This is THE fashion accessory for this summer! It will be all over Paris and Milan.
Ok, not. It’s only a stuffed tattooed pig by the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. He did tattoo some alive pigs some years ago in China where the animal rights aren’t that strict as in Europe.
found at The Clones
The only piece of furniture you will ever need in your living room: the Sofa Set by Ditte Hammerstrøm.
So what do you do when you almost have no free space but you need a staircase, you ask TAF to build you one like this.
An other nice project by TAF is System, a cupboard range.
Burnout, a bench by Julian Mayor.
Yugo Nakamura and his team developed the eye-project website for the Japanese telecom company KDDI. It looks quite similar to the Experience Uniqlo Explorer but this time it’s all about user-generated content. Yay!
They developed a server-side video generating system to which the users can upload videos, photos or capture webcam input. The outcome is a video-pixel-style content browser. You have to love those sounds on Japanese websites.
… Ricky Gervais style.
Art Director Ken.
Read about him at Design Observer.
Running the Numbers, an American Self-Portrait, is the latest project by the artist Chris Jordan. In this series of photographs he visualizes some statistics like the amount of office paper used in the US every 5 minutes (15 million sheets). Or like in this picture, the 60 000 plastic bags used in the US every 5 seconds. Go to his website to see details of this and other pictures!
My girlfriends birthday is coming up so I started the quest for the ultimate birthday gift. I guess she won’t get this Louis Vuitton Tribute Patchwork Bag, it’s price tag is quite hefty … $42,000. Marc Jacobs probably thought, let’s cut up some leftovers from the previous seasons, stitch them back together et voila … $42,000. Ingenius!
Maison Martin Margiela does the same much better.
