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MYSPACE OF THE MONTH - March 2008

We like the Internet and all the cool people, places and things you can find on it. It has never been easier to show your ideas and have a platform for your creations whether that’s underground Techno, street war games or just random stuff. It is...

Mouiss London

What’s your name and what’s it mean? The name is Mouiss London, I called it Mouiss because that is my cats name, and London cos I’m from, well, London. And my name is Hannah Denton.How many are you? It’s just me designing at the moment, it keeps...

Bisazza

Two millenniums before the Pointillist movement of the late 19th Century, someone realised that the human eye mixes tiny chequered spots to become a coloured surface of beautiful detail. With its broken lines making the abstract image more refine...

Mykita's Master-Class

Mykita's Master Class

Sunglasses or reading glasses, granny specs or hipster frames, Mykita’s got it all. This hot Berlin-based label is making a bonafide splash in the somewhat stodgy eyewear industry. And with every stylish pair individually handcrafted, it’s easy t...

Arielle de Pinto - Queen of crochet

Arielle de Pinto - Queen of crochet

With an original approach to a traditional craft, 23-year old Arielle de Pinto brings crochet out of cutesy-frumpy territory and turns it into art. Her unique jewelry designs quickly became much-coveted fashion items on both sides of the Atlantic...

Catwalk Crunch

Catwalk-Crunch: changing fashion for changing times

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so unbearable we have to change it every six months,” quipped Oscar Wilde. This perpetual mutation that Wilde speaks of is driven by one simple thing: trends. They f low from catwalks down to the high street – or mo...

TODAY WE LIKE: Light Blubs

TODAY WE LIKE: Light Blubs

Dutch product designer Pieke Bergmans got a lot of well-deserved attention with her innovative line “Design Virus." We think she's onto something: forcing an amalgam between individuality and mass production. She explains her work on her homepage...

Sebastian Brajkovic: ‘Lathe VII and Lathe II’

Best of the new Dutch chairs

Chairs are important because we use them all day, every day. Nevertheless they are often overlooked. Fortunately we have found some that will get everybody´s attention: timeless in their shape and modern in their décor, here is a small collection...

Icelandic innovator - Hafsteinn Júlíusson

Hafsteinn Júlíusson is a product designer from Reykjavik, Iceland. With his projects he aims for “simple, but funny solutions which have a rich and strong concept.” The 24-year-old designer caught our attention with the unique items he creates, s...

TODAY WE LIKE: Bringing bad design to justice!

TODAY WE LIKE: Bringing bad design to justice!

Everybody knows that taste is subjective and creativity doesn’t come easy. But that still doesn’t excuse the style-impervious designers who insist on sprinkling the web with ‘90s-era websites and inflicting their unoriginality on the print advert...

TODAY WE LIKE: Urban Camouflage

TODAY WE LIKE: Urban Camouflage

What do ancient ninja disguising customs and the Japanese infatuation with oddities have in common? Besides being part of Japan’s empire of cool, they both inspired clothing designer Aya Tsukioka to create her much-blogged about vending machine d...

Ping-Pong dining table by Hunn Wai

TODAY WE LIKE: Burn after eating

Singaporean designer Hunn Wai has an obsession with ping-pong. In 2007 he graduated with a Masters degree from the well-known Design Academy of Eindhoven in the Netherlands, a country that stoked his ping-pong fascination. For Mein Gallery he cre...

The unconventional allure of Cazal

The exceptional and extravagant glasses of German brand Cazal first became famous during the ‘80s when legendary hip hop legends Run DMC, MC Hammer and the Fat Boys began to sport them. In honor of the May 2009 re-release of the Cazal 951, we’ve...

TODAY WE LIKE: Metallic teardrop lamps

This stunning table lamp is called cindy - that alone is reason to tell you about her. She was designed by Italian designer Ferruccio Laviani for Kartell. With her the rounded “teardrop base” and the “conical lampshade” cindy defines the typical...

Don't mind the cultural gap

Don't mind the cultural gap

The map of the London Underground is one of the city's most iconic symbols. It keeps the capital’s heart ticking and its travelers become enveloped in its contrasting colours. People know this map so well they don’t even refer to the lines by nam...

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