FEATUREDBreakfast Interrupted - A boldly artistic re-think on the most important meal of the day. Stunning video and making of by Bruton Stroube!
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Palm is a self assembly lampshade consisting of 22 individual leaves that hook onto any pendant light fitting and simply link together. Available in 6 colours and 100% recyclable, Palm is also flat packed for efficient transport.
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The traditional water cooler + a bench = the Cooler Bench! One of the RIT/Wilsonart Metroproject01 runners up at ICFF.
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FEATUREDNotVentures now has a STAMP! Snail mail beware!
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As Little Design As Possible: The Work of Dieter Rams by Sophie Lovell, is an expansive 240 page book that brings the reader many never-before-seen photos, blueprints, illustrations, and materials from Rams’ personal archive.
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FEATUREDS.H.I.E.L.D Assessment Test unboxing ~ a fun press kit from Acura/Thor, awesome design from Dead As We Know It ~ unboxed in the MDX! Scorpion reanimation, Rorschach tests, mysterious switches and more!
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In Tina Miyake's collection everything is seen as a whole. The focus is on the final effect. Knits and weaves interact to form a sensuous union, and each piece can be combined or simply worn alone.
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Shelly Revill's Monsterology, winner of the 2011 Puffin Digital Prize
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A vegetable garden concept for a roof or a patio.
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Design Bureau Magazine starts up a new weekly column featuring creatives from all over. Contributing writer Elizabeth Gilmore meets up with artists and designers to dump their bag inside out and put their most personal items on display! Say hi to Letterform!
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Ispired of 1965 VW Camper Van, this is one of the coolest tent I ever see.
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Movie Barcode compresses each frame of a movie into a sliver then lines them up creating a 'barcode' of colors of a film.
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Turnstyle News' video going inside the industrial design studio of John Cho Moore - see how he builds his handmade bamboo and canvas bags.
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A master of capturing food with his camera, a photographer of unique tastes and flavours: meet Bob Noto and his one-of-a-kind portraits of the world's most famous dishes
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Stats of the Union, an iPad app for exploring data from the Community Health Status Indicators report. Designed by Ben Fry of Fathom.
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Fermid by Behnaz Babazadeh.A kinetic sculpture that uses technology and parametric design principles to explore the natural movement that can be found in living organisms and its relation to human perception.
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The Inception Chair by RISD student, Vivian Chiu, is one of her many puzzle-like furniture designs.
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HI MATIC will respond to a current need: a new type of hotel, practical and accessible, mixing codes of an urban hotel and country side bed and breakfast, with strong ecological values. By designers Matali Crasset, Patrick Elouarghi and Philippe Chapelet.
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Julian Faulhaber captures Dutch tulips in this incredible slideshow for the NYtimes.
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Tie-Not Water Balloon Filler & Tying Tool - Effortlessly fill and tie water balloons in a matter of seconds - attaches right to your hose!
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Chickens on the roof, fish in an aquaponic farm, fruit in the polytunnel, mushrooms in the basement... FARM:shop in Hackney, London is an emerging urban space not to be missed.
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Award winning Bath Infinity by Mukomelov Studio
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FEATUREDiPads make breakfast in bed happen at the new Mondrian SoHo in NYC - Take a peek at my divine french toast, the blue hued room, ipad add, and more!
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Tatchies, the touchscreen friendly glove with a sleek Scandinavian design. Social, stylish and simultaneously keeping fingers warm.
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Artist Karl Addison draws Llamas for his most recent Urban Art Installation. A little bit of South American Culture for Berlin.
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Workshop Diary, the Christian Vivanco's "Making Off" is running now! from sketches to prototypes + some random insights! Enjoy!
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The Replay Store in Florence has a unique green design developed by Vertical Garden Design and Studio 10.
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Aleksandr Mukomelov's Anchor Tub Stopper for Kikkerland
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Studio visit with the legendary american painter Ron English.
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French artist, Alex Boil created these supernatural images with light installations. The series is called UFO and was created with Mathilde Oriol.
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Corelam is a corrugated plywood with exciting new possibilities for uses in architecture and design.
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FOR 1 OR 2 by Roberta Bratovic is a folding table made of wood and felt. Its simple and logical form is a result of thinking about economical usage of small spaces, it works as a side table or as a centerpiece.
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The parallax graphics in cop car jumping, multi-touch skater game Ollie Punk will seem like their bursting right out of your iPad.
