eBooks in the round
In case you somehow missed it, I love eBooks. I love eBooks so much that I can’t stand their clunky design and unimaginative interfaces. Also I’m not so happy about their high price range but this design from Christian Holland has rocked my eBook-loving soul to its core. I love this thing and really want someone to make it a reality. You can find it and other lesser entries in this submission forum from design site Core77.
Thanks to the original article from TreeHugger.
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Furnished by FedEx
AMAZING!! This guy is living in a house with no furniture but what he’s made himself from FedEx boxes. The bed, the dining table and chairs, the desk, the shelves, and the couch (pictures available), all are made of FedEx boxes held together with FedEx packing tape. Amazingly enough, FedEx isn’t happy about the extra press and has been legally harassing the site, fedexfurniture.com, for copyright infringement. That’s right, the same company that payed for the privilege of starring opposite Tom Hanks in Cast Away is giving this guy crap for using their products.
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Bouncy ball collection
After discovering the 3-D printer at the Evil Mad Scientist blog, I did some more poking around and found this how-to on organizing collections on Flickr!. The collection in question? 324 rubber bouncy balls meticulously organized by texture, color, transparency, pattern, and form. The weird thing about it is that all that work made a really beautiful mosaic of color that I couldn’t help but post above. Flickr! is a tag-based photo/social site that really is perfect for this kind of thing if you have the time. The original post is full of detail and well-worth looking at, but if you want to see something else, this site claims to sell the ‘original’ superballs.
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Inhabitat.com
In my quest to learn everything I read far too many blogs and news sites everyday but I’m always looking for more to add to the list. Today I found one. Inhabitat.com was founded two years ago by a NYC-based architecture student who seems to be have that magic combination of writing ability, intelligence, and beauty—read: not single. The blog covers issues of ecological sustainability in design and architecture. I’ve already read through all of this year’s archives and am loving it. Expect the plagiarism to begin soon.
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