The International Fauna Dossier describes a schaffas (Marcum-Schaffidius) as a gentle and un-aspiring creature of great mystery - this exhibition shows off 80 variations of this creature...
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Now fly has a chance - Fly Swatter 1:1000 - Idea: Denis Belenko, Alexandr Braszensiy - Model: Dmitriy Nkolaenko
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"Kiss Your Little Girlfriends Golden Lunchroom Face Raise Your Middle Finger High Special Afterschool Embrace", Ivan Witenstein at Dere Keller Gallery.
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Collection of images from New Zealand based photographer Ben Smith, in and around the Syrian Arabic Republic
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With Dynamic Architecture buildings are now able to change their shape.
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The Ring Stadium in Maribor, Slovenia. Very impressive, i like it better than the World Cup/Olympics stadiums for its simplicity. By OFIS arhitekti & Multiplan arhitekti.
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Granollers School in Spain, by Jordi Badia Arquitectos.
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FEATUREDCarlos Ramos' first solo show! The dexters lab art director does some incredible animals in his "Natural History Museum Part I" show for Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City
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John Wardle Architects' Surf Coast House, sitting above the dunes at Anglesea in Victoria, AU, is a reinterpretation of the 'rude' beach shacks of days gone by.
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Sketchalots ~ modular, no installation, whiteboard spaces - So whiteboard heaven does exist.. Probably on the wishlist of all Google employees. Seen at 100% Design.
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Beautiful site from Motorola! Impressive zoom effects!
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Dickson Despommier was on the Colbert Report last night to talk about his awesome idea of vertical farming... Feels like one of those ideas that will change the world.
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Raouche Divers in Beirut, Lebanon. Some recent material from photographer Cristobal Palma.
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Fallen : An existentialist animated HD short by Wolfram Kampffmeyer and Sascha Geddert.
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The No-key Keyboard works with a motion capture camera who tracks your finger positions.
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Open Box is a lamp for public spaces and offices. Designed by Propeller for Fagerhult.
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Loving the new Schultz Wing outdoor furniture collection. Different from any other outdoor furniture I have ever come across!
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The White House Project brings photography, architecture and design into a distinctive fusion of analytical socio-geographical mapping of the city, focusing on details and aesthetics of the image making - setting the trend of the city.
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Iranian/British photographer is exhibiting in the Tate Britain with her back-catalogue of work. mitra tabrizian
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Fat Guy Stuck in Internet is a new Adult Swim show premiers this weekend, featuring Channel 102 alums.
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The Shack at Hinkle Farm, updated with new images. You know you want one...
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"Time Patrol" is a dark, tense short film from director Jasmin Jodry, with soundtrack from Kode9 & the Spaceape.
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Beautiful photographs made by burying film in the ground and letting bacteria do their work
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model wrapped in beautiful Y & L blanQuette
made from 50% organiic cotton and 50% bamboo.
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The most challenging program for an architect is an architecture school. And JVA made it with the new Oslo Architecture School. Wish mine had a yard as cool as this one.
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Endangered sea dragon at Ga. aquarium pregnant.
One of the rare creatures is pregnant for only the third time ever at a U.S. aquarium.
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A trend sweeping Japan for mens fundoshi underwear. Some very nice designs.
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GuerilLA inspired by Improv Everywhere, organized “Crosswalk Countdown” : a mini New Year’s Eve style celebrations at intersections in Santa Monica.
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"Stork" - beautiful spot for Monster from BBDO New York. Created by Daniel Kleinman, Rattling Stick, and Framestore.
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Fractal Table is a table piece which derives from studies into fractal growth patterns. Fractal Table by Platform Wertel Oberfell and Matthias Bär, is impossible unless rapid prototyped.
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Wonderfully intricate illustrations from central London based illustrator, designer, screenprinter Dan Mumford.
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Gravishelf. system wich works without any hardware.
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Photographer Sam Taylor-Wood shot famous movie actors with heart-felt sobs for her "Crying Men" collection.
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Eric Clough secretly built an incredible scavenger hunt into a US$8.5-million, 4,200-square-foot Park Avenue apartment that included ciphers, riddles, poems and a lot of hidden doors and compartments.
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Oded Ezer talks about one of his latest beautiful typography experiments, “The Finger” at TypoBerlin 2008. “The Finger” is best viewed in a video which shows the complexity of the piece, some of which isn’t as visible in 2-D representation.
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This Seedling design from Brett Duncan is basically a system of biodegradable nestling planters that you place inside each other as the plant grows, eliminating the stress of re-potting.
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FEATUREDMy next dinner party will be geographically educational ~ how fun would it be to use these city maps placemats that come in a tablet of 50?
