Rainbow in Your Hand

I don't remember when or how exactly I found this little amazing book, but I've had it bookmarked on my computer for a while now. It's still blows my mind as much today as the first time I saw it.

This book started as a personal project of Masashi Kawamura, a Japanese designer in summer 2007, and was soon published from a Japanese bookstore "Utrecht". It's a flipbook, but rather than seeing animation, it creates a 3D rainbow in your hand. It won the NY ADC silver cube. 

Masashi Kawamura is a worthwhile designer to look into. He has more book designs, as well as industrial products, prints, commercials etc. Very entertaining :)

Vik Prjonsdottir - Beard Cap

I think this picture says it all. But just in case you want more;check out the designers Vik Prjonsdottir. They have some VERY interesting things to offer :)

Kipling West

Kipling West is a artist of extraordinary talent. I love how her work seems to grab you and suck you in until you think you've discovered all the details embedded into every drawing.

Kipling West's Website has her official works. And her Blog is a neat place to keep up with her current projects. Check it out.

Zeppachino

Online catalog distilled beverages. Over 866 to pick from.
I'm amazed at how many I have never seen or heard of before. The future look like a fun place ;)

Like this one for example! I want to try it for the sake of keeping the bottle!
Zeppachino is a pretty fun site to browse when you find yourself bored, or craving a drink, or both :P

SHELFARI - Online Bookshelf

If you haven't heard/seen Shelfari before...yet you are a big reader, this its a good advestment of time to set up a "shelf". Shelfari is basically an opportunity to keep track of the books you've read, plan to read, and/or want. It creates a shelf where you can add books too, change their cover/edition to match the one you have at home, and review them. I'm always using it to get gift ideas for my book-loving friends.

Check out MY SHELF :)

Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Opportunistic Architecture

Really useful book. In comparison to most Architecture books, this one actually shows process, partis and other such useful ideas, other then just building pictures :P

I bought it through Amazon. It wasn't even that expensive for something of this quality :)

LATERAL OFFICE

LATERAL OFFICE: Mason White + Lola Sheppard
This is a Toronto firm that dabbles in a lot of things. I particularly like their landscape designs and installations.

Toronto's LATERAL OFFICE proposed "IceLink: Occupying the Temporal Seam." in their submission to the recent competition to design a Bridge across the Bering Strait 

"VELoops is a network of loops, knots and nodes that accommodate the multiple scales at which urban infrastructure operates: the street, the neighborhood and the city or district. As routes interest each other a local hub emerges; As loops intersect existing transit, a multi-modal bike loft emerges."

 They are also behind the InfraNet Lab blog. Which is pretty neat :)