far4 is an interesting shop basedin Seattle that sources interesting products from all over the world and bring them to their shop. My faves so far are the upside down wine glasses salad dressing bottle thingys, and this fun idea of a wall sticker!
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My favourite architect, Shigeru Ban,and product designer, Marc Newson, were commisioned to design two freestanding structures for the London Design Week, with the brief of “pushing the boundaries of what materials can do”. The results are interesting, and reflective of each designer’s aesthetics and design language, but I just wish they could get these two opposing views to collaborate on one single piece. It would have been nice to see the contrast of Marc’s curves and Shigeru Ban’s clean lines intertwined and blended. via Moco Loco.
Jaime Hayón, designer extraordinaire, and father of my favourite Big Green Chicken was commissioned for a installation in Trafalgar Square. Now was if he was brought into designing the iconic chess scene in Harry Potter: The Sorcerer’s Stone? Would that not have been stunning?! Read more here.
Nope not the drink but no less yummy for sure! I am sure its uncomfortable as hell but with fashion, who cares!
Mojito shoe by architects Hakes Associates. via Deezen.
For a limited time only, a paltry USD1500 will get you this pair of “beautiful, fit in any decor, I want one so bad” speakers from Specimen. Buy it now!
Sipping my tea from these Neri & Hu teacups, I need to be sitting in these Pebble chairs by Benjamin Hubert. Why? Just so I can be happy and contented. via Design Milk.
In the latest collaboration of the Evian and famous fashion people, and the design of its bottle, (which I always felt was strange since Evian never had an iconic bottle to begin with. Unlike Coca-Cola or Absolut Vodka. But I digress) Paul Smith adds his iconic coloured stripes and gives us coloured bottle caps! Now if they don’t only taste like, well, water…
In order below, Paul Smith, Jean Paul Gaultier and Christian Lacroix.
Beautiful simple shapes and gorgeous colours make for a killer teaset. These Neri & Hu teacups are just the thing to spice up my already spicy tea collection! Via THE DESIGN DYNASTY.
This latet watch by Ernst Benz is quickly becoming my latest obsession. But at a limited run of just 250, I guess I should dump this into the pile of unobtainable obsessions. 
I am voting this to be the best use of a skylight, and best use of wood & ceramics IN a light. Merci Ceramics is looking to be an exciting french find! Absolutely french and absolutely wonderful! via excavation by spoonfuls.
I have always had a secret wish to have three functions of my computer world come into real life. The Colour Picker Pen fulfills my wish by allowing you to scan a colour of any real life object and start drawing in that exact same shade. Now if someone would invent me the “Command+Z Eraser” or the “Command+F Bloodhound”, my life would be perfect! Via DesignBoom
Created as an antithesis of what beauty and function should be within a clock, the Nixie Clock is made of concrete, has numbers arranged wrongly and is quite frankly, ugly. But that does not mean that I don’t want one when it goes into production. See more at Nixie Website.
There’s no denying the results when two great designers in their own fields come together to create furniture magic. via It’s Nice That.
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“Made from 10,000 drinking straws, the Clutch Chair is an exploratory research piece that passes comment on our disposable culture. The development process of this piece also informed that of the Clutch Light, both of which were developed from an observation of the structural characteristics of trees.”
This piece was selected by Zaha Hadid as her Curators Choice at Noise Festival 2008.
By designer Scott Jarvie.
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