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Side by Side's Concertina Wood Trivet - i was playing with these in person, and they are some of the simplest tiniest looking trivets... incredibly affordable too!
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FEATUREDGorgeous! Moët Rosé Indulgence Coffret ~ holds your Moët Rosé in a glossy black box that is under lock and key!
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Perfect gift for Father's Day? Chanel now has a £9,170 Fly Fishing Rod ~ complete with Chanel Flies and a quilted black leather box... (ny-mag photoshopped this silly pic of karl)
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FEATUREDCatherine Ledner's incredible animal portraits which are paired with beautiful wallpapers are now available as limited edition prints! Take a look at my favorites from her A-Z of creatures.
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FEATUREDCONGRATS! To our friend over at Leveraged Sell Out ~ who's taught me almost all i know about the finance world... from a hell of a blog, to a BOOK! Is this the new trend?
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Amazing hand blown cupcake platter by up and coming artist, Amanda Goss. Brilliant!! You can vote for her and her design at Fred Flare - she's a finalist in their design contest!
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A small spa at Las Palmas in Leyda, Chile. It has a wood skin that allows it to integrate with its surroundings while maintaining certain privacy. By Land Arquitectos.
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A unique tandem bicycle, Bi-Cycle - Since both riders can steer and pedal at the same time, riding this bike demands a trust bond between the riders.
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ThrICE Cubes by Henry Bagshawe is an interactive table light that combines a decorative lighting effect with a unique cube shape. The cube shape light can be located on their face, edge or apex to create seperate lighting effect and user experience.
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check out the series of artist books by emerging book artist/ designer allison wilton. the books she has posted on her online portfolio all surround issues of contemporary web culture, and her design portfolio makes me jealous!
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The Eleven Eleven Lincoln Road project in Miami, Florida. Designed by Herzog & De Meuron.
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Cheeky video from Richard Hammond (of Top Gear) ~ promoting his new book "On The Edge" - love the roles his wife and kids (and dog!) play in it alongside the sleek cars.
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Porsche design is releasing their first line of men's fragranced products this coming fall. "Essence" includes eau de toilette, aftershave lotion, aftershave balm, a hair and body shampoo and two deodorants in stick and spray form.
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Tadao Hoshino Aphrodite Drawers - The Aphrodite is a highly original piece with cantilevered drawers, giving the illusion of instability.
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Modular lighting so you can place these "lightballs" anywhere around your space. Ingenious.
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School Canteen at Póvoa de Varzim by Cadilhe & Fontoura - The new cafateria of the Primary School nº1 in Póvoa de Varzim is a curved volume next to the old bluilding asuming his own autonomy
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I can hear it now... "back in my day, before there was photoshop... this is how they made impossible images a reality!" See how this incredible image of Grace Jones was created...
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Panasonic's World Wide Wave for the Beijing Olympics... cool use of webcams to bring together people's animations to create digital stadiums of waves. Love the illustrations of what you can't do...
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There has been quite an uproar over the images snapped of the uncontacted tribe in Peru. Here is an update on whats going to be done.
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dotdotdot for citroen c-design during the Milan design week 2008 at 31st floor of "Pirellone", 3d projection
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Some impressive sculptures from the Superdome Art Show at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
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A finely crafted Fabergé Buddha made from bowenite which was previously owned by billionaire shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Soon to be up for auction - estimate of £350,000.
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Need a chair? Robot chair follows you around using RFID technology. Designed by Jelte van Geest.
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All apparel at Departika on sale at up to 40% off, included the hit poster "Eagle," now in t-shirt form.
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Desu Design has some beautiful outdoor furniture that incorporates rocks into the forms. This bench is called the SKEW and I think it's a stunner.
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While wasp trap jars have been around for ages... this is the first gorgeously minimal yet designy one i've seen! By Pernille Vea for Menu
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As a part of ANA Crowne Plaza hotel’s “Good Night Sleep” campaign, the hotel hung a bed suspended on the side of a tall building in the Ginza district of Tokyo.
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Do these beautiful images from photographer Jason Tozer depict strange new alien worlds? No, something much more mundane
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Taiwan’s first high definition station recently launched, and these abstract and dark idents for HiHD are meant to represent the “Lifeless, chaotic SD world” and its transformation into the “new era where a HD generation arrives.”
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Life Fitness challenged designer to come up with an urban fitness machine... and gprero design won the competition by having it disappear into an Ottoman-Bench concept dubbed the "Otto-Bench"
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Let your stress and your angry go out with the artistic project "Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine" by yarisal kublitz
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Jacqueline Colley and Heidi Coleman have worked a little 'Grand Designs' magic for Momiji. The girls handcrafted all the teeny detials. Domestic Bliss.
