Classic 8bit video game characters inspired these abstract geometric screen prints. Digital-centric design contrasted by completely analog printing methods, and the films hand-cut out of rubylith. By Craig Winslow.
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Interesting look at Gil Elvgren's transformation of the real pin up girls from photos of real women to iconic paintings.
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Swiss company Lamello has come up with a hidden furniture joinery system consisting of screws driven via rotating magnets.
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The Orée Wireless Wooden Keyboard made from wood! Love the photos of it under construction.
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Great anti-smoking campaign, Tobacco Body, an interactive site that shows the effects of smoking, turning beautiful young models into walking corpses. From the Cancer Society of Finland with agency 358.
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VIDEO'Rock me Baby' foosball table from Fabien Verschaere and Domeau & Pérès.
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Taiwan Noodle House 2 by Golucci International Design in Beijing.
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FEATUREDThis week’s roundup of fashion’s finest from Notcouture includes geometric bangles, skinny mirror ties, air tattoos and more.
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The Röhsska Chair by Claesson Koivisto Rune celebrates the centennial of the Swedish Design Museum and will debut at 100% Design in London.
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With Seafloor Explorer, you can explore the ocean floor and even help discover new species! More than 40 million photos from the HabCam group, an underwater habitat-mapping project at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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FEATUREDLeave it to IKEA UK to kick off design week with a floating market... giving boat tours on the canal in london through the color sorted boat displays complete with actors and cocktails showing off the new 2013 collection!
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The designers duo Dan Yeffet and Lucie Koldova created the system of street furniture 'Urban Islands' for the publisher MMcité.
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FEATUREDMercedes Drive Thru at Selfridges ~ Bompas & Parr style for Avant Garde Diaries. From an A Class filled with cheese to unexpected cocktails and treats to roller girls with light up high heel skates and more!
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VIDEOBoston Dynamics and DARPA show improvements made to the Legged Squad Support System. The robot is designed to carry supplies and cargo, autonomously following a soldier.
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Birds&Eggs designed by Hakan Gürsu for children above the age of 5, it is a universal toy that children from different cultural backgrounds learn and discover living animals while also designing their own birds.
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VIDEOHot Wheels with driver Brent Fletcher broke another world-record for the Corkscrew Jump with 92 feet at the Hot Wheels Test Facility!
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VIDEOTalented craftsman forms a glass horse extremely fast and with great skill.
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German street artist MTO recently stopped by France and completed two pieces entitled The legend of Fred Ille & Gwen Vilaine.
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VIDEOSidewalk Tetherball - simply a tetherball attached to a street sign. Passers-by not only take notice but actually engage in this familiar game in an unfamiliar setting.
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VIDEO21 Balançoires (21 Swings) from Mouna Andraos & Melissa Mongiat forms a giant instrument made of 21 musical swings.
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VIDEOThe creators of the Patterned by Nature sculpture at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have released the making of video showing their process of prototyping and installation.
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'Empire', an exhibition of new paintings by New York artist Martin Wittfooth opens this Saturday at the Corey Helford Gallery.
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Franco Recchia uses recycled computer parts to create miniature city skylines.
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VIDEOA gull's eye view of a San Francisco sunset. Apparently gulls are Go Pro thieves!
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Lovely illustrations from Maggie Li, I especially love her illustrated maps!
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Peugeot's Onyx concept car will debut at Paris motor show later this month. The car is made from carbon fiber, copper, and even paper wood. It is powered by a 680hp diesel hybrid engine.
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W hotel San Diego Renovation by Mister Important Design
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Wooden popsicles by Italian designer Mauro Savoldi.
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Taxi Taxi Station by Hakan Gürsu is Golden A' Design Award Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2011 - 2012.
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Tokyo Plaza Omotesando Project its garden rooftop allowing for isolation from the intense pace of Tokyo
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Water-repellent balls that make water boil without bubbling! Based on The Leidenfrost effect.
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The Tierra Patagonia Hotel & Spa in Torres del Paine, Chile.
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Ian Burns manipulates light with magnifying glasses to create and bend words on the wall. The effect is simple, until you begin to take a look at how hes making it.
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FEATUREDStranger & Stranger's wine packaging design is beautifully playful and makes you look twice. Their patented wine bottle sleeve is transforming the space you have to play with when designing!
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Luna is a day-bed concept by the french designer Stéphane Garreau.
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Apple announces the iPhone5 which sports a 4in retina display with 1136x640 resolution, an 8mp camera with a new sensor, and the A6 chip making it much faster. It is also thinner and lighter than previous iPhones.
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Hexa Lamp by Design Libero is inspired by the geometry of bee wax-cells With the use of OLEDs. this lamp is consumes low energy.
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See the incredible Paper Sculptures by Benja Harney at Sydney's Queen Victoria Building.
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Hiroshi Fuji's exhibition in Tokyo recycled more than 50,000 used and discarded toys collected over the past 13 years into artworks and an interactive space.
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Skatepath, a collaborative and artistic approach for visualizing covered distances by skating, from Moritz Resl and Paul Sommersguter.
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Flétta, versatile and multifunctional maple wood and cork table. From workbench and tablenook to a large dining table! By Guðrún Theodóra Alfreðsdóttir.
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The latest addition to the Dare Studio collection includes the Zephyr bedframe designed by Sean Dare.
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Book table from german designers collective Rejon! Simply elegant piece of furniture made of mdf and beech.
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The September 2012 edition of Maison & Objet, the luminaire manufacturer Kaer & Splann presented his collection "Blade" designed by Pierre Lota.
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New Limited Edition Needle Lamp by Vitamin. Visit their stand (F58) at Design Junction, The Sorting Office, New Oxford Street, London 19th-23rd September to see all the new releases
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VIDEOKevin Steen captures hand-drawn typography by Jon Contino.
