Ieri am dat peste o chestie care m-a lasat efectiv cu gura cascata.

Art Lebedev, cel mai mare studio de design (industrial si grafic) din Rusia s-a gandit sa faca TIR-urile transparente pentru o siguranta mai mare in trafic.

Principiul de functionare e simplu: o camera montata in fata camionului proiecteaza imaginile captate pe usile remorcii. In felul asta tu, ca sofer, poti sa vezi ce e in “punctul mort” inainte sa intri intr-o depasire. Rezultat: scad considerabil sansele ca sa dai de dracu! Cica tehnologia asta o sa functioneze si pe timp de noapte.

Da stiu, e o chestie geniala! Simplitatea si eficienta ideii te frapeaza. Te intrebi cum de nu s-a gandit nimeni la chestia asta pana acum. Genul asta de idei pot fi numite “geniale”.

Am cautat sa aflu mai multe despre Art Lebedev si am gasit alte chestii realizate de ei care sunt foarte tari:

Priza Rozetkus 3D

Agrafa Skrepkus – de trei ori mai interesanta si mai eficienta decat una normala

Defendius – pentru o usa sigura

Optimus Tactus – tastatura in viziunea lor

Perna Dosugus  – pentru developeri

Optimus Maximus – fiecare tasta e de fapt un display OLED cu rezolutia de 48 x 48 pixeli. Posibilitatile de configurare sunt nelimitate. Pret: ≈1389 €

Si mai au o gramada! Poti sa le vezi pe toate aici.  Sa nu uit. Sloganul lor: “Design will save the world”. Sugestiv

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Art Lebedev’s latest concept design is a digital camera with a flexible tube, allowing you to take pictures around corners.

Read more @ Technabob

Art Lebedev’s most recent project is a refresher on their Rozetkus power strip. What’s really interesting is that it’s more than just a socket. It can deploy an additional 4 sockets from its midst. Funky enough for you?

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არტ. ლებედევის სტუდიის  პროექტში Бизнес-линч , სადაც გრაფიკულ და ფოტო ნამუშევრებს აგზავნიან მომხმარებელები იმისათვის რომ სტუდიის დიზაინერებმა  ”ლინჩის” წესით გაასამართლონ/შეაფასონ,  აღმოვაჩინე გაერთიანებული ტელეკომის ლოგოც.

ლებედევის კომენტარი ლოგოზე →  http://www.artlebedev.ru/kovodstvo/business-lynch/2008/02/08/

Most of the time, I prefer to keep quiet about my sources of knowledge, so they are not exploited amongst the people I know, and the exclusivity I had with it amongst my friends and colleagues is lost, lost in a similar way in which I now feel about my iPhone, great when I got it, because virtually no one else had one, but now every second person has one. This however is one of the times where I am going to share a list of websites which I frequent visit (most of them stuffed in the bookmarks of my Safari web browser) and some of my influences for wanting to go into the design field. Not all of them are design related, but they do offer a wide range of topics (I say wide range, but it is probably quite limited) which will help with design work.

1. Design Sojourn I found this site a few years ago and it provides some of the most comprehensive information available to those who are studying and aspiring to become a designer. Simple and easy to navigate, it has articles on which, I will read again and again, giving confidence and a different insight into what we are told at University about the highs and lows of becoming a designer, and the ideal ways to approach your task.
2. Laws of Simplicity Name of the website says it all I think.
3. Vitra Producer of some of the most iconic pieces of designs from different designers around the world, past and present. I first became aware of this company whilst in my final year at school, where, for the Product Design course we had to do personal research about a certain designer. My designer being Verner Panton. Worth a look just for the designs.
4. Engadget A technology website providing news and reviews about pretty much all things tech. Known about this site for a good number of years, and I used to listen to their podcast. Sometimes, product concepts are shown and new and intriguing materials, technologies and products are posted and can be incredibly useful, such as the mouldable mouse.
5. Red Dot Design Awards Similar to the Vitra site, but not manufacturers, instead an award site which shows some of the best designs of the past year.
6. Art Lebedev Russian company which I accidentally stumbled across a few years ago. Designers and producers of some of the most distinctive and quirky products I have ever seen. Note the Optimus Maximus keyboard which has a small LCD screen on each key, and the Defendius, a door chain in the shape of a maze, which I wasn’t too happy to see, because only a matter of days before it appeared on the website, I was sure I had created a product very similar to it.
7. Bang & Olufsen Danish company, who I absolutely adore, I just go to their website in order to just ogle at their products. Beautiful, just beautiful. You will have seen some of their products before, but just not known who produced it.

