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If you’re an architect, or a designer (web or interior) you definitely got to a point in your career when you need high quality textures for your work. This website will respond to your needs, and provide the best of the best in this field.

Arroway Textures

I’ve been using the textures Arroway provides for a very very long time, and I am sure you will find them useful too, no matter your line of work. The texture map perfectly on 3d objects, and have a variety of channels and maps you can play with. You can either buy an entire volume, or download for free the textures that most suit your needs.

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Marietta Moraweg had the crazy idea, to use a piece of plywood and totally designed it and had executed it into a crazy awesome lounge chair. It’s got so many parallel cuts in it, you’re going to be lounging for basically forever. All summer long, anyway, I bet. And from where I’m posting, that’s kinda starting basically right now, it’s springtime. Time to rock.

Combining the crafts of the future and the past! Traditional wood bending craft combined with modern CAD laser technology. You could put it in your garden and/or terrace.

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In January 2010 the Cologne based design agencies Grosse8 and Lichtfront presented their cross-media installation titled Augmented Sculpture. The core of the installation is a 2.5m tall wooden form that builds the screen for a 360° projection. This is how it looks like and what it does.

In constant transformation over a score by Jon Hopkins, the 2:32 minute performance is described by Svenja Kubler of Lichtfront as a “mirror of changing realities… a kind of real virtuality arises to confront virtual reality.” I’m not sure what that all means but I really like it.

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Yeah, we love web design too here at Archtopia, and we want you guys to have fun here as well. So we’ll find resources for your works too. We’ll also post the best web designs we’ll find. On the way we kind of forgot about the website’s theme and main core idea, so we want to make it up to you, and make it worth your while here. That being said, this is our first post regarding webdesign resources. The fonts this guys post now and then on Font Squirrel will blow your mind and make you wanna jump around being happy… others may react differently (dancing, singing, or start drinking… we take full responsibility for the consequences) .

If you like this new section of Archtopia, and have suggestions or questions, we’ll happily answer your queries. Also, if you want to help your fellows, the cool designers all over the world, submit an article, or just drop a link to a nice resource website you have found.

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Vibia Outdoor Lighting Ideas

Vibia, the Spanish company, known for its contemporary, comes with unusual and off-the-wall outdoor lighting design ideas, transforming lighting into an art form with its sculptural and striking pieces. Why bother maintaining a meticulously manicured garden if you don’t have the lighting to show it off? This stunning setting illuminates landscape and pathways with the Tree 4000 outdoor lighting collection, a design by Pete Sans that resembles delicately drop-shaped conifers. Available in brown and white-lacquer finishes, these polyurethane lights contain compact fluorescent bulbs to cast a gentle glow on your outdoors. Turn your yard into a whimsical wonderland. For more outdoor lighting design ideas, visit Vibia.

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