In San Francisco, Jensen Architects have transformed this existing house by incorporating a spacious and transparent lobby. Between window and vestibule.
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Game designer Exploding Rabbit promotes his first game Super Mario Bros Crossover by giving it away for free! this unbelievably fun game is ready to play with 6 character choices and new moves!
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The "book forest" is part of a program called 'Research for Sustainable Forestry’ promoted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany.
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rugwind: guerilla bench. this bench is normally camouflaged as an electrical box, but turns into a great spot for those in the know!
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this is a set of a coffee table, stools and a clock made of paper pulp
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RGB is a hauntingly gothic collection of wallpapers that show an array of chilling images, depending upon the colour of light shone at it...
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Before you know it, you'll need a place to stash your wet suit after a lovely afternoon swim. The Trunks & Bikinis rack is a delightful place to do just that.
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AllHours for the iPhone helps you plan the perfect time for your next conference call or virtual meeting with participants in other time zones, easily and with style. From Politepix.
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Info-graphics in GOOD magazine outlining the new health care bill.
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creative shelf system by tuyo design studio! the possible combinations are endless...
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Extended Cab, a great bookshelf idea by dutch designers at Sloom & Slordig. Add as much piles as you want to.
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Japanese designer Masaka Zuhori has dedicated his entire collection to the silhouette of dogs! ”Osanpo” is a stool which is inspired by four different dogs- Labrador Retriever, Bulldog, Dachshund and Chihuahua.
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Milky Star is a ceramic wardrobe formed in the likeness of a natural model. Milky Star is a single unit working as a wardrobe for a wall as well as a repeatable object that can be assembled to a larger area. By Pudelskern.
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Young serbian designer Jovana Bogdanovic created these Polar bears made of sugar, with great message – „How many polar bears did you drown?“. The work has been presented in Talent zone Salone Satellite Milan.
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David Stine has created a new collection of eco friendly little tables gleaned from his 500 acre forest in Illinois.
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The student hall designed by LTL Architects for The College of Wooster features cantilever wood-clad study nooks, like box seats, into the theatrical space of the courtyard, establishing private study areas in a collective setting.
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D-CLIPS are animal shaped small paper clips by MIDORI.
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A collection of stunning spiral staircases from around the world.
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HotelChatter's Annual WiFi Report 2010 ~ love the infographic of free vs paid internet in hotels
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Time Wasting Tea Machines aid the process of time wasting. “Wasting time is doing the simple things the most complicated way.” Three devices take the simple, act of making tea, and turn it into an elaborate performance.
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Product Designer Lee Murray has created a new application for CCTV surveillance with his object, The Observer; a public access viewing station allowing any member of the public to watch others through CCTV cameras.
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Nestle Ice Cream and JWT Johannesburg created a new summer accessory, a hat made from ice cream sticks!
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Very cool cutlery kit concept, by Brazilian designer Rafael Morgan.
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Louis Vuitton with the photographer The Selby introduces the first step of "The Journey of a Man’s Wardrobe" Fall-Winter 2010/2011.
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On window display animals ~ Puma had the Penguin army... now Thomas Pink has BULLDOGS!
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Martin Skelly's Playlist Player takes digital music away from the dusty old pc. It is based on the rich interactions of vinyl records and turns digital playlists into physical objects for you to touch, treasure, drop, lose or spill beer on.
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The invisible light source Aria by Massimo Iosa Ghini is a refined and ethereal empty crystal bubble which fills with the light flow coming from a LED source hidden in the small canopy of white metal.
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jacek barcikowski, jennifer kay and martina pagura from the copenhagen institute of interaction design present'sidetrack', a table which allows users to reflect on their working routine by drawing their pattern of behaviour.
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McKenna Kemp Graphic Design crated a series of great book cover designs for Virginia Woolf's novels.
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Frank Chimero is set to present at the May 13 Designspeaks in Portland, OR.
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Pixel group eBoy illustrate one of the strangest landmarks in all the world: the Atomium in Brussles. Behold all 9 spheres in all their pixely glory.
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SUPER K SONIC BOOOOUM by Nelly Ben Hayoun. With 50,000 tons of pure water and expert navigators from Imperial and Queen Mary, Super K Sonic Booooum was a mind-blowing visual equivalent of a massive sonic boom.
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Rockid by Ontwerpduo, a rocking chair and cradle in one. Softly swinging the rocking chair while reading a book or singing a lullaby. When the baby outgrows the cradle, it is possible to reconstruct the rockid into a rocking chair.
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Expo Shanghai 2010 has opened its doors. The Denmark Pavilion designed by BIG featured a giant circular loop so you can ride a bike just like if you were in Copenhagen. Photos by Iwan Baan.
