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Hyper-realistic paintings and drawings can make us pause and wonder whether they’re real, but there’s another, even more deceptive, form of super-realistic art that’s been in use since ancient times. Trompe l’oeil means “trick of the eye” in French, and this type of painting definitely lives up to its name. With examples that date as [...]

Czech architecture firm HSH architects created this ribbon staircase for a home in Prague out of 10mm thick sheet metal. Pairs of adjoining steps connected with an oblique external side joist form a bracket anchored in the wall. Each of the brackets is constructed as a rigid frame. The higher steps bear mainly drawing forces, [...]

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This beautiful house – Casa Negra or “the Black House”- comes from Andres Remy Architects and is located at a 30 km distance from Buenos Aires, Argentina, in a spectacular natural environment. In taking on this project, the team of architects had to deal with some of the circumstances of the local setting. First of [...]

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Ricardo Rodriguez from Spanish company, Glassdecor sent us this new interesting idea for dressing your bathroom walls, ceiling or floors with an image of large format. Designed for modern bathrooms these tiles make everything possible and can turn your bathroom into a truly unique and personal place. The glass mosaic tiles are promised to be [...]

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Sally Conran is an art director and stylist whose passions involve interior design, lifestyle and last but not least- and you probably did not see this coming- food. For today, we made a selection of some of her works regarding interior arrangements. What is striking at first when looking at her projects is an overall [...]

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Marcus O’Reilly Architects has carefully designed a low key, site responsive beach house in Sorrento on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula in Australia. The timber clad structure reinterprets a longstanding beach house tradition in the area. It uses local materials to blend into, respect and compliment it’s sought after, national park adjacent location. The site, which [...]

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Rumours have been circulating for some time of an Apple tablet hitting the markets in 2010. This isn’t that new. Amazon’s kindle book reader has been on the market for some time. Though it was recently noted that publishing houses have been approached to create content for these new devices.

Take a look at this tablet based Sports Illustrated issue demo. All of the content is completely dynamic, and advertisements can also be videos. A completely interactive magazine. It’d be great to be able to comment on articles as well.

Media companies will have access to a massive amount of marketing data from users; from IP addresses showing location to feedback that can be directed to their servers.

Online music stores and publishers will become the news agencies of the future, meaning iTunes and amazon will be selling magazines as well as movies, music, applications, tv shows, books etc.etc.etc. The list goes on.

Though an interesting point made in the comment section on the youtube link was how many of these devices do we need? Most already have a notebook/netbook pc, a phone, a media player and now…? I suppose this just enhances the users experience. Power cords need to become universal for media players though. The amount of cabling for chargers is getting a little stupid and eliminates the convenience when travelling.