Sunday, 15 January 2012

Ferrari Dino Concept!

Check out this awesome design for a new Ferrari Dino by Ugur Sahin.
As Ugur Sahin explains “the goal was to create a car that feels stylish, modern, dynamic and organic while staying true to the original design language of the Ferrari Dino and Ferrari brand in general.”
“The main characteristic of the Dino Concept design is the way it looks similar to the original Dino. With very round styling elements around the wheelbases and its cockpit, it looks retro and modern at the same time.”

Ugur Sahin is an automotive and industrial designer. He currently works for Netherlands-based Modesi.
He also works as a freelance designer in the 3D graphics and art fields – mainly with 3DStudio MAX and Final Render.
Check out his fantastic designs here: UgurSahin

Sunday, 8 January 2012

Saturday, 7 January 2012

Very Strange Homes

Check out these odd homes I found...


Gangster House (Archangelsk, Russia)

Though incomplete, the “Gangster House” is believed to be the world's tallest wooden house, soaring thirteen floors to reach 144 feet (about half the size of London’s Big Ben). The homeowner or gangster, Nikolai Sutyagin, had all intentions of finishing the construction but his dream went on hold when he got locked up behind bars for his third jail sentence. Now out of jail and out of money, the ex-convict lives at the bottom of this precarious tower of wood.


Upside-Down House (Syzmbark, Poland)

This upside down design seems totally nonsensical–but that is exactly the message the Polish philanthropist and designer, Daniel Czapiewski, was trying to send. The unstable and backward construction was built as a social commentary on Poland’s former Communist era. The monument is worth a trip be it for a lesson in history or balance.


Pod House (New Rochelle, New York)

We assumed this oddball home was UFO-inspired, but it turns out the weed Queen Anne’s lace is where it got it's roots. Its thin stems support pods with interconnecting walkways.
Floating Castle (Ukraine)

Supported by a single cantilever, this mysterious levitating farm house belongs in a sci-fi flick. It’s claimed to be an old bunker for the overload of mineral fertilizers but we’re sure there’s a better back story . . . alien architects probably had a hand in it.
Wozoco Apartments (Amsterdam-Osdorp, Holland)

A zoning law and blueprint flub were the inspiration for this apartment complex. Dutch housing regulations require apartment construction to provide a certain amount of daylight to their tenants–but MVRDV architects forgot to plan for that. Their solution? To hang thirteen of the 100 units off the north facade of the block. The ingenious design saves ground floor space and allows enough sunlight to enter the east or west facade.

Sunday, 11 December 2011

Thursday, 8 December 2011

My top 30 Spectrum games

Retro Gaming Part 2 - Heres how I wasted my youth and avoided social interaction...


1.       Manic Minor
2.       Skool Daze (series)
3.       Matchday (series)
4.       Daley Thompsons Decathlon
5.       Way of the exploding fist
6.       Fairlight
7.       Jet set Willy
8.       Starquake
9.       Bruce Lee
10.   Lunar Jetman
11.   Lords of Midnight
12.   Ant attack
13.   Penetrator
14.   Nodes of Yesod
15.   Commando
16.   Saboteur
17.   Jetpack
18.   Harrier attack
19.   The Hobbit
20.   Boulder dash
21.   Head over heals
22.   Green Beret
23.   Alien 8
24.   Hunchback
25.   Scuba dive
26.   Valhalla
27.   Gunfright
28.   Highway encounter
29.   Alchemist
30.   Renegade



Monday, 28 November 2011

Retro Gaming Part 1

Its 1981, I’m 10 yrs old and i’m on holiday in Spain with mum, dad and sister. They’re on a day trip to Venice and I managed to cry and moan my way out of the trip so I can spend the day in the arcade. They have the latest konami classic ‘track and field’ and my friend and I had managed to find a way to work together to complete the 100 meters in 7.8secs! It was my greatest achievement so far; entering GBR on the daily high score number 1 slot became not only a matter of national pride but also a way of sticking it to the Spanish on their own turf. Unbeknown to me, the game industry was a wild toddler, a cutting edge technology,  an interactive entertainment with mindboggling potential and I was perfectly placed to witness the beast evolve into what is now the number 1 form of entertainment on the planet.
Most kids knew, way back then, that those small green pixelated invaders harnessed the power within their monochrome 12x8 digital dots to change the world, and that they certainly did.
It wasn’t too long before the arcade had lost its attraction, Eggheaded Sir Clive Sinclair nerding to work in his C5 was soon to invent a machine that would have kids all over the uk glued to their bubble screened cuboid portable tvs and going mental when a pirate copy of the latest ultimate game crashed after 7minutes of loading...