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We gushed over the Noordung bike nearly two years ago. Sleek, streamlined, and just a pleasure to look at, the e-bike showcased an organic design that housed electronics within it, and a silent motor that sat within its wheel. The e-bike was powered by a fuel-tank-shaped battery-pack that sat exactly where the fuel tank on a motorcycle would. The pack’s volume would immediately alter the perception of the bicycle, making it look more like a cafe-racer. This battery pack also played another pretty interesting role. It doubled up as a rider-facing boombox, allowing you to listen to music as you travel… a distinction that was only reserved for four-wheelers, up until now. Over two years, Noordung has perfected this model, finally launching as a crowdfunded vehicle to bring this elegant superbicycle to the roads.

A lot has changed for the Noordung, but it still captures its overall spirit from 2 years ago. The bike’s frame is crafted from carbon-fiber, giving the bike its incredibly low weight. In fact, at 20kgs, Noordung is the lightest cruiser e-bicycle in the world. The updated Noordung ditches the Vivax Assist motor for a 250W Keyde motor (embedded right in the rear wheel) with 4 levels of assisted drive and speed assistance of 25km/h. The most iconic bit of the Noordung is still retained within this updated design. The heart, if you will, of the Noordung is its battery pack, a visually iconic mass that turns the bicycle into an electric bicycle. It plugs right into the frame of the bike, not just electrifying it, but also giving it a visual upgrade. The detachable battery pack contains twenty Li-ion cells with an output of 36 V, 250 Wh. The batteries not only power the e-bike, but also deliver power to the in-built boombox that helps enrich the Noordung’s ride experience, as well as supply power to your smartphone, need be. These speakers connect wirelessly to your playback device, allowing you to listen to music while riding, an experience that Noordung’s creator says is truly an experience in itself. Aside from housing a boombox, the overall mass that is the battery pack even houses an air quality indicator that detects and measures the presence of harmful P2.5 and P10 particles while the bike is in use. It uses this data to create a map of air quality in and around cities for you, the rider, to have access to.

Ultimately, the Noordung tries to make electric bicycling better in every which way. Designed to be extremely lightweight, the Noordung makes traditional biking easy, and packs a neat battery pack for that assisted ride. The battery supplies clean energy to the bike, eventually making it great for the environment (a metric that the air-quality-sensor ultimately tracks), and gives you the additional feature of having a boombox with you, whether it’s mounted to your bike, or in your hand!

Designers: Gregor Fras, Aleksander Praper, Samo Fortuna, Klemen Čepirlo and Žiga Gorjup

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Noordung is an urban bike for music lovers. It is the most beautiful ‘Luxury Superbicycle in the World’ and in limited series. This e-bike allows you to play up to 100 hours of music through the state-of-the-art speakers integrated into the bike, played from your phone.

The silent in-wheel e-motor has a 50 km range, and is ideal for urban commute.

You can charge your phone, tablet or computer via on board USB connector.

Noordung Music is the entry point into the beautiful new world of combining music with cycling, as it comes with the Noordung Boombox, that plays music from your smartphone.

The top two models from the Noordung family are Noordung Voyager and Noordung Individual, which are electric bikes with a maximum speed of 25 km/h as per EU regulation.

The Noordung Pure and Noordung Music are classic, non-electric, bikes with spoked rims and seven gears. They are built around Noordung carbon frame which is ready for any potential upgrades in the future.

Designed to be extremely lightweight, the Noordung makes traditional biking easy, and packs a neat battery pack for that assisted ride.

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L’artiste Andrew McIntoch propose une série de huit tableaux qui seront exposés à la Peckham’s bo.lee gallery en mars. Ces scènes de paysages urbains déserts rappellent les quartiers du Sud de Londres dont s’inspire l’artiste pour imaginer ses sujets. Chacun de ces immeubles semble vétuste et abandonné, certaines fenêtres sont masquées et les enseignes des boutiques sont défraîchies. L’artiste surréaliste transcende néanmoins ces façades en révélant chaque fois une pièce de l’immeuble. Vide mais colorée, on y trouve généralement un tableau d’art contemporain et un “meuble” – à y regarder de plus près, il s’agit d’instruments de torture médiévaux…

Tod and Feuer, 2019 © Andrew McIntosh

Seven Circles, 2019 © Andrew McIntosh

Lucifer, 2019 © Andrew McIntosh

Fury, 2019 © Andrew McIntosh

Fury, 2019 © Andrew McIntosh

Black Magic, 2019 © Andrew McIntosh

The AirPods are pretty great the way they are, but ask any designer and they’ll say that they could be much more. Ask designer Tang Gan of Pitaka and he’ll straight up tell you that the AirPods should A. Wirelessly charge, B. Have a longer battery life, and C. Not be so difficult to find inside a backpack. Combine those three insights and you get yourself the AirPodPal, an attachment that augments the abilities of the AirPods… or as Tang says, “Makes your AirPods easier to carry, charge & find”.

