Illustrator/artist David Shrigley also takes beautiful, clever, inspiring and funny photos.
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3-D Graffiti with Light! Using LED glowsticks.
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#4994
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design (and order) your own chucks with Converse's interactive designer.
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The most adorable children's t-shirts on an adorable website (biome 5). I love how the names are printed upside-down.
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William Heath's Lilybug service. Aren't these foldable scooter bikes too cute?
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FEATUREDI couldn't help myself, and just gushed about the packaging of the iphone more than the phone itself... they bothered to indent the button on the box!
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Pat has left the building. My preferred choice of suicide recorded on 3 pieces of canvas.
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This may look like one of those "concept" products, but Nike's curved Triax Vapor LCD watch is anything but vaporware.
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FEATUREDBuilt NY's latest tool to be.... Wine Ratchet Magnum ~ with a name like that, how could i not crave it?
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Via NotCouture - From Louis Vuitton to Lancome. Julie Verhoeven's work is printed on limited edition tubes of Lancome's Ultra Shiny Lip Gloss- she even chose Pink Muse!
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Love the packaging on new fragrance Juliette Has A Gun: "Lady Vengeance" combines Italian rose, vanilla and patchouli. "Miss Charming" combines Moroccan rose, lychee and strawberry.
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Papayalicious: Pretty stationary, art prints and more.
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This lamp returns to the shape of a classic basket used to store eggs (huevera), that has been an icon in the Mexican traditional kitchens. For that reason, its called La Gallina (the Hen).
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The Maistro seat - Designer: Sebastian Lara. The body of the seat is a metal box used for putting concrete, common in Mexican building industry. The name came from slang for a bricklayer.
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Stokke Xplory: A very well designed stroller with multiple configurations. Nice and high, and with a small footprint.
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Isn't this bedlinen FANTASTIC?! No more room for aggressions thanks to Miss Geschick & Lady Lapsus...
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Scientific American article on what the Earth would look like without people. Future ruins: when Nature collaborates with design.
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Mobilet's Barcode Chandelier is pretty sweet too
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Adorable Animob puzzle by Mobilet ~ spotted it over at swissmiss
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The See Saw bookshelf. Designed By BCXSY.
By playing with balance, the See-Saw bookshelf visualizes the breadth of our home libraries. Walnut wood with powder coated steel parts.
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Something I always wanted to do myself. MAD was faster: the worlds coolest fishtank.
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Sebastiano Oddi's Mange2 is an edible picnic container for two people. By manipulating the gaseous structure of bread Oddi has designed a wholly edible container that results in near zero waste.It currently has been produced in 8 different flavours.
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the evensong spa in green lake, wi is housed in a gorgeous, prarie style building and had a supercool indoor labyrinth!
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Ricardo Legorreta's La Purificadora, a new hotel in Puebla, 90 miles SE of Mexico City, once a water purification factory, now gorgeous hotel.
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For the baseball junkie in your life ~ cufflinks he may actually wear, with pieces of yankee stadium. fenway park, etc.
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The Isle Lounge by Asobi would be great fun in a large open courtyard space in the future studio.
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Although I shouldn't be 'encouraging' smoking, I do think this invention is long overdue. Finally, you can have your nicotine and keep your hands warm!
From Tobias Wong (of course) & Suck UK.
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Paul Loebach's Chippen Chair ~ look closely.
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Phillipe Starck teams up with Puma and creates skin hugging intimates - hilariously odd site/story as well (of our 'evolution')
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Far too fun to procrastinate by making simpsons characters.... too bad mii's weren't this fun.
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Venere growing up by culture. And at the same time a library between Venere means books between love. Between Beauty.
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Gui Borchert was recently featured in Print magazine as one of the 20 most talented designers under 30.
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Illustration for Mtv Base by South African Illustrators - Am I collective.
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these tiny robot bugs from bandai japan can automatically avoid obstacles.
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Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
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Concrete House in Montevideo, Uruguay by G+ Arquitectos
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FEATUREDThe "queen of felt's" Tipsy Bag may be the ultimate wine 'purse'.
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Karakiri is a friendly octopus who's loving arm holds you when you sleep.
Custom made creature with a great buying experience.
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FEATUREDPolly George of the Mr & Mrs Jones lime and lemons squeezers has expanded her line greatly. Check out the great butterfly, bird, and Mr & Mrs Jones toast racks, cupcake holders, egg and soldier holders and more.
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#4953
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T-Mobile HotSpot @ Home ~ phones that switch between WiFi and Cellular seamlessly. Apparently showing up in a bathrobe can win you a phone, router, and a year of the service?
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TheSparetimer.org is a website that create a timeline of things to do in your sparetime.
All the users can write and draw an action to do. For the moment... in italian.
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#4951
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Also announced - Belkin's Mousetrap ~ the mousepad zips right up to become a carrying pouch... do people really use mousepads still?
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#4950
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Belkin's Washable Mouse... finally cleaner components? Or underwater mousing?
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#4949
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The EME designed by Shao Wei Huang takes that approach in designing a mobile device queued for video, music, and gaming.
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#4948
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The Gents Business Card Case by Blomus is a contemporary business accessory. It has a classy appearance and will look impressive every time you offer out your card.
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#4947
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I rounded up 10 fans to keep you cool over at Surface (my CNET Design site i'm posting at once in a while)
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FEATUREDThe infamous Citizen Citizen Coke Spoons of Tobias Wong and Ju$t Another Rich Kid get into SFMoMa.
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#4945
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Pretty nice GTA IV special edition bundle. Would've liked to see some more thought put into the actual game disc's box though.
