Gernot Riether's design is a series of glowing spherical enclosures sited within the hidden courtyards of the city’s distinctive French Quarter.
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Portal 2 - Songs To Test By: the soundtrack! free download...
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FEATUREDUpside down strawberries! Love this display of Boskke Sky Planters in the House of Detention as part of Clerkenwell Design Week.
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'Canopée' by french designer Frédéric Ruyant is a wooden observatory to enjoy nature from above.
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'Open Space' by Duravit is a a retractable shower cabin that folds against the wall when not in use.
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FEATUREDJaguar’s C-X75 concept car on display at Clerkenwell Design Week. Jaguar will produce just 250 of the striking hybrid supercars in association with Williams F1.
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Wood Thumb - neck ties made in San Francisco from reclaimed wood!
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David LaChapelle's art exhibited at the Louis Vuitton Maison in Hong Kong
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An interview with Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano, discussing their new photographic series POTHOLES...
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Concept notebook created by designer Hao-Chun Huang for a Fujitsu competition design.
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The PL planter series from Collaboration, the partnership between French sculptor Marie Khouri and Québec landscape designer Dave Demers.
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Beer Craft, a book that shows you everything you need to turn your stove into a small-batch, artisanal brewery by William Bostwick and Jessi Rymill.
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Beautiful 'Baixa Pombalino' building renovation by Portuguese architect José Adrião.
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Portugese beer label Sagres Preta's new website created entirely in chocolate to celebrate the release of its Sagres Chocolate Preto, a beer caramelized dark chocolate.
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An interesting photo series by Nicolai Howalt depicting young boxers before and after a fight.
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Damilano Studio Architects' Gazoline Petrol Station in Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy.
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As NYC fights for the summer and sun to finally come out and play, let this latest edition of “The Cut” mix series presented by the The Blind Barber and COLT+RANE be your soundtrack of the fun to come.
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Slow Hills ~ adorable website for Tuscan 70s Vespa and Fiat 500 rentals ~ like an getaway/adventure waiting to happen! Esp with the welcome kit: cotton t-shirt, shoulder bag and a pair of gloves!
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Kempt takes a look inside Germany's century-old Merz B. Schwanen factory, complete with rarely seen circular looms for knitting uninterrupted loops of fabric.
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Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised reveals its entire structure: the cutting, layering, levels and equalisation of 23 different songs by Cameron Adams (the man in blue).
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FEATUREDA sumptuous roundup of delectable delights from Tasteologie and Liqurious including everything from icecream bombes to rhubarb cordials.
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Multicolored window installation by Ryan Todd
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Two weeks after launching its Android app, Trulia decided to take a snapshot of its mobile app traffic to see where most mobile house hunters live and which cities were quick to favor the Android app over the iPhone app.
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Hans-Peter Feldmann's exhibition at the Guggenheim consisting of $100,000 one-dollar bills.
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FEATUREDScissors! Complete Technique X SVSV Shear Pendants ~ and a peek behind their amazing making of as well!
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New poetic lights by Ingo Maurer shown at Euroluce in Milan
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Part of the Signs of Affection project, this sign was found in Leeds, England.
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The craft behind the iconic Gucci loafer at the company's factory in Florence, Italy.
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Chums - Terror of the Deep, is a vinyl toy specifically designed to hold various cylindrical objects (tablet pens, pencils, flashlights, cigars) in his mouth!
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Easter tins for Nestle Brazil designed by FutureBrand with playful illustration work by Cako Martin.
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The Bräuler, a modular growler system to carry your beer.
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City Walks with Kids, series from Chronicle books that helps your family explore.
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Bite Me, 100% ink free package design by
Vasily Kassab.
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Railway breakfast set for all the trainiacs out there.
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Borders, new series of embroidered fabric designs for Maharam by Hella Jongerius.
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Frederick McSwain's portrait of Tobias Wong made with 13,138 dice (one for each day of his life).
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Mina Ghaani's Industrial Design thesis project, Hyde Gum.
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Airport, beautiful photo set of planes taking off and landing by Terence Chang (exxonvaldez).
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German designer Kilian Schindler has designed this new 'Concept Kitchen' for accessories specialist Naber.
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The Gentleman's Suitcase is a selection of vintage suitcases hand-rehabbed into gorgeous one of a kind boomboxes. Created by Chicago artist, Floyd Davis of Artpentry & Code of Conduct.
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British firm Another Country will be showcasing several new additions to their range of contemporary furniture at this year's Clerkenwell Design Week.
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Cute little greeting cards by saatgut with assorted tree seeds to make your own contribution to reforestation.
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Burton Snowboard's homepage serves up current weather and product recommendations based off your location.
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Finnish kids design from PaaPiii (Anniina Isokangas).
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Angus Hyland and his team have designed seven new book covers for Penguin’s Vladimir Nabokov series. Covers each feature a different game, sport or visual illusion as the background pattern, and echos the content of the book.
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FEATURED8-bit sculptures, tablet games for cats, surfboards with engines, this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org has it all.
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Battles shot by La Blogothèque at the Paris City Hall: a very special Take Away Show session.
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Jeroen Verhoeven's stunning 'Virtue of Blue' chandelier powered by five hundred sapphire-blue fluttering solar butterflies!
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We found these macabre-themed playing cards by Netherlands-based designer Felix Blommestijn, design student at GLU Utrecht.
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Nendo designed this picnic box called 'Kotoli' for champagne house Ruinart.
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Brooklyn-based 3D animation studio, Steffen VFX, reconstructs human hemoglobin and produces a 3D model almost 1 billion times the original size with the help of action figure maker McFarlane Toys.
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VIDEOFloating Chicago by Craig Shimala, amazing mirrored skyline timelapses. Dreamlike!
