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A great paper-crafted identity and collaterals for Parklife 2010, one of Australia’s biggest music festivals, designed not just to reflect the energy of the music, but the beauty of the venues. By Briton Smith.

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The Dual Cut chair and ottoman fits neatly into each other, because they were cut out from the same piece of foam. Beautiful when you are lounging, and practical when you are not, this is perfect for the small apartments that most of us live in. by Kitmen Keung.

Splitting a raw rectangular foam block with only two L-shaped cut lines, Dual Cut is a transformable furniture piece that employs the simplest production processes true to the materials in use with minimal wastage. It features two ergonomically comfortable seat back angle options of 6° and 23°, and the multi-formation ability to form a one seater with a side table, a chaise lounge or a corner table. It also easily forms a neat, compact parcel for convenient storage and transportation. Dual Cut is available in Light Grey and Dark Grey with a 3-layer-system coating making it suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. Dimensions: stacked, w80 x h80 x d93cm; chaise lounge, w80 x h80 x d170cm; ottoman, w80 x h40 x d77cm; seat height 40cm.Produced and distributed by Sixinch.

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You wonder what the splotches and lines are going, and then Steve appears. Wonderful speed painting by Aaron Kizer.

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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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My favourite book of all time, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by my favorite artist, Salvador Dali. Published in 1969 by Maecenas Press-Random House in New York, it is one of the rarest and most sought after of Dali’s suites.

 

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Mind-blowing work by Sagaki Keita, who creates images of roman sculptures with numerous Manga inspired sketches.

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This is NOT computer generated, you cynical new-age video viewer you. This is our earth. via Ron Garan.

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China’s Ai Weiwei has a new exhibition in Taiwan, held “in absentia”. Presented as part of a bigger exhibition, aptly titled “Absent”, the previously imprisoned artist welded together thousands of bicycles together, presenting an eye-boggling perspective. Via bikehugger.

 

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Michael Tompert and Paul Fairchild bought Apple products over a few months, only to destroy them with bullets, fire and running trains. The end result is both entrancing and downright painful. via designboom


 

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I am in awe of design that looks great from afar, and mind-boggling greater from up close. Stunning data visualisation in delicious colours by Russian designer Tatiana Plakhova.

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A great design for a Swedish jewelry brand by Polopgraphic. Don’t the boxes look beautiful?

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Thomas Doyle miniaturises the everyday, and invites viewers into a subverted normality of destruction and transformation. His latest solo exhibition, Surface to air, opens November 12th at LeBasse Projects gallery in Culver City, California.

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Great short film by  Christian Georges Jr where a cursed Samy Ado gets everything that he throws flung back into his face. Fun, funny and set to a thumping soundtrack.

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A simple leather coin pouch gold stamped with currency symbols makes the perfect Christmas gift for the special man in your life. Available for GBP15.00 at culturelabel.

 

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Photographer David Trood’s project shows us what an average human being looked like be superimposing the image of different people over each other. Do you find the average human familiar?

100 10 year old Danish children

Female face of humanity

Male face of humanity

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Conceived as a physical manifestation of the stark abruptness of war and history, architect Daniel Libeskind makes a bold statement, colliding of an angular shard with the existing building to breath-taking results.

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Illustrator Lauren Kaiser recounts the childhoods of famous serial killers, and the moments that inspired their infamy.

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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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There is nothing I love more than slowly aging leather, and nothing will age more gracefully than these custom-made hand-stamped leather luggage tags from Of The Fountain.

not all those who wander are lost

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Inspired by Richard Avedon’s American West and a small town Arkansas photographer named Mike Disfarmer, photographer Matt Rainwaters’ rendition is simple in idea and execution, but intriguing and arresting nonetheless.

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