This home in Mexico City was built around a courtyard to bring in more natural light and to give it a more view able interior due to the lack of exterior views. Taller Hector Barroso is the designer of this home in the capital's Santa Fe neighborhood. This two-story structure also has a penthouse on the roof.  The outer part of the house is mostly natural grey stone clads with some pine slats that wrap part of the lower walls around the entrance. The interior of the home is a modern feel with a minimalist type feel.  You can read more about the home on dezeen.com.



Photography by Yoshihiro Koitani

Scott Hansen, a graphic artist who makes beautiful ambient music as Tycho and maintains the equally amazing blog ISO50, has a singular vision of music and art. Everything posted on ISO50 ascribes to an almost soothingly minimal aesthetic feel with his music style. So with that being said “Awake” is the first single from Tycho’s new LP due out next year, Scott has also done the album art as usual. Check it out and let me know what you think.





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Riding with a bag is great and all, but what if it could be better? Introducing the SEIL (Safe Enjoy Interact Light) Bag, which is a wearable signal light for cyclists. Lee Myung Su is the designer behind the SEIL Bag. It’s basically a bag with a wireless remote control that the bikers can use to display signals on the back of the bag, such as left or right signals, cruise signal, stop signal, or an emergency signal. And it's also a very fashionable bag to hold your stuff, but I'm sure you got the point by now. This concept won a Red Dot Design Award back in 2010, and now Lee is back with plans for turning it into a reality with the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for the bag. The SEIL system is currently up for funding on Kickstarter.



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We all love our fire alarms in our houses right? Well how about this alternative that brings out the tech side of a fire alarm. The Nest Protect($130) is a smart smoke and carbon monoxide detector that won't wreck your ear drums if you left the pizza rolls in the oven too long. It features a glowing status ring (green means everything is okay, yellow gives you a warning about a potential problem, and red means there's an emergency), real voice alerts, and with a simple wave of the hand the detector knows to not go into full red alert mode. It can also give you updates to your phone or tablet if the detector goes off or needs its batteries  changed. Would you replace your outdated alarm with one of these? Find out more info from the video below.

Fashion in Leaves in a ongoing project by Malaysian Illustrator and artist Tang Chiew Ling.  It explores various forms of leaves and flowers as if they were fashion sketches. Ling previously merged flora with illustration in another series of images called Object Art, and if you liked this, also check out Drawing with Leaves. (via The Jackass Gardener)



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