Illustrator of the Moment

Accomplished concept designer and digital painter. Nivbed, a.k.a Jason Cherry.
www.nivbed.com

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the blanket

by Keetra deen dixon

An exercise re-contextualizing an interpersonal phrase + personifying a domestic item in exchange for the reassurance of an intimate relationship. The blanket was made to function as both a sweet gesture & as an amplification of the superficial comfort of consoling phrases - a literal play on the blanket as an emotionally comforting facade.

100 Extraordinary Examples of Paper Art

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Photographer of the day

Stefan Rohner

http://www.stefan-rohner.net/blog/

people looking funny on bikes

Design wins again

Several nights ago i found myself enjoying happy hour at a local sushi bar on telegraph....One of my friends, who is not a designer (ha ha ha), pieced together her usual chopstick stand/holder from the paper chopstick wrapping.  After taking some time to observe her process, i decided to "design" and create my own chopstick "stand."  Needless to say, design won!

For Erica

sorry for the crappy photo

oh and that same day i was on bart and saw someone with one of the best XC bikes ive ever seen..made by cannondale....so you know its good ;)

design blurb

I was really surprised with orbit's most reason release of product.  They really choose well corisponding colors and utilized stark contrasts through the physical  form and the printed imagery. 

comics?

artist of the day...unknown...courtsey of but does it flot

but does it float

Maximus: the artist.

graham

this is the creature named graham puleo:

"and then we could have parties! and not have to keep the beers!"
"we could keep her in like a hobbit..rolling blunts. we'll just have the little daily buds, and the little daily swishers. you know"
"LOU...i love talkin to LOU" (in a new york accent)
"what happened? you tried to fuck the dog?"





*the publishers of this blog apologize for the lack of updates in the last few hours. both are currently inebriated and playing with dirty mexican puppies named Carlito*

Evian

first affordable hydrogen car

A group of investors and engineers based in Britain has unveiled a hydrogen city car they hope will revolutionize the auto industry with its innovative leasing structure and open source development — even though it looks like a Converse Chuck Taylor.

Riversimple pulled the sheet off its ultra-lightweight fuel cell Urban Car today in London and said it delivers a 50-mph top speed, a 200-mile range and fuel economy equivalent to 300 mpg. The company claims it also emits a paltry 30 grams per kilometer of CO2. The car features a 6-kilowatt fuel cell, which is miniscule compared to the 100-kW unit in the Honda FCX Clarity, but the developers say that’s plenty for a vehicle that weighs just 770 pounds.

“This next generation hydrogen-electric car brings electric vehicles into a new stage where range, charge-time and cost are no longer commercial barriers,” said Taras Wankewycz of Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies. The company provided the fuel cell that powers the car.

Porsche scion Sebastian Piëch is a partner in the firm. His family helped finance the project, which was been in the works for nine years and was developed with help from Oxford and Cranfield universities.

Many major automakers have relegated hydrogen cars to the back burner — Honda, BMW and Mazda are notable exceptions — and the Obama Administration wants to cut hydrogen vehicle R&D funding. But Spowers believes hydrogen is the fuel of the future.

A CAD drawing of the Riversimple Urban Car

He says the problem is automakers are focusing too much on science in a search for big breakthroughs when the basic technology already exists.

The Riversimple uses four in-wheel motors with regenerative braking and ultracapacitors to store the energy. Small components and a composite body minimize weight down to maximize efficiency. The composite body also gives the car its, ahem, unusual matte finish.

“I think that the auto industry is focusing a lot of money on research and development at a basic science level on hydrogen storage and fuel cell technology. We don’t think it’s necessary to do that,” Spowers told CNN. “We can use existing technology and integrate it into a whole system design approach — that is where the breakthrough has come.”

Piëch is equally bullish on the technology and says the Urban Car “represents a major step toward practical twenty-first century personal transport and toward the fulfillment of my great-grandfather’s ambitions for accessible personal transport.” His great-grandfather is Ferdinand Porsche. Yes, thatPorsche. Piëch says the Riversimple embodies Ferdinand Porsche’s “other passions: light weight and high efficiency.”

While the engineering is interesting enough, consider the sales pitch: The car is available only for lease and only in Britain, but the 200-pound monthly payment (about $330) includes the hydrogen. That’s about half what you’d spend leasing the FXC Clarity.

Riversimple says the leasing revenue will help finance the creation of a local hydrogen infrastructure, which is, of course, one of the great stumbling blocks to the adoption of hydrogen. The company says it has brokered a deal with the British gas company BOC Gases to develop a pilot fueling program “in a small UK city.”

The company plans to post the Urban Car’s design specs online in an open source environment that Piech says will hasten the car’s development and allow people to tailor the vehicle to local needs and desires. We’d like ours to look a little less like a dragonfly and a little more like a Porsche Cayman, thank you.

Spowers still needs to line up more funding to continue testing the car but he believes it could be available as early as 2013.

“I’m absolutely convinced that we’re offering a better solution for a segment of the transport problem and we’d be crazy not to pursue it,” he told CNN.

Photos: Riversimple

Firework drawings. - Rosemarie Fiore

This artists draws with fireworks.

post its?!

sweet stop animation by a senior at Savannah College of Art and Design.

Shout out to my girl Donna and her pup YA-YO

yo...if you are looking for an interesting blog you should shoot over to my homie Donnasaur's blog.  Hopefully see you in seattle soon Donnasaur 

JonOne exhibition in china...ill artist

18Gallery celebrated their opening with a special launch featuring an exhibition from JonOne. The newest project from Parisian gallery Magda Danysz, 18Gallery brought a nice addition to the city of Shanghai. The show showcased artwork from the European-based artist who has gained a following since his early days in the New York graffiti scene.

artist of the day.

love these posters

artist: kat-lam

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre

Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies
and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension.

The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at
some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires.
This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running fast, lead us to watch them one very last time :
being dismayed, or admire, making us wondering about the permanence of things.

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography

cell phone photo of the day : throwback.

no good cell phone pictures today. heres on thats real old!