Archive for 07.2009

Röshults Grill

This sturdy grill is 100% manliness! Yeah!! Steel!! GROWL!!!

Sorry, I got carried away a bit there. But boy, this thing (the Röshults Grill 120 from designer duo Broberg & Ridderstråle) really feeds my appetite. One big chunk of back-breakingly heavy grey steel, topped off with an almost 7  ft² grill.

Fill her up with wood or charcoal, light it, and bring on the meat… Growl!

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House of Diffusion

I love a pure white interior. While others may consider it cold or sterile, to me it holds a sense of perfection and serenity.

In this respect, many may not care one bit for the House of Diffusion, designed by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects – but I loooove it!

The house seems to be designed to let air and light travel through the open spaces, allowing the mind to breathe freely again after a hard day’s work at the office… But maybe that’s just me?

Photography by Takumi Ota.

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Thinner

Through a process of extensive prototyping, testing and calculating, Swedish designer Tobias Berneth created the only 6mm thick table Thinner.

The elegant thinness really appeals to the aesthetic senses, while still the functionality is still fully intact. To gain the required stability, the table was constructed like the wing of an aeroplane. ‘Inspired by aeroplanes’… how Swedish!

And although it’s not actually the thinnest table around (that must be the 2mm thick carbon fiber Surface), it is nothing less than a joy to look at.

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Endoresuhoridei

The 2008 series Endoresuhoridei (‘Endless holiday’) of minimalist painter Sakamoto Tokuro brings about a sense of innocence and nostalgia.

Surrounded by nothingness, the playground objects are depicted in their purest form. The colourful plastics, selected to invite children to play, tell the story of the careful design of the objects. Through these paintings, Tokuro seems to want the honor the designers of these symbols of childhood innocence and times past.

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Black & White clock

Prague-based designer Vadim Kibardin was listed by Wallpaper magazine as one of 40 designers “who will change the world”. Of course that remains to be seen, but this concept for a digital clock is pretty sweet.

The Black & White clock has only the necessary 4 seperate numbers, needed to tell the time. No case holding them together or anything. It has one subtle extra feature: a light sensor should invert the figures from black in the day light, to white when the room is dark at night.

Vadim Kibardin is still looking for a manufacturer.

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Number Stamps

In 1976 the first Number Stamps of Dutch designer Wim Crouwel were released. Like these stamps all the designs from Wim Crouwel are functional and esthetic. His designs are always personal in spite of his systematic treatment.

Crouwel has used a very strict grid for the numerals and letters. All the corners are 45 degrees, with a exception of the “4” because of the width of the “4”. The backgrounds of all these stamps are all different. The tone gradation from dark to light is sometimes higher and sometimes lower. Otherwise the horizontal bar could be exactly at the change, which wouldn’t be visible.

The typeface “Gridnik” which Crouwel designed for these stamps was original designed for the keys of a Olivetti typewriter. The typewriter never went into production, because the computer took over. The KLM a Royal Dutch Airline company is using the Gridnik now in their new house style for facts and data.

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Synoptic

Synoptic is a 3D interactive infographic based on a meteorological data set from Augsburg, Germany. Within the clean interface users can select environmental attributes to explore, alter time-spans, and detect patterns over time on a three-dimensional line graph landscape.

This nice piece of minimalist data visualisation is from Roland Lößlein, a 23 years old student of the Multimedia course at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg. He is a freelance developer/designer for the web, besides his personal project We Ain’t Plastic.

Weather should no longer be only of interest when people have to choose the right clothes, plan recreational activities or find topics on conversation. With this interface he wants to call up the fascination for the dynamic and the complexity of weather and decided that it should be the main issue of his job, to motivate the user to recognise this.

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Leica M8 Special Edition White Version

Okay – it may not be exactly minimalist… but I know you love this camera!

This pure-white Leica M8 special edition is available for a measly $8,500.00… So empty out your piggy banks and run to the shop, kids! (via hypebeast)

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Koin

Throughout his life he was dedicated to creating and developing the “ideal” everyday object.

These words describe the passion of artist and architect Bruno Limberger. His 1960 Koin piggy bank was re-vived in 2007 by Swiss designers Gabriela Vetsch & Andre Riemens for manufacturer Merlo-T.

And although the couple has made a few adjustments and has added additional sizes, Limberger’s original design concept remains absolutely timeless.

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The Daily Figure

Every day, illustrator Kyle T. Webster posts a sketch he’s made on his aptly-named blog The Daily Figure.

The subjects of his drawings are often female figures, which he elegantly brings to life with just a few lines,  trusting the Gestalt principles.

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