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Icy Bag ~ reminds me of lunch bags when i was in elementary school. Brilliant idea, mini gel pack and insulated bag that my car needs for everything from makeup to candy.
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Nice presentation by Josh Jakus' Wine Pocket if you ever have to bring a bottle somewhere
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The marquetry project focuses on using wood in a contemporary and graphical way. Pieter Maes
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Some pics of Theatre in Niteroi, the last wonderful architecture designed by the 100 year old living legend Oscar Niemeyer! Photos taken by Marcela Grassi.
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The Human CD holder. I'd need like hundreds of these for my CD collection. Can be ordered from wrapables.com
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The National Gallery and HP bring art to the streets of London
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Edo, created by Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet. When not in use, it could be mistaken for a beautiful outdoor table or piece of sculpture.
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Scenographic elements and give away pasta for Espace Contemporains. The project remind the alphabet letters of our childhood, but they are shaped like chairs.
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FEATUREDWe get hands on over at the Skirball Cultural Center's Noah's Ark Exhibit that opened today. Incredible use of found materials to recreate the ark experience for kids to play with.
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Featuring Ree Treweek's gorgeous , darkly surreal illustrations, South Africa's Blackheart Gang have brought to life "The Tale of How"
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I Love New Work! Cool collective of young people working in New Media
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Han Yajuan's paintings feature little chinese shopaholics
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#4930
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we finally launched inpholio, a portfolio and news database for photographers, art-directors, stylist s, etc. we focus on the best possible presentation of the work (big images, no disturbing ads) and easy navigation.
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New Velvet Banana T-shirt collection for this summer, mainly inspired by "The Forever 27 Club" (all those artists who died when they were 27 years old, like Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones...)
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A clean new look for brewing tea - designed by metz and kindler for wmf of germany, the smar tea (get it?) has heat-resistant glass and matte-stainless finish.
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jared drew moody, a new york artist, creates boldly colored pen and ink illustrations that are very evocative.
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Really nice Wimbledon Collection by Nike for Roger Federer. They created a custom collection with a new RF logo!
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From the Apple I to the iPhone: the visual evolution of Apple design from 1976 to 2007
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#4925
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Cool graphics and fine art portfolio of London UK based artist and graphic designer: Paul Robinson.
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FEATUREDWhen design meets fashion... Catalina Estrada's collaboration with Brazilian label Anunciacao
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#4922
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Clever use of the wasted space; the "hole" in CD's.
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Okay, I simply had to add these Theo Fennell sterling silver toe separators. For the ultimate pedicure!
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Theo Fennell makes unbelieveable jewelry. This is his 18k white gold chain with 18k yellow gold devils. Cool, huh?
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FEATUREDDebonair Magazine's Food Blog Awards (cute image) ~ and TasteSpotting picked up Best Food Blog Directory (i'm kind of giddy again)
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DESIGN: NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART is an interactive tool built to test and educate the knowledge of designers -- and explore the dark side of graphic design.
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iNoPhone, a guided tour through the collection of Mac ADB-mouse based 'phones' ^_^
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startdrawing for LIVE EARTH is an initiative that unites artists from all over the world to combat our climate crisis! In conjunction with the launch of LIVE EARTH, We are aiming to set a world record for collecting the most number of GREEN drawings by 7/7/07!
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Nike Pro Athlete series of vinyl created by master toy designer Michael Lau. The figures stand 20" tall and are wearing authentic 'Pro' fabrics. They will not be for sale though, instead the toys are being auctioned off for charity in Hong Kong.
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Cheap affordable accommodation in Germany for a limited time only. Realised by Gunda Wiesner and Andreas Strauss.
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Art. Lebedev Studios announces their latest concept - the Folderix flash drive. Finally a flash drive i'd buy!
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Truly the coolest smoke detector yet. This clip on Chick-a-dee bird is by Mooi Uit De Brand
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#4907
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See book 1 of Guerra De La Paz's work... and you will never view your GI Joes or Prince Charmings the same again
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#4906
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Another solar race car, less adorable, but tinier - 33 x 22 x 14 mm.
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#4905
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Sannah Kvist photographs people and not people.
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Vandalized Vintage by Trixie Delicious : Re-imagined vintage plates and bowls with just the right antisocial sentiment hand-drawn with heat fused ceramic paint. Check out the sold section too!
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Love this Kaight logo for their store in NYC
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Neat little chopsticks that I discovered while shopping at Ikea. They have little nodules at the end that make eating with them a breeze. 12 pairs for $2
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Lindsay Walt creates beautiful calligraphic abstractions
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StudioAKA, in London creates some of the most whimsical animations your likely to see. The Pica Towers shorts are a must see.
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Lamp + Blimp = World View by Afroditi Krassa.
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#4897
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This contemporary jewelery for men from Franz Schnaas fuses industrial and mechanical components for a decidedly male take on body adornment.
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Los Angeles based Hello/Bye (Sun An) is pretty much unstoppable in the areas of art direction, design, typography, illustration, animation and videos. Take a look at the latest - excerpts from an interview and artist profile in Arkitip #30
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Logitech announces their latest foray into laptop stands... the Alto Express and Connect.
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#4894
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these drop speakers look like something that space aliens listen to their ipods on - from spain's scandyna speaker company
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#4893
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Another one for the magnum boys of club land... Marc Newson designed ice bucket... very svelte indeed, and exclusive. Designed for Dom Perignon (LVMH)
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VIDEO"Oh My God" Video ~ lily allen gets all jessica rabbit [Editor's Note: Awwwww sony pulled it off youtube]
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