Shape-shifting ‘Breathing Chair’ looks to make the beanbag fashionable

via: engadget
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Shape-shifting chairs may not always be the most attractive additions to your living room, but Taiwanese designer Yu-Ying Wu is hoping to change that with her so-called “Breathing Chair,” which has already won a few prestigious design awards but hasn’t yet snagged any commercial partners. The secret, such as it is, is the array of “professionally calculated” holes spaced out through the three layers of foam plastic, which are designed to compress into the shape of an armchair when someone sits in it and spring back into a cube when they stand up. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any video of it in action, but the chair will soon be on display at Red Dot Design Museum in Singapore if you happen to be in the area.

Barry M

Loooooving Barry M nailpolishes atm, i got a few, will swatch when i put them on,
Swatch 1
304 Mint Green

Thanks to MissChievous, youtube make up guru for the recommend

Suicide

Doing a photography project, set by the amazing Charlie Murphy whos work i came across while i was doing my negative spaces self initated brief last year.
I have been looking to do something about self harm, and slowly going into stuff about suicide. and reasons why people do it. i actually discovered (celebrities) that they are mostly male and less females. weird, because alot of people that i spoke to said they relate self harm to something females mostly do.
anyway i might be thinking of re-enacting 5-10 famous suicides (5, because of set costs n such maybe?) so far ive become interested in :
The suicide of Lucretia
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
Marilyn Monroe
Sylvia plath, poet

well, still reading more, but these were quite interesting, so what if i re-enact them myself? im liking the idea, but will discuss with charlie as soon as i can see her this week.

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I heart Bibme!

I’ve been using it for quite some time now, but i LOVE love love bibme.org! lifesaver! it makes ur bibliography for u in a number of different formats! atleast i dont have to worry about it in the end, and i’ll just have to download my bibliography from there and paste it into my dissertation. yay!

I Arted!

Had to be done :p

Recent stuff 2

Recent stuff 1

Found this wandering in london..

LOL dead insect art!

just going through digg.com and found this:

Idea a day :D

Yaaaaay my idea was the idea of the day on idea a day on the 7th of oct’09 yaaaaaay

my idea on idea-a-day.com

Learning to breathe

First brief for the 3rd year, a headline that we need to present 3 visual outcomes on. Stuck already.