Creative Conversation Pieces from Straight Line Designs

 

Contrary to its name, Straight Line Designs is anything but ordinary, and rarely do any of its pieces fall into said category.  Not content to make suburban furniture with expected lines, patterns and textures, designer Judson Beaumont and his team in Vancouver, British Columbia defy convention with their eye-opening, tongue-in-cheek creations, from a bench that looks like a tin can being pried open to a chest of drawers carved to look like a little black dress. Beaumont doesn’t just walk the line when he brings a concept to life; he pushes the envelope to the extreme and produces stunning conversation pieces as a result.  Contact Straight Line Designs directly for pricing and customization.

Google’s Wall Art Contest Winners

When Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior VP of Product Management at Google, walked the corridors of their London office, he was intrigued by a Google logo he saw on the wall. It was a beautiful 20 feet wide photo mosaic of UK which also included within it a giant representation of the company’s logo. 

It was designed by Googler Clay Bavor who used 884 individually printed 4×6 photographs of people, places, and things around the U.K. (all of which were taken by Googlers).

He has also graciously posted a time lapse video of its making. (The camera shot a picture every 7 seconds so the 5.5 hours of work got compressed to 1 min 20 seconds in the video)

Well, our story doesn’t end here. Jonathan was so impressed with the project that he decided to organize a ‘Googley Art Wall’ contest within the company and soon several teams from all over the world expressed interest to participate. In all 23 teams from 12 offices across eight countries submitted videos and photographs of their work. Here is what they came up with:

Rubik’s Cubes Galore (Taipei) – made out of 850 Rubik’s Cubes – First Prize

Flavors & Fusion (Singapore) – each letter is filled with dried beans, rice, grains and pasta

Wall of Doodle (Mountain View) – a highly-detailed 3D doodle makes up each letter of the logo

Periodic Table of Google Elements (Mountain View) – an arrangement of facts and stats about Google and the Internet

Scrappy (San Francisco) made entirely out of food packaging scraps from the microkitchen

True Magic Mirror

If you had any doubts regarding the direction in which technology is headed, you can lay that to rest. Whether you like it or not, it is going to creep into every corner of your home at one point of time. And yes, this would include your bathroom. Researchers at New York Times Lab have created something of a Snow White style magic mirror that would tell you anything from what the weather is like outside to how a particular tie would suit you. That’s not all. It is sound as well as gesture driven(thanks, Kinect) and allows you to surf the web, send emails, or even flip through your wardrobe.

Sigh, what will they think of next? Urine controlled video games? Oh, wait, that is already here too…

It would be fascinating to see what these guys bring to the table in the near future.

Versatile Sofa Die Collection

 

Sit back, relax, sleep - BLU with practice and simple. BLU is available in five widths, with three chairs variants with integrated bed-box. From Die Collection

 

      

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