Standing Rice Scoop - designed by Tatsu Syamoji, 2009 - This rice scoop has an embossed surface to prevent sticking, an ultra-thin edge for smooth mixing, and an easy-grip handle
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CANDELA from Enever aims to encourage a younger, broader audience to use candles by providing push button lighting and extinguishing and a safe enclosed flame in a retro modern aesthetic.
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The Rabbit workstation is designed to inspire indefinite interaction when people sit themselves along the curves. By Timo Wong & Priscilla Lui of Studio Juju.
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FEATUREDWe’ve got a gorgeous roundup this week, full of beautiful packaging, stylish products and plenty of inspiration.
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British designer James Michael Shaw will be exhibiting this quirky swiveling lamp called 'On the Ball' at the 100% Design event at Earls Court later this month.
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Japanese designer Chiaki Murata presents a beautiful lamp entitled Susuki honoring the reeds swaying in the Japanese plains.
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Current Lamp by Kara Bartelt. Tillandsia kolbii air plants on a white glass orb with CFL grow bulb.
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Check out Solar Ibex - a high performance outdoor, auto tracking solar cooker concept.
By Nir Beit-Av, Israel.
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Perhaps the first daily produce market to be located inside an International train station, St Pancras’ Sourced Market is a true hidden gem selling locally sourced artisan produce.
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'Rameau' and 'Brindille' fragrance diffusers by Gilles Belley are part of the Organic Factory project.
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WA06- Wiel Arets' salt grinder, pepper mill and corkscrew set for Alessi.
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Jean Paul Gaultier's collaboration with Roche Bobois.
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'Old-school' concept sketches of Atari 1200 & A300 computers.
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'Ics' and 'Ipsilon' coffee tables by Rodrigo Torres for Poliform.
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Advertising agency Estamos en Ello created this custom packaging for their T-shirts.
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VIDEOThe Pagoda Lamp from Timothy Schreiber. Beautiful plywood table lamp made from one single piece of layered timber.
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Visiondivision (Ulf Mejergren and Anders Berensson) created Hollow as their entry for Sukkah City, a competition to create a modern sukkah in Union Square, NYC.
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Stephen Thiel's Understanding Shakespeare reminds me of the work of Stefanie Posavec, transforming literature into art.
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'bike.able' is a commuter bike for dwell. Solving a problem by designing a bike that looks like a furniture and works as a furniture.
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UK-based artists "Jimmy Bumble" and "Leonard White" built a griffin in Brooklyn, then spend over 24 hours in NYPD custody.
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Rik Allen makes these ridiculously cool metal and glass spaceships and robots. he's got a solo show in NM in October
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simple and stylish, new digital watches from microbrand neuvo - try their app if you want to know what the watch looks like on your wrist.
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Horse on the Ceiling from Zauberscho(e)n in the Leonard-Campus Münster.
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Japanese Katsu Curry ~ A fun and surprisingly in depth look into the wonders and mysteries of Japanese curry from The Bold Italic
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Google.de has an interactive animated logo today, seems to be active on .it and .fr too
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FEATUREDInspiration: Circles! Fun circular inspiration from across the web...
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Swedish artist Jason Battersby created this Audi One concept vehicle to symbolize and promote human achievement.
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Woodblocks and desklamps make a nice pair. Here's the proof by italian designer Marcantonio Raimondi Malerba.
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Freelance designer Zbigniew Strzebonski creates some awesomely modern pieces under the name MODESTWORK.
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'WardRope' coat rack by Veronika Wildgruber and Susa Stofer. Porcelain hooks mounted on the rope cling to it effortlessly due to the friction between the two materials.
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'Librespiral' shelf modules, by Gerardo Mari for Danese.
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Italian designer Marcantonio Raimondi Malerba brings new ideas for old things. Export is a typical wooden crate used for shipping things. The legs added make a great sideboard. Cool idea.
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Alex Whitney’s ‘Pennyfields’ chair is to launch at The Dock, Ladbroke Grove, hosted by Tom Dixon during the London Design Festival from the 20th-26th September 2010.
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Kinema Pendant Luminaire by Californian designer Stuart Fingerhut.
