FACELESS WATCHES

When turned off, the LED SAMURAI Faceless Wrist Watch looks like a simple metal bracelet. Turned on, the device becomes a digitial timepiece that displays the hour and minute. It retails for around $1,000. Steep!






































Diesel has been coming out with some wicked watch designs lately like the DZ9044- a faceless wristwatch concept that displays 4 different time zones on its sides. The watch comes in silver and black and retails for around $365.




















Also by Diesel, this watch features a stainless steel case with mirror electroplating and finishinga scrolling digital display with red LED numbers. Simple, futuristic and retailing for $170.

This feminine design by Robin Lapo Bigio & Olivero Zanon emphasizes the accessory factor of a watch and hides the technology. The “i/o” concept is a cuff bracelet with a glossy mirror surface that only allows light through from underneath where there is a hidden digital clock. When not in use the face shows a simple digital dot. When you want to use it, simply touch the dot and the time appears.

At first glance the Aurora, designed by Jihun Yeom, looks like an empty watch frame. If you touch the glass laser-like lights around the inner face show you the time.

SHELF LIFE

A friend of mine just bought a new bookshelf and his purchase inspired me to blog about some other cool shelving I've recently come across.















The Graffititek bookshelf by French designer Charles Kalpakian incorporates non-traditional lines and built in fluorescent lights for a really cool modern look.














Shelf by designer Da-Eun Song is the perfect place to display your favorite books.



















The Brace Case by Ward Huting is a shelving unit that uses taut cables to house books, magazines and other flat objects at various angles. The customizable modular system allows owners to choose how to install the cables.










The Salkim bookhanger by unal & boler plays on the idea of lightness to an typically heavy structure- the bookshelf. Side note: Salkim means “bunch” or “cluster” (as in grapes) in Turkish.

CLASSICAL SUPER MARIO BROTHERS

Work has been extra hectic the past few weeks since I've been running Design Is Yummy as well as freelancing sporadically in-house at Precision Advertising. That being said, I'm gonna keep my comments to myself and let you enjoy the video.

CHARITABLE WEB DESIGN

Full Code Press is a 24 hour professional web building challenge that is taking place today in Wellington, New Zealand. Teams from different countries compete by building websites for non-profits. At the start of the competition the teams are given content, images and a briefing from a representative of the chosen charity. Events include live blogging, interviews, Twitter and YouTube action throughout the competition, so check out the site to be part of the action!

RYAN

Not a new one, but I'm posting for those that have never had the privilege of seeing this film.



Ryan, directed by Chris Landreth, is an Oscar-winning animated tribute to Canadian animator Ryan Larkin. Thirty years ago Larkin produced some of the most influential animated films of his time at the National Film Board of Canada.

GIVING TYPE PERSONALITY

Alex Trochut is a graphic designer from Barcelona who creates rich typographical works for clients like Nike, The Rolling Stones, Coca-Cola and Beautiful Decay.

INSPIRATIONAL WORKPLACES AROUND THE WORLD

Iwan Baan designed this below-ground woodland workspace for architects at Selgas Cano.





































Mass Studios in Seoul, Korea is one of the only buildings in the world that was landscaped both outside and in.



























I've got to include one form my hometown. This is Upperkut - a communications agency that resides in the basement Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church here in Montreal.



























Designed by the architecture and design firm Camenzind Evolution, Google’s EMEA Engineering Hub office in Zurich takes up seven stories of 12,000 square metres of floor space for up to 800 employees. Each floor has a cohesive theme throughout. The communal spaces have large, cocoon-like meeting areas and employees can slide down a pole from the floor above into the space.











































Ogilvy & Mather’s Guangzhou office received China's Most Successful Design Award in 2008. Designed by M Moser and Associates, Ogilvy & Mather’s carnival themed office is the first interior design project to receive this award.