graphic design, art, typography and architecture

I like this chair--the oddly named Flexible Love; by Taiwanese designer Chishen Chiu; a kind of giant Slinky. Reminds me of the Extendible Bench by Designer and Architect Charles Kaisin. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5sLUsY2FF8[/youtube] FlexibleLove™ experimental furniture incorporates an ‘accordion-like, honeycomb’ structure to create durable furniture pieces produced from widely-available, low-cost recycled materials. FlexibleLove™ furniture pieces, such as FlexibleLove 16, are made wholly from recycled paper and wood products, and are produced using pre-existing manufacturing processes in order to reduce their overall impact on the environment. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkEDDj7TTHE[/youtube] [more]

The title of this video, "A Modern-Day DaVinci Genius" is perhaps hyperbole, but the wind-powered sculptures by the engineer/artist Theo Jansen are incredible. You can see several of them featured in the videos below: Kinetic art is sculpture that contains moving parts. The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer's hand. The term kinetic sculpture refers to a class of art made primarily from the late 1950s through 1960s. Kinetic art was first recorded by the sculptors Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner in their Realist Manifesto issued as part of a manifesto of constructivism in 1920 ... [more]

An interesting video from Google on why Gmail is so great(?). I use Gmail for personal mail, and have tried mail through Google Apps, but I wouldn't use it for day-to-business mail. Interestingly, the video extols the virtues of Gmail's "Grouping Mail into Conversations feature"--that's about the only thing I dislike about it. I'd like to have the option to switch it off. Anyone else out there use Google Apps for their mail? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBbmiQhuAhU[/youtube] [more]

Here's a great typography video - very nicely produced, and a brief introduction for those new to the art of typography. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o1U4o1bc2k[/youtube] If you like this, you may like these: Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface A Film About Typography [more]