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London communications and creative agency KK Outlet have commissioned seven designers to create a collection of unofficial commemorative china for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton this April.

Paul Best, Emma Morton, Angela Lidderdale, Ute Geisler, Dave Bell, Richard Walker and Keith Gray have each designed a plate with references to modern pop culture, including one featuring the ‘Like’ feature from Facebook.

The memorabilia will be on sale at KK Outlet’s store in Hoxton Square, London, from 15 January.

Photographs are by Ed Aves.

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Here’s a bit more information from KK Outlet:

A VERY MODERN ROYAL WEDDING

Every Royal Wedding from Fergie and Andy to Charles and Diana comes with its own peculiar side-business – memorabilia. They usually take the form of plates, mugs, teaspoons, gravy boats or other household paraphernalia.

The designs and forms have hardly altered since 1952. But as the Royals have changed with the times, so should memorabilia.

With that in mind, KK Outlet asked the question – How should Royal Wedding memorabilia look for the Facebook generation?

So the store and gallery in London’s Hoxton Square enlisted the help of seven designers to bring Royal Wedding memorabilia bang up to date – to suit a very modern Royal Wedding.

These newly designed Royal Wedding collectables take many forms: a pixelated Royal Couple with language stolen from Facebook (“Like” plate by designer Ute Geisler); ironically youthful (“Will 4 Kate 4 Eva” by Emma Morton); headline grabbing (“the Age of Austerity” paper plate also by Emma Morton); or just plain strange (“Laser Eyes” by Richard Walker).

The sets of plates and mugs are slated to be sold at KK Outlet’s store in Hoxton Square in the lead up to the Royal Wedding in April 2011.

KK Outlet is a multifunctional space comprising gallery, store and commmunications agency in the East of London.

The Designers:

Emma Morton, Angela Lidderdale, Ute Geisler, Dave Bell, Richard Walker, Keith Gray, Paul Best

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We’ve teamed up with new London brand 1ina100 to give readers the chance to win one of three T-shirts from their inaugural collection of limited-edition designs.

Top: Untitled by Nina Lilliebjerg-Heder
Above: Isosceles Dancer by Jason Devine

Each design is silk-screened in a numbered and signed limited-edition of 100.

Above: Search by Night by Felix Melia

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, delivery address, telephone number and preferred design to competitions@dezeen.com with “1ina100” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers.

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Above: Anti by James Kirkup

Competition closes 21 December 2010. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Above: Mask by Felix Melia

Here are some more details from 1ina100:

1ina100 announce the launch of their first edition of collaborative T-shirts. 1ina100 is a new global platform for showcasing emerging art talent. All T-shirts are strict editions of 100 and come signed by the artist, with a unique number.

Above: Mountain rescue by Tamsyn Mystkowski

1ina100 focuses on individualism, style and a unique interest in small-scale production. Artwork is printed onto custom-made shirts, bespoke-cut to the company’s chosen fit.

Above: Two Wings by Felix Melia

The founders Aldo Kahane and Freddie D Webb are always present during the silk-screening of each edition, working closely with specialist shirt manufacturers to tweak and refine the cut of the shirts. Bespoke detailing such as stitching unique to 1ina100’s specifications, ensure that the shirts are more than another graphic t-shirt, “We’ve set aside a lot of time to curate and collect examples of what we believe are outstanding designs from emerging artists: the brand aims to show that carefully designed t-shirts can be more than an after thought of fashion lines, but instead regarded as something that stands out on its own.”

Above: Sad World by Jason Devine

The Founders’ Philosophy:

We wanted to use a ubiquitous object as a blank canvas for artists and designers to produce high quality visual and graphic works, leading the t-shirt market in an ever-evolving fashion industry. Although we’re clearly in the business of making and selling clothes, our real motivation is the art, a commitment to curating the products we release and ensuring that the people we work with are at forefront of our business. Each garment is hand-stamped and individually numbered in order to achieve our aims.

Above: System by James Kirkup

The process of silk-screening by hand is labour-intensive, however the designs produced have subtle variations from one print to the next, guaranteeing that each 1ina100 T-shirt is a unique object in its own right.

Above: The Eye by Matt Ritson

First stocked by B Store located on Savile Row, 1ina100 is now available across the UK and will launch its European presence in Berlin and Copenhagen. 1ina100 apparel is also available through several online boutiques, as well as 1ina100Store.com from December the 25th.

Johannsen Gallery in Berlin present an exhibition of wallpapers by Milanese collective Carnovsky that change under different lighting conditions.

The wallpapers, called RGB, feature superimposed imagery printed in red, green, yellow and blue.

The separate layers are revealed when illuminated by different coloured lights.

