Cars being rude to pedestrians in New York City
New York City at the moment is undergoing an urban planning evolution project, called ‘livable streets’. However, just because there’s an evolution underway doesn’t mean that drivers have gotten the message. Cars blocking crosswalks, drivers failing to yield to pedestrians, unnecessary honking and a slew of other quality-of-walking violations are still a routine occurrence on […]
Toyota designs a font using a car
This is a great idea for our more arty followers out there. Toyota has teamed up with two typographers and a race car driver to develop a font using only a car! The font is called IQ – the pictures tell a great story, but if you really want to be blown away, view the […]
House of Cars
A brilliant exhibition is to be housed at the National Building Museum in Washington DC: House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage. The exhibition will be open between October 17, 2009 and July 11, 2010. Taken from the National Building Museum website: “Cars. We imagine them always in motion, but they spend most of […]
Like Twister for Godzilla!
A three month seafront celebration in Weston, UK, will see colour-coded car parks arranged according to vehicles’ colour. It’s part of the summer art festival on Weston’s Beach Lawns. Perhaps inspired by our previous blog post reporting on California’s Southwestern College in 1994, Finding your way made easier by colour? Beach Lawns becomes a colourful […]
Condor Towers Car Park
Last weekend’s social scene in Perth saw a relatively unique event on the calendar – the opening of the Condor Towers car park in Perth. Not usually something to make much of a fuss about? A while ago the developers of Condor Towers asked artist group OLOLO if they could ‘art up’ the 5 level […]
Finding your car made easy by colour
This art project, ‘Color Coordinated Parking’ conducted at California’s Southwestern College in 1994, sorted over 3,000 cars into parking lots determined by the colour of the vehicle. It’s a brilliant conceptual idea as well as a potentially useful marketing tool… but would it help you find where you parked your white Toyota Corolla in a […]
The car park of the future? Part 2.
We wish we knew where this image came from, other than as we saw it on the Cool Hunter website, on a post entitled ‘Is that really a car park?’
Are car parks just there to park cars in?
When was the last time you saw a movie that did not at least have one scene in a car park? And now, car parks have become sought after venues for parties and special events ….. Saint Laurent and Givenchy would turn in their graves! With Sydney abuzz recently with the stylish designers and chic […]
A three-hundred point turn
Sometimes, near enough IS good enough. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irYHMDBf4t0
Don’t exit a parking garage like this
How not to exit a parking garage (view on YouTube).
Truck v Bollard
A retractable bollard, one metre high, 35cm across. It’s makers claim it is strong enough to stop a truck at full steam. See for yourself
Txt-a-park
Simple. You pay for parking with your mobile phone by sending a text message to the code that the parking machine tells you. You get billed to your phone bill. This is a world-first in offering pay-by-phone parking services that don’t require pre-registration.The kiwis seem to be on to something. Auckland City Council announced a […]
No parking
A great picture taken on the site ‘New York City Daily Photo’. Even funnier are some of the gems you can read in the comments section underneath the image. http://nyc2dailyphoto.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-parking.html
Street view fun
Google Street View has been launched in several countries around the world. You’ve probably heard about the town in the UK where residents are making news at the moment by protesting and blocking access to the town by the Street View car. Well, it’s not all sinister. Seen on the web this week are […]