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The Flying Machine in Perth, Australia, makes custom bikes including Sexy Bicycles. It's more than just a bike shop, it's a Bicycle Design Studio!
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Chicken Co-op, beautiful luxury chicken residences!
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Love and War have won a James Beard Foundation Award for their branding and identity work for The National, 'an all-occasion grand café inspired by London cafés and French bistros, but with a unique, New York City twist'.
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Kreativitet og Idéutvikling (Creativity and Concept Development) is a new Norwegian book about creativity by Ingrid Ødegaard, with many illustrations and useful exercises to get your creative juices flowing.
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Four 8x10 art prints on one poster by Jeremy Slagle. Based on vintage film cameras collected from garage sales and flea markets.
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Splash House- Parsons Design Workshop 2011 design for new pool pavilions to be built by the students this summer.
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'Mademoiselles' modular system designed by noto Marco Guazzini + Tsukasa Goto for Officinanove.
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We met up with UNStudio-founder Ben van Berkel this week to talk about the opening of his New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion which opened last night.
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Check out this infographic to find out what is keeping some people from using apps like Foresquare and Facebook Places.
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The Map of the Future -- Density Design was asked to draw a map based on the scenarios developed by the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto.
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Lekue's Twin One. When cutlery collaborates. Knifes, forks and chopsticks all getting on famously.
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Vandeyk Contemporary Cycles - creative professionals designing ravishingly beautiful, handbuilt bicycles. Nightstream is the first collection - art objects on two wheels strictly limited to 25 pieces.
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Raphaël Urwiller (half of the Icinori graphic studio) made a stunning 2-color illustrated version of Carroll's Jabberwocky poem.
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FEATUREDKitchen top Oyster Mushroom Garden! This kit from Back To The Roots grows them out of pure recycled COFFEE GROUNDS! Check out the unbox and the start of my mushrooms!
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The-T-Shirt-Issue is back with another series of 3d-garments. A three-step sequence of a bird spreading its wings, reconstructed and sculpted into t-shirts. Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's photography work from the late 1800s.
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Landmade cork journals from Michael Roger Press.
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VIDEOVideo of chalk lettering master Dana Tanamachi at work on room 1021 of the Ace Hotel Room NYC.
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FEATUREDAn amazing breakfast in the beautiful Imperial No. Nine garden at the new Mondrian SoHo in NYC... the garden motif taken from entrance to bar is gorgeously fun ~ and so much glass and light!
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Grand Slam, new video from Nowness gives a new take on table tennis. Created by filmmaker/photographer Matthew Donaldson and Korean table tennis champion, actress and former model Sooyeon Lee. Amazing film.
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Getting Upper: Graphic Designers and Artists Reconsider the Alphabet. Curator Amos Klausner charged 26 designers with re-imagining a letter from the alphabet. At the Pasadena Museum of California Art opens on Sunday thru Sept 4th.
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Treintafel, a train table for designers by Tomm Velthius.
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FEATUREDManufactum Schwenkgrill Rohstahl (Raw steel pivot grill) and Feuerschale Rohstahl (Crude steel fire bowl) - great, simple design - beautiful details!
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Tangram States Postcards from The Midnight Umbrella Studio.
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138 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes 40x40x40cm by sound artist Zimoun. Check out the video!
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Jayde Cardinelli illustrates the thrill of the chase at San Francisco's Bay to Breakers.
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Leviathan, new work from Anish Kapoor commissioned by the Ministry for Culture and Communication for Monumenta 2011, from 11th May to 23rd June.
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100%BOX consists of the transformation of a garage into a single level, one roomed residential dwelling of 41m2. By FABRE/deMARIEN architectes
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Kids -- future urban planners? -- play with 'city building blocks' at the New Museum Education Department and Rockwell Group’s Imagination Playground during the Festival of Ideas in NYC.
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Paul Smith and Kashimax collaborated to create the stylish Aero Saddle.
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How would you explain a kindle to Charles Dickens? Rachel Walsh designed 40 miniature books and placed them inside of a Victorian version of a portable reader – a hardcover book.
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Mistral Ceiling Fan by Moooi. A cool, bright idea-literally. Under the drum shade lies not just a light, but a functional fan. The light shines through a cut-glass diffuser for a prismatic effect.
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Lumenscape from Urbana is a public art project commissioned by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. It is an investigation of the inclusion of touch and desire, as relevant, attainable qualities into the built environment.
