Elinor Portnoy's Polar Lights demonstrate polarization. Their entirely colorless shades are made of transparent plastic film sandwiched between sheets of polarizers.
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Check out the shirts over at Suspended Designs. Love the packaging, each shirt comes wrapped in butcher paper with a wax seal, then in a burlap bag. 100% biodegradable.
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Watching House Pedro Ressano Garcia is more than just simple and strict lines, it also have a beautiful contrast between the white facade and the raw, aged bricks that binds the exterior with interior.
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Third Man Records partnered with Nixon, the watch/headphone/bag powerhouse, to release a limited edition set of Master Blaster Headphones
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A NY adman has an impressive collection of various vintage airline wings. And a lot of knowledge about airline advertising.
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Amazing thermal spa in France wrapped with a living green wall.
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ClankWorks makes a variety of gorgeous bicycle accessories including this latest effort; Pinch. Pinch is a display stand to show off your bicycle.
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Modern but comfortable bed 'Plane' with integrated bedside tables and a box which can be used as seating bench and shelf. Designed by Felix Stark for german company Müller Möbelwerkstätten.
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The Scandinavian Colour Institute NCS (Natural Color System) Colour Scan 2.0 allows you to take a photo of any surface and gives you its closest NCS Colour Notation.
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The new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust by Belzberg Architects.
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Amazing video by Jim Campbell, inspired by a Nike sponsored art project, shot in multiple scenarios and locations around Europe. Inspiring work and great insight into the creative process.
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Playge has announced that the Big Sqube [Original] is now available to pre-order. This a rather large piece, standing in there at 16"x16"x16" of fiberglass with a white satin finish.
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Custom painted pieces, art installations, a digital graffiti wall and a live digital music performance. Chairman Ting's 'nice art' collaboration with adidas Originals in Hong Kong...
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Onyx Solar is launching a new line of photovoltaic paving tiles made from ceramic and glass later this year.
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Designer Andreas Pohancenik of London's Practice + Theory studio created the exhibition graphics for a recent exhibit at the MAK, Vienna, in sugar pastillage and an edible catalog available for purchase in the museum gift shop.
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'The Hopeless Diamond Sofa' by Christopher Stuart utilizes off the shelf materials from the local hardware store like copper plumbing pipe, shipping blankets, zip ties, and carpet padding.
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Red Gate Gallery artist Laurens Tan's Chinese Toy Story Rickshaw Installation at The Opposite House Beijing, through December 31, 2010
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Haus UrMa by SoHo Architektur. This team has completed the transformation of a former farmhouse in the german country, crossing tradition and modernity and opening walls and roof with large windows.
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This double birdhouse by dutch designers from Ontwerp Duo is real human architecture for birds.
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Featuring original illustrations for the collections of Chanel, Dior and McQueen - the Design Museum's 'Drawing Fashion' exhibition is a unique show that's been 30 years in the making...
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FEATUREDDesign Glut expands its hookmaker tile line with Jar Tiles!
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FEATUREDIt’s been another delectable week at Liqurious. Catch up on the week's latest drinks.
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Divisionof/DolcePress – Good Morning/Good Night Poster ~ with letterpressed GLOW IN THE DARK! So beautiful, in a limited run of 100
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In Rotterdam, Netherlands, Dutch designer Rolf founder of Studio Rolf.fr renovated the old 'Black Pearl' building into a place to live and work.
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Paperback Note - Check out these blank notebooks with covers from second hand paper back books. There's some truly great finds that'll keep your notes 'undercover'.
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barbara kruger in taking place at the temporary stedelijk - Designboom has great pics!
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Heineken's very limited edition 16oz STR bottle ~ simple at first... toss it under a black light for the reveal!
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iFixIt tears down the Logitech Revue GoogleTV so we can see exactly what's in there...
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CUT(C) stool by londonian designers from Lambria Design. A seat made from reclaimed cuts of crushed cork.
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An embossed eraser invitation advertising Anthropologie's press preview event in London.
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FEATUREDMission Workshop! A peek inside the awesome bike messenger/backpack and accessories store in San Francisco from the original founders of chrome!
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I made a shelf from coloured pencils by glueing them together. I was suprised at how strong it was using two layers of pencils.