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Ryan Martin's elegant packaging design for Kudos beer from Green Room Ales.
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Unique and eye-catching, this watch winder for 16 timepieces, it`s based on a BUGATTI "Veyron" engine block developed in Germany by ORIGINTIMES.
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Protea 1 is a striking new lighting design range by Western Australian designer, Tim Whiteman, exploring both form and function.
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FEATUREDOakley and Hot Rod designer, Chip Foose, team up on the new Oakley Three Palms shoes ~ take a peek at the gorgeous sketches that came to become the shoe and packaging!
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Anne Dahlin shows us how it is possible to layout all ingredients and % amounts in the form of a speedometer on a self initiated energy drink project.
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Title sequence design for FEED, the First International Bloggers and Design Media Meeting in Valencia (Spain) during the next Valencia Design Week.
Including more than 25 blogs, including NOTCOT!!
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Space International have completed the Deronda residence in Los Angeles, California.
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Grain Edit has a look into the awesome studio of brooklyn design duo, Enormous Champion
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FEATUREDPentax Optio W90 - nearly life*proofed! Waterproof, heat/cold-proof, drop-proof, sand-proof, kitchen-proof, pet/kid-proof? And shoots 720p HD video + microscope mode... Giving it a test run in the shower, at the airport, etc.
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ORIGIN68 have teamed up with Manchester based illustrator and general design guru Si Scott to bring you this slice of tshirty goodness ~ gorgeous DOVE!
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Mikael Fløysand is a graphic design student that has created this new visual profile for Deichmanske library. The design is intelligent, sophisticated and with beautiful use of paper, colours and typography.
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"ConsoLLLe" by french designer Damien Hamon - Daha Mobilier.
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A pop-up cardboard movie theatre from ACCESS.
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Day 2 in Dominic Wilcox's 30 day Speed Creating project. A paper pop-up for a train food tray, made and left for the next passenger to find.
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1000 SINGAPORES – A Model of the Compact City
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In the 1950s and 60s, Swissair produced a wide array of designed promotional materials for the Swiss airline including this adorable menu handkerchief.
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Meet Ulrike and Annika, your friendly flight attendants of 'Free Space Airlines', by the paper engineer Marshall Alexander
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Microsoft tracks down the man behind the epic meme Double Rainbow ~ and turns him into a microsoft live ad...
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Christophe Michalak, head pastry chef at the Plaza Athenée introduces an overview of the autumn-winter "lookbook" of his delicious creations.
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Gallery Orsta from Claesson Koivisto Rune is a glowing gallery in Kumla, Sweden.
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Awesome Type Nerd tee ~ by House Industries & Fresh Jive for Reserve LA
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House Pinck-Heerkens, a former printing office turned home in Amsterdam by BogermanDill.
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Atelier-Greenhouse, Machachi – Ecuador, designed by al bordE – Pascual Gangotena
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Inkiness, ipad app, can be your notepad or sketch book with expressive ink writing that has the presence of real stationery.
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VIDEOVideo of Troika's installation at ION Orchard in Singapore.
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'Iceberg' by Reiko Kaneko. Fill the glass with ice to keep the contents of the porcelain cup chilled without diluting it.
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Jim Denevan in Siberia. the Anthropologist's artwork-in-progress gallery.
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Limited edition 'Hybrid cutlery' by Maarten Van Severen. Set consists of a lacquered wood spoon, a titanium fork and a zirconium ceramic knife.
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The super flexible modular system GRID, devised by the founder of Danish furniture firm Montana, has been developed and optimised over several years.
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'Screaming my Hand' by Haroshi . Artwork created using old/used skateboards.
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Gorgeous NEW def•i•ni•tion series. Great for home, gallery, office,conference room, etc. Click for link and later visit seanlamoureux.com for more work and contact information.
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Squeezable vinaigrette bottle by Arian Brekveld for Royal VKB.
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Jen Stark's 'Sunken Sediment' installation images at Carol Jazzar's gallery.
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John Pawson's exhibition 'Plain Space' at The Design Museum, opening 22nd September, will be the Museum's first in which the architect is responsible for the space as well as the exhibited work.
