Since the success of Monocle’s little shop in Tokyo, there’s been talk of other shops to be installed. There’s been a few pop-up Monocle stores, but not as charming as its brick and mortar counterpart. A new Monocle Café will be open this April, only a block from Monocle HQ with free wi-fi to subscribers,...
An excellent project of short films from the Bureau of Common Goods, to promote independent artisans who developed a passion for their craft and seek ways for a sustainable living. Made by Hand was created out of the belief that the things we collect, consume, use, and share are part of who we are as individuals. Each film aims to...
New York based Fort Standard is a contemporary industrial design studio founded by Ian Collings and Gregory Buntain. Aside from a wonderful selection of well crafted home goods, they provide branding and custom furniture for shops. Fort Standard creates more than just great furniture, they design an experience that elevates the brand’s image through spatial design....
Kamila Musilova‘s series Grandfather and Grandmother further explores visual records of family through portraiture, in this series Musilova uses objects left by her grandparents. The photograph series Grandfather and Grandmother is a visual record of the life of my grandparents. It is my deepest expression of their portrait. With these installations, I tried to capture...
Design Addicted is a design studio that focuses mainly on branding and creative direction with passion for paper and custom typography. Design Addicted is based in Hamburg.
Illustrator Michael Arnold‘s series of Pop-Up Pixel Cities of buildings from New York, London, and Paris.
David Ehrenstråhle, a product designer based in Sweden, is well known for his Guide To maps of cities such as Paris and New York. He’s recently printed 2013 Guide to Manhattan, Bombay, Paris, and San Francisco. Not only are these tourist souvenirs but these long archival maps with the large unequivocal text hanging overhead looks...
I’ve stumbled upon old photographs of Picasso producing light drawings documented by Gjon Mili, a photographer for the Life Magazine, in southern France in 1940.
Nicholas Feltron has been collecting and analyzing data form his everyday life since 2005. It never cease to amuse me how meticulous some of these charts and graphs are, not to mention personal. His prints are also available on his site.
Kim Høltermand has been busy with a few projects including a collaboration with other artists and musicians called Outliers, which I’ve mentioned on my blog a few years ago. Meanwhile here are a few of his ephemeral shots from his series called Norden and the other from Iceland.
La Distributrice is a small takeout coffee and possibly the smallest coffee shop there is in North America. Branding made by Gabriel Lefebvre and Rachel Lecompte.
Temple produced this exquisite brand identity for the London based gallery Flat 33 Gallery exhibiting work from contemporary artists. The identity design is minimal yet meaningful, combining a symbolic, streamlined logo (the diagonal is a reference to the staircase of the gallery’s high-rise location) with pared-down typography and a colourless palette. The challenge was to...
A simple fluorescent desk lamp composed of two metal bent legs and an oak case that can also be hand held. Product design by Federico Floriani based in Italy. 123 is a desk light which uses led technology and structure abstraction to explore new aesthetics and leave behind the classic bulb lamps shape.
New series of cinematic photographs by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg from the fashion week called Cinemagraphs.
Montreal based shop Objets Mécaniques produce handmade everyday items made from local and reclaimed materials.
Comprehensive portfolio of Michael Longton, the founder of Longton based in Australia. We believe that in today’s diverse media system, design must be reactive. It needs to respond to the stimulus of market demands, evoke attention and be compelling.
A bi-annual print journal for The Design Society in Singapore. The unique editorial layout utilized its columns without occupying the whole page, and made use of bold condensed typeface. Also was drawn to the fluoro green overprint on the cover giving the reader a preview of the content just beneath the transparent green title. Project...
A new model of fan heaters by Naoto Fukasawa for Plus Minus Zero based in Japan. These heaters are made of ceramic and comes in colors, they’re also compact for your desk to keep your toes warm this winter.
Rowster Coffee is launching their new artisanal brew to us regular folks in an awesome brown tube called Regular Coffee, designed by Neil Hubert. The coffee is only available through a monthly subscription, learn more from their Kickstarter page. Image source: The Dieline
Leis‘ wooden kitchen utensils were inspired from traditional Slovenian technique called ‘suha roba’ and each piece hand-crafted with the refined contemporary aesthetic.
