no more problems with cardboard packaging

Deal with this:

http://inhabitat.com/ingenious-cardboard-packaging-folds-to-fit-any-shape/

-EDIFÍCIO DE HABITAÇÃO MULTIFAMILIAR_AROUCA

Arquitectura: CFM
Projecto: Habitação Multifamiliar
Local: Arouca
Render: arqrq (rui quaresma)

Captain Beefheart died on 17th December 2010

melting bunnies

Like the cold of winter is oppressive, so to is the presence of Christmas. What other holidays even are there? I can't think of a one, obscured as they are by a festive fog, thick as the thickest egg nog in the world.

Here then, a literal representation of the crushing might of Christmas, visited upon a symbol of another famous holiday. Enjoy.

Chocolate Bunny from Blink on Vimeo.

stone printer

This guy has built a printer that basically prints stone and he wants to use it in space, or some shit. I didn't fully read this article, I'm quite tired. I know I'm slipping. Let's just all take a cool tool.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1579263/3-d-printing-whole-buildings-in-stonein-space-this-printer-rocks?partner=design_newsletter

Draw your own conclusions (little illustration joke for you there)

paper cut outs

Link for you. http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/12077/jill-sylvia-paper-cutouts.html

Jill Sylvia is the arist. She cuts out the blank spaces on business documents. Have a look. It's delicate and lovely and weird.

This is cool, but wheels are probably more efficient

That's not the point though, really.

Live at Design Miami: Wouter Scheublin’s Walking Table from Designer Pages on Vimeo.

USB sticks in new york

Someone has gone around new york and hidden usb sticks in walls, so people can swap data.

http://datenform.de/blog/dead-drops-preview/

This excites me.

No one will really find this funny except me.

My degree put to good use.

lego adverts

I don't know if these are actually adverts for lego. But lego is one of those things that when I pick up makes me feel inadequate. It's like, I did an arts degree, I should fucking own this lego. Instead I almost always just make a house or some crap, by which I mean I just about stick four blocks together and leave it at that.

So, lego pictures:
























Someone has basically taken a Taj Mahal lego set and built some kind of freaky space ship looking thing from it. Like I say, this may be for an ad campaign. More info, and extra pictures, here.

-CENTRO ESCOLAR_GAFANHA DA BOA HORA

Arquitectura: Manuel Botelho
Projecto: Centro Escolar
Local: Gafanha da Boa Hora_Vagos
Render: arqrq (rui quaresma)

-MUSEU DO CARRO ELÉCTRICO_PORTO

Arquitectura: Marta Campos/Olga Feio/Joana Mendes

Projecto: Museu do Carro Eléctrico

Local: Massarelos_Porto

Render: arqrq (rui quaresma)

-CENTRO DE SAÚDE_ABRAVEZES

Arquitectura: Arquitectos Aliados/AVA architects

Projecto: Centro de Saúde

Local: Abravezes_Viseu

Render: arqrq (rui quaresma)

-SERRA DA FREITA I

Título: Freita

Local: Serra da Freita Arouca

Fotografia: arqrq (rui quaresma)

sick

I'm sick! I'm so sick! There is physical pain here and people must go through this every day but goddamnit anyway.

This has sort of lifted my spirits. Someone could say it is lame but who cares, right?

http://www.snotr.com/video/4944

Dinosaurs!

true story

Dave’s glasses are ripped right off his head, by the wind no fucking less, just as it pulls the air out of your mouth so when you’ve been chasing sheep for two minutes you just can’t catch your breath. You’ve been chasing sheep because five seconds ago you leapt into this bowl in the earth, where your friends were sat, Dave included, and machined gunned them with a Thompson gun made from air, then you saw the sheep and they thought you were just a thing, an alive thing, that wasn’t called Roland, and they had no idea you knew about pens, and the cinema, and you have no idea about them, except that they’re alive things and so you ran at them, being a shape, and they ran away.
Then, unable to catch your breath at the top of this cliff, you feel what it’s probably like to fly, because these winds are something else.

