Died Young, Stayed Pretty Trailer

Poster lover movie. A movie about the underground poster movement... for the love of posters and printing...

magic pen that writes in Helvetica?!~

Ahhhh… technology. The geniuses at Plexifilm have spent the past two years developing a Sharpie pen that actually writes in Helvetica! This pen is so experimental that it’s priceless… literally. You can’t buy one, but you can get one free with any Helvetica merchandise purchase (DVD, T-shirt, etc.). Get your free pen while they last. It’s a great gift for that person in your life with sloppy handwriting…


* Warning: if you are John Downer or Marian Bantjes then the pen will actually write in Helvetica. Otherwise, your results may vary. Do not swallow. Keep away from open flame and co-workers. May cause drowsiness.

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visible sound sewing machine by sounds butter

the interactive design group sounds butter wanted to create a new way to make sound visible. while things like equalizers and sub-titles already visualize sound, they sought to find a way to make sound physical.
using an old sewing machine as a basis, they conceptualized a prototype, which would take sound input and convert it into a sound wave of thread on textile. the sewing machine is synonymous with producing products in industry and thus served as a fitting analogy for the project.

http://www.soundsbutter.com



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NEW PERSPECTIVE ON DESIGN

The man who set Lowlands on fire last month, Pharrell Williams has designed this chair to represent the love between a man and a woman. Pharrell says:

“I had often wondered what it’s like to truly be in love, not lust for once. So I decided not to ask what it was like in someone else’s shoes or what it was like to sit in their seat. I decided to sketch out my own experiment; the perspective chair.”

That's almost as deep as the chair.


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karl lagerfeld teddy bear

fashion designer karl lagerfeld has created a limited edition teddy bear version of himself,
for german stuffed animal manufacturer steiff. the lagerfeld teddy bear wears the designer's
trademark style, sporting black sunglasses, a white shirt and black tie, with jeans and a jacket
from the designer's paris collection to complete its look. steiff will only produce 2500
karl lagerfeld teddy bears that will retail for approximately 1400 USD.




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I LOVE JCDC

thsi is a video made by a fan of Jean-Charles de Castelbajac... the tiny lil play-doh figurines all dress up in JCDC's timeless pieces... is simply cute~~~ fun video, fun colors, fun fashion~

check out his site, its fun too~

Stuart White - IKEA pencils transformed into drawing tool

Stuart White transformed the functional use of the IKEA pencil into a creative tool by using it to make mass-produced prints, mimicking an assembly line. Our little Ella would love to draw like this. Why use one pencil if you can use a whole bunch?

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this reminds me of why am i always taking the pencils whenever i visit IKEA!!! these little pencils are really useful... they fits everywhere!!! haha...

GreenScreen (extrActor)

»GreenScreen (extrActor)«, 2005, is a greenscreen made of hydroponically grown grass which allows the viewers to insert themselves into virtual video backgrounds, which they can choose via remote control. By Benjamin Lee Martin.

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D. Billy: Urban Typo-Experiment

this is really interesting as its kindda like making our lives comical... swoosh n all... so fun...~



D. Billy : “After embellishing the found scenes and photographing the results, I leave my additions in place to engage passers-by for as long as the materials hold up. For me, this process encourages a reexamination of surroundings and objects that are usually taken for granted, and injects a hint of the fantastical surreality that I have established in my other work. Or, at the very least, I hope someone thinks these things are kind of funny.”

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Idea to go!~

by Jake Bronstein, 50cent for an idea?

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IKEA-ish DIY coffin

We all know how helpful and lovely IKEA's furniture have been... cheap designer's furniture that we have to assemble ourselves and they're found almost everywhere~~~ anyway... what would it feel like having the last piece of furniture you'll ever get to use with your body yet another piece of DIY furniture? Anyway this is a DIY coffin made by an american artise Joe Scanlan out of the famous Billy shelves from IKEA... wat's more... it comes with an appropriate installation instruction! how cool is tat?~ jus that are you goin to assemble it yourself and wait for ur death? or will u leave it there till your death catches up and somebody assembling it for you?!~ anyway this is KLÄPS - the IKEA guidance coffin

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Manufacturing techniques: doing with ice what cannot be done with plastic

In some of Manhattan's better Japanese-staffed bars, like Tribeca's underground B-Flat, ice cubes are noticeably absent; ordering your scotch on the rocks gets you a large ice sphere. With less surface area than the same amount of ice rendered in cubes, a globe of ice will melt more slowly, keeping your drink cold without making it watery.

As an industrial designer, your correspondent couldn't help but notice the parting line on B-Flat's ice spheres; after all, it has to come out of a mold. But now a company called Taisin has come up with a clever device for making a perfect ice sphere with no parting line.

How does it work? You sandwich a large chunk of ice in between the two metal pieces pictured above. As the ice slowly melts, gravity brings the top half to close over the bottom half, enclosing what ice remains in its spherical cavity. Because the ice is in the process of melting into its new shape as the top closes, there's no parting line. Clever!

Other shapes are available as well; what you see at the bottom right of the photo is an ice soccer ball. (Don't ask, it's Japan.)


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Adrien Gardère - wall stickers

Adrien Gardère work has 3 axis : products-lights design, furniture, scenography and interior architecture. Without borderline, he creates a smart dialog between know-how and new practices, form durability and new behaviours. His creation is willing to escape from stereotypes and in which invention doesn’t exclude comfort and lifestyle.

