Founded on the premise that while benches are intended to seat multiple people, they are often only occupied by one, Sarah Pease's SOLO BENCH emphasizes the sole user.
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Maizy Electronics series by Simone Spalvieri & Valentina Del Ciotto. A collection of objects made of PLA, powered by photovoltaic cells and rechargeable batteries.
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VIDEOThe City of Geneva visualizes the digital traces created by our mobile phones with Ville Vivante.
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The Presenze Collection by Piergirogio Robino and Alice Occleppo for Nucleo.
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Furever, a film by Amy Finkel, a documentary film about post-mortal pet preservation. That's right, like having your pet taxidermied.
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Exhibited at the American Design Club's recent show Threat, Daniel Ballou created the 'Who's There Chair'. Inspired by those iconic Hollywood action scenes where a chair is jammed under a doorknob.
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Full body compression suits for racehorses. Interesting concept...
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Cast in concrete by American designer George Coffin, the 'Concrete Spice Grinder' takes the average kitchen spice grinder for a walk on the industrial side.
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The Darwin chair by Sagmeister Inc., utilizes a free swinging structure that includes about 200 sheets of attached prints.
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New York City-based studio POD Design+Media has designed the PODhouse, a sustainable prefab module built by Robust Outdoor Brands that can be used as a 'backyard office or as secret holiday hideaway'.
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Using Arduino and Lady Ada's Waveshield, design student Jerome Arul created a toy puppy that barks and wags its tail when played with.
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FEATUREDA tiny chicken embryo’s beating heart, LEGO shuttles in space and stories behind the Kraken are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.
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German ceramics company Hering Berlin strives to satiate more than one kind of appetite with its Amuse Bouche plates.
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Bellastock architecture festival is going to take place in Madrid on June, after six editions in Paris and Aarhus. To promote it, Madstock association is organizing several acts and exhibitions at Polytechnic University of Madrid.
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The Redditor ~ a pdf monthly thats beautifully laid out highlighting the best of reddit (as chosen by the Redditor editors) each month!
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Zhang Kechun's newest photo series is a beautiful tribute to the life and death of the Yellow River in China.
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These beautiful Faunealea earrings can be sent flat-packet as a postcard to your friends and allow them the fun of assembling and creating their own jewelry!
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Art V Cancer sells signed limited edition prints by Raid71 and other established artists raising money for Cancer Charities.
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FEATUREDClaesson Koivisto Rune Tiles - gorgeous casa and dandelion patterns!
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Cardboard scenography for IMPOSSIBLE Project @Colette Carnaval
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Domus bookends. Love the idea of creating a house for your books to hold up your books.
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Ondrej Pakan's inspiring macro photography.
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Shingles Alabaster, a pantry cabinet from Field Day covered in fancy-cut Western Red Cedar shingles.
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'De Farine & D’eau Fraîche' is now open in Montreal by Surface3.
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Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have managed to perfect 3D printing at the nanoscale. What may look like a grain of sand to the human eye, could in fact be a detailed racing car model.
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Nike+ Fuelstation – The future of retail design. The internal creatives at Nike in The Netherlands dreamed up the concept store which is attempting to offer an innovative balance of interactive digital elements along with human interaction.
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Shamrock Macarons with Baileys Chocolate Ganache to celebrate St Patrick's Day!
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Quake Shelf by Antoine Phelouzat for Eno - Maison et Objet in 2012.
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Romantic postcards by Marko Tadic are part of his new series 'We used to call it: Moon' based on science fiction classics with the motive of discovering an unknown planet.
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Lighting designer Nathalie Dewez has just completed this installation of a monumental custom chandelier for the Great Hall of the Mudam in Luxembourg.
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The glossy, beautiful Lucano Step Stool by Metaphys in collaboration with Hasegawa Kogyo Co.
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David Boni's stunning Noble Animals series.
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The Clockwork Forest installation by Greyworld plays music when the giant key is turned.
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Love the Sputnik Chair Collection by Fred Fetty.
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Gorgeous photos of Busch Garden's new emu chicks.
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Sprig Toys Glider! Their adventure series of toys are fun and eco friendly.
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Radium, built by Isaac Blankensmith, is a portable time-lapse dolly that collapses to fit into a backpack.
