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Broken skateboards are a byproduct of our culture usually destined for the landfill. The deckstool recycles this waste into a unique and interesting bits of furniture. It seems you can turn skateboards into pretty much anything these days. There is a funny little bit on their site explaining, how you use the deckstool: The deckstool [...]

You must know what a Moleskine is. It’s the obligatory hipster, scenester and creative professionals notepad of choice. It already come in many different varieties and theres also custom editions as well as people using them as canvases for artwork. Which we have posted a gallery of before. They’ve taken it a notch up now [...]

Artist iri5 makes pretty cool mixed media artwork out of retro materials. This one is made out of some kind of crazy ancient technology known as “cassette tape”. Cool stuff. More artwork after the jump. From the profile: I am an artist who specializes in using non traditional media… old books, cassettes, playing cards, magazines, [...]

Has anyone stayed up late enough to watch that infomercial for the Aerogarden? Clearly targeted at pot growers, this is a similar concept but way better looking. Studio Schulab have created the ‘lightpot’, a small pot for growing plants and herbs indoors. The light is LED based, which means it’s strong enough to keep the [...]

I’m a sucker for good packaging. And I’m a sucker for a good bottle of vino, but will also settle for a nicely designed label on some rubbish plonk. Although this usually leads me to drinking some rather unsavory wine, I do think the world is a better place with nicely designed anything. The world [...]

If you love love horror movies and illustrations. You have hit the jackpot. Well medicated has put together a series of 100 amazing illustrated horror film posters. Too damn cool. Some of our faves after the jump. link wellmedicated

I couldn’t find much detail on this design, not sure if its just a concept or a finished product. Regardless, the design is hot. I love the flowing, continuous line of the structure. Over the head storage space is extremely useful (and space saving) without compromising aesthetics. If you had a few of these setup, [...]

Wow this is something pretty different. These are hand crafted motorcycles, each costing around a million us dollars. Artist and graphic designer Chicara Nagata spends about 7500hrs building them using just hand-tools and with only one assistants help. Although these are built with the pure intention of displaying them as works of art, apparently they [...]

The Places We Live features panoramic photos of slums by Jonas Bendiksen, and narrated by the people who live there (albeit through translators). It’s very moving, educational and thought provoking And most of all, it is brilliantly executed. Like, it’s really really well done. It’s good to know that people actually use, often misguided, web [...]

Holy crap – this video will wake you up. It’s an amazing electronic music live set by Etienne de Crécy at the “transmusicales de Rennes” music festival. Apparently the visuals are done by the France based (duh!) group Exzyt, who’s website seems to be down at the moment. They call themselves Experimental Architects – who [...]

Bike lanes are great and all, and apparently Sydney is going to see a whole lot more of them. However these kind of civil projects take forever to actually get built and there will always be situations where there are no bike lanes available. This is where the LightLane solution comes in. A safety concept [...]

Politics has long inspired some great design from 60′s counter culture protest through Soviet propaganda and the more recent Shepard Fairy led Obamamania  we all bore witness to last year. When you believe in a particular position or ideology that passion to proselytize can bring forth some pretty emotional and powerful work that’s going to [...]

Objectified is the latest project by Gary Hustwit, the director of the fantastic Helvetica. Objectified is a look at the world of industrial design and how it impacts our day to day lives. “It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and [...]

A physics professor from Oxford has create an adjustable form of corrective eyewear designed to help the world’s poor. The glasses are designed to be one size fits all, with the owner able to adjust the strength without the help of a trained optometrist. Inside the device’s tough plastic lenses are two clear circular sacs [...]

If you head down Abercrombie Lane, off George St (next to the cinemas) you may be in danger of being hit by a falling tetris block. Installation art by Gaffa Gallery artists and project team: Kelly Robson, Ella Barclay, Hugh Rutherford, Adrianne Tasker, Ben Backhouse. They write: There are grand implications of error here that [...]