Another stylish restaurant by Stanley Saitowitz. Located in San Francisco's Jazz district, the Mississippi Blues interiors are influenced by the classic instruments of jazz.
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OfficePOD is a home office away from home, a contemporary prefab office unit that'll keep household distractions at bay in style.
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VIDEOAttention smart and awesome people of the world – it’s time to shake things up! We’ve penned our first book, I Swear to Good You Are God at This. It’s 72 pages of creative inspiration and we just know you’re going to love it.
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For If You Could Collaborate, designers and illustrators partnered with people from other walks to life to create artworks, like this type cut from wood
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Caption Gallery is pleased to announce a dual exhibition of photographs by Amy Stein and Brian Ulrich. Their powerful, dystopic visions expose the transformation of human beings into consumers, with little power or agency.
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Uni Sans® is a brand new Sans-Serif type family from FontFabric. Designed specifically to work for headlines, captions and as block text, Uni Sans is a very versatile type family adaptable for any application.
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Beijing Noodle No. 9 is Ceasar Palace's newest restaurant and offers a truly unique surreality rarely seen in the world... let alone the global capital of ostentation, Las Vegas....
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The Japanese no.555 Architectural Design Office recently realised this single family residence. It is based on a two storey steel frame construction.
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This very Portland-y letterpress and screen printed poster commemorates the second anniversary of Beard Revue.
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Borusan Music and Art House, Istanbul, Turkey, by GAD
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The Sixpack is a bottle carrier that can hold up to 6 beer, soft drink, or water bottles. It’s perfect for those BYO dinner outings where a normal 6 pack gets destroyed after you rip out one beer.
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Almost every space in which we live has a plughole. Yet we all seem to do our utmost to conceal wall sockets. With I WANT contact Neffa hopes to demonstrate that plugholes are simple to incorporate into their surroundings.
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Video excerpt from "Tomorrow, in a year", an electro-opera with music by The Knife about the life and work of Charles Darwin.
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Photos of Danish designer Tom Rossau Making one of his ST 903 Lamps.
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Just in time for Valentine's Day, House Industries unveils a full set of "Valentype" alphabet letter blocks. Block set are available in Red and Silver
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FEATUREDMaison Martin Margiela's first perfume launch in Paris ~ we were the only US site present! Absolutely stunning details ~ and i'm loving the packaging, presentation, and dot matrix press kit print outs!
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Christel Hadiwibawa is a furniture designer based in Sydney. The above pieces were part of her Honours research last year exploring sustainability. Working with bamboo, these are the final results of her work.
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FEATUREDThe Mercer ~ Soho, NYC ~ so many design details not to be missed in my room here ~ this is just one of many in the post! Love the way the bubble bath is measured in bubbles! See the key and magnets too!
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FEATUREDCES Top Secret look in to Belkin's suite ~ on unique challenges, they invited me in to preview many of the upcoming 2010 offerings, but i can't show them to you (yet)! HOWEVER, i can show you some of the incredible displays they set up!
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Designed by Damien Gires, the Urban Seat is comprising funtionable chair and table that well place along the street for pedestrian to slow down and enjoy the neighborhood.
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London based designer Ryan McElhinney,
up-cycled old toys to create this intriguing lamp.
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Amazing animation "Press +" by Benjamin Ducroz.
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Artist/designer Nina Wehrle from "It’s Raining Elephants” filled the streets of Diplomarbeit with boats and monkeys. The monkeys are tiny and mischievous, and boats almost too giant to recognize.
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With ever growing space problem, one is always on lookout for smart space avers but compromise with style…A big NO! Check out the cool coffee table by Steve Spett and Ron Barth. Is it a simple coffee table? Naah! It’s a dining table when being transformed. Imagine your friends asking as to where’s your dining room table and you turn your coffee table in just few minutes time. Sounds cool! Check out ResourceFurniture for more information or if you’re around NY, you can visit the store in person at Manhattan, 969 Third Avenue, New York.
