Links published in June 2009 — Most recent at top.
ID’s 2009 yearly round-up of best design awards is out. All around the best concepts and design, no matter the wide range of uses and topics: from an electrical outlet to the private helicopter. Refreshing: good to see an Apple-less list of design awards nominees. •
Russian fashion design Irina Shaposhnikova’s prisms surfaces Crystallographica collection. The idea is great, though seems a tad excessive for dresses; the vest and pants look strikingly sharp though. •
Terri Timely’s Synesthesia and many other sweet lookin’ videos. •
Clever music video for Lily Allen’s for Fuck You (very much). Simple ideas make always the best vids. Y a quelqu’un qui sait comment c’est fait? Quel logiciel? Rocklapin? (merci Laurence) •
What details captured at 1000 and 2500 frames per second look like. That’s one bouncy jello. UPDATE: The link. Some days I wonder where my head is. •
Blanpied Rubini agency à Paris: a great collection of fashion and editorial photographers and a greater exemple of fine no-bull web user interface. If you double-click the image link, it adds it at personal selection cart which you can then print, download, ffffound. Love it. •
Girls, you have to check this out: The Uniform Project. In hope to raise money for the Akanksha’s School Project helping to school children from slums in India, Sheena Matheiken will abide to sustainable fashion and wear the same dress for 365 days.
The dress itself was design by fashion designer friend of hers Eliza Starbuck. It’s reversible and can open up all the way down into a kind of long jacket. She then matches it up with accessories and other pieces of clothing to reinvent her look every day. I had no idea a single dress could be so adaptable to so many styles.
•And while were still on the subject of accidents and bikes, its being proven true in NYC: the more bikes are on the streets, casualties drop and the safer it gets. See it for yourself.
Coincidently, I recently heard many stories of policemen fining cyclists and pedestrians in Montreal (crossing red lights, not using bike paths). This is obviously hurting more than helping anything, it is not the kind incitement we need here to make streets safer for the cyclists and pedestrians, especially when the city is trying to popularize a bike-rental system of its own. “Fine pedestrians [or cyclists] or otherwise discourage walking [or cycling], and you only make streets less safe.”
•Talking about bikes, Transportation Research at McGill (TRAM) and the McGill School of Urban Planning “are conducting research into Montrealers’ cycling habits and route preferences. This research will help improve cycling conditions in the city for all types of cyclists.” I invite you to fill out the survey, it’s mostly multiple choices, 10 minutes you’re done. I just hope the city will tap into this research. •