FEATUREDAnother week of getaway inspiration from NotVentures has taken us to Everest, the Argentinian Sierras and Australia’s Great Ocean Road. Where will you explore next?
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Virgin Oceanic - Sir Richard Branson's latest venture heads into the depths of the sea
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'Notes de lectures féminines' is a toile de jouy fabric created by French designer Vérane Cottin and inspired by Simone De Beauvoir's poetic writings.
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Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava with minimalist American painter Frank Stella have collaborated on a new piece in Berlin.
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Wow. Joe Ledbetter is launching 48" Fiberglass Limited Edition COLOSSUS Bunnies!
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Director Philip Andelman documents Marc Newson's modern take on the classic hourglass in a film for Nowness.
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'Bunky' modular kid's bed by Marc Newson for Magis!
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Trulia visualizes U.S. home price reductions for almost 16,000 zip codes across America. Helpful to both homebuyers and sellers, this interactive map shows you when/where/how much prices are being cut in your neighborhood.
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Canadian artist Lissy Elle's images offer a strange, yet wonderful break from reality...
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Fresh Stuff From Vilks in Angouleme, France
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Wedding invitation doubles as paper record player, designed by Kelli Anderson.
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The Safe House. KWK Promes have created a house that transforms from an impenetrable cube to a luxury home with the press of a button.
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Delicious Design League's version of Darwin's Origin of Species Poster for Gallery 1988 “Required Reading”
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FEATUREDThe Dutch Standard's Gice Lamp and Moon Chair ~ glossy spherical wooden lamp and chair with illuminated edges...
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Aruppel's adorable tree prints of various states ~ here's the California Redwood edition ~ Wisconsin, Washington, Michigan, and Oregon too.
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Bubble Buddy ~ Bacon, Peanut Butter, BBQ flavored BUBBLES for your dog... or hungry friends?
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Habitus' top 8 picks from the first 3 days of the Milan furniture fair, including the beautiful 'Elephant' wood chair by Neuland Industriedesign for Kristalia.
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FEATUREDStone Island's beautiful and surreal Moon installation in milan ~ see the full room with life size models flipping through on screens and floating outwear glowing perfectly...
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Whipping Post Leather has the perfect slim wallets for guitar players ~ Picker's Wallet! Cute little pick pouch built in!
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Another great poster from Pop Chart Lab, the Illustrious Omnibus of Superpowers.
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FEATUREDMolenKitchen ~ beyond the awesome photoshoot (complete with corrugated cardboard goodies), this product turns into barbecue, firebasket with spit, and smoker ~ with customizable grill and brands!
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Pooches and Pickups, a brand new fabric line by Laurie Wisbrun for Robert Kaufman.
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Beautiful illustrations by Erika Altosaar in an unbound portfolio, L’Étranger.
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Nice multifunctional furniture by Berlin based designer Silvia Rottenberger for Andere Räume.
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Cute stationery set for architect studio Møller/Holm. Designed by Jesse Mallon.
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FEATUREDHendrick's Gin ~ always lovely packaging and playful graphic design ~ now with a Tea Cup!
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Designer Brynhildur Pálsdóttir and chocolatier Hafliði Ragnarsson's Chocolate Mountains complete with layers of goodness within (including magma!). Gorgeous packaging too.
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Jennifer Tran's eyewear prototypes are made of brass and copper.
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A Room Over the Sea designed by Studio Zero85 is an old 'fishing machine' typical of the Adriatic coast.
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German designer Cordula Kehrer created a cool product Oona, with enough storage room for every day use.
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Tony Orrico, the human spirograph. Incredible drawing performances lasting up to 4 hours.
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'Strep' stepladder by Thierry Didot and Damien Ummel from Atelier Peekaboo.
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Fonte Da Luz is a mixed use building in Porto, Portugal that is built around giant windows that fill the whole building with natural light.
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White Vinyl Design's For Nihon - Interactive musical micro-site, promoting a compilation with all proceeds to benefit a Japanese earthquake fund.
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FEATUREDFlylight by Design Drift, fascinating light sculpture that mimics a flock of birds and responds to the presence of people! The video really helps make sense of it...
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Dan Holdsworth's Blackout series are a selection of photos of receding glaciers in Iceland with the landscapes presented in negative.
