SLAB Magazine

As with vacuum cleaners or coffee machines, there are a dazzling array of filters to be found in the built environment. Whether you like it or not, every time you go shopping you are filtered, sorted, hearded and sieved into order.

A teenage-quad-bike-hooligan filter
The filter shown above is one of several which have been erected to [...]

Recently in Leeds, this appendage on top of a standard road sign caught my attention:

Compare it to the standard solution for illuminated road signs:

Seeing it for the first time, I thought it must be some new devious method of hiding CCTV cameras in familiar objects. Recently I read that that there is now one CCTV [...]

Whilst trawling the murky depths of ffffound.com’s gigantonormous picture-pool a few months ago, I came across the following intriguing photo:

True to my picture-trawling principle, I dumped it straight into a specially designated folder on my hard disc noting neither its source, nor referencing its content. In moments of inspiration-deficiency I peruse this folder, unbiased by [...]

Breite Straße isn’t just being narrowed; it’s also getting new furniture. SLAB was intrigued by the thin net-stockings the new lamp posts seem to have been brought to the building site in. The material is probably the minimum required to separate the posts whilst stacked in transit.

More public benches from Rostock in Northern Germany. Bring a cushion.

This Jacob’s coffee vending machine sources its water very locally.

Seen at Berlin’s Tegel airport

Two bits of woody furniture. Both spotted recently in forests, on islands. The first photo was taken on Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. The second was taken on the Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island) in the Havel River in Berlin.