Lichtfaktor

Good morning! Saw this on Wired and I liked it. Some German guys in an art collective scribble with lights and have earned themselves some fun commissions from Sky, Phillips and Speedo and others. Looks good I think, I think I'll have a go myself, can't be that hard.

John Slade...

This guy, John Slade was blogged over at ItsNiceThat, and the first image 'God On The Bench' reminded me of dave, enjoy you little welshy!

Rebrand? Why?

I was going to rant about rebranding and show you a pile of terrible logo's but I'll let you go and decide for yourself

I thought I'd start with a disappointment though, Adobe should have done better than that... Brand New is a great blog dissecting logo's before and after rebrands. Some of them look good just because their old logo looks terribly out of date, some just leave you thinking why did you bother?

Clinic...

I love the look of this restaurant in Singapore called Clinic. Read more from Designboom as, even though they aren't as keen as i am, they covered it

Music Sandwich

This isn't exactly brand new, but it is great - therefore it makes it's debut on TGLP. German manufacturers Optimal Media Production claim that their new VinylDisc is a hybrid CD/vinyl album that will play in an optical drive or on a turntable. This is all good stuff, sadly however the first band take advantage of it are FightStar... I was always more partial to FiveStar.

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House plans

Nice ads for IKEA seen here

!!New Delta Decorating Tools!!

It's time for some shameless self-promotion again. Dinnington's greatest (ever) design agency ame design, have been cooking up their special blend of innovation and high-style. This time the product is one of a number of up-coming releases for the world-class manufacturer of decorating products LG Harris. The Delta tools are a Pro range that comprise part of the T-Class family of products. Please enjoy.

Most hoped for gift this Christmas?

I was reading the Wired blog (yes, at 5 minutes past 5) and found some interesting facts whilst looking their top ten hottest gifts. The slinky comes in at number one which was a surprise. Yes they're good but who's going to bother running up and down the stairs to get it, I thought kids wanted mobile phones and PS3's. One thing I didn't know though, it was created by a ship engineer Richard James after he observed a spring that fell of a shelf onto a bookcase and onto the floor, 300 million slinky's later they're still selling strong. Wish I'd thought of that...

I Can Has Toilet Roll?

I thought that the ubiquitous kitteh had peaked with with the swarovksi laptop but here we see her hitting new hights. Yes, this really is an electronic toilet roll dispensor. It retails for just $220 and allows you to pre-set how much paper to dispense each time you push the button. PS3 has gotten it wrong - 'this is living'. This post links from a blog exhaustively detailing one man's personal crusade against Hello Kitty overload - hit the link...

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The Book Design Review

As its getting closer to Christmas, websites are starting to put up lists of their 'Best of 2007' in various different forms. This is the first one i've seen so far and has a few nice bits in it. Can't wait for the lists to keep rolling in!

Jen Stark Cuts Paper

It isn't just kids that can cut up bits of coloured paper with scissors (and if it is please make sure they don't run with them). Jen Stark makes all kinds of crazy patterns, please take a look.

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Snake with a camera

Hey just thought I'd share this site. Spent way too much time on this site the other night. The Cobra Snake basically takes pictures of parties. Nice pictures of good looking people (well not always) having fun. enjoy

The Luddite

Often challenging and the bringer of sobering The Luddite is a great read on the Wired blog. Have a read. Sorry no pictures!

Get WIRED for Christmas

Once a year WIRED (the best magazine in the world, yes?) opens up a retail space somewhere for serious nerding-out. This year it's in SoHo, New York and features much tech goodness from now 'til Christmas. Robbie - please go.

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Amazon Kindle vs. Books

Today is the day that Amazon launches Kindle - it's much hyped e-book. The product wirelessly downloads books, blogs magazines etc to a display that apparently looks much like real paper (in terms of sharpness/contrast. It follows (very slowly) in the footsteps of Sony's Reader (also pictured) which launched almost two years ago to universal disinterest. Enough negativity, here's some hyperbole from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos:

"We've been working on Kindle for more than three years. Our top design objective was for Kindle to disappear in your hands -- to get out of the way -- so you can enjoy your reading. We also wanted to go beyond the physical book. Kindle is wireless, so whether you're lying in bed or riding a train, you can think of a book, and have it in less than 60 seconds. No computer is needed -- you do your shopping directly from the device. We're excited to make Kindle available today."

Go Jeff!!!

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec...

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have updated their site slightly to come in line with an exhibition they have at the Miami Art Basel. As always the work is simple and interesting and they don't just show pictures of the finished product but interesting prototype photographs also. If you've not seen their website before, then its a real treat!

Passive Aggressive Notes...

Another amazing blog kind of in the same vein as the ''Unnecessary'' puntuation marks blog. Its a whole site dedicated to 'passive aggressive' notes made by roommates, neighbours, co-workers and strangers. There is some really funny stuff on there but also some pretty fresh language so beware!

Peter Andersson Studio's Set Chair...

I really love this chair by the Peter Andersson Studio. Based around how theatre sets work Set Chair simply imitates this with good effect. There are loads of nice projects on their website

micro mp3 hottie

A quick post featuring a diddy audio jack sized mp3 concept from Tae-wan Kim. The Tok Tak hangs from your headphones, and can also be used with a base station which will charge you Tok Tak and also has built in speakers. The Dock is controlled by the Tok Tak like a joystick to change tunes

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Exploding PiggyBank

Toy maker Tomy are launching the most badass piggybank ever on junior savers next week. Not only does this thing look super mean, it actually explodes showering coins across your desktop if you don't put anything in there for a few days. Apparently it vibrates to warn you things are about to get messy...

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Metaphys Japan...

My second posting on Japanese design this week, the Metaphys Cyclone Cleaner is an absolute stunner. Designed by Metaphys Japan, its so simple and so nice and on their website there is a great animation showing it in use. I love the bold orange they've decided to use, but Big Red is right...where is the brown and orange colour-way hey!?

Sleevage...

I've just found what could possibly turn out to be one of my all time favourite sites if it keeps up daily postings Sleevage is a blog dedicated to album art. It documents Band, Cover Artist and Design Agency. Todays posting (previously covered here on TGLP) is the fold out house cd sleeve. But i've put up two in their archive i really like.

The first is the Current Architecture In Helsinki record which has some really sweet intricate illustration covering it. Secondly i've put up a Pinebender sleeve that i've seen before designed by a very very amazing designer Andy Mueller. The packaging contains lots of graph paper and a mini pencil relevent to the record.

sorry, too much writing here....