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Hirsutio Vase by Giles Miller

Fri, 21 May 2010 09:40:40 CEST

Hirsutio Vase by Giles Miller
by Jaime / May 19, 2010

During Milan Design Week, Giles Miller presented his Hirsutio vases made from thin brass hairs, which can be shaped and manipulated by the user.

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Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Podium by James Lee & Leo Obstbaum

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:23:25 CET

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Podium by James Lee & Leo Obstbaum
by sabine7 / February 4, 2010

The snow-topped mountains of Vancouver and Whistler are reflected in the fluidity of the organic forms of the 23 individual and team podiums that will be used for the Vancouver

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Dame Edna Everage by John Walter

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:42:27 CET

Dame Edna Everage by John Walter
by sabine7 / January 23, 2010

Humour is the theme, brought out especially by references to the art world, in an exhibition of work by John Walter and Corinne Feldgate. Entitled Chopsticks Optional, the show includes egg portraits, watercolours, and a photo ser

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Mondrian's Pound Cake by Megan Fizzell

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:31:07 CET

Mondrian's Pound Cake by Megan Fizzell
by sabine7 / January 18, 2010

A submission from Feasting on Art, Megan Fizzell plans her menus based on inspiration from the visual arts, such as this Mondrian-influenced cake. Fizzell, a ph

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Mobile Mobile by James Theophane

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:31:13 CET

Mobile Mobile by James Theophane
by Mike / December 28, 2009

Via @brainpicker, a mobile mobile made up of 50 old cel phones. The suspended phones make up a giant interactive chandelier that plays a different note of a Christmas carol and flashes

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Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the V&A

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:03:04 CET

An exhibition of digital and interactive design called Decode: Digital Design Sensations has opened at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Above: Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin, 2006. Top Image: Dune by Daan Roosegaarde, 2006-2009. Photo by Daan Roosegaarde
The exhibition, co-curated with digital arts organisation onedotzero, featu

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Clockwork Love by Tjep

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:30:50 CET

Clockwork Love by Tjep by sabine7 / December 9, 2009 Inspired by the earlier Bling Bling medallion, Tjep layers the wheels and gears of clockwork to form the hearts that make up a new series of pendants and timepieces. Other symbolic elements include wings and flames, all part and parcel of thecomplicated mechanism of emotion.Cl

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Robolamps: Robot style lamps made in plumbing pipes

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:03:04 CET

The "Robolamps" by Croatian artist Robert Matysiak is a collection of robotic lighting that creates a quirky yet charming illumination, giving a steampunkish look to the place. Finished in plumbing pipes and green light bulbs, the Robolamps measure between 15 cm and 50 cm, each representing its own shape and identity. Check out more images of the robotic li

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Curiosity Killed The Cat

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:41:40 CEST

If you see the Touch Intrigue on the road, wouldn't you be tempted to just pass by and run hands on it? Intrigue, curiosity and our urge to touch, all culminate into this experimental "Touch Powered By Intrigue Concept." A working prototype placed in a busy mall and sidewalk proved that people subconsciously are curious, and this often leads to physical interaction.

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Chair Arch by Martino Gamper

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:42:38 CEST

Wallpaper* magazine commissioned designer Martino Gamper to create a modern-day Chair Arch for the London Design Festival. Using Ercol stacking chairs as his building blocks, Gamper built two overlapping arches in the courtyard of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Chair arches, which are part of a British Victorian tradition, were constructed to comm

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Tent Digital competition winners

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:29:22 CEST

Waggott Tripp & Graham, who created an installation where the viewer becomes the exhibit, are one of 10 designers to have won our Tent Digital competition for free exhibition space at Tent Digital during London Digital Week in September.Tent Digital is a new exhibition of digital design, that will take place in the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane from 24-27 September t

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To Make A Tree by Fabio Novembre

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:38:53 CEST

The city of Milan and designer Fabio Novembre have created an oasis in the middle of the city by using Fiat 500C's as tree planters...

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Modus Operandi by Matylda Krzykowski

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:40:36 CEST

Polish design graduate and former Dezeen intern Matylda Krzykowski has tortured and destroyed a series of chairs. Called Modus Operandi, the project involved making thirteen plain spruce chairs and destroying each in a different way.One was shot with a rifle, another submerged in a pond for weeks and a third was tarred and feathered.Subsequent ch

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The PaperVillain by The Functionality

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:43:51 CEST

Designers The Functionality have built a canopy constructed from 2,452 newspaper hats. The design was assembled with wire to form a tensile structure at the Secret Garden Party festival in East Anglia, UK, in July.Created by seventeen people, the project took three weeks to complete.Here's some more information from The Functionality:-The Pape

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Gummo offices by i29

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:37:22 CEST

Dutch interior architects i29 have completed an office suite for an advertising agency using used furniture bought from online auction sites and charity shops.

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Stereo.type by Ebon Heath

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:52:03 CEST

Brooklyn-based graphic designer Ebon Heath will exhibit a series of typographic mobiles called Stereo.type at retail store 50

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