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Bundle by Brooke Woosley is a glassblown pendant lamp that was inspired by sloppily tied newspapers held together by twine.
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"There’s Star Wars, and French intellectuals can tell you all about the Sartre Wars, but — say, what if you smushed them both together? Et Voila!"
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Neutelings Riedijk Architects just opened the new MAS Museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Here are images from a helicopter tour!
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'Mede' coffee table by Italian designer Paolo Cappello.
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Creme Cycles is a new European company manufacturing classic quality commuter bikes. Creme, with it's timeless style, gives the pure pleasure that comes from riding a bicycle.
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Faggötteen aims to be an ode to slowness and wandering, to the kind of mobility when baggage was essential. The wooden stick has been obtained from pruning a fig tree which otherwise would have been thrown in the rubbish. Bindle!
Faggotteen is intended to suggest a different interaction between man and object - in which each part is involved – following the current trend that reclaims the slow elegance of activity, far from industrial rhythms.
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FEATUREDTravel inspiration abounds at NotVentures whether you’re dreaming of getting lost in Java, exploring southeast Wales or heading out an Alaskan expedition.
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'Donald' is a stackable chair made of bended and entangled steel tubes by Benoit Deneufbourg.
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FEATUREDBaby sea turtles and a herd of elephants ~ awesome pictures we just got from Sri Lanka
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Japanese robotic firm Yaksawa teach robots how to use lightsabers.
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FEATUREDBakfietsen are like the SUVs of bikes ~ super cargo bikes ready to haul whatever you can fit in them ~ see some of the amazing models i found at Rolling Orange.
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What better way to disguise a murphy bed than to disguise it as a TARDIS! If you nap in it - you even wake up in the future!
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The Euthanasia Coaster, by Julijonas Urbanos, is designed to take the life of a human being 'with elegance and euphoria'.
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New work by Argentine artist Guillermo Jones.
Project Codes.
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Customized Tableware is a click away with Shapeways 3D Printed Glazed Ceramics.
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Portsmouth University 3D Design student Savio Ku has designed the £20 Cardboard Desk.
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Brand new 'evil' tea, sugar & coffee storage jars from Thabto called Lex, Seth & Carrie. Their eyes tell you what's inside, and their heads have room for the handle of a spoon.
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A preview from Art Amsterdam 2011: MVRDV's "Museo La Curuña" at Cityscapes Gallery's booth.
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SIARA - Stream your world. Siara creates an internet radio station at the push of a button. Turn a place into a station.
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FEATUREDRotary evaporator made Worcestershire sauce infused tomato water - A peek into the Hudson Hall science lab of a kitchen with Chef Jasper Schneider. Check out the video!
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Awesome Nobrow packing tape design by illustrator Ben Newman!
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Ornithological letterpress coasters by Ryan Todd.
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VIDEONike iD's have created a real-time customized billboard in Copenhagen. Christel Winther's winning design was painted on a giant billboard by local artists. Great video!
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Designed by Andrew Simpson Architects, the Scape House twists in all its geometric wonder towards the natural landscape.
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Flat Table Peeled designed by Jo Nagasaka of Sschemata Architecture Office using a layer of coloured epoxy which was poured onto a wooden surface in which the grain had been peeled out to create different depths of color.
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Andrew Thomson's Buckminster Fuller tribute light- the geodesic campaign pendant!
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MuttGear's VirChewLy Indestructible Leash will withstand even a teething puppy.
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FEATUREDA WHALE RODEO! and a black light lit aquarium of confiscated coral! It’s hard not to love the new campaign, Project Ocean at Selfridges. Check out the video of the rodeo in action too!
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Thermonet foil from thermogroup is a micro thin electric underfloor heating system. Designed for installation under laminate, vinyl and carpet floors and at less than 1mm thick, its one of the thinnest on the market.
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A new print to remind you to "Live Slowly" - Vida Lenta by Laszlito Kovacs. Benefits the always fabulous 826 National, an organization that encourages kids to read and write.
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From cinema to architecture, the switch was not traumatic for Marcio Kogan (StudioMK27). He is still inspired by lights, atmospheres, spaces. This is Punta House, his latest, scenographic villa in Uruguay.
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MAKE interviews Jeff Potter, the man behind the book Cooking for Geeks.
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Pave, an incredible bicycle shop in Barcelona designed by architect Joan Sandoval.
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Pizza box packaging fun for Milmao tshirts.
