A design student made a battered old Skoda "disappear" by painting it to merge with the surrounding car park.
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More pics of the Barbie Goes Design with Kartell in the Milan windows!
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Afterglow is a revolutionary system that creates an interactive environment with a laser pointer on a projection screen.
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south african design team: Willowlamp has some of the best beaded chandeliers in production.
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The terrifying "Stake Chair" by Russian designer Ton Guglya is based on a popular medieval torture device.
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In my packaging class, Kimo Ouellette thought of a four-pack which includes a bottle opener, that can be kept for camping or any outdoor activities.
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IShotTheChef is the cooking blog of Candace Maloman, a classically trained chef posting home-made recipes. Her husband is the photographer, and in turn, he gets to eat it. yum!
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this piece is functional and well designed. on one side there's a scale and the other side is a clock. i love the retro feel.
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"Sita Sings the Blues" is a full-length animated film, which tells the story of the Indian epic, The Ramayana, through the dazzling animation of Nina Paley. Featuring the 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. Absolutely stunning work.
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beautiful, raw photography by Angelina Santana
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`half day paper modelling workshop with 30 design students from Delft University of Technology.
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The Swiss Border Cantons shed light collectively on borders and limits from a social, psychological, cultural and ethnic perspective.
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Artist Riki Takaoka draws or paints what he eats every day. [Editor's Note: i wonder if this makes one pick what they eat even MORE carefully...]
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What started as a student project more than four decades ago has now been designated a heritage site by the Quebec government. Habitat 67 by Moshe Safdie.
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FEATUREDArkitip's new newspaper supplementing their usual issues - The Arkitip Intel Newspaper Supplement, Volume No. 1 - gorgeous newsprinted pages ~ take a peek inside it!
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Philippe Starck ZIKMU, is the new ipod/iphone wireless speaker for Parrot .
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Funky "Lost" cake, made by Charm City Cakes to celebrate the 100th episode !
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Kulla Design in Israel has a series of products based on reusing plastic shutters that have been thrown away without any recycling solution.
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House HB, on top of a low hill, appears to rise from the ground. The roof and side facades are clad in aluminum plates, merging the surfaces, leaving the house with clean lines. By Slovenian Bevk Perović arhitekti.
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Ork Posters (you probably know their neighborhood posters) ~ has branched into the parts of the Heart!
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Celebrating the launch of the new Food2.com site, a party in Food Network's test kitchen at Chelsea Market. One of the highlights of the site is its original video content, including the new series, Kitchen Conspirators...
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Diesel has produced a new series of motorcycle helmets. I love the look, matte colors, mohawk on top and no graphics on the upper.
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This site is the first real experience I have had with augmented reality. Now when I'm 100 years old I can tell my grandkids ' the first time I used augmented reality I tickled a sasquatch.'
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this image is among the wonderful books blogger Mia of Hippie Couture found on a recent trip to a library sale...
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Multifunctional Glühweinstand including a DJ cabin and a small stage with a chill out area - Köln
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Video showing work to increase tactile feedback on displays. Beyond on/off.
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VIDEOFlash Rave 2.0 at College of Charleston, 5 months after the first one helped spark about this growing trend among colleges. Organized just 30hrs in advance on facebook.
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Flawless logo design by young Julien Castanié for the "French Union of Arts and Artists"
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FEATUREDLiqurious Drink Roundup! Some delicious and gorgeous drinks perfect for a day like today!
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Tattopus - a collection of pics of octopus tattoos
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FEATUREDIWG Sleepy Bear Series ~ who doesn't love adorable man eating bears with SPORKS and skulls and combat knives...
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Marc B.B along with the PAN (Portsmouth At Night) Flickr Group do a make over on Southsea Castle. Amazing Work.
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When searching for something, anything... I'll always go back to the "Artist series" by Hillman Curtis : Paula Scher, Milton Glaser, Mark Romanek, Lawrence Weiner... So much to watch, listen, learn, remember, do.
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YachtPlus launches its first Foster + Partners designed super-yacht called The Ocean Emerald
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There's something incredibly beautiful and romantic about black and white photographs of bridges from around the world.
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Horological Machine No1 is an extremely sophisticated timepiece on many levels: visually, technically and emotionally.
