Via.

The shoes are structured with carbon-fiber and covered in fine leather. I was surprised to learn that the styling isn't just for looks, but might actually work:

One late summer night in the studio I was thinking about the design of shoes in general. I wondered why there was the need for a foot plate in shoes such as high heels When I look at a foot print on sand it is very clear to see that the main force goes to the heel and ball. With a high heel providing the heel is supported, even by standing on a wooden block the foot naturally ’spans’ the gap naturally, with bones and tendons. The foot has its own inbuilt strength and support so why duplicate this. You would not have a jumper with rigid arms between elbow and wrist.

It was created for structural engineering firm Ryan-Biggs by Bryan Kahrs at id29. I always like these sort of visual puzzle logos. The letterforms are weirdly structural in a way that tickles my brain.

That is all. Go forth and weekend.

This is great.

Reading Lamp

Reading lamp, designed by French designers Jun Yasumoto, Alban Le Henry, Olivier Pigasse and Vincent Vandenbrouck, is wonderfully simple: it's "a lamp that shuts off when you put a book on it, and that turns on when you take your book to read it."

Hat tip to Core77.

These remind me of this brilliant poster for Stanley Kubrick's 2001.