Moving onto the actual designers who caused me to purse a career in design is probably just as varied. In part, because most of the ones on the list are car designers but the few which are traditional, (if I can say that) product designers.

1. Ian Callum Probably my favourite designer of all time, he has created some of the most iconic pieces of automotive artworks ever produced, or as a designer at Volvo told me once, rolling sculptures.
2. Alec Issigonis Most famous for designing the original mini, managing to combine great aesthetics with great and innovative layout and manufacture. He is one of the people that many designers aspire to.
3. Jonathan Ive Apple designer, who in part, along with the return of Steve Jobs to the company, helped to turn around their fortunes. World renowned and incredibly popular. I’m also an Apple user so that does sort of sway the favourable bar.

There are 2 other reasons why I wanted to go into design, the first being that I like to draw, quite alot, and the second reason being that I do want to help people, but not in a directly obvious way such as a doctor. I like to keep behind the scenes and let my work do the talking.

I got sent a link to this page earlier this week (thanks Tim ) which showcases some funky designs of various items ranging from mugs, to hoodies, and to keyboards. Most of the product can be purchased from the site, but some are still in concept stages, which makes for some very interesting browsing.

Anyway, to get to the meat of it, there are 2 keyboards which are just full of awesomeness. The first is called the Optimus Maximus (I think because it has a butt-load of optimal awesomeness). The trick? Each key on this baby has a standalone OLED screen, to display the function associated to it. Yes, you read correctly. The keys are completely customisable using the bundled software, which allows complete flexibility in what applications you use the keyboard for, and indeed in which languages. You can purchase this one for around $1600 or so…

The second keyboard, which is even cooler I think, is called the Optimus Tactus (I think because there is no tactful way to tell your friends you have one, without them beating you senseless to get their greasy little fingers on it…). This keyboard is still in the concept phase, but the idea is to remove the restriction of fixed, physical keys. It is a “one sensor display keyboard”. (I’m thinking a big-ass iPhone-style screen, without all the irritating phone functions). To quote:

Optimus Tactus does not have physical keys, which means there are no restrictions on their shape and size.
…
Any part of the keyboard surface can be programmed to perform any function or to display any images.

So, who wants one? Go check our the Art Lebedev Studio site for some more awesome stuff. And be sure to check out the other Optimus keyboards while you’re in the neighbourhood.

O Navigarius GPS é um dos conceitos mais bonitos criados até hoje pela Art Lebedev.

Se este GPS for em frente, terá um ecrã táctil giratório, entrada USB, microSD, e ainda um adaptador para isqueiro.

É um conceito bonito, mas não sabemos se algum dia chegará aos nossos carros.

iZFonte: Gizmodo

Para manter todo o arsenal de utensílios de cozinha organizados, um estúdio russo Art Lebedev transformou o clássico canivete suíço Swiss Army em um espetacular porta-utensílios. Batizado de “Swissarmius”, ele tem quatro compartimentos separados que mesmo vazios já mostram um estilo tremendo.

Fico pensando se eles não tiveram muitos problemas ao “usar” a Swiss Army.

Fonte: Bem Legaus!

Es ist eine fast einmalige Chance – ein neues Land entsteht, wird gegründet oder ändert die Staatsform. Um diese Veränderung auch optisch auszudrücken, wird in solchen Zeiten oft die Nationalflagge geändert.

