The best way to combine two of your biggest passions into one? Ask 22-year-old industrial design student Nick Pourfard, who recently launched his Prisma Guitars brand. Pourfard, who’s also a proficient, self-taught woodworker, takes used and battered skate decks and upcycles them into eye-catching, multicolored electric guitars, thus melding his love for both skateboarding and music. Based out of San Francisco, Pourfard’s Prisma brand produces guitars that are each unique in their own right, due to the one-off color arrangement of skateboard decks used in guitar construction each time. Pourfard has also applied the same technique to creating accessories such as pick-ups and guitar picks for those who want the entire aesthetic throughout. Beginning at $2,300 USD for a guitar, browse the current selection online at Prisma’s website.
New from Paris-based studio POOL and industrial designers Léa Padovani and Sébastien Kieffer is the GRID modular seating system. Crafted for Petite Friture of coated steel, wool, walnut wood, leather and polyester, GRID is billed by POOL as “a piece for everyday life with a modular seat that can be composed differently to ensure comfort and that can be adapted to small or vast rooms as well as the sitter.” Thus, the piece combines simple geographical elements with a versatile multifunctional design to create everything from a two-seater to a comfortable daybed while even incorporating a useful — and removable — semicircular wooden tablet. Measuring 187 x 72 x 86 cm and available in Dark Blue/Mustard and Brick/Coral color combos, GRID can be purchased online now for €2,950 EUR (approximately $3,200 USD).
Industrial designer Roy Harpaz has created a vertical, egg-shaped record player called TOC, inspired by two pivotal design elements – clean and simple. The result is a beautiful and natural aesthetic featuring a wooden look. A linear tracking system is implemented to ensure the analog sound is properly captured, complemented with modern updates such as LED touch buttons and a remote control. Users are also able to skip tracks — thanks to its sensor that scans the tracks on every vinyl inserted. The design also allows for playing warped records with no problem, a feat of its special spherical bearings ensuring that no old records are left in the dust. Aside from all the technical advancements and updates, the product looks sleek and clean, making for a perfect conversation piece. For more information, check out Harpaz’s website here.
Expansion of the space tourism industry is inevitable. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has officially announced Houston as the location for the U.S.’s new commercial spaceport. The spaceport will be built on the property of Houston’s public and military transportation hub Ellington Airport, and will house “horizontally-launched” space vehicles as well as a space vehicle assembly. The project has been approved after a long two-year wait and will without a doubt bring in tourists from all over the world with high hopes of traveling to outer space destinations.
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