Empowering Architecture online

Architizer: Empowering Architecture, a Facebook-like architecture website, was officially launched last Monday night at the Stortfront for Art and Architecture in NYC.
Architizer features people, projects and firms in the architecture world, and a whole host of resources and information.

Check it out: http://www.architizer.com/en_us/

Modern Coffin

Just in time for Halloween:

Project: Mark the last veil

Designer: Roos Kuipers

Description: At a funeral, the closing of the coffin is often a grim moment. A hard, abrupt action that is inappropriate for the sensitive and emotional grieving and mourning process. Roos Kuipers designed an open coffin made of traditional elm, with round, soft forms that softens this moment. Six transparent veils of bamboo, cotton and silk hang from its side. At the moment of leave-taking, the veils are layered over the body one by one, by which the image of the deceased is gradually obscured. By tucking the veils layer by layer into a groove in the wood, the body of the deceased is similarly ‘tucked in’ with loving care and respect.

Photoshop gone wrong

Photoshop is every designer's fix-it-all. I use this tool all the time to make anything look better. But what happens when a simple touchup goes overboard? This Ralph Lauren ad has made this model's waist smaller than her head! Someone give her a cheese burger!

Click here for more Photoshop awesomeness...

IKEA humor

Love them or hate them, IKEA are the purveyors of cheap stylish DIY furniture.
What I do love about IKEA is their marketing. Watch on.

It's Bad but not in a good way...

Just when you think you heard enough news coverage on the whole Michael Jackson circus show, Archinet is sponsoring the "Live Forever: The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition."

The voting has begun for the finalists (and there are many). Some of the entries had serious design merit, while some were just plain rediculous. Some entries include the "MJ Sperm Bank Memorial" and the "Freedom Tower (9/11 / MJ memorial towers / anti terrorist device)."

Enjoy (and vote for) the freakshow here:

http://www.bustler.net/index.php/michael_jackson_competition/finalists/