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Cool New Belgium Beer ad on restoring the White Salmon River by removing Condit Dam. The 125-foot high dam is an impassable barrier and has limited salmon and steelhead to only three river miles.
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Future Architecture : Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees
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Leica D-Lux 3 | action of environment using 3D objects made of wood with small squares making allusion to the pixels that form a digital image.
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They look like twins but to tell you the truth they aren't from the same family or country. Amazing work done by François Brunelle with people from North America and Europe.
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Bamboo is one of the most versatile materials in the world. You can create more or less anything with bamboo. Finnish Artek has chosen to design a series of smooth looking furniture with bamboo veneer. The sidetable is my personal favorite.
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A office desking system based on cognitive ergonomics, reflect the way you work
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If you can't wait until July 11th, adopt the pretty cool iPhone 3G Paper toy created by the BigChief team.
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The new UNEP Atlas provides striking visual evidence of the environmental effects of climate change by showing before and after satellite photos over a 35 year span.
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"Big Buck Bunny" - The film of the second big open source project is now available!! An amazing & fun 3D movie. [The trailer was seen as #9457]
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Rem Koolhaas in Coolsingel, or shall we say Gordon Matta-Clark.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play Atari uber-nerd Nolan Bushnell in an upcoming biopic about the life of Mr. Pong.
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Vienna's Museum of Modern Art has an exhibit called Bad Painting-Good Art devoted to bad art. They'll show paintings in various strategies of bad, ugly or malicious painting...that contain elements of irony, protest,trash, kitsch and shock".
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FEATUREDDan Hiller creates "altered engravings" of humans with tentacles... which can be found as prints, on wood, and even engraved on moleskines!
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FEATUREDSeptember 4th - 8th in fforest farm, Cardigan, West Wales ~ Howies will host 75 people with free food and accommodations at the DO Lectures... and you could be one of them!
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Wonderful illustrations from New York based artist, designer, illustrator Marcos Chin. If you can name it Marcos Chin has probably done an illustration for it, products, advertising and fashion illustrations just to name a few.
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The Eco-Cook design by Kechenyi Camille, which earned honorable mention at the international design competition “Dining in 2015,” sustainably addresses both energy and water use while cooking.
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Archrival ~ fun i <3 LA tee... also in black... anatomically correct with sabers going through...
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VIDEONew Luft Logistics film, based on the award winner film created by Monsta and DDB Brazil, last year.
Check it out, it's cute and clever.
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Mortensrud Church by JSA - A church situated on the top of a crest, surrounded by large pine trees, and thought as an addition to the existing ground
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Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, made just the way you want it.
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Made nearly completely of carbon fiber... Nike Mercurial Vapor SL Firm Ground Soccer Shoes... wow
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Cool animation film about a tango dancer who can't dance anymore, unless...Created by François-Xavier Goby, Matthieu Landour & Edouard Jouret
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The Contemporary Jewish Museum by Daniel Libeskind opened this Sunday. Interiors full of light and shaped corners.
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Strata Hotel: The latest from London-based Plasma Studio.
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video about the work in progress of emergency houses made by Kuma, Fuksas, MVRDV, I-Beam Design, The Mad Housers, IFRC, Shelters and Aravena in the Triennale's garden in Milan
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400, 000 hollow black balls dumped into the Ivanhoe Reservoir to prevent sunlight to react with the bromide and chlorine producing carcinogens!
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In Boston a hotel has been transformed from a prison - the outcome is the very impressive Liberty Hotel!
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Awesome new vinyl figure designed by Michael Lau and inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Flight 815 of Oceanic Airlines "crash" in Madrid, Spain. Billboard by Fox.
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at design miami/ basel, audi presented 'traces' an installation, which consisted of 11 'unfinished' pictures by illustrators, artists, designers and photographers.... artificial worlds, with no cars... see what designboom found!
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Piecebook is a great book that is releasing this week showing the secret drawings of some of the worlds most famous graffiti writers.
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Nice Chanel installations at Dover Street Market in London.
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Amazing and mysterious visual journey. Jamie Livingston's daily polaroids from 1979 to 1997, when he died of cancer. Try Wiki for more info...
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Lighting concept by Billy May blurs the line between wall and light fixture.
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A house on a narrow lot, with narrow courts, wide open walls and rope sun screens. Beautiful. Designed by Isay Weinfeld and located in São Paulo, Brazil.
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The result of a brilliant DIY to transform a single umbrella in a firmament of stars.
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Participate in setting a World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours at Firefox 3 download day. Pledge Now ! and don't forget your e-mail, to be notified at download day.
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The Lumeneo Smera is a two seat, four wheel electric vehicle that is narrow enough to maneuver as a motorcycle and taking thin to a new transportation extreme.
