Elemotion’s e-sputnik table design

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By Ignasi Giro in New Products on Wednesday 23 January 2013

The Paris-based Elemotions design studio is pretty small, but his 100 percent artisan products tend to activate big emotions. And hence his name. Its ever-evolving table e-Sputnik emerges as a clean crystal surface landing on three wooden legs, all departing from a solid spherical ball. Nothing else, nothing more. Very limited editions of the product have been produced and sold during the last two years, each one of them unique and with slight alterations from the previous one. Actually, Antonio Morales, the architect behind the firm, keeps on evolving its design, now exploring a completely foldable wood version of his most well-known table, which should be ready for Spring 2013.

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This Paper Tablet will soon replace your laptop

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By Annie Churdar in Tech on Thursday 10 January 2013

It’s like an iPad, but much thinner and more durable. The Paper Tablet is flexible and might change the way we work behind an office desk. Instead of staring at a screen, this new tablet allows one to have several sheets of paper to run different apps and display documents. The screen is virtually unbreakable and way more fun to interact with than a stationary laptop screen.

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Infographic: 200 Moments That Changed the World

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By Lucas Jatoba in New Trends on Monday 10 December 2012

Time Magazine compiled a super cool infographic with a series of interconected moments that dramatically transformed the world – the breakthroughs, creations, discoveries, innovations, revolutions and human achievements that have altered the course of history and the way we live our lives.

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The Baha’i Gardens of Haifa and Akko in the Holyland

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By Merz in Cool Travel on Thursday 6 December 2012

Gardens, full of mystery and an intangible magic. The centre piece of the gardens in Haifa is The Shrine of The Bab. This is the most beautiful building I’ve ever seen. It has a strange quality to it, as if it has life, or a presence. I’ve never experienced that from an inanimate object before. But like the Taj Mahal in India, it was a building project invested with such a huge amount of love and designs for the ultimate expression of beauty that it now shimmers with these qualities.

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Anke presents Berlin fashion from another planet

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By Nils Frahm in New Fashion on Friday 23 November 2012

Anke makes clothes from another planet. I love her designs. Her pullovers are your best friend for the Berlin winter. Yes, it gets freakin’ cold here, so you want to be packed in wool.

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Kristjana: Icelandic design in vivid colour

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By Ben Jensen in New Design on Thursday 15 November 2012

Kristjana is an Icelandic designer who produces vivid giclee prints, wallpapers and silk scarves using Victorian engravings and manipulating them using photoshop. She blends this elegance of the old illustrations with bold colours and new ethereal layouts. The engravings take on a new life wrapped around animals or woven into ancient maps.

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Clare Vivier collaborates with Wren on new Celestial bag

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By Maria Niarchos in New Fashion on Thursday 12 April 2012

I think I’ve found a happy medium: to bring leather lovers and nature huggers to a united circle of hand-holds and peace chants. Since 2006, Clare Vivier has produced the goods that marry French glamour with LA cool. The best news is that Vivier’s design is as good as her social conscience, focusing without compromise [...]

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Crumpled City Maps

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By Maria Niarchos in New Design on Wednesday 4 April 2012

These are the most useful pieces of crumpled, indestructible, fabulousness going. Totally waterproof, fool-proof, lightweight and tear resistant, they even highlight a few extra-special ‘soul sights’ to see you navigate your way around the globe. GPS free.

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Tartified pantone swatches by food designer Emilie de Griotte

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By Maria Niarchos in New Art on Saturday 17 March 2012

French food designer Emilie de Griotte developed the tartified pantone swatches for a special feature in French culinary magazine, Fricote. Tasty and visual goodness all wrapped in one.

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Bendable and interactive magazine covers

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By Bforbel.com in New Design on Saturday 5 November 2011

For the November issue of Novum Magazine, German design studio Paperlux created six versions of bendable magazine covers that playfully invites people to interact with it: ‘Small, colorful triangles are punch cut from the cover, so that you can bend, fold, and ripple along the geometric lines’. Here’s an issue you will be leaving on the coffee table for your guests.

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Brandpowder

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By Carlo Muttoni in New Design on Saturday 16 July 2011

We are immersed in a fast, accelerating environment with no time for contemplation. We devour things without retaining much. In my work, I like to slow down, recycling images and messages, playing with objects and brands, in an attempt to extract a sort of fine powder: the unconsumed beauty of things.

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Beautiful graphic design by Richard Nabarro

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By Nini Baseema in New Design on Tuesday 11 January 2011

Richard J. Nabarro is a graphic designer and illustrator based in the UK. His Virgin Galactic and Attain Your Astronaut Wings series’ are my favourites in his portfolio.

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Fresh Flowers by Itunube

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By Casper Johansson in New Products on Monday 29 November 2010

Fresh Flowers is a collection of 32 flowers. It’s a different newspaper; it’s a way of having flowers on your table everyday. 1. Choose a flower. 2. Place it as the cover. 3. Make a roll with all pages together. 4. Put it in a vase. 5. And, of course, don’t water it! 32 Flowers. 29×37 cm. Everyday a different one.

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Daniel Emma Design Studio

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By Gerry Mak in New Design on Monday 20 September 2010

Daniel Emma Design Studio makes some beautifully simple and functional objects out of basic geometric shapes. I like how they categorize things as solids, shapes, and basics.

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Desktop Magazine’s annual CREATE:Awards

Zolton Contributor

By Zolton in New Events on Thursday 15 July 2010

Our friends at the awesome Australian publication Desktop Magazine are calling for entries to their annual CREATE:Awards. Entries close July 30th.

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