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Little colorful expressions of domestic rebellion, somewhere between vandalizing and new ways of protection for our goods. Design by Joel Escalona
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This year's LA Auto Show Design Challenge stipulated that concepts be four-passenger vehicles weighing 1,000 lb. or less that are comfortable, safe, and deliver satisfactory performance and looks. 9 vehicles were presented including several organic models.
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FEATUREDI Heart Pies! Awesome branding/logo/characters for this adorable LA pie shop. And apparently, delicious pecan pies as well!
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SoundSticks III by Harman/Kardon are now available in its latest iteration.
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Nice sleek retro mod lines to this jonathan adler philippe chair ~ there's a cute footstool that matches as well!
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Portland, OR artist Megan Scheminske creates modern, minimalist paintings from Google Maps imagery.
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Jonathan Adler's Pill Carafes made of double cased handblown glass and perfect for whatever libation cures what ails you.
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Sugru has been mentioned on NOTCOT before. Here, in a contest-winning posting on Instructables.com, it has been used to modify a walking pole to double-up as a monopod.
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D.L. & Co. holiday packaging is beautiful! Bound in a book case, their candle gift sets hold 5 candles in various collections
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By focusing on height rather than width, efficient storage designs can be created. Staircase is a shelving unit that combines a bookshelf with a pullout stair system in the bottom three shelves.
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Jonathan Adler's Peacock Menorah is beautiful!
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Red Dot Grand Prix. the Japanese sweets manufacturer Zen Kashoin has created a brand that brings the production of traditional Japanese confectionery goods back to its roots and also expresses this philosophy in its packaging.
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Danish photographer Peter Funch's series 'Babel Tales' explores collective human behaviors while blurring the line between documentary and manipulated photography.
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Indie Memphis Film Festival video about a cool little race driver and some cool little environments by Bryan Rollins
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Jim Campbell's "Scattered Light" installation turns Madison Square Park into an amplified version of a Lite-Brite, illustrating figures running through the park- Magical!
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Dwell shares a slideshow of Mitchell Snyder and Shelley Martin's Portland hen coop with a green roof!
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One of the projects that received the award of Design Effect was the packaging design for Jakobs Utvalgte, a high quality brand with over 24 different products and 100 different variants.
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3D Designer Andrew Beaumont combines ceramic and woods to create unusual "trapped" vases and tabletop pieces that are unlike almost anything you've ever seen.
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We Make Carpets created a huge brick carpet installation for he Flux/S festival in Eindhoven.
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FEATUREDUnboxing the Logitech Revue GoogleTV ~ with a little help from Kidrobot's new Simpsons Series 2...
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Mickaël De Santos' cabinet features hidden drawers and red lacquered bars that slide from side to side so you can create endless configurations.
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Upside down serif N’s are everywhere. This is a collection of those spotted by the calligraffiti artist Niels 'Shoe' Meulman and his N-hunters.
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The super functional Cycloc wall bike rack, designed by Andrew Lang, was the winner of the Consumer Product Design of the Year award. It's made out of 100% recycled post-industrial plastic.
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Stone Creek Camp by Andersson•Wise Architects in Bigfork, Montana
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Studio Gang's recently completed pavilion at Lincoln Zoo's south pond in Chicago, designed and built using digital fabrication tools.
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Anne Smith went from making ceramic cups to painting cups. This is a new print featuring Four Cups from her 100 Cups series.
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The latest works from Studio Kiki van Eijk and Studio Joost van Bleiswijk.
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Architect Norman Foster with his Bucky Fuller-inspired Dymaxion car. It has three wheels and looks like a cross between a bullet and a whale. Jury’s still out on whether it flies.
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Edwards Moore created a wonderfully abstract landscape of woodchippings that ran the length of the gallery, “forming a dynamic unifying terrain on which to display this year’s exhibits" at the Melbourne Furniture Fringe.
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VIDEOVodafone NZ Ad from the 'In With The NEW' campaign. Art installation by Sarah Cooper, D.O.P Mat Blamires. Director Jae Morrison.
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Interesting advert from Red Deluxe Brand Development featuring a billboard heart transplant.
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FEATUREDUltimate Ears 18 Pro Custom In-Ear Monitors ~ a full unboxing! You saw them squirt goo and take molds... now see the finished product! They look and sound incredible! A must bring on trips!
