Solving The Enigmas Of Everyday Design

Have you ever wondered why some cars have fuel fillers on the left, and others on the right? Why your VCR is stuffed with functions that you’ll never use? Why women button their clothes from the left, and men from the right? Or why CD cases are smaller than DVD cases when the discs are the same size?

See this fantastic slideshow at the IHT website.

Cool Home Pages: Site Of The Week

Just came to know that Cool Home Pages has listed our website in their ‘Sites Of The Week’ section. This came as a very pleasant surprise. Check out our website.

A very special thanks and congratulations to the entire team at Arun Verma Design Studio. Deepak, Anil, Sunil: You guys rock!

Anish Kapoor’s Mirror To The Sky

 

Anish Kapoor’s Sky Mirror is a breathtaking, 35-foot-diameter concave mirror made of polished stainless steel. Standing nearly three stories tall at the Fifth Avenue entrance to the Channel Gardens at Rockefeller Center, Sky Mirror offers a dazzling experience of light and architecture, presenting viewers with a vivid inversion of the skyline featuring the historic landmark building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Sky Mirror is on view, free and open to the public, from September 19th through October 27th, 2006. This exhibition is presented by Tumi, organized by the Public Art Fund and hosted by Rockefeller Center owner Tishman Speyer. Read more

Shopping Cart Art

Dumped supermarket trolleys litter our rivers and canals. Now one artist is rescuing them, to create these incredible wire sculptures that celebrate our water wildlife…

Awesome work!

[Link via KM through email]

Animal Thing

“Animal thing”

Horse lamp, Pig tray and Rabbit lamp.

Who wouldn’t want a horse to lighten up your living room and a pig to serve your guests?

Furniture to fall in love with at first sight, or hate forever.

Designed by Front for Moooi

http://www.moooi.nl/

Root Artist

David Flood is a sculptor creating contemporary, abstract, fine art wood sculpture at his studio in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA. His work evokes philosophers stones. He works with naturally formed pieces of wood using a subtractive and sometimes reconstructive technique to reveal inherent aesthetic qualities such as organic form, texture, and color. Philosophers stones are akin to abstract art in that both reveal an appreciation of these same (and other) aesthetic qualities. Some who view David’s work share the comment that they will “see things differently and see different things” when they next behold a tree.

See David’s work.

How To Make Cufflinks Out Of Ethernet Connectors

Mark got invited to a fancy party and couldn’t find his cufflinks, so he hacked a pair out of some Ethernet connectors and bits of wire; and thus the crimp-your-own cufflink was born. He’s written up his mod in detail for others who want to follow suit.

[Link BoingBoing]

Jewelry Design Show At Creativegarh Gallery

Creativity That Starts From A Seed

We’ve seen sculptures from human bones, water sculptures, fork art and now, here’s gourd art. Read about Judy Arrigotti and her gourd creations here.

Wonder what we’ll create next.

Using Creativity To Make Patients’ Lives Easier

If you thought that only writers, painters and filmmakers are creative, O’Berry Center workers just proved you wrong.

I would love to have a job like this.