If you liked Vanessa Marie's Night & Day Backpack for Cycling, you might want to make like Mike Mandiberg; he wrapped his bike in Retroreflective Vinyl, meaning it looks dark black but turns bright white when a headlight beam shines on it. The amazing material--Scotchlite 680, to be exact--can be ordered from New Jersey's Beacon Graphics.
Bright Bike from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo.
thanks mike!
Portland-based designer Cheng Kue has some ridiculously tight rendering skills, as evidenced above. Done in a combination of Illustrator and Photoshop, Kue can crank these out in 45-50 minutes each. Check out more from his book here.
In spite of the economic downturn (or perhaps because of it), a new product category is seeing vast growth: Netbooks. The miniature, inexpensive, stripped-down laptops are meant for little more than web surfing, word processing and e-mail, with little storage space (deemed unnecessary due to the ubiquity of online storage...
WhiteAfrican tells us about Dell's new laptop designs inspired by African artists, here's a snippet on the one shown above: Shine Within (map): Award-winning artist Siobhan Gunning was born in Mombasa, East Africa and has had the opportunity to visit many of the unique locations in Africa, like the Great Rift...
Brooklyn-based designer and avid cyclist Vanessa Marie addresses the dilemma of being safety conscious while riding, and maintaining a level of street cred with her 'Night Day Backpack'. The concept behind the backpack was to create a chic look with (hidden) versatility. The flaps have magnets inside of them with...
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