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Tobias Berneth created the Thinner Table - perhaps the worlds thinnest table at only 6mm thick. It comes in a variety of veneer finishes: oak, birch, walnut, white laminate, and black-stained oak.
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Jo Crepain designed this house outside of Antwerp around an old water tower that the client admired. The actual living space all happens in the cube below, but the levels surrounding the water tower are used for relaxing and viewing the landscape around the tower.
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Interesting table from Peter Marigold of Okay Studio. The Ellipse table goes from being a round table to an elongated ellipse form.
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Pretty packaging by Duffy & Partners for Tall Tales Restaurant (part of the Gander Mountain outdoor lifestyle products and services network). Love the deer antler logo.
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Bola Sociology Design's new identity for Arroz de Festa (a catering company - the name means Party Rice in Brazilian). I like how the intricate patterns are disturbed and become chaotic.
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Quentin Vaulot's and Luiza Barroso's Ofício Workstation desires to visualize the creative process as it progresses from chaos to order.
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Band In My Pocket - another project from au Design, in partnership with Yamaha - a set of cell phones that also function as musical instruments. Depending on the prototype, you can turn your phone into a brass instrument, drums, piano, turntable...
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Interesting maps by Worldmapper. This one redefines the world by mapping our CO2 levels in 2000.
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Something's Hiding in Here's two month exhibition at Urban Outfitter's Sansom Window Project in Philadelphia. The message will be changed every day, so submit your own to their blog for a chance to be included in the project.
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Interesting - almost spatial - paper bags by Good Design Company for the Takeo Paper Show.
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Fragile Candy by Wooteik Lim - meant to bring to mind that while candy tastes good, it's also bad for you.
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Leonardo Glass Cube by 3deluxe - I love how the detailing of the facade is picked up in the ground work.
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Contexture Design's Bentwood coffee cuff - dual purpose jewelry for your arm and your coffee cup.
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Sou Fujimoto Architects' amazing TINY Next Generation House in Japan - conceptually, a house made out of jenga blocks.
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Too weird - x-ray photographer Nick Veasey uses either skeletons in rubber suits, or cadavers to capture the human form in his photographs. When working with cadavers, he has around eight hours to pose and shoot before rigor mortis sets in.
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Peter Castellucci's Garbage Lamp - a fixture made out of "used, compulsively collected polystyrene drinking cups".
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Chris Gray of We Shall See won Freitag's Design-A- Truck competition. In keeping with Freitag's recycling philosophy, Gray's tarpaulin will be cut up and made into bags. 2nd and 3rd place went to André-Alexander Glesemann and Anna-Paula Henschke.
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Nendo recently released “Talking”, a set of seasoning dispensers. The mouth on each dispenser is a phonetic representation of Yu, Shi and Ko (shoyu, shio and kosho - soy sauce, salt and pepper - respectively). Cute.
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Sara Huston's Lifestyle Coffee Table - customized to store and display your favorite magazines.
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Christian Flindt's Rainbow chair - I love that he calls this the worlds first side-stacking chair.
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Love this - D-Vision created the Small Apple Dish to aesthetically incorporate your apple core when you are done with it.
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Tom Dixon has released his 2008/2009 collection, including this Blow floor light in his signature copper.
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A hillside house in Ushimado, Japan by Tezuka Architects - the entire rear facade opens up via some sliding doors.
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Studio Mumbai's Palmyra House, constructed from louvers made from locally harvested Palmyra trees, allowing the facade to be both open and airy or closed for more privacy and protection.
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Not just a bird house - a bird apartment complex! Maxime Delporte's La Mangeoire project.
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David Ngo's Toumei sake carafe has an LED in the base that illuminates the remaining sake. As the carafe is emptied, the light becomes less diffuse.
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In his ‘Camouflage’ series, Liu Bolin painstakingly paints his subjects so that they blend into their surroundings.
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Schindlersalmerón created the ZipShape as an investigation into new method of construction, where panels made out of any material can be easily bent without the use of any molds or jigs.
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David Aspinall created "Shredding is all about..." as a means of exploring methods of creating 3-D letter-forms from 2-D materials.
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I love Shelley Spicuzza's ReGlow fixture which is made from a hamster ball with holes into which empty plastic bottles are screwed. It not only cuts down on waste, but it looks really good, too.
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Designboom highlights Joel Escalona's new Tubo Chair Collection - each piece is made from a seemingly continuous piece of bent stainless steel.
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You've seen Tanya Aguiniga's gorgeous furniture here before (posts 9141 and 8842) but if you haven't checked out her website recently, take a look - I love the combination of the product image and the macro-photography that changes with each project.
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Mctega is the result of a collaboration between two scientists who use industrial chemistry mass production techniques on a much smaller scale to create one of a kind pieces of jewelry.
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The Chubby Brothers dining table by Brian Lee takes the ubiquitous dining table and camouflages it by giving it the appearance of a solid object, until the chairs are removed.
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The Tenfold Collective designed the USA Swimming sponsor brochure for the Beijing Olympics.
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