http://www.minusfive.com modern design, minimalism + architecture blog Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:37:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The KOR ONE Hydration Vessel is a 750mL, BPA-free re-usable water bottle. Designed by KOR Water, in partnership with RKS, it is dishwasher safe and it has a hinged cap that's always attached to the bottle so you won’t lose it and it’s always at hand. Available August 1st from ... http://www.minusfive.com/industrial-design/724/kor-one-hydration-vessel My friend Daniel yesterday showed me this documentary produced by Autodesk in partnership with PBS, narrated by Brad Pitt, about the work headed by Bogotá’s ex-mayor Enrique Peñalosa, making the city one of the most sustainable in the world by implementing innovative ideas like the “TransMilenio” bus system, and causing ... http://www.minusfive.com/architecture/722/bogota-building-a-sustainable-city Completely unnecessary, but cool nonetheless, the iRetroPhone application aims to emulate an interface left in the 20th century: the rotary phone. In development by ObjectGraph, available soon through the App Store. Watch the video of this app in action after the break. http://www.minusfive.com/interactive-design/719/iretrophone Brothers Tej and Sach Chauhan of Chauhan Studio designed this futuristic phone for Suncorp Communications, fittingly named after famed Italian designer Joe Colombo. They state the design seeks to re-establish the lost relationship between earpiece and mouthpiece in modern telephones. The flash and html versions of Chauhan Studio’s site state ... http://www.minusfive.com/industrial-design/713/colombo-two-by-chauhan-studio Denis Guidone designed this beautiful watch, Ora Unica (Single Hour), in which the hour and minute hand look like a single doodle that seems to magically morph as they turn to indicate time. More details and images after the break. Imprecision and defect manifest a fullness of sense, an ... http://www.minusfive.com/industrial-design/709/ora-unica-by-denis-guidone