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Russian design firm whomakeit created an great identity that is movable, fun and full of attitude, for an events company, citrus. Check out the website, it’s beautiful HTML5 at its best!

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Waves is an artwork created by Daniel Palacios. A piece of long elastic string suspended between two rotating motors reacts to presence people of the space. The rotated string creates the visualisation of a beautiful sine-wave at the LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre.

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Rachel Boxnboim sews each of these objects, fills them with liquid clay, drains off the excess fluid and then fires the clay coated fabric to create these organic but usable tea sets for to go with your Sunday scones and its paper dollies . Such labor intensive process creates unique one-off tea sets as the moulds can only be used once. 

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Russian art and design collective Art Lebedev just launched this delectable serving set, modelled after the shape of lab equipments but given the traditional Russian Gzhel pattern. Kitchen experiments anyone?

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These beautiful seaweed are designed by I&S BBDO Tokyo for Umino Seaweed. The japanese patterns symbolising long life, luck, beauty and happiness are laser-cut to convey the company’s hope for Japan’s future.


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Iceland’s amazing landscape captured by Michael Schlegel  in stark black and white contrast brings out nature’s daunting side.

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Chinese artist Liu Bolin camouflaged the designers for Lavin, Missoni, Lavin, Jean Paul Gaultier and Valentino in their own designs for Harper’s March issue, title Lost in Fashion.


 

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Rebecca Schiffman designed a collection of jewelry inspired by architectural motifs from the Upper East Side New York. The collection consists of brooches, pendants, cufflinks, earrings and buttons made of silver and brass.



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Dentsu London’s hand-finished conductive christmas card that lights up when you complete the circuit. Lovely!

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Kyosuke Nishida, Brian Li and Dominic Liu came together to create this beautiful 3D poster and site, Words can come fly, in support of the people of Fukushima and to help raise funds for those in need.

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If you are in New York, drop by Barney on Madison Avenue to visit Gaga’s Workshop. Working closely with Lady Gaga, Barney created an entire floor of weirdness and limited edition items. Did I mention that 25% of sale from all items  here will go to the anti-bullying Born This Way Foundation? via mymodernmet

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When Novum, a German graphic design magazine, approached Paperlux for  a special cover, what they got was not so much a magazine, but an experiment on pushing the boundaries on paper and print production, expressed with bright happy colours and lots of intricate (and accurate) diecutting.

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These beautifully hand blown glass ornaments from Kiva Ford will make anyone’s Christmas tree magical.

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A great identity and collaterals for ecological restaurant Maaemo, designed by Ludvig Bruneau Rossow and Torgeir Hjetland as part of their work at Uniform Strategic Design, Oslo.

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This is a modern classic porcelain vase with a little twist by the people at Front for moooi.

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Great new posters by Rotterdam based designer David Louf for an electronic/experimental music festival in the Hague, the Netherlands.

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Ayaka Ito and Randy Church came together to create these amazing series of images that are halfway between photography, 3d rendering and painting.


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Pentagram shows us how its done, with a behind the scenes look at the creation of the latest D&AD annual cover.

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Great new work for the Alma Hotel by Spanish design firm Mucho.

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Jimmy Fiction hand makes giant three-dimensional letters, numbers and symbols for the garden and home in welded steel and powder-coats them to withstand the elements.

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