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New Interview with Sandra Juto for series called The Little interview
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Röshults lanserar vacker grill is designed with an architectural design that complements the house and garden to best become a natural part of the dwelling environment.
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Black and white photography has always seemed to captivate me. With Stephan Opitz behind the camera, its a different story.
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London Life, forgotten magazine of Swinging London, featuring the illustrations of a young Ian Dury (yes, that Ian Dury)
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Pattern based logo, signage, screens and environmental graphics, an integrated approach to branding for Architecture by the design studio Buro North for a boutique residential development in Melbourne.
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The steering wheel is made from Carrots… powered by Waste Chocolate and Vegetable Oil… with Potatoes used to produce the bodywork… and it goes 125mph round corners!
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"Plastic Life" by 20 100 (Vincent Bousserez, who does great urban landscapes too)
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Letterpress card inspired by the ubiquitous email disclaimer. Share your deepest and dark secrets inside this blank card, which appropriates the legalese of the digital age for your written correspondence. By PrettyBitter
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-the raw and unfinished quality of Florian Nicolle's artwork is just really attractive and beautiful, this series is realized on skateboard.
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50 cars = 1 bus. Swedish agency Acne created this sculpture out of crushed cars to persuade drivers to take public transport
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When the dollar depreciates, the negative dollar appreciates. Think Truck introduces its latest, newly minted work.
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Resonance - A film about design strategy - A short film about a highly collaborative and creative design process based on learning about people. This is the real innovation, one that truly resonates.
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Due to overwhelming requests, inquiries and love off the Koi series, we are happy to publish this large print on beautifully smooth semi matte paper. A limited edition of 250, 24" x 24" , 2" inch bleed, hand signed and number. $60!
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Hauntingly dreamy, wonderfully feminine, and dark like a good fairytale, is the photography by Ellen Rogers.
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What's up there ? (Gaëlle Carton is playing with her drawings around her house...)
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An extensive preview of The New Yorker exhibition at V1 Gallery. New York's finest artists are exhibiting at the gallery, and the show was curated by Todd James.
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Artist David Foox of Colorado's Vinyl Organ Donor dolls were inspired by his Uncle's double lung transplant. There are 9 types of organs and 24 variations, see all of them here.
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Spanish racing team GTA has been hard at work developing its spano supercar to rival the best from Ferrari and Lamborghini.
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An interview with sculptor Ron van der Ende.
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Wonderful springtime in Paris - The story of 2 Maileg rabbits in there swimsuits... yes yes... taking a break by the river Seine. Text in danish, but google translation helps!
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One of the many events at this year's Salone del Mobile furnishings show in Milan was put on by the “Glamour Design Store” ENTRATALIBERA.
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Spanish architects Vaillo + Irigaray designed the Lounge MS in Navarra. The skin uses recycled plastic tubes that resemble reeds, giving a dynamic looks on the outside, while filtering the light on the inside.
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VIDEO"Morgenrot" : early-20th rushes from the Congress Library and old postal cards, for the most poetic video ever... Animated by Jeff Desom, with music by Hauschka.
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Design house,Paul Smith has teamed up with France's Rhodia Notebook Company to celebrate their 75th anniversary with a collection of design inspired covers. Available in the traditional orange cover or special black cover.
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Among many stands at Salone del mobile it was almost a relief to see something dark and with a bit more attitude. So take a look at the Dark Matter, social design from Lebanon, by Wyssem and Cécile Nochi.
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FEATUREDGallery 1988 SF's Beyond the Pages has artists reinterpreting children's books like you've never seen before ~ Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, and more!!! Really beautiful show
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Recently Sony encouraged some ID students from China to come up with eco-friendly products. Concepts like a showerhead music player, and conductor’s baton-styled TV remote were showcased.
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"Circus Violet" is the really cute new collection of porcelain, prints and stamps, from Studio Violet (Camilla and Elisabeth) from Sweden.
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Camera Style Endoscope!!! with an extendable and turnable lens!
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Casa sugar has an interview with set designer of the new HBO remake of Grey Gardens, Kalina Ivanov.
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Kohler's Uplift ~ The four-foot-wide mirror rises with the slight force of your finger from underneath and has 6 outlets inside and is ready for an lcd mount...
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Delicious, by Mathieu Lehanneur is a stackable storage system that was inspired by the quilted wall sheets of Manhattan hot-dog stands.
