Back to basic. Forget everything about fancy 3D designing. The Danish designduo Claydies only used a compass, a mirror and colored pencils for their super nice flowery rug.
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‘Ventura’ is designed by Leo Krol & Vincent de Rijk for the Dutch manufacturer Solid. The pendant light is constructed out of two aluminium disks covered by a two-tone polyesther transparent diffuser in different colours.
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Photographer Brett Arthur took his own vision of the H1N1 virus, better known as swine flu and applied it during a personal photo shoot of his to hopefully use as an awareness tool for the serious effects of the virus.
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The in situ installations of Rebecca Ward, always produce a spectacular effect. With his whole meters of tape woven and interwoven, Rebecca, aged only 26 years using existing architectural lines...
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Marvel as the men of Rothco demonstrate their uncanny ability to produce facial hair in aid of Action Prostate Cancer. Watch it grow before your very eyes. Updated daily!
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Marmite Pop Up Shop on Regent's Street in London for the Holidays - a brand that's always coming up with good ideas.
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Alexis Marcou is a British artist based in Larissa, Greece. His wide range of watercolor sketches and illustrations is just stunning.
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Super-nice new mugs designed by Build for the Design Museum Shop.
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In the WATER/GLASS House, Kengo Kuma tried to frame space with only two horizontal planes - the floor of water and the ceiling louvers- and to generate between the planes a transparent and fluid time-space.
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What is Google Wave and is it better than email? This funny clip tries to answer this question...
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Following in the footsteps of Shibuya Crossing, London’s Oxford Circus Crossing opened earlier this month. This is something that all major cities should do.
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Slick home storage/fitness hybrid by Lucie Koldová.
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Chilewich and Griffin have collaborated on some killer iPhone cases.
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A look at Toyota Prius' literally green living floral billboards along southern california freeways where in exchange they are helping maintain and repair those freeway sections.
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American Club cigarettes designed in 1961 by Swiss typographer and designer Jost Hochuli. Lettering set in Neue Haas Grotesk and Hochuli’s design is reminiscent of Constructivist work, reproduced in early issues of Neue Grafik.
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Ryan Riegner from New York gives us an insight into his daily inspirations. The sketchbook is a special project he worked on over the past few years.
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(Happy()Sad) Diagram Shirt ~ who can resist a good venn diagram? Especially when they have personality?
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CyberCarpet by Cyberwalk is a treadmill that allows users to walk in any direction while in place, one of the biggest challenges of immersive virtual reality.
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mike stilkey paints on stacks and stacks of books
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VIDEOVolvo debuts "Blind Preview" where Ersef Armagan, a blind painter, depicts the car. Ersef, blind since birth, is renowned not only for the beauty of his art, but for his ability to paint objects, in perfect perspective.
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Using video projectors, heaps of sophisticated machinery, and brains bigger than most of us could imagine, Strukt Design Studio have created this awe-inspiring digital wallpaper.
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Wayne Levin's stunning underwater photography
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Beautiful graphic profile from Russian Transformer Studio for La Strada. A cafe where you can take a break out of routine or hold a pleasant evening in a calm, chamber atmosphere.
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Michael Hansmeyer Computational Architecture
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Architects at MIT have unveiled a plan to build a massive solar-powered digital cloud that hovers above the London skyline.
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Rebranding of 100% natural juices, design firm BBDK felt that nothing said pure better than clean graphics and a direct statement so the packaging truly reflected this ideology.
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Spanish architect Jordi Badia converted an old wool factory into a beautiful art museum. I really like how the old walls were treated, and blend with the new concrete structure.
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"Assassin's Creed II" commercial. The eyes of death.
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Electrolux vacuum cleaner ad by Y&R agency from Denmark.
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A conversation with the talent California artist Jaw Cooper.
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Hosang Park's project entitled A Square is a series of atmospheric photos telling a relaxing story about the world’s parks and other areas of recreation.
