Typography experts House Industries have recently worked with Hermès Japan on some beautiful type based window installations. Entirely worked out of wood, they present an Hermès horse display, as well as letters.

“The windows feature interlocking House Industries letterforms cut from solid cedar wood. A carousel-style horse (detail above) has an in-built mechanism so that the piece moves in a cantering motion. An additional 12 smaller installations feature more letterforms.”

Photography: Satoshi Asakawa, courtesy Hermès Japon

The work is now on display in the Hermès Tokyo flagship store. Take a further look after the jump.

Yesterday ahead of Art Basel Miami, design fair Design Miami opened its doors for the preview day, showcasing the work of exhibitors from around the globe.

“Among this year’s highlights are a solo exhibition of the work by architect, sculptor, inventor and morphologist Dr. Haresh Lalvani at Moss Gallery, Studio Job’s Containers II series at VIVID Gallery, a site-specific installation by Designer of the Year Award winner David Adjaye, and Erwin Redl’s installation Crystal Matrix II at Swarovski Crystal Palace. As part of the show’s series of satellite exhibitions, the Miami Design District presents in collaboration with the Buckminster Fuller Foundation, utopian architect Fuller’s 1970s Fly’s Eye Dome alongside Lord Norman Foster’s reconstructed Dymaxion car.”

Check out the full preview here below.

Some of you might have seen the recent big screen adaption of Marvel’s Captain America. While the story might not have been the strongest, the vehicle design of the movie was truly amazing. Here we take a closer look at the creations for the movie by Daniel Simon.

“Lead Vehicle Designer Daniel Simon stepped out of his comfort zone to create vehicles with a believable look of the 40ies. ‘Simplicity’ was the main input given to Simon on how to translate the scripted vehicles into unique movie vehicles. Between November 2009 and June 2010 Simon created seven machines hand in hand with Heinrichs and Johnston at Marvel Studios in Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles. Intense research of both historically correct engineering and the Marvel Comic universe was part of every days work. Director Johnston – a blessed designer of Star Wars fame – guided Simon through the endless possibilities and variations, to find vehicles that could have truly existed, fulfill their purpose in the film’s story and be feasible for manufacturing on set.”

The amount of work and detail that went into each one of the vehicles featured in the film is incredible. Take a detailed look after the jump.

On the Island of Omishima, Japanese architect Toyo Ito has completed his eponymous Toyo Ito Architecture Museum, the first ever Japanese museum dedicated to the work of an individual architect. The angular steel structure is sculpted to mimic the deck of a ship as it sits on a seaside ledge overlooking Seto Inland Sea, providing scenic views and cool breezes for the museum patrons. The exterior architecture directly translates to the interior design, which is wrapped in birch wood and is left minimalistic in decor.

More images follow after the click.

Megawing takes the notebook and gives it a look that John Cobretti would approve of. Three different notebooks are seen here each with a 3-dimensional cover featuring a hand grenade, revolver and knife. In addition to the distinct outward appearance, each notebook also features unique design differences. Get yours now at MollaSpace.

Grenade Cover: Extending the lines from the cover grenade, pages inside have identical light grey plaid patterns to make sketches and notes more organized. First page has a “1 Second” sign to remind us that time is ticking; use it efficiently.

Knife Cover: Every page inside has lines with slightly bigger spacing and blank bottom portion to allow different visual experiments with your imaginations.

Revolver Cover: No lines nor boxes on the pages of this notebook to limit your creativity. Use the wide space to figure out a plan in reaching your targets/dreams/goals in life.

Take a further look after the jump.

From Lilsnob – “For Halloween, Laika House artist Katie Mello has created the ultimate costume for her dog Bones; a Starwars inspired AT-AT suit.

To create the costume, Katie first had to make a foam replica of Bones as to minimize the fitting on the actual dog. She than created a special hand made “speed suite” patterned after a pair of pajamas the dog wore at night. The suit was than painted to resemble the All Terrain Armored Transport.

The body is made from foam sheets that hardly weigh anything. Once painted, Katie hand sewed a lining into the body to pad and secure it to the dog. Finally, she made little feet covers out of yogurt cups, and voila! He looks straight out of Star Wars.”

See more images here.

Fly high above the very first Island Maison from Louis Vuitton located at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.

Curated puts us onto a new exhibit from KAWS coming in February 2012 at Atlanta’s High Museum. Given that the show is still about 5 months away, no need to mark your calendar just yet, as you are sure to hear more about the exhibition as the opening approaches down the road. In addition to being treated to a new body of work, visitors can also hang around to watch KAWS in action as he prepares a giant site-specific mural that will come in at a whopping 22-feet high. Also, the giant companion sculpture from 2010 is slated to make an appearance; with that and the giant mural, this show is shaping up to be one of the artist’s most memorable.

Have you guys seen the new adidas Laces R&D building? If not here is a look at the Kada Wittfield Architecture designed structure that is now up and running at corporate headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany. The name “Laces” pertains to the design of the building in which walkways within the building connect and criss-cross with each other in a networked pattern. An excerpt from the press release sheds more light. (Images and info: Collabcubed.)

The building forms a loop. Suspended walkways cross the atrium space, “lacing” the building’s structure together like the laces of a sports shoe. The walkways connect individual departments within the building complex, making for greater proximity and preventing the disruptive effect of people walking through offices.

See more images of the building and its design after the jump.

After the Daft Punk inspired Club Coke 2011 bottles launched earlier this year, we present today the official Daft Punk x Coca Cola collaboration bottles.

The classic Coke glass bottle comes with gold and silver Coca-Cola logo application and matching Daft Punk bottle crown sitting on top. The silver one is actually 925 silver and the gold one features 18k yellow gold. Hand finished the bottles are sitting in a box designed by Daft Punk. The bottles were of course inspired by the helmets of the electronic duo. The signed box set is limited to only 20 sets worldwide. This collaboration far surpasses the previous ones with Mika, Karl Lagerfeld and Justice/So Me.

You will be able to win the box set from September 30th until December 31st 2011 on daftcoke.com.

Detailed images of the Daft Punk Coca Cola Box Set follow after the jump.