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London-based design studio Build celebrates its 11th birthday this year with a new exhibition.
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Pollia condensata Berries with an iridescent structural blue color are superblue!
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The Greater London Authority launches The Gifts of the Games, a poster campaign and website highlighting some of the benefits that 2012 has brought to London.
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Footing, a temporary interactive installation at the Denver Art Museum by Nathan Craven that allows visitors to walk on a series of ceramic pieces.
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The anemone collection of lights by Olivia D'Aboville for hive.
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The new Chalet Brickell has its own nightclub, theater (with beds for seats), and one of the coolest car parks you'll ever drive into!
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A shrimp that vomits bioluminescence into the surrounding water and other deep sea bioluminescent organisms in the northern Bahamas.
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Inspired by the children's story, Jack and the Beanstalk, Aussie Designer Adam Cornish has created the Monkey Pot, adding a bit of fairytale fun to balcony gardening.
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Nicholson Residence by Matt Gibson Architecture + Design in Melbourne, Australia.
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FEATUREDA Stormy Morning cocktail, the eggs benedict burger and chocolate covered Oreos are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.
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The recently completed the L'AND Vineyards Hotel, located in the heart of Alentejo, Portugal, by Marcio Kogan and Promontorio arquitectos.
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Saatchi Gallery unveils an extraordinary Collection of Artist-designed Chessboards ~ here's the one from Barbara Kruger, see the collection in the slideshow.
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Target unleashes 'Dog Balloon Lamp', baiting Jeff Koons.
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Wire Stump furniture, tree stump inspired stools by Peter Jakubik.
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Mother New York has created a striking new billboard and print campaign to help promote cycling in the city.
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Nendo's Bird-Apartment, a treehouse designed for the Ando Momofuku Center, a facility devoted to promoting and increasing access to nature activities. The treehouse holds one person and 78 birds!
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Mindblowing. Johann Korndoerfer seriously rendered a giant(!) version of the Buddhabrot.
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Designer Nishant Jethi created a whole alphabet of typographic bird houses 'Living with Typeface'.
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'A Stone A Mountain' for Jing Feng is more than functional design. Rather a project exploring his culture and hometown, an isolated village surrounded by mountains.
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The xx promote their new album 'Coexist' using a beautiful interactive data visualization. It depicts the way the audio stream is being shared across the world.
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Based on official information, this data visualization is shifting the geographical area of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and surrounding areas upon central Europe. Infographic by Moritz Resl.
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Zachary Copfer's Bacteriogoraphy, where bacteria cultivation meets photography
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Didier Faustino's 'Love me tender' chair in brushed steel from Super-ette.
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Shroom, an outdoor light fixture with a motion detection system. Dims to 10 % light strength, but when someone passes by, it smoothly brightens to full luminosity.
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FEATUREDDesigner Souvenirs for Los Angeles! From Hollywood to Malibu, Topanga to Venice, Santa Monica to the 405... the Sisters of Los Angeles creates beautiful glasses with designs by Barbara Bestor!
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Riley Cran's cute packaging for No-Li brewery.
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House HV by Kombinat turns a dreary chalet into a beautiful modern home.
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Bird Bingo illustrated by Christine Berrie featuring 64 species. Adorable cloth bag and more!
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FEATUREDDouble-handed tennis rackets, carrot sharpeners and tiny hedgehogs that fit in a teaspoon are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.
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VIDEORabbits sure can jump. Great clips from the Danish Rabbit Hopping Championships as rabbits compete in high jump, long jump and impressive series of jumps!
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°ES Lamp is a minimalist lighting fixture designed by °ES. The lamp can be wall-mounted for direct /indirect light or used as a table lamp.
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Spare Table, made with a Rock Maple bowling alley slab and folded and welded mild steel, powder coated in matte ‘Yellow Gold’.
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For its first participation at Maison & Objet, Mobile Concepts presents the collection of outdoor furniture: 'Villa Caterina' signed by the designer Marc Aurel.
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Dead Media is an installation created by Skull-A-Day's Noah Scalin out of 497 videocassettes.
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The new waxed cotton Krukke backpack from Trakke is based on vintage mountaineering equipment. Handmade in the UK to the highest standards.
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Domenic Fiorello Studio Plant Pod made of White Oak
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FEATUREDThe real craziness of the Venice Architecture Biennale is in the details that escaped the other features you've seen around... lots of random inspiration and other projects we discovered...
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CL Store by NV Studio architecture in Santiango / Chile
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Woolly Pocket's latest is a plastic planter for living walls/gardens
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Different Strokes: Double-Handled Oddity Puts a New Spin on Racket Design at the U.S. Open
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Louise Despont’s delicate geometric configurations drawn onto vintage ledger papers.
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Casa Di Sassuolo by Enrico Iascone Architetti.
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Photographer Ed Cahan captures the beauty of the sky in his Sky Series.
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Ted Keller's infographic on the power of Pinterest.
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Malika Favre's first solo show in London at Kemistry.
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Stunning watercolours from the Austrian painter Aloys Zötl’s Bestiarium, a series of exquisite paintings of various animals undertaken from 1831 through until his death in 1887
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Georges Moanack's ES 01 power extension for Punkt.
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Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse by HWCD Associates.
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Jon Shireman's beautiful Broken Flowers series features shattered flowers, which have been soaked in liquid nitrogen.
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Evolution of Type, Exhibits 22-26 by Andreas Scheiger
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The classic interoffice envelope inspired the look and function of the Envelope Chest. Perfect for storing your most important things, the sleek chest fastens securely with custom leather rounds and cord.
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