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CHANEL brings into the open "The making of a couture outfit"
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"Fingers" - limited edition kinetic sculpture designed by Nik Ramage. An eternally tapping copy of the artist's own hand.
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7 ImprovEverywhere agents staged a spontaneous musical during lunch at the Trump Tower atrium.
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HOI Magazine Chair has been designed by Jules&Jeremy. It is an exclusive piece of furniture for your magazines.
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Karl Lagerfeld drawing A Quick Sketch. Awesome!
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Union Square in Washington, DC, is showing off a shiny new Bike Transit Center that offers secure bike parking for 150 cycles, plus a changing room, lockers, bike rentals, and repair shop for commuters.
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A series of light shows promoting the luxury lofts at 290 Mulberry in the Lower East Side. Each of the building’s eight full-floor lofts have been filled with an array of vividly colorful spotlights.
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PACKLAB. Partners designed this beautiful flower packaging that transforms into a vase!
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I LOVE Zanny Mellors new album work for Patch Williams debut album. The birds on the cover flow just like the music
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Decapitator Treasure Hunt @ Union Square's Barnes & Noble in NYC
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A new draft table by the Japanese designer Kazuhiro Yamanaka: A simple form with a double tray to store many items. This table, named “Sleepy Lagoon” was announced at the festival 100% Design in London.
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Osloh Bicycle Jeans include a spot for your U lock, side cell pocket, crotch padding and double snap leg adjustment straps on chain side leg.
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While some restaurants think about new modes of service to reduce personnel costs, the German restaurant S Baggers has developed an innovative concept of express service on the rails ...
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Beautiful visuals on this campaign for "Mao Bao Dishwashing Liquid" : chopsticks, dishes and spoon
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“Overheating” photo series by Romain Laurent for Amusement Magazine issue 6.
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FEATUREDPeeking inside LA's Grilled Cheese Truck ~ and a look at their truck, branding, and the food itself (from tomato soup shots to dessert grilled nutella/marshmallow/banana)
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The Mavizen TTX02 is a new electric race bike with top speed of 130 mph. Just released at SEMA, this green motorcycle is available later this year for about $40,000. Features twin Agni electric motors and 3 lithium-ion battery packs.
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Balneotherapy is the treatment of disease by bathing, it may involve Mud-baths.
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Comic book god Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell) will collaborate with Gorillaz on a followup to Damon Albarn’s 2007 opera, Monkey: Journey to the West
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The Beehive Design Collective is working on another epic story told through their giant works. 'The True Cost of Coal' is a tool to teach about mountain top removal and coal extraction in the north east.
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Davide di Tria teamed up with WAAA Magazine to create an editorial about 'Neon Disco' and Milan's crazy nightlife.
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Illustrator Tizieu and toy galley Le Lab have recently collaborated to create a limited edition of designer toys.
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Que Houxo is a Japanese artist who does live paintings. His style is quite colorful, he uses fluorescent paints with black lights.
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Crab is an attractive complement of kitchen, tongs fireproof extensible, suitable for use in food and washable in the dishwasher. by Series D
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A series of folded planes gave birth to the Huanacu industrial warehouse. Love the interior hanging black box for the offices, almost like a command center inside a space station.
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The "melting chocolate" ceiling at the new Godiva Chocoiste flagship store in Harajuku, Tokyo.
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On top of the Shilthorn in the Bernese Alps, you'll find a mountaintop pavilion named Piz Gloria, complete with rotating restaurant and 33 miles of slopes. If it looks like you've seen it in a Bond movie, there's a reason...
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Here are 25 classic scenes from various retro games from ‘duck hunt’ to “Donkey Kong” which have been recreated in detailed paper crafted form.
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These silicon light switches from Normal Design take on a radical new form, not to mention material. Pressing the raised bumps activates the switch.
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The new CIA calendar is here! That's right, the 2010 'ACE' calendar is back, better & brighter than ever.
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The linear arrangement of this house in Sebastopol, CA, is the perfect way to be always looking over the beautiful woods around it. Designed by California based Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects.
