We are not ones to get all funny about computers, they are work machines and that’s it. Sure we use Mac and yes they look nice and all but we see them for what they are - PC’s, not a lifestyle choice!

So it’s a little odd that something comes along that is worth talking about but Earthdesk is it……. if you are so inclined.

We sit around here talking and designing ‘better’ experiences for the ‘market’ but it seems that we often miss the things that are up close and personal. Earthdesk is a global desktop experience and we have to say it’s pretty damn cool. Synced in with the clock on your machine, which in the case of a Mac is synced to a global system if you have a permanent web connection, your desktop tracks the progress of night and day, in real time, across the globe, with city lights, clouds (updated every three hours from satellite images), the works.

There is something very, very cool, about watching it get darker outside as you watch night creep over the eastern seaboard on the desktop (with all the city lights popping on as it does so). It’s quite sobering and seems to make you connect with the fact that we are all part of a much larger picture. What’s more, it makes your desktop a ‘living’ experience, never static and never the same.

Get all the lowdown at www.xericdesign.com

For those that had visited the previous BSI site for 5D Events and now looked at the new one, you might have noticed that all the images had vanished.

We’re happy to say that they are back, after we remembered that they had not been updated with the new format! For those that are new and are looking for info on the 2008 5D MTB Race Series, the images should give you a pretty good feel for the vibe we have developed over the years.

Check it out here.

Experience blue. This is what happens when one Henk Hofstra take 1000m of road in Holland and lets go with blue. As an experience for people doing the typical everyday of life, this is one of the few that has to take the cake.

Seen first over at Wooster Collective

Some of the Bomb Squad Industries crew work quite a bit in the area of Spatial Design, usually connected with retail or marketing. Without fail though, it is working in this capacity where we find the greatest lack of understanding or confusion about just what it is designers in this field actually do. Read the rest of this entry »

Finding a solution to light a space in such a way as to create mood and ambiance, while still wanting to have cool things on walls such as graphics is quite often a challenge. True ambient mood lighting often makes it hard to see graphics and when there is enough light to read the graphics, the mood can be lost.

Jonas Samson has a cool solution that combines wallpaper and light to create the best of both worlds and if viable give us more than a few ideas for project use.

Definitely cool with a world of possibility for those difficult interior spaces we all have to deal with from time to time.

Check out more here

Pinched from Refinery29:

“Originally intended as a safeguard for gizmo du jour, the iPod, this handsome body-conscious holster slips easily under a jacket, hoodie, or sweater and can accommodate other essential everyday incidentals—cash, cards, a spare key—keeping your pockets empty and your silhouette sleek. And with its dapper design, shaped to sit flush against your side for discreet portage, only the most exhaustive frisking will betray its presence.”

While the product concept is rather interesting, the execution very good and the tangental thinking, clever, one has to ask when a consumer product is just not worth it.

We had already heard stories of people in the UK being the targets of muggings while wearing the ubiquitous white headphones, a sure sign of Apple love in a pocket (and undoubted success of Apple’s design marketing), but something like this seems, well… absurd. If the choice is wearing a ‘concealed holster’ or leaving the iPod at home, we think one should go for the latter.

Anyway, ‘ear-bud’ headphones have been linked to be a good way to get a solid case of tinnitus - wear those retro cans and look the biz!

If you’re into the idea, you can see more of it here.