Vintage Vacations- Awesome Airstreams
A few weeks ago we visited the very lovely Isle of Wight and stayed in a fabulously stylish vintage Spartanette caravan
Posted by: Sophie 15.05.2013
Bilbo Baggin's Balloon House
What does it look like to re-create Bilbo Baggin's house entirely from balloons. Utah based balloon artist Jeremy Telford has shown us.
Posted by: Eddie 08.04.2013
TED
TED talks are held over 4 days every year, consisting of anything technology, entertainment & design. They're based from 3 locations, TED at Vancouver, Canada, TEDActive at Whistler, Canada (which runs concurrently with TED at Vancouver) and TEDGlobal in Edinburgh, Scotland. TED was created to spread inspiration from attendees & speakers and a well worth a listen.
Posted by: Eddie 25.03.2013
Inspiring Desk
This is a desk titled 'Homework' designed and built by Tomas Kral. Tomas Kral is a product designer based in Lausanne in Switzerland.
Posted by: Eddie 27.02.2013
Surely this is the future.
This short video demonstrates the next level of 'Super' super-capacitors. The best bit...they're biodegradable!
Posted by: Eddie 25.02.2013
Made in England - Benjamin Electric Ltd
The Benjamin Electric Lighting company was founded in the late 19th Century by Reuben Berkley Benjamin in Chicago, Illinois. The companies success lead to expantion from Chicago to New York, San Francisco, Toronto, London & Birmingham.
Posted by: Eddie 13.02.2013
Fire and Ice: The Frozen warehouse of Chicago
We love these breathtakingly beautiful images of what happened when firefighters attended a warehouse blaze in Chicago.
Posted by: Sophie 11.02.2013
Light Show: Hayward Gallery, London
Light Show opens at London's Hayward Gallery on Wednesday 30th January and explores the experiential and phenomenal aspects of light by bringing together sculptures and installations that use light to sculpt and shape space in different ways. We can't wait!
Posted by: Chris 28.01.2013
GravityLight- inspirational design for developing countries
Here at Skinflint we love clever sustainable design and the GravityLight is both. Offering a real alternative to Africa's ubiquitous kerosene lamps, the only thing it uses is the force of gravity.
Posted by: Sophie 14.01.2013
Ephemeral clouds: the art of Berndnaut Smilde
Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde's fascination with the ephemeral has led him to master the art of creating his own clouds.
Posted by: Sophie 20.12.2012
Is it the end for fluorescent lighting
Scientists in Wake Forest University in North Carolina have developed a alternative to fluorescent lighting using polymers.
Posted by: Eddie 03.12.2012
Shooting Stars
A timelapse of the night sky which captured this years' Leonid meteor shower
Posted by: Sophie 29.11.2012
No. 001: Prismalux Bulkhead by Wardle
A stop motion video documenting a Prismalux bulkhead during its restoration process.
Posted by: 14.11.2012
Original Pifco Heatlamp catalogue
A lovely selection if images from our original 1960's Pifco Infradette catalogue
Posted by: Sophie 29.09.2012
Think New: Climate change, Energy, Action
A lovely short animation about changing habits relating to CO2 consumption
Posted by: Sophie 04.05.2012
The Wave: The calcified sand-dunes of Arizona
Another very special place to visit on our blog this week- the calcified sand dunes of Arizona
Posted by: sophie 07.04.2012
A holiday amongst the trees
Nestled in the trees of Sweden's Harads are these five unique tree rooms forming the Treehotel. Each room and it's interior has been individually designed by leading Scandinavian architects and designers.
Posted by: Sophie 22.03.2012
Cosmic Communist Constructions in the former Soviet Union
'Cosmic Communist Constructions' by Frederic Chaubin, published by Taschen, is a photographic record of ninety buildings from the fourteen former Soviet Republics. We have selected a few of our favourite images for you here.
Posted by: Sophie 16.03.2012
A Brilliant Idea: The LED Story
A beautiful short film, illustrating why LED bulbs are the future, saving the planet energy and CO2, and saving you money.
Posted by: Sophie 22.02.2012
The Sands Of Time: Abandoned Monuments in The Former Yugoslavia
From 2006 to 2009, the photographer Kempenaers used a 1975 map of memorials to tour the ex-Yugoslavia region, now Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc. to record these striking monuments. I'm sure you will agree they are certainly striking even though their original meaning is being lost to the dads of time.
Posted by: Sophie 21.02.2012
Interior of an icon- redesigning the Airstream
Here at SkinFlint we are big fans of the Airstream, here are some lovely and unusual creative solutions for the interiors of this iconic caravan.
Posted by: Sophie 13.02.2012
Monumental Light: James Turrell's Skyspaces
James Turrell is an artist whose palette is the planet we live on. He makes light monumental and encourages his audience to look 'beyond', to see the extraordinary in the every day.
Posted by: Sophie 31.01.2012
Subversive Photography: Bernt and Hilla Becher's Water Towers
Architectural photography has never been so subversive as the life works of two of my favorite artists Bernd and Hilla Becher. Here is a small selection of their Water Towers series.
Posted by: Sophie 19.01.2012
Stunning snowflakes
Snowflakes are just beautiful aren't they? A selection of close up images of one of natures' marvels
Posted by: Sophie 21.12.2011
Running up a hill in the dark wearing a suit of lights?
Ground breaking art collective NVA have plans afoot for a new piece. Taking place in August 2012 and entitled Speed Of Light it's an intriguing collision of the worlds of Art and Sport and will take place over three weeks bringing Edinburgh's iconic mountain Arthurs Seat to life.
Posted by: Sophie 11.12.2011
Caravantastic- an off grid 'micro-home'
Glenn Grassi is a theatre designer who has just made his first foray into micro home construction, this is the result....
Posted by: Sophie 27.11.2011
Eames: The Architect and The Painter
We can't wait for this fascinating portrait of Charles and Ray Eames to be released in the UK. As we can't see the full film, here's a little preview.
Posted by: Sophie 15.11.2011
Night Clouds on Anglesea
The amazing natural phenomenon of 'Noctilucent' clouds.
Posted by: Sophie 10.11.2011
Murmuration of starlings on the River Shannon
This surprise murmeration of starlings was caught on film by Sophie Windsor-Clive and Liberty Smith as they rowed across the Shannon river in Ireland.
Posted by: sophie 09.11.2011
Lovely tree Houses
As it's autumn and the leaves are falling it feels like a good time to be reliving my childhood dreams of fantastic arboreal homes
Posted by: Sophie 02.11.2011
'Holophane' a short History Of Prismatic Lighting
Holophane began to manufacture prismatic shades pretty much at the birth of electricity. Prismatic shades break up and spread the beam of light into a myriad of beams using prisms, making a lower voltage bulb a more effective light source.
Posted by: Sophie 29.10.2011
Lighting in Bathrooms IP Ratings made simple
We are often asked about bathroom lighting. The fact of the matter is that it's not as straightforward as I Like that light, I'll buy it for my bathroom. Something called an IP rating is rather important in a bath or wet-room. But just because you have fallen for a light that is not IP rated it does not mean you can't use it in your bathroom.....
Posted by: Sophie 20.10.2011
In love with light- an architecture of colour
I have been rather in love with Luminaria since visiting one at Somerset House in the early noughties. The Architects of Air tour the world with their five structures allowing visitors from across the globe to experience light and colour as they never have before.
Posted by: Sophie 20.10.2011