National Geographic Channels International commissioned LUMBRE to create four new ID’s
Creative Director: Sergio Saleh
Executive Producer: Pablo Encabo
Assistant Producer: Evelyn Robayo
Concept boards: Damian Stricker, Paula Vidal, Ariel Cabrera, Rodrigo Pais, Juan Fittipaldi, Adriana Campos
Sound design: Emilio Haro, Pablo Paz
Production company: CINCO
Post Production: WOLF

One of the things I hate the most about the way a business is run is when the owner / manager pays attention to details on how a cafe shop look but completely neglects other important issues for no particular reason. Take for example Think Cafe, a nice cafe in Kuwait City which have a [...]

This calendar contains 12 unique wallpapers created by 7 artists from the Middle East, to inspire you throughout 2012. Each month features a theme word, and each wallpaper expresses that word creatively. Artists are: Djinane Alsuwayeh, Hanna Semaan, Janine Khawand, Joumana Medlej, Lara Zankoul, Patrick Semaan and Wissam Eid. Read more about the project and download from here.

Happy new year!

Created by Dutch firm MVRDV,  these skyscrapers called The Clouds (to be located in Seoul, Korea)  were originally designed  ”on parameters such as sunlight, outside spaces, living quality for inhabitants and the city. It is one of many projects in which MVRDV experiments with a raised city level to reinvent the often solitary typology of [...]

The internet has changed our lives and Smart phones are expanding that further. I do beleive that Smart Phones’s ability to connect with physical devices will also grow and offer us amazing tools. This is one of them, say hello to the “Little Printer”:
“Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip [...]

Here is a prototype for a coffee table (KUB+) wich looks cool and works great in your house. It is the result of merging Playfulness and Customization together using the all time favourite toy: The Rubik Cube.
“KUB+ Coffee table for small living rooms aims to bring functionality to living rooms with limited space, serving as a ludic and [...]

3M makes kick ass products, and just got itself a kick ass campaign for their Noise Cancelling Headphones (which I did not know they made).
“This is a graphic film, where we use the skylines of large cities in the world, and sounds related to each one of them. Each sound triggered a building skyline simulating waves sound. [...]

Photographer Jan von Holleben was comissioned by ZEIT magazine to create images about dreams.  Jan von Holleben is known for the Dreams of Flying photos and the idea was to take photographs for the magazine’s Dreams special issue using the same style of taking pictures of people laying on the floor on a mattress and [...]

Lebanon will have it’s first Zaha Hadid Architectural marvel, the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut.  Various submissions from renown international design and architectural firms were submit, Zaha Hadid‘s (a former American University of Beirut student) design was chosen.
I personally love the sharp angles and blocks like features of the building, special [...]

I LOVE cheese and I LOVE these parmesan cheese pencils. I think this is genius. What is suppose to be the pencil (coal) is a hard flavour: Chilli, pesto or truffle and what is suppose to be the wooden part of the pencil is the actual parmesan cheese, wait, there is more; It comes with [...]