Traends!

All about me this time. MoCoLoco published an Interview with me on their site.

A very beautiful bridge between the virtual and real world by Mike and Maaike.

“An exploration of tangible vs. virtual in relation to real and perceived value. Using Google Image Search, we browsed through some of the most expensive and often famous jewelry in the world, the resulting low-res images we found were stolen, doctored, then transferred onto leather, creating a tangible new incarnation.”

(via MoCo Loco)

Last weekend in Tokyo, Sony unveiled its new eco-friendly “odo” line powered solely from good old fashioned human-made power. For instance, the odo Digital Camera is powered by putting your fingers in the viewfinder holes and spinning it until it’s ready to take your picture. (via core77)

The website McFly2015 wants Nike to produce the “sneakers of the future”. The ones that have been worn by Marti McFly in “Back to the Future 2″, a movie from 1989.

Designer Jamie Wieck presents a business card that helps you being remembered. When watered it will grow alfalfa or cress.

The SECCO shop (SECCO stands for Sustainable Economy Collection Company) sells objects and accessories made from waste materials.

Another glimps on how important the packaging of a product is you get if you take a look at the process of a packaging design documented here.

Some nice things from the Design Sale at the tac.

Found over at Swissmiss, who discovered it on Digital Roam. Ah I love this networking!

Smashing Magazine shows a list of 60 elegantly designed websites. All of them very clean, smooth, flat, sometimes with gradients and illustrative 3D effects. Yaawn…