Meet the Inkling by WACOM, which brings designers back to their roots: drawing with pen and paper.
The Inkling is a digital sketch pen and receiver; sketch, and your lines will be translated into an illustration on your computer. You don’t need special paper to record your drawings; you can attach the Inkling’s receiver to any paper surface and scribble away. If that weren’t enough, you can create multiple “layers” while you sketch; when you import your sketches, these will translate into layered files in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro. Best part is the price at only $199. Available mid-September at Amazon.com.
I came across these amazing little vacuum motors by Boehm Stirling the other day and was mesmerized by the craftsmanship and impressive functionality. The principle behind the Stirling motor dates back 2000 years to the ancient Egypt, and is quite simple. A burner filled with fuel heats the air inside a cylinder and thereby purveys energy to the motor that activates through piecing of the flywheels. Check out all their desk size engines here.
Earlier this year Dolce & Gabbana collaborated with action sport headphone giant Skullcandy for their Fall 2011 menswear show. Ever since then, fashion bloggers on the parisian streets have been snapping photos of these personalized D&G monogrammed Aviators designed by yours truly…MAGE DESIGN.
Producing an high-end timepiece can be a grueling process, 2 years of work and hard labor. The process is surely not limited to the design and creative aspect, the final product only happens with the dedication of numerous people from engineers, factory manager, seamstresses, prototypist, quality expert, watchmaker….. Myself and “El Presidente” Mr Alain Marhic himself visited Switzerland 2 weeks ago to round up production issues before the summer break and I am always bewildered by the number of person and hands it takes to make a timepiece happen….
Visiting a factory is a good reminder of the dedication of all those artisans to quality and impeccable production, we are grateful to work with such talented crafstman.
Here are a couple of photos of our trip and of the people and personalities behind the fantastic swiss made label…..
As we speak my dad and my mum are traveling down from Norway through Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and Belgium for the 19th annual International “Amis de la 2CV”, in Paris. They are racing down in their 1986 2CV6 Special to try to make it to the 5 day event from July 26th to 31st.
I thought this would be a good opportunity to showcase Citroën’s biggest success story the 2CV, designed by the legendary Flaminio Bertoni. Originally developed in the 1930s, most of the 250 prototype 2CVs were destroyed before Wold War II – with the exception of three, which were hidden to stop them falling into enemy hands. The fourth was stored by Michelin. The now iconic model was later unveiled to the public at the 1948 Salon in Paris and became one of the longest-running production cars ever conceived. Citroën produced more than five million examples of the car – including the Fourgonnette small van built on the same platform – during its 42-year run.
For the participants of the “Amis de la 2CV” they will travel down Champs-Élysées to Place de la Concord in Paris, then the trip continues on to Selbris in Central France. It’s only 2 hours away from Paris by car, and hosts some of the famous Loire valley castles as Chambord, Chenonceau, Blois and Amboise. On a 60-hectare site, the four pre-war prototypes of the 2CV’s will be shown alongside all the privately owned 2CV’s of the 6000 registered participants. (more info)
French fashion house maison martin margiela was commissioned by hotel maison champs-elysées to redecorate the historical building of the Maison des Centraliens at 8 rue Goujon in Paris. The designer has imagined 17 rooms and suites as well as the reception, restaurant, bar and cigar room.
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La Maison Champs Elysées consists of two buildings, one of which dates from the Second Empire under Napoleon III. The property was designed in the now iconic Haussmann style and finished in 1866. While Margiela’s known for his Avant Guard designs, he’s toned down the sharp edge a bit to focus on a more crisp, clean and subtly detailed space- blending old and new aesthetics. White paint, deconstruction, trompe l’oeil, reappropriation, the artisanal and, last but not least, pure, dry wit are key characteristics.
