Somebody obviously had enough experience with those conventional crap bookends to realize that in order to keep books standing at a 90 degree angle, you need to employ iron and steel in the form of a vise. That will teach those books not to slant.

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Stunning UI for website of travel book of photographer Thomas Duval and sound designer Tacteel

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Anything but your conventional log cabin home, one might see this structure atop a mountain or on a lake and and think it a pile of rough-cut wood logs rather than a cleverly camouflaged modular living and work space.

Designed by Hans Linberg, the ‘logs’ are merely a wood building facade covering a prefabricated plastic and steel frame. The ‘cabin’ is actually a recording studio for now, but would work just well as a mobile forest home or disguised hunting blind.

Rectangular in overall shape with likewise angular window openings, this seems to have little in common with traditional cabins but then again: many modern cabins are likewise built with fake facades – this one simply shows off its artificial nature more overtly.

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Probably shouldn’t be posting this, since I made it in November, but I found it today while shuffling through some of my folders.

Just got back from the High Museum and they have a wicked new gallery filled with a bunch of Da Vinci’s sketches of horses, gears, and miscellaneity. This was one of my favorites of his sketches.

Who says you have to be a kid to enjoy a good indoor slide now and again? London architect Alex Michaelis has constructed a slide side-by-side with his dream-home staircase – though in this case it clearly is for the kids to enjoy more than for the adults, and the synthetic material is less prone to be a pain in your, well, you know.

It seems as if this designer managed to fuse the fun and functional aspects of both of the previous examples, constructing a more simplified and child-sized wooden slide – a toned-down variation on the eccentric entrepreneur’s one featured first, or a souped-up spiral variant of the straight-and-narrow one pictured second.

However, who would expect to find not only a bright orange slide by a fireman’s pole smack dab in the middle of an otherwise austere Toronto office building lobby by Johnson Chou? Yes, workers on their way out can exit by these or the more boring staircase if they wish.

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This project calls “Mercado Negro”, by Los Angeles-based artist Ramon Coronado. “I took it upon myself to take a shopping cart and make a statement with it. I reclaimed LA’s iconic shopping cart and created furniture for kids to enjoy in these urban Los Angeles areas. The project is a criticism of the scarcity of recreational functions for kids growing up in a dense city like Los Angeles.”

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