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This nice hanging felt cradle by German designers at Fubu 11.
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Amp and speaker cabinet manufacturer Marshall will soon be releasing headphones. Gorgeous packaging!
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Rather than receiving diplomas, this year's graduates of the Design Academy of Eindhoven will receive these 3D printed pigs heads designed by Ted Noten and manufactured by Freedom of Creation.
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Bon Appetit shares '5 Reasons You Shouldn't Hate On Microwaves'
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POLTRONA FRAU just moved in to a new flagship store in the heart of Saint Germain in Paris...
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Cnet's Cutting Edge takes a peek inside the United Airlines Engine Shop!
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GE introduces 'hybrid' bulb with both halogen and CFL elements, instant-on meets efficiency - beautiful design!
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Beautiful exhibition "Dogs in Cars" by Martin Usborne.
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FEATUREDUnboxing the new HD wide angle carl zeiss lens touting Logitech TV Cam for the Revue Google TV ~ and it's a USB cam that will work with your other devices too!
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MacBook Air Teardown over at iFixIt ~ love the adorable USB restore key!
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An animation explaining Proposition 19, legalizing marijuana.
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FEATUREDA look at delicious design found this week over at Tasteologie!
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A 23-year-old college student built this amazing replica Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles van.
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wuehl yanes: wood stove at interieur 2010 kortrijk
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Find out what it's like to be a Midwesterner living a Mies van der Rohe home.
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New Wall Calendar from Design trio You and Me, The Royal We!
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Tasty, girly and almost childish ceramics that seem to come straight out of a Lewis Carroll's tale. Designed by Studio Lenneke Wispelwey.
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A capuchin that directs and creates her own films ~ Oedipe, her first film, has even been accepted by the Clermont-Ferrand film festival in France.
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Beautiful house in Sevres, France by Colboc Frances Associes. A series of stacked boxes with glass walls create semi covered outdoor spaces connected with the interiors.
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Beautiful campaign for "Le Cornichon" from the agency Fabrika.
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POS1T1ON LAB has released their first 2010 furniture collection.
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The Degree of Separation by Portland-based artist Jordan Tull. New Modernism inspired by metal fabrication and industrial design.
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Rain Forest. French architect Patrick Nadeau combines epiphytes wit Corian for Boffi Bains Paris.
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When Pei-San Ng made her first work from matches, Dollar, she noted how tempted she was to burn it.
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A visit to a winery used to be just about the wine, with aesthetics as an afterthought. No longer. This wine cave at Ovid is one of several Napa and Sonoma stunners.
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Contemporary doll house, A Doll’s House for Clementine by TDO Architecture for Wallpaper, inspired by Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye.
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Beautiful photography of Irina Davis: Pin-up "a la Russa".
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Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners West Office in San Francisco by Jensen Architects. A creative working place where walls are like blackboards to write and design new ideas and concepts.
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Tom Schifanella of the Shepherd Agency shows off his collection of hotel luggage labels on grain edit.
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Summery beautiful millinery from Piers Atkinson - his SS11 collection La Belle Au Bois is just amazing
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FEATUREDCrystal Head Vodka gift set has little skull shot glasses! Which are pretty big for shots ~ and perfect for Skulculents! Couldn't resist planting some adorable succulents in mine!
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Gazillions of juicy yummie nano bits, all behaving perpendicular and parallel to the laws of physics to spell the months of the latest wired UK issue by Zeitguised.
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Syke Melbourne's collection of artworks on decks and growing!
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Special edition Macarons from Ladurée in collaboration with British designer John Galliano.
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Art Deco 'Tweet-o-Meter' in the British Library as part of the Growing Knowledge Exhibition
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Gorgeous collaboration by Quiet Corners and Blueprint Skateboards.
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Bigshot Toyworks took Sun Bum's "Ape Face" logo and turned it into 16" tall vinyl figures and 2.5" keychains.
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Flipsters are portable, foldable and wearable flip flops. Perfect for high-heeled women who actually need to walk, also for going to the beach and post pedicure... designed in Australia!
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Vase & Leuchte by Miriam Aust. Gorgeous mix of houseplants and lighting.
