Category Archives: Inspiration

Vintage Aesthetics

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Whilst being blessed with the ability to get excited about aesthetics and also the ability to get excited about technology, it is easy to neglect one area in favour of another from time to time. Currently I have been pushing hard on the tech side of things, learning to swim in a deep pool of [...]

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Aspirational Purchasing

Arthur Beal-Shaftsbury Avenue

There are those shops, where upon entering you just want to buy everything because the goods they sell facilitate the act of creation and learning something new. Amongst 4D Modelshop, Magma Books and Cass Art, Arthur Beal is one such shop. I couldn’t help spending literally minutes looking at the shiny karabinas, well engineered pulley wheels and array of ropes from nylon cord [...]

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IKEA Technology Furniture

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Interesting move from IKEA. My first thoughts consider this to be quite risky – not making the furniture modularly being able to take TV’s from other suppliers means that customers will have to get rid of their current TV, unit and home theatre set ups or find another place for them, and they aren’t small [...]

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Gorgeous Data Visualisation

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Beautiful graphics created from data at ‘onformative‘ – a studio for generative design. It’s interesting to see how this media isn’t ‘limited’ to animations on screens. Once the visualisation program is set up, images can be ‘harvested’ from frames and used on static media like print or digital images with no loss of quality. Metaphorically, [...]

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