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These industrial quality carts are made by the same company that's been providing carts for hotels, restaurants and the US government since the beginning of the 20th century.
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Fresca Mattina Coffee from the heart of Africa - Mt. Elgon in Uganda
We began as a small group of friends who love coffee, and evolved into a company rooted in taking mountain villages of Uganda and its good people onto the world stage. Coffee is a centuries-old beverage with contemporary devotees, and the land of Uganda has labored for centuries bringing its people, endangered mountain gorillas, rich forests, and fine coffee.
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Garant is Swedish food brand that comes in to different lines. One green eco-friendly line and one regular, I hate humanity line. Both lines have been designed by Bas Brand Identity.
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VIDEOSimon Dennehy from www.perch.ie speaks at TEDx Dublin about his new Ergonomic School Furniture and approach to R&D for Students
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As part of the sales promotion campaign, these ambient stunts in Belgium. The aim is to show just how easy it is to buy an Alfa Romeo MiTo. The headline reads "Your chance to own an Alfa Romeo".
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An awesome dad hand paints these lunch bags for his kid during his lunch break at work.
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great info-graphics and design by Hello Monday for the Copenhagen in a Box board game.
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Stunning new print by Los Angeles based artist Joby Cummings illustrating the 7 deadly sins.
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Simon Evans made a poster of everything he has. From clothes to half eaten fruits.
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French conceptual artist Michel de Broin and his 7.5m, 1000 mirror, disco ball suspended above the Paris night sky. Amazing!
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Print magazine celebrates their 70th anniversary with two different cover designs for their new issue. "A toast to the vitality of beauty, and everlasting appeal of print design."
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Diego Ramos: Ego Soup - some of us need more of the soup others needs less of it.
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The iVictrola combines cutting edge technology of the early 20th century and the 21st century. Concepted by NYC designer Matt Richmond, he took his love for vintage turntables one step further.
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Danish textiles giant, Kvadrat have had their new London HQ designed by ex-Factory Records icon, Peter Saville....
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Fujitsubo beauty parlour, Tokyo, Japan, by Archivision Hirotani Studio
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Deepside D has med a new version of the old monopoly game and this time its with the theme “Doomsday Countdown”...
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Barcelonian illustrator/designer Máximo Tuja creates these monotonal pieces through the combination and juxtaposition of awkwardly-selected subject matter, who are then submerged in an pool of erratically placed lines and patterns.
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Design Hara’s green HTPC is the computer/home media player I want. It's eco friendly, features HDMI and DVI outputs, a Blu-ray drive, and comes with handcrafted (side panels) from Italian cypress wood or Canadian rose wood. Beautiful.
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Stunning post-apocalyptic landscapes by Perth-based artist Martin Wills.
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Miss Lulu is the brandnew prototype furniture from Berlin based Atelier Haussmann and will be presented on the IMM in Cologne this month.
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CHOW.com just started their series of desktop wallpapers. The first (above) is a giant portobello mushroom.
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The Ysios Bodega is located just north of the classic wine-growing region of La Rioja in the province of Álava. Santiago Calatrava created a distinctive piece of architecture.
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An animated poem by Kathryn Regina. Animation by the talented Greg Lytle.
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Amsterdam-based artist, Peter Schuyff, takes ordinary objects like baseball bats and colored pencils and carves them into intricate and delicate works of art.
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Danish designer Emil Kozak has worked his magic on a range of Dell Laptops.
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An innovative design to create bike paths on high traffic zones. Unfeasible perhaps... but still very interesting concept.
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French designer Julien Bergignat has taken inspiration from the Armadillo to create a lightweight, low cost, and recyclable bicycle helmet. The Tattoo helmet is entirely made up of polypropylene, and is able to transform from flat to three dimensional and back again in a matter of seconds. This design results in lower product shipping costs, and allows users to store their helmet in a backpack as apposed to carrying it around like a traditional helmet.
