Tag: design

The .Gif Friday Post No. 921 – Artsy Coffee, Bubbling Pup & The Happy Boy Stomp

[Found here, here and here. Related .gifs here and here.]

…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.

[Ads from 1947 found here and there.]

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

Brain Salad Surgery, Emerson Lake & Palmer (1973) Cover art by H.R. Giger

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

[Original image at top found here. The others are mine because I got bored one night. It happens.]

Urban Soviet Apartments

Interior design studio Gyva Grafika took photos of “Urban Soviet” apartment buildings in Kaunas, Lithuania and created appliqués for a restaurant.

[Image found in here, story here; Reddit comment here.]

Restroom Design Fails

[All found in this awesome collection. Click on any image for larger view. More potty humor here.]