The rich, detailed, beautifully-lit and incredibly rendered 2D digital illustrations of Steafan Kopinski.
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Tag: environments
Spectacular Underwater Bedroom in Maldives
via mymodernmet.com
For those that take inspiration from marine life, aquatic dreaming made possible here, at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island resort.
Neon Boneyard is a Typophile’s Treasure Chest
Discarded for their glory days past, the rusting signs at Las Vegas’ Neon Boneyard, part of the Neon Museum, are chock-full of dazzling letter shapes for typophiles, and textures and color for other graphically-inclined eyes.
Métronomie—A Modular Subway Concept
Perceiving the subway ride as something that should be enjoyable, Yves Lombardet created this concept that is not only gorgeous, but that breaks the monotony of repetition in public transportation: by incorporating a modular approach, this subway can vary themes and spatial arrangements from car to car.
If such a design were widely implemented in public transportation, perhaps more travellers would be encouraged to leave their private vehicles behind for daily commutes.
Living Environments—Rachel Armstrong
In this TED talk, Rachel Armstrong describes the innovative breakthroughs of synthetic, living materials and their vast applications in adapting and retrofitting our environments, such as in preventing the sinking of Venice.
See related:
Neoplasmatic Future Homes: How synthetic algae skins on homes could improve energy use.
Pirate Ship Bedroom Design
More than just a decorative touch, this pirate-ship bedroom connects the ship with a jail cell through a rope bridge, dangles a climbing rope from the ship to the closet, and hides a slide that brings the adventurous kind downstairs, to the home’s ground floor. Wow. Designed by Steve Kuhl, Kuhl Design Build.
Andreas Captures Massive Architecture
With a seemingly keen awareness of the psychological effects of massive spatial designs, German photographer Gursky Andreas creates images that poignantly hone on graphic, geometric, and rectilinear grounds.
Shinjuku Green Parking Design
A two-story concrete parking lot design features walls made from hanging, living plants that not only beautify the area by adding green and hiding cars, but help to absorb car emissions. The concept, by cheungvogl, includes a water harvesting system, and the plants’ textural thread allows light to filter naturally into the Tokyo building.
LED Typography
Designer Aleksi Hautamäki created a collection of playful typography lamps by reusing the letters of old electric signs and retrofitting them with long lasting LED lights, capable of emitting 30,000 hours of glow. “Sustainability of this product is not superimposed, but in the very essence of it. The second life cycle creates new value for everybody involved, the sign maker, the producer, the retailer and the customer.” – Aleksi Hautamäki
Recycling Typography | Aleksi Hautamaki | Iconology
Concept for a Critter Bridge
Inexpensive wooden bridges covered with native vegetation, as proposed by landscape design firm Balmori Associates, if implemented, could reduce the number of U.S. car-animal collisions and their cleanup cost of $US 8 billion annually.
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