January 2012
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Simple, clean storage.
A gorgeous and smart work table is the Borrod Table. Designed by Denmark-based Line Depping,”Borrod table is a project playing with order and disorder. An idea to tidy your working desk in an instant.”
The sliding surface of the table opens to reveal a screen for collecting work materials underneath.
via Trend Hunter
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UnderCover OverNight
I want one. Bad.
This is UnderCover OverNight by German exchange student Silvia Terhedebrugge, a cape/bag designed in conjunction with Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition, Zaha Hadid: Form In Motion. Terhedebrugge won first place.
“The piece is fashioned as a cape with visible pockets on the outside and secret pockets on the inside that can hold items for overnight trips.”
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Clap Snap
It’s cute. It colourful. It’s a USB camera named “Clap Your Hands” that takes the cable out of photo transfers. With 2 megapixels and six colours to choose from, it’s the perfect consumer gift. I expect to see this in little design-happy stores soon.
Link via Design Milk
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Favourite Fonts
Typographica has released their favourite typefaces of 2011, there are some beautiful choices in there. I’d shell out for A2 Beckett by Henrik Kubel.
You?
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Jerrycanning
I love that there is a fabulous reuse for Jerrycans. Instructions/design by Quebecois Industrial Designer Samuel Bernier, with just six different materials you can have yourself a pair of striking speakers. Red makes it louder.
Link via Make
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Modular Mojo
You say ‘modular’, and I say ‘YES!’
Enter Seung Yong Song, a man with a plan1. Designing 8 pieces of fucking fabulous furniture filled with whimsy. Each ‘chair’ starts off with four timber legs and a lacquered white seat, and from there all manner of eccentricities ensue.
The pieces can be placed together to form a bed, or different, totally rad space saving arrangements. Song also designed...
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AGNES likes it better when you're older.
I tweeted this last week, but I am still in love with the idea. The design world is seeing a huge burst in ‘service design’ (TASCI, Huddle, This Is Service Design Thinking) the new go to buzz word. But this development, I like. As the US population ages (with less births and longer lives), public spaces (and their design) needs to be rethought. The solution? AGNES.
AGNES is a suit...
September 2011
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Split-Decision Pie Pan
I love this idea. Mainly because I would give it to my friend Jen… She is teh expert baker amaze. Then I could have TWO OF JEN’S TASTE SENSATIONS per visit.
Worth it. Buy now.
via swissmiss
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Puukko Party
Ussi’s designed this magnetic knife rack using reclaimed ‘old-growth’ Cypress for water towers in Chicago. I love the idea, but wonder whether drunken house parties might result in a more dangerous form of darts. That’s just me? Fine.
via Design Milk
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Messenger bag want.
I’m in love with messenger bags, so I wish I rode my bike enough to justify getting this Unit Portables bag. This guy is sleek and lovely and… and… I want one. For 13” and 15” laptops.
Head to Vetted to buy one.
via Design Milk
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Auteur David Lynch Designs Bar
Silencio Club (after Mulholland Drive) has been designed by David Lynch (who needs no introduction) and I am actually in love. Lynch designed some lovely chairs, too. Enamoured. Me.
Head to Designboom for the meaty info.
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WatchI love Oliver Sacks. This TED talk is on hallucinations. 18 mins in length.
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Turn off transparency for privacy
Designed by Russian door makers Mauer Buro, hybrid glazing makes glass a little more convient where a switch can turn the pane from opaque to transparent.
Head to Dornob for more info
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Marcou Morsels
Alexis Marcou caught my eye as I was browsing Fubiz. This illustrator catches movement on the page so well. I love the sketching and minimal colour used over the photography to create this gorgeous geometric effect. Fascinating illustrator. I especially love these sketches.
more at alexismarcou.com
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Herman Miller for ergonomic desks
Enter the Envelope Desk designed by Bill Stumpf and Jeff Weber. The front section “tilts up to 7 degrees in order to maintain sightline with a computer monitor or laptop”. There’s a matching chair, too! More at Herman Miller.
via Mocoloco
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The Museum of Obsolete Objects →
This is gorgeous.
link via swissmiss
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Graphic Designer Patrik Svensso
Lovely, simple posters by graphic designer Patrik Svensso.
Interview over at Smoking Designers
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A Desk for Small Spaces
This “hallway secrecy table” is rad because you pull the work surface toward you to reveal the inside compartments (instead of pulling drawers).
Designed by Daniel Schofield, this table works very well as a desk for smaller living areas, with the adjustable size making it versatile for small spaces.
Link via Mocoloco
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Forty-Five Prefab Fashions
Pre-fabricated housing is still going strong, my favourite of which being shipping container houses which I blogged about in November, last year.
Dornob just released a lovely collation of some of the most inspiring ones out there.
My mission is renewed.
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Cucumber Chords
Dutch artist Ronald Van Der Meijs has created ‘Parthenocarp’, representative of the changing landscape of an urban zone in The Netherlands that shifted from farming to industrial to a ‘downtown centre’.
The installation is comprised of three large-scale musical instruments with cucumber plants embedded in their structure. The sound these instruments make is affected by...
