Our Small Planet

Current obsession with tilt-shift photography, though haven't gotten the chance to go around and shoot stuff yet. Anyways here are some of Ben Thomas's works from cityshrinker, just simply stunning to gaze at.

Seek

Motivation comes in all sorts of way, for me it has always been towards the things I'm interested in doing or I find intriguing to a certain level. Majority of people has that one thing they are truly inspired by or love or good at. And whatever that is they will always find the motivations to do it, that kind of motivation is not like materilistic or some kind of reward at the end of the day, but sort of a rush of energy that keeps you going. I haven't really found that one thing till recently and I have been doing stuff i have no interest in, they are not useless but still they just don't really matter because they can't bring me that certain 'high'. You just can't do something you dislike or have a lack of interests in, its not healthy and after all we only have one life, so might as well do something you like, rebel if you have to, because if you don't you will regret it later on. Anyways enough of my trashy thoughts.

Fonts

Cool fonts from Ill Studio, House Of Burvo

Muji

Chronotebook, Muji's new daily planner; with am and pm on separate pages to schedule out your daily routine. Exactly what i need.

simplicity is bliss

Loving Alan Cook's photographs and website, is just amazingly simplistic.

stumbling on happiness

Business Cards

Graphic Designer Jose Antonio Contreras

Furniture Designer Jim Profitt

Swiss Landscape Architecture Tur & Partner

Graphic Designer Jason Santa Maria

Clever designs relating to their specific professions.

Embroidery Artist

Naomi Ryder, an illustrator who specializes in embroidery art. Anyone who get the chance should go check it out, her latest exhibition will be held at the Jubilee Window Gallery in Canary Wharf from May 4th to 29th.

Apartment in a Box


Designed for compact living, all of the furnishings above fits in the 31x47-inch box.

weRobot

A simple design displaying famous robots.

Non-traditional

Usually I don't go on and blog about automobiles, but it's really hard to resist not showing this very non-traditional design by Italian auto dreamers SpadaConcept, this concept car is actually going into production. So while I'm at it, I shall showcase my dream car as well, the Maserati concept Birdcage 75th designed by Ken Okuyama, how I wish they would put this into production.

TV with Love

Sleek looking Tv design by Brionvega, a nice shade of orange.

Still Life

If only I had spare stuff I could throw around, but until then photographs by Oliver Pasqual

The Creative Minds of Japan

Well executed packaging design for banana juice, it's simple yet elegant. Designed by Naoto Fukasawa

growth

Óscar Díaz developed a living calendar. Its basically paper which absorbs ink gradually over time; numbers get ink-filled daily, or plants grow. It was showcased at the London Design Festival in 07.

Needs

By StudioBullitts for the InCase packs line, this is just what I need a great design for laptops carrying needs, if only they added another padding or section for my SLR and it shall be heavenly. For a more in-depth review visit here.

Zoe Chaise Lounge

It's hard not to resist resting on something that comfy; from Verzelloni.

oodles

For those who are like me, I can never figure out how much of a handful is equivalent to one person's needs when cooking pasta. Well it's time to bid your worries goodbye, from German Studio ding3000, a simple device to measure appropriate portions and it also serves as a placement mat for hot cooking pots so your counter top doesn't get ruined.

Aptera

The Aptera (wingless in Greek), a three wheeled vehicle which offers an all electronic or plug-in hybird option, designed by Jason Hill, who spent 12 years designing speed demons for Porsche and Daimler. Now runs his own company Eleven, which conceived this electric car; soon enough you will be seeing a lot of these sleek futuristic car running around on the streets, reserve yours now for a deposit just as little as 500 USD.

Light-field

The future of photography, heavily centered on processing instead of in-camera work (at least not much needed); though I would love to see how creativity could be implemented. Currently still a prototype from Adobe, the 100 megapixel camera takes a three-dimensional photo of the scene with 19 uniquely configured lenses in one lens and the image could be changed from angles to focuses later in processing.