So auch in Russland 1991, nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion. Leider entschied man sich für eine Flagge, die in der langen Geschichte Russlands schon mehrmals offiziellen Status hatte. Die drei panslawischen Farben Weiß, Blau und Rot werden quer gestreift.

Durch das manchmal verwendete Hellblau gefiel mir das Design, richtig aufregend oder kreativ ist es sicher nicht. Außerdem benutzen so viele Länder ähnliche Farben und Anordnungen. Wenn es nach Artemy Lebedev geht, den Stardesigner, der unter anderem für die jetzt schon legendäre Optimus Maximus Tastatur verantwortlich ist, braucht man gar nicht viel zu ändern.

Lediglich die Anzahl der Querstreifen wird verdreifacht. Es entsteht ein einzigartiges Design mit hohem Wiedererkennungswert, welches dennoch auch die traditionellen Farben beibehält – und was kann man sich Besseres wünschen?

Ich hätte gar nichts dagegen, wenn die Nationalflagge öfter mal geändert würde. Selbst die Wappen von Fußballvereinen werden mal modernisiert, und zu denen haben viele Menschen innigere Verhältnisse als zum Vaterland.

Schon in seligen Gizmodo-Zeiten war uns Art Lebedev wegen seiner teilweise irrwitzigen Entwürfe und der leicht größenwahnsinnigen Preis- und Ankündigungspolitik immer ein gern gesehener Gast, und weshalb sollte sich nun daran irgend etwas ändern?

Der neue Streich der Russen namens Digitus ist jedenfalls ein hübscher Einfall für Digital-Nostalgiker.

So grob gepixelt wie gerade noch vertretbar werden in der Digitus-Reihe nämlich Ziffernschilder verkauft, die man dann selbst zu Raumnummern addieren kann.

Ist es ein Zufall, dass das zeitlich mit dem Comeback von Leisure Suit Larry zusammenfällt?

Ich glaube, kaum – da könnte sich ein handfester Trend à la Back to mono aufbauen. Und als nächstes diskutieren wir, ob eigentlich Grün oder Bernstein die bessere Schriftfarbe für den schwarzen Hintergrund ist.

Digitus gibt es in den Farben Weiß, Terracotta, Metallblau, Grün und Magenta, und zwar für 5,77 Dollar die Ziffer.  [dieter]

[via Technabob]

It’s a given that we need USB hubs. There aren’t enough USB ports on your computer to fit all of your gadgets and gizmos. USB hubs come in all shapes, sizes and colors, but ultimately people want something that works well and looks good. It’s that simple. I’ve had a few hubs. They were all cheap looking affairs that didn’t last long. That’s why I really like Art Lebedev’s new hub. It’s looks really great and reminds me of Pink Floyd.

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A digital clock that tells time the way you or I would speak it — 10:45 or quarter to eleven.  Comes in different languages.  $211.  Make time fly via http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/verbarius/

Studio. Uhh.. Day at work?:



http://www.artlebedev.ru/

Blog:
http://tema.livejournal.com/

His mum’s blog:
http://tanyant.livejournal.com/

the Verbarius, designed by Art Lebedev, is a world clock that displays the time with commonly used phrases like “Twenty-nine past eleven a.m.” or “Half past ten”. Ingenius!

We can only imagine that at least a few staffers over at Art Lebedev Studios get paid to do nothing but conjure up ideas, because this one is just marvelous. And marvelously simple, but that’s beside the point. The Luxofor traffic light concept improves upon a nearly archaic design that still relies on spherical fixtures when there’s really no need. Lebedev’s team asserts that using square lights backed with bright laser diodes would make better use of the available space and provide a more noticeable signal to drowsy motorists. The roar of “why didn’t I think of that?” being simultaneously stated is downright deafening.

Art Lebedev first shot to worldwide fame with their concept of the OLED keyboard, with the premise of being able to programme every single key to your hearts content. They have been able to keep up with the level of innovation and have now come up with an interesting concept for traffic lights and zebra crossings. These to me seem really functional and just simply make sense, which is what traffic-furniture needs to do. I am loving the sharp lines and really chic led lighting.