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Splendid Architecture's House in the Park in Hamburg.
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Octavio Octopus - also from Natural Curiosities - This amazing octopus has been taken from an early collection that was published in 1686 by a French naturalist, Bernard Direxit.
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FEATUREDA Shoe Is A Dog's Best Friend - James Plumb for London's Selfridges' Windows ~ assemblage dog lamps and dog photography...
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Fireplace, design Iikka Suppanen for Iittala.
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VIDEOLuong Lu, a Swedish based Art Director, proposes a way to mitigate urban loneliness and energy waste in one social swoop: Neighbor Dining.
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Stunning pieces abound at London's Frieze Art Fair.
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Simon de Aguero's Brittlebush desert dwelling.
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The installation of an upside down house in Trassenheide Germany, open to the public, designed by Polish partners Klaudiusz Golos and Sebastion Mikuciuk for the Edutainment exhibition company.
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The Compact, sleek yet aggressive Shift concept is a two-seater electric vehicle designed for the crowded city of Bucharest and is aimed for the younger generation of drivers.
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Lord Bodner's Octopus Study Triptych by Natural Curiosities- The original is a copperplate engraving by Lord Bodner and was published in 1826 in London as part of a series studying creatures of the deep. As seen in #35361.
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Futuristic bathroom fixtures by Ross Lovegrove for VitrA - part of the Istanbul Collection.
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The London office of the ad agency, Mother, in the Biscuit Building of Shoreditch. Concrete table that extends from the stairs, through the room, and curves up to meet the wall. Designed by Clive Wilkinson architects.
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Godzilla House in Seoul by Chae Songhee and Laurent Pereira. A strange and blind house with only a few thin slots as windows.
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In the latest Apple Key Note presentation, Steve Jobs tries to introduce letterpress printing to the masses... a new iPhoto features!
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Oakley debuts its 3D eyewear with the Gascan made for the upcoming Tron movie!
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Joby Gorillatorch SWITCHBACK! It goes from headlamp to lantern ~ with various lighting modes, up to 130 lumens of brightness!
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This gorgeous apt was originally part of Olympic Village during the Winter 2010 games... and everything you see, is purchasable!
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This is Alan, one of dozens of canines photographed by Tim Flach for his new book Dogs.
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the Crafts Council launches 'Lab Craft Digital adventures in contemporary craft', a new touring exhibition opening at the Turnpike Gallery in Greater Manchester on 30 October.
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Five graduate architecture students from the Academy of Art University recently won an AIA citation for their project in sustainability, where they created a free-standing office space for a client in the Bay Area.
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NYC's GREENPRINT: A Great infographic map that explains the latest green efforts being made in NYC.
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This giant wooden clip is currently being showcased in Belgium, in the Chaudfontaine park, as part of a contemporary art exhibition.
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If you are in London October 21-24th, check out the Affordable Art Fair, which features over 1000 artists selling artworks, including Shlomi Nissim, Rob Ryan, and many others.
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Mathery: 100 ideas for 100 days. Everyday design by Erika Zorzi & Matteo Sangalli.
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Nice looking Dry Dopp Kit from Jack Spade for all of your toiletries. Made out of tarpaulin for water resistance and maximum durability, with a screened exterior address label.
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Claudio Silvestrin Architects website...crazy viewing method for projects all over the world
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H&M Seoul by Universal Design Studio - check out the awesome staircase!
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Nooka teams up with SiliconeZone ~ to make their packaging ready to EAT out of!
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Switcheroo's Institute of Lower Learning is doing a fun ceramic tile workshop with michelle valigura
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Southern Bells is musical beer inspired by Savannah, Georgia and its almost nonexistent scene. Closed, the packaging is a traditional 6 pack, but opened, and laying flat .. a glass xylophone. Buy two for a full octave.
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Inflatable Photo Studio. With the help of one other person, you can set up your very own photo studio in just 2 to 3 min!
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Baaaaaa baaaaa .......Here come the sheep, a clever campaign to promote wool.
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Hövding is a new bike helmet that isn't a helmet at all but a collar. A collar that holds an airbag which will deploy and protect the rider in case of a fall.
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AMG promises a newly added pearl orange color which is custom to only AMG vehicles, available exclusively on the C63l
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