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Crystal Garden Wish Flower's ~ Earth. Fire. Air. Water. Grow your own element-themed crystal garden in a petite, glass trinket jar. Just add water!
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EMPO tipography is a 3D Polihedral body organs + alphabet lettering hand made by Gerard Miró.
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Harrison Ford is interviewed by the legendary NBC 5 reporter Bobbie Wygant, just after the premier of Star Wars in 1977. A rare and really cool blast from the past!
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Bakerella's Cake Pops book has dropped! And there's a fun video of a basic "How To Make Cake Pops" as well!
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DesignBoom has an awesome look at arandalasch and island planning corporation at venice biennale 2010
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Shimuraya bar in Tokyo by japanese architect Noi Shegemasa.
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Great new collaborative painting by Dan May and Jason Limon. Entitled “In the Still of Uncertain Streams”, the painting is currently on show at Dragon Con in Atlanta, GA.
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A series of playing card decks designed by Felix Blommestijn.
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Elaborate paper sculptures by Jeff Nishinaka
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Look inside Taschen's 'Extraordinary Records' the colored vinyl record collections of Alessandro Benedetti and Peter Bastine. A plethora of colors, shapes, and forms, imprinted with extraordinary effects and images.
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Bike by Me just went from solely swedish to international. We put up some new pics and a light box feature for your pleasure. Enjoy.
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"Apollo lamp" by dutch designer Romy Kuhne. Metalic and industrial.
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FEATUREDBrian Viveros has a solo show, The Dirtyland, coming up Oct 2nd at ThinkSpace ~ they give us a peek into his studio and some of the new works!
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Google celebrate the 25th anniversary of the discovery of Buckminsterfullerene with a cool animated Buckyball Google Doodle
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Art for Baby - Board Book! All kinds of art turned black and white for babies... from murakami to malevich to hirst
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Pomegranita's beautiful design for Jennifer and Christian's wedding invitations
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'Image S5i Rugged' by Klipsch. The in-ear headphones feature a mic and oversized moisture-resistant three-button remote.
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Marimekko at Habitare 2010 Expo in Helsinki, Finland.
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LaCie MosKeyto - tiny, and up to 8GB of USB Key storage
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Piggy is a set of two savings banks that nest together. The larger “momma” bank is for a child’s personal savings, and the smaller bank is for the child's charitable savings.
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VIDEOVideo of 'Color Chaser' by Yuri Suzuki. It detects and follows black line whilst it reads the color and translate the color RGB data into sound.
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The Myrkr Chair from WORD, an exploration of beauty not just in the structure of shapes, but also in the shadows they create.
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An open, concrete cube offering all kinds of alternatives for interior design and decoration. WAHID reflects the tension between concrete and wood, the contrast between the warmth on inside and the air of industrial charms on the outside. By Florian Kallus.
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'Bucolic' by 5.5 designers. Vases with trellises for plants to climb. Part of Secondome's hand-blown glass collection launched at Maison & Objet.
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Salt and pepper shakers by Vista Alegre / Flavours collection.
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Colorful espresso set with rounded bottoms by Vista Alegre.
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This mini BBQ grill made from Altoids tins is curiously awesome!
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HemDing is a really big platter, 18" diameter that you carry around via the handle of a garden shovel - a real one, to scale. Simple, bold and on sale.
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Just in time for Labor Day - Yellowstone just opened the doors of its new LEED Gold visitor education center!
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A bit more insight into the controversial 34 Typographic Sins Letterpress Posters. Repent before it is too late!
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Architecture school is back in session, and in honor, Archtizer have rounded up old and new architecture posters spotted in the halls of some well-known US institutions.
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A series of unreleased books from the late sixties to the early eighties by The Infamous Press.
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Nikko van Stolk has come up with an innovative cellphone named the “Tactile” that makes use of a system of digital texture to let the blind access a multitude of features offered by modern multi-touch mobile handsets.
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Amazing architecture installations from Burning Man 2010 - Metropolis: The Art of Cities.
