American Toys

May 27th, 2008

American Toys by Christopher Paul Baker

This project by Christopher Paul Baker, was created by combining images from every United States patent containing the phrase “toy pistol”.

In Vestimentis Ursum

April 13th, 2008

In Vestimentis Ursum

In Vestimentis Ursum‘ is a collection of stuffed animals that sing, dance, light up, or talk back. Matt Kirkland disassembled them to show the robot inside the toys. Some look quite creepy.

Building Asia Brick By Brick

November 13th, 2007

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The Building Asia Brick By Brick project wants to raise awareness for traditional architecture in a more playful way: Architects from China, Japan and Thailand amongst others were given kits of white LEGO building blocks and told to have just fun. Once again, an excellent article at PingMag.

Learn The Basics

September 25th, 2007

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Learn the basics‘ by Atypyk.
found @ ffffound

Paper Bumble Bee

August 31st, 2007

transformer.jpgTime x paper x transformers = a paper Bumble Bee.

Pets of the World II

July 16th, 2007

adidas_pets.jpgYesterday I visited the “Pets of the World” exhibition and made some pictures. They are not really good, I want a DSL, but you can see them here.

Pets of the World

July 13th, 2007

Pets of the World

Adidas presents “Pets of the World”, they asked the Japanese artist Yoshiaki Kaihatsu to make stuffed animals from their fall/winter 2008 “Materials of the world” training jackets. You can go an see these pets till sunday at Galerie Tristesse Deluxe, Karl Marx Allee 137, Berlin. Some more info here and here.

Adidas is going to release some fine sneakers the coming months … Sneaker Freaker has some previews here and here.

Wild Animals

July 5th, 2007

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No, this isn’t a prototype for a suicide bomber. It’s a photograph of a teddy bear turned inside out by Kent Rogowski, and it’s part of his book called ‘Bears‘. There’s an interview with him at The Morning News.
found @ Boing Boing

Eames Plywood Elephant

April 12th, 2007

To celebrate the 100th birthday of Charles Eames, Vitra is finally going to release the Plywood Elephant which Charles and Ray Eames designed back in 1945. It will come in 2 versions, a natural maple and a red stained maple, both will be limited to 1000 pieces.

Eames Plywood Elephant

Art Director Ken

March 16th, 2007

Art Director KenArt Director Ken.
Read about him at Design Observer.