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Architect Matthew Hofman redesigned an old airstream-trailer into a luxury living space. looks beautiful!
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Per Color by Marco Ugolini - Matching your daily groceries in style and buy them by color.
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Hugo Varin designed this little box of Kleenex concept for those who have lost friends and and family because of tobacco.
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Behind-the-scenes with the amazing collaborative sceenprinting duo Seripop at their Montréal studio.
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The Fucking Word of the Day now has an iPhone app! Get a new word everyday, browse old ones, and submit your own. Support learning that's fun.
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House Industries brings back Photo Lettering to the age of the internet. Typesetting with design, dimension and color, and when done, download an infinitely scalable vector file.
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It’s better to stop being a designer before getting tired of it… nice video with Martino Gamper
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Walter Hansens latest screen print is a band poster for their final tour. In this case its 1921, the last year there was a sighting of the Huia, an extinct New Zealand bird.
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FEATUREDCrazy week at NOTCOT.org with a number of changes and lots of gorgeous posts. We’ve seen a llama font, billboards illuminated by oranges, and much much more.
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VIDEOAn iPhone app for Australian ISP iPrimus. Beat the call centre in a game of pong, win free gigabytes for your account.
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A4, a multimedia performance with great use of digital media. Featuring Jin Wook Lee and the collaborative visuals of Lumpens and Octamin.
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Taking advantage of the anti-microbial properties of silver, Roman Coppola and his innovation consultancy, TDB Special Projects have created these cute silver spoons for your baby.
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Crazy old bathtub turned into a chair by Frees Co
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What is Llama Font? It's a font made of llamas. Use it to write out any message you'd like and share it with friends. It's especially helpful in taking the edge off of bad news.
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Photography highlights from the extensive online NASA Images archive, a rich collection of historic space exploration stills, film and video. April 12th marks the 50th anniversary of manned spaceflight.
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Dale Chihuly has a new exhibition on now at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Chihuly has revolutionized the art of blown glass, moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture as a vehicle for installation and environmental art.
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Studio Ve shares the making of their Horseless Rocking Horse.
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Thermoformed wallpaper with 3D effect by Elitis.
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VIDEOBaillat Cardell & fils produced and designed 2 video installations with illustrators Capucine Labarthe and Lino in the Hall of the Place des Arts Complexe, Montreal.
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Beautiful portraits created by French illustrator Ëlodie from the collection of 6 postcards printed by La Marelle Editons.
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You Took My Name - A series of paintings that strip famous logos back to their basic graphic forms.
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FEATUREDThe Devil’s Pet candle by Thorunn Arnadottir… melt the adorable pink polygon cat to reveal its rather more sinister skeleton beneath…
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Robert McGinnis' paintings are sexy and sensual, the girls are always hot and the guys are looking tough.
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FEATUREDFreitag is giving away Roadkill in their 10 Corso Como pop up shop... animal shaped bag tags cut out of truck tarps to hang/weld from your bag.
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BLU is set to release a new print through Studio Cromie. The new print is based on his mural in Rennes, France.
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bbass, an installation which combines projected light with graphic animation, architecture and sound. The Florian Licht installation here uses light and sound to transform architectural spaces.
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Cute billboard illuminated by oranges for Tropicana. The billboard uses several thousand spikes of copper and zinc and a lot of wiring. Design by DDB.
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Great packaging for Williams Warn by Studio Alexander.
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A homemade medium format camera complete with carved wooden body and 360 degree lens (that looks like a crystal ball). Caught on Tokyo Camera Style.
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“Expect to be surprised.” Illustrated by Caitlin Heimerl for 1200 Posters
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Suribachi Mortar and Surikogi Pestle from the new online shop Yaginoyama, which offers "Japanese goodness for the non-Japanese world." Yaginoyama is the only international source for most of their products.
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'Corbeilles' is a stunning series of plywood baskets, designed by Pierre Brichet.
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Launching tomorrow at the Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan are these 'Trap Lights' which are the result of a collaboration between Eindhoven based designers Gionata Gatto and Mike Thompson.
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VIDEOVideo with Designer Francisco Gomez Paz presenting his new lamp for Luceplan: Synapse, a modular system for creating illuminated surfaces of any kind.
