Bicycles have come a long way in recent years. Many things have changed, but what remains the star constant is the shape of the frame, which has been practically unchanged since the very beginning. You don't trade a winning horse, but that hasn't stopped some from trying something different. In 2016, there were quite a few such attempts. Let's take a look at them.
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Joey Ruiter blows the whistle on established norms. Some time ago we presented his upright snowmobile Snoped, recently we wrote about a triangular boat, and now he presents himself to us with an unconventional car shape. Consumer, as he calls it, is a minimalistic designed vehicle that is almost nothing like a car as we know it.
More than 25,000 colorful paper flowers adorn the 6-meter-high atrium of a shopping mall in Omotesando, Tokyo. The visually stunning scene is part of the latest installation by French-born Emmanuelle Moureaux, who created this vibrant work as part of the Setting the Future in Motion exhibition.
Artist Gary Lockwood, better known as Freehand Profit, is no ordinary artist. In contrast to most of the others, he does not use classic materials such as wood, clay, glass, stone, etc., as he makes masks and helmets from used sneakers.
Keyboards have never really been the pinnacle of design. Just Audi. They have always relied more on practicality than not. Industrial designer Jarim Koo disagreed and created the Audi Layer keyboard, which speaks the design language of this famous German car brand. Is this the most stylish keyboard ever?
JOIN is a desk with a minimalist design that adapts to the wishes and needs of the individual and the available space. The table by the Italian designer Giuseppe Burgio is a true transformer that offers hundreds of different combinations.
Jackie Kennedy was not only a popular first lady of the United States of America, she was a legendary fashion icon, and her taste in aesthetics was the envy of everyone in turn. When John and Jackie took over the White House in 1961, the new first lady filled her temporary home with art and sophisticated design. See how elegant the White House was during the Jackie Kennedy era.
What could be cleaner than Tesla's electric cars? Definitely Tesla's smart – robotic vacuum cleaner that delights housewives all over the world.
If you love art, you'll love what Ariel Adkins does. Well, you'll be impressed in another way too. This girl hand-makes and paints her own clothes to match the artwork she's looking at. Pretty bad, right?
Oerol, which translates to "everywhere", is a 10-day festival of all genres of art that takes place every June for free on the island of Terschelling in the Netherlands. The wish of the festival organizers is to turn the entire island into a stage. At this year's festival, it was possible to see a very special architectural structure in which the cultural program took place.
We love recycled. Just because of the good feeling, because we contribute to a cleaner environment. After all, such things also look great, especially furniture. What about plastic, do we like it? If the answer to some is no, that may change now. The Dutch designer Ulrike Jurklies found a way to make a tea table out of recycled plastic.
Denny R. Priyatna is an Indonesian designer who prefers to explore the connection between the human and the inanimate. He plays with different materials and techniques all the time, creating new things. Always with a concept. This time he tackled furniture. Maybe the collection will seem "over the edge" to some, but it doesn't know any other way. Furniture that shows the imperfections of the human body is absolutely fantastic. Or cringe-inducing.