Italian designlab Nonesiste has been getting quite a bit of buzz for their V/a.g.r.a. Lamp, a wall-mounted lighting option that curls up when on and, uh, goes flaccid when turned off. I think it's nice too, but I have no…
Continue Reading →Peter D'Alessandro's Waste and Want cutting board has little detachable trays on its ends, one tray for waste and the other for the good bits you want in your food. Everybody can identify with the frustrations of regular cutting boards;…
Continue Reading →Via Moco Loco, I just fell in love with the latest offerings in the Fossil/Phillippe Stark Collaborative series: Veiled has specially electroplated crystal to mimic the bracelet design continuously across its face; Snake, whose closure is hidden on at the…
Continue Reading →I found myself in Portland, Oregon last week for the first time. I didn't get too much time to explore, but due to the time change I found myself up at 6am with some time to kill -- so I…
Continue Reading →KR LT Studio, a conceptual design studio based in Vilnius, Lithuania, takes a freeing approach to concept development. Instead of boxing themselves into one artistic category, principal designers Kristina Dryza and Renata Gaidienò allow themselves the creative freedom to express…
Continue Reading →A lot of holes in your wall: that's something you don't want. Instead of mounting your sweet new flat screen plasma TV directly on your wall"”discoloring your paint and drilling holes in the drywall to keep the screen up and…
Continue Reading →Let's just get this out of the way: I am a vegetarian. Accordingly, I think of meat as flesh, dripping with blood, freshly separated from a pulse. That said, the prospect of eating meat -- let alone branding it with…
Continue Reading →Last I checked, mirrors could only present reflections of what stood in front of them. I mean, that's the definition of a mirror. But not this mirror. This mirror reflects what stands in front of it, and it accepts text…
Continue Reading →For those not in the know (ie: living under a rock), an atelier is a workshop or a studio. Atelier BLINK is a Belgian design company founded last year by Emilie Lecouturier and Céline Poncelet. With the stated objective of…
Continue Reading →There's not much to love about standard office-issued fluorescent lighting. It makes your skin look sallow and your eyes tired, generally is pretty ugly and doesn't exactly set the sexiest mood for clandestine workplace hookups. Ross Lovegrove, it seems, has…
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