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The Mad Dwarf Workshop is the swordsmithing work of Andy Davis and David DelaGardelle, but it is also an extended group of like minded individuals who have a love and passion for history, mythology, nature and ancient craftsmanship.
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The Eraser+ing Eraser is a wearable ring that doubles as an eraser. Available in 5 colors, it's a super chic way to undo.
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A new exhibition at the British Library reveals the history of cartography. Drawn from over more 4 million historically significant maps, most of them have never been seen by the public.
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I've put together a web preview of my upcoming show at Mondo Bizzarro Gallery in Rome for those who won't be able to make it in person.
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Typographic moustaches by Publicité Actuelle just in time for Moustache May.
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Designer Hexagonall remakes Quentin Tarantino film posters.
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In what will be his first NYC solo show, Scott Campbell will showcase his unique aesthetic via sculptures, paintings and drawings. If You Don’t Belong, Don’t Be Long, opens Thursday, April 29, 2010 6 – 8pm.
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Great house with a swimming pool on the roof. The Universe house is located in Roca Blanca, Mexico. Designed by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco, and built by architect Tatiana Bilba.
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Photographer Robert McLaughlin has managed to add a sense of substance and subjectivity to his ethereal smoke images in his series titled 'Ephemeral'
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Pencil packaging design by Swiss artist Kevin
Angeloni, each pencil is contained in a thin glass
cylinder and topped with a stamped cork.
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Cloud Lamp #11033 at the Brits Insurance Design Awards Ceremony at the London Design Museum. Showcasing the most innovation thinking design from around the world
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Flos Soft Architecture is an ambitious system of light fixtures that blend into architecture. Pure beauty.
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Finite Elemente's new Hohrizontal 51 sound board is an impressive iPod dock in the shape of a wall shelf.
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How I Met Your Motherboard ~ tales of early computing... and adorable old mac os interface...
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Sophie Mouton-Perren, a talented French artist, enjoys working with papier mache, her creations are graceful, beautiful and poetic. Sophie has worked with Frederic Guibrunet ,to create customized product line for lighting (LUMIGrane).
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Wind Knitting Factory by Merel Karhof -- A wind powered knitting machine creating scarves to visualize the amount of urban wind.
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The Horse in Motion - A flatpack walnut backpack that plays with the design of knock down/ flat pack furniture. Features cabinetry hardware, allowing flat-pack ability and easy portability. Ready to assemble.
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Ray Cicin explores the imagery of nature and the elements. In this Micro Macro series he has turned to an old Nikon Coolpix 995 camera mounted on a trinocular microscope to expose beauty in the miniscule.
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La Trufa is a dreamlike house, a stone carved from the ground, by Ensamble Studio. A preview with pictures by Roland Halbe.
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A Tribute T-Shirt to the Bones Brigade using Experimental Jetset's iconic design
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Mus, the most symbolic contribution of the proposal pursues awaking new consciences on animal life preservation. Mus as an ornament object, recreates an upside down jail and represents the bats´ lost homes.
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FouFou is a champagne bar situated at the very edge of Stuttgart’s red light district. The German architects Ippolito Fleitz Group designed the bar as a mixture of Swabian wine tavern poesy and Paris Bohemian world.
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Are you a detail maniac? If so you will love these series of pics of brands and designers names imprinted in products.
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Jose Collection is a family of storage furniture pieces produced out of materials and processes that achieve a more responsible environmental impact.
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FEATUREDPinneti's modular leather bags... are genius! So fun to have a series of products all made from the same modular unit of leather that you can evolve and build on!
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Finisterre's very own surfing sheep, Mildred. This video of Mildred surfing is the latest collaboration between Finisterre and DLKW with directional and digital genius from Dom and Nic who've won wide acclaim for their work with the Chemical Brothers!
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FEATUREDOnly Maison Martin Margiela would fill a room at 10 Corso Como with open safes behind paintings to show off jewelry, glasses over creepy dolls eyes... and cover the walls with paint by numbers wallpaper.
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Once again the Gallery Kreo welcomes designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.
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Contemporary minimal Japanese design at it’s best. The S House design by Katsuyuki Fujimoto Architect & Associates Office.
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archiTokyo is an in-depth, five day Japan design immersion experience for serious architecture and design enthusiasts & professionals seeking inside knowledge and access to the best of the field.
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VIDEOAfter its launch at Superstudio, you can now see the assembly of the Iconic Coral light in this film by Davide Calafa for David Trubridge. It shows the how to assemble the flat-packed Coral or Floral lampshade.
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Alternate Reality, surreal paintings by Alex Andreyev, artist form Saint Petersburg, Russia. Unusual, creative and inspiring.