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Astrid Krogh's new ‘light tapestry’ currently exhibited within her solo exhibition at Galleri NB in Viborg (DK). ‘Morild’ consists of a perforated wooden wall with illuminated spots, with ornamentally arranged fiber-optic threads.
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This is the Compass Phone by Hayeon Yoo, a device which both asks serious questions of the modern day cell phone and answers with an elegant alternative: itself.
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Enco Exclusive gave 2010 BMW X6 wider, brawnier, sportier look.
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FEATUREDThis week’s Notcouture roundup is effortlessly stylish, bringing you a glimpse of fashion’s finest.
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Murakami’s sketches and clay models of 'Kaikai' and 'Kiki' balloons for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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4k "Multipurpose" concept by Canon. 4k video, approximately quadruple the resolution of 1080p.
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VIDEOVideo of Olafur Eliasson's 'Water Pendulum'.
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Building on his now famous mural project in Philadelphia, Stephen Powers and his crew of painters have come to Syracuse to transform what has been a colossal barrier between two very disparate neighborhoods
into a point of interest, a gathering spot, and a conversation.
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Trame, the new mirror designed by Inga Sempé for Domestic.
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Design group FRONT in collibration with Swedish ceramic company Höganäskeramik. Show the new line of traditional och design products.
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3 brand new works by Yuko Shimizu on display for the "Blow Up" exhibit in New York
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ID Blocker stamp ~ "The stamp contains thousands of tiny symbols that block out whatever is under them when you use it." Let's just hope the ink isn't lifted off too easily!
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David Choe, Mister Cartoon, and SA Studios have all contributed to the design of these promotional posters for Machete, Robert Rodriguez's latest film, which opens Friday.
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Canon's camera 50 megapixel CMOS sensor and aspheric mirror captures a sharp 360° image.
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The architects at Bignatov Studio developed an unusual wall and roof motif that depict a tree branching out and taking root. The symbolism is well justified by the homes environmental footprint.
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Great interview with Nicholas Felton - the man known for creating graphic breakdowns of every single detail of his life.
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Scale 1/30 by Shigeru Ban is a limited edition center piece that is inspired by architectural projects. Limited edition by When Objects Work and on display at masion et object in September.
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Absolutely adorable versions of Han Solo, Chewbacca and R2D2 as characters from Winnie-the-Pooh.
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Issue #4 of It's Nice That is now available for pre-order.
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Kona Residence in Hawaii by Belzberg Architects.
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Gorgeous installations from Emmanuelle Moureaux installations of interlocking colored sticks at 3 Issey Miyake stores in Tokyo.
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Furin, an interactive lighting installation by Takram design and engineering for Okamura Design Space R.
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Inhouse Design's gorgeous labels for Skylark Wine with illustrations by London based Hello Von.
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Dom Zlomu designed by Paulíny Hovorka Architekti. The concept of a single storey building with no stairs and the house is ideally in the form of L at the top of the site slopes to the level entrance.
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A modern and sustainable design of modular prefab can be found in v100 Mod Box. With a white color, this modular prefab can describe a modern and dynamic living environment.
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FEATUREDAlessandro Loschiavo Design gives us a peek into the beautiful world of Andalusia ~ so much inspiration from design details, patterns, and gorgeous color palettes!
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The Zuiderzee Stool by Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters is based on a simple milking stool located in the Zuiderzeemuseum depots.
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Blow in the ear to turn on the light- “Turn Me On” switch plate from Chris Haines.
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Today PUMA unveiled their new stylish Mopion bike, which features some serious cargo hold.
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An interesting conceptual couch called Beddo by Christina Liljeberg Halstrøm is being displayed at the exhibition Designers Investigating in Øksnehallen (copenhagen).
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Daniel Andersson's icebergs concept takes vacation homes to new depths: this underwater living concept could have us rethinking the idea that land is the only livable surface.
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Can't wait anymore for the collaboration between LANVIN and H&M for this fall !
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FEATUREDDominic Jones Jewellery - beautiful rhinoceros beetle rings i’m lusting after… an incredible shark’s jaw envelope clutch… some intense gator jaw cuffs... and more!
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A new print from Audrey Kawasaki - Migawari - available Sept 4th
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