See more here.

Art Lebedev’s Luxofor design concept introduces a square traffic light, to “make the signals more easily noticeable and recognizable, with larger lit area for the same overall dimensions”.

Luxofor, the square traffic light

Traffic lights of the future Los Angeles in Blade Runner.

[Via Engadget]

Imagine having access to broadband speeds on your phone without the need for a WiFi hotspot. Yes, such a phone is soon going to be launched in Russia. Dates are not know however, according to floating news, it will be soon enough. In addition to a WiMax radio, the device will have WiFi, tri-band GSM, microSD, dual cameras, 3.5mm audio, an A/V plug and a gargantuan 850 x 480 screen, which should blow the iPhone away.

You can read the full story here.

I suppose it’s time to start thinking about Christmas again. Every year I get further and further from the magic of youth, I’m able to more clearly assess the meaning of the season, which, for me, sort of just means getting in touch with my pagan roots. I think I’d feel slightly more attached with these camo Christmas ornaments, designed by Alexander Malinovsky for Art Lebedev. I would have enjoyed seeing a desert print, which would get far less lost in your tree, but I like to think the designer enjoyed the ironic gesture.

Nieuwe producten zijn vaak extensies of afgeleide van oude producten. De verkeerde elementen worden stelselmatig meegenomen naar het nieuwe product. J.J. Abrams (Lost, Mission impossible 3, Cloverfield) laat zich in TED uit over het overnemen van de verkeerde elementen binnen film en televisie. Jaws was, naast Abrams, ook voor vele andere filmmakers een bron van inspiratie. Echter, worden, volgens Abrams, de verkeerde elementen gebruikt. Jaws gaat eigenlijk niet over de haai, maar over iemand die worstelt met zijn plaats in de wereld, mannelijkheid en gezin. De kracht van de film zit hem in de identificatie van het publiek met de hoofdpersoon en zijn ervaringen. Sequels of films die de focus leggen op ‘het monster’ spreken van minder aan.

Het voortborduren op verkeerde elementen van oudere producten gebeurt in mijn ogen ook te vaak. Waarom is Touchscreen ooit bedacht? Touchscreen is een technologie die de slechte eigenschappen van een muis en toetsenbord moet wegnemen en de goede moet combineren, toch? Een volgende stap richting intuïtieve navigatie, die een ondoorbroken ervaring (immersive) genereert tussen een virtuele wereld met minder natuurkundige beperkingen en wetmatigheden en de fysieke realiteit. Wat is volgens Steve Jobs de overweging om touchscreen te gebruiken en geen conventioneel toetsenbord te integreren? Zijn het dezelfde krachten die QWERTY boven AZERTY hebben doen kiezen? Is het groepsdynamiek? Volgens Jobs (Iphone keynote) ligt de oplossing simpeler. De toetsen nemen te veel ruimte in beslag. Deze ruimte kan beter worden gegeven aan de interface. Een virtueel toetsenbord biedt, volgens Jobs een uitkomst, omdat deze alleen verschijnt als het nodig is. 

Ik vind dat Jobs zich hier focust op de haai van Abrams’ anekdote. De focus ligt op het maximaliseren van het schermoppervlak i.p.v. de gebruiksvriendelijkheid. Het gebruik van Touchscreen of multitouch werkt namelijk (nog) niet intuïtief, omdat de gebruiker niet voldoende feedback krijgt. Gehard plastic geeft niet mee. Samsung probeert dit probleem te omzeilen door ‘tactile feedback’ aan de ervaring toe te voegen. Een virtuele knop die vibreert om een knop te simuleren. Dit is de wereld op zijn kop! Gebruik de conventionele knop en laat je bijvoorbeeld inspireren door ontwerpbureau Art Lebedev. Knoppen die samensmelten met de interface. Dan hebben we de beste eigenschappen van een knop (bediening en feedback) en kan het worden geïntegreerd met het schermoppervlak.