Skin me alive!

I know it's a long shot but if BMW ever actually make a road version of this stunning concept car then I'm all in for it. I will be happy to sell the house, my other (old hat) car, all my personal effects and the kids to fund this purchase. Gimme gimme gimme!



Snotty vase....Bless you

Not the prettiest topic to kick us off with but the thinking behind this vase is, would you believe, quite revolutionary.

Snotty Vase - Marcel Wanders

The shape of Marcel Wanders’s Airborne Snotty Vase: Pollinosis, 2001, is based on one “bloblet” of fluid from the shower of microscopic particles expelled when a person sneezes; a digital image of the particle is sent to a prototyping machine in which a computer directs a laser to melt and mold plastic powder into the shape that the sneeze particle occupies in space. (Each of the five vases in this series is named for a different infectious condition.) It might, on the face of it seems pretty frivolous and overtly contrived but the basis of these designs is to create a shape which has never been seen before. Personally, I love all 5 vases, for me they capture a moment in time, albeit based around one of the most humble human actions.