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Cyberoptix Tie Lab: Ties That Don’t Suck

Although it’s becoming less and less common to have to wear suits, shirts and ties to work. Many are choosing to wear shirts and ties as casual wear as a fashion statement. You will always feel sharper in smarter in a nice fitting shirt, but it’s difficult to find unique ties that don’t fall into [...]

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Lazer Cut Clocks by Kitsune Noir x Dan Funderburgh

Neverend is an interesting collaborative project resulting a series of handmade clocks featuring artwork laser-etched into a thick piece of russian birch plywood with beautifully designed hands. For the first release in the series, Furni have teamed up with designer Bobby Solomon, founder of Kitsune Noir and Brooklyn-based Dan Funderburgh. The piece is painstakingly detailed with a [...]

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Wu-Note Project: Remixing Album Art

Wu-Note Project: Remixing Album Art

Designer Logan Walters has come up with the Wu-Note Project. He has set himself out to redesign all the classic album cover artwork for the Wu-Tang Discography, which is notorious for some horribly aged artwork.

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Handmade Recycled Beer Glasses

Handmade Recycled Beer Glasses

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.

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Japanese Tattoo Table

Japanese Tattoo Table

The unfortunately named ‘Yakuza’ is a digitally tattooed wooden table by Reddish Studio. It looks like it’s part of a collection. We have no idea what the ‘digital tattoo’ process involves, but it definitely looks pretty cool. It’s made out of veneered MDF with some kind of digital printing technology.

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LIP Watches – Retro french horology

LIP Watches – Retro french horology

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.

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NBA Europa Design

NBA Europa Design

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 [...]

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Iranian Audi D7 Concept

Iranian Audi D7 Concept

I’ve never been one for cars. But I’ve always been one for shiny things. So while i couldn’t care less for the output of your quintiple cam overhead engine and the 17 hundred ponies it shits out, I will appreciate the curves on that $500,000 sports car. The Audi D7 Concept ticks all the right [...]

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Character – LED Sign Goodness

Character – LED Sign Goodness

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 [...]

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Diesel furniture range, suprisingly nice

Diesel furniture range, suprisingly nice

Although this is a dusty example, the X-Ray table from Diesel actually looks really cool. Who would have thought that Diesel would actually release some nice furniture? Of course they have been designed as a collaboration with Italian design staples Foscarini, Moroso, and Zucchi – which explains the contemporary european style. The picture below shows [...]

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Audrey Kawasaki – New work from solo show in Japan

Audrey Kawasaki – New work from solo show in Japan

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 [...]

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Turntable that makes MP3′s, looks really sweet

Turntable that makes MP3′s, looks really sweet

The Handy Trax USB is built by a Tokyo-based DJ gear manufacturer Vestax, not only plays your records but also digitizes them via a USB connection. That’s technical terminology for ‘making mp3s’. It’s about as big as an A3 sized book, weighs about 2kg and comes with a sleek carry case – making it quite [...]

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Lamp pretends to be bucket of blood, is awesome

Lamp pretends to be bucket of blood, is awesome

The liquid lamp by Kouichi Okamoto is as beautiful as it is fun to look at.  The illusion it creates and vector-esque lines make it quite an unusual lighting piece.  Comes in white and red and costs USD$199 and you can buy it here. The Liquid lamps, so named for a melting, flowing form, are [...]

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Prepare for Swine Flu, with fashionable masks

Prepare for Swine Flu, with fashionable masks

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 [...]

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Sweet New Gear from For The Homies

Sweet New Gear from For The Homies

Here’s a peak at the new season of For The Homies which hails from Melbourne, Australia. For The Homies designs will strike a chord with those of  us who grew up listening to hiphop. Quality materials and workmanship with clean, solid designs and clever references to some of your fave artists and themes from the [...]

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