Ingenious design and engineering prowess…
“…r2b2 is a pedal powered kitchen tool by German designer Christoph Thetard. designed for his final year project at Bauhaus Weimar, the project aimed to examine the amount of electricity used for common household tools. ather than design a band-aid solution Thetard chose to completely redevelop these tools using green power. Users pedal a fly-wheel which creates mechanical energy that can then power common kitchen tools like a coffee grinder, hand blender and food processor…”
(via designboom)



![Always been a fan of Bauhaus photographs by Maholy Nagy and others. First time I’ve seen this one by Feininger…
emily-whaaa:
T. Lux Feininger - Human Elements in Architecture [2 Figures Seated on Balustrade Edge, South Side of Studio Building at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Viewed from below] - ca. 1928, Gelatin silver print](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lacs9fDxze1qak7ruo1_500.jpg)
