This beautiful display of engineering genius may be the walls of the next building you work in or the temporary shelter of the next slumdog millionaire.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Fire Flys That Can Last In a Jar Forever
One of my favorite blogs IkeaHacker.com featured a cute way to Get that antuque light fixture look that harkens back to the days of catching fire flys in jars except this way you dont wake up this next morning with a jar full of dead bugs. With just a few simple light bulb configurations and a fell Ball Mason Jars which are like 1$ a piece, and youve got yourself a chich vintage looking chandelier that you wont find in any store. and the great part about this is that IKEA sells energy efficient halogen bulbs so you wont break the bank.
http://www.ikeahackers.net/search?updated-max=2011-02-25T07%3A41%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=20
Friday, February 18, 2011
Just a little elbow... paint!
AFTER>>>
BEFORE>>>
On cococozy.com they had an article that featured Jill Sorensen's her attempt at refurbishing old furniture. Jill Sorensen is most commonly known for her work with Marmalade Interiors. She used an ingenious method of making various pieces math each other buy adding some coats of white paint. In doing so she managed to tone down the wide array of styles of each item that she chose blending them together nicely in to now matching pieces. Her simple use of chic fabrics and contemporary coloring is a testament to Contemerary design; less is more! This also goes to show you that you dont need to be a desgn genius and you dont have to be a furnature refurbishing expert to fix up some of those cool pieces you have laying around your late grand-parents house.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Dont Ply For Me Argentina
Check Him Our Here--->TALLINIDESIGN
Most of the population would agree that a chair made completely out of plywood would not be very comfortable. But Sisto Tallini is not most people. created while he was in graduate school using nothing more than a few sheets of ordinary plywood laminated together and cut with a CNC machine (for those of you that don't know what that is Computer Numerically Controlled to cut extremely precise measurements and dimensions in order to achieve the most exact duplicate copies of such materials as carved wood or metal) The loops are what create the cushion like feel as the wood as some slight flexibility to adjust to the contour of the personsbody...May still need a little cushion if your planning on sitting in it for an extended play time of Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Monday, February 14, 2011
LOVE IS IN THE chAIR
in the spirit of valentines day ChairBlog.com has plenty of examples of Valentine's Day themed chairs; this one being my favorite. its called the "Heart Cone Chair" by, the one and only, Verner Panton, known best for the Panton Chair show below. Now, I'm definitely a fan of themed furniture as long as they keep it classy and this is one of those chairs. From this angle its hard not to see the recognizable heart shape and it also has a wonderful cone shape which gives you the feeling that the chair is hugging you (how romantic). now obviously in this color you cant help but realize its a heard but had it been upholstered in black leather or pattern fabric it may take on a completely different persona. This is an example of what not to do---->
The Panton Chair---->
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Cast from the Past
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Comfort (and music) in the Familiar
Featured on MOCOLOCO.com, The Roots Rock Speaker-bag by House of Marley designs is an excellent example of how using a product familiar to a spacific group helps us find comfort in what we are buying. The downfall of many of the similarly featured iPod docks is that they lack differenciation
feb 8 notes
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Beauty Comes From Strange Places...
Furniture by Michael Stolworthy was featured in an article on Core77.com. This article features a few examples of his work which is both elegant and fluid as well as rigid and industrial. This can be said about many designers in the industrial field but what sets him apart from the others is his unconventional inspiration for his designs. The reason for the liquid like look and his use of metals stems from his educational background consisting of "... advanced organic modeling techniques, dynamically driven surfaces, 3-d animation, media arts, arboriculture & horticultural science." as well as "3-d models of human skeletal structures with rapid prototyping technology for pre-surgical diagnosis." the article can be seen here... Furniture and objects by Michael Stolworthy, a multicreative worthy of the name - Core77
Thursday, February 3, 2011
1.21 gigawatts...BUT still no place to sit :(
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Day 1...
First day of class means... FIRST POST TIME!!
WELCOME to the official blog of FIT & FINISH DESIGNS by Cody Lewis
This blog is meant to chronicle my progress as a designer and my journey to get Fit&Finish up and running.. the first few posts are going to be focused around what im doing in school as well as person progress in the design world. I'll also be sharing my own work as well as cool ideas and inspirational work from outside sources... also follow my twitter @fitandfinishdesigns
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