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25 inch tall, three-legged, stainless steel stool. Designed and fabricated by Adan Bañuelos.
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Public artists Gaëlle Villedary helped the French village of Jaujac celebrate the 10th year of its arts and nature trail programs by cutting a new green path through its city center.
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Nervous System has released Cell Cycle, a webGL design app for creating 3d-printable cellular models in your browser. It's a playful, dynamic physible.
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Fab Café is a new coffee/laser cutting cafe in Shibuya, Tokyo. You can order their famous marshmallow latte while you laser cut your designs.
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Riley Sunrise, designed by PROJECTiONE for Riley Hospital for Children, uses vibrant color and symbols to lift patients' spirits and re-focus conversations.
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VIDEOSpectacular reopening Holland Casino Scheveningen with DJ Ferry Corsten and interactive building 3D Projection Mapping.
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VIDEO'Drawsome intern' is an initiative to recruit talented young creatives for an internship at Muse Amsterdam.
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VIDEOLooking back at Moooz's very first video mapping in spring 2011 for Archisound festival in Lyon where they will also be this year.
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VIDEOStop-motion making-of for the I Feel You video, set to the song Longitude by designer Lucas Wareing.
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Disarmable and tranformable sofa lets you extract two lounge chairs from the inside. without losing the volume of the sofa or sacrificing style.
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The model was built for the first film - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - and has been used for exterior shots in every film since.
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Fig Tree's clear and simple rebrand for Brevia with lovely work by icon designer Christopher Gray.
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A raincoat for children that recycles the fabric of umbrellas everything you need to self build such as pattern and instructions are available on the official site.
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VIDEOSweeping Beauty, beautiful Calligraffiti by Niels Shoe Meulman.
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VIDEOAngry birds in space brought to you by NASA and Don Pettit from the International Space Station.
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The Research Agency's new office definitely tops our list of spaces we would love to work in! Architect Jose Gutierrez turns a rundown old space into a bold new workplace!
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FEATUREDCupcake ATM ~ Sprinkles adds a fun automat to its Beverly Hills location in order to satisfy late night cupcake cravings!
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THRT (pronounced threat) is a design exhibition that opens its doors tonight at Present Company in Williamsburg. Kiel Mead, one of the curators of the show, jokes, “This show is evil, but there’s also something so playful about it.”
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VIDEO‘Intervelometer’ by DAK (Deniz Merdanogullari, Aparna Kapur and myself) was made at Trick 17- a 52 hour Stop Motion Competition.
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American Architect Adam Kalkin revolutionizes our idea of containers, he is an expert in turning containers into well decorated, sophisticated homes.
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VIDEOA bench made by hand by Street & Garden Furniture Co.
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City Peaks, a fun project from Digit that encourages us to take the stairs. It allows you to track our stair climbing over the course of a day by tapping your Oyster card. You can then compare your ascent of the Gherkin to the likes of Ben Nevis.
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Adorable birdie letter opener whose tail is a paper knife.
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Art Direction Instruments from Inside, great campaign for the Berlin Philharmonic by Bjorn Ewers, photographed by Mierswa-Kluska.
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FEATUREDA carousel bar in New Orleans, stops for your Italian foodie tour and a weekend in Vietnam are all part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.
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Ghost Cars - A collection of photographs of hidden cars.
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A tribute to Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames. Sent from my iPhone (literaly).
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FEATUREDAmazing stop animation featuring a creative interpretation of a fresh guacamole recipe from PES.
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VIDEOShwood, Bodega, and Bushmills team up to make sunglasses from Irish whiskey barrels! The eyewear comes appropriately packaged in a custom wooden whiskey crate with a crowbar!
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FEATUREDMuji Project Fitness 80 at the Design Museum asks “What would happen if we used 20% less materials and energy to make products?”. The clever exhibition pushes Muji craftsmen to develop products that use fewer materials and processing.
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Ted's Drawing Room from Ted Baker - fashion portrait service that makes you a masterpiece. 11 illustrators in a London studio draw looks submitted via instagram from stores. Subjects receive the original portrait. Mar 17, UK & NYC.
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The most powerful solar storm in five years hit Earth today and it could create northern lights far South of their usual range!
