A gimpy Voltron by photographer Adam Voorhes.
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Double protect your eyes with these sunglasses, a collaboration between Linda Farrow and Jeremy Scott.
Similar to his lamp, here's Ryan McElhinney's mirror with a frame made from recycled action figure toys.
I really dig this fresh commemorative poster by Mikey Burton for one of my all time favorite bands, Wilco.
A jewelry collection by Lillian Pau that taps into everyone's inner OCD tendencies, as seen with this bracelet made of switches.
The BookBook is quite a neat laptop case for the tech savvy bibliophiles. To go really meta the company should make a similar one for Kindles and ebook readers.
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Kate Thompson recycles old furniture and suitcases into some neat pieces of portable seats.
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I love Ryan McElhinney's handcrafted one-of-a-kind lamp "made of recycled [action figure] toys which are bonded toghther and then coated in a High Gloss polyurethane laquer."
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Interesting read: Under Consideration reviews the most influential and relevent-for better or for worse-brands of the past decade.
Petroleum is a word not just loaded with social, political and economical implications but also, let’s face it, a kind of ugly word. When British Petroleum and Amoco merged, going full force with BP and the Helios icon did the perfect job in distancing the company from the word. Surely, fewer people today know what BP stands for — give it another decade and it will reach IBM acronym levels. This was probably one of the last really great identities by Landor’s San Francisco office, who also had done the FedEx identity a few years earlier.
This transforming coffee-dining table is a perfect solution for small New York City apartments. Available at Resource Furniture in East Midtown.
These sunglasses look like a prop from The Incredibles.
A funny belt concept by Sebastian Errazuriz. Just make sure the color of your shoes matches the belt.
Debonair gives advice on painting a small room to give the illusion of a larger space.
A grey palette is a popular choice with professional designers working with small spaces. The color grey is not only perpetually chic and sophisticated, but it subconsciously insinuates depth in a room. Your best bet is to paint all your walls in a light to medium grey and a focal wall (usually the wall at the very end of a room) in a shade of darker grey.
This is what I imagine North Face or Patagonia would create if they decided to jump into the Snuggie market. Unsurprisingly the Japanese got their first because they are from the future.
I can't seem to find too much information about the chandeliers in this (beautifully photographed) picture, but I'm wondering if they are by artist Adam Wallacavage who creates various plaster cast octopus shaped chandeliers.
Read this fascinating essay in BLDG BLOG that juxtaposes the Israeli Defense Forces' military tactics in its 2002 incursion into Nablus with New York cop John McClane's (played by Bruce Willis) innovative exploration and adaptive navigation of the terrorist-controlled building Nakatomi Plaza in DIE HARD, or what the writer refers to as "one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years."
If my modern architecture course at 9 am was more like this in school I might have stayed awake more easily.
Sebastian Errazuriz's bench concept for the cycling enthusiast.
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