Brilliant work by Matthias Heiderich.

Perhaps a bit more sculptural than functional, but I really like the clean shapes and the wood grain finish.

Made to order for between €2000 and €3000 by French design student, Theó Mahut.

Via L’edito.

QLOCKTWO W, the hand watch version of QLOKTWO is due to be available for sale in the autumn 2012.

They describe it thus:

In a square there is a grid of 110 letters. When the stainless steel button is pressed, words light up in unexpected places which describe the time. Whenever you look at your QLOCKTWO W, it´s a new experience.

QLOCKTWO W, case in natural brushed stainless steel or black, 35 x 35 x 7mm, black leather or natural rubber strap, calendar day and second display, LED technology.

Via QLOKTWO.

Bleak and beautiful series of photographs by Michael Schlegel.
It won first place in Fine Art/Landscape at the International Photography Awards.

Via Minimalissimo.

Allandale House is designed by William O’Brian Jr. and is situated in Mountain West, USA.

He describes it as such:

Allandale House is an A-frame(s) house for an idiosyncratic connoisseur and her family. Along with its occupants, the Allandale House also provides space for an eccentric collection of artifacts that resist straightforward classification. Wines, rare books, stuffed birds and an elk mount are among the relics on display in this small vacation house.

The house links three horizontal extrusions of “leaning,” or asymmetrical A-frames. The skinny A-frame on the western side contains the library, wine cellar and garage. The wide A-frame in the center of the house is dedicated to two floors of bedrooms and bathrooms. The medium A-frame on the eastern side consists of living, kitchen and dining areas. The house aims to undermine the seeming limitations of a triangular section by augmenting and revealing the extreme proportion in the vertical direction, and utilizing the acutely angled corners meeting the floor as moments for thickened walls, telescopic apertures and built-in storage.

The relationship between the need for exposed storage and the interior liner of the house is a reciprocal one. Ostensibly problematic head-height limitations posed by the angled ceiling/wall planes are resolved by allowing the interior surface of the ceiling/wall to deviate from the roof surface as it nears.

Via www.wojr.org

Clap is a tiny camera that you can connect to your computer via USB. It is easy to operate and carry around with you.

It takes pictures and movies with a 2MP resolution and saves them on a Micro-SD card.

Via Superheadz.

This is still only a prototype, and therefore need some more work, but I find the idea to be quite brilliant.

Created by Jonas Pfeil, the ball contains 36 2 megapixel cameras that are triggered at the balls highest point when thrown into the air by an accelerometer.
This results in a 360 degree panoramic image that you can navigate around via a panoramic viewer software that comes with the ball.

They also have a video on YouTube which you can see here.

To be presented as the Emerging Technologies demonstration ‘Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera’ at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2011: Jonas Pfeil, Kristian Hildebrand, Carsten Gremzow, Bernd Bickel, Marc Alexa. Computer Graphics Group, TU Berlin.

Diploma thesis ‘Throwable Camera Array for Capturing Spherical Panoramas’: Jonas Pfeil. 2010. Advisors: Marc Alexa, Carsten Gremzow.

Images are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license.

Wooden sunglasses by Woodzee. They have several styles for both men and women.

This particular model is called Cardiff Stained Bamboo.

For more models, pricing and so on, check out their website at woodzee.com.

What better way to bring some style to your x-mas tree than by hanging up some of these Pantone x-mas balls?

Via Seletti.it

A wardrobe can’t be much more minimalistic than this!

Project by Alice Rosignoli, who describe it thus:

Made of 20 common wood hangers and black ropes, this wardrobe aims to show how everyday goods used in their ordinary function can be transformed into a new concept. Exploring and expanding an existing object to create a new way to manage small spaces results in a functional and simple creation.

Cm 43x22x130h

 

Via SwissMiss.