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FEATUREDA selection of this week’s posts featuring stunning architecture, gorgeous highlights from Milan and many other of your incredible finds!
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With Wisteria's Metal Twelve-Bottle Carrier you can carry twelve bottles of whatever - wherever.
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Shell just released a video showing the making of a translucent Nissan 370Z they hand built to promote their new line of engine oil. The footage examines how they managed to show the oil actually working inside the car using a painstakingly built clear engine.
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Celebrate recent volcanic eruptions with this Noldur ("grumble" in Icelandic) T-shirt. More attractive than an "I survived Eyjafjallajökull" T and far less specific. Hand printed on american apparel, limited to 100.
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Yniq is a new Swedish eyewear company founded by freeride skier Jon Olsson. Their line of ski glasses are designed by Norra Norr.
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Isabella Wolfe - a psuedonym based on a first name she really liked and a last name taken from Elsie de Wolfe, from whom her inspiration is drawn - but what does it matter, this is just a great table flawlessly blending pretty and cool.
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Eve, a pull up bar based on balance, designed by David Tsai
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McSweeney's just published a fun children's book illustrated by Scott Teplin and Adam Rex...
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This solar lawn mower would be quiet, lightweight and cheap. Solar panels sitting on the mower top and save the energy in the system of removable polymer-ion battery.
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Philippe Halsman's JUMP pictures from the '50s are so much fun. He even got Nixon to leap for joy!
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A few vintage style animal illustration. These image are part of an A - Z set to be used as either flash cards or bound into a book for children
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Examining the history of East and West, CeramiX is a unique art and product design project that delivers ‘remixed’ compositions that challenge the origins and purposes of each original piece.....
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FEATURED“I am furniture” Radiators by Studio Vraay ~ stunning radiators that are really pieces of furniture/works of art for the home ~ and functional too!
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Artist Peter Root latest work is ‘Ephemicropolis’, a metropolis made completely from stacks of metal staples. [an expanded version of low rise #29379?]
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ALS Designs' Angle Shelf made from sustainable bamboo and finished in natural tung oil.
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Digby & Iona release the new 2 x 4 Ring from their Spring 2010 collection called The Wood.
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Everybody can be an artist with Malibu by U : limited packaging concept in Canada. Here local artists, Damzels in this Dress, David Glantz and Nick Fox, create their bottle.
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Shane is a mapmaker, songwriter, producer and recording engineer based in Montreal, Canada. He has been making these thematic maps for 2 years and it has to be said, has turned it into a bit of an art form.
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Something so lovely about the combination of thick macrame hanging glass pots with plants... by Smalltown of Australia
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I Have Wanderlust ~ beautifully inspiring posters of continents to visit...
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Discover the Center Pompidou-Metz, in France. With architecture signed by Shigeru Ban Architects Europe with Jean de Gastines, Paris, Centre Pompidou-Metz includes 5020 square meters of exhibition space.
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FEATUREDA close up look at the IMPOSSIBLE Projects' Polaroid SX70 + First Flush polaroid film...
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Share-a-chair (limited "tho/net" edition) by Laszlo Rozsnoki, is made of a second-hand "Thonet"-chair sawn in two, with additional legs added for support. The halves can stand side by side, permitting the chair to be shared.
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tipi is e new interpretation of nomades houses by confused-direction
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Peter Marigold’s new collection – MAN MADE. Each piece of furniture is cut from a single piece of wood using successively smaller L-profiles thus maintaining structure while obtaining as much useful material as possible.
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Make Your Glass by Marina Dragomirova - A series of glasses split in two parts.
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Bols 1575 Amsterdam (aka the inventors of gin and the oldest distillery brand in the world!) asked Mash to assist them in revamping their Bols Vodka Bottle. Amazing is that they are stackable...
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This lamp concept was released by Arnaud Lapierre in 2008 and is called "Le Strip Tease".
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Strand coffee table by Chris Kabatsi for Arktura. Made of laser cut steel, it combines sharpness, transparency and resistance.
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Cryptids of The United States. Did you know you might have a Skunk Ape—or is it Batsquatch—in your backyard? Don’t be confused! Now with your trusty cryptozoology map you will be able to identify and place these rare creatures.
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Liu Lecture Series in Design at Stanford, May 3rd: Four designers discuss morality of Design in the future. Gadi Amit (NewDealDesign), Robbert Brunner (Ammunition), Valerie Casey (The Designers Accord) and Dan Harden (Whipsaw).
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A mesmerizing sound-reactive light installation by rAndom International in Home House in London. The photos don't do it justice - check out the video to see the full effect.
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FEATUREDPorsche all SLICED UP! A beautiful display at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, demonstrating the design/production process of Porsche...
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THIS. IS. SPINAL. TAPE! This tape goes to 11!
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