I’m a fan of the wooden toys by Brooklyn-based designer David Weeks for Areaware. This time he collaborated with Kidrobot to create a wooden version of the Dunny toy. This limited edition beauty (only five were fashioned) is hand-hewn and sanded from zebra-striped hard… [ Continue reading ]

I like desks, especially when they are designed by a Japanese designer and produced in Switzerland since they have a certain feeling for order and cleanness, but always with a high functionality. Designed by Tomoko Azumi for Röthlisberger, this AT-AT desk offers space for your macbook,… [ Continue reading ]

The Future Is Old is a solo exhibition of recent works on paper by Marijn Akkermans in the Gabriel Rolt Gallery, Amsterdam. ‘Perfect – perfect men, women – husbands and wives – sons and daughters – perfect families with the perfect dog. Marijn Akkermans makes drawings of… [ Continue reading ]

Tamawa is a radical style exercise that uses bakelite spheres as a mono material. It is a design story that takes up there where the seminal ‘Hang it all’ by Charles & Ray Eames lifted off in the 50s: coloured balls (the official snooker colour line-up) varying from… [ Continue reading ]

Finally, after years (!) my good friend Marcel Kampman plugged his universe with ours. It became an inspiring, crazy, beautiful, happy and everything-in-between portfolio/blog/give it a name… Just like Marcel. haha… [ Continue reading ]

This is the kind of webshop I like! Supermarket Sarah. Overflowing with treasures and delights, vintage clothing and rarities. Oh, and when visiting the shop off-line she welcomes visitors with tea and cakes. Thank you Design Milk for sharing. [ Continue reading ]

A Time to Get shared this fantastic trailer of The Belgrade Phantom. Based on a true story: ‘Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1979. While Yugoslav president Tito was in Cuba settling international matters, a mysterious Phantom occupied the attention and hearts of Belgrade. Every night, he performed spectacular driving… [ Continue reading ]

Our friend Robin from A Smile in the Mind pointed us to this fantastic multi-functional sports hall by Allmann Sattler Wappner Architects for Universitätsstadt Tübingen. ‘The aim was to achieve maximum usage out of what is a comparatively small floor area. At… [ Continue reading ]

Now you can bring your broken china to Platform21 to repair it with the new repair technique Bison Kintsugi by designer Lotte Dekker. ‘Lotte Dekker developed a new view of gluing porcelain based on kintsugi, an old Japanese technique in which porcelain is repaired with gold… [ Continue reading ]

I like these strange and beautiful coloured drawings by S. J. Hart. “…Her work combines traditional elements of etching, drawing, and figurative painting with a taste for the gothic, abstract, and decorative. Recent series explore the psychological space of figure and portrait paintings, Victorian post-mortem photography, and the… [ Continue reading ]

Fantastic video work by graphic designer Adam Guzman and Julia Tsao for Nosaj Thing. “As the graphics become more spatial, the performer flattens, becoming a 2-D cutout version of himself.” Thank you Bas & Nalden for sharing!… [ Continue reading ]

A beautiful (!) work in progress, a full CG animated short film ‘to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces’ by Alex Roman. The website is temporary offline, but his Vimeo channel is definitely worth a visit. And read the… [ Continue reading ]

Design Taxi, the global creative network (who featured and interviewed me back in the days) did a huge restyle. It’s fantastic! It more and more becomes a digital magazine with lots of interesting content and great portfolios. Great job!… [ Continue reading ]

He studied biomedicine, loves music, loves food and is an excellent illustrator! Say hello to Carsten Oliver Bieräugel. [ Continue reading ]

I just came across this incredible clock, made by the Dutch designer Sander Mulder: “While moving to a new house our clock was damaged severely in transport, to a point where it’s minutes- and seconds pointer fell of the central axis, and where just laying in the transparent… [ Continue reading ]

Maison Martin Margiela will celebrate his third anniversary of his presence in Hong Kong with this fantastic Mahjong set. If you spend enough at the store at On Lan Street in central Hong Kong you’ll get this limited edition Mahjong set. Share by Hyperbeast… [ Continue reading ]

“Premium aesthetics coupled with consistent delivery wins every time.” Together with the Purple List, PSFK put together the The Good Brands Report of 2009 with Google, Apple, Zipcar, Good Magazine, Amazon, Facebook, Virgin, Twitter, Ikea & Skype in the top 10. “…The Good Brands… [ Continue reading ]

My old love Threadless recently collaborated with The New Museum in NYC to challenge artists to design a tee based around the theme New Art/New Ideas! The winning piece will be showcased in The New Museum Store as well as the Museum’s… [ Continue reading ]

As Benji Holroyd says: “I translate ethnic slurs for refugees, write award-winning operas and manage time efficiently. I woo women with my sensuous and god like dancing, I can ride a mountain bike up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and cook thirty-minute brownies in twenty minutes, but my real passion… [ Continue reading ]

I got really inspired by Interview’s interview of Partners & Spade, ‘a sort of combo ad agency, creative consultancy, and art gallery boutique in a storefront on Great Jones Street in Manhattan’s NoHo’. “If you really care about details, demonstrate it” — Andy Spade… [ Continue reading ]

Some fresh new work by illustrator Fede Yankelevich. [ Continue reading ]

Belgium based graphic designer Geoffrey Brusatto e-mailed me to tell he updated his website. He defiantly is my favorite designer of today!… [ Continue reading ]

Check this beautiful portfolio of London based artist/illustrator Anna Higgie. Above the LP Cover design for Italian disco label SLOW MOTION. Found at Coûte que Coûte. [ Continue reading ]

My Dutch friends at Fontanel made a nice overview of the 2009 graduation shows of the dutch academies. Tonight the show of the design department at HKU will take place with the graduation project of Jonathan Looman (the code boy behind Anothersomething). [ Continue reading ]