It's a bike inspired by the Bauhaus: the design follows a set of formal rules, limiting the geometry to straight lines in a pattern of 60 and 90 degree angles in proportions following the principle of the golden section. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's the BauBike. (via things)
Of course, it would be even more fun if you went out riding it dressed like this:
Deisel, the fragrance (only for the brave, apparently - I can see why)
Tiger Tim
I know this blog is meant to be about design, and that's mostly what you find here, isn't it? But, this being such a fine day and all, it might just be worth reminding you young whippersnappers out there than man cannot live by bread alone. Take it from those of us who have been round the block a few times: Mike has his tree; and I have my walk. Sometimes, like today, I do it anti-clockwise; but mostly I do it clockwise (is that because I'm left-handed, I wonder?). It's where I go to look at the blue and the green, and sometimes the sideways slant of the rain. And sometimes just to think.
I'm no great fan of graffiti. Sometimes I think that's maybe to do with my age and the times I grew up in - and somehow it's impossible to escape that background. It's just the same with music: as much as I love it, I find it very hard indeed to derive any pleasure from listening to rap music (and if ever you want to extract a confession from me, just play me two tracks from Eminem and I'll be putty in your hands).
Anyway, back to graffiti. I think what I don't like about it is the lack of wit it so often displays, and how it invariably takes away from the surrounding environment, rather than adding to it. Not that I'm entirely against the concept of intervention, mind.
And then I was sat in my car at a set of traffic lights the other day and I noticed this on the wall of a pub. "St Angers" I thought "isn't that somewhere in Brittany? Is this to do with town twinning?" Then, after a couple of minutes, rationality returned to my brain and I realised that this was a very witty piece of intervention.
(Mind you, I could be entirely wrong: it might be an announcement from a Metallica fan.)
The LEGO Bluetooth Printer (warning: eats bandwidth).
Via 15 Wonders of the LEGO World.
Yeah, right.
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