Eine Swiss Design compnay heiße Atelier-v is taking everyday things and creating new and unusual, yet mostly useful, new everyday items out of them. They have put out a book of their unique and clever product designs, however many you can check out on the site. It’s well worth a look. found via Right-Half Chow
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Blanka Re-Bag
Blanka Design came up with the ‘Re-Bag Project”. Several different designs, making only 250 of each design as special edition project. Meaning I have to remember to take extra special care of mine. After ordering I had to wait almost 3 months to receive it – mainly because it was a pre order – but [...]
Wacom – wahoo!!!
They aren’t new, I know that, but I finally got my own and I’m loving it! A new lease on my mac life… Note to self: file under D for Dork. Also I received a new book, Designers are Wankers. I must say, I do know a few, but I’ll take some time and see [...]
London 2012 Logo: Retro Ugly Is In
image from CR Creative Review got it right with The New Ugly. Ugly is back or on its way back really. “Stretched type, day-glo colours and a flagrant disregard for the rules.” One might remember it from the late 80′s and the MC Hammer pants. The London 2012 logo, well, it’s just that. For 2012. [...]
Perfect People Make Perfect Design
This is a brilliant tongue in cheek website, photoshoot, video and push about the design world and it’s people. It’s interactive, well made and makes you laugh. Put together by the creative folks at Digital Kitchen who also just won an Emmy for their fabulous design work on the hit tele show Dexter. So Double [...]
Brail League
“Blind see what they hear. Help them to see more. Braille League” I really like how this was done, using the letters in the words of the sounds to create the objects that make that sound. Also, the colours used and the texture used makes one want to reach out and touch the paper. Since [...]
Post Secret
Every Sunday morning I wake up, get a cup of tea, read some blogs and look forward to a fresh group of postcards and secrets from compiled by Frank Warren at Post Secret. This is my favorite one from today.My pets are and have been family members to me and losing them has always wrecked [...]
Hotel Heaven
Thanks to Righ-Half Chow for this amazing eye candy! I want to purchase this hotel and make it my home! This is the Arte Luise Kunsthotel in Berlin. “Known as the ‘Gallery where you can spend the night’.” Each room has been decorated by a known artist. These rooms are brilliantly done, amazingly from my [...]
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