Power Plant Addition by Brückner & Brückner
(photos by Constantin Meyer)
Here is a seriously impressive looking addition to a German power plant. I’ve always had an interest in power plants because of their industrial nature, but now I wish more power companies would take a serious look at their architecture after seeing this. Instead of an eye sore, this is now a thing of beauty.
Equally impressive is the architecture photography by Constantin Meyer
Today I am 30. Now what…. ?
:)
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More free music Friday. How can you resist? Click the link to download.
Includes tracks from the following artists:
Wild Nothing
Appleseed Cast
Balmorhea
Dinosaur Feathers
Dum Dum Girls
Happy Birthday
Holly Miranda
Pantha Du Prince
Parenthetical Girls
The Ruby Suns
The Seven Fields of Aphelion
Taken By Trees
Dios
Aidan Baker
Chances are, if you are an Architect or Interior Designer you already know you can get a discount on products that you buy, like furniture, carpet, and various other home products from certain vendors. For example, Herman Miller gives a 45% discount to architects, or at least that is what my HM supplier here in KC gives.
What you may not know is HM also gives a discount to Industrial Designers, as well as even Graphic Designers (I don’t think it is 45% though). I can’t speak for other vendors, but I’m sure someone like Knoll for example, is probably fairly similar.
I’m here to tell you to take advantage people! Believe me, I already have. I have two white armless Eames Shell Chairs with Eiffel bases, and now I have a blue Eames Rocker on the way.
World Map Painting
Another great world map. A reproduction painting from a Bollywood artist, once responsible for creating movie posters and sets. Sadly, artists like that are no longer needed in the industry. The run is limited to 576 prints.
58” x 24” print for $129 from CB2
World Map by These Are Things
There isn’t much background information on “These Are Things”, but they have created this awesome world map, silk screened in 4 colors. It does not have every single country, but instead is just a nice simple representation of the world.
30” x 20” print on heavyweight paper for $60. Click through to buy, and see other hi-res photos.
“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.” — Buckminster Fuller
City Lights
An illustration I completed recently, based upon a photograph I took in Manhattan years ago. I’ve been wanting to do something with that image for a long time. This will be adapted into a poster shortly, and put up in the shop as soon as I decide what size it should be.
Imagine for a moment you are Isamu Noguchi’s brother. And he made this nice table for you, as a birthday present. You might think he is the greatest brother on the face of the planet.
But according to Herman Miller, that is exactly how this table’s life began. Noguchi was building this table for his sister as a gift. George Nelson (HM’s first design director) walked into his studio and fell in love with the table. Some 50 years later the table is still being produced, and is one of the most iconic pieces of furniture of all time.
If I were to look deeper, what I might take from this is great ideas or maybe some of the best ideas, occur when the pressure is off.
Resuming posting today. Thanks to everyone for sticking it out and not bailing on me. I have some great readers! All 2300 of you.
Ultimately, I won’t be posting quite as much as I was before. Simply because I don’t have as much time. However, I will at least be posting. It is nice to be back. I actually missed blogging.
Show the Love
Next Friday here in KC is a first Friday. If you happen to be in the crossroads you should definitely check out this show at Vahalla. Lots of big names in poster prints / illustrators will be there. If you are not near the crossroads, this should give you reason to be.
Including: Kate Bingaman, Will Bryant, Tad Carpenter, Frank Chimero, Maura Cluthe, Jennifer Daniel, Chris Eliopoulos, Matt Hawkins, Hydro 74, David Huyck, Blake E. Marquis, Andy Miller, Dan Padavic, Richard Perez, A. Micah Smith, Mark Todd, Nate Williams, John Vogl
(images via Vahalla)