Graham Hill, the founder of TreeHugger.com, came by the office to show off his “Thin Bike” – a collaboration with bike manufacturer, Schindelhauer Bikes (Magdeburg, Germany). Jörg Schindelhauer is a bicycle craftsman who has started a line of bikes utilizing a technology that has been around forever but was never efficient enough for use on bicycles until now. These bikes use a belt drive system, which comes with countless advantages over your standard chain-link drive that we have become so used to. The Gates Corporation (Denver, USA) has teamed with Kalle Nicolai from Universal Transmission to create a carbon belt drive system that is being used on the Schindelhauer Bikes. Some of the benefits of this technology include a silent riding experience with no clicking chain noise, an extremely light weight compared to standard chains, no need for lubricants to maintain efficient usage, and also protects much better from dirt and debris. The most advantageous aspect to the belt drive system has to be the fact that there is virtually no stretch involved, which means no re-adjusting, aligning, or tightening required with chains. Amazing. Check out the rest of the photos below.
Evan Roth graduated with a MFA in design and technology from The New School at Parsons. He is one of their most notable recent graduates focusing on how to incorporate an interest in popular culture with coding and open source technology. Roth seems to enjoy exploiting the flamboyant nature of popular culture but also involves himself in deep studies of subcultures such as graffiti art. He co-founded the Graffiti Research Lab after working on the Graffiti Analysis project for his thesis. His goal here is to provide “graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication.”
Uncommon Creatures is a Copenhagen-based label, Designed by Christina Højris Ottosen and Jens Kold Christensen.
For the fall 2010 collection the designer duo got their inspiration from Orthodox Jewish style. The collection and silhouette is avant-garde while keeping the Scandinavian simplicity.
I was introduced to Eric Saeter’s work last year by a mutual friend who knows him from their hometown of Seattle, Washington. It had been awhile since I checked on the progress of his budding design career so I revisited his work to find some nice new additions. Saeter was essentially underwhelmed by what was available in the men’s jewelry world, complaining about a lack of imagination and color. He took matters into his own hands and L’Âge d’Or was born. Lately, he has been experimenting with new material and the result is a collection of some really beautiful and unique works of art.
Curious Displays is a product proposal for a new platform for display technology. Instead of a fixed form factor screen, the display surface is instead broken up into hundreds of ½ inch display blocks. Each block operates independently as a self-contained unit, and has full mobility, allowing movement across any physical surface.
Despite having worked on older projects including the music video for “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley (with director Robert Hales), Mothership has only recently established themselves as an official transmedia studio representing sunny Venice, California. The young collective has hit the ground running partly due to its affiliation to the Academy Award-winning powerhouse Digital Domain, whose visual sorcery you may have experienced in films such as Titanic and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Through their work, Executive Creative Director Alejandro Lopez says Mothership will demonstrate how “transmedia offers brands the opportunity to integrate directly with entertainment properties instead of standing alongside them.”
Icelandic based designer Sruli Recht sells a motley range of products ranging from a typeface to a three meter long knitted coat to a scarf dyed in blood, all beautifully bound together by an aura of another time and place and the art of handicraft. To get a highly recommended glimpse of Sruli Recht’s designs visit the website here.
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