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New Products / Crazy chairs from the Campana brothers
July 2, 2009 | New Products | by Zolton 
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Who said chairs had to be boring? Or practical? This range of chairs from designer brothers, Fernando and Humberto Campana, nicely blurs the line between form and functionality, art and science. Read more
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New Products / Kent and London know their ABCs
July 1, 2009 | New Products | by Katriane Hill |
Kent and London, darlings of the sustainable design world, have come up with an adorable concept. Their FSC-certified chest of drawers is perfect in a bedroom or a play room, and each letter, patterned after vintage printing blocks, has its own drawer. The design house, which currently has a shop in Whitstable Harbour, Kent, prides itself on custom-ordered work and their ability to do ethical business.
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New Products / MIXA USB Cassettes
June 26, 2009 | New Products | by Gerry Mak |
MIXA’s USB flash drives housed in cassette shells come complete with a tape case and a customizable sleeve. They’re pretty reasonable at £19.99, and would make a great gift for people who wax nostalgic for mixtapes, yet are still hopelessly entrenched in modern technology.
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New Products / M11X’s vinyl stereo chairs
June 24, 2009 | New Products | by Casper Johansson |
These stylish works by New York-based artist, M11X — aka Mikal Hameed — blend his musical history with his creative nature as he ‘calls on us to forget our indivualized nature and relationship with our headphones and demands that we start to share our music as it was meant to be: unplugged and free’. [photos by Alison Zavos] Read more
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New Products / Chew leg cover/toy
June 22, 2009 | New Products | by Casper Johansson |
Now, really, every good dog deserves one of these. The Chew Leg Cover Toy, designed by Jennifer Yoko Olson for Gaia and Gino, is made from natural rubber to wrap around those delicate and eminently edible wooden legs of your favorite furniture.
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New Products / Mean Cards
June 19, 2009 | New Products | by Gerry Mak |
Mean Cards, the brainchild of Philly-based designer Julianna Holowka after she lost her job, her studio, and her apartment in Chicago in the span of a weak. For a generation too cynical for Hallmark cheer, Holowka provides bleak, dark-humored greeting cards for all occasions.
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New Products / Cubicus
June 17, 2009 | New Products | by Raymond Koh |
As children we all owned a Rubik’s Cube. Well, now there’s a modern version of the beloved puzzle: Cubicus. Instead of matching colours, you now have to put the cube together or create a number of intricate sculptures. All of which is a wonderful twist on an old favorite.
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New Products / Fragile Vases
June 16, 2009 | New Products | by Zolton |
Fragile Vases is a new collection of vases made from recycled materials by Itunube. All parts have been carefully selected and put together, so each vase is totally unique. So now it’s possible to give a second chance to old pieces instead of throwing them into the trash. We have a selection of these vases for sale in the Lost At E Minor store for just US$85.
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New Products / Buff Monster Toys
June 12, 2009 | New Products | by Ron English |
Odd, simple and surreal, these toys are really more accessible art objects. Sporting bit of a Keith Haring meets Murakami attitude, Buff’s toys fill any remaining generational gap between aging hipsters and their hyper plugged-in progeny. My wife and I collect Buff’s stuff, as do my two children. Read more
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New Products / Life-Sized RX78 Gundam Mobile Suit
June 11, 2009 | New Products | by Gerry Mak |
Japan certainly takes its giant robots seriously. As reported by Moe Passion, a blog by an American sailor stationed in Japan, a life-sized replica of a Gundam RX78 Mobile Suit was recently built on the artificial island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay. It’s up until August 31st, so go see it while you can.
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New Products / Woofers
June 8, 2009 | New Products | by Yuko Shimizu |
Want a fantabulous room decoration and good speakers at the same time? This is it. Dutch designer Sander Mulder’s Woofers will make your room a thousand times cooler. Immediately! Read more
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New Products / Custom Sonogram Cufflinks
June 6, 2009 | New Products | by Gerry Mak |
If you’re looking for a unique way to commemorate the beginning of a new life, CuffLinks.com is offering custom cufflinks that feature sonogram images of your impending bundle of joy and poop.
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New Products / Miaow Handmade Plush Animals
June 5, 2009 | New Products | by Gerry Mak |
Miaow is a Boston-based line of handmade plush animals. They use really fantastic fabrics, and the birds and penguins have articulated wings. I wonder how well they’ll go with my Iron Maiden bed sheets.
