Is this the future of #LA? #Skyvillage: a car-free „#architecture organism“

25. März 2014 von schall & rauch

Not only the world wide web is filled to the brim with exciting, spaced-out, at times completely insane stuff. Some brains are, too! So, this is what the brain of a woman called Ziwei Song imagines will dominate the future skyline of LA: the Skyvillage. Why not. Quite possibly a structure being built in the year 2525 (if man is still alive…). It would connect four of the largest neighbourhoods of the city (amongst them Chinatown and Downtown) and make […]

Kategorien: english, ergreifendes, sehenswertes • Tags: architecture, brain, car-free, design, freeway, imagine, la, organic, skyvillage, spider, verge

#Living with no strings attached: ProtoHaus, a compact #home on wheels made of #recycled materials

13. November 2013 von schall & rauch

Tired of your job? Bored with your surroundings? Can’t stand your neighbours? Not a problem! Well, it wouldn’t be if you lived in a ProtoHaus. You could just hook up the house to your car and go. Oh, but don’t forget to hand in your notice to your boss, file a change-of-address order with the post office, find a new dwelling in the destination of your choice, get another job and … okay okay okay, it wouldn’t be easy. But […]

Kategorien: english, ergreifendes, nachhaltiges, sehenswertes • Tags: always, basement, bed, bored, boss, car, change-of-address, cupboard, destination, easy, essentials, freedom, holiday, home, imagine, job, living, material, no strings attached, notice, order, park, possible, power, preferably, problem, protohaus, reclaimed, recycled, self-experiment, self-sufficient, small, solar, space, surroundings, tired, waste, water, wheels, wind

This is such an incredible idea! And sooooo simple: Phonebloks. WOW!

13. September 2013 von schall & rauch

I am absolutely shocked that Phonebloks has not been come up with before. This just proves once again that simplicity is hard to pay attention to when we try to envision great things. Sure, the design might need some work but the idea is AWESOME! And worth everyone’s support! This, Mr. Cook, is something you should help develop instead of putting a bloody plastic phone on the market that is not only a big step backwards in terms of creating […]

Kategorien: english, ergreifendes, heldenhaftes, nachhaltiges, sehenswertes • Tags: apple, attention, awesome, ceo, cook, design, envision, future, great, help, idea, imagine, incredible, iphone, iphone 5c, phone, phonebloks, plastic, project, simple, simplicity, smartphone, support, sustainable, thunderclap, vision, wow

The Information is Beautiful Awards reloaded – help find this year’s best datavizard!

12. Juni 2013 von schall & rauch

Visualised information simplifies our lives every day. Imagine the next elections without the colourful and easily comprehensible graphs and pie charts. WHUAAAA! No one in the pub next door eyeing the news over a pint of beer would know who is about to win – or where the toilets are, for that matter. Well, now that we finally acknowledge the significance of information graphics and data visualisation in general, we are delighted to announce that the Information is Beautiful Awards […]

Kategorien: english, ergreifendes, heldenhaftes, papier & ähnliches, sehenswertes • Tags: award, awards, beer, book, comprehensible, data visualisation, datavis, datavizard, deadline, design, elections, entries, graphs, imagine, inauguration, information, information graphics, information is beautiful, julius wiedemann, last year, london, love, midnight, pie charts, pub, reloaded, sandra rendgen, significance, simplify, submit, taschen verlag, this year, toilets, ursula wulfekamp, win, work