Dec 01
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Dec 01
Hot In The Hive: Vosges Haut Chocolat Mini Exotic Chocolate Bar Library
Posted in: Uncategorized  | What’s a good way to relax and spend some quality quiet time alone this winter? Curling up with a good book under a snuggly comforter near the fireplace and maybe sipping on something hot and sweet. What would make this cozy scenario even better? If the books themselves were made of chocolate. While not all of us may love literature, we can all appreciate chocolate bars! Vosges Haut Chocolat is a high-quality candy company that makes everything from classic truffles to wild chocolates like the legendary Bacon Bar. The Vosges Haut Chocolat Mini Chocolate Library comes with a selection of tastes including classic milk and dark as well as an exotic flavors collection that include Oaxaca and something known only as “Woolloomooloo.” This mini chocolate bar library comes in a cute box with a ribbon and definitely resembles a row of books… until you open each of the individually wrapped bars and devour them. It’s a perfect gift or stocking stuffer for the chocolate lover/bookworm in your life! Price: $25.00 |
Dec 01
For All Its Good, Has Brad Pitts Make It Right Campaign Also Hurt New Orleans?
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There’s been lots of swooning and applauding over the years for actor-turned-architect Brad Pitt over these past few years because of his Make It Right program which has gotten lots of starchitects designing homes for displaced residents of New Orleans. Heck, the guy even landed the cover of Architectural Digest for his efforts. But while a lot of good has been done, in a report filed by the NY Times‘ Fred Bernstein about the project, he slips in a few bits of criticism, receiving some quotes that maybe Pitt and Co. have upset the unique look and feel of the city, robbing some of what made New Orleans “New Orleans” by bringing in all those starchitecture ideas:
Indeed, the houses seem better suited to an exhibition of avant-garde architecture than to a neighborhood struggling to recover. A number of designers I talked to, some of whom had visited the neighborhood, lamented the absence of familiar forms that would have comforted returning residents.
…Jennifer Pearl, a broker who has several houses for sale in the Lower Ninth, has a practical view. “Brad has the very best intentions,” she said. “However, had he come here with houses that looked like what had been here before, he probably could have had four times, five times as many houses up by now.”
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Dec 01
New dual-screen laptop will be supremely irritating to fellow passengers
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It’s only 11 inches wide when closed, but the new Kohjinsha DZ laptop unfurls two 10.1-inch screens side by side, giving you an absurd amount of screen real estate.
The sub-$1,000 device is the first mass-market dual-screen laptop, and while it has obvious applications for spreadsheet crunchers and creative types, the real utility of this machine is that you’ll be able to intrusively annoy your airplane seatmate in a way that you simply can’t with a conventional one-screen laptop.
via gizmag
Dec 01
Bake Christmas Cookies In Style In An Adorable Anthropologie Apron!
Posted in: Uncategorized  | Yes, I do a little bit of baking. I’ll even cook at times if I need to. While I’m not claiming to be a domestic goddess by any means, I can at least look the part while preparing for upcoming holiday parties. Recently I made a fantastic purchase in hopes of it inspiring me to become an overnight chef success. Anthropologie’s 3-D Toile Full Apron is a pretty sweet deal! It’s not your grandmother’s “kitchenwear” either. The apron I bought has gorgeous ruffles and ruching; I found myself not wanting to take it off when I was done baking. I wore it this past Thanksgiving, while I whipped up my pumpkin gingerbread trifle. My dessert was a hit, but that didn’t mean I came out of the kitchen unharmed. Thank god the apron was machine washable! Holiday cookie time is upon us, and I plan on wearing it to protect my clothing. The apron is so cute; I swear it makes me want to find another excuse to wear it. Maybe I’ll attempt a roast… with the number of a good take-out places within my reach! Head over to WhatsWear for more festive finds for a fashionable holiday season! |
Dec 01
Peter Saville wrapping paper and other seasonal creative stuff
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Being based in offices overlooking London’s busy Oxford street, it certainly hasn’t escaped our notice here at CR towers that Christmas is nearly upon us. And, as ever, it’s great to see enterprising creative types creating lovely cards and other seasonal treats for fans of their work. Here are a few of our favourite such Christmassy things so far this year…
Hand lettering artist Alison Carmichael created packs of 10 Christmas cards which she is offering for sale to friends and clients at a thoroughly reasonable £6 for 10 cards. “It’s a totally non profit making enterprise,” she tells us, “but cheap enough that if you felt guilty about buying non-charity cards, you can still afford to fling a couple of quid to a charity of your choice!”
No Brow commissioned Bristol-based illustrator Bjorn Rune Lie to create four Christmas card designs for them which they’ve hand screenprinted in their Shoreditch studio so that each card comes in four different colourways. The cards are made using 100% recycled stock and you can buy a pack of four for £9 (including p+p for UK buyers) direct from the nobrow.net.
