Cool Hunting
| 14 April 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Cool Hunting Video - NY Int'l Auto Show
by Josh Rubin
New York Int'l Auto Show
by m ss ng p eces
In this episode Cool Hunting visits the New York International Auto Show to profile some of the new concept cars. We take a close look at the Toyota T-Fine and F3R as well as the new Saab Aero X. We also made it in time to catch the press conference of the new Scion concept car 'Fuse'.
Lenny
by Josh Rubin
On a recent trip to Maine I came a across a full grown moose in his natural habitat. He was not standing in a grove of pine trees where you might expect; instead, he was wading in a pond of white chocolate tinted with blue food coloring at Len Libby Candies Shop. Weighing in at 1,700 pounds, Lenny, as the locals call him, is the worlds only life-size moose made entirely of milk chocolate. I was tempted to have a taste of Lenny, but since he's the sole surviving member of the chocolate moose species, I opted for more sensible, bite-sized options like the Maine Moose Squares or the delicious chocolate and coconut Needhams.
Contributed by Edwin Cahill
Woofer
by Josh Rubin
Though I'm not sure what the sound quality is like, this Woofer is brilliant sculptural double entendre none-the-less. Created by Buro Vormkrijgers, a Dutch design studio founded by Sander Mulder and Dave Keune, the headless dog speaker system is available as a single woofer or a pair of stereo speakers. The team is also planning to follow-up with Tweeter, a bird-like desktop speaker system. No word yet on pricing or availability, but there are other fun things on their site.
Phaidon Design Classics
by SummerSeventySix
I's all over. Next time someone declares something a design classic, unless it's in this, they're just wrong. So exhaustive is this hefty trio of tomes that it's very difficult to argue for anything else pre-2004 to go in.
Starting with a pair of scissors from 17th century China and finishing with the Lunar bathroom range, the book takes in all sorts of objects (excluding apparel) that have shaped our lives and those of previous generations. The big-hitters like Charles and Ray Eames, Jasper Morrison and Jonathan Ive are included, but it's the unsung everyday items that make this really complete. Things like the compact disc, the Post-It note, the Toblerone bar, a Pritt glue stick, and Clackers (the bola-style toy that was massively popular in the 1970s).
The meticulous attention to detail is hugely impressive, as are the books and their zig-zag carry-case, which are design objects in their own right. With 999 items inside, you can't help but think that Phaidon Design Classics takes 1000th spot for itself.
Phaidon Design Classics is available from Phaidon and Amazon.
More pictures from the book after the jump