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The Wright is a wonderfully designed new restaurant and bar located within, and paying homage to, Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural classic, New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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Belgium-based Christophe Gilbert is arguably the best photo-manipulator in the world. A constant trickster, Gilbert distorts reality through these amazing hyper-realistic photographs, often adding a touch of shock or humor to put them over the top.
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Middle school Morières les Avignon by N+B architects features interplay between concrete and stone which gives rhythmic effect to the facade as a contemporary appearance.
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Created in collaboration with conceptual artist, Arne Quinze, L’Eclaireur's latest store on rue de Sévigné, Paris, is as much art installation as it is high-end designer boutique.....
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Nika Rams from Germany designed UseLess line of products to create awerness for saving the enviorment.
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Ever wonder what kind of adventures a design superhero would have? A couple of design students have created a video to give you a glimpse!
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Impressive installations by Naoko Ito from Tokyo.
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Guy has glasses tattooed on his face for Ray-Ban's Never Hide campaign. Crazy dude.
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Monsterist Pete Fowler took part in some monstrous live painting at the NOISE Lab, Manchester, UK
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Some amazing shots of and facts about jellyfish.
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MODO Architecture & Design have designed the Square House in Menorca, Spain.
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Deskology makes desk accessories that match your Mac spot on. Great for Mac addicts!
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Excellent campaign for "Japin Jane" about adult toys. Concept by TBWAFrederick.
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The Metal Wine Cage locks away a dozen bottles of your best vintage wine in an iron cage with a drawbridge style door.
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Most people don’t know that racing cars were given their looks not by marketing strategists or designers, but by chance. Go Faster is a collection of over 100 examples of racecar design that documents the carefree anarchy in which they were created.
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Illustrator Alfonso Muro's created a set of memorial illustrations for his chihuahua puppy Poca - aka Tiny!
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FEATUREDTenga Eggs ~ a male pleasure toy ~ How they work was a surprise to me ~ the beautiful packaging is so deceptive! See the chicken video too.
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A rare book indeed! World Famous Design Junkies explores the book “Cartoons and Caricatures or Making the World Laugh”, written and illustrated in the 20 years leading up to 1910 by illustrator Eugene Zimmerman AKA "Zim!" (Complete with tie strap!)
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From Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, Oregon, to unauthorized Duff Beer in Argentina, Morgan Spurlock delivers an entertaining documentary on the world's favorite dysfunctional (and loving) family. The full Simpsons documentary is now available online...
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The Mini Beachcomber concept made its debut at the Detroit Motor Show as a throwback to the Moke from the 60s, but with the off-road capabilities that the original never had. Featuring all-wheel drive, the Beachcomber has no doors or roof.
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Lex Pott combined these industrial, geometric forms with the original, organic structure of a tree in a series of items of furniture.
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The Drawer Shelf , by Keiji Ashizawa, puts on a amazing display of functionality. It is a series of three drawers that have the ability to independently slide to either side by using a rail system.
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Mercedes unveils their newest concept-a-la-sculpture. ENJOY!
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San Francisco tech geeks Regen are introducing new ways to integrate sustainability and portability with the use of their modular solar panel.
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Grind Coffee packaging based on the coffee strength and type with colors and numbers. Done by Talia Cohen of Rhode Island School of Design.
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Balázs Szabó works a project where the type is cut out of foamcore, painted, and stamped onto a big giant piece of ribbon paper, which is then strewn from the ceiling of a gallery - quite exquisite! Quite giant!
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The Barbapapa kindergarten, designed by CCD Studio, incorporates several green features to create a comfy environment for the children.
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Sexy, manly, and secretively seductive is Juicy Couture's Bible box ready to keep your secrets hidden from prying eyes.
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Sheffield's own illustrator and street artist Jonny Wan teamed up with EngraveYourBook.com to create this interesting artwork called 'Two Faced' for EYB's current artist series.
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Nate Simpson has been working on a graphic novel for almost a year. See his beautiful and inspiring work in progress.
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Beautiful low rise wooden buildings for a new social housing complex in Rennes, France. Designed by Atelier du Pont.
