These cube planters by Score+Solder sure makes me want to put on my gardening gloves so just to have some of these scattered around the house. They also do terrariums and other planters with geometric perfection.
If you ever tried the cocktails in a can that you might have so desperately picked up for whatever reason and only to regret after taking the first sip…fear no more! Tatabi Studio has created Enkaja where pre-measured canisters of cocktail mixes combines to form the freshly mixed cocktail of your choice! You can be creative or stick by the tried and tested formulae for the cocktails provided. With its identity system looking a lot like the periodic table, they might also have found the solution to best teach Chemistry!
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Although methinks there is way too much philosophy attached to a clock, it still does not deter me from wanting one. Real bad. Only drawback I guess is finding a horizontal wall for it to hang from. By Studio Toer.
“Shaped-by-time” is a clock that shapes itself by the passage of time. Because it’s looking for the most efficient way to move itself through the matter it will create an organic form by the slow repetitive movement of time. Time is slightly visible when the clock starts running, after a few days it excavates itself out of the matter and time will appear. From then on it slowly starts creating it’s organic form in which it will find it’s ideal shape.Then you want to forget time, shake it a bit and it will start all over again with finding it’s way. Like time heals wounds, this clock litterly heals itself by time.
Gorgeous curves and psychedelic colours rule the day for french photographer Julien Palast.
I love it when objects get simplified to their bare minimum, and I dare you to simplify a bottle opener more than what Oscar Diaz has.
A simple but no less beautiful Oak and Ceramic citrus squeezer by Jakob Heilberg for Legnoart. Buy yourself one from the good fellows at GSelect for USD89.
French designer Margaux Keller has some thoughtful glass works. I especially love Vase TORI where the source of the flower’s youth is hidden in plain sight.
By artfully arrange mirrors on easels in the Joshua Tree National Park, photograher Daniel Kukla create images that reminds of classical oil paintings , frozen in time in its surroundings.
I always found it difficult to reconcile the two disparate worlds of print and on-screen design, mainly because of the different unit of measurements. Math and designers never quite go well together. In comes the Pixel Ruler from UI Stencils and suddenly my sketches make sense as on screen graphics. Now if only they would put some MM measurements on the other edge and I would gladly throw all my other rulers away. Buy yours today for USD 24 at UI Stencils.
Bang & Olufsen has always managed to tread the beautiful line between technically advance products with amazing design aesthetics. With the announcement of the Beoplay A9, they are cementing their position as the company to beat when to comes to lust-worthy speakers. Now… to decide which wall or corner to put my new speakers…
Julien Charriere and photographer Julius von Bismark created a device that “spray-painted” 35 pigeon in the city of Copenhagen in vibrant colours before proceeded to document the surreal beauty in the backdrop of the beautiful city.
I love it when photography presents to us a world otherwise unseen and undiscovered. It could be dreamscapes that only exists in the artist’s eyes, or in this case, tiny micro organisms that have never been photographed before. Ever. via BBC
The Tara research vessel has recently completed a 70,000-mile journey around the world’s oceans collecting data on plankton biodiversity. The international team of scientists have discovered over one million new species on their voyage and produced amazing images of plankton using groundbreaking technology.
Nendo’s latest project is a bird apartment and human tree house hybrid that allows birds to experience the very human way of apartment building living, while at the same time allows for humans to experience the bird’s lifestyle of living in trees. Tiny holes between the two lets you peep at the birds to see what they are up to, and allows the birds to also spy on your cheeky shenanigans.
Chen Chen and Kai Williams, the Brooklyn-based duo behind Chen-Williams shows us how anyone can own authentic, home-made bookends full of stories, and… well… stones and stuff. via CoolHunting
Even when they call the world’s factory their home, photographer Huang Qingjun shows us how incredibly little a select group of citizens have to their name.
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