It happens to the best of us. We move into a new place and live out of boxes for longer than intended. Then, you have visitors planning to come stay with you… and you still are living out of boxes and with an incomplete guest room. When Nikki of WhiMSy Love had a friend coming to [...]
The most iconic and beautiful people always grace the covers of Vanity Fair magazine. Italian graphics site Village9991 has taken the covers of past issues and has created a beautifully executed recycled art project. Recycled art takes a special type of mind to think outside of the box to re-imagine the original medium. The magazines are pieced [...]
It’s not easy being GREEN. More in recycled design trends news is the Save Our Bottles (SOB) Vase by Canadian design studio, Human Republic. They specialize in high-end solutions for the home and workplace, and is a full-service consultancy committed to the design of high-end products and enivronments which enrich people’s lives through purposeful design and aesthetic distinction. The [...]
Hack Job is a project that the good people at Boooooooom, with the help of a “little” brand called Converse Skateboarding, have started to find the most creative innovators of skateboards, using any materials you can get your hands on. You don’t have to be an avid skater to participate, just someone who can construct a skateboard literally out of anything. The board [...]
This has been around the block on design blogs, but when I first peeped that a house and a restaurant went up in Austria, inspired in design by the VW beetle — I admit, I kinda wanted to hate on it. I thought it just straight up crossed the line from awesome to absurdly not [...]
Lottery tickets start as a dream of what could be, but usually end up as a total waste of money. A duo of graduates from the Rhode Island School of Design, Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was, who call themselves, “Ghost of a Dream,” have literally shown just how much of a waste lottery tickets are. They’ve taken [...]
On Thursday, August 12, Scandinavian furniture giant IKEA unveiled their SURREALISTIKA kitchen sculpture as part of the Barbican Centre‘s Surreal House Exhibition. The sculpture celebrates creativity in design, bringing fantasy, imagination and the household to life. It incorporates the natural beauty of the Silver Birch tree intertwined with elements of an every day kitchen sitting [...]
Japanese artist Yoskay Yamamoto fuses inspiration from his heritage and Japanese mythology with the pop iconography from his new Western home in his work. His art has been described as a nostalgic blend of urban pop art and traditional and mythical Japanese elements. Interestingly, Yamamoto comments on the process of discovery that help defines his [...]
At a glance, Brooklyn-based street artist Aakash Nihalani‘s work looks somewhat like blatant photoshop pieces. But in reality, it’s bright-colored tape physically embedded into various places on the street. Nihalani sees beauty in cinder block, brick buildings or a street sign, otherwise mundane things to the average Joe. He brings out extra dimensions that incite passersby [...]
Understated graffiti. Is there such a thing? Ilan Dei, an innovative designer, has designed a collection called “Awake Your Inner Vandal: Well-Behaved Graffiti in you Home,” that combines well-crafted, contemporary furniture with urban graffiti. But instead of making the graffiti the focal point, it is hidden within the piece and can only be seen wholly from [...]
