Skopje based artist Marko Manev has created an awesome collection of minimalist Marvel Posters. This is the way that your comic book here’s should be hanging on your wall. Love it.
Check out more here.
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Russian collective Dopludo has made this awesomely designed laptop stand. And I love it.
Did you ever think an apartment with 25.000 ping pong balls in it could look so good? Now, thanks to designer Daniel Arsham you can decorate your entire house with ping pong balls. In the Brooklyn based Box/Box apartement he has used over 25.000 ping pong balls to cover the walls. With an amazing result. Check out the gallery below.
And this not the first time he has used ping pong balls to create amazing stuff. So be sure to check out his portfolio.
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Don’t you just love gazing out the window when you are on a plane? That Why I like these carpets that much. They bring these scenes into your house. These designs by Florian Pucher are based on actual satellite image and are produced in limited batches of 88 for each design. The only downside: These 100% woolen rugs start at €1200.
Love for Apple products goes pretty far, we know that. But this is something else. It takes your love for Apple into the kitchen.
Thismade has designed a Macbook-shaped wooden cutting board, the ApfelBrett Pro, for in your kitchen. You can choose to slice your veggies on a 13″, 15″ or 17″ version.
Come to think of it, isn’t this a product more suited for Apple haters?
Quite some time ago I posted on a contest by Hermes and Designboom. As you may or may not remember, the French luxury fashion giant was going to crowdsource new designs for ties through the community of Designboom. The winning design is called ‘Modern Leisure’ and was designed by Heidi Mueller. This will actually be produced. Pretty cool to have a Hermes tie design in your portfolio. Here’s some other prize winners:
Check out all the designs here.
FrogDesign, is an international innovation and industrial design firm. Not long ago they launched frogMob. This site proposes a generic design problem to which the audience can respond with their solutions. This results in a gallery of user-submitted solutions. So far the problems featured include creative, fixes for power-cord organization and work bicycle customization.
Uploaded everywhere from Shanghai to Seattle, the shared images highlight how global communication around a seemingly small, but universal problem can highlight a potential need for innovation. And the simplicity of all these solutions is striking. Just look at the picture above! Awesome project.
Last week I had the honors of meeting Artists Not Armies founder Alexander Tempel, and he introduced me to the label he founded: Artists Not Armies.
AnA is based on the philosophy that this world needs more artists and less armies. Instead of fighting each other and destroying culture, we should create and share. Chrystal clear message if you ask me; and the design of the first bag is just the same. The bag has been bombarded ‘the ultimate shopping bag’ by some already and it is definitely great to have around during a shopping spree. I think that its more than that though. It’ll easily hold your laptop and other daily necessities, so it can erase some boring suitcases from the eye of the public too. More products and designs will be added to the range soon.
So it’s practical, good looking and helps spread a message worth spreading. Thats what we call good design. And the goodness continues: AnA has given me 5 bags to share with you. The scheme: First come, first served. The first 5 to drop me an email will receive a bag.
Now get mailing!
Look at this awesome table by Brooklyn design duo RockPaperRobot. It consists of 64 wooden cubes with magnets inside that push each other away. The only thing keeping it together are small steel wires. And you can think outside the box too. Together with the designers you can create (almost) different shapes, surface colors and functional designs. It must have been a hell of a job to get this working. Really great work!
While the print industry is going through hard times, there are people keeping it alive through their creativity. One of these people is Magda Lipka Falck, a student at Stockholm’s design and art school Konstfack. Falck has created a universal travel guide, suitable for every kind of travel, whether you go halfway around the world or around the block you live in.
The guide consists of stories and advice that will take you to cool places no matter where you are. Advice like ‘Ask a stranger which is their favorite street. Go There.’ will surely get you to places otherwise unseen. And there’s plenty more of advice like that, as you can see in the gallery below. The advices are available printed on flash-cards so you can surprise yourself while navigating foreign places.
I really love this book. Regular travel guides usually take you to cliche places, places you can’t afford or simply don’t really care about. The originality is hard to find. This guide puts it back into your own hands, and gives you a personalized and truly unique trip. Just imagine where you’ll end up. Awesome work.
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