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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This crazy modern egg-shaped mobile office pod has a kitchen, a bathroom, interior lighting, and several storage places! Designed and built by Belgian architecture firm, dvmA for xfactoragencies.
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Scion create the Kogi xD Mobile Kitchen, equipped with all the gear necessary to get your cook on.
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Frank Gehry designed brain center outside of Vegas represents the right and left sides of the brain, ordered and random respectively.
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Matryoshka for iPhone lets you create beautiful little virtual Matryoshka dolls with your photos on them.
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FEATUREDPuma Penguin Army ~ they are starting to spread out in to the world... here are some of the first pics being sent back...
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10 top cities from the Wallpaper* City Guide book series (published by Phaidon) have been modified for the iPhone. The apps can can be downloaded through iTunes (and the Berlin guide is currently free)...
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FEATUREDMint Cleaner ~ one of my favorite CES finds so far... it's like a swiffer got with a roomba + got a makeover by yves behar + brain boost by evolution robotics = Clean floors!
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New letterpress origami soccer ball print by pattern nerd Dan Funderburgh !
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Last man standing, Rules: Shout/Scream the loudest and longest you can, when you no longer can scream anymore you must stop. Great video experiment by photographer Richard Mosse.
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Monster Skin Chair made with Felted Cashmere, Wool and a Antique Wing Back Chair, by Joshua Ben Longo [see also #7835]
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Incredible pictures by photographer Anja Mulder from Groningen, Netherlands.
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Dzmitry Samal has designed a unique concept for the 33cl Coca-cola can. The shape is much more geometric - featuring facets, instead of the familiar smooth round cylinder we’re used to.
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Let it #uksnow, let it #uksnow, let it #uksnow. Truly amazing satellite picture taken 7th January at 11.50 UTC
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The Cargoshell: ingenious collapsible replacement for the standard shipping container
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Inspired by a photograph taken from inside of a ship’s porthole, illustrator and graphic designer Simon Page has created these images he calls ‘Tidal Rainbow’.
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"The Hand Collector" is not a b-rated horror movie, but an artistic project. A sort of.
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Colorful packaging design for the brand of tropical fruits Paradise by Edmundson|Martin
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A lovely glance at the classically-themed illustration works of Jonas Bergstrand, including a blerb that amounts to a wonderfully brief manifesto!
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VIPP recently announced this year's Limited Edition color: Mermaid Blues. Available February 2010.
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The new Dee & Ricky bird Lego brooches for Japanese brand Roc Star look really cute!
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Animated optical illusion - fascinating handmade gifs!
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Cyborg R.A.T. gaming mouse created by Mad Catz is uniformally designed but realistically outrageous in general with all those buttons and knobs all around its body.
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MERRY-GO-ROUND - Watch the film/animation and let yourself fall into Carousel Kingdom and then read the book filled with equations and pleasing diagrams to understand that the Carousel is life. It actually makes sense. Ltd Edition for sale!!
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Graffiti Analysis 2.0 records graffiti tags in motion. It is an ongoing initiative that has been used to capture data from prominent graffiti writers.
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New "Aurora" screenprint by Jacqueline Kari Bos. The aurora borealis portion of each print has been watercolored by hand, making each print one of a kind. Benefits Show Hope.
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Photographer Kareem Black captures "The Scent of Seduction" for Burger King
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Never seen before outside the walls of Rajasthani village homes, the Mandana tradition of painting is practiced by the women of the Meena tribe. Handed down from mother to daughter, this stunning public art is a community tradition.
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The Monocle x BlackBerry Bold 9700 handset is the first media collaboration for the BlackBerry brand. Monocle magazine's creative team has designed 100 of the limited edition leather backed handsets, pre-loaded with Monocle's 25/25 travel guides.
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Created, astonishingly, entirely in CGI, Alex Roman's "The Third and The Seventh" is a stunning short film. Based on the photographic documentation of a fictional, architectural world where all of our human potential to create beauty has been realized...
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A table is missing two legs would be dropped over, right? In the "Suppenkaspar" missing leg compensated by a fixed load in the appropriate places. The weight is held by a thin rope barely noticeable.
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A nice animation for MTV with Nathan Jurevicius's character
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Jay Montano from My Nokia blog, bakes a cake for WOMWorld Nokia meetup
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Lord of Logos - A bombastic new book of hundreds of heavy metal logos by the master of the genre, Christophe Szpajdel.
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Start 2010 Wright with the positive energy of ESSTIN. Wright Supply Co. is made by hand in the Philippines, a refreshing take in a commercialized world we live in.
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great nyt article and slideshow on rare breeds.
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Brian Hunter takes street art to mattresses...
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Sydney-based graphic designer Christina Perry has created a series of posters celebrating the pocket squares of Mad Men's male leads.
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Design*Sponge goes green for 2010 with the most adorable teeny tiny terrariums
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Gizmodo gives us the side view of Samsung's 3D OLED TV ~ damn that's thin! It's just 1.6mm thick!
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Skype on TV! "With Skype on your TV, you'll be able to talk live to people you know and miss on a widescreen high definition TV. The first generation of Skype-enabled TVs will be available in 2010."
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Awesome Rob Vargas infographic - "America Hungry, Need Data" - According to a new study by the UCSD, from 1980 - 2008 the total number of bytes bitten by Americans has upped by 6% per year and now stands at an incredibly huge sounding 3.6 zettabytes.
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Wow - every issue of national geographic since 1888! On a 160GB HD!
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Sony's new Bravia NX model TV... i'm lusting hard after the way it so delicately balances in that groove in its simple stand... 1080p, wifi, widgets and all of course.
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