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Lacey is a British photographer doing some interesting things such as this set using brilliant powdered colour.
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Kid Robot has some cute limited edition Sculptures from Tara Mcpherson
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On interesting door bells ~ check out this one in Venice Beach ~ "Visitors announce their arrival by striking a mallet on two bronze disks, suspended from the twining branches of the coral tree."
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Matteo Cibic is a product designer and creative problem solver. He loves to invent new products. Domsai is a tamagotchi for your desk.
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cute reading glasses from Caroline Abram of Filao.
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Photographer William Springfield also explores the harsh realities of love between woman and cephalopod
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One of the most impressive office design -and location- i have ever seen: the offices for Selgas Cano Architecture. Photographs by Iwan Baan.
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Magnus Larsson's beautiful plan to re-landscape the Sahara with a bacterial "Green Wall."
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la mosca (previously featured as #14064) do some gorgeous infographics . their recent feature on designboom brought them back to mind and they merit another mention!
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Spanish based Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office designed a chapel that looks like a perfect object in the middle of the landscape.
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Innovation consultancy Continuum launched their Venice studio and generated buzz in the local design community last week. their new studio is where the historic Charles and Ray Eames office used to be on 901 Abbot Kinney Venice!
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FEATURED511 Tactical Light For Life ~ SUPER bright 3 LED flash light with NO BATTERIES! and Recharges in 90 SECONDS! Also has strobe to "signal others or disorient a perp" ~ check out the video!
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Brabantia has launched his new design bin, more than 210 different colors are available! COLOR YOUR BIN by BRABANTIA
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Convex mirror clock by Vancouver product designer Matthew Buck, marketed under banner Reflecting Design. Part of convex mirror interior accessory line.
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Green Porno is an critically acclaimed series from Isabella Rossellini - scientifically accurate yet extremely entertaining nature documentary
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The collection was born to integrate a light on a side table. Hence, arose the concept of America. Created to be positioned between two armchairs or beside a sofa because of its side table function. -Jamie Hayon
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Great music video for A Lull’s “Stinny Fingers. Illustrated and animated by Nigel Evan Dennis.
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Watercolor paintings by Finland-based Jaakko Mattila.
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Hach Kaab Honey from Yucatán state...Design 4 Development, a social design organization, works with four honey cooperatives to bring high quality honey products from the region direct to market.
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An article by the NY Times on the redesign of the highway sign font.
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A report of the "From Dream to Reality" collective exhibition which took place in Teheran, Iran and showcased the works of young Iranian designers.
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Ciclotte, the bike looks so cool, this concept was exhibited in Milan, designed by Luca Schieppati.
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Catalina Estrada just sent over a surprise package ~ one of her new Grenade tees! Super soft ~ and of so cute, yet geometric and slightly violent...
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Kate MccGwire graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2004 and has since exhibited all over London, winning a solo show at 2009's Heart of Glass.
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Stunning fashion illustration by PaperFashion.
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I love the coffee tables from the Salt Tasting Room in Vancouver, Cananda. They were designed by Brent Comber Originals.
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Francois Blanciak's proposal for the Taipei Performing Arts Center competition is as simple as stacked pebbles.
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Amazing modern gamer fossils by Christopher Locke
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VIDEOVideo interview with Tom Dixon about his Comet Lights for Veuve Clicquot!
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Isn't fishing about relaxing with a cold beer and some good conversation? For these extreme fishermen in South Asia fishing is a whole new skill. Check out some more pics...
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Simple Human Flip-Top Dishrack ~ just got one, and loving the multipurpose flip area to accommodate pots, pans, bowls, cups ~ and wine drying attachment!
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Photographs from the exhibition "The Organization Of Batter" by Martha Friedman: the focus is waffles, built out of marble, paper, and rubber.
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NL architects proposal to reuse two former sewage treatment silos in Amsterdam, turning them into spaces for culture and sports... and using the facade for climbing.
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We present the chair Out-In signed by Starck and Eugeni Quitllet - Presented by Driade during the Milan Design Week 2009 ...
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Mobideep makes great floating swimming pools and water features. A new way of occupying space...or water...
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designer Vicente Garcia Jimenez designed Le Soleil for Italian lighting brand Foscarini
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Milan Design Week 09 - Aimed at young, European designers, the Prix Emile Hermes rewards the creation of innovative objects. This year it was happening for the first time with the theme "Everyday Lightness".