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Russian artist Sveta Shubina has done some wonderful things with paper and scissors. Her project Paper Cut Deer displays the beauty of forests, and antlers. Check out her photostream on Flickr for more work.
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A colorful postmodern building by Mi5 Arquitectos for a new Youth Center in Madrid, Spain. The wicked design is the result of workshop with local teenagers.
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This impressive project from Vincent Callebaut Architects is meant to navigate through the rivers in Europe in order to clean water and make it drinkable. Its name comes from “Physalia physalis”, meaning “water bubble”.
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Amazing, colourful, multi-media works from South American artist anitabling.
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The exterior and interior design sketches of the Detroit showcar Audi e-tron Concept, the compact two-seater electric sportscar that adopts the design language introduced with the original e-tron at Frankfurt.
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FEATUREDCES: Canon's booth went all mad scientist tv set style ~ check out the level of detail for this pop up set for people to test cameras on
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As a tribute to luxury label Chanel, Tetsuya Noguchi crafted a samurai armor made from resin, cashew lacquer, cloth, and glass.
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New Laundry Products from Method. No more large jugs, and the bottles use a precise dispensing system.
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Augmented Reality Architecture : using 2 dimensional QR codes that can be read using a mobile phone.
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Mortierbrigade interns Tim Arts and Stefan van den Boogaard decided to skip the traditional mailers when it came to announcing a new Levi's collection to the fashion press.
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American Standard is an installation that featured fifteen functional urinals arranged in a pyramid formation on the wall of the men’s washroom at Simon Fraser University.
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Tastebuddi.es - flavour combination inspiration and a mission to find the best unusual sweet/savory flavour combinations
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Beautiful illustrations by Mehmet Kizilay, Istanbul based illustrator also works in video art and animation.
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House Two, Santiago, Chile, by Eduardo Belin Razmilic Associated Architects.
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KWINT restaurant in the Heart of Brussels by SAQ // Studio Arne Quinze.
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Nate Holmes Trapnell has updated his site with new illustrations. The work onto bowling pins is particularly cool.
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Karl Lagerfeld and Jérôme Coste, of Les Ateliers Ruby, took it upon themselves to provide sinfully stylish helmets for our precious little heads, turning an absolute necessity into a fashion statement
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A sleek school for Chilean slums, designed by young architects Francisco Izquierdo and Maria Jose Varas. Photos by Cristobal Palma.
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Sleepyhead, a bed cover creates a little room in bed for comfortable dreaming. The corner is held up by one stick that disappears under the mattress. From Frenchknicker
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The pillow mask very useful to improve your sleep during daytime or by too much light in the room. This two-layered pillow can cover your eyes when you sleep lightly. Can also be turned inside.
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Archan Nair is a self developed artist , Art Director and illustrator, based out of New Delhi, India. He has been producing visual art and interactive designs for Canon, Tiger Beer, Boss, Dodge, Microsoft, GQ, Sony etc.
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We love the bedrooms for children designed by Karim RASHID for NEOSET...
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Bangkok enjoyed a massive interactive projection blanketing the 90 meter King Power complex. Visitors can interact and effect the visuals. Crafted by Melbourne based team - ENESS.
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American light artist James Turrell largest-ever walk-in light installation in a museum context: an 11-metre-high, ‘space within a space’ structure that covers a floor area of 700 square meters.
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Artist Cal Lane uses a plasma cutter and some intense planning, stenciling, and patterning to create spectacular works cut out of metal. See her works “Car Parts” and “Filigree Car Bombing” of the larger project entitled: "Steel Lace."
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Bauke Knotterus has designed this very cool curtain that hides and devides a room. Printed with a gigantic photo of a sofa in a room.
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German jewelry designer Iris Merkle created these recycling rings for her label Fingerglueck. The rings are made of chocolate paper and silver and they really do look great.
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Spraygraphic Interview with Artist Michael Young
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FEATUREDCES showcased Intel's Infoscape - an incredible huge touch screen UI showing spinning browsable cubes of 576 live links of information! See the pictures and video ~ beautiful UX.