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Photos of lovely La Galerie Vegetale in Paris, a rustic homewares/garden shop worth a visit.
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SitTable from UNStudio combines a chair and table into a single streamlined piece of furniture.
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Marks of Excellence is a book by Per Mollerup wich deals with the evolution of logo design from 5000 years ago to our days. An amazing travel through history.
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Superego editions presents two new collections:
Oro Collection and Bosco Collection designed by Andrea Branzi.
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FEATUREDHUGE brain and microchip coffe table/ottomans (?) by Daniel Rohr ~ limited edition, and displayed with brain scans projected above!
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A new archeological museum, clad in a rusted metal skin, is situated next to a 12th-century Gothic cathedral in Soissons, France.
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FEATUREDPentagon system, a series of tables and stools by Itamar Burstein. The pieces are constructed from five identical parts that have the shape of an upside down U! Beautiful details.
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The Safe House by KWK Architects transforms from an open home to a closed maximum security cube with a touch of a button!
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FEATUREDNo Picnic's Alma Log Swings! Favorite Milan Design Week find so far ~ colorful lacquered seats in these log swings make them extra irresistible.
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FEATUREDPSA re:#39490 - Miss links opening in a new window/tab? Try Ctrl(PC)/Cmd(Mac)+Click
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This week at salone de mobile in Milan, Walter, a dialogue with the imagination, a stop motion short by Niels Hoebers is being exhibited at THIS WAY, Design Academy Eindhoven.
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FEATUREDStrawberries in felt living wall pouches ~ along with herbs filling a whole tunnel of an entry way! Gorgeous look at Ortofabbrica in Milan Design Week's Zona Tortona!
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The Mask of Noguchi, Madam Ichiyo, and Phantom Yukichi, Kasou Pochi Bukuro, envelopes for money.
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FEATUREDA cluster of crane suspended Mini Coopers are hanging out in Milan! Certainly one way to make you shift perspectives!
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Italian artist Moneyless has created wire sculptures around San Francisco.
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Exclusive coverage of New York based fashion photographer Jimmy Fontaine's solo show 'Everything Went Black' at Comune.
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Retro VHS notebooks to record your thoughts, travel notes, recipes etc.
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The folks at Pysop have come up with Tipsy - an animated bottle of red wine with a French accent - to advertise the upcoming Sonoma Film Festival.
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Artist Dan Berglund takes a sheet of glass and paints pictures to accompany Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World in this very cool stop motion animation.
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FEATUREDMoneral makes some of the most stunning wooden plates i’ve seen/felt. They really are like eating off of slices of wood… with a perfect plate like curvature... and dishwasher safe! See the details up close!
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Cute packaging for Holtz Tabak und Pfeife, Frankfurt. By Graeme Offord.
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Timbuktu, a cute iPad based magazine for children.
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FEATUREDHi there! We're making lots of changes, smaller ones rolling out first ~ just wanted to let you know links NO LONGER OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW! So click accordingly! :) Thanks, NOTCOT.
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Italesse's PRIVÉ BEACH line is beach/outdoor/kid-ready is made of polycrystal and looks gorgeous plus it's unbreakable!
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Lovely! Pinetti's Quattrogiga Notebook with a 4 gigabyte USB key as the clasp! Refillable, and beautiful, amazing feeling Italian leather!
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Great photo series of Yale's Peabody museum by Paul Octavious.
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FEATUREDUp close with the Nutella Esperienza Italia 150 limited edition collection of glasses by ARC'S ~ even better in person than in the renders! Adorable illustration details!
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The Bubble Chandelier by New York based Shaun Kasperbauer is a light fixture made up of reused soda bottles.
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L’Artisan Electronique, a virtual pottery wheel by Unfold in collaboration with Tim Knapen.
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VIDEOOfficial animated movie Storm. Written and performed by Tim Minchin, directed and animated by DC Turner.
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The iMSO-104 turns your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch into an oscilloscope display.
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FEATUREDAlfredo Haberli Carafe for Georg Jensen ~ the top is literally a wooden spinning TOP! Such an elegant option to work some play into the table setting...
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Classic Botanical Whole Plant Collection by Clinton Friedman. Disguised, faded, bruised and torn. Chopped, stacked and waiting for purpose. Photographed and recorded in their entirety.