-EDIFÍCIO DE HABITAÇÃO UNIFAMILIAR_AROUCA

Arquitectura: Rui Quaresma
Projecto: Reconstrução de Edifício de Habitação Unifamiliar
Local: Cancelo_Arouca
Render: arqrq (rui quaresma)

godzilla illustration

BOB sent me this and it is blindingly good stuff. A bunch of retro illustrations for Ultraman monsters. Ultraman was a sort of Japanese superhero TV show.

http://pinktentacle.com/2010/09/monster-illustrations-from-ultraman-sonosheet-book/

Four decades of the NY Times Op-Ed

Little documentary about the art involved.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/25/opinion/opedat40-illustration.html

-BRIGANTIA PARK_BRAGANÇA

Arquitectura: C.A. Arquitectos
Projecto: Brigantia Ecopark
Local: Bragança
Render: arqrq (rui quaresma)

parallel parking

Parallel Parking from Yum Yum London on Vimeo.

Fun animation, and a smooth animation. Really nice.

-ÓPTICA_S.J. DA MADEIRA

Arquitectura: Rui Quaresma e Joaquim Milheiro

Projecto: Óptica

Local: S. J. da Madeira

Fotografia: arqrq (rui quaresma)

good product design: chair crossed with clothes horse/radiator

http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/09/08/hanging-on-the-drying-rack-chair/

the greatest music video i have ever seen

dinosaurs

click to reveal all those words.

insane animation

All I know is this is created by a man named Paul Robertson. I wouldn't watch this if you have a weak stomach. I think he loves 8bit looking animation (it might not even be 8bit, I'm not even sure exactly what that means). I can't really explain this video, it is amazing.

Kings of Power 4 Billion % from Zarradeth on Vimeo.

His live journal: here.

-PISCINAS MUNICIPAIS_MARINHA GRANDE

Arquitectura: Arquitectos Aliados + Arq. André Campos
Projecto: Piscinas Municipais
Local: Marinha Grande
Renders: arqrq (rui quaresma)

-HOTEL_PENHAS DOURADAS

Arquitectura: Arq.Paulo Providência
Projecto: Hotel
Local: Penhas Douradas
Renders: arqrq (rui quaresma)

-EDIFÍCIO DE HABITAÇÃO MULTIFAMILIAR_PORTO

Arquitectura: Arq.Alcino Soutinho
Projecto: Edifício de Habitação Multifamiliar
Local: Rua da Venezuela_Porto
Renders: arqrq (rui quaresma)

-POSTO DE ABASTECIMENTO DE COMBUSTÍVEIS_CARREGOSA

Arquitectura: Arq.Rui Quaresma
Projecto: Posto de Abastecimento de Combustíveis
Local: Carregosa_Oliveira de Azemeis
Renders: arqrq (rui quaresma)

-HOSPITAL EM PONTA DELGADA_AÇORES

Arquitectura: Arquitectos Aliados / Arq.Paulo Providência
Projecto: Hospital em Ponta Delgada
Local: Ponta Delgada_Açores
Renders: arqrq (rui quaresma)

been away

but I'm back and here is a small article on rebranding the U.S. Postal Service. I always find myself thinking about stuff like this and realising I'd have no idea how to rebrand something that would be easy to rebrand. I have so little idea, in fact, that I can't even think of a product, or business, it would be easy to rebrand. But the idea here is simple, and straightforward, and it makes it look like it was the easiest thing in the world to do, and maybe that's the indication of a good idea, and good design.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662170/the-us-postal-service-is-dying-why-not-radically-rebrand-it?partner=design_newsletter

-IGREJA S.TIAGO_ÓBIDOS

Arquitectura: AVA architects
Projecto: Biblioteca
Local: Óbidos
Renders: arqrq (rui quaresma)

-QUINTA EM PEDRALVA_BRAGA

Arquitectura: Arq. Paulo Providência
Projecto: Habitação
Local: Pedralva_Braga
Renders: arqrq (rui quaresma)

-QUINTA EM PEDRALVA_BRAGA

Arquitectura: Arq. Paulo Providência
Projecto: Vacaria
Local: Pedralva_Braga
Renders: arqrq (rui quaresma)

-PAVILHÃO DESPORTIVO_SEIXAL

Arquitectura:AVA architects
Projecto:Pavilhão Desportivo
Local: Seixal
Renders: arqrq (rui quaresma)