At one time, you needed a desk that could handle a mountain of paper, a two-foot-deep monitor, a printer, and a CPU the size of a Labrador. Today, your entire computer is an inch thick and your printer is in your closet connected to your WiFi. You have moved forward. It’s time your desk caught up.
Italian design firm Santambrogio Milano has a motto: “Design is everywhere, in a stone, in a drop, in a smile, in a sound. The designer’s task is to notice it and interpret it.”
Here is a collection of extremely creative 3D video art displayed on various architectural platforms. Concept and implementation by French firm EasyWeb.
Greenhouse is a new club in NYC that opened last month at 150 Varick Street in Manhattan’s hip SoHo district. Greenhouse NYC hosts many green features and raised the bar for the nightlife industry by achieving LEED registration and transforming the entire space into a lush green oasis.
When it comes to visual installations and lighting design, British-based design collective UVA are constantly pushing the envelope. For their fourth tour with Massive Attack, UVA created a new stage set, with a wide, sculptural LED screen as the centrepiece.
Located in West Kowloon, the hub of the buzzing financial district of Hong Kong, the new W Hong Kong brings a large dose of New York swankiness to the cosmopolitan Asian business capital.
The most important art show in the United States, Art Basel Miami Beach takes place December 4 - 7, 2008. Art Basel Miami Beach combines an international selection of top galleries with an exciting program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design.
Atlantis, The Palm is the $1.5 billion mega resort with 1,539 rooms and a huge aquarium holding more than 65,000 marine animals. The first resort on Dubai’s man-made Palm Jumeirah island opened with a massive celebration show.
Designed by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders, Mondrian is a quiet enclave just minutes from the bustling center of South Beach with spectacular views of the ocean, bay and downtown Miami.
Etre Touchy gloves are a stylish, fun and practical way to keep your hands warm and dry while using your touch-screen phone, portable games system, music player and other electronic devices.