Quote of Note | Matteo Thun

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Thun’s modular “Sconfine” lighting for Zumtobel

“I design only missing items. Let’s say you ask me to design an office chair. I would investigate your brief and then probably tell you there are enough chairs and there is no reason to do a new one. Unless you have a brief that fills a necessity and improves the comfort of life.”

-Architect and designer Matteo Thun

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All Natural Oils

Unlike food and drugs, no regulatory agency monitors the ingredients of cosmetics, nor is it even law for cosmetic companies to disclose their secret ingredients. That means when you pick up a bottle of fresh-smelling scent, you could be putting almost anything on your wrists and neck. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and the Environmental Working Group recently published a report which disclosed that 12 out of 17 popular perfumes—including Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue and Calvin Klein Eternity—had hormone-disrupting chemicals and contained on average 10 chemical sensitizers that can cause allergic reactions.

Safer alternatives include Oklahoma-based Skin & Bones, a unisex product that acts as a facial and hand moisturizer, perfume and hair product. Founder Heidi Jenkins created Skin & Bones out of a variety of essential oils, including jojoba, myrrh and ylang ylang. It comes in violet glass bottles (best for preserving the plants’ benefits) that the company will refill. Skin & Bones sells online at
Organic Beauty Now
for $40.

New York perfumer Amanda Walker, a vegan and raw food advocate, founded
A Perfume Organic
after becoming convinced of the necessity for safer perfumes while herself working in the beauty industry. She makes her signature perfume, Green, from rose oils, black truffles, chamomile, citrus, West Coast herbs and ylang ylang. Her concoctions use entirely organic botanicals, hand-poured in small batches, and sell online at Spirit Beauty Lounge for $65.

And finally, Caitlin Davies started Intentions Perfumery in Boise, Idaho to create perfumes that smell good and are good for you. Every season, Davies offers a set of new creations, in addition to custom blends. This summer, Mystic and Mirage are among some of the scents she offers; Mystic blends honeysuckle and white musk, while Mirage mixes vanilla with grapefruit, green peppercorns, cardamom and clove. Her new spring line will start selling on her Etsy shop in the next few months; she also takes special orders on her website.


Fomato Cards

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Charming, witty and altogether unexpected, Emmie Hsu’s Fomato birthday cards make our favorite day a little more educational. Designed with bold graphics, each card starts out as with a mini comic-book-style, non-fiction tale about such subjects as potatoes, samurais and wine before revealing, often on the back page, the ultimate purpose of the card: the greeting.

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Hsu actually started out wanting to illustrate children’s picture books; it was only after a fateful booth entry at the National Stationery Show that she found a niche for her idea for cards.

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Fomato has a decidedly Asian aesthetic. Hsu, who writes and designs the cards, found inspiration in the Tawainese stationery stores she frequented as a child. But it’s the cute visual mixed with silly humor that makes the line a hit with everyone outside of the Asian culture—in fact, 500 shops currently carry Fomato, from London’s Design Museum to Los Angeles’ Skylight Books.

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Fomato offers cards for other occasions as well, including baby and holiday cards. The next birthday card collection, dubbed “Unsexy” and focuses around topics like the bubonic plague, office supplies and parking spots, will launch Sept. 1. All of the cards can be seen in full on the site.


1 Hour Design Challenge: Gestural Interfaces: One Day Left!

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Fly Like Paper

L’installation “I fly like paper get high like planes” est l’oeuvre de l’artiste Dawn NG. Composé de centaines d’avions en papier, ce projet est basé sur l’association des sentiments de nostalgie et de l’envie de partir. Tous les avions émanent d’une seule fenêtre. A découvrir dans la suite.



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Soft Sensors

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Lara Grant just graduated from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU where she literally crafted out her own niche in “wearable technology.”

“It’s not a real major, just my interest,” the 28-year-old Brooklyn resident explains.

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Her thesis, Soft Sensors, fuses the digital world with physical experience by creating computer controls out of felt. With so much anxiety about an increasingly digital existence, her project refreshingly points out the potential for truly warm and fuzzy interfaces. Using soft circuitry, Grant made an array of felt housings that—when stretched, squeezed, prodded or poked—change the electronic resistance which feeds into a computer.

Possible applications are varied and aren’t limited to just one field—ideas include video game controllers and reactive costumes triggered by a the movements of the wearer (modeled here by Lindsey Marcelle Case).

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“There is a lot more exploration to do and these techniques from this project can be used in many different arenas,” she says.

Grant, who has six years experience as a fashion and textile designer, sees Soft Sensors as only the beginning for what could be a new field of digital interfaces.

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“The four felt sensors in this project is not the end to the means either, they are simply the body I found suitable as a first introduction to the techniques used to create them with.”

Check out videos of some examples on Vimeo and track developments on her blog.


Hot In The Hive: Baumraums’ Amazing Treehouses!

imageRemember when you were younger and the idea of having a cool tree-house of your very own would’ve sent you into convulsions of happiness? Maybe you didn’t have a tree-house, but if you were lucky, a friend did and you could go there and pig out on snacks that had been excommunicated from your cupboards at home and read your fill of comic books and magazines.Or you were like me and compensated by building forts out of blankets and furniture. Now that we’re older, a private, personal hide-away way up in the peaceful foliage still sounds appealing to many, including the designers at Baumraum. Offering a variety of amazing, spacious and luxurious tree-houses that look like something you might find in a futuristic Ralph Lauren ad, Baumraum let’s you indulge in your ultimate tree-house fantasies. For a hefty price tag, give yourself the ultimate hide-away made of oak, bamboo, acrylic and resin, or spoil a super lucky kid in your life and give them a tree-house that would even put Bart Simpson’s hide-away to shame! Balanced on stilts and with lots of storage and brightly back lit windows, plus unique shapes and multi-levels, these Baumraum tree-houses are truly one-of-a-kind and a must-see!

Price: 18,000 Euro – 140,000 Euro
Who Found It: idabone was first to add the Baumraum Amazing Tree-houses to the Hive.

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Eduardo Diaz Bourgeot

Une série de photographies issue des travaux d’Eduardo Diaz Bourgeot. Cet artiste, qui travaille et vit en Espagne, ompose toujours des visuels pleins d’humour, de dynamisme et utilise des idées intéressantes. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.

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