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Love the illustrative style of Tin Salamunic, whose sketches describe everyday life in Richmond, VA.
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The Bjarke Ingels Group recently unveiled designs for Walter Towers, a residential/commercial complex in Prague. The building form is pretty intense.
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Interesting use of materials by Atelier Hitoshi Abe for the Kanno Museum, a private art museum.
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Yuko Tokuda and Yumiko Komiya's The Story Behind the Bookmark - bookmarks that tell their own stories - a lonely mermaid, a silly goose, a word thief.
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Great illustration work by Jan Kallwejt. The above is an illustration for Bedzin Beat's Alternative Silesian Tourist Guide.
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Also by Perfectos Dragones - the Velador Table Lamp - looks like a metal cloth draped over a bulb.
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The versatile Paper Pack by MicroWorks - a folder cut from a single board that can be used as a file or a writing pad.
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Knoend's Lite2go eliminates packaging waste by making the lamp shade itself the packaging.
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I love the playfulness of Perfectos Dragones' Bagu Lamp - so colorful and reminiscent of the lunch box drinks I enjoyed as a kid.
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Stefan Glerum's gorgeous drawings about the obsessive nature of crate digging/record collecting.
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Satina Turner's Flybrary bookshelf - the books hang on metal strips to create the surface of the shelf.
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I'm loving the imperfect form of the PURUS vodka bottle, designed by white_space.
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Yar Rassadin's Beehouse Lamp mimics the natural bee's building process with its semi-filled cellular structure.
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Pieter Hugo's "The Hyena & Other Men" - a series of portraits of a band of Nigerian men and their domesticated hyena.
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Gorgeous refurbished 20th century industrial cage lights - someone needs to start reproducing these!
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Can you believe this is a bank? Italy's CheBanca! is rebranded by Crea International.
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Stanley Honey packages their honey in a reusable clay flower pot - asking you to keep their bees busy.
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Meet the Nerdbots, little creatures made out of old appliance parts. I love and want them.
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Beautiful lines in Kedar Naik's GLIDE chair, made out from aluminum and lacquered fiberglass. I like how the chair support peels up from the base.
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Sandro Lopez's Limu outdoor furniture series can be both a set of chairs and a sculptural element when not in use.
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SNURK created Le Clochard - a cotton bedding set that looks like very real cardboard boxes. Their tagline is "Sleep under a cardboard box so a homeless young person doesn’t have to". Partial proceeds go to SZN, a foundation benefiting homeless Dutch youth.
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Love Alex MacLean's photographic series 'Going', especially this photo titled 'Houndstooth Pattern in Parking Lot at Disney World'.
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I did similar explorations of city maps for my architecture thesis, but Lee Jang Sub has taken the idea one step further and turned his drawings into a set of products, titled the 'Complexcity Project'.
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Walter Bosse's Brass Figures are too cute...DWR recently began reproducing them. I love the play between the polished brass and the patina to give detail to the animals.
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B3 Designers' Cardboard Cafe - the interior design firm converted their studio into a cardboard cafe for the London Design Festival. I mainly just like the splash of color on the inside faces of the boxes that peaks out when the boxes are turned to complete a curve.
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Method always has such great packaging, and their handwash refills are no exception.
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I love Debbie Smyth's series titled 'Pins and Threads' - drawings of electrical pylons made with thread and pins. I like how the lines are continuous giving you insight into the construction of the drawing.
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Amorn Thongsaard's Ramify glass won the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition. Love the chunky base.
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Loyal Loot turns reclaimed trees into Log Bowls - love the high gloss finish juxtaposed with the natural base.
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Shunji Kurimori's beautiful Cedar Sake Cups and Cedar Sake Bottle, made in the Japanese wood craft style Magewappa.
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Dag-Henning Brandsaeter created this series of posters for a performance of ACT! Follow the link for great images that catalog the use of confetti in the making of the poster.
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Love the graphic cuts in the walls of Shanghai's Super Sense Spa, designed by KUU. The wall cuts become recesses for lights.
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Clever idea by Gustafson Porter at the Venice Biennale. Helium balloons float shade cloths to create a very elegant outdoor gathering space. Tent rental companies beware?
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