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Sex on Wheels, Vandenbrink GTO

Long Tran — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:05:10 +0000

The Vandenbrink GTO has been awarded the GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2008. The award is given by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and is the oldest and most prestigious awards program worldwide, elevating the best and finest new design and design innovation for products. This vehicle is excruciatingly beautiful, even for someone who prefers minimalism, I find beauty this car, evoking American muscle and Italian styling. Oh and BTW, it’s got 750 hp! Congrats to Vandenbrink!

UPDATED: Correction, I misspelled Vandenbrink and included the wrong link because I’m about as lucid as a puppy at 2 AM.

Designer: Vandenbrink

An Encore For The Opus Design Winners

Billy May — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:51:15 +0000

The winners of the Opus Design Award were announced recently and the entries might help solve a lot of our little nagging problems with eyewear. The gold prize went to Nick Jinkinson who designed around transition lenses that more completely transitioned in the sun. Runners up include foldout frames, built in lens cleaner, and what can only appear to be the Opti-Grab from the 1979 comedy The Jerk. Let’s hope none of them cause wearers to become permanently and irreversibly cross-eyed.

Opus Design Award

Wallpaper Design Awards 2008: the winners

Yanko Design — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:04:26 +0000

Unless you’ve been holed-up in bed for the last ten days, you won’t fail to have noticed the countdown to the annual Wallpaper* Design Awards. Last night the event itself took place and winners were revealed. Here are the winners.

Best Domestic Appliance – Katamari 01 Speaker by Giyanze

Best Furniture Designer – Tokujin Yoshioka

Best New Restaurant – Mathias Dahlgren, Stockholm

Best New Hotel – Riva Lofts, Florence by Claudio Nardi

Best New Private House – Ring House, Karuizawa by TNA

Best New Public Building – NewMuseum, New York by SANAA

Best City – Los Angeles

Best Fashion – Jil Sander A/W 2007 by Raf Simons

Best Grooming Product – TweezLight

Most Life-enhancing Item – $100 Laptop by Yves Behar