Designed as a neat looking carbon fiber bodied module that attaches directly to the base of your Airpod case, the AirPodPal gives your favorite earphones wireless charging abilities… a much-needed upgrade, considering the iPhone and Apple Watch both support wireless charging. Its slender body also happens to house a 1200 mAh battery which not only extends the life of your AirPods by three whole days, but also serves as an emergency power bank for your smartphone, proverbially knocking two birds with a single stone.

The AirPodPal comes housed in a sturdy carbon fiber body, giving it a visual contrast when plugged into the white plastic AirPod case. The carbon fiber makes the AirPodPal both lightweight and resilient at the same time, because after all, it needs to be as portable and sturdy as the AirPods themselves (you can conversely opt for the AirPodPal Essential, which comes with a PolyCarbonate plastic body). Snapping the AirPodPal onto your AirPod case does double its length, but not without reason. Tang justifies this increase, saying that the volume increase makes the AirPods easier to spot in a backpack “without compromising on portability”. The module comes with the same width and depth as the AirPods, still allowing it to slide into most pockets, and it even comes with a built-in clip to securely fasten it to your clothes, belt, or your backpack straps while on the go. It also means you don’t need to carry a separate power bank on you!

Designer: Tang Gan of Pitaka

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AirPodPal– Makes Your AirPods Easier to Carry, Charge & Find! They are the world’s most powerful AirPods wireless charging case with power bank inbuilt. The anti-lost design and easy to carry.

AirPodPal is designed to make your AirPods easier to use. It extends the possibilities of your AirPods: making them safer to carry anywhere, switching the wired charging to wireless charging, and increasing the battery life to one whole week.

Not only does it improve your AirPods, AirPodPal also doubles up as an emergency phone charger.

The metal belt clip keeps your AirPods safe, and allows you to access or find the AirPods easily.

Now getting the headphones out of your bag becomes easier than ever before, thanks to AirPodPal.

AirPodPal charge your AirPods case and can also act as an emergency power bank for your phone or other devices.

AirPodPal is also your EDCP – Everyday Carry Power Bank.

Crafted from high-end materials, AirPodPal’s premium carbon fiber cover also provides the military-grade protection and has no interferences with the wireless charging, protecting your AirPods.

How to use the AirPodPal.

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Architecture studio J Mayer H has unveiled a tram stop made from a stack of exposed-concrete discs in Kehl, Germany.

J Mayer H designed the tram stop, which is outside Kehl town hall, as the terminus for the line that runs across the German border to Strasbourg, in France.

German architect Jürgen Mayer H, who leads the studio, gave the tram stop an unusual form to welcome people commuting on the international tram line to the town of Kehl.

“People smile when they arrive at the station,” Mayer H told Dezeen.

The distinctive tram stop is constructed from a series of circular concrete discs and acts as the counterpoint to the Zaha Hadid Architects-designed Hoenheim-Nord Terminus in Strasbourg – at the other end of the line.

“The tram line has two anchors that are placed in both final stops,” continued Mayer H.

Described by the studio as an “infrastructural sculpture”, the stop has two shelters placed between the tram lines. Each of the shelters is constructed from two vertical exposed-concrete discs that support a concrete roof.

A third vertical disk, within each shelter, incorporates a bench.

We wanted to develop architectural elements that work in different dimensions, in horizontal and vertical placements and as wall, roof and seating units,” said Mayer .H

“It’s a selection of a kit of parts to be further explored.”

Each of the eight rounded forms that make up the tram stop were created through a process that Mayer H describes as a “dirty geometry”.

“The shapes evolved through a process of dirty geometry – evaluations,” he explained. “Basic precise curvatures got mixed up and recombined to create the organic outlines.”

Berlin-based J Mayer H also used sculptural shapes in its design of the FOM Hochschule university building in Düsseldorf, which has curved balconies that bulge out from the building.

While tram routes are still being laid in cities across the world, in China, a cross between a bus, train, and tram, that doesn’t run on tracks has been developed. The trackless and driverless “rail bus” made its first journey in the Chinese city of Zhuzhou in 2017.

Photography is by Frank Dinger and Stadt Kehl.

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The YD Design Storm takes a look at products, services, and spaces that are storming the internet. The idea? To turn internet-storming material into brainstorming material! Scroll down for our collection of handpicked works from design websites, portfolios, and social media. Get inspired, save projects, pin images, or share links with fellow design enthusiasts!

Watch this space for your digest of design brain-fodder… and an ever-evolving map of design trends!

Rocket Coffee Table by Stelios Mousarris

DAKHOTA Furniture Collection by Daria Zinovatnaya

Harbin Opera House by Mad Architects

The Embrace by John Green Designs.

Moon Armchair by Charles Kalpakian