Specially designed door shelters people against falling earthquake debris

In anticipation of a 7.6 magnitude earthquake possibly hitting the city of Istanbul by 2030, an MA design student named Younghwa Lee from Kingston’s University has designed a special kind of door that protects residents from falling quake debris. Designed to ensure safety and reduce injury or death, the door folds horizontally in the middle, while the bottom part remains braced against the floor for support. This allows the door to sit in an angle when the earthquake strikes while the person takes shelter under the fold.

Catalogue send out...

Hey guys...just wanting to know if anyone has any names of places you want to send the catalogues to???...hopefully we can start sending them out by the end of the week. if you put names and address up here we can start getting a list together..

Sagmeister talk

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/stefan_sagmeister_on_what_he_has_learned.html

I thought this was a pretty interesting and amusing short talk about his work on what he has learnt so far.

for Chloe

Hey Chloe, not sure if you've seen these guys before but if not you might find it interesting in relation to the jesus shells. These guys are trying to send a personal handwritten letter to everyone in the world and they have started with small towns.

http://www.mysteriousletters.blogspot.com/

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/482-talk-3-michael-crowe-lenka-clayton

One work per day for thirty days!!

Dominic Wilcox is making one creative thing per day for 30 days as part of the Anti-Design Festival. Check out his progress on his Variations on normal page.

Err... earthquake anyone?

Hey hope everyone's ok! Have you seen the studio yet Aaron? What's the plan for this week?

Critique stamps of disaproval