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Tag: design
…To Be Wild
Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation was a manufacturing company based in Detroit, Michigan and formed in 1924 from the merger of the General Aluminium and Brass Company and the C.B. Bohn Foundry Company.
The Amazing 1951 Hoffman
“There’s something to be said about a car company that after 73 years, 100% of its cars are still running today.”
The Hoffman was a German three-wheeled microcar created by Michael Hoffman, a shop foreman from Munich. It features an aluminum body with asymmetrical roof/windshield, rear wheel drive and steering, a pivoting single-cylinder 6.5 hp engine, and many more questionable design flaws.
Only one exists: the only one ever built.
Images (and more) found here, test drive video via Road & Track.
Retro-Future Beetle Stretcher
Retrofuture Volkswagen prototype was designed by Mikhail Smolyanov / Solifuge Design, and he’s got a similar VW Bugsled in black. Since there are no images of modications in progress, I assume that the version above was never built.
HOWEVER, there is this:
Similar design, yet not the same. Image searches for this work in progress produced no matches.
[Top & bottom images found here. Not quite Rat Rods, but I stuck them in The Archive anyway.]
Soviet Era Mass-Produced Housing
[Found in here.]
The H.R. Giger Bar
H.R. Giger Bar …and Museum.
Château St Germain, Switzerland
Well, shirt.
[Found in here.]
Update: Oopsie. That wasn’t the correct link, but those pics have appeared many places all over the internest. Thanks to Corrine L. for the alert.
The Red Chair
Urban Soviet Apartments
Interior design studio Gyva Grafika took photos of “Urban Soviet” apartment buildings in Kaunas, Lithuania and created appliqués for a restaurant.
Restroom Design Fails
[All found in this awesome collection. Click on any image for larger view. More potty humor here.]
Tacky Raccoons 