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Sorry for the delay, we managed to exceed our bandwidth limit for the month and went down temporarily. The good news is the site is back to normal, the bad news is that it has loaded an older backup. We’ve lost some posts – but I will rewrite and repost them as soon as possible. [...]

Drink beer. Save the World. I’m usually not that excited by recycled homewares, but I do like well designed novelty goods, am a fan of handmade things and I certainly like things related the alcohol consumption.

The French brand LIP has been around 150 years but have been hard to obtain anywhere outside Europe. Now, under the watchful eye of Lip’s new design director Prisca Briquet they have now reissued some of their most important models from a modern collection that remains as visionary today as when first launched 35 years ago.

Back the in 80′s Soundwave transformed into a playable micro casette player, more recently Optimus Prime is available as a ipod dock, in the near future RAVAGE who was a character based on a transformable micro tape who was a Soundwave minion will take a step into the present in USB form.

Us non-Kanyes can’t even begin to understand the fabulousness of the life this man lives. How can we? The concept of waking up surrounded by Louis Vuitton, bathing in Veuve and then having to decide which lambo to drive which bank stuffed with our milions is so far removed from our frame of reference that we don’t stand a hope in hell of ever understanding what Kanye has to go through every day just to be Kanye. Asking us to understand Kanye is just too hard and arduous a task.

It’s NBA playoffs right now so a hoops junkie like me doesn’t really need any extra basketball related distractions in their life but the NBA Europa design concept managed to cut through the endless LeBron and Kobe highlight reels to pique my interest. Put together purely as a concept by a graduating senior at the [...]

Do you yearn for a sexy laptop case? Are you one of those people who need to have their phone surgically attached to them? Or are you just frustated by failed attempts to keep a pen near your moleskine at all times? Fear not vain and/or incompetant airhead trendsetter, Hard Graft are here to make [...]

Tomy LumiPAD glowing message board actually looks really cute! http://tinyurl.com/f9xx9 # Best little (and I mean little) concept shop in Sydney. VA Concept – http://www.viaalley.com/ #

Supposedly this great period of financial turmoil will be a boon to the arts and self expression as  we all try to make sense of this new paradigm into which we’ve been plunged. Can’t remember where I read that but I’m pretty sure that was the gist of one of the many ‘it won’t be [...]

I’m a sucker for neon signs and the like. I coo like a childless female in her late 30′s who’s just been confronted with a adorable young tot every time i see a cool one in a design or antique store. I’ve been known to drool in public as I gaze in wonderment and envision [...]

Hey wow, we have a twitter account now. Social networking party. Lala W00T Real Fandom – Comic Book Tattoos http://www.degourget.com/?p=843 LaCie USB Key. Actually looks like a key. Is brilliant. http://www.degourget.com/?p=2090 Studio Schulab Lightpot. Clearly for stoners who have a thing for aesthetic design. http://www.degourget.com/?p=2126 Literally vinyl scratching with your Ipod. Brilliant short video. http://www.degourget.com/?p=2252

One of our favourite contemporary artists, Audrey Kawasaki is having her first solo show in Japan. You’d think, as famous as she is and a name like Kawasaki – she’d already been having shows there. But alas, she is based in L.A. Her show is going to be at Space Yui in Aoyama, Tokyo. If [...]

Apple is quite the nifty company. Possibly the “coolest” computer company ever to exist, as it successfully carved its way into the history books by merging MUSIC (hip) and HARDWARE (nerd) to create a little thing known as the iPod, which itself will be pop cultural hall-of-fame. Now apple is set to release a discography [...]

This is an upcoming World War II era animated action drama series which is being directed by two first-time Russian directors Misha Shprits and Aljosha Klimov, with production by acclaimed Studio 4°C, and funded by a Russian-Canadian company in Molot Entertainment. It is 1942. The Red Army is putting up a violent and effective resistance against the [...]

The Japanese have always had a thing about masks, from the elaborate theatrical kabuki masks to the traditional  oni masks that keep away bad spirits (and also seem to end up as common tattoo designs in the west). More recently though – it’s all about face masks that keep away nasty germs and viruses. You [...]