Anastacia Spada recycled x-rays to create this umbrella.
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Arsty photographs of air conditioners at Fuck Yeah Air Conditioners!
This series of suitcases silhouetted with an imprint of various weapons will get you stopped at both subway checkpoints and at the airport. I guarantee it.
As many of us know, three letter codes are assigned to airports. So, for instance, New York LaGuardia Airport's designation is LGA. Sioux City Gateway Airport's three letter code? SUX. Ha. Ha. Sioux City's airport has embraced their inner sophomoric humor and embraced this by selling hats and t-shirts that say "Fly SUX" as well as a Bi-SUX-ual mug.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa's latest concept, the rabbit chair. It's called that because it looks like it has rabbit ears. Got it? Good.
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Relive nostalgic memories of your youth at McDonald's playgrounds with this plastic ball covered chair, minus the heroin filled needle.
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Pop artist Peter Gronquist tries to "shock" by building a Louis Vuitton "branded" electric chair. Be sure to check out his other line of "designer" weapons.
Do not want, but visually arresting piece by Banks Violette. At the very least it'll fire up a conversation or two at a party.
Los Angeles based designer and RISD alumnus Tanya Aguiniga puts a pleasing soft hand-felted touch to the decidedly utilitarian folding chairs. Her other seats and tables are unique as well.
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Melissa writes:
Jane of Sea of Shoes and her mom Judy of Atlantis Home were inspired by a Vogue Living spread to recover a chair in canvas and let kids from Cook Children’s Hospital have some fun with it. Great results for a great cause.
Filed under "Why?" Japanese luxe company Ginza Tanaka sells a gold beer mug for $50,000.
Here are some of the entries I’ve posted over at Sundance Channel’s blog SUNfiltered.
A tetris mirror "comprised of thirteen interlocking mirrored acrylic panels, which can be arranged on your wall to form a rectangle, or broken apart into their individual puzzle blocks." Also can be interpreted as a metaphor about something deep involving self reflection.
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Uhm, I might have blogged these before, but whatever. Designed by Gijs Bakker these winged clips to prevent your pants from getting caught in the bike chain are cool enough to warrant a double post.
$18 here.
Courtesy of Brooklyn's 3rd Ward, a creative salon, which teaches a fun sounding course called How to Make Crappy Stuff Awesome, Popular Mechanics converts some crappy bicycle parts into a seriously neat coffee table.
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Japanese bicycle company Shukuno Rintendo has a line of crazy and funky power assisted bicycles named "Jokee, Fire Trick Bob, Aqua Trick Bob, and Electric Bob."
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Alaskan Greg Matyas builds these custom fat tire bicycles for those that want to ride in the snow.
Relatedly, there's also fat tire beer.
Benedict Radcliffe's wireframe model of my childhood dream car, a Lamborghini Countach created from 10mm welded steel tubes blows my mind.
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