Wu-Note Project: Remixing Album Art
Freelance graphic designer Logan Walters has come up with a nice little project that he has called the Wu-Note Project. Inspired by similar projects by other designers. He has set himself out to redesign all the classic album cover artwork for the Wu-Tang Discography, which is notorious for some horrible badly aged artwork. Call them media-mashups, visual remixes, redesigns or whatever. We think they look pretty freakin sweet.
He’s got them available on his website and on flickr.
If you’ve got any of these albums in your iTunes or on your iPod – it’d be a nice visual update and a reason to revisit the albums.
Our faves are below.
via Geddem
Handmade Recycled Beer Glasses
Drink beer. Save the World?
I’m usually not that excited by recycled homewares, but I do like well designed novelty goods, am a fan of handmade things and I certainly like things related the alcohol consumption. Check out these drinking glasses blown out of Red Stripe Beer bottles.
NickPaul, the designer and sole craftsman explains his process.
These are 12 once Jamaican Red Stripe beer bottles that have been opened up into drinking glasses. The process starts by washing the bottle, then placing it into an annealing oven. The oven is set to one thousand one hundred degree, and let to sit for 30 minutes. A rod is then dipped into a melted pot of spectrum 96 glass and formed into a punti. The punti is then touched to the bottom of the bottle and transferred to a glory hole furnace. The bottle is heated until the glass begins to move. A special tool call jacks are then used to open the narrow bottleneck into a cylinder. Once the bottle is in its final shape it is then placed back into an annealing oven to cool of the course of 30 hours, to assure no stress fractures form in the cup.
Sounds complex. Red Stripe isn’t your brand? me neither. But take a note of what he says next.
I can turn any bottle with a painted label into a drinking glass. Coke, Corona, Pepsi, Rolling Rock, Red Stripe, Grey Goose.
Ahem. I know exactly what I want now.
Check them out on Etsy
and check out his other items (the lucky beer one is kinda cool)
via Geddem
Japanese Tattoo Table
Well we’re fans of tattoos in various forms, how about tattooed furniture? Traditional Japanese style?
Well the unfortunately named ‘Yakuza’ is a digitally tattooed wooden table by Reddish Studio. It looks like it’s part of a collection. We have no idea what the ‘digital tattoo’ process involves, but it definitely looks pretty cool. It’s made out of veneered MDF with some kind of digital printing technology.
From the makers:
In its design, the table is treated as a living body, receiving its character from a unique tattoo printed on its surface. The wood texture acts as skin, becoming a platform for expressing a strong cultural and personal identity.
The digital printing technology enables to easily treat each table individually, making them unique – just like people.
Price on inquiry. So you can assume it’s pretty damned expensive.
Available from Generate Design
LIP Watches – Retro french horology
Okay so you must all be getting sick of your vintage 80’s Casio by now. But have you noticed how hard it is to find yourself a unique timepiece? Pretty much everything out there is some form of Nixon, Fossil or Diesel watch. And yeah – pretty much every man and his douche has one.
Enter LIP watches. The French brand LIP has been around 150 years but have been hard to obtain anywhere outside Europe. Now, under the watchful eye of Lip’s new design director Prisca Briquet they have now reissued some of their most important models from a modern collection that remains as visionary today as when first launched 35 years ago.
Although some of these designs are distictly seventies, the rounded corners – square faces and general boldness echoes the designs of mid-century modern era.
The 142 year old French watch brand LIP is reintroducing some of their most important wristwatches – a series from the early 1970s that remains as visionary today as when first unveiled almost four decades ago. These timepieces were created from a melting pot of Pan European industrial, architectural, interior and graphic designers, all given carte blanche by LIP to create some of the most original watches ever produced.
Of the seven original designers between 1969 and 1976, Roger Tallon has made the most lasting impact. A true renaissance man of the mid-century. Tallon’s contributions to the Modern era include the Teleavia, the earliest portable television, the world’s first Helicoid staircase (part of the Museum of Modern Art collection), and the ultra modern French high speed TGV trains. His asymmetric Mach 2000 series has since become an icon for LIP with their unmistakable primary colored spherical pushers and crowns.
Under the watchful eye of Lip’s new design director Prisca Briquet are now being reissued, along with several other classic styles that have received updates.
Watchismo is the main online retailer – they stock a pretty large collection.
Including all the models we are displaying below. And yes, thank god, they ship internationally.
RAVAGE and save (back in USB form)
Back the in 80’s Soundwave transformed into a playable micro casette player, more recently Optimus Prime is available as a ipod dock, in the near future RAVAGE who was a character based on a transformable micro tape who was a Soundwave minion will take a step into the present as a USB flash drive.
Transformer and even nostalgia fanatics get your credit cards ready this sucker will be available for release in September through TAKARA toys.
It features
- Windows98/Me/2000/XP/Vista，Mac
- Interface : USB 1.1 & USB 2.0
- Speed USB 2.0 : 480mpbs
- Speed USB 1.1 : 12mpbs
- Memory : 2 gigabytes
Dont worry if you cant read japanese and just look at the pretty pictures on the takara site, the kids over at bigbadtoystore.com have got it under control for pre order’s
at US$43 it aint cheap, but coolness never is … add US$2 to get the special collectors edition geek pack
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