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VIDEOUCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Who enjoys shopping in Ikea? Great lecture on commerce and design! Professor Alan Penn, from the Bartlett School of Architecture.
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Beautiful watercolors from Marion Bolognesi.
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Elaborate bicycle chain chandeliers by Carolina Fontoura Alzaga.
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Nate Bolt's trip from SF to Paris in timelapsed video form! All photos were edited using iMovie and the soundtrack done using Garageband on the iPad 2.
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Stunning jellyfish photography by Barry Steven Greff.
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Great hand welded metal and glass terrariums from Assembly New York.
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"From Steel", great film by Michael Evans capturing the making of Soulcraft bicycles by Sean Walling.
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This September, Random House will release seven rarely-seen Dr Seuss stories collected in "The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories".
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An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of Brandon Boyd's first-ever mural project at Hurley's H-Space in Costa Mesa, CA.
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Portland graphic design guru Aaron Draplin gives you a guided tour through his bulging drawers of dirty (packaging) delights.
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Michael Eden’s ‘Grey Bloom’, part of the14th annual SOFA (Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art) Fair, which runs from April 14 through April 17 at the Park Avenue Armory.
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Portfolio Update by Elmer Duyvis. Blurring the borders between fiction and reality.
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Gregory Euclide prepares an installation for the Museum of Arts and Design's 'Otherworldly' - Opening June 7th in New York.
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Knoll Exhibition Catalog — Paris, 1972. Wonderful bold Modern design and photography by legendaries Massimo Vignelli and Herbert Matter.
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Harmony Gong's Ema for 'Artists Help Japan' Give2Asia Auction on eBay. Artists include Audrey Kawasaki, Yoskay Yamamoto, Allison Sommers and many more talented peeps!
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The Minister’s House in Crossville, Tennessee is a treetop mansion! The largest tree house in the world. Construction began in 1993. Now , in 2011 it measures 10 stories!
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At Milan Design Week, Paris designers A+A Cooren will present Yabané a wooden dresser with drawers opening in both directions, inspired by a traditional Japanese graphic design (Yabané means 'arrow' in Japanese).
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This T shop in Copenhagen is designed as if the whole store were the display. Tiny backlit holes perforate the shelves on surfaces at different depths, creating a powerful eye-catcher from outside.
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Curly Glass Flower Supports from a Thuringian glass-works
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Bike Hanger concept from Manifesto Architecture stores many bikes while requiring minimal surface area on the ground, using a ferris wheel like system to raise the bicycles.
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Held Vodka ~ adorably packaged Berlin discovery! It's a local vodka with a lot of history, but the bottle and graphic are what pulled me in first for sure!
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FEATUREDPortal 2! Still not here yet, but SO close, so until then, these "Investment Opportunity" vids for Panels, Bots, and Turrets are gorgeous and fun!
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How would you interpret the phrase One Plain, One Fancy? Here's a collection of entries so far to this open submission series.
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Audi teams up with Renovo for this new wooden bike. Wired gives it a test-ride.
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The new Bugatti '16C Galibier' Sedan has just gone into production, rumoured to be packing some serious heat with a W16 with 1,000 HP, or a more scaled-back 800 HP high powered engine.
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Williams British Handmade. Unique bespoke handcrafted luggage.
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Messerblock - The ultimate swiss army knife block ~ knives slot in around the side, and larger utensils in the main section.
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'Shark' pendant light by Swiss designer Francis Chabloz.
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A french collective of three insane illustrators (Nicolas, Mathieu et Sebastien)
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The world's first personal brewery, the WilliamsWarn makes commercial quality beer, chilled and straight from the tap in just 7 days. Watch the videos.
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Olympics bird's nest inspired staircase at East Hotel, Hong Kong, designed by CL3.
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FEATUREDLove this project called Be Your Own Souvenir from Barcelona based blablabLab that uses rapid 3D printing to create an army figurine style souvenir.
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What Happens When has undergone its third transformation! Images of the new interior design (and previous renditions) can be found in Core 77's gallery.
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FEATUREDAcronym - incredible gear from the German company that is beyond lustworthy - especially the details! Jacket Slings! Mag headphone panels! Laptop tote that stands when empty! Removable branding... etc
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Lacoste's new fragrance - It's great to see the brand celebrating what makes them great.
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