Cool swing made from reclaimed hickory salvaged from a railway depot in Alabama.
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VIDEOCNsilk is an ongoing project from the MIT Media Lab's research group Mediated Matter. The project uses a robotic arm to weave string to produce structure, much like a spider.
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Zak Zarak is a desk lamp designed by Lutz Pankow for Ingo Maurer.
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Deadaleas is an amazing shelf, made of wood and steel. Designed by Fanny Dora.
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RISD furniture student Laura Kishimoto created 'Shadow Box,' a challenge in vacuum forming to achieve complex geometries in a bass wood frame.
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Angle Table is designed by Barcelona-based Serra & Delarocha for Calma.
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RGB11 is a graduate publication at the Rhode Island School of Design, a catalog of graduate thesis work showing the process behind the work.
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Lovely artwork created from tapes and even sheet music, by Erika Iris Simmons.
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William Miller's broken polaroid camera takes some beautiful photos in his Ruined Polaroids series.
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'Shout' is a cardboard chair designed for children. Collaboration between Gavin Atkinson, Sue Kim, and Gabriela Colton.
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The beautiful new Budnitz Bicycles No. 3 Honey Special Edition.
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'Bloated Shelf' by Damien Gernay and 'Portland' candleholder by David Taylor for Galerie Gosserez.
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A fashion collection isn’t made of clothes alone. Noman dissects the garment to express it through various disciplines. New line 'Oman' will be displayed at the Istanbul Design biënnale.
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Biochemist Linden Gledhill's homegrown snow. Watch the snowflakes created in his homemade snowflake-growing machine.
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Cute illustrated alphabet print from Showler & Showler.
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VIDEO'Welcome to the Anthropocene' Earth Animation by Globaïa for the short film 'Welcome to the Anthropocene' commissionned for the Planet Under Pressure conference.
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Gorgeous playgrounds by Monstrum. Love that whale!
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VIDEOBoundaries of Life and Death by Saskia Kretzschmann based on Edgar Allan Poe’s quote "The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
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Zaha Hadid's 'Liquid Glacial': The Ice Table Cometh.
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LightSKIN integrated LED lenses and buttons into one assembly, so that it can be easily embedded in the seatpost. This unique technique, which was employed to firmly fix the LED circuit inside the seatpost.
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Deskbox is designed by Netherland-based firm Raw Edges for Arco.
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FEATUREDIsland hopping in the Galapagos, activities for kids in Los Angeles, and a local’s guide to Istanbul are all part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.
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Brano Meres X-9 Nighthawk is an experimental frame with aramid honeycomb sandwich panels as a core, laminated with carbon fiber. Equipped with the infiniti3D security system.
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VIDEOPatterned by Nature is a giant animated ribbon. Made of 3600 LCD glass tiles, it has been created by Sosolimited for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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Coshell chairs by Tendo Mokko. 'Coshell' means 'to create' in the Yamagata region.
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Philips and Fairmont Hotels create magical suites. In Fairmont Singapore, the 'Hotel of the Future' suite has beautiful spaces with colors, effects and ambient lighting.
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VIDEOSoundmachines by The Product look like standard record players, but instead translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software.
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Magnetic Bike Lights from Copenhagen Parts that automatically turn on when you attach them.
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Aerial installation by Baptiste Debombourg at Brauweiler Abbey, a Benedictine monastery near Cologne.
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Always attentive to protection of the environment and the recycling of materials, EMECO has taken another step in that direction with Broom Chair, designed by Philippe Starck.
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German artist, Cornelia Konrads, creates installations in public spaces that are punctuated by the illusion of weightlessness. Incredible work!
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Hashi Mori Chopstick forest by Affect Studio. An installation composed of 13,454 hand-stained chopsticks hanging from the ceiling creates a delicate canopy over a brand new Japanese restaurant in Berlin!
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Michael Hanson's Vinyl cover with analog light animation translates Allan’s sensorial music into a visual experience with elements of sensuality.
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VIDEOBöhm Stirling 'Movement is Everything', the making of a tiny steam engine.
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Awesome sculpture by Nao Matsumoto at the 4 - hpgrp gallery in NYC.
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A group of students from Parsons take their future into their own hands and exhibit work that breaks the rules to do good.
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Paper sculptures by Mandy Smith to mark the launch of the programme of The Exhibitoin Road show.
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Translating text into music, gives text form beyond written and spoken language. The music being played in the video is the transcribed conversation between two designers. By Annalisa Swank and Raisa Ji Yong Park.
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[nailed it! custom industrial signs] if you’ve been looking for a unique alternative to get your brand noticed, this is the perfect solution for your industrial aesthetic.
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Inspired by leg splints designed in 1943 by Ray and Charles Eames for the US Navy, the Splint collection from Australian designers Yellow Diva is an exercise in simplicity.
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Growing Lampshades. This project deals with the issue of light creation. Shown at the Lambrate, Milan 2012. Concept & design by Peter Kraft with the support of Moritz Fuhrmann Jochen Maria Weber & Julian Eich Reuter.
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David Batchelor presents the largest survey of his work to date at Regency Town House in Brighton. He is the lead artist in HOUSE 2012 visual art festival in Brighton, UK.
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FEATUREDRocky! The new rocking horse by Marc Newson in the Magis Me Too collection.
