Roads are each and every day more restricted, dangerous and overpopullated… if you want to have some fun you have to go to a circuit…

Good idea, by the way… Let´s select a car from our trackday garage… please come inside and watch the gallery of road cars, prototypes, racing cars and concepts you´ll for sure will love to put to their limits.

And the craziest ever… one that is only allowed in circuits with no sound restrictions: the Pagani Zonda R!

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EUDI, in collaboration with FECEG (Federación Gallega de Carpintería y Ebanistería) started an innovative initiative that has as main objective the development of new concepts in furniture and furnishings in the  Bioclimatic era, rooted in the current and historical heritage of Galicia. The designs arise from the trend research and analysis of socialization in different areas of bioclimatic buildings and, therefore, adapted to profiles of various social groups.

I had worked with Marta Falcón, Alfonso Orbán and Juan Gándara in this project, in a marvellous explosive team named Humano. The result are this 5 pieces of innovative functional-emotive furniture.

The first of them is named Cun-k. It is a meeting point at the inside of the house. Posible postures multiplies themself thanks to the multiple backs, providing the interpersonal relations, or simply relax and breakout situations.

“The new is only accepted as new if is conventional”. Nuevo Mundo is a sphere that incorpores 4 of the most emblematic sitting furniture: a stool, a chair, a chaise longue and an armchair. One of the most used furniture have been moved to a context that makes innovation.

The Medusón is a ludic furniture thought to socialize. Its legs rotate on itself because its silhouette gives 2 posible uses: one in wich the user straddles it and, when it is rotated, it can be used as a chaise longue.

Ginger & Fred, as it indicates, is a dinamic furniture, inspired in the dancing steps of the famous couple. It can be used both one or two people because it has the ergonomic dimensions on that purpouse.

Coconut is an individual piece of furniture, but when we put some of them together, it becames socializing furniture. It is based on a geometric primitive form, as is the cone, so on to come to other as is the circle.

And as the final result and explanation, here it is the video! Hope you would have liked it!

More info: marcosferreiro.com

We are finally closing this series of posts (I and II) with the actual most extreme sport in this human continuous pursuit of gravity breakout. In this case we are to talk about an invention that had suffered a lot of evolutions to become a working practice, with especificall courses and companies that give the posibility to whomever wants (or has the clotted blood to do it), could directly fly as birds do, with no more than a single suit.

The first reliable wingsuit was presented in 1997 by the parachutist Patrick de Gayardon. It consists of a membrane that extendes between the extremities, simulating a bat (that´s why people in this world is also called “vampires), to which a compulsary parachute is fixed to correctly (and safetly) do the finish stop. To start flying, you could jump from an airplane (the most complicated due to the turbulences), helicopter, or high point on the ground, being a mountain, cliff, etc.

Has anyone of the readers tried it?

Más info: ALT1040

 Spirit of Montjuic has taken place in the Montmeló circuit this weekend. In there, we were able to recall the years in which the Montjuic circuit housed the Spanish event of the Formula 1 championship and other competitions.

You can find more information on its official website and an interesting collection of photographs on the website of Racingpasión (MotopasionF1), also, I leave you with my personal photos of the event. Enjoy!

As you know, I’ve been studying the Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Modelling at Elisava and this week I have had to present the final project. As had been announced in the teasers I posted (more on my Facebook profile, which you can follow and contains many more entries), I realized the project on a new concept of autonomous urban vehicle where people can sitfacing 2 to 2, very small, but with large luggage capacity and habitability.

I had a blog entry a while ago where you could see there was already people working on an already operating taxi, with no driver needed. Already then, I specified that it should be considered a more focused on comfort package forgeting about the space occupied by the driver. If we also subtract the volume of the conventional engine and add motor in wheels, the result is the Renault Exedra.

It becomes a new range of means of transport, between public and private, fully automated and usable with applications for smartphones, tablets or web based. The user would have a kind of annual subscription and then pay for the use of the vehicle when necessary, without having to make a payment of over 10,000€ for having their own vehicle, enjoying a more efficient use of energy and space in town because it would be shared with other users.

There are already similar projects, such as the Ultra PRT, ATNMBL, Masdar City Pod Car or concepts such as the JaguarMark XXI. However, my concept sought to integrate this idea into the Renault range, which is a brand that is worrying much about electrical energy, ecology and new vehicles that could integrate it.

Comfort was one of the strongest points of the vehicle, as the room layout and the large trunk (550 liters) would get over the bad points of the current taxi. In addition, by providing integrated interactive screens on the windows, wi-fi, webcam and a large usable space, versatility go hand in hand, being able to perform thousands of activities until you reach the destination.

Considering the aesthetics, I have based my sketches and ideas on one of the first means of transporting people, the carriage, as well as natural elements like flowers, in which each element embrace a central node that must protect and care (the passengers in our case).

Total for the city, a vehicle must be built on it and follow the same aesthetics, in this case the predominance of modern architecture with cutting planes and the culture of light, graffiti,interaction and communication.

And this is the final result:

Marcos Ferreiro, an eager industrial designer – Facebook

As in Cataluña are in electory campaign, it seemed appropriate to post this text that I found in a very interesting book “Group Psychology” by G. Le Bon. It is about how words are able to evoke feelings and thoughts, moving us aside incomprehensibly from what is really being said, launching us to an idyllic pointless trip. Is priceless:

“The power of words is bound to evoke images and is completely independent of its real meaning. Those whose meaning is less well defined sometimes have maximum capacity for action. For example, terms such as democracy, socialism, equality, freedom, etc.., whose meaning is so vague that large volumes are not enough to clarify it. And yet, their short syllables is joined by a truly magical power, as if they involve the solution of all problems. They synthesize various unconscious aspirations and hope for its realization.

Reason and arguments are powerless against certain words and certain formulas. Are spoken with awe to the masses, immediately, their faces express their respect and bow fronts. Many regard them as forces of nature, supernatural powers. Souls evoke grandiose and vague images, but this very vagueness increases its mysterious power. Can be compared to those terrible divinities hidden behind the tabernacle and those wich the devotee aproached but not nearly trembling. “

The book is about how to influence the masses and how the personality of a person can be neutralized among others in a masterly, scientific and disturbing manner. But what is really disturbing is how some politicians (probably all) are able to influence (or at least try to) our minds without having something consistent to offer.

At this time I have moved to Barcelona, I needed to go a step further as a professional and to be enriched personally; I have to say that in this case, the city gives you every single and possible opportunity.

I have started to work as a designer and modeller in Rücker Lypsa, advanced product design and development center. Moreover, I am studying a Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Modelling at the Elisava School, centered in great quality surfaces design and development with softwares Alias and ICEM Surf, as well as Maya and Flash.

Of course, I will be developing a quite interesting project in the Posgraduate Diploma that will be finished on February last days. You will have it here to evalluate.

The calendar we use has 7 days a week because it is what lasts each phase of the moon. Something useful and established from pre-Roman times, but today more than anything we want it because it sets the cycle of work, study, relax, leisure, etc. 5 working days and 2 off, in most cases.

The names of each day correspond to the celestial bodies visible at the time, are simply numbers or religious holidays. I guess very few people are influenced by one day being called one way or another, but what if it would do? How would you call the Monday? What about the Saturday? Can you assign an activity to Tuesday to call it, for example, reflection-day?

It may seems silly, but I suppose that many people associate a Saturday or Friday to leisure or other activities outside the routine and is looking forward to it, however I do not know if you have ever considered it a special day, but why could not it be a Wednesday? Why not doing something special every day and reflect on their name, like, for example, the Jews do with the Sabbath?