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Blob, an unusual hanging bank created by studio Qmad for Vandidoo. This money box can be hung anywhere, even in your wardrobe. Saving all those pennies left in your pockets each day and you can afford a little whim each week!
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BKME is a platform for empowering bikers to reclaim bike lanes from cars in NYC.
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Tom Dixon launches the new Etch Web pendant lamp.
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Andrey Pavlov's macro photography of ants.
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Loosdrecht Island House in the Netherlands by 2by4 Architects.
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VIDEOFolk In A Box, a tiny pop-up concert hall developed for Folk in A box (led by Dom Coyote and Emily Barker) by architect Cristina Monteiro. Photography by Sakiko Kohashi.
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Reverse Graffittii stop animation by Durban collective Dutch Ink.
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VIDEONature Valley Trail View is the Google street view of trails. Explore the Grand Canyon, Smokey Mountains, and Yellowstone on the trail.
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VIDEOAmazing footage of a chicken embryo's beating heart made visible through the injection of dark ink into the yolk sac artery. [Editor's note: part of the amazing 2011 Nikon Small World in Motion featured in #46029].
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South African artist, Kronk teamed up with toy giants, Kidrobot, to produce these super limited edition Lovebirds as a thank-you gift for guests at his wedding.
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Moon Glass, ceramic glasses for rice wine by Tale. Love the idea of pouring myself a waxing gibbous.
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Self-Assembly Line by Skylar Tibbits and Arthur Olson, presented at the 2012 TED Conference, is a large-scale version of a self-assembly virus capsid, demonstrated as an interactive and performative structure.
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Fun collection from LOEHR. This is the JL 1 stool.
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VIDEOVirgilio Villoresi captures the story of birth, life and death of a solider through handpainting in "Fine".
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VIDEOMonocle first hit newsstands five years ago. Here's a film from Perfectlounge to chronicle those years.
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FEATUREDA peek at the stunning design details of the one of a kind Lamborghini Aventador J... (the rear view mirror, the wheels, the lines!) and a look at their hilarious homepage gate...
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Square, the company that turned the iPad into a cash register, will soon rollout a new device for taxis. The encased iPad has clean UI and map.
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Vinyl Desserts at 33 RPM ~ A great collaboration between photographer Phillip Karlberg and Chef/Stylist Mattias Nyhlin. Beautiful dishes spinning on records like these pancakes spinning to the tune of Nuthin But a G Thang.
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SRMOMA ArtScope - this site is designed for wandering, for the chance discovery of artworks you might not have come across before. It features over 5000 objects from their collection, arranged in a continuous, map like grid.
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RISD Industrial Design sophomores just completed the infamous, annual assignment of designing a cardboard chair from one 48"x80" sheet of cardboard.
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Gaia Bio Lamp, a mobile natural ambient light by Floriane Rousse-Marquet.
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Andrey Lublinskiy and Maria Zaborovskaya of Pprofessors created the 'Red People Art-Constructor' a series of large and small red men integrated into various contexts and palced in unlikely locations throughout Moscow.
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Wonchan Lee reduces Pixar characters to their essential forms.
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Berlin-based studio J. Mayer H. has designed and completed the Dupli Casa project - a 12,800 square foot, three story, contemporary home.
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VIDEORob Ives has created DIY safe made from paper that actually works!
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To escape the floods hitting the town of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, Australia, spiders are seeking higher ground and creating staggering interconnected webs to do so.
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Federico Carbajal's beautiful anatomical wire sculptures.
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The stunning D10 house by Werner Sobek Engineering and Design.
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FEATUREDChambre de Sucre's gourmet sugars are handcrafted by one of the oldest family-owned businesses in Japan. Over 270 years old and they have provided the Royal Family in Japan with their sugar since the time of the Shogun.
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Beautiful chair by Moroccan designer Mahdi Naim, giving a twist to classic lines, using modern technology and materials, combining the transparency of polycarbonate and the lightweight of injection gas assisted.
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VIDEOGame controllers get haptic feedback implanted into their thumbsticks. 5 new feedback sensations promised.
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FEATUREDToy Boarders! Like classic little plastic toy soldiers... only skateboarders! Adorable in 24 packs!
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Stephane Maupin's M building clad entirely in corrugated metal.
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VIDEOBeautiful music video "The Day the World Went Away" directed by Pierre Debusschere and visual effects by studio 254forest.