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Adorably designed educational iPhone games for preschoolers. I dare moms to resist!
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The New York Public Library redesigned their logo and changed to a sans serif font. The video outlines the evolution of their logo.
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A chandelier designed by a mathematician, Raimond Puts. The electrical current flows through stainless spring steel frame to the LED terminals.
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Leading Portuguese retailer Pingo Doce reveals this month the first products designed by London agency Wren & Rowe ~ love the world sauces labels, especially the chubby english guards
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Nateomedia ~ great set of three robot rampage prints
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"We immediately called Andre Yousefi (our master prototyper) and the guys in the IDEO shop. They’re up for anything, and it was not at all hard to convince them to find an old Mac laptop and cut off one corner and ship it to us in the New York office."
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Look inside the Visual Miscellaneum book by David McCandless that comes out today ~ beautiful infographics - "a colorful guide to the worlds most consequential trivia"
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Science Blogs ~ love their icons for each category
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Ryoji Ikeda's "Datamatics [ver. 2.0]" premiered in the US at Harvard last night. The beauty of lots of data!
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Book jacket design by Rachel Wells, a graphics student at Loughborough University. Some other nice projects too but this is my favourite!
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Plastic Solar Cells which when rolled up turn into lamps! By Frederik Krebs ~ not the most powerful, but extremely cheap production costs.
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We love the restaurant GERMAIN designed by India MAHDAV...
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Ricoh goes modular with their latest digicam... the GXR camera system
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FEATUREDDayna Decker Chandel up close ~ the EcoWood Wick is a unique wide woody wick that creates a lovely crackling flame in a beautiful votive. Quick video and up close pics...
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FEATUREDUndergrowth Design "Wash Away All Sins" Soap Dispenser ~ nice definition of "clean" on the back for your guests to read while washing up as well!
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Brooklyn 5 and 10 has stunning Motif Cubes ~ great desk/coffee table gift!
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: In 2009, Abraham Ingle brought Berlin's Papergirl Project to Portland. Over 200 pieces of original 2d art were displayed in a gallery, then rolled up, and distributed via bicycle to randomly selected people on the streets of Portland.
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This wild, futuristic rally car concept generates additional power by an array of rear wings that harness kinetic energy.
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amazing realistic still lifes by Adam Stennett, which has a dark comparison between weapons and over the counter products.
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Viper Smart Start ~ you can literally start your car via iPhone!
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Skål is a media player designed for the home that lets you interact with digital media using physical objects. You place objects in a wooden bowl to play back related media on the TV. Skål makes media playful.
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an online gallery filled with beautiful photos of Tom Watson's personal work. In Black & White.
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Check out these awesome vintage inspired illustrations by Julien Pacaud
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Sensual Dynamic, the Copenhagen chair is a beautiful piece of modern design, made in red and black fiber glass. Designed by Alvaro Uribe, and produced by Billes Products in New Orleans.
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A3+ Architects, an Italy based firm, just finished a finalist project for an urban renovation in Sicily. Light steel structures covered by natural ivy just link the historical center of the town with a big new square
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A graphics designer's take on Epson's Artisan 810 printer.
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Burberry just launched a microsite called Art of the Trench, which rounds up as many street style trench coat pics as they can find, including some crowd-sourced snaps and some from The Sartorialist, Scott Schuman.
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The new Shape and Form collection from wallpaper king Graham & Brown is full of mod, geometric goodness!
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‘Shot At From Both Sides’ is an exhibition in Kentucky with street-art-inspired mixed-media pieces.
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Inspiring Interview with Leigh Viner on how to create successful fashion illustrations
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Ira Glass on the personalities of chickens over at Gastronomista
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lighting made from recycled spray paint cans - from ZEK CREW
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Daft Punk + DJ Hero + Decapitator + NY = Wow!
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A series of vintage and current tourism posters.
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South African architect Peter Rich is the second winner of the World Building of the Year award, for a building on the site of an ancient civilisation
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