A largely unsung design aspect of any city is its food vans. Hats off to New York Magazine for doing a great feature on these ubiquitous elements of the NYC experience.
The 25 Best Food Trucks – Eat Cheap 2010 — New York Magazine.
Archive for July, 2010
Fluid Forms has an easy to follow video tutorial on how to take a section from an online street map of your favourite city and create a laser-cut clock face from it. Link below:
Streets Clock ~ Your Favorite City as a Personalized Wall Clock ~ Fluid Forms.
Inspired by a pop-up map of New York, Grand Central is a table with a decent-sized round top, which folds down into a much smaller occasional table. The expandable table is composed of 22 pieces that work together to unfold like a map to rest on a frame that folds out as well.
London Underground recently launched a poster campaign that, as the excellent London Underground dedicated blog “Going Underground“ says, plays “Magic Eye with words in Tube seats! There’s a series of questions relating to amazing and unusual things that have happened on the network over the last 150 years”.
A really nice, almost meditative, video exploring the found typography of Budapest street numbers. From 365Budapest and via 365Budapest Werk on Vimeo.
From Designboom
Artist aakash nihalani recently created this site specific sculpture installation on a stop sign in new york. The project features a cut-out design that nihalani installed around a stop sign to create a decorative, flower-like border. The design uses nihalani signature geometric pattern which adds a whimsical touch to the otherwise standard sign. Nihalani created the piece by taping the pattern on sheets or cardboard and cutting the form out.
Martin Wilson uses the “Look Left” “Look Right” markings found at each urban pedestrian crossing in the UK as the inspiration for a magnificently design print. He shoots each frame on 35mm film so the contact sheet is the final work – no edits, no photoshop. Inspiring.
From http://juliafraia.com.br/
Julia Fraia draws inspiration from the streets of Sao Paulo for a wonderful collection of textile designs. From her website, with apologies for the poor translation:
“Transit, building, motorcycle courier, theater, sirens, helicopter, child, beggar, dribble, square, smoke, crowd! Colors and shapes in a short circuit chaotic and provocative. I walk the streets of Sao Paulo in order to reconsider my surroundings. With a watchful eye and camera in hand, I see beauties, often hidden by everyday. From these photographs I created the collection of prints Short Circuit, printed digitally, which allows customization of each product, from the type of fabric to the size and color the drawings.”
See more of her amazing work at http://juliafraia.com.br/
