"Bird's eye view" is a dinner ceramics set that aspires to capture the dynamic and fluid movement of the bird's wings in the rigid porcelain. The project aims to turn these day-to-day objects into "conversation pieces" around the table, thus lifting them from the ordinary to the sublime.

Designer: Adi Fainer
Made in: Israel

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MiniMusicMachines is a group of sample music instruments, which can be used as individual instruments and as sound studio in a set. The BLUETOOTH connection permits comfortable file swaps...

Designer: pknts
Made in: Germany

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The Designlabor Bremerhaven is similar to a crossroads where new ideas meet and are exchanged. Here, creative disciplines have the chance to interact, forming novel future-oriented concepts. Under the leadership of renowned designers and architects, scholarship holders at the Designlabor work on a number of different projects linking the fields of science, business and culture.

If you have graduated in product design, communication design or architecture within the last 12 months, then you might be interested in joining our new crew. Those persons interested in signing on with us should be able to speak German and English, and be able to pull together in an interdisciplinary team. Applications are to be submitted no later than 23 February 2007.

We provide eight scholarships for a six-month period with one thousand euros per month.

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In Dead Man Walkin', one of a series of Comedy Central ID spots produced by Interspectacular, Tristan Eaton's cute yet nuts Billy Bananas pays for a life of crime and mischief with a wacky blue and red laced 3D trip to the "chair" and a 'toon afterlife.  Billy Bananas, the incorrigible simian,  will soon be invading homes worldwide as a5" injection molded vinyl figure produced by Thunderdog Studios and Interspectacular. See more here at Vinyl Pulse.

Hyundai "Fluid" is one of the first completed spots shot with the
new "Phantom Hd" high-speed data camera (still a prototype). The camera is
capable of shooting true HD up to 1000fps which was necessary to shoot the
model cars interacting in silver paint.

Using Flame, Clear Post replaced the models in the shot footage with 35mm and digital
still elements of real Hyundai models.

Watch and read more about the spot here.

In light of all the foooood over at Tastespotting today, i've been both famished and inspired... especially in the photography realm. Often i find the most intriguing pieces to be the behind the scenes of catalog shoots, etc... take this Kate Spade set for example, the final shots are gorgeous! In a very surreal, retro, playful, glammed out sense... and then the behind the scenes shots manage to balance those same qualities, while adding another layer of realism to them. Basically, they just made me want to run out and take pictures... or start planning NOTed #2. (via love made visible)

1st Ave Machine has just completed a new ridiculously attractive music video that blends CG elements with live action insects for the band Clark. The track is called "TED" and you'll be seeing this beauty popping up all over the place in the next week, month, year. It's a keeper. God I love CG entomology. Watch the video here.

And a bit more info on the video since I want to keep on gushing about:

From 1st Ave Machine director Arvind Palep: “These insects have a distinct regal quality, we wanted to augment that quality of perfect intimidation. We started designing and creating elements that would blend with and add to characteristics already present.”

“It’s a bit shocking, but that’s what we love to do,” says Palep. “Triggering that primary emotional response; that curious, excited surprise in viewers is what we are always after.”

SCHWIIZERKRÜZ for all swiss or who wants to be a swiss: a set of loungetable and carpet, formed and arranged to the worlds most popular national symbol. for living rooms, lounges, hotels and other representative objects.

the table is made of steel and is high gloss coated in ral9010. the carpet is made of handtufted new zealand wool in an outstanding quality. this carpet has won the AIT-innovation award 2006 and is of course red coloured.

table: 99 x 99 x 33 cm
carpet: 150 x 150 cm
other colours and dimensions on request.

Designer: Robert Hansel
Made in: Germany

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This design of rectilinear boxes moves from one end to the other like an ancient geometric pattern, yet it is deconstructed in an asymmetrically modernist manner without the literal repetition of a typical frieze. The juxtaposition of materials (walnut and powder coated steel) also creatively embraces the notion of complimentary opposites.

Designer: Gregory Kenny for Kilowatt Studio
Made in: Canada

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Wallpaper* Eva Harlou to be “Best Breakthrough Designer 2007”.

It was soon after graduating from the Aarhus School of Architecture in 2003 that Eva Harlou found herself playing a key role at Copenhagen architects 3XN, where she managed competition entries and gained a vital understanding of how the architecture world functions. After working on potential schemes all over Europe, she set up her own studio in 2006, focusing on small-scale residential work as well as giant masterplans with the ambition of working on every aspect of the built environment.

In Eva Harlou’s mind architecture is both handcraft and art. Most of all architecture is framing human life. With architecture comes a great responsibility of trying to understand the human nature. Her philosophy is that architecture has to be both functional, durable and beautiful. Furthermore she finds it very important that architecture reveals a clear and understandable concept – tells a simple story. Eva Harlou doesn’t believe that “less is more”, but she enjoys when simple and beautiful geometrical shapes solve all challenges in a project. Architecture doesn’t have to be difficult and innovative architecture doesn’t have to look like something exploded.

Especially Eva Harlou’s housing-projects have lately drawn a lot of attention. The architecture projects are innovative, genuine and very recognizable with her interpretation of classical geometrical shapes.

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Room-dividing bookcase/cow.

Designer: Joom
Made in: South Africa

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Buchhalter 3 is a bookend, table shelf and reading desk in one.

Designer: Herbert Klamminger and bkm
Made in: Austria

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My good friend Jeff sent this trailer out to our ‘college buddy’ email list this morning and I felt compelled to share it with you all. Blades of Glory is shaping up to be one hilarious movie. It stars Will Farrell, John Heder (Napoleon Dynamite himself), and even our favorite ‘Coach’ (Craig T. Nelson) pops up in the trailer. The premise of the story is as amusing as it is asinine: Ferrell and Heder’s characters get stripped of Olympic figure skating medals and re-unite as a pairs figure skating duo thanks to a loophole in the rules. The result is obvious: they cause the blades of their ice skates to perform glorious feats of athleticism for our viewing pleasure. Put Ferrell and Heder in a movie together, and at the very least you’ll have people like me rolling over laughing– no matter how stupid the plot is. I can’t wait to see this gem!

We've seen a lot of maranading – bbqing shortcuts. We're talking row after row of them at the Fancy Foods Show in San Francisco. After seeing all of the flavored skewers, grilling planks, scented papers, and other products – one stands out. Flavor Magic lends strong blends of flavor to the protein of your choice, in 20 minutes, with no muss and no fuss. The Flavor Magic "cheat sheet" of seasoning is jam-packed with flavor (we sampled Asian Citrus-Ginger at the show) and offers healthy and easy alternatives to the flavors of your favorite foods like Zesty Buffalo Wings.

O.N.E. made its American debut with their coconut water from Brazil. They have now introduced their sensation number two, Amazon Acai juice. Most people have at least heard of Acai; it will be one of 2007's top new superfoods. Although many products now have Acai in them, many use berries that were shipped frozen from Brazil. O.N.E. makes and bottles their Amazon Acai at the source, in Brazil. The taste and packaging alone will make this product turn heads... and so will the people that drink it– thanks to the antioxidants that help combat premature aging.