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A Plea for Modernism. This video by Evan Mather issues a plea to save some of New Orleans critical pieces of modern architecture, specifically the Phillis Wheatley Elementary School.
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The Felix Nussbaum Museum is an extension of the Cultural History Museum in Osnabrück, and dedicated to the work of Felix Nussbaum. Designed by Daniel Libeskind.
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VIDEOThe Doveline combines several problematic drafting/drawing tools into a single high quality instrument. By Marks & Philosophy, designed by Zach Jenkins, Jonah Willcox-Healey, and Wesley Chau.
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Based in the Netherlands, the architectural design office Qupix has realized some stunning stands for Jan Snel! This is the Rockwool stand.
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FEATUREDMENU's porcelain Steam Stacker can cook a full meal in one tower in your oven! Beautiful design and photography, as well as a Baked Halibut with Miso on Shitake Mushroom recipe!
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Eagle, makers of the exclusive E-Type, the best developed Jaguar E-Type of all times, will be showcasing another more muscular version of the car at the upcoming Salon Prive, Syon House in West London from June 22nd to 24th.
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Lorch & Zimmermann - a Berlin based design duo - just released their trestle called Sinus. This minimalistic beauty is affordable by the way.
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Three of Greta Grossman's designs from the 1940s are being reissued by Danish design company Gubi.
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'Teqa' is a newly opened Tequileria (Yes. Tequileria. Our favorite new word!) in the Murray Hill area of Manhattan.
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Owen & Stork for Portland General Store. Mens grooming products 'made from simple, natural ingredients, which use time-tested methods'.
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BrickBox, a nice, simple shelving system from designers Antxon Salvador and Roger Zanni.
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Meet the Pancake Batfish, one of ten new species featured in this BBC slideshow.
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The adorbale Tiptoe Stool by swedish designer Martin Vallin. Keep your balance.
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Porsche and Mobil 1's gForce measuring app for your iPhone!
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FEATUREDCheese is Alive. Nurture it! ~ Formaticum's Cheese Paper aims to keep it that way a little longer with some fun packaging and great graphic design. Includes video of the cheese paper in action!
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The White House on the Scottish Isle of Coll is a ruin that has been converted into a modern, eco-friendly home by William Tunnell Architecture.
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Random but beautiful philatelist's tool, the perforation gauge.
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FEATUREDThe Oyster Mushroom Harvest! Day 5 of the Mushroom Kit adventure and the counter is COVERED in spores, so i think it's time to finally pull them off for cooking?
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Not your typical GI Joe's, these are Mountain Men from General Research. That's right, these action heroes are Karl Marx, Chairman Mao, Vladimir Lenin and Henry David Thoreau.
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The Cool Hunter rounds up beautifully designed public car parking spaces.
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FrecciaMela, a bowl to be fixed to the wall made from iehter Corian or aluminum, with an aluminum tip. Among the fruit and the wall is sandwiched a thin 2mm layer of polycarbonate. Designed by Nicola Loi & Andrea Maffezzoni of a++de.
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The Hüttenpalast in Berlin is a new hotel concept, created by Silke Lorenzen and Sarah Vollmer. Consisting of a cluster of renovated campsite caravans, each available to stay in for the night.
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Several new projects from Daniel Ballou including these stackable ceramic Cargo Containers for Areaware.
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VIDEOFilmmaker Kris Hofmann directs a lovely animation for Granta magazine
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A visual map of what happens in our brains when we are in love by Scientific American.
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Photographer Laura Kallasvee's (Estonia) portfolio page with fashion, advertising and art works.
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The hypnotically cool, visual and sonic installation 'The Transfinite' by Ryoji Ikeda opens in NYC. Check it out.
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VIDEOShort film by Danny Morgan linking Donor to Recipient by capturing moments in the lives of 2 people.
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'Transcending the Material' is a mixed media installation by Ben Cuevas of a knitted skeleton seated atop a pyramid of Borden’s condensed milk cans and a cloud of screen prints on Plexi glass suspended above it. Amazing!
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Collage work by radical architecture and design group Superstudio in Italy. From the 1972 MoMA exhibit 'Italy: The New Domestic Landscape'.
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Johanneke Procee's 'Keukenkabinet' is a project about opening a space at the moment one needs it. When closed, cabinet is a piece of furniture that's a part of the living space. When open, you literally create a new space.
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Chandelier 30 consists of 30 light bulbs. It was made for a friend's 30 year anniversary by A. Novikov.
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Adam Garcia's The Pressure is Good for You.
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FEATUREDThey got so big and FLAT last night ~ BTTR Ventures Oyster Mushroom Kit progress, Day 3!
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Mike's Hot Honey, a spicy honey with chili and vinegar.
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Art In The Age Of ~ is having a Terrarium Making Workshop to recycle Root + Snap liquor bottles! (Sadly, event is only in Philly!)
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The Weather, City Edition | ScreenSaver for Mac
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The first published sketchbook of Mattias Adolfsson. 160 pages wort of robots, dragons, animals, characters and the odd baroque darth vader. And if you order by June 1st, you'll get it signed with a small doodle!
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The T-Shirt Issue has opened its 3D elements archive as per May 20th. First up is the wolf's head, available for free download as paper model.
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Bruxe Tiny Little Chairs X Consult dev contest for designers to submit their chair designs to have them made into a silver limited pendant.
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FEATUREDMaster manipulator of a photographer, Jill Greenberg's Glass Ceiling series ~ a preview of the solo show coming to NY's ClampArt.
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We love the brand Blackbody. This is their beautiful collection of OLED lights.
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Wavejet announced a surfboard that has a built-in engine. The propulsion system uses an electric motor powered by a battery that can triple the average speed of the paddle.
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