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Beautiful Orange Elephant Sculpture
This elephant, designed and created by Javier Requejo is not specially crafted out of some form of autumn ivy as you may have imagined. It’s a combination of 8 months, 150,000 knots of polypropylene and a metal skeletion. Do I want it? Hell yes.
Link via MocoLoco
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Watch
One of the highlights in my childhood was when my grandfather would tell my sister and I stories about ‘The Bush’. As we had no grounding in Colonial Australia folklore (being OS), these stories were always varied, interesting and fantastical, much the same as the stories my mother used to tell us about magical fairies (while consistently inserting Christian morality into them).
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Tetris Note Taking
I don’t know if you’ve ever had crazy-sticky-note-leaving housemates, but I have… These notes wouldn’t have improved any productive changes in the living situation, but they certainly would have improved my mood.
Designed by Ben Ambrose, what more could you want? These Tetris-inspired Block Notes are the future. Buy them here.
link via Quipsologies
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WatchI am CNC infatuated. LOOK AT THIS AMAZING I DON’T EVEN.
Link via Make Mag.
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Cool Stool.
Gautier Pelegrin and Vincent Taïani (Noon Studio) designed ‘Steel Stool’ as a prototype. The stool functions as a modular storage system and beautifully simple.
I am pretty sure that however much in love I am with this design, it would not suit my carpeted apartment. At all. Which grates me.
This probably won’t stop me from DIYing a something like this, though. Stay...
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August 2011
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"Kisses from the cat"
Step aside, “warm regards”, you are both unfamiliar and self-conscious. Say hello to “tipples and tiddles, tj x”.
I wish.
Loved this chart on popular closing lines by Bobulate and shared by SwissMiss, though.
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Obol: "The Original Crispy Bowl"
This is several kinds of awesome. Why? Mainly because I like my croutons crunchy (do you remember when that word meant ‘lame’?) I love the clean lines and #firstworldproblem this addresses. I don’t like the polypropylene. Will I buy it? HELLZ YES.
via HolyCool
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All you illustrator nuts out there, this one's for...
GUYS. Vector graphics from your sketches. FOR REALZ. This is a Christmas list essential. I am loving this so hard.
Wacom has come out with Inkling and I agree with Wired’s Charlie Sorrell, it looks amazing.
Short story? There’s excellent pressure sensitivity, i.e. your drawing will look the same onscreen (even if it’s tiny). There’s layers (yes, you can take away that...
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Book Sculptors
I saw Brian Dettmer’s gorgeous book sculptures the other day via Design Milk.
House of Tongues, 2010, Altered Book
It made me think of the incredibly talented (and local) Nicholas Jones who I saw a few years ago at This Is Not A Design Market. He dress sense is unparalleled and his designs and painstaking scalpel work just blow me away. As a strange side note, after seeing Nicholas at...
January 2011
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In the Office: Din-Ink
In 2008, Italian-based studio Zo-Loft won first prize in the Designboom Competition ‘Dining in 2015’ with their entry ‘Din-Ink’. After much acclaim, ‘Din-Ink’ is now in production by Fiftytwoways ltd.
Taking basic ballpoint pens and amalgamating the caps, this is the work of tiny gods. PEN CAPS. FORKS. SPOONS. OH MY. LOVE IT SO HARD. This shit is perfect for...
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Anthropomorphic Art
Beth Cavener Stichter is an artist with incredibly confronting notions of anthropomorphism. Stichter uses clay as her medium, along with a scary insight into the human condition.
Link via Who Killed Bambi?
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Laser Lighting
Love this awesome laser cut lamp by Rob Ward. Thanks for sharing, Make Magazine!
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Fruity Fun
Love this gorgeous fruit wrapping (printed with scented inks!) by Swedish firm Happy F&B.
Link via Colossal
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Soap Slivers
A more hygenic bar of soap? Yes please. This soap, unlike it’s close relatives has slipped it’s reputation of gathering bacteria by having a short life-cycle.
“Designed by Ryohei Yoshiyuki for inframince – a beauty and cosmetics company – the cold processed soap, made from gentle, all-natural ingredients, is hand-cut to create a thin slice intended to be exhausted in a single...
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Recycling Food Waste with Tour De Fork
Tour De Fork have been researching the idea of re-using kitchen waste for some time now, and have collaborated with cooks and various specialists in Milano. Enter three prototypes that have blown my mind.
The Apple Peel Grower, which uses the oxidation of apple peel to keep a balanced mini biosystem for yeast which is essential in making sourdough.
The Coffee-Scent Dispenser allows you to...
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WatchPhilippe Starck talks about his interior redesign of Le Royal Manceau. I love his animated explanation and his inspired ‘spirit’ direction. Must watch.
via MocoLoco
VIDEO: PHILIPPE STARCK, LE ROYAL MONCEAU
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Tetris Living with Slow Sofa
This sofa has nine different elements that can be rearranged for an amazing variety of combinations. Called the Slow Sofa and designed by Frederik Roije, the elegant contrast of materials has left me swooning.
Link via Design Milk