one hundred and eight / inflatable garbage bags / by Nils Völker

2.40 x 1.80 m
fans, plastic bags, MDF, relays,
countless screws and a microcontroller

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lovely way to look at and build on the world - by french artist Sandrine Estrade Boulet

found by the famous @peterglaser

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Design made in Germany / Magazin / Ausgabe 5 - Ordnung / RT @geoffbrown

We have always known it - Ordnung ist sexy...

- in Ordnung / all right; alright; okay; well
- die gute Ordnung / trimness
- gut in Ordnung / trim
- der Ordnung halber / for order's sake
- nicht in Ordnung / amiss; out of square; wrong
- in Ordnung halten / to maintain
- Recht und Ordnung / law and order
- zur Ordnung rufen / to call to order
- in bester Ordnung / in apple pie order
- die sittliche Ordnung / order
- in Ordnung bringen / to clean up; to fix up; to make straight; to order; to put in order; to righten; to set right; to settle; to straighten; to tidy up; to trim
- er hält gut Ordnung / he is a good disciplinarian
- in schönster Ordnung / as right as a rivet; as right as a trivet; in apple pie order
- nicht in Ordnung sein / to be out of order
- vollständig in Ordnung / right as nails
- es ist alles in Ordnung / It is all hunky-dory; all's well
- etwas in Ordnung bringen / to get something right; to put something right; to set something right
- die Sache in Ordnung bringen / to fix it
- wieder in Ordnung bringen / to readjust; to retrieve
- die Bücher in Ordnung bringen (Kommerz) / to post
- seine Angelegenheiten in Ordnung bringen / to order one's affairs

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Alex Bogusky's blog: The first Cannes Lion for not advertising at all

"... So my hope for the 2011 Cannes Crystal award is some brilliant agency works with their client to pull all the advertising to children and takes home the Cannes Crystal Grand Prix Lion in the inaugural year. And that would be the end of that. Because as soon as you can win an award for it, we ad folk are all over that shit. ..."

nice one...

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Universal Everything: AOL / Case Study - RT @AnnePascual

Colorful: "A second series of reveal films created for AOL and launched at the New Museum, NYC. Used for web video, mobile, digital campaigns and outdoor LED displays."

worth watching - thanks Anne!

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Your beautiful eyes (Photos by Suren Manvelyan)

I once posted a site with simliar pictures from eyes - but all taken straight from the front. Can you help me finding that URL again? Thanks!

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Smart vending machines in the streets show that Big Brother is being naturally accepted in a pixel consuming society.

"At Tokyo’s Shinagawa Station visitors can now select beverages from a 47-inch touch panel.

An embedded camera will recognize your gender and age, allowing the machine to recommend a beverage suitable to whatever stereotype is attached to your particular circumstances. It will store your purchasing history too, so you can be freaked out by tailored ads every time you use it. 500 more of these units are planned to be installed in and around Tokyo over the next two years, with operating company JR East expecting them to tally up 30 percent more sales than their analog brethren."

And then folks in Germany seriously talk about Google Street View...

More pics here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/japan-takes-vending-machines-to-their-logi...

Found at my favorite http://www.nextnature.net/

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Don’t Be Ugly By Accident! Aggregating 11.4 million opinions on what makes a great photo. (RT @superfab)

"...data comes from dating site OkCupid, one of the largest, and most interesting, datasets on the web. This article aggregates 11.4 million opinions on what makes a great photo...."

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History video by Lanor: Design story: The Decanter (1960)

"The Decanter, a promotional film produced by Walter Landor and Associates in the 1960s, shows the start-to-finish process of several of Landor's designs for Old Fitzgerald whiskey. Narrated by Walter himself, the film depicts creative teams illustrating and critiquing designs, industrial designers fabricating models, and research teams conducting focus groups and testing in Landor's supermarket laboratory." nice one!

thanx @superfab, @rmichael, @cscheffy

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Beautiful IBM Illustrations (RT @AmirKassaei)

flawless execution of a simple idea. Love it!

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Dante’s Internet - the infographic I was looking for for ages....

No comment needed - it' all in there.
Thanks to Peter Glaser for finding this.

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Super Mario Bros. by Andreas Heikaus. Nice matching of CG elements into live-action footage.

"... The Super Mario Bros. game, released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, is not longer bound to the television size and get interactive with a new environment. ... "

Nice one!

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i fly like paper get high like planes / by dawn ng

amazing work.

thanks Matt (http://realtomato.blogspot.com/) for finding this.

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"The Music Scene" - Video by Anthony Francisco Schepperd

genius!

Thanks so much again to http://blog.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/ - never ending source of inspiration.

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the aesthetics of disgust / disgusting switch installation : Katrin Baumgarten

"I want to show that people are indeed both repelled and fascinated
by the disgusting transformation of the switches."

well done. Thanks www.nextnature.net, what would I do without you?

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Locals and Tourists - a new kind of maps on/by Flickr from Eric Fischer

"Some people interpreted the Geotaggers' World Atlas maps to be maps of tourism. This set is an attempt to figure out if that is really true. Some cities (for example Las Vegas and Venice) do seem to be photographed almost entirely by tourists. Others seem to have many pictures taken in piaces that tourists don't visit. ..."

Blue - locals
Red - tourists
Yellow - unknown

read and see more here http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/

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IDEO | BBVA - a short video about the future of the ATM

In early 2007 the Spanish bank BBVA asked IDEO Munich to re-think their self-service channel from scratch. The question was not how to further automate the teller, but rather how to humanize the machine. ...
The result of that work is the vision for a totally new self-service experience: an ATM built from user up, rather than components down. ...
Today, that vision is reality. It took 2 years of time and a team of committed companies to develop this ATM.

check out: http://www.futureselfservicebanking.com/

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