The Vanguard and Underscore Magazine teamed up a while back to create 4 bicycles – Cloud, Mist, Dew and Rain single speed rides. All four are built on restored 1970s Ishiwata tubed frames. The four are sold out and at $3,200 each, I imagine they are probably on someone’s wall somewhere.
CLOUD Messenger Bike
MIST Messenger Bike
DEW Messenger Bike
RAIN Messenger Bike
From his new biography:
“Eichler did a great thing,” Jobs said on one of our walks around the neighborhood. “His houses were smart and cheap and good. They brought clean design and simple taste to lower-income people.”….
Jobs said that his appreciation for Eichler homes instilled in him a passion for making nicely designed products for the mass market.
“I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn’t cost that much,” he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the houses. “It was the original vision for Apple. That’s what we tried to do with the first Mac. That’s what we did with the iPod.”
A lot of interesting thoughts on the importance of architectural design and the influence on its inhabitants – whether it is directly perceived or not. Interesting to see Eichler and other modernist thinking from that period applied to today’s mass market housing production, to the house as product. Smart and cheap and good still? Cheap and big and comfortable still seems more appropriate. Funny that Eichler homes are now basically collectors items in that part of the United States. Smart and good but highly-sought-after and expensive and brand-name fashions. For a reason. Hard to imagine people boasting they live in an “Eichler” or a “Haver”, etc. in the 50′s. Very hard to imagine people now or in the future talking about their homes as “Pultes” or “Hortons” or “Lennars”. For good reason.
The future, according to the Microsoft Office Division – their concept video full of touchscreens, interaction, reactions, visualizations, collaboration, relations and productivity.
If this preview for a new documentary filmmaker Seb Montaz doesn’t at least make you want to get out from behind your computer then what will?
I Believe I can Fly ( flight of the frenchies). Trailer from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.
I’m really digging this Hirsaki Knife Box by Keiji Ashizawa, made of paulowina and local apple tree wood.
Similarly concepted, the Drawer Shelf is also a piece to recognize.
All images via http://www.keijidesign.com/
Coming up with a girl’s name was easy, then we found out we were having a boy and found ourselves mired in indecision. Previous favorites for our son’s name, due date December 8, were Aether – my favorite, Atlas or Atticus. Somehow we got stuck on A’s, maybe it just made things easier limiting ourselves to that start.
Eventually, we ended up with a name derived from my grandfather and her great-grandfather:
I went ahead and secured casimer.com (surprised it was available) for whatever reason.
I spent a little time compiling logos for various offices of architecture, trying to find some more interesting versions and grabbing some from more well-known studios. Obviously it’s not a comprehensive directory but it may serve other identity designers looking for a quick source of context and precedents for architecture office logos.
Of course if you’re an architect or have an office in need of a new logo or identity refresh please feel free to contact us.
