When brainstorming about blogging and what cool designs I could discuss next, I had an Oprah-esque “AHA!” moment. We don’t give The Earth/Mother Nature/Spiritual Higher Power enough credit for the natural designs found in the landscape of this planet we call home. So here’s a look at some of the absolutely fantastic designs that were naturally created.
Painted Cliffs, Tasmania
Garden of the Gods, Colorado, USA
Angel Falls, Venezuela
Taughannock Falls, Finger Lakes Region, New York
Introduce yourselves, friends, to the Vibram Five Finger Shoe.
Pretty awesome, right?
It’s been quite some time since I’ve seen such a startling and attractive shoe design. Specifically, this is a running and outdoor shoe – with each toe getting its own little pocket the wearer is going to get more balance, more grip, and more traction. And it’ll feel like you’re barefoot the whole time!
I know I’m gushing, but this is really quite a brilliant shoe. I tried a pair on up at Mountain Outfitters in Monteagle, TN, and I loved the way they felt as much as I love the way they look. Check out the Vibram Five Finger Shoe here.
A design team, Auger Loizeau, has come up with some pretty bizarre, end even unsettling, robot furniture. The furniture is conceptual as well as functional – it’s meant to make you think about the role of robots.
Now how does it do that? By making the robots (and therefore your furniture) carnivorous. Check it out:
This little contraption is a clock run on bio fuel; bio fuel provided by the flies it catches and then converts to energy. Next we have a lamp that attracts moths and other flying creatures, then converts them into fuel.
But her’s the real kicker: A coffee table that runs on mouse. That’s right, mouse. The iris in the middle of the table traps mice that climb on the surface through the special hole in the custom leg. It eats any crumbs you might have left, and then…
So you tell me: Fascinating, creepy, or downright wrong?
Cool, non-traditional men’s wedding ring:
Check out some of this amazing furniture from BFD founder Andy Gregg. Using used bicycles, Gregg and Co. create some pretty radical furniture. We loves.
It is important, every now and again, for us here at Basis to point our readers not only toward the envy-causing, the beautiful and the unobtainable objets d’art, but also toward the envy-causing, beautiful and altogether attainable objets d’arts. Behold: The Herman Miller Embody Chair.
Well-designed, erudite, healthy for your back, beautiful, a breakthrough for ergonomics married to aesthetics; to this list you may now also add affordable as from June 4th to June 14 Smart Furniture will be offering the chair, as well as other Herman Miller products, for 15 percent off. Don’t say we never did anything nice for you.
As Spring continues to spring, we here at Basis have felt the old familiar itch; the itch to go out on some beautiful golf course and ruin our whole day by playing as badly as it is possible to play this ancient and noble game of golf. Design-wise, the golf course is a tricky and expensive endeavor, but when done right, it’s magical. Augusta National, the site of the Masters tournament and possibly the greatest course on earth, has as it’s crown jewel No. 13, “Azalea,” the most beautiful hole of golf in North America.
One of the world’s most sought after, championed, highly paid and densely sculptural architects, Renzo Piano, has a wealth of breathtaking building, but one of our favorites here at Basis is the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Built underground for the most part, featuring and living roof and a”flooded” basement, fully integrated into the ecological world of San Fran, and flatly stunning to look at, it’s a real treat.
