If it was up to us, all the best design in the world would be posted within the Parfois Portfolio… But… its not up to us. Stumbling the web we often bump into things worth sharing. The world wide web is so full off great things that will never end up in our portfolio, but which we want the world to see. For this we created our blog. At this moment there 4 of us blogging on a regular basis.Work, studies and social life makes that there are weeks with a lot of posts, and weeks without. But we’ll do our best in bringing you the nicest shit on a acceptable basis.
The BauBike is inspired by Bauhaus design.
It is constructed around the geometric shape of the square and the equilateral triangle. The design is stripped down to clean lines and raw material. The open-end piece above the back wheel, offers the possibility to customize the function of the bike to whatever need you may have. The different accessories can be placed in the tube and can easily be changed if needed. >> Read more
Chad Hage is a graphic designer based in¬†Minneapolis. A few days ago, he published his¬†Nonsensical Infographics serie. A set of 8 inforgraphics based on… no data. Still the use of colors and the way of displaying the imagined data is very well done.
The latest BLU animation was made at the fame festival in southern italy in cooperation with artist david ellis. the animated graffiti took over a week to complete with the help of a number of assistants.
the two artist combined their respective styles to create the large scale motion paintings that occupies
an old ruins. the piece is designed to loop so that the film can be played back to back seamlessly.
Hobnox is innovative community that brings high quality entertainment to the user via new media. They put the designers first, and combines them with experts on several different technologies to create new opportunities for artists, creatives and audiences.
One of there most successful products is the Audio Tool. The application looks a lot like Reason, with the difference that this is free, all in the cloud, and the only thing you need is a Flash. The developers at Hobnox made use of a new feature in Actionscript 3.0, which not only enables developers to manipulate existing sounds, but also create new sounds via code. This what happens in the Audio Tool. And apart from writing an exceptional piece of code, Hobnox also took care of the design. All the different devices you can use in the Audio Tool are all designed with great detail, and look almost real. If you’re a music lover, be sure to check it out and play around with it, cause it’s just fabulous!
many unofficial LEGO gadgets have been on the market for some time now, but next month will see LEGO themselves
release a digital camera and MP3 player developed together with digtal blue.
LEGO worked with the atlanta-based company who specialize in children’s tech-products for a range of gadgets that
includes walkie talkies, boomboxes, alarm clocks as well.
Just a few days ago¬†James Grant brought STOC into the world. A real time infograph that visualizes the data from the S&P 500 index on the market. This index indicates the stocks of largely held companies that do not trade on either¬†of the two largest American stock market companies. But enough about the financial side, the cool thing is that this application is real time. It collects the data of 30 minutes ago (they are working on narrowing down the time-delay), and updates the information every 10 minutes. The application is programmed in Processing, a programming language developed for designers that makes coding easy. Make sure you download this application, it’s definitely worth some time where you’ll realize infographs can deliver a whole new vision on data.
Having already locked up endorsements from two of the biggest names in hip-hop ‚Äî Jay Z and Eminem¬†‚Äî the makers of the upcoming music video game¬†DJ Hero turned their attention to recruiting some of electronic music‚Äôs stars. Mission accomplished: Daft Punk will bring their trademark beats, disguises and awesome set designs to¬†DJ Hero (due October 27th), along with 11 exclusive mixes that merge the French duo‚Äôs biggest songs with tracks by Queen, No Doubt and Young MC.¬†DJ Hero also marks the first time the mysterious Daft Punk have aligned themselves with a video game. –> Hit Read more to view the trailer
These are all girls who performed in the Ziegfeld Follies in the 1910’s-20’s. Some went on to further careers on the stage and screen…some disappeared into obscurity.
The Bitter*Girls is the work of Japanese photographer Jyune. His works are mainly landscape photography and experimental photography using tilt/shift lenses and lens filters. Jyune’s photography misleads our perceptions, using a rather particular process which gives the impression that the subjects are models, when in fact they are real. >> Read more
Pity it is just a concept, this 1965 Dodge Deora would still do fine on today’s marked. If one of ¬†the car building company’s would build this one today it would still be unique and futuristic. The one-off pickup truck won the Ridler Award at the 1967 Detroit Autorama and was immortalized a year later as one of the original 16 Hot Wheels model cars.¬†A shame dodge isn’t known for his environmental friendly cars…
many unofficial LEGO gadgets have been on the market for some time now, but next month will see 
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