Highsnobiety. Most of you have most likely recently visited one of the many big airports around the globe.
No matter if you are in New York City, Paris, Milan, London or Frankfurt, while some are newer and more stylish than others, they are all overloaded with ads, signs pointing in every direction, screens and of course last but not least stores. Japanese architecture firm Nikken Sekkei (together with Ryohin Keikaku and PARTY) has decided to take a completely different direction for Tokyo’s Narita International Airport Terminal 3. The newly designed terminal strips away all the unnecessary advertising, signs and ads and instead they decided to go with a blue track on the floor that tells visitors where to go.
No electronic signs, screens and not even a finished ceiling are to be found in the new airport. As a result the terminal feels less hectic and more efficient, saving half of the cost is of course also a pretty nice side effect. Glow-In-The-Dark Highways Open In The Netherlands. After months of pilot testing, a glow-in-the-dark smart highway in the Netherlands has finally gone public in the Dutch city of Oss, and there are plans to expand the technology to other highways in the Netherlands and internationally.
Glowing Lanes is a collaboration between Dutch engineering company Heijmans and Daan Roosegaarde, a tech-loving artist and designer whose previous work includes Intimacy 2.0, a dress that becomes transparent when the wearer gets aroused. The glow-in-the-dark lane markers are intended to increase road visibility in a more energy-efficient way than traditional street lighting. Photoluminescent paint charges during the day and slowly emits light over the course of eight hours during the evening.
Dieter Rams 10 Principles of “Good Design” As the New Year begins, architects and designers everywhere search for the latest information in hopes to find inspiration to provide them with ample amounts of motivation.
Unsure of my inspiration, I found myself reading Neither Restrospective, Nor Predictive: Dieter Rams & Design of Self on the Semantic Foundry WordPress. I was then reminded of the famous German industrial designer Dieter Rams and his ten principles of “good design”. The straightforward list lays down key points, clearly stating what makes a good design. iPhone Visual Diary. iPhone Visual Diary. Vans California 2012 Spring Wool Pack. ShirtMockup.com - Upload your art. Mock it up. Download your image for FREE! 100+ Awesome Grunge Background Textures. Free High Resolution Textures - gallery. #7a6e98 on 0to255. 10 Useful Web Apps for Designers. DesignWoop welcomes this guest post by Tomas Laurinavicius.
Since the iPhone and iPad entered the market you can hear lots of news about apps for these devices. Tons of apps available today and you can find everything you want. But today I would like to share 10 handy web-based apps for designers. To use these apps you don’t need to buy an iPhone or iPad, you can use them without any additional software or device, you just need a web browser. In this collection I’ve picked 10 useful and time-saving web apps for designers. Invoice Bubble Invoice Bubble is free invoice software that lets you create an invoice and send to your client in seconds. Gridulator Tell Gridulator your layout width and the number of columns you want, and it’ll spit back all the possible grids that have nice, round integers.
Browize Useful tool for resizing current browser window size to set or custom resolutions. Screenr Screenr is a web-based tool that lets you create screencasts without installing any software. Treehotel...Sleep in Nature! 50 Fresh Free Fonts of 2010. Though there's a broad variety of fonts available for download online, designers keep on tracing the fresh ones to enhance their design copy, a website, brochure, or even an advertisement in a brand new an' awesome way.
Still, the free stuff could not always boast of good quality – premium goodies always demand some kind of money investment. However, now it's possible to find the appropriate font that's free, clear, beautiful, and effective for design purposes. Many great designers are now offering professional quality fonts completely for free. Today's round-up actually goes outside the standard font variety. 25 Free Fonts for Your Creative Projects.
50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets Everyone Should Have. More Imaginative Package Designs - DESIGN. More Imaginative Package Designs You guys seemed to enjoy the Imaginative Package Designs post I put together a couple of months ago and as a little token of my appreciation I thought I'd put together a second part - More Imaginative Package Designs.
Casa Do Conto in Porto, Portugal. Photo © Fernando Guerra, FG+SG Architectural Photography Sometimes life is ironic and just when you think that everything is burnt – literally speaking –blossom emerges from the ashes.
Such is the case with the Casa do Conto (House of Tales), arts&residence – a new Hotel design concept in the Cedofeita area in central Porto, Portugal; the lovely XIX Century Oporto House was being restored by Pedra Líquida (Liquid Stone) architectural office three years ago, once the historical restoration process was completed and just a few days before the hotel’s grand opening the historical building suffered a terrible fire, and from its ashes the new Casa do Conto was born.