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Illustrative designer Zeptonn has just released his new book, Black & White Freedrawings. The book is filled with collaborative drawings, has over 160 illustrations and more than 100 photos of the participants working spaces. Check it out!
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ken goldman's Pick Up ring is the perfect piece of jewelry to wear when steppin out in your favorite black suit!sterling silver set with that amazing red fabric that seems to pick up lint and pet hair like magic-great conversation starter.
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california artist michele pred's mixed media sculptures, made of confiscated items from the San Francisco International Airport, will make you think.
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ATYPYK's Sugarcubes ~ shaped as chocolates!
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FEATUREDSeeing an engraved moleskine, we didn't believe it was really engraved, it felt silk screened... until we looked at it 200x close up...
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Symphony in Red... The Dortmund Concert Hall shows us its fluid symphony roster... Music in the blood... Created by Jung von Matt/Elbe...
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Tokyo Cut Paper artist Patrick Gannon creates mind blowing, intricate, and fun creatures and myths entirely from cut and torn paper (and some wood). His first series of 5 Gicleé prints are now running wild.
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Dear Edi Lamp designed by David Abad, It is a tribute to the father of modern illumination, Thomas Alva Edison. A simple design that just concentrated the light source, the results is pretty impressive.
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A nice house over the hills at Farellones, with spectacular views of the lanscape. Its steel design reminds me of Mies. By Max Nuñez and Bernardo Valdés.
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FEATUREDOld Money by Yoko Devereaux is a limited edition collection of necklaces created by hand carving coins till only their primary designs show.
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FEATUREDAndrew Bell and his "Creatures In My Head" ~ have a BOOK! Adorable, glossy, filled with creatures, sculptures, paintings... and a postcard set! The “Hey Everyone, it’s TAC O’clock!” one is my fav...
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Back in the 1970s, when paisley was still funky and NASA let its visionaries boogie down, the now-staid space agency turned its imagination to the design of space colonies.
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Samsung brings your Italian Football fans to you! "Your Office Toy Supporter" In the form of a hilarious cast of illustrated DIY print/cut/paste
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Hybrid Technologies plans to produce two models of this beauty, an all electric that will have a range of 150-180 miles, and a plug-in hybrid model that will boast a 220 mile per gallon efficiency & over 600hp!
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Jeff Miller has designed some beautiful plywood furniture, Little Big Chair and Big Bend Table, for Baleri Italia. There is something special with plywood. The adaptability is endless and if you ask me, Mr Miller is doing the material justice!
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July 11th ~ new iphone... 3g... $199/299... black/white... and i wish the new ones came in lock boxes with two keys like the ad!...and for all the other announcements from WWDC see #11154
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At the University of Washington... "Underwater communication: Robofish are the ultimate in ocean robots, keeping in touch without scientists' help"
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Adidas UEFA EURO 2008 campaign: a 17-meter-high huddle of players and a Petr Cech Giant Ferris Wheel.
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Finnish photographer Ilkka Halso’s photographic series ‘The Museum of Nature’ intelligently challenges how we can imagine the natural environment of the future.
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too busy watching gizmodo's live coverage of the Apple WWDC Keynote to work this morning.... yay for some really amazing looking iphone apps so far!
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Nice wood work at the new building for productive services at the Morande Winery in Chile. By chilean wood master Martin Hurtado.
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A beach house with an amazing view at Jardin del Sol in Spain. By Corona Amaral Arquitectos.
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Sleek Audio's new custom in-ear monitors shown in a translucent blue that was backlit for the photograph.
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Christopher Conte makes cool critters from things like Singer sewing machine parts...
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Artist Emma Hack, who lives in Australia, creates really gorgeous designs utilizing female models that she successfully blends in with their surroundings. The effect is beautifully crisp, vibrant, living three dimensional wallpaper designs.
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Polanoid.net is doing some cool things with the new Zink film and giving away the first 10 Polaroid Pogo Printers.. check it out
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Your Wall House: custom kits to build your own Wall House, the award winning house by FAR frohn&rojas.
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Bliss and Philips team up - Deluxe Spa-At-Home Grooming System ~ i picked one up and this cordless wet/dry grooming system with multiple attachments and fun samples ~ works great, perfect for summer...
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FEATUREDToys have come full circle ~ from toys being for kids ~ to toys being for grown ups ~ vinyl toys and characters are being transformed back into plushes for the kids! Here's a fun list of baby friendly stuffed toys for gifting!
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Oooh Boy Genius Report got a sneak peek for us of the Blackberry Thunder!
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Bookshelves for Your Spaceship that Brazilian design firm Triptyque created for a private apartment in Sao Paulo.
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Skin Tattoo - Phillips' latest attempt at bio/tech integration. Interesting new direction... with the concept of electronic tattoos that appear with touch...
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