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TWENTY TEN // Linear Month Calendar Print. A brand-new style of calendar that shows each month as a complete line organized on weekly columns. Limited run of prints available to buy.
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A mashup of sketches and images of Antoni Gaudi's Park Guell done by an architecture student in Barcelona.
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Social Change + Writers + Good Design =
A contributed compilation book trying to change the world. Loving the simple, subtly colored website and the unexpected favicon managed to put a smile on my face! Hopefully the book will be just as good.
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For those outside of New York who weren't able to see Audrey Kawasaki’s first solo exhibit in NYC, here is a collection of photos taken at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in Chelsea.
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Icicle-shaped votive candleholder that hangs elegantly over the edge of a table, mantle or shelf.
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FEATUREDSamsung Booth at CES ~ amazing experience to walk in to ~ really feels like being an ant in a kaleidoscope, so mesmerizing as the colors and images change... just stand inside spinning around in awe.
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Amazing photos by Elene Usdin, Paris based artist who works primarily in photography.
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The interior design of Built Environs’ headquarters was designed by Architects HASSELL is located in Adelaide, Australia.
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FEATUREDAdventures in vegas with Cool Hunting and HTC = endlessly playful inspiring explorations... and a series of pictures where i think i got really in to pretty textures and patterns...
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No one knows for sure why some trees secrete resin. However, with the help of some marvelous macrophotography, its beauty – at times deadly – becomes evident.
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A spectacular (and useful) advertisement for eBay ads. A massive cork board was pasted up over the entire interior surface of a subway station in Madrid, creating a fully-functioning classified bulletin board as a real world representation of eBay ads.
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Simple new Japanese designs like this textile with dotted lines to remove worn-out sections and transform the piece into its next incarnation: a bath mat, dish towel, or rag.
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Adobe Displays cool examples of how their CS4 Suite can be used to create interesting projects, advertisements, etc.
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Erotic pins use phrases ripped from used romance novels. Jewelery made from trashy novels to wear if you dare!
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Sony's new eco-friendly 10-inch system is comprised of 23 percent recycled CDs. It even comes with a carrying case made from recycled PET bottles.
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Powerful porcelain sculpture on the subject of art in the age of climate change.
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Amazing and very creative illustrations by Jonathan Bartlett. John brought a cheeky eroticism to menswear when he launched his eponymous label in 1992
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An interview with London based graphic designer and typographer, Jack Crossing.
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Without getting too Orwellian on you and with tongue (if nothing else) firmly in the cheek, here are a list of words that should really go the way of the dinosaur. Now.
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It seems like everything Fabien Barral touch, turns into gold, he is that good! This time he has illustrated the label of Backyard vineyards in Vancouver....the details are just blowing me away!
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Customised car-shaped ice skates illustrated by UK artist Si Scott to promote Vauxhall Motors ice skating event
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A first look at the Waveface concept by ASUS at CES ~ it is even inspired by WEPC! Interesting idea... check out the video too...
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Nothing is more comfortable than natural hull pillows. Bucky's Duo Pillow with half millet, half buckwheat hulls is now packaged in a super cute reusable canvas tote. Perfect for when you travel!
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CES - Karim Rashid for ASUS ~ the new seashell Eee PC in glossy pink and matte brown ~ interesting multifaceted tile texture.. and sleeve, ext HD, and mouse to match!
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Private house on the Langhe land, Cuneo Italy.
Design by Archicura.
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The Swedish royal court has presented the monogram of Crown Princess Victoria and her fiance, Daniel Westling. It was designed by Vladimir A. Sagerlund who works as a heraldic artist at the Swedish National Archives.
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Exquisitely simple book covers designed by University of Chicago Press lead designer Isaac Tobin.
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A brilliant piece of design innovation by Sam Fout, 800lb Gorilla is a concept come to toy-life.
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VIDEO"A two-minute animated voyage through nature's life cycle, following the trials and tribulations of a humble apple seed."
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