Jet car.
Talented designer, stylist, and illustrator.
Designer: Norio Fujikawa
Robotic taxi.
This is a robot. A metro transport for two passengers with ordinary hand-held baggage or one with luggage.
The taxi is composed of two main parts – an undercarriage and a cabin. The car is driven by two electric motors which are integrated into the rear wheels. There’s optical sensors around all the undercarriage to get maximum view for driving, navigation and control. While the concept looks futuristic, industrial designer Kubik Petr believes it’s going to happen sooner than we think with the modern technology at hand.
Designer: Kubik Petr
via ecofriend
Antwerp train station.
Off topic. Maybe. Do Re Mi
Porsche chooses China.
Porsche unveiled its entry into the luxury sedan market Sunday night, the eve of the Shanghai auto show. [PR}
Brit insurance designs 2009 winners.
“The design world’s Oscars”
Icon Magazine
2009 Brit Insurance Design of the Year judges are: chaired by Alan Yentob and including Paola Antonelli, Karen Blincoe, Peter Cook, Sarah Mower and Yves Béhar.
And the winners are…
The winners and shortlisted designs below. Winners were revealed at the Awards Dinner on 18 March 2009.
Architecture
above: winner— Snøhetta, Oslo Opera House (Oslo, Norway)
above: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Westminster Academy (London, UK)
above: Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos, Eight Inscribed Houses and Three Patios (Spain, Gran Canaria)
above: Steven Holl Architects Beijing, Linked Hybrid (Beijing, China)
 ø Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects, Alison Brooks Architects, Maccreanor Lavington Architects, Accordia
 ø Housing (Cambridge, UK)
 ø Design Indaba, 10×10 Project (Cape Town, South Africa)
 ø Shuhei Endo, Education Centre (Osaka, Japan)
 ø Herzog de Meuron Architects, CaixaForum Cultural Centre (Madrid, Spain)
 ø West 8 + DTAH, Spadina Wave Deck for Waterfront Toronto (Canada)
 ø Adjaye Associates, Contemporary Museum of Art (Denver, USA)
 ø Junya.Ishigami+Associates, Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT Workshop (Kanagawa, Japan)
 ø McDowell Benedetti, Castleford Bridge (Yorkshire, UK)
 ø Subarquitectura, Tram Stop – Sergio Cardell Plaza (Alicante, Spain)
Fashion
above: winner—Italian Vogue: A Black Issue, July 2008
above: Prada by Miuccia Prada, Spring/Summer 09
above: Viktor & Rolf, Barbican Art Gallery and Siebe Tettero for The House of Viktor & Rolf
above: Helen Storey with Tony Ryan, Wonderland – biodegradable materials
above: Duckie Brown, Spring/Summer 09 – Menswear
above: Basso & Brooke, Spring/Summer 09
 ø Linda Grant, The Thoughtful Dresser blog
 ø Louise Goldin, Spring/Summer 09 – Knitwear
 ø Alber Elbaz, Creative Director, Lanvin, Spring/Summer 08
 ø Miuccia Prada and James Lima, Trembled Blossom, Fashion Film
 ø Maison Martin Margiela, Spring/Summer 09 – 20th Anniversary Collection
Furniture
above: winner—Konstantin Grcic, MYTO Chair for PLANK
Above: Adam Goodrum, Stitch Chair for Cappellini
above: Nacho Carbonell, Evolution Series
above: Wieki Somers, Cloakroom, Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam
above: Tord Boontje, Fig Leaves for Meta
 ø Tokujin Yoshioka, Venus Chair
 ø Ronan/Erwan Bouroullec, Magis Steelwood Family for Magis
 ø Shay Alkalay, Stack Chest of Drawers for Established & Sons
 ø El Ultimo Grito, Composite bench system for UNO
 ø Terrence Woodgate and John Barnard, Surface Table for Established & Sons
 ø Jurgen Bey, Witness Flat series for La Galerie de Pierre Bergé et Associés
 ø Nendo, Cabbage Chair for the XXI Ct Man Exhibition curated by Issy Miyake
 ø Arik Levey, Workit, work station for VITRA
Graphic Design
above: winner—Shepard Fairey, Obama Poster (show overall winner )
above: Daniel Eatock, Big Brother Logo
above: Mevis & Van Deursen, Baghdad Calling
above: March Studio and Aesop, Aesop Stores and Branding
 ø Troika, All the Time in the World for British Airways, T5, Heathrow, London
 ø Sender LLC and mo/de, official election campaign, Barack Obama Logo
 ø Kenya Hara, Designing Design Book
 ø Lex Reitsma , Jan Bons – A Designer’s Freedom
 ø The Guardian graphics, illustrating current financial climate
 ø Chase and Galley, IsNotMagazine
 ø Karel Martens & Enrico Bravi, Werkplaatz Typografie Arnhem, Oase #74
 ø Lorraine Wild, Martin Kippenberger exhibition catalogue
 ø Cornel Windlin, Rebecca Stephany, Marco Müller, Project Vitra
 ø Job Wouters aka Letman
 ø Engine Service Design, The Social Innovation Lab for Kent County Council
Interactive
above: winner—O’Reilly, Make Magazine
above: Lucky Bite, Dinner Table Game for Science of Survival, Science Museum
above: Troika, Cloud, Digital Sculpture for British Airways, T5, Heathrow, London
above: The GreenEyl, Appeel
above: Jeff Lieberman and Dan Paluska, Absolut Quartet
