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Braun BN0106 watch ad

Advertisement for the Braun BN0106 digital watch by BBDO Proximity.

“The layout has been reduced to the minimum and remains true to the core Braun design principle: The strength of pure. The direct tonality is honest and purely understated, simply “less but better”. And this is exactly what the Braun steel digital watch is.”

Via Design made in Germany.

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End Table

End Table, c. 1933–35 by Donald Deskey. Chromed metal, glass.

Via Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt.

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Zoomer

Want..!

Can’t believe I still haven’t got myself a Honda Zoomer.

Via Veloista.

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I'm not here

Photo by Pol Úbeda Hervàs.

Via Juxtapoz.

 

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Schizotypy

I went up to Oxford to visit my Dad at the weekend and stumbled across this little masterpiece on a mug in his kitchen.

On quizzing him about it he informed me that was a diagram he crafted a few years ago in an attempt to illustrate his view of how psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are based on personality traits that can be adaptive and beneficial,  particularly in their connection to creative thinking.

Apparently it has become iconic amongst students and colleagues of my Dad with an interest in the subject of schizophrenia and schizotypy and eventually ended up being applied to mugs and tshirts by Branden Miller, a student of his who added the caption at the bottom.

Read on for my Dad’s in-depth explanation of the diagram…

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Eames 400 series storage unit

Storage unit by Charles and Ray Eames.

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Circus party poster

Poster by Stefan Prica.

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Lo Siento 2012 calendar

2012 calendar made by Lo Siento to give as a gift. Each of the polyhedrons has a different number of faces, corresponding with the number of each month.

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Skeleton dress

Skeleton dress

Skeleton dress by Iris van Herpen.

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Can of bass

Roland TB-303 Bass Line synthesizer, for acid bass refreshment.

Via Visual Acuity.

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