ATREEM by Nitipak Samsen

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Royal College of Art graduate Nitipak Samsen has designed a coin-operated carbon-offsetting meter that attaches to trees. (more…)

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Play More is the perfect notebook if you’re seeking an amusing way to procrastinate. This particular invention is brought to you by Trapped in Suburbia.

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Adidas Originals Vintage Dragon

Continuano le release targate Adidas Originals. Questa è la volta del modello Dragon.
Disponibili nei vari Adidas Originals retailers!
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Gas Basket

Lo studio di design Junktion ricicla vecchie bombole del gas trasformandole in questi cestini di metallo. Purtroppo non ho trovato delle foto più dettagliate di queste che ho postato ma, con un po’ di immaginazione, si capisce la qualità del prodotto finale.
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Beauty Buzz: The Latest Offerings From Tarte

imageTarte is by far one of the best beauty brands out there. I adore tarte for many reasons including the silky smooth texture of their products, the vibrant hip colors and also the fabulous staying power. Here are our new favorite products for the summer.

Tarte Lip Couture t5 super fruit infused lipstick set
This is a fabulous lipstick kit that allows you to pair the perfect pout for every makeup look you choose to do. The kit comes with a nude lip liner and four fabulous shades. My favorite shade is called Eden, a beautiful beige that completes my smokey eye look. I also find the box it comes in to be ultra luxe. After the lipsticks finish, use it to keep your jewelry in during your next trip to Cannes.

Spring Greening limited-edition reusable straw palette
A great palette that offers six vibrant eyeshadows, three vivacious t5 infused lipglosses and a bamboo eyeshadow brush. My favorite part of this palette has to be the eyeshadows. They are finely milled and go on amazingly smooth. I use the gold shadow almost daily it’s just so gorgeous paired with black liner and Dior Show mascara.

Revolving Door: Caroline Baumann Named Acting Director of Cooper-Hewitt

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After Paul Warwick Thompson announced his resignation at the Cooper-Hewitt last November, the museum has been on the hunt to find a replacement for the directorship position before he leaves in just a week’s time. Not finding anyone from the outside to come in just yet, they’ve decided to temporarily promote from the inside, choosing Caroline Baumann to take over as the acting director until a full-time replacement can be found (or seeing how Baumann does in the role?). Here’s a bit about the new lady in charge:

Ms. Baumann, who is now the museum’s deputy director, has worked since 2001 at the Cooper-Hewitt, where she has also served as director of development and director of external affairs. She had worked at the Museum of Modern Art.

Absolute Appetite Zest Plates

by Laura Neilson

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Designed by London-based Absolute Appetite Studio, these Bone china plates add comic book-style explosive doses of punchy humor to table settings, making even the blandest entree a feast for the eyes.

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Available in four different flavor bursts (olive green, chocolate brown, cherry pink and sepia black), the 11-inch plates vividly illustrate how an age-old industry can adapt to meet the demands and tastes of a younger market. They’re made from traditionally-crafted Bone china in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England, an area celebrated for its historic pottery industry.

Zest plates sell for approximately $42 each via the U.K. store Dream Icons.

Check out Absolute Appetite’s other products on their site, including the clever maraca-inspired Samba salt and pepper shakers—which are available for purchase from Charles Marie for $75.

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LCC 5:1 Show

The School of Graphic Design at the London College of Communication held its BA (Hons) degree show last week – here are some pieces of work that particularly caught our attention…

The show was titled 5:1, to reflect the five disciplines that the school is divided into: Information Design, Design for Advertising, Typo/graphics, Illustration and Design for Interaction and Moving Image. Shown above is Erica Dorn‘s Anatomy of Intimacy, which she describes as “small-scale sculptural pieces exploring ideas about love and intimacy through anatomical metaphors”.

 

 

Also from Erica Dorn is the Tokyo Travelogue, above, a screen-printed and hand-bound publication featuring a laser-cut cover with transparent pages.

 

 

Leonardo Collina created a series of elegant collages for the Illustration section of 5:1, alongside the piece below.

 

 

 

These two images form part of a project by Elliot Hammer, which “explores the ways in which people live in an ever-changing environment where the natural and the artificial coexist”.

 

Giulio Miglietta exhibited this series of artworks of New York buildings, alongside some delightful book illustration, an example of which is shown below. For more, check out his website.

 

 

Emma Congdon created this packaging and a poster (below) as part of an advertising campaign to promote sewing.

 

 

Helen Gibbons created a generic woman’s handbag, above, complete with stray boiled sweets and coins, in the style of an airfix kit for the Interactive & Moving Image course.

 

 

Alec Strang, who is already represented by It’s All True illustration agency, exhibited a beautiful set of drawings, one of which is shown above.

 

 

 

Finally, Tomimi Sayuda took the legendary art of photocopying one’s posterior to new levels with iBum, a chair which, when sat upon will scan your rear and then produce a copy of it from the side. As Ms Sayuda says “The arse is the window of the soul. Here’s a video of it working.

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Deck of Chores

If you’re a parent with elementary age children and you’re looking for ways to encourage helping out around the house, check out the Deck of Chores.

These cards are actual playing cards, (so you can play poker with them even after your kids leave the nest) but they have the added bonus of being a fun way to create chore lists for kids. From the manufacturer’s website:

Now children can either play games for chores, parents can set out which chores need to be completed or have the entire family pick a card each for their daily chore.

What a great way to have fun with the entire family

Build confidence, responsibility and organization

You could easily create something similar in a DIY project with cardstock and your computer’s printer, specifically customized for your home’s needs. Mostly, I like the idea of making chores for children fun.


Brody’s cryptic Wallpaper* cover

Neville Brody has designed the subscriber cover for the August issue of Wallpaper* – a coded reference to his feelings about his work

“I wanted to create something subsersive,” says Brody in the issue. “Something that seems raw and takes time to work through.” So, can you tell what it is yet?

Brody also designed a typeface for the magazine’s Design Directory section – Peace 2. The face “started with Peace and Love, a project I did in 2003,” Brody says. He created a stencil font, Peace, based on the Tate + Lyle logo, a contentious choice given that the company has combined an industrial past rooted in Empire with the founding of a major cultural institution, Tate Gallery.

The original face was used on a poster for the V&A. Peace 2, apparently, “smooths out the original’s sharp edges and adds a lower case version,” acccording to Jonathan Bell’s piece in Wallpaper*.