Dutch architects MVRDV have unveiled designs for a new urban neighbourhood at Almere near Amsterdam, based on a string of beads.
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Eveready Battery | Hair - ad where by holding only the ends of the battery, the arm is energized and hairs stand straight up!
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When the zipper on your hoodie becomes the on off switch to complete the circuit.... genius implementation of a TV-b-gone into clothing!
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Gorgeously simple and affordable initial mugs
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NYT has a great slideshow of the Koons at Versailles
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the W hotel is having its female uniforms designed by Gwen Stefani, L.A.M.B.
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Camera lens mug ~ unfortunately just a photoshop concept shot...
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Spirit candles have bronze sculptures hidden within...
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Jacob Covey, Art Director for Fantagraphics, has an incredible portfolio of repackaged comic collections, including the redesign of the 1980s comic book classic "Love and Rockets."
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This video of Sophia's escape is incredible... that is one determined and brilliant little puppy
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The new norwegian embassy in Nepal, by Kristin Jarmund. Good stone work.
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Kevin Dart is doing some fantastic work with his old-school illustration style. He proves it can be updated too as with his colorful work for the Beijing Olympics.
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FEATUREDTETRIS TILES!!! Yes. Tiles. In TETRIS shapes! Why didn't anyone do this sooner... and in almost any colors you want!
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Cool bicycles made after the IKEA model. You put it together with three screws. Made by Bleijh Concepts and Design
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Cut off your own radio from raw log of pinewood.
'Log Radio' by GOGO design studio from Poland.
Jury's Favourite Selection at DMY 2008 in Berlin.
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VIDEOStunning processing synced to Radioheads "Weird Fishes from In Rainbows"
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A luxury three piece suite made by very humble means by Eleanor Freya Gregory.
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Format and Monster Factory collaborate to produce Clive, the Format mascot. Clive enjoys double-riding bicycles, collecting buttons, non-chalantly striking poses, and brunch.
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VIDEOHuman,Youth, People & Elderly - Wall animation in Québec City by Léo & Alexis.
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arbores leatare or happy trees, is an installation in a park; three of them rotate!! amazing
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OMA unveiled the design of their first residential tower in New York, adjacent to the One Madison Park project, amazing how the tower cantilevers.
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Sepia is a beautiful new restaurant that has opened in the Market District of Chicago. The chandeliers and overall feel is warm and cozy, yet elegant.
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Mixwit is a well-designed playlist-making website that publishes your mixes as cassette tape images that you can post on other websites!
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The Caramelo rocking chair is from Mexican designer Luis Luna. Fun design, love the colors.
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For his final project from the Glasgow School of Art, designer James Houston wired obsolete computer parts to play a full remix of Radiohead's "Nude". Complete brilliance.
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Helvetica Poster - Widely used font that many brands/companies use as their logo’s font.
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W+K Amsterdam has cooked up something sweet for their latest Nike campaign.
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Echoing the structures of Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Domes, Danish Architect Kári Thomsen and Engineer Ole Vanggaard have created Easy Domes, a series of quick assembly, low-energy homes!
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Gorgeous bottle design for Dada wines by InHouse Design.
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Admiring the clean lines and materials used in Bevk Perović Arhitekti's House D in Ljubljana, Slovenia. See post 13663 for more of their great work.
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The Movable Monument Project - I propose various images in movement with a life-sized horse and its rider . I will invite four people to move it while I film the different sequences of movement
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Strange, frame-like facade for the Observatory store in Athens, Greece, by Theofanis Bobotis Architects.
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Caperino and Peperone, mascots of Colette, become speakers!
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Gorgeous new print work on Atelier Aquarium's website.
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A toaster that can print anything onto a piece of bread from Swedish manufacturer Electrolux, with no plans for mass production unfortunately.
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Lusciously dark and elegant paintings by San Francisco artist Gene Guynn.
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British artist Roger Hiorns filled an abandoned apartment with 80,000 litres of copper sulphate solution. The resulting crystallization of the whole interior is his new installation - "Seizure".
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Truth in Hydration - A blog about bottled water... run by a company selling NY tap water in a bottle... that's filling people's spent bottles to spread the word.
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Gorgeous paper dresses by Valerie Hammond - part of her new exhibit at Garson Baker Fine Art that opened yesterday, 9/11, in NYC.
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Lime Studio, Shortlisted for The British Design Awards 2008, has worked with Levantina since 100% Futures 2007 exploring new materials including a porcelain ceramic tile to develop innovative furniture concepts.
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Queen of the May - Pen and ink that makes my mouth water.
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Incredible incorporation of shadows in this Lithuanian street art...
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Love this illustration, Sweet Talk, by Oscar Maia, AKA ~criminalart. Lots more great work to be found in his portfolio.
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The Eat Better and Drink Better bowls by Victor Lee encourage good eating habits for your dogs by slowing down their consumption. Eat Better divides food into three areas, while Drink Better reduces the amount of drinkable water available at once with a floating disk.
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Urban Fiber Flotsam turns street debris and vegetation into spun gold. Artist Abigail Doan drifts the streets of NYC this weekend for this urban mapping project at Conflux 2008.
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Roger Hiorns’ installation Seizure is just amazing: 90,000 litres of copper sulphate solution, filling a flat from floor to ceiling, creating millions of blue cobalt crystals… check the effect!
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PenSol Precision Synthetic Oiler Kit ~ there's something tempting about having such a precise drop by drop oiling "pen" as part of my tool kit...