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Above pic is of the ocean currents in the Bahamas that made a sand-and-seaweed sculpture n much the same way that winds create sand dunes in the Sahara. View NASA's best pics of earth gallery on the National Geographic site.
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Milan 09 ~ Kartell launches Philippe Starck's Masters chair ~ a hybrid of Arne Jacobsen, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen...
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The Ellington Orchestra performed at the the 125th Street subway station at St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem and on a special A train for the 110th anniversary of Ellington's birth.
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Brazilian architects Bernardes Jacobsen used old containers to create a temporary art gallery, ContainerArt.
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Emma Tempest does a great job utilizing light and color to create sensual shots that have a cinematic feel.
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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas's Prada Transformer opened on April 25th, 2009 in Seoul to host Miuccia Prada's nomadic "Waist Down" exhibition, an inaugural exhibition featuring the skirts of Miuccia Prada, running through May 24.
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Visiondivision's Secret Sauna - a nondescript building facade opens up to reveal the sauna inside...
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Weta Workshop out of NZ, known for their special effects on the Lord of the Rings films, designed a prosthetic mermaid tail for amputee Nadya Vessey.
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i love the nytimes tmagazines. their design spring 09 issue looks like the best one yet.
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VIDEOTheodore Watson's app for the iPod touch allows you to spin your favourite vinyls on the go. Watch the video to find out how!
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Set Editions (of the Stop Talking cards) ~ has a set of Mercy cards - "shut your mouth and take off your clothes" - "i dont even know what we're arguing about" - "never ever bring this up again" and more...
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Milan 09 ~ Tord Boontje for Moroso ~ Flower Table!
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Leo Fabrizio, walking far and wide across the Switzerland has photographed the most interesting bunkers. (Switzerland has never been to war)
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Stunning graphic stamps designed by Gavin Potenza.
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Great spot from BBH, The Mill and STiNK for Audi TDI Technology. Check it out!
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Martino Gamper plays with Carlo Mollino's chair.
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Dutch design company Moooi’s showing in Milan highlighted the company’s insuppressible charm with quirky pieces curated by founder Marcel Wanders.
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You need to remember yo' mama! Perfect simple popup card for Mom - so all her Mom friends can be jealous.
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Another new project from tunertricks - a miniature backyard pool set in a skateboard deck complete with working pool light, diving board, drain, etc. For an art show in Atlanta this weekend.
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Doglight es una lampara-mascota realizada en acrílico dual skin de 6mm de espesor. Nuestra mascota siempre nos acompaña... su luz siempre esta con nosotros, que brille en la oscuridad!.
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Stylish and Eco-friendly Flat Panel Console from Visionary Boutique. Crafted in sustainable American black walnut, vintage speaker cloth, and a non-toxic, hand-rubbed oil finish.
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Novelist Tom Robbins' new book B is for Beer, a children's book for grown-ups and a grown-up book for children.
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The coolest hotel in the hippest city, Stockholm, Sweden! Story Hotel offers carefully designed rooms (blend of bohemian chic and rugged cement walls), a fabulous restaurant and the hottest hotel bar in town.
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A modular room divider made in a all-natural, recyclable fiber. You can add multiple layers. Presented by Giorgio Biscaro at Salone Satellite of Milan in 2009.
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From Italian manufacturer Fitting comes the Pyramid bookcase featured at the Furniture Exhibition in Milan
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The Gild Hall Thompson hotel in the financial district and home to Todd English's new spot, The Libertine
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A bus terminal turned fashion pop-up retailer? Save Fashion - a month long pop-up in NYC Port Authority starting May 1st. Created by Refinery 29 and creative partner Office of AIR - high profile local designers at sample sale prices.
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It is different and yet traditional. An angular-looking box, with walnut veneer, and set on a delicate metal frame.
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San Francisco's Transbay Transit Center will host California's high-speed rail line, topped with 5.4-acre urban park on its roof, accessed by sky bridges and a funicular. Fountains in the park will activate when a bus passes underneath.
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Part of the Interni Design Energies exhibition at the 2009 Milan Furniture Fair, Jacopo Foggini’s 'magic carpet' is made from scraps of acrylic glass.
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