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New Products / Sneakers, for sneaking around in
June 2, 2009 | New Products | by Xavier Toby |
With so many pairs of kicks on the market, we thought we’d cut through the noise and throw up (in the nicest possible way) a few of our favorite pairs to cut a swathe through the inner-city streets in, starting with these Puma sneakers, which would be kinda fun to celebrate the Chinese New Year in. Right? Read more
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New Products / Download the David Byrne Fader issue
May 29, 2009 | New Products | by Lost At E Minor |
The annual Fader Icon issue is has just come out and includes a spotlight on the legendary David Byrne, delving into his time in the Talking Heads all the way to his current work as a solo artist and founder of the Luaka Bop record label. There are also features on Grizzly Bear, Theophilus London, and Micachu. You can download the entire issue for free as a PDF as well as an MP3 Podcast, featuring music from the issue.
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Marci Washington’s gothic paintings have an Edward Gorey-esque romanticism about them, her vampiric figures suggesting dark and mystical narratives. Read more
The Sound of Animals Fighting again unleash their experimental blend of progressive electronic hardcore rock. Known only by their animal names — Nightingale, Walrus, Lynx, and Skunk — and wearing masks for their rare live appearances, TSOAF have released two albums. Their latest, The Ocean and The Sun, offers an intense mix of genres, as delicate Brazilian-inflected melodies careen into shattering guitar workouts.
I tossed and turned through three chapters of an epic Russian novel last night. Or so it felt as a constant stream of characters made their way past the stringent casting couch and into the deepest reaches of my dreams. Read more
Fans of Australian buzzsaw rock trio, The Vines, might like to check out our sister site, My Secret Playlist, where drummer Hamish Rosser has written about eight songs he’s digging right now. There’s some interesting choices in there including The Strokes, James Brown, and, gulp, Joan Jett.
An intelligently told, morally complex tale with a raft of unexpected twists, Gone Baby Gone is one of the most original films of recent times. Most films give you a sense of their narrative arc and it is easy to recognise the major plot points. Read more
The work of Australia’s Ben Frost is always interesting. He’s known for his controversial art juxtapositions that confront contemporary Western paradigms in our advertising obsessed society. Crapitalism is on display until November 3 at Opus Gallery in Newcastle, UK. I do hope any disgruntled viewers refrain themselves from slashing his work with a knife, unlike the infamous 2000 Australian episode.
Converse kicks off its hundredth anniversary with 1HUND(RED), a special artist series with proceeds going to the Global Fund. The project is a year-long release of shoes designed by notable artists, including Auckland-based illustrator, Dennis Juan Ma, whose shoe [above] is number twenty in the series.
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Chris Ware is my favorite comic book artist. If there’s a new Chris Ware book out, I buy it, no questions asked. He writes the most somber, sad stories about the simplest of people, but they’re written and illustrated with such beauty and elegance. All of the text and graphic design is done by hand. It’s absolutely mind blowing. Read more
Design collectives can often be a mess, only bound together by a splash page and a few lines of text. Lie-ins and Tigers are without a doubt one of the most unified collectives and one of my favourites. Sam Kerr, Walter Newton and Russell Weekes may all have their own sites and services, but in collaboration, the humour and design intention remains remarkably unified. Read more
Born in a sub-provincial city of China, and raised in the suburbs of Northern California, Brooklyn-based artist Jing Wei attended the Rhode Island School of Design where she ‘developed a great affinity for printmaking, snow, and pizza’.
When I did the Master Cleanse diet a few years ago — the one where you consume nothing but lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper for ten days — I sat at work looking at pictures of food as if they were porn. Scanwiches would have gotten me hot and bothered like nothing else.
Edgar Muller’s three-dimensional street art
Some people are talented, others are just truly remarkable. German artist Edgar Muller makes these three-dimensional apocalyptic fantasy street art in cities across the world. His work is reminiscent of that of English artist, Julian Beever. Read more
Legendary pop culture artist and Agit Pop founder Ron English will be a guest compiler of an upcoming issue of our email newsletter, writing about his favorite cultural discoveries. To read Ron’s edition of Lost At E Minor, simply sign up to our weekly newsletter. It’s free, you win!
From this artist selection of t-shirts comes this Michael Gillette illustrated t-shirt, limited edition and distributed in a vinyl sleeve, with a biography of the artist on the back of the sleeve. Each tee is numbered and signed by the artist, and comes in organic cotton. Read more
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