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'A perfect vacuum' - Incredible new painting from Jeremy Geddes, soon to be turned into a limited edition print. Now would be a good time to get on his mailing list!
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"Emerald Leaves" is a new large-format print from The Best Part. Hundreds of images of leaves are assembled to form the shape of an emerald.
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ScanLAB Projects have been investigating the capture of mists with a 3D laser scanner. Here are the remarkable results !
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Izola Maritime Soap with packaging from Aesthetic Movement.
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FEATUREDElsa Peretti Bottle Pendants for Tiffany & Co ~ perfect little necklaces you can place a flower cutting in, or grow a seedling?
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We'll give our blood for good branding. Touch Branding identity includes a direct mail piece of a real blood bag filled with a fake blood.
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The Netherlands Institute of Architecture created these postal stamps that, when held up in front of your webcam, display 3D models of five unbuilt works by Dutch architecture offices.
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A design proposal for desktop wares made by students of first and second semester of the ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, commissioned by Alessi, they look ready for production.
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New collection of artwork from Woop Studios detailing British birds and their collective names. This one shows 'A Charm of Finches', with others including 'A Concentration of Kingfishers' and 'An Exaltation of Larks'.
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Beth Chapleau's Canadian winter survival kit.
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FEATUREDRED! Metal Rouge Elisa Louboutins unboxing in/on the Mars Red Mercedes-Benz 2011 C63 AMG... it's amazing how close the signature red Louboutin soles are to the paint job!
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Glass Farmhouse by Olson Kundig in Northeast Oregon.
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Music Beta by Google. Google has launched a free cloud-based music service that allows you to upload music to your personalized online storage locker.
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“158 answers“ presents eleven interviews with renowned type designers and writers, interviewed by students of Type Media postgraduate course in type design.
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Google just unveiled a LED light bulb that can be controlled from any Android device!
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The new Love Lace exhibition at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum plays with our perception of lace work with new mediums and objects from left field.
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“la bulle” is a 2 month long pop-up bar restaurant designed for The Coca-Cola Company on the Champs Elysées as part of the Coke’s pop up anniversary place “Espace 125” with W&CIE.
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Wafft is the name of these furnishings designed by the Japanese Tani and Matsumua using a plywood which is a hybrid between aluminum and beech wood. The stool is incredibly thin and light.
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'Enignum' wooden furniture by Joseph Walsh Studio. [Editor's note: love the rest of the series! you may remember the bed from #34860]
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FEATUREDPinch Food Design creates "Food Furniture" of sorts ~ creating the ultimate multisensory experiences you can barely liken to catering.
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Loopita Bonita designed by Mexican industrial designer Victor M. Aleman.
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Newcastle based artist Hush will be opening a new show in LA's New Image Art on May 21st.
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Draw Happy, a project from Catherine Young in which people were asked to draw things that make them happy. This infographic captures the responses of 106 respondents.
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FONTABLE, a series of alphanumeric elements designed by Alessandro Canepa and Andrea Paulicelli that can be combined to compose words.
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Tipos Infames, a coffee and book shop in Madrid by MYCC.
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Treasure Wheels are a small, portable set of wheels you can clip on and use to carry up to 150 lbs.
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The Curious Explorers Illustrated Pocket Companion to Exotic Animal A-Z is an illustrated pocket book for the inquisitive adventurer. Illustrated by Marc Martin, the limited edition, 30page artist book is a world of lush textured colour and alluring animal illustrations.
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Rosa Maria Unda Souki won an award at Montrouge for her oil paintings on linen depicting the house of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. This one is titled "Federico's Kitchen" (2010).
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Standing at your desk was so last year. Check out this bistro-like table to allow cyclists to stop off for a rest by STORE MUU.
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The MotionBeam project explores the use of handheld projectors to interact and control projected characters. Collaboration between Disney Research and the Carnegie Mellon Computational Design Lab.
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Beautiful water color illustration by Conrad Roset.
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The rugged beauty of England's Osea Island was the inspiration for the Osea Kitchen by custom kitchen designers Plain English, complete with wood paneled walls, steel windows, and storage for firewood.
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'Corner Light' by Peter Bristol for Established & Sons.
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Mt Ever Climb - An endless rope climbing machine.
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WHOISIN designed and made Plastic Heart, an installation made from 200 rolls of 'no noise' packing tape, for a visual and spatial experience for visitors at the 2010 Norberg Festival.
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