Bright Bedding from Australia’s Kip & Co: The boutique brand’s bold linens are designed for the kid in everyone

Bright Bedding from Australia's Kip & Co


Australia’s Kip & Co creates colorful, spirited and youthful bed linens—and towels, rugs and even beanbags. From cartoon pizza representations to rainbow scribbles, the prints…

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Michael Leon + Arkitip Vexhall Series: The artist creates new flags as part of his ongoing project

Michael Leon + Arkitip Vexhall Series


by Eva Glettner Both an artist and an art director, Michael Leon never strays far from the tenacity and enthusiasm he picked up as a skateboarder in the late ’80s. He blends a DIY attitude with finely…

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TOG: All Creators Together: A simple, yet innovative approach to home decor, customization and great design

TOG: All Creators Together


The dream of many a design enterprise—the best designers, meaningful materials, Italian production, a community of fans, reinterpretations made by artists—TOG is all of this, and more. “All creators together” is the idea behind this new design…

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BASE Bar, Tokyo: A venue interior that tells a long, insightful story—because nothing has ever been taken off the walls

BASE Bar, Tokyo


by James Rodrigues BASE Bar’s walls are thick with layers of posters, pictures, license plates and business cards; the ceiling is draped in faded flags. Wu-Tang posters are hung opposite of signed Uruguyan soccer jerseys. This bar’s incredibly storied design has been created…

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Fotobit: These Lego-like photo frames help to create a narrative with Instagram photos

Fotobit


by Paul Armstrong Approximately 5.2 million Instagram photos are posted each day. Suffice it to say, a lot of great images are lost in the onslaught. Fotobit—which launches on Kickstarter today—is…

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Emily Reinhardt: The Object Enthusiast: The Omaha-based artist creates made-to-order ceramic vessels to hold all your treasures

Emily Reinhardt: The Object Enthusiast


Ceramic artist Emily Reinhardt has given herself a very apt alias: The Object Enthusiast. The Omaha-based creator makes vessels that are part geometric and part organic; looking like something naturally grown, yet with tinge of human interference….

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Design Indaba 2014: The Expo: Africa’s emerging and established design talent join together in Cape Town for the yearly exhibition and marketplace

Design Indaba 2014: The Expo


Each year that we attend Cape Town’s brilliant Design Indaba conference, the subsequent Expo seems to infinitely grow and improve—a testament to the design world’s increasing fascination with the opportunities abounding in the vibrant continent. Now a massive marketplace consuming the entirety…

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Fantastic Flying Books!

This design is a bit whimsy, a little outlandish, and a lot imagination-inspiring… just like a good book! Inspired by the 2012 Oscar-winning animation “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore,” designer Kiril Gitman sought out to recreate the very image of books flying miraculously. The result is BY THE BOOK: a playful alternative to a bookshelf that you can adjust to your liking with your favorite reads!

Designer: Kiril Gitman


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Skatelamp: Portland-based MapleXO and woodworker Paul Sykes give new life to discarded skateboard scraps

Skatelamp


by Eva Glettner Portland, Oregon’s MapleXO rebirths old skateboards and skateboard scraps by turning them into everything from containers to bottle openers to earrings. Their most exciting object—the recently released…

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People Blocks by Andy Rementer and Case Studyo: Philadelphia-based artist and a Belgium-based collective join forces for this set of ultra-colorful wooden figures

People Blocks by Andy Rementer and Case Studyo


by Gavin Lucas Philadelphia-based illustrator Andy Rementer is the latest artist to team up with Belgium-based serial collaborators Case Studyo to create super-colorful, limited edition artworks called People Blocks….

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