How many times have you broken your fingernail or jabbed that metal ring into your finger when trying to put a new key on your key ring? Me = a lot. From the Stockholm, Sweden-based design firm of DDG comes Freekey, The Press-to-Open Key Ring.
Danish jewelry designer Karina Hunnerup designs simple jewelry that unfolds like a modern flower on your body. Called the “9 Leaves Left” collection is a reference to the idea of cats having nine lives, and each leaf symbolizes a life. Karina makes each piece by hand.
Konstantin Grcic, In Periferia, color photography (2011), Limited Edition of 100
Filed Under is a project started by Annahita Kamali and Florian Böhm to explore contradictions in today’s society. Their idea was to show the ambivalence of excessively used images in our visually obsessed culture and publish them onto fabric, and in turn, they create a handmade item. Once that image is printed on silk, the image becomes an object and the object becomes an image.
Reiko Kaneko designs bone china steeped in the English tradition, but with a Japanese twist. She established her design studio in London’s East End in 2007, after studying Arts and Design at Central St. Martin’s College. Kaneko’s Friday Five gives us a glimpse into her world of modern-day London, and illuminates her Japanese roots.
I see a lot of iPad products, but not a lot like these. Grove’s 3rd generation iPad case is simply gorgeous. Hand-crafted in their Portland workshop, this hard bamboo CNC-milled case has coated with three coats of a natural citrus oil and wax blend and an ultra-suede lining. But the icing on the cake is the felt or leather cover.
Lithuanian designer Gogelmogel specializes in a mix of simple ideas with a side of humor. Once such example is the latest project, the Blah Blah Blah book. The book is pretty much exactly what it seems – a book filled with blah, blah, and more blahs.
I want to ride my bike,
I want to ride my bicycle,
I want to ride it where I like.
[Lyrics from "Bicycle Race" by Queen]
We’ve written about a lot of cool bikes here on Design Milk and it got us thinking that we should roundup some of those favorites along with a few other bikes we’d like to own.
Here are 12 of our favorites:
While pixelated can be a dirty word in the field of photography, in design we welcome it. This collection is just a bit (ha!) of all the fun pixelated design out there. Here are over 15 of our favorite pixelated designs:
Let’s start out with Cristian Zuzunaga who might as well be the king of all things pixelated. We’ve featured his to-die-for Pixel Couch before but check out his Digit rug collection for nanimarquina.
San Francisco-based Soft Cities creates blankets and napkins, or Mapkins as they call them, which feature a map with a location of your choice. The company then prints your map with special markers that you’ve chosen (like “I was here” or “Mom’s house”) and prints them locally on a soft fleece for the blankets or 100% Kona cotton for the napkins. They are completely customizable and the options are endless.