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the coolest pop-up abc book - ABC3D

this is like the coolest pop-up typography book~~~ there's variation in the type and variation in the pop?!~ aiks... the ABC3D... nice book title as well~ by Marion Bataille

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1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future

The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the iMac, the computer that changed everything at Apple, hailing a new design era spearheaded by design genius Jonathan Ive. What most people don't know is that there's another man whose products are at the heart of Ive's design philosophy, an influence that permeates every single product at Apple, from hardware to user-interface design. That man is Dieter Rams, and his old designs for Braun during the '50s and '60s hold all the clues not only for past and present Apple products, but their future as well:

When you look at the Braun products by Dieter Rams—many of them at New York's MoMA—and compare them to Ive's work at Apple, you can clearly see the similarities in their philosophies way beyond the sparse use of color, the selection of materials and how the products are shaped around the function with no artificial design, keeping the design "honest."

This passion for "simplicity" and "honest design" that is always declared by Ive whenever he's interviewed or appears in a promo video, is at the core of Dieter Rams' 10 principles for good design:

• Good design is innovative.
• Good design makes a product useful.
• Good design is aesthetic.
• Good design helps us to understand a product.
• Good design is unobtrusive.
• Good design is honest.
• Good design is durable.
• Good design is consequent to the last detail.
• Good design is concerned with the environment.
• Good design is as little design as possible.

Ive's inspiration on Rams' design principles goes beyond the philosophy and gets straight into a direct homage to real products created decades ago. Amazing pieces of industrial design that still today remain fresh, true classics that have survived the test of time.

The similarities between products from Braun and Apple are sometimes uncanny, others more subtle, but there's always a common root that provides the new Apple objects not only with a beautiful simplicity but also with a close familiarity.

Braun Atelier TV and latest iMac 24

Braun T3 pocket radio and Apple iPod

Braun T1000 radio and PowerMac G5/Mac Pro

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Louis Vuitton - What is a journey

Louis vuitton's screen premiere 'what is a journey' on television and cinema, cut down to an exceptional 90-second format.
time is the ultimate luxury!
(film director bruno aveillan, soundtrack gustavo santaolalla and creative director christian reuilly)


this video is super super beautiful~~~



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Umbrellas Affair

guy de jean's sexy umbrellas - 'inside-out umbrella' produced by guy de jean for jean paul gaultier, 2006 -2008

'corset' umbrella produced by guy de jean for jean paul gaultier, 2006 -2008

'double layered canopy' with the top layer heavily rouched to give a pompadour extravagance,
by guy de jean for jean paul gaultier, 2006 -2008

more sexy lingerie umbrellas produced by guy de jean for chantal thomass, 2006-2008
the umbrellas produced by french company guy de jean will keep the sun off and also the showers.sun protection factor - 50+, tested by the french textile institute. also, specially treated with water resistance.
how to use them?
that umbrella song will not stop playing ever.
the umbrella is derived from a stately family, that of parasol, since it was a protection against the
heat of the sun that it was first used for. the origin of parasols is not clear, but chinese history goes a long way back ... you might want to read about its history here though the difference between a parasol and an umbrella may seem confusing today, it was absolutely clear and unquestionable to victorian society. a woman who carried an umbrella was admitting publicly
that she could not afford to own or hire a carriage for transportation when it was raining.but a woman with a parasol was most assuredly a lady. the main reason for the popularity of the parasol was the admiration for a fair complexion. it was more than a sign of beauty, it proved to the world that it was a woman, who didn't have to work outdoors like 'common' females did. because they were so precious and so expensive, parasols became one of the most popular gifts for a lover to give his sweetheart. like jewelry, they were not a proper present from a young man unless his intentions were serious, and would not be accepted by a lady unless she intended to accept the giver, as well. at the same time like the fan and the lacy handkerchief, the parasol was both an object with a practical purpose and an indispensable aid to the subtle art of flirtation. it could mysteriously shadow a lady's expression, dramatize her sparkling eyes and smile, and even camouflage her imperfections. lady hamilton, lord nelson's notorious, no-longer-young mistress, always favored pink and pink-lined parasols, because the rosy light they cast on her face made her look more youthful.(exerpt taken from 'flirtatious fashions', by kristina harris, 1998)


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joana meroz - ceramics

'bra cups'

joana meroz is a graduate of the ceramics department at the gerrit rietveld academy in amsterdam and is currently studying at the design academy in eindhoven. she has sent in some of her unique projects which blend design with craft production. her ceramic 'bra cups' are a clever play on one of nature's essential food sources. the 'lace colanders' combine the decorative elements of the plate with the functionality of a drain to create a unique colander. 'in&out tableware' continues on this theme and 'drain eye-catchers' add a whimsical touch to the most banal of kitchen tools. joana was also one of the participants in our 'handled with care'
ceramics exhibition.

'bra cups'

'in&out tableware'

'lace colanders'

'drain eye-catchers'

'drain eye-catchers'

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crayons - (really kewl ones)

by finnish designer heli hietala

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i can't help but keep thinkin... oooh... i'm killin people when i'm drawing!!!~~~ it juz gives me the feeling when i pick up a piece of teddie bear cookie or fish-shaped cookie... 1st bite... 1 arm's gone... 2nd bite both arms gone... 3rd bite.. a leg gone.. 4th bite... no more legs.. 5th bite.. omg.. it's headless.. and so final bite finish it up~~~ aiks... wunder if i'll b duin the same thing when i got my hands on these crayons~~~

Snap and Dine - Demelza Hill

Snap and Dine is a single use three-course table setting that integrates disposable cutlery with traditional silverware. The portable lunch setting expands the possibilities of eating outdoors in style whilst reinforcing the correct use of cutlery, which has been lost over time. This is achieved through the decorative qualities and formal setting which both are a visual reference to fine dinning. This product is fun and interactive whilst raising the standards of current eating on the go habits.

desgined by Demelza Hill

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