Nick Gentry, a Central Saint Martin’s graduate and apparent stranger to canvas stretching, prefers to paint portraits on a canvas constructed with floppy disks. He strategically incorporates these obsolete tech properties into his subjects’ features creating a file cabinet effect. Gentry places an emphasis on recycling and reusing personal objects, acquiring dead technologies through a […]

Founded in the UK in 1958 by four brothers, Ginetta has mostly existed since as a kit car and one-off race car builder. While it has gone through various phases of inactivity, after new ownership purchased the brand in 2005 Ginetta has been focused on making about 300 cars a year. Now Ginetta announce the […]

Berlin-based Werner Aisslinger claims to have designed the world’s first monobloc chair made from natural fibers — in this case the renewable raw materials are hemp and kenaf, compressed with a water-based thermoset binder to form an eco-friendly, lightweight and yet strong composite. Aisslinger notes that consumers are striving towards a lifestyle that is in […]

There are some bikes you want for speed and performance, some for style and looks, and some for outrunning hordes of virus-infected zombies when The Event finally occurs. The streets will be packed and strewn with debris, and the only way out of a hellish dystopia like a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles will be with something […]

This year one of the more iconic furniture pieces in modern design marked its 50th anniversary. Creator Verner Panton first dreamt up the idea of a cantilevered single-piece plastic chair around 1959, not realizing that it would take almost a decade to come to life. When the Panton Chair finally arrived on the market in […]

HTT Technologies will unveil its Pléthore LC-750 at the upcoming Top Marques Monaco show this April. Founded by French Canadian Luc Chartrand (who allegedly spent 11 years designing, engineering and building it all himself), this makes the HTT Pléthore the first Canadien supercar. Who woulda thunk it. The Pléthore LC-750 has a fully carbon fibre […]

The newly developed $655,000 Necker Nymph aero submarine will be stationed on Richard Branson’s 74-acre private island in the British Virgin Islands. The three-person sub was developed by the visionary Graham Hawkes of Hawkes Ocean Technologies, and similarly to his creations the Deep Flight Challenger and the Super Falcon, the Necker Nymph essentially “flies” underwater, […]