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“Natura Morta” is a musical concert where the only instruments used are real fruits and the sound we’ll hear is exclusively the electric energy contained within them. Fascinating project from Quiet Ensemble.
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VIDEOThe story behind the now ubiquitous Keep Calm and Carry On posters from Barter Books.
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If the box is extremely simple at the base, it opens with an explosion of color where each little teabag is a fine piece of paper folding art.
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VIDEOGorgous new Kraken Rum spots from Dead as We Know It and Adam Gault Studio. Discover the existence, strength and survival of the mysterious beast.
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'Old Bearhurst' by Duggan Morris Architects : a significant extension and remodeling of a 200 year old Oast House, in East Sussex.
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FEATUREDA roundup of years of lustworthy bath tubs and hot tubs we're loving... from gorgeous designs... to hot tub boats, dutchtubs, and even igloo hot tubs!
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VIDEOQuintin got together with pro-skateboarders Manny Santiago, Danny Supa, Brett Sube and the good folks over at rcaerialcam.com. This video takes place on the streets of Downtown LA.
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John's Phone from John Doe agency is designed to work for 3 weeks with a single charge and can work with any SIM card in the world!
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VIDEOIce Angel: An interactive installation by Dominic Harris.
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FEATUREDThis week’s droolworthy roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes Boxberry cocktails, sea scallops in black tie and Cacao Bliss.
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Iglounge inflatable igloos ~ and they get big enough to throw parties and large dinners, etc in!
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VIDEOInstaprint is a location based photo booth that can transform parties and events by putting a camera in everyone's hand.
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Conceptual artist Mary Kelly on dryer lint, her lack of routine, and her work with Ray Barrie 'Habitus: Type I' 2010 at Postmasters.
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Beautiful 'spoon lamp' by British designer-maker Clive Roddy uses 115 dessert spoons to create pinecone-inspired light
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Powershop 3 is a lavish retail bible from Frame Publishers, with its gilt-edge pages brimming with 173 of the latest shop and showroom interiors from around the world.
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DIY table / magazine rack designed by the designers Malafor.
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Euro RSCG's campaign for the 50h anniversary of Amnesty International with cake-sculpted heads of dictators Fidel Castro and Alexander Lukashenko with a slice taken from the mouth.
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Baptiste Deboombourg's incredible wall installations made entirely from staples, inspired by 16th century drawings.
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Berndnaut Smilde's Nimbus and Nimbus II, a cloud in a room.
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VIDEOA LEGO space shuttle! Launched from central Germany, it reached 35000m. A 1600g meteo balloon filled with helium was used alongside a GoPro Hero, Spot GPS and of course Lego Space Shuttle model 3367.
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French architect Stephane Malka proposes a fluctuating facade of recycled wooden shipping pallets for a student dormitory in Paris.
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Fun prints from Tim Boelaars of his Icons series.
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audioJar is a simple housing for David Mellis' open-source Fab Speakers crafted by Sarah Pease.
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Koloro Desk Workspace by Torafu Architects.
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Contemporary new media artist Aristarkh Chernyshev creates sculptures that integrate today’s technology while commenting on our obsession with it.
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FEATUREDPeanut Butter and Jelly deliciously re-imagined! Haven Gastropub uses sorbet, peanut butter powder, and some more tricks on this childhood staple.
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One month before lucky diners visit Blumenthal's the Fat Duck restaurant, they will be invited to an anticipatory experience from The Neighbourhood with Manchester-based LOVE and Zelig.
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VIDEOA look inside the factory of Kutani Choemon as they make Jaime Hayon tablewares.
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Creative Review takes a look at Laurence King Publishers' new title, How 30 Great Ads Were Made: From Idea To Campaign, a new book by CR's Eliza Williams.
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The stunning Rieteiland House designed by Hans van Heeswijk.
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James Utley, Keith Jernigan, Aubree Barnett, Zack Gulliani and Jordan Bell's conceptual packaging for Ipswich brewing Company Root Beer.
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Quayola and Memo Akten, through Nexus Interactive Arts, created ‘Forms’ a multiscreen digital artwork commissioned by the National Media Museum for In the Blink of an Eye: Media and Movement, part of the Cultural Olympiad program.
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