DesignApplause – Page 206

Uh oh. Joker ski mask.

Feb 6, 2009

Uh oh. Joker ski mask sighted. via geekologie [PR]

BMW design chief resigns.

Feb 6, 2009

Chris bangle, BMW design chief, resigns. via businessweek [PR]

Atomic coffee maker.

Feb 5, 2009

Mid–twentieth–century Milan designer Giordano Robbiati achieved a spiritual union between form and function when he devised a new type of coffee maker in the late 1940s. Ciao bella.

If you “love” retro modernism and espresso, go no farther. Loved around the world, Robbiati’s patented coffee machine is a classic design of the ‘Atomic Age'(1945–1960). Known as the ‘Atomic’ it embodies the explosive energy and creativity of the post-war era of Italian coffee machine design.

It would be impossible to improve on the organic lines and sleek modernism of Robbiati’s extraordinary machine or to find a more versatile stovetop coffee maker. The quality and simplicity of the machine ensures trouble free operation for a life–time.

The all new “La Sorrentina” Coffee Machine is the result of close collaboration between Ikon Exports, Australia and the Bellman Company in Taiwan. Our goal was to produce a new product worthy of the Atomic style machine. A love of coffee and reverence for the beauty and functionality of the original design united us in this endeavor. After years of refinement the end result is a premium reproduction of Robbiati’s patented coffee machine, manufactured to the same dimensions and high standard.

Having just visited the Wolfsonian museum’s Streamline Show, this coffee maker shoulda been there.

More info at made in england
Designer: Giordano Robbiati
Producer: Ikon Exports (?)
Retailer (exclusively) : atomic coffee house

AirPod. This car full of hot air.

Feb 5, 2009

French firm MDI used the Geneva Motor Show to display a bubble-shaped three-wheeler that runs on air that it plans to roll out in 2009.

Drivers can recharge the air supply in eight hours by plugging the car into an electrical outlet or by going to an “air station” a process that takes two minutes. Priced at $7,500 USD.

Range: up to 137 miles
Speed: 40 miles per hour

Producer: MDI

Postapolis. LA

Feb 5, 2009

Mar 29 2009. A live 5-day blogathon in Los Angeles with back-to-back discussions, interviews, panels, slideshows, films and parties designed to push the architecture and landscape conversation from virtual to reality. An opportunity to reflect on how blogs participate, redefine and sometimes even lead the architectural conversations that are happening today on the street, in the schools, and in practicing design firms around the world.

via BLDG

mission one. electric motorcycle.

Feb 5, 2009

Mission Motors builds the world’s fastest electric production motorcycle, Mission One.

Top speed is 150 MPH and an estimated range of 150 miles.

Designed for Mission Motors, the bike was unveiled at the TED 2009 conference at Long Beach, California, today.

The announcement formally debuts Mission Motors, a San Francisco-based company geared to redefine the world of performance motorcycles. The company was founded in 2007 by entrepreneurs Forrest North (CEO), Edward West (President), and Mason Cabot (VP of Engineering).

Building on their backgrounds in engineering, a desire to develop clean vehicles, and a passion for motorcycles, the Mission Motors founders developed a proprietary high energy lithium ion battery pack that could provide both the range and acceleration needed for a high performance sportbike. The company (named Hum Cycles at the time) placed second in the transportation category of the 2007 California Cleantech Open, the largest cleantech business plan competition on the West Coast.

Designer: Yves Behar of fuseproject
Producer: Mission Motors

The brown corporation

Feb 5, 2009

Introducing the amazing Shitbox. A lightweight portable cardboard toilet.
Also doubles as a “stool!” via the brown corporation Final words: now wash your hands.

Flight stool. Pantone.

Feb 4, 2009

Looking back. Special edition Pantone Flight Stool designed for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City, 2005. Timeless sculptured plywood furniture.