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Dark Energy XVIII

Written on September 17, 2010 at 2:30 pm, by greg

1. Gregor Calendar

Calendar scarf! Slowly unravel the yarn as the days go by.

2. Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus

A drawing machine by Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus that expresses an endless story by connection patent data from the US Patent and Trademark Office. Sound complicated (and it is), but I love the idea of a narrative emerging from a database of technical information.

3. Horsey

(image courtesy of Design Boom)

Awesome attachable bike ornament by Eungi Kim, shortlisted for the Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010.

4. Street art near Brick Lane

A surprise find down a side street which had gathered a small crowd. Incredible detail up close.

5. Stranded

Stranded is now on sale, a magazine by Andrew Losowsky, who was stranded by the ash cloud back in April and put out a call for contributers who were also grounded. It’s an “88-page souvenir of a moment in time when a non-life-threatening crisis hit the world, one for which nobody was to blame, and nobody knew how long it would last.”

6. ‘Favourite Things’ lamp

(image courtesy of Yanko Design)

Display nice things in a lamp. (by Chen Karlsson)

7. Hel Yes!

(image courtesy of Hel Yes!)

Temporary Finnish restaurant in London until 3rd October serving up food and design from Helsinki.

8. Walls Are Dancing

As part of the Let’s Colour Project, Matt W. Moore created a series of live painting performances in Marseille, Lyon and Paris edited here as a stop-motion animation.

9. Arno Rafael Minkkinen

(image courtesy of Arno Rafael Minkkinen)