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Harry Allen's new Blockade Shelf is interesting in its the topographical nature. The shelf is made of laminated wooden blocks arranged within a grid-like structure.
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Beautiful porcelain tableware by Claire Coles - love the delicate, lace-like impressions.
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you've gotta love these clever organizer tabs from korea's j'story. the collection includes bears, funny faces and everyone's favorite - ninja bunnies. goodbye post-its!
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Project: Iceland is the first showcase of contemporary Icelandic art, fashion and musical talent and gives significant insight into this outstanding creative community.
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Sony released the newest gadget in their Odo line of green products - the Twirl n’ Take camera - a digital camera that is powered by kinetic energy! Roll the head for 15 seconds in order to generate enough energy to take a picture.
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Art war in Sao Paolo ~ graffiti artists vs street art - "a group of 30 Pixadores stormed the Choque Cultural Gallery in protest against the "marketing, institutionalization and domestication of Street Art" by the gallerys and media."
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veer's kern arrows zip-up: "a classic revisited" featuring arrows from 7 different typefaces and a sweet arrow zipper.
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Lovely illustrations on vintage book pages by Annette from Norway. Very unique and childlike.
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of all the fashion week buzz, my favorite posts have come from greg kessler's model morphosis photo sets for the nytimes. it's incredible how versatile these models can be.
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the collectors... funny spot for rotofugi... toy art store of chicago... created by country club chicago...
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I wish there were more puzzles. Artist Penny Stotter has made her prints into puzzles. Cool big pieces. Surprised no one has made a puzzle of the worlds countries... I bags to do it first.
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The unique work of Russian illustrator and photographer, Dmitry Maksimov, is filled with imaginary characters placed into real-life settings. The feel of his work is reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki...
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"Thanks for nothing" (ie: thanks for nothing... you're blocking my driveway) letterpress cards designed by Luke Williams.
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This is a still from a Documentary of Danny Roberts Illustration Process.
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Innovative and addicting movie quiz. Guess the title of the movie by the snapshot.
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Photo gallery from the new Paul Insect solow show in Kings X, London
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How to Cool a Planet: Futuristic ways to fight against the global warming. (NY Times old issue - 2006 - but worth reading!) Click to see the full graphic!
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The new refurbished Los Angeles Mondrian hotel is now open and Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz' touch of Hollywood glamour has revitalised this iconic LA hotel..... beautiful!
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Grow your own food at home, even if you don't have time to that. The Prepara promess make it easy with its Power Plant.
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Adam Haynes (Post #11821) just released a print over at POVeditions.com - Thanks to NOTCOT for introducing us to his work! We invited him to our print project after his worked was submitted here.
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Karma from Fisker Automotive is a hybrid car with a Q Drive engine by Quantum Technologies. The hybrid engine gives you 80 km of zero emission driving, if you want to go longer it is a hybrid or you can get a solar cell roof for the car.
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I appreciate the whiteness of Fabrica's new object collection launched for the 60th anniversary of the Peggy Guggenheim collection. I especially like how color surprises you when objects are opened or more closely examined.
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Dosh has introduced two new all-polymer wallets. They are more compact than the original wallet (post 5492) and come in an expanded colorway.
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Student Maxime Harvey-Carière designs a corrugated board calculator in my packaging class at UQAM.
Sylvain Allard
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Mark Boyce's interesting new book, Sizes May Vary. The book references the varying standardized formats and systems used within graphic design and is part sketchbook, part reference book and part notebook.
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Beautiful photography portfolio by Michael Wolf. I especially love his series "Architecture of Density" from which this photo was taken.
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Love the Light Blubs by Pieke Bergmans - a series of unique, often site specific crystal lamps. Pieke has imagined a series of projects infected by the "Design Virus" which can be found on his website.
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Expressionist Bass - nice looking desktop sub-woofers by Altec Lansing.
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Interesting pixelated facade by Splitterwerk for the Prisma Engineering. The interiors are worth a look, as well.
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Tap'dNY is a bottled water for the new age: an honest and local alternative for all New Yorkers. They purify and bottle New York City's famous tap water, leaving out the malarkey and far journey included in other bottled waters.
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LA Weekly does a great profile on close friend of NOTCOT - "Yosi Sergant and the Art of Change: The Publicist Behind Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope Posters"
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Beautiful portraits of Sikh-Americans by Fiona Aboud.
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A brushed aluminum wine bottle for Elk & Wolf by Social UK.
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Great website for QWSTION, the new norm for bags.
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Formtank's stunning new tables are constructed out of a single sheet of industrial steel, minimizing waste to less than 4% per meter.
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This is what happens when a designer becomes a motivational speaker.
This started of as a few pictures of the poster and turned into something much bigger and more meaningful.
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Hulger's new Pappa Phone ~ in walnut and brass!
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Scala is a youth choir in Aarschot, Belgium, roughly sixty teenage girls, conducted by Stijn Kolacny and accompanied by Steven Kolacny. The video has been directed by Steven Huybrechts.
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Beautiful packaging portfolio by Esther Chaye. Above is CMYK, packaging for a DIY Mix Acrylic Paint set.
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New blog started by Jason Gabbert that focuses on beautiful book cover design. Every Monday he features a new designer and book cover design, and goes behind the scenes with discussions about process.
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FEATUREDVitamin Living has expanded their Gnome line ~ and now there are complementary money boxes, timers, salt and pepper shakers, and a very cute bottle opener!
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The Spizak.com is the “online” portfolio for Polish designer and digital illustrator Adam Spizak, who currently resides in London, UK.
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