The range was created for Italian brand Jannelli & Volpi earlier this year and the exhibition continues until 10 February 2011.

Photos are by Alvise Vivenza.

The information below is from the designers:

Carnovsky’s RGB – Color est e pluribus unus

RGB is a work about the exploration of the “surface’s deepness”. RGB designs create surfaces that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus.

RGB’s technique consists in the overlapping of three different images, each one in a primary color. The resulting images from this three level’s superimposition are unexpected and disorienting. The colors mix up, the lines and shapes entwine becoming oneiric and not completely clear. Through a colored filter (a light or a transparent material) it is possible to see clearly the layers in which the image is composed. The filter’s colors are red, green and blue, each one of them serves to reveal one of the three levels.

Carnovsky’s exhibition at Direktorenhaus, Berlin, is structured in three different scales, from the large to the small, from an architectonic scale, to an object one, passing through the prints. In the architectonic level one of the gallery’s rooms has been set up with a large installation made of wallpapers and colored lights: It is a sort of “fresco” made with contemporary technologies, “frescos”, but instead of being static, they are in mutable and fluctuating, capable of creating an ambient in continuous movement.

The represented subject is the antique theme of the metamorphosis intended as an unceasing transformation of shapes from a “primigenial chaos”. For this purpose we have created a sort of catalogue of natural motifs starting with the engravings from natural history’s great European texts, between the 500 and the 700, from Aldrovandi to Ruysch, from Linneus to Bonnaterre.

A catalogue that does not have a taxonomic or scientific aim in the modern sense, but that wants to classify both the real and the fantastic, the true and the verisimilar in the way medieval bestiaries did. In each image three layers live together, three worlds that could belong to a specific natural kingdom, but that at the same time connect to a different psychological or emotional status that passes from the clear to the hidden, from the light to the darkness, from the awakeness to the dream.

Besides the installation, there were presented some new limited edition RGB pieces, developed on the traditional playing card’s theme: a RGB playing cards deck and a series of lithographic prints of the “Horseman” subject. In each card there are printed three different playing cards: The overlapping of colors mixes up the forms in a way that it is difficult to recognize which figure is represented, an enigma that can be solved just through the use of one of the colored filters.

Johanssen Gallery, Direktorenhaus, Berlin
5th November 2010 – 10th February 2011

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Wallpaper by Katrin Olina	Wallpaper by Marcel Wanders	Wallpaper by Linda Florence

New Zealand designer Chris Waind has created this set of decorative paper butterflies.

Called Papillons Graphiques, the pieces are packaged in a metal tin that includes a set of pins so they can be displayed pinned to a board like a real butterflies would be in Victorian collections.

Each piece is a digital print on watercolour paper to give a textured feel.

Here’s more information from the designer:

The Graphic Butterfly Collection.

Nine species of graphic butterflies packaged in a brushed metal presentation tin and finished with a label band.

The collection also comes with a set of pins.

The dimensions of each butterfly measures around 3.5″ (90mm) high X 4.5″ (115mm) wide. The tin measures 3 3/4″ (95mm) long X 2 3/8″ (60mm) wide.

Each specimen is a giclee print on 200gsm archive watercolour paper, for deep rich colour with a textured feel.

This makes a beautiful gift for anyone looking for a slightly more humane butterfly collection.

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Butterfly table by based upon	Cardon Copy by Cardon Webb	The Hybrid Project by Readymade Projects, Mogollon and Daniel Hakansson

This rubbish bag by Ahhaproject of Milan and Seoul spells out how much energy the user can generate with each bag of kitchen waste collected.

According to graphics on the bags, each full pouch collected for biomass energy production could create enough power to make 100 cups of tea, 500 slices of toast or 1000 boiled eggs.

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The information below is from Ahhaproject:

Biomass is a valuable energy resource, which we accrue in large amounts in our kitchens.

But only 40% of this waste in Germany ends up in the bio waste bin. For many people, it is inconvenient to separate the biological waste from residual waste.

A biodegradable bag crafted from PLA material which is easy to use and seal allows an easy replacement and removal of the bio bag.
It visualizes how much energy potential a single bag contains thus forcing us to reconsider Bio-waste disposal habits.

The content of this garbage bag is sufficient to drive 10 kilometers with your car, to do 30 kilogram of one’s laundry, to boil 100 cups of tea, or to use your fridge for 200 hours, to recharge your mobile phone 300 times,to use a energy saving lamp for 400 hours, to toast 500 slices of bread, to cool down 700 liters bear, to make 1000 boiled eggs for breakfast, to shave 10,000 times, to listen to 12,000 hours of music on your mp3 player, or to press out the juice of 20,000 citrons…

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