Pete Gilbert - Filed under 'design'

November 8, 2009

The Paper Bicycle

No it's not made of paper, but the idea comes from the fact that it is like a blank sheet of paper, and that it can be easily branded or personalised.

Enclosed chain and mudguards keep you clean and dry. Puncture proof tyres, internal gears cables and brakes, guarantee reliability.

Have your own design of chain panel printed. One size fits everyone.

Rack, child seat, and dynamo light options.
Cromo steel frame, with lifetime warranty.
8spd/1spd hub gears, with drum brakes.
Puncture resistant 26"x2" balloon tyres.

The paper bicycle will be available in September 2009. 8spd with dynamo lights £850, 1spd no lights £630.

http://www.paper-bicycle.com/bicycle.html

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November 8, 2009

Inhabitat » ANDREA Air Filter Purifies Indoor Air with the Help of House Plants

via inhabitat.com

The common housplant becomes superhero in this living air filter by ANDREA. Pop over to Inhabitat.com for more information. Is that an aloe vera inside?

What do you do if the plant starts to outgrow the little glass lid?

http://www.andreaair.com/

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November 8, 2009

8-Bit Wedding Invitation

Via Gizmodo

Ready....FIGHT!!!!

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November 8, 2009

Mavizen's electric bike hits 130 MPH, ships with Linux and WiFi

via engadget.com

Yes, that's right. It's being billed as a development PLATFORM and not just a bike. The Mavizen TTX02 is fully connected in a way that bikes are not today. It ships not only with a chassis and drivetrain, but with an open source Linux OS, web server, USB-based system bus, and WiFi connectivity. http://www.mavizen.com.

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November 8, 2009

Autografik: Modern Transportation Graphics

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Grain Edit have linked to a Flickr group specifically for designs and logos on the side of vehicles. http://www.flickr.com/groups/autografik/. Fab.

Filed under // design graphics photography

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November 7, 2009

New Work: Litl | New at Pentagram | Pentagram

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"Litl is an innovative new web computer, or webbook, that marries the communication functions of a laptop and TV. Small, portable, and equally at home on a kitchen countertop or a living-room coffee table, the webbook is designed for families with multiple users who like to keep in touch and socialize. Litl is always connected to the web (with access to Wi-Fi) and flips upright like an easel for TV-like viewing of photos and video. It has no hard drive, files or applications of its own, but instead runs on the “cloud,” using web-based applications like webmail, Google, Flickr and Facebook."

Filed under // computers design

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November 7, 2009

MoCo Loco "goes the other way"

Get yourself over to MoCo and have a look. Their new design is fantastic, although different to most web sites. Their pages "go the other way" and extend off to the right. When you scroll the page moves left rather than up. Or do I mean right rather than down? Whatever. I know, it's been done before and it doesn't always work, but here it works really well. I really like it.

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November 7, 2009

Core-Toon: What will Dyson do next? - Core77

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November 6, 2009

Ospop Migration

Following on from Ospop's classic canvas shoe, similar to those worn by millions of Chinese workers every day, they have created a series of canvas bags, lined with the ubiquitous plaid She Pi Dai material which is also used to make the bags that Chinese workers use when travelling. All very proletarian and so forth! But I kind of like it for all that. Nice bags. The symbol on the bags BTW is Gong, which means labour.

I would really like a pair of the shoes in size 9. If anyone is listening!

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November 1, 2009

Trek's Lime bicycle bucks bad reviews to become People's choice at Design Awards

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This bike is designed to be a bike "like we had as kids" - if you are American or Canadian one supposes. All the gearing is automatic and although there dont appear to be brakes I suspect it is contained in the rear hub. Anything, literally anything, is better than the generic mountain bike with it's lycra and yellow jacketed rider.

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