planetary chocolates


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The solar system has never looked and sounded so scrumptious: Chocolate Solar System for the Rihga Royal Hotel. Flavors: Mercury (coconut mango), Venus (cream lemon), Earth (cacao), Mars (orange praline), Jupiter (vanilla), Saturn (rum raisin), Uranus (milk tea) and Neptune (capuccino) – sorry, pluto is no longer considered a planet.

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hexagon wall tiles


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Hexagon wall tiles from Form Us With Love. Made of woodwool cement.

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nuna popsicle


nuna

Nuna: The most delicious-looking popsicle in the world! I love the edginess of the form, going against typically smooth popsicle shapes. And that crazy popsicle stick! Designed by Manu Kumar and Stefan Gandl of Neubau Berlin.

wunderboxes + archive live


wunderbox

Postlerferguson was commissioned by the V&A museum to visualize parts of their company's research and the team responded with Wunderboxes, a temporary installation of differently formatted cardboard boxes each one housing a bright orange light box displaying a variety of three dimensional models to create an abstract but strangely familiar collection of “things.” Spectators were encouraged to come closer and examine the partly hidden and camouflaged objects being drawn in by the warm and hypnotizing orange glow of the boxes.

From the V&A: Investigating the nature of archives, Archive Live focuses on personal collecting, narratives and history making. With an emphasis on digital technologies, learn new forms of documentation and story telling. This evening looks at our perception of personal history, identity and self-representation through memory.


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friday inspiration





Two hilarious videos to start off your week-ender. Happy Friday!

installations by steve bishop


listerene

Listerine and shallow stainless steel trays are the simple materials that create these intriguing installations by Steve Bishop.

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boettcher + henssler


lights

A collection of lighting from Boettcher + Henssler: Mantis, Coen and Shine.

platinum leather baggu


baggu

Every now and then a fashionable object comes along that manages to coax the girliness out of me: the shimmery Platinum leather bag by Baggu made from natural milled leather. Luxurious enough for the farmer's market and a night out.

re-turned by beller


birds

Beller transformed discarded pieces of wood scraps into charming birds in their Re-Turned series. The concept elevates leftover wood from being merely an ignored piece of trash to becoming a desired piece of feel-good woodcraft. Love the packaging and the play on words!

via Nordic Design

needle and thread


pineshoe

Needle and Thread by Hadas Ilani, a student of Industrial Design at the Bezalel Academy. The project was born while contemplating local material, the kind that is always around us and is embedded in our childhood memories. Hadas examined various methods of sewing pine needles into shoes, and created a collection of 14 pairs of shoes, which explore the possibilities of using pine needles as raw material, which allude to the gentle needle mat, and the previous lives of the needles.

Phenomenal technique and detail. I love the gesture of the shoe resulting from the unfinished edges. It reminds me of some of the indigenous shoes I saw at the Bata Shoe Museum.

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designer bakeries


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A gorgeous collection of (designer) bakeries. The bread (at the top) in the first photo is stunning!

via The Cool Hunter

friday inspiration


grasshoes

KUSA uses faux grass to give its users the sensation of walking on grass wherever they go. I'm not sure how true the sensation is to real grass, but in photographs it's convincing. Happy Friday!

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the pothole gardener


pothole

The Pothole Gardener transforms potholes, sidewalk cracks and other structural malformations into micro gardens. A charming way to use guerrilla gardening to comment on paving problems.

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green planter mailbox


mailbox

Green Mailbox channels additional rainwater into a mounted planter and keeps your mail in an awesome house-shaped mailbox. WANT!

via Design Milk

hidden radio bluetooth speaker


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By twisting the cap of this speaker you adjust the volume, and when the speaker is fully "closed", the speaker is turned off. Simple, straightforward, fantastic. Since they made $810,000 over their Kickstarter budget, I expect this speaker to be in production soon! Hidden Radio designed by John van Nieuwenhuizen Vitor Santa Maria.

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tiffin lunch kit


bento

The Tiffin Lunch Kit by Lorea Sinclaire is a faceted bento box made from slip cast ceramic and cork.

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valerie chair


chair

Valerie Chair by Giopato & Coombes.

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hope bitterness & flavor poster


hops

Nice data visualisation poster by Zeke Shore. From the artist:

"I began home brewing beer while at design school and quickly found myself wishing there was some way to visualize how different types of hops would effect the various recipes I was working on. I started toying around with a data visualization that would illustrate the acid and oil content of beer brewing hops, which influence the bitterness flavors and aromas of finished beers."

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organic cube installation


cube

Cube by SØREN KORSGAARD, a pavilion built in the garden of the Statens Museum for Kunst during the Copenhagen International Wood Festival 2009. I'm drawn to how radically different it looks depending on the angle.

friday inspiration


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Fat Cat Art superimposes adorable cats into famous art. Happy Friday!

via It's Nice That