Who would have thought that a graffiti artist would actually be responsible for the raising the house prices of an area? This is exactly what's happening in London's trendy Shoreditch area where secretive graffiti artist Banksy is single-handedly pricing local…
Continue Reading →There isn't to much negative press floating around about "The Pattern Man" Dan Funderburgh these days and the recent publicity on Design Sponge and interview with pingmag.com have definitely rejuvenated our interest since our first report back in July '05.…
Continue Reading →FavoriteThingz.com is a brand new online company that allows its users to create badges that show off their favorite bands, movies, brands, stores, and more. The way it works is simple. Sign up with FavoriteThingz.com, pick from the available categories,…
Continue Reading →Helvetica is a full-length independent documentary film that investigates the deeper and more subtle ways in which type affects our daily lives. Using the now ubiquitous font helvetica as the thematic centerpiece, the film explores urban spaces with regards to…
Continue Reading →Puppet shows are popping up in the most unlikely places, and this one, recommended by a French friend, has me considering a trip to Canada. The Calgary-based Old Trout Puppet Workshop puts on quite the metaphorical and innovative performance with…
Continue Reading →Using acrylic paints on flattened beer and soda cans Charles Kaufman creates truly one of a kind works of art on crushed cans. The often quirky painting is on one side of the crushed can, while the other side reveals…
Continue Reading →Collaborations between companies have become extremely prevalent lately, but with some careful filtering you can spot the good and ignore the bad. One recent combination of forces, the wall decal meets t-shirt, is that between blik Surface Graphics and always…
Continue Reading →Formed in 1947 by photographic luminaries like Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour, Magnum Photos is an elite group of photographers who have documented major events both past and present (above are from the conflict in…
Continue Reading →Front, the team of Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren, and Katja Savstrom, is a design agency out of Stockholm, that, as the name suggests, is at the head of the design game. Pushing out concepts and prototypes…
Continue Reading →A novel idea by Dror Benshetrit of design Studio Dror is the Pick Chair for Italian furniture company Sintesi. Dror's designs are more than objects, "becoming part of their narratives, expressed in transformations that are both metaphorical and literal." Exhibiting…
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