New Design
May 16, 2012 | New Design | by Ashley Conchieri |
Boston-based metalsmith and jewelry designer, Lauren Passenti, combines unexpected materials to create pieces of wearable sculpture. Her jewelry is inspired by industrial decay and her forms challenge elegance when set against rough textures. Read more
New Design / Glo-Bars: a bicycle illumination device
May 16, 2012 | New Design | by Rob Viola |
Massachusetts College of Art and Design industrial design student Mitchell Silva has prototyped an ingenious and very beautiful bicycle illumination device. Glo-Bars is a rechargeable LED fixture that is built into the handle bars of a bicycle, making the cyclist visible to both opposing and approaching traffic. The device also contains turn signals. Wild. Read more
New Design / 100 Posters in 100 Days by Megan Matsuoka
May 16, 2012 | New Design | by Samantha Dalrymple |
Some people procrastinate, some people are productive. Serial design addict, Megan Matsuoka, defines effort and creativity by creating 100 posters for 100 days. Her style for this project consists of life advice and inspirational words combined with clean, modern, European sleekness. Her project is inspiring for us to create something everyday. Read more
New Design / New font designs by Jack Usine
May 15, 2012 | New Design | by Mega |
Jack Usine, aka Jules Vernacular, is a graphic designer and font maker. His font factory provides high quality and detailed types. He’s also a new school writer and member of the TT crew.
New Design / Bed Buds pillow cases designed by Andy Rementer
May 15, 2012 | New Design | by Bridget Barnett |
I’m loving these Bed Buds pillow cases designed by American artist Andy Rementer for Australian storefront and online museum, Third Draw Down. Rementer is best known for his colourful gouache portraits, plants and typography work, an example of which can be seen at his latest exhibition at the Ship of Fools gallery in Holland. Read more
May 14, 2012 | New Design | by Keith Greiman |
Art and beer are like chocolate and peanut butter: two good things that are best when paired together. Keith Shore, a talented artist, figured out a way to combine these two when he signed on as the designer for Danish super-brewer, Mikkeller. Now his stylish labels, t-shirts and posters are as much a part of the brewery’s identity as the world-class beer they make. Next time, consider hanging one of their bottles on the wall instead of tossing into the recycling bin.
New Design / Berndnaut Smilde brings clouds to life indoors
May 12, 2012 | New Design | by Maria Niarchos |
These are neither digitally manipulated effects, nor white fluffy stuff suspended from the ceiling. Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has managed to work the seemingly impossible and bring these surreal indoor (real) clouds to life. Read more
May 12, 2012 | New Design | by Lost At E Minor |
Newly launched organic cosmetic line, Britanie, is a line of local cosmetics inspired by sea spray, salty winds and local herbs of the French region, La Bretagne (Brittany). The trendy packaging was designed by Emmanuel Romeuf for Mathieu Lehanneur. Read more
New Design / Your portrait as a heroic Chinese propaganda poster
May 11, 2012 | New Design | by Low Lai Chow |
Brainwash visitors to your apartment with a personalised Maopost reproduced propaganda painting now starring you as a socialist hero. Avid poster collectors Pierre Lavigne and Pierre Budestschu are the ones behind the business and promises to hire ‘freelance professional Chinese artists’ and not ‘“painting factories” and their salaried artists’. These oil paintings cost anywhere from US$199 to US$269. We reckon it’s a fairly reasonable price to plant yourself in history. Read more
New Design / Nintendo NES controller coffee table
May 10, 2012 | New Design | by Samantha Dalrymple |
I died a little when a saw this. This amazing Nintendo NES controller coffee table by Califonia-based furniture and instrument builder Charles Lushear, from design company Boho Workbench, is an actual controller for those who still have their working Nintendo NES lying around. Made from maple, mahogany and walnut, dovetail joinery and mid-century modern legs, this table is not cheap (but totally worth it). Read more
New Design / Movie poster designs by Austin-based Mondo
May 9, 2012 | New Design | by Josef Buchanan 
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Austin’s Mondo is described via their Facebook page as follows: ‘If we have to explain what we are, you wouldn’t understand’. Which I guess is true in many ways, but the bottom line is they showcase numerous artistic renditions of movie posters, which span everything from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Duck Dodgers and the 24 1/2th Century, and everything in-between. Apparently the posters sell out within minutes, and sometimes even seconds, but you can still check out the archive and eventually pick up your jaw from the ground after viewing all of the awesome work that has beed done. Read more
New Design / Edgy new design work by French-based Ill Studio
May 9, 2012 | New Design | by Aaron Craig |
If you’re into the design scene at all, you may already be familiar with the top-end work that this multi-disciplinary French studio produces. But if you aren’t, Ill Studio have their own evolving style encompassing creative areas such as art-direction, graphic design, photography, typography and motion design. Read more
New Design / T.25: an innovative car design by Gordon Murray
May 5, 2012 | New Design | by Kyle Renwick |
Created by the designer who brought us the fastest automatic car in the world (the Mercedes McLaren SLR), the T.25 is innovative thinking at its best. Three T.25’s can fit into one standard car space and uses a new novel way of getting in and out of your car. Aimed at those living in our world’s mega cities, where every inch of space is valuable, the racing pedigree is maintained with a Formula 1 styled driving position. Read more
New Design / Low battery tattoo by Christoph Niemann
May 5, 2012 | New Design | by Low Lai Chow |
There are days when we feel drained. Of course, you could show the universally recognisable expression of a sad face, but putting on a temporary low battery tattoo says so much more. Nice work, Mr Niemann. Read more
New Design / Cactus seats by Maurizio Galante
May 5, 2012 | New Design | by Low Lai Chow |
Designed by Italian designer Maurizio Galante for Cerruti Baleri, this series of cactus furniture is great to crash out and fall asleep on. Unfortunately accidental acupuncture isn’t one of the side-effects: these aren’t really cacti. These are just comfy seats snugly covered in bi-elastic cacti-printed fabric. Read more
Devastatingly original and dynamically coloured artwork from London-based illustrator, Dan Stafford, who graduated from Loughborough University School of Art & Design with First Class Honours in Visual Communication. Read more
The simple ideas are often the most cleverest, and that’s certainly the case in this design, taking the classic white garden chair and transforming it into a skull. Genius.
The Hatton hotel epitomises Melbourne cool. Those who value design, location, and luxury will find The Hatton the perfect Melbourne base. Read more
Ever seen a beard you can’t trust? Yes, me too. Well, here’s a witty Beard Chart visualisation that can be used as a guideline to help us all out.
Man, I remember shaking my tail to Come on Eileen many moons ago — when rat-tails were a right of passage and Molly Ringwald held both the lock and the key to my tiny pitter pattering heart. Back then it was all ice-skating and fairy floss; skateboards and trading cards. It was bags of chips by the rusty school fence and sunburnt faces on crackling summer days. Read more
Monika Tywanek and Ingrid Verner are the Melbourne-based designers behind T-V’s boutique label. Read more
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Minimalist cool meets urban grunge. This is Upper Metal Class, fine metal jewelry inspired by architecture, construction, math and science. Upper Metal Class already scored major points with their chic every-day friendly line, but there’s a major bonus to the brand: they are uber-environmentally conscious, constructing all goods from recycled metal in a wind-powered studio. Check out these hot and enviro-pleasing pieces in the Lost At E Minor store
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