A hand grenade-shaped bauble may not seem like the most festive of decorations for your Christmas tree – and that’s actually the point of these grenades, conceived and designed by Manchester-based Dorothy for Ctrl.Alt.Shift in association with Suck UK. Entitled Chistmas Declarations, the grenade baubles are meant to remind people that despite the joy of Christmas, all is not rosy in the world.
The limited edition decorations are available to buy in packs of six from Suck UK (£20) with a donation being made from the sale of each pack to support Ctrl.Alt.Shift’s fight against global conflict. And they’re also being stocked by numerous independents including the Saatchi Gallery. More details and stockists at ctrlaltshift.co.uk. Photographs by Tim Sinclair
We received this charming illustrated postcard from Owen Gildersleeve of collective Evening Tweed. While he originally produced the postcards in a limited edition of 40 on his Gocco home screenprinting kit to send out to friends and clients, Owen tells us he’s hoping to use the jumper illustration on Christmas cards as well.
Ah, wrapping paper – always handy this time of year… We were sent a couple of rolls of this Manchester Gift Wrap, designed by Peter Saville in collaboration with Howard Wakefield of Studio Parris Wakefield for visitmanchester.com. To see what the wrapping paper looks like unfolded, click this link
Last year the Christmas By Colour project saw the good folk at Raw Design ask a host of designers and image makers to submit a pantone reference to a colour they felt summed up the festive season. GF Smith provided the paper that allowed CBC to print posters showcasing the results of the submissions they received. This year CBC asked which of a selection of 40 pantones which featured on last year’s poster were peoples favourite – the top 12 have been made into Christmas cards – which are available this year in two different packs of six:
The top twelve hues (which all have suitable name) are thus:
Quality Street (Guy Moorhouse)
Sprouts (John Dowling)
Yellow snow (Nick Greenwood)
Mulled wine (Tash Willcocks)
End of the Sellotape (Pete Clarke)
Park Lane & Mayfair (Jez Burrows)
Bank balance (Tom Heaton)
Granny’s whiskers (Jordan Nelson)
After Eights (Shane Phillips)
Bucks Fizz (Gil Cocker)
Pigs in blankets (Sean Rees)
Walking in the Air (Kelly Mackenzie)
Each pack costs £3.95 and they’re available to buy from christmasbycolour.co.uk
Paper company Fedrigoni turned to Studio8 to design their 2010 calendar, which takes the form of a pile of coloured paper, a sheet for every day of the year. A number representing the date is perfed into each sheet meaning users can push it out and stand it up on the top of the pile each morning…
YCN (Young Creatives Network) is set to launch a Christmas shop at its Rivington Street headquarters later this week. The shop will be full of specially commissioned exclusive goodies designed by a raft of interesting creative types including Donna Wilson, Mother and Johnny Kelly. Shown in the image above are some examples of the shop’s stock sent to us by YCN – a sheet of wrapping paper designed by Toby Pennington, two one-off, hand-illustrated christmas cards (the one on the left is by CR favourite Johanna Basford, the one on the right is by Jamie Portch) and a pack of four cards by Valero Doval. Also available will be Dominic Wilcox‘s By A Thread walking stick (below), whereby multi-coloured cotton thread reels have been painstakingly transferred by hand onto a wooden walking stick. Each stick is completely unique with a random combination of coloured thread.
The shop is open from 10am to 6pm Monday to Friday at 72 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3AY. Tel: +44 (0) 207 033 2140. email: info@ycnonline.com
Have you produced something nice to send to clients at Christmas – or created your own Christmas cards? If you have, we’d love to see the work – with a view to doing more of these posts through December. Email me at gavin.lucas@centaur.co.uk
Dec 01
Sugru is like consumer-ready modeling clay for physical hacks
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Launching tomorrow: Something like Play-Doh for industrial designers, Sugru is a modeling-clay-like silicone that can be used for everything from molding ergonomic grips to repairing leaky sneakers. Once removed from its packaging, it can be molded for a 30-minute period, and it then cures at room temperature in about 24 hours. Self-adhesive, waterproof, and dishwasher-safe. Check it out:
There’s a gallery of photos showing what you can do with the stuff here.
Dec 01
Winners of The Great Indoors Awards 2009
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Beijing Noodle No.9 (above) in Las Vegas by Japanese studio Design Spirits is one of five winners of The Great Indoors Awards this year. (more…)
Dec 01
Rollnet Artengo
Posted in: UncategorizedUn kit de jeu original contenant un filet de ping-pong pouvant être installé sur n’importe quelle table. Une nouvelle licence de sport de raquettes par Décathlon, se clipsant sur tout support. Un spot de Young & Rubicam illustrant la diversité, sur une réalisation du duo Jonas et François.
Dans le même esprit : Ping Pong Door
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