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Virgin Atlantic launch PlaneView to showcase their new Upper Class Cabin.
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FEATUREDThe Mark Hotel in NYC now offers a fleet of bespoke Republic Bikes... and you can even borrow them to have the ultimate picnic in the park created by celebrated chef, George Vongerichten!
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Beautiful new limited edition Cup and Saucer from popular UK artist Tom Lewis ... 'Megan V's the triple ripple'.
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Czech artist Roman Tyc replaced 48 traffic lights in Prague with red and green figures performing acts such as walking a dog, drinking and urinating, just to name a few...
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How functional heatsinks can be sexy! Design by MaDe for the Belgian lighting company DARK.
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VIDEORed Stripe worked with Filthy Luker to create a giant Space Invaders on the side of Manchester Town Hall.
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Pantone introduces 336 new colors in 'The Plus Series', for a new total of 1677 colors!
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An "Urban Knitting" installation for EasyJet France in Paris Orly from NextIdea and Collectif Murmure.
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Spring by Floris Schoonderbeek is a room divider with an effortless character and a fresh charisma for an organic partition, where a border is needed.
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Italian company EMU will reveal its new MIA stackable chair collection designed by French architect and designer Jean Nouvel...
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Student Louis Rensch turns the classic angelpoise lamp on its head.
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David Irwin on his glossy red stool, Working Girl.
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IKEA cardboard/usb camera with 40 digital pictures and two AA batteries! Fun IKEA press kit during Milan Salone 2012.
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FEATUREDThe anatomy of a good grilled cheese, homemade mint chocolate bars and a sip of cherry moon, are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.
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An installation piece using acrylic, zipties, fishing line, iPhone accelerometers, light sensors, and radio by Christian Poules, Alex Diaz, and Adam E. Anderson. 'Refract' at Brown University Granoff Center.
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No Country for Old Men, a series of furniture designed to facilitate the life of older people, created by Lanzavecchia + Wai.
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Awesome looking flowers preserved in spirits. Their colors fade and they become transparent.
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Decafè lamp, a second life to coffee grounds, 100% natural design objects created by the Spanish designer Raul Lauri.
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'Amplification' and 'Weathers' by Sean Lally.
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Cacomi by Shin Azumi for Itoki, a series of modular furniture.
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VIDEOSander van den Berg's beautiful video created from image sequences from NASA's Cassini and Voyager missions.
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Stunningly beautiful tattoos by Peter Aurisch.
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Approxymotion is a research project that sets subdivision-forms into motion using six-axis robot arms in downtown Los Angeles, CA. By Peter A. Vikar.
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FEATUREDA look at the fantastic exhibition 'Brains: The Mind as Matter' at the Wellcome Collection, which captures the brain as a cultural object as well as fascinating component of anatomy and medicine.
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Whenever MacGyver is not around and you really need to survive in the centre of your city, these little survival kits by Robert Rüf and Steffen Kehrle might come in handy.
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Nikon's extreme wide-angle Nikkor 6mm f/2.8 Lens introduced in 1970 offering an angle of view of 220º.
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VIDEOOpening title sequences for FITC Toronto 2012, The Design & Technology Festival.
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Black Rehab - Habit believes in giving their customers a luxurious, exclusive and discreet experience through its wide range of products. Design by Morey Talmor.
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VIDEORichard Kendall and his crew have made a 3d bullet camera rig for light painting. It produces an amazing effect that you can rent for your next party.
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'Nendo Collection' bathroom furniture by Studio Nendo for Bisazza Bagno.
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FEATUREDThe beautiful, highly iridescent, violet oil beetle. An incredible and fascinating creature with bumbling ways, tiny wings and an intriguing life history which includes hitchhiking on bees!
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Ten Dollar Fonts is an international typography collaboration of young designers selling their fonts together.
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FEATUREDDumpster pinhole cameras, stupidity in super slow motion and adorable baby coatis are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.
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Kruysman and Proto create 'Synchronous Dissections'. Assembling, reconfiguring, and disassembling of an object in space over time with 4 robots.
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Wrappie Lamp, a functional and great design for your home! By Tomasz Pydo.
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VIDEOSpeed Flying from the Mont Blanc summit to the base looks like an extraordinary experience.
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VIDEOAntibubbles! Demonstrated by PhysicsCentralAPS.
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Counterbalance | Daniel Rybakken | At the Luceplan showroom, following the movements of Daniel Rybakken…
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Hot Cube in the River, in the middle of the city, is a minimalistic 'sauna' made by sculptor Harri Markkula. The steam of the 'water-based' tarred wood sculpture is blissfully soft.
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PLICATE, Benjamin Hubert's new 'timepiece' for Nava.
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Designers: Ivan Colominas, Marco Fossati's fan: FFFFF!!!
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Anthony McCall's largest solo exhibit to date, 'Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture' at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin now through mid-August.
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Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar created the lightweight R18 Ultra Chair for Audi. First beta showing to the public during Milan Design Week, the final result will be released in December at Miami Design.
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Balance Lamp | Mieke Meijer | The LED wooden lamp by Mieke Meijer at Salone for the exhibition ‘Untouchables Retouched’.
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Lovely new work by Sanna Annukka for Korean makeup company Laneige.
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Fantastic photos of tiny harvest mice by Jean-Louis Klein and Marie-Luce Hubert.
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