This Pigalle chair by designer Kenneth Cobonpue is the perfect place to sit and think. The natural contours slope and weave so you can sit, lay, scrunch. Available at fine design stores.
click: mocoloco.com
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New Ideas:
A posting of thinking we like.
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Pigalle Chair
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Mike Perry
Former Urban Outfitters designer Mike Perry (who designed the new Thinktopia poster) has a new book coming out from Princeton Architecture Press titled Hand Job: A Catalog of Type.
click: midwestisbest.com
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Deutsche Welle
This might seem like a stretch, but German television network Deutsche Welle not only offers a different perspective on the news (like they show dead bodies in Iraq) but they also feature new fine artists in all medium: photographers, opera singers, painters and more.
click: www.dw-world.de
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ULINE
Finally a company that knows what exemplary customer service is all about. ULINE is the Four Seasons of supply companies. Using 21st Century technology to its advantage, they know who you are when you call to repeat an order, and have your past orders at the ready. If only the airlines, credit card companies and phone companies would consider what a mailing tube supplier has already figured out.
click: uline.com
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Thinktopia Credo Poster
Our new Thinktopia® credo poster was hand drawn by Mike Perry and designed by Emily Anderson. click: thinktopia.com
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Steven Holl
Architect Steven Holl was named as “America’s Best Architect” by Time Magazine in 2001. Holls phenomenological approach (man’s existential bodily engagement with his/her surroundings) can be found in a book of essays he co-wrote with Juhani Pallasmaa and Alberto Perez-Gomez, in Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture. Holls Whitney Water Purification Facility and Park won the 2007 Top Ten Green Projects from AIA/COTE.
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Human Genome Project
National Geographic and IBM started the Human Genome Project to produce a sequence of DNA representing the functional blueprint and evolutionary history of the human species.
click: www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0603/feature2/map.html
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Aesthetic Apparatus
Aesthetic Apparatus is Dan Ibarra and Michael Byzewski, two terrific designers slash screenprinters based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are responsible for some great rock posters.
click: aestheticapparatus.com
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Tom Christopher
Painter Tom Christophers scenes of New York Citys Times Square sell out in Berlin, Paris, Tokyo and other places that are supposed to hate us. Why? A master at painting human beings and automobiles, he captures people dodging traffic and bike messengers and the madcap swirl of New York City like no other. Small wonder his paintings hang in collections around the planet.
click: tomchristopher-art.com
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Futurismo Zugakousaku
Futurismo Zugakousaku is Mamoru Kano an art director at Japanese production company WOW who has established his own web site “Futurismo Zugakousaku”. Simple but amazing image expressions of algorithm as program art. I was always interested in the information design and adopted programming to image production, he says.
click: zugakousaku.com
