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Rise and Sigh
Move over Pratesi, Finnish designer Martina Carpelan has created embroidered bed linens of a wholly different kind. Carpelan’s Rise and Sigh sets to temporarily tattoo you with pithy sayings inspired by hotel room flings. They’re also available with customized embroidery if you wish to imprint your partner with your own sweet nothing.
Grass Flip Flops
Want to feel your toes in the grass all day long?
Remember the grass flip flops that Krispy Kreme made back in 2008? I tried to find out more about what happened to them but with no success. Anyway, a new company called KUSA has decided to make grass flip flops available to the public. What do you think? Would you wear these?
Mofones
Who wouldn’t want to talk on a LEGOphone? LA-based artist Morrisa Maltz created Mofones, a series of artist-designed iPhone cases. What started as a personal art project has blossomed into a real viable business. Mofone has quite a few mass-produced designs you can grab at Urban Outfitters and Nordstrom, and Maltz has plans to create a series of price points — one-of-a-kind, limited editions and more affordable mass-produced cases. Which one would you rock out everyday?
In Case of Riot by Max and Max
Max and Max is a Swedish & German creative team now living and working in New York. Their In Case of Riot table made me laugh and then say WTF? It’s a table that has a removable top that also doubles as a shield, you know, in case super-villains break into your apartment or a riot breaks out.
2011 Year in Review: WTF
Every now and then, products, rooms and installations catch our eye, and we find ourselves thinking, “WTF?” We’ve rounded up eleven of our favorite “What were they thinking?” items for an end-of-year WTF extravaganza.
Ghost Urns
Yes, these are what they seem: ghoulish ghost-shaped urns for ashes — actual ashes. Designed by Anna Marinenko, they’re fitted with a glass test tube compartment for the ashes, and the interior walls are done in pretty pastel hues. Definitely for those with a morbid (healthy?) sense of humor.
Gift Couture
Gift Couture is a new company specializing in creative gift wrapping – smart! Their concept is to develop custom wrapping paper through original photography and design, including the creation of coordinating sets like the cheeseburger above. You can pre-order the cheeseburger paper on Kickstarter through a donation.
Fly Wing Flapper
The Fly Wing Flapper by Dutch industrial designer Ramon Middelkoop, who teaches product design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, is a plastic fly swatter with a lacy design that echoes the pattern of the annoying insects’ wings. While it’s certainly better looking than the typical hardware store variety of swatter, we wonder if the openings are a tad too large for an average-sized pesky housefly. Still, we applaud the effort to elevate the mundane.
All You Can Get by Ryan Yoon for Virgine Magazine
All You Can Get is a feature by photographer Ryan Yoon for the premiere issue of Virgine Magazine that uses the most unusual, everyday objects to create high-fashion.
Phalanstery Module
An interesting installation by Bureau Spectacular / Jimenez Lai, this rotating module was born from the idea that all surfaces — including ceilings and walls — could serve as functional space. The structure rotates once per hour, just like a clock in which every 15 minutes, one of the surfaces becomes parallel to the ground. Reminds me of a hamster wheel…
