Posts tagged design
New rule: No more logos made using Paprylus typeface. Everyone alright with that?
I decided to value the gathering of experiences over the acquiring of stuff, and to get rid of stuff which would enable the gathering of more experiences. … Stuff gets old and breaks and takes up room in your house, experiences stick with you for life and make you a better person. The more I thought about this, the more obsessed I became. The more I traveled, the more I realized how much less stuff I actually need to be happy, and how much happier I was with less stuff. I knew I had physical clutter, I didn’t realize how much mental clutter came with it. The more I travel the less I pack, and the more I realize that increasing what I own is just increasing cruft— and, that I should get rid of it.
A little ramble inspired by this pic of Vesu in Walnut Creek, California on ArchitectureBlog. First of all, you should follow it if you aren’t already. I love all of the unique houses, kitchens, and bedrooms they post. You know, it’s the “pretty picture” kind of blog.
“We are testing your capacity to willingly create that which you spend your entire life trying not to create: the worst logo ever. Participants have the chance to conjure up design demons from the darkest nether regions of their inner world and be purged of them forever. The process looms with graphic doom and will undoubtedly leave the best among us contorted in pain. But may the lowest of the low-brow win! The logo lancelot with the worst design will surely bask in the glory of industry infamy for generations to come.”
This 300-square-foot loft puts anything I’ve ever lived in to shame.
Sweet, stuttering christ check out this house:
“This elliptically shaped property is composed of an enclosed space around a patio. The inner façade is fully glazed. The house has a linear layout: the hallway behind the entrance opens out into one big space where the functions of cooking, eating, living and working occupy their own particular zones. The space then narrows again, into a corridor that leads to the main sleeping quarters. The basement with a sauna, the children’s rooms and sun room is linked with the floor above by an open well. The partially lowered ground level around the sun room increases daylight and contact with the terrace.”
I’ll consider myself a success when I live in something this profoundly unique and functional.
“The focus of this prototype version was to use off the shelf materials found at the local hardware store like copper plumbing pipe, shipping blankets, zip ties, and carpet padding.”
Want want want etc. (Via Contemporist.)
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