Click to enlarge Mexican-born architect Sebastian Mariscal, now based in La Jolla and Boston, has a string of AIA awards under his belt along with projects that range from homes to restaurants to hot...
Click to enlarge I love these kinds of projects. Originally French but living in Spain, street artist Eltono (‘the tone’) collaborated on a mural, last month, with kids from Mala Street i...
Click to enlarge St. Petersburg art collective Pprofessors (previously Red Men here), consisting of Lubin Andrew and Mary Zaborovakaya, created the Public Art Project Trashman to raise urban environm...
Click to enlarge Chilean hotel Elqui Domos, known for their cool geodesic dome rooms, have just opened a series of cabins designed by architect Rodrigo Duque Motta. These ‘observatories’ ...
Click to enlarge In my search for something else, I happened upon Mary Miss’s exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) last fall, FLOW: Can You See the River? Mary Miss is a New York based art...
Click to enlarge This is the kind of quirky thing that makes NYC so great. Located in what was once a freight elevator in an alley behind a former paper warehouse, in the area between Tribeca and Chi...
Click to enlarge We are smitten with design duo Combo Colab. Not because we share a similar name (though we think that’s fun), and not because some of us have Argentinean roots (though that’s cool to...
German brand architecture firm TULP created three fun restrooms for Webguerillas’ offices in Munich. The marker installation at top, invited staff and clients to mark up the room as they wished by us...
Click to enlarge Once again architecture firm Tacklebox uses unique materials in their retail store design (see previous post on Aesop’s kiosk here), this time for the new high end OWEN shop in New Y...
Click to enlarge It’s been a while but here is the latest roundup of typography objects. From left to right, starting at the top working down Number Mugs from SuckUK; Floor of the Romanian National L...
Click to enlarge When I first came across Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel’s ongoing Afronauts Project last month, I loved the photos but was not aware of the story behind them which make them...
Click to enlarge Dutch design studio Autobahn, founded by Maarten Dullemeijer and Rob Stolte, created the font Tapewriter while experimenting using duct tape as the writing material and outdoor metal...
Click to enlarge Danish fashion designer Henrik Vibskov is not your ordinary fashion designer. His fashion designs could be described as avant garde, but they are only the tip of the iceberg. He is a...
Click to enlarge Originally designed for, and a second place winner of, the Trimo Urban Crash competition, this dynamic urban sculpture designed by architect Rok Grdisa has now become a permanent ins...
Click to enlarge Yes. Drawings. London artist Jonathan Delafield Cook gets his inspiration for his remarkable hyper-realistic charcoal drawings on paper and canvas from nature. His attention to detai...
After two days at the designboom mart 2012 at ICFF, things are going really well at our table with lots of nice feedback, but we’ve also had the pleasure of being surrounded by so many interest...
If you’re planning on heading to this year’s ICFF here in NYC, we hope you’ll stop by and say hi to us at the designboom mart! We’ll be selling our EARonics at a discount as well as...
Click to enlarge Well, it looks like the ever-growing NY Design Week 2012 is off to a great start with exceptionally beautiful weather in store for the next three days. Aside from ICFF at the Jacob J...
Click to enlarge Bangkok-based multi-disciplinary design studio FarmGroup (previously here) created this fun Christmas installation at the Siam Center. Using thousands of colorful plastic drinking st...
Click to enlarge The Impression Wall is an interactive installation designed by the Bangkok–based design studio FarmGroup. Inspired by an old toy, the Impression Pin, the installation is designed to ...
Click to enlarge For their recently completed project in the northern part of Seoul, partners Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of the Brooklyn-based Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO–IL) architecture ...
Click to enlarge A couple of years ago, on a trip to Paris, we noticed many of these masks emerging from the walls around town. I came across a photo from that trip the other day and decided to googl...
Click to enlarge It may not have been the best day to inaugurate Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno’s new installation, Cloud City (his largest in a 10-year-old series Cloud Cities/Air Port City), on th...
Click to enlarge It’s true that we have a soft spot for all things Brown, with Em being up there almost 9 months of the year, but we’ve also been fans of the year-old Granoff Center on campus, design...
Click to enlarge Originally from Chicago, artist Brian Dettmer, who creates innovative sculptures with books and other forms of antiquated media, currently resides in Atlanta. As is the case with oth...
Click to enlarge Weighing in at 18,239 pounds (!!), Qzina Specialty Foods’ chocolate model of an ancient Mayan temple has broken the Guinness World Record for largest chocolate sculpture. Corporate P...
Click to enlarge French artist Jean Daviot works in a variety of mediums including painting, photography, video, and installation art. Throughout, he plays with aural and linguistic analogies. In his...
Click to enlarge French artist Laurent Perbos belongs to the genre of artist that enjoys reappropriating the everyday and banal by converting it into art where it can be seen as playful, ironic and/o...
Click to enlarge Where to begin? Not since John Waters’ 1981 film Polyester with scratch ‘n sniff ‘Odorama’ have I seen anything like Peter De Cupere’s Olfactory Art. Apparently, a growing numb...
I’d have to say that I pretty much love everything on the JIA kitchen and tableware site. JIA, based in Hong Kong, means ‘home’ in Chinese. The company has invited international des...
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