ASD Labs – 212.866.4402

(image source | Street Art Utopia)

106 of the Most Beloved Street Art Photos – Year 2011 – Street Art Utopia

The Post-Graffiti Painting of Steve Powers | Capital

Apple’s Earnings By The (Holy S*%#!) Numbers | Fast Company

DC Comics New Identity | Brand New

Paul Goldberger and Jason Barr Debate the Manhattan Skyline | New York Observer

16 Awesome Text Wallpapers | The Ultralinx

(image source | Home DSGN)

Reminiscent of periscopes protruding from the bowels of a submarine, the Four Eyes House by Edward Ogosta Architecture is a 3,800 square foot weekend retreat being built in California’s Coachella Valley desert.

Four Eyes House by Edward Ogosta Architecture:

“A weekend desert residence for a family and their dog, the Four Eyes House is an exercise in site-specific experiential programming. Rather than planning the house according to a domestic functional program, the building was designed foremost as an instrument for intensifying a number of onsite phenomenal events.

Four “sleeping towers” are oriented towards four spatiotemporal viewing experiences: morning sunrise to the east, mountain range to the south, evening city lights to the west, and nighttime stars overhead. Each tower contains a compact top-floor bedroom, sized only for the bed, and each with a unique aperture directed towards the view. These bedrooms are equally-sized and unassigned, such that the family’s sleeping locations can be rotated based on each individual’s desired viewing experience. Vertical circulation within the towers is similarly particularized (e.g. ladders, spiral stair, switchback stair, or shallow-riser stair). Ground-floor common spaces form a loose connective field between the discrete tower volumes, and offer a more permeable relationship to the landscape.

The sensations of sleeping and waking are thus inflected by the building’s foregrounding of intensified onsite experiential events. By sleeping in a room elevated off the ground and open to the stars, one might inhabit a deep pocket of silence for a few moments, and perhaps even perceive the movement of the Earth, as it slowly rotates beneath the stars.”

Source | Home DSGN

(image source | Cool Hunting)

Preservation is Life | Cool Hunting

Porsche Announces Second Experience Center | Autoblog

Soda Startup Aims To Serve a Beverage You Design From a Vending Machine | Mashable

iNuke Boom, world’s loudest iPod dock, weighs 700 lbs | Los Angeles Times

The Spaceship Has Landed: All the Plans for Apple Campus 2 | Architizer

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Phone: A Case For Writing Things Out | Fast Company

(image source | Whudat)

El Mac & Kofie for KROQ’s Sound Space | Whudat

Twitter and TV Get Close to Help Each Other Grow | The New York Times

What the Hell is Old School Anyway? | Jersey Joe Art

Marijuana Promotes Creativity | Boing Boing

Audi E-Tron Spyder | Ultralinx

The Flatiron Building of Japan | Yatzer

(image source | David Zwirner Gallery)

Meticulously shrinking down Manhattan, Yutaka Sone’s sculpture is a minia- turized replica of the big apple. The artist carved his rendition of Manhattan between 2007 and 2009 out of marble using photographs, Google Earth, and numerous aerial helicopter trips for reference. You can see Little Manhattan in person at David Zwirner Gallery here in NYC through October 29th.

(image source | David Zwirner Gallery)

Source | Fast Company Design

(image source | designboom)

Looking to unify the varying facades of several buildings within an industrial complex in Zagreb, Croatia, the property owners enlisted design agency Brigada. Brigada used a large scale typography design in a minimalist black and white color scheme to tie the properties together and add a fresh look to this previously awkward set of warehouses and office space. See more here.

(image source | designboom)

Source | designboom