I usually try not to re-post things that have already been covered widely, but this is just too cool not to show off. BMW’s recently unveiled concept car the GINA Light Visionary Model is designed with stretched fabric in place of the traditional metal skin. This allows the shape of the [...]
Category Archives: Borderline_GENIUS
Eye Exam for Design Geeks
June 3, 2008 – 11:02 am
BlueArt Studio has a truly awesome piece of design-centric art availbie in the form of this eye exam poster featuring not letters, by the silhouettes of famous chair designs. How many can you identify?
Overcoming Creative Roadblock
May 28, 2008 – 12:48 pm
Jeremy Horn has an excellent post on his blog today about interface design and how to break the mold and look at things from a new and creative perspective. His suggestions have bearing in many creative fields and not just interface and web design. Check it out here. Well worth a read, thank you [...]
FontStruct: Online Font Creation Tool
May 9, 2008 – 4:02 pm
Font Shop has quietly released a nifty new online font creation tool called FontStruct. FontStruct is an Ajax-y (really, is that actually a word?) web app that lets you go to town and try your hand at making your very own font which you can download in TrueType format. You can also make [...]
Brain Hacks: Six Ways to Come Up With New Visual Ideas
May 9, 2008 – 12:07 pm
Overcoming Mental Block
Looking at other work is a great way to get inspired, but what if you want to do something totally from within, relying on your own brain to come up with something without the benefit of external ideas? Here are a few tips that can provide that little bit of inspiration that can [...]
Interesting Link of the day: Twistori
April 29, 2008 – 12:16 pm
Twitter as a Narrative
Twitter can be notoriously overwhelming if you deign to to browse the public feed. Thousands of random thoughts and snippets of conversation de-contextualized and served up like so many TV channels flipping past at a huge rate. Twistori, however has created a truly interesting Twitter inexperience. Looking at Twitter not [...]
Vintage Logos Flickr Photoset
April 16, 2008 – 2:03 am
Came across this great photo set via 43 Folders Some real gems in here. Check it out.
Pearls Before Breakfast -Washinton Times Article
April 11, 2008 – 3:22 pm
Somebody turned me on to this article earlier today, it you read nothing else today, read this. It perfectly illustrates the point I was trying to get across in yesterdays article about urban exploration. We become so blinded by context that we fail to see beauty anymore. Brilliant article.
Artist Highlight: Michal Karcz
March 28, 2008 – 2:59 pm
I first ran across Michal’s work over on Deviant Art where he goes by the moniker “Karezoid”. His landscape photo manipulations stand out in the crowd. They not only look really stunning but often point to some deeper conceptual theme. It is also interesting how he often lists his musical inspiration for [...]
Sanzi UFO Houses
March 25, 2008 – 8:26 pm
I’ve encountered these images floating around on the ‘net several times in the past year but I was recently reminded of them when I ran across a post on NOTCOT.org.
Apparently the relics of a failed resort project in Taiwan, these pods appear to be constructed of fiberglass shells surrounding concrete and brick cores. It is [...]
