Former USSR Antonov 225 “Mriya” is the biggest and most impressive jet plane ever built

I firstly saw a documentary on the 225 on TV and I was astonished. You have to see it in movement. Initially built for launching the Russian Space Shuttle into space, this giant currently serves as a heavy lift (up to 200 tons!) transport. Including itself, the fuel and the loads, the max take-off weight is 600 tons! Its strong 32 wheels allows landings in any kind of terrain. Well, there are so many astonishing facts! Check out the best source for photos and information about the Mriya I have found.

P800 P800 P800. Everyone’s talking about this amazing Sony Ericsson phone-pda-camera-mp3player

If you haven’t heard about it yet, it’s time you are aware of the concept that has revolutionized the mobile world. I encourage you to read this article I wrote before putting my hands on one of these.

Computers have been using the desktop metaphor for 20 years

Steve Berlin Johnson explains how the traditional “files in folders in a desktop” system might be obsolete. Aren’t we using computers as much more than just intelligent versions of a desktop? Definetly: music, movies, communications, entertainment, hundreds of photos… Microsoft and Apple have already thought of two different ways of understanding how the 21st century people’s interactivity with computers should be. To be honest, I think they’re not radical enough. Minority Report was about life in 50 years time. Sadly, too much time for many of us. Read the whole article

Where else could you find a store with no name than in SOHO?

After a lot of money and time hours Rem Koolhaas opened some years ago a huge Prada store there. I’m not sure if it really works as a shop because you only see tourists making photos… but that’s not the point. (more…)

Don’t need barriers for art. The opening of the exhibition at the Swiss Institute in NYC was just fantastic

Not only because of the exhibition but also the DJ’s, the cheese, the beers, the people… everything. But the point is that Stephane Sautour had a cool piece of two electronic dogs fighting in the middle of the room. In a party of 300 people, no one could be bothered to touch, move or whatever, which proves that we don’t need those limits to see art that museums and fancy galleries invent for us. Congratulations to the SI for everything!

Getting prepared for the release of X-Men 2, with a rethought, more corporate-mode name: X2

The producers show us a new good idea, X-men 1.5, which sounds like something very exciting and new, but it’s only a DVD with Special Futures and some Bonus materials. At the end what counts is that they found a new naming for DVD’s obviously copied from computer software. Also around this 1.5 phase they’ve developed a good web page, x2-movie.com, worth visiting the Stryker’s Mutant Database, trying to be a 3D database… well done!

A cool suffix. Will it get trendy? We hope so!

It all started with Japaneese mobile internet access called I-Mode. Really? No! Remember Depeche Mode! And Roni Size’s / Reprazent album is called “In the Mode”. This word’s shape and meaning is close to “Mood” and in some places I have heard “Switch to party mode!” and such expressions.

A beautiful and moving audiovisual work by BD4D

Go to .Dstrukt Ne /Relokation* and enjoy one of those really exciting hybrids between music videoclip and flash movie. They are By Designers For Designers. And this time it even has quite deep meaning. What’s more, it’s worth everyone’s time!

If you like the Brasilia City concept you’ll be interested in this settlement based in concentric circles

It was founded in 1921. The public buildings are in the center, the homesteads in the inner circle, the farm buildings in the next, and beyond those, ever-widening circles of gardens and fields. Unfortunately I haven’t found much more than this and the photo below about this Israeli city.

I always find quite satisfying to find something I can beat a world record with

It was one year ago when I wanted to design something in some way that it showed really really spectacularly big on people’s screens. The result is the biggest text ever written on the web

Alternative to the usual computer with touch-screen that never works in Asian Society and Museum, NYC

A General Information System at the Asia Society and Museum, based on a fascinating organic design, where the decorative object becomes the technological instrument, designed itself to give information about the different countries in the Asiatic continent. A mixture of design technology and Asian talent.

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