above: Joachim Sauter, Art + Com, Kinetic Sculpture for BMW Museum
 ø Rumpus Room, Video for Pet Shop Boys – Integral
 ø Bartle Bogle Heagarty, BA Terminal 5 “Live” Adverts
 ø Post-Spectacular, Fid.Gen Bar Codes
 ø Chris O’Shea, Joel Gethin Lewis, Andreas Muller, This Happened, Events
 ø Troika, Digital by Design
 ø Media Molecule, Little Big Planet for Playstation
 ø Zoo Films director James Frost, Radiohead House of Cards
Product
above: winner—Singgih S. Kartono, Magno Wooden Radio, Manufactured by locals in Java
above: Senz XL Storm Umbrella
above: Francois Azambourg, Pixel for Ligne Roset
above: Tony Mullin, Green Felt Protest Suit
above: Marloes Ten Bhomer, Rotation Moulded Shoe
above: Kode Design, Armadillo Vest with Facemask
above: Joe Wentworth, Ipogeo light for Artemide
 ø Jorre can Ast, Jar Tops for Royal VKB
 ø Noam Toran & Onkar Kular, The MacGuffin Library
 ø Revital Cohen, Life Support
 ø HomeHero, HomeHero Fire Extinguisher
 ø CinqCinq Designers, Clean
 ø Demakersvan The Netherlands, LightWind – Outdoor lamp
 ø Trent Jansen, 3D Stencil
Transport
above: winner—Medellin Metro Cable, Line J, Colombia
above: IDEO, Aquaduct Concept Vehicle for water filtration
above: District, Trek District Bicycle
above: Mar Kayaks, K2 Kayak for Nelo
above: Eric Larson, Ricky Biddle, Ben Shao and Austin Cliffe, Balance Sport Wheelchair
 ø London and Continental Railways, High Speed 1 and St Pancras International
 ø Daimler, Car2Go – car sharing
 ø Alp Transit, Lotschberg Base Tunnel, Switzerland
 ø Richard Jenkins and Dale Vince, Ecotricity Green Bird vehicle
 ø KTM, Stunt Motor Bike
 ø New Deal Design, Charge Spots for Better Place
 ø Think Norway, Th!nk City Electrical Car
The 91 shortlisted designs including winners will be on show at the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Exhibition from 12 February until 14 June at the Design Museum in London.
Find out more at designsoftheyear.com
20 most important inventions.
20 most important inventions of the next ten years. via businessweek. [PR]
SparkAwards. 2009
Welcome to the Spark 2009 Competition, Designers! The SparkAwards are the new competition created to promote great design and designers and encourage people to explore their creativity. Sparks invites everyone to participate–designers, art directors, architects, design firms, manufacturers, institutions, ad agencies, students and non-professionals may enter. Call For Entry begins February 1, 2009. (more…)
mission one. electric motorcycle.
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
ABUS bordo granit X-plus.
New! ABUS – as the inventor of the U-shackle lock – has once again launched an innovation for bicycle locks: the foldable locks.
above: granit X-plus
above: granit X-plus
above: granit X-plus
above: granit X-plus
Application:
The innovation for all cyclists, whether hobby cyclists or pros.
Protection of two-wheels with a high theft risk
Operation:
Fix your bicycle to a solid object (e.g. lamp post, sign, fence)
Technology:
ABUS X-Plus cylinder for maximum picking protection
Links made from 5.5 mm thick hardened special steel protect against brutal opening methods
Link construction offers maximum flexibility for external securing (i.e. lamp post)
Easy transport thanks to modern bag in stylish design
Compact lock dimensions offer various and simple fixing possibilities at the frame
Transportation:
Handy modern bag protecting against dirt
Producer: Abus
Axon eco-car. 2010.
Anyone wondering what gasoline will cost in 2010? Here is a car from the Sexy Green Car Show you should keep abreast of. It’s a four seater eco car built from lightweight materials and should be on the market by 2010.
The British-designed Axon uses a tiny 500cc engine to give a fantastic 100 miles per gallon plus a top speed of 90 miles an hour.
It’s made from recycled carbon fibre – the same lightweight stuff used to make the bodies of Formula 1 cars.
And it has also been wind-tunnel tested to make it as aerodynamic as possible.
The two cylinder engine has only 43bhp, but that should be enough to help it keep up with other traffic because of the light weight.
It will meet the latest emissions standards, emitting only 70g/km of carbon dioxide according to the makers.
You can place an order now.
Interior
There is space for two adults and two children in child seats, and if the rear seats are not being used, this versatile design has a removable rear to turn it into a pickup.
The seat covers in the prototype are made from recycled denim and pin-striped suits, and will remain an option.
Fast facts
Price: £10,900 ($19,000 USD)
Mechanical: 43bhp, 500cc, 2 cyl petrol driving front wheels via 5 speed manual gearbox
Max speed: 90mph
0-62mph: N/A
Combined mpg: 100
Insurance group: N/A
CO2 emissions: 70g/km
BIK 15%
Warranty: N/A
Marks: 10/10 if the quality is there
Main Rival: VW Polo Bluemotion.