The Dyvel Table, by Brooklyn based collaborative studio Silva/Bradshaw (artist/designers Matthew Bradshaw & Sergio Silva), consists of two parallel glass surfaces held in tension by four wooden legs. The four white oak legs give the illusion of being pierced through the lower slab of glass which is also an awesome place to store a collection of something colorful.
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The amazing John Curtin School of Medical Research building, by Lyons Architecture, is the newest addition to the Australian National University campus in Canberra. The collaborative research facility was designed to specifically spur collaboration and social exchanges through the use of large open meeting spaces & community areas. The building houses research laboratories, a 200 seat public lecture theater and ample amounts of public exterior spaces. The exterior of the building is clad in steel and digitally rendered and fabricated panels that represent molecules on coded DNA strands.
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Loving the new branding & print material for the husband & wife team, Eight Hour Day. The package, designed to fit into their busy life, traveling for an entire year & working the whole way, they decided to keep the items small, letterhead is replaced with note cards and postcards, a map stamp that they can pin-point their current location on, and a bunch of other really fun little details. The package was letterpress printed by the amazing Studio On Fire.
Be sure to follow their travels & work on the Eight Hour Day blog.
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I’m stunned by how wonderfully amazing this typeface is! Chartwell by TK Type is a family that explores the extensive capabilities of the OpenType framework and creates beautiful, customizable and widely compatible graphs and charts. It can be used in any application that supports standard ligatures and the data remains editable since it is basically a string of type. It’s on sale now over on TK Type’s website for only $40.00 for the whole family.
Amazing, beautiful and vibrantly colored works on paper by New York based artist Alexander Kori Girard.
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I love the simplicity and the warm beauty of Sea Ranch Residence by San Francisco based Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architecture. This house, which overlooks the Pacific ocean, captures the clients love of Japanese simplicity in a home that flows from room to room. The huge continuous band of windows that covers the ocean facing side of the house allows the amazing vista to be enjoyed from any room.
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Färg is a photo set of organized items by Kontor Kontur, a design collaboration between Emilia Wärff, My Erwander, & Eva Erwander based in Gothenburg. The items, all color coordinated, are arranged and photographed from above to create beautiful patterns.
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I really love this simple and beautiful modular storage idea. BrickBox, by industrial designer Antxon Salvador and graphic designer and illustrator Roger Zanni, is a storage solution that allows the user to design to their individual needs. The module is a simple wooden box made from 12mm birch plywood laminated, only on the faces, in white. Each shelf comes flat-packed and with screws and nylon plugs that ingenuously lock that boxes together.
Photos by Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre
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Bright color to start Monday off right! Pylon, by Swedish designers Marcus Abrahamsson & Kristoffer Fagerström, is a vibrant bench made of colored and stacked pine boards on a steel base. The bench was created for the furniture brand Nola and was exhibited as part of this years Stockholm Furniture Fair.
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These awesome Merit Badges for Life from Disorderly Goods are a unique, nostalgic gift with a fresh, modern twist. Created by Los Angeles-based graphic designer Jane Chika, Disorderly Goods seeks to rethink everyday objects. With merit badges like, pleasure, giving a shit, voodoo dolls, and zen stones, who wouldn’t smile and want to have the whole collection.
The amazingly clean and simple Still Liquor branding by New York based designer Javas Lehn harks back to the prohibition era, when type was king in the design world. I love the bold type, subtle details, and the iconic Ford Model-T.
The stunning Newzald typeface by Klim Type Foundry is the perfect typeface for the international editorial environment. The typeface, inspired by Dutch type masters like J.F. Rosart & J.M. Fleischman, features a large x-height and slightly condensed letterforms.
Ok, so earlier this month I was convinced that I wanted to return to France this summer for vacation, but now I’m thinking that Liz and I need to go to Iceland. This video is part of a program created by Inspired By Iceland, a website by the Icelandic office of tourism, that gives people the opportunity to tell the world why they love Iceland so much!
These totally cute and beautiful Animal Boxes by Brooklyn based designer Carl Zahn are functional little sculptures that capture the essence of the animal while still remaining function. The boxes, all hinged at the eye, have a single small magnet that holds the box closed.
The beautiful Papela lamp by Tel Aviv based product designer Meirav Barzilay is hand stitched from Tyvek and features a brightly printed solid color on the interior of the shade. The lamp can be balled up, tossed around and re-hung to give it an soft wrinkled feeling.
The INCH and METRIC key blanks are something every designer or doer of anything should have on their keyring. The key blanks have laser engraved measurement markings on the handle of the key and come in many of the standard key blank shapes.
I have to find a way to get a set of these plates and bowls from a little ceramic studio just outside of Venice. These watercolor plates and bowls, by Studio Potomak, are stunning. The bone white of the porcelain china is set of with washes of bright colors.
The Zelfo Embrace is project that Elise Gariel has been working on for years, receiving a VIA partnership award in the past, that explores the use of a cellulose based material called Zelfo. Zelfo is made of rapidly renewable plants, hemp, miscanthus, and a few others, is 100% biodegradable, and is easily processed.
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