had no realize how old it was, but it turned up in a house being demolished:


My copy used to be framed and hung above my bathroom door; there wasn't enough room in the current bathroom for it.

Shepard Fairey Orwell Covers

Shepard Fairey created that Obey Giant image, and he might be accused as being a hack, but he really can do some awesome work, like these Penguin editions of Orwell books:

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Library of Congress: Abe's Fingertips

The Library of Congress has some neato posters -- advertising the LOC as 'knowledge at your fingertips', as represented by art interpreted in fingerprints. Cool stuff.

World Domination Notebooks

Need to get your kids moving towards Big Plans? Are they not sure how to start planning a coup, organising their superhero life, or becoming a princess? Start them out with one of these notebooks:

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Recycled Signs In Your Living Room

These chairs are awesome, but they look rather uncomfortable: seats from used street signs:

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Rainbow In Your Hand

Simple, effective, and striking: a rainbow in your hand:




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Chocolate Pencils

I doubt these have graphite in the middle (that just doesn't sound tasty at all), but just look like pencils; the pencil-sharpener is just used as a grater, to put chocolate shavings on foods and desserts:

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Markerbored!

A low-tech version of layer-tennis, these guys draw on and augment the drawings on their household whiteboard until it's full:

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Wobbly Chess

Not satisfied with normal flat cless, this stylish set has lightly-cupped board-squares, and pieces with rounded bottoms. The result is, first, wobbly pieces, but it also guarantees that the pieces will stay on their spaces despite table being bumped, gently carrying the board from the diningroom-table to the coffee-table, and other sorts of chess-interrupting events.



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Batphones! I said, BATPHONES!

You may not be combatting the Joker, but you can at least have supermamillian hearing with the Batphones!

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Live-art-blogging TED -- in Book Form

The TED Conference had people sketching the presentations as they occurred, making visual representations of what was being talked about -- it can be downloaded, in logically-arranged form, from here:

Gothic Throne...Throne?

It's a throne fit for a king -- for when you have to take an absolutely epic dump. It's gothically styled, but with all the modern conveniece of that low-flow piece of crap in your bathroom -- the Dagobert throne from Herbeau Creations:

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Shipping Container Construction

Just pack up the store, load it on a ship, and get it to the customers without customers coming to you -- Puma is doing an entire store, made of several containers.

Pixel Couch

This is what you get when you go crazy with anti-aliasing the furnishings:

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Awesome Forks

Now that's stylish!

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Flatstock 2008 Posters

Stylish rock-concert posters, via men.style.com: