caralicious

someone who's got some spare time and would like to knit me a cover for my car?

I'm really not opposed!

Thanks, Fabio, for indulging us with these candy-looking gems of furniture. You never fail to gosh us. Grazie!

outcast

An outcast (also known as an unpopular person, a reject, or a social reject), is a person who is rejected, and sometimes isolated, by society in general.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast




If literally, directly- translated into norwgian the word outcast, in norwegian utkast (- well the proper translation of the word would be utskudd, but in this case we focus on the direct translated pronunciation of the word, haha if that is something you can say! )

Utkast in norwegian means draft or sketch. 

 Before this gets too confusing I will get to the point, - in march 2010 a few girls got a cheap studio in a shoppingmall, they got the studio for 4 months +-. Finally they got a place to work.

The catch? they have to sell something and have opening hours.

the utkAst designproject 2010 is born. A draft for dreams!


So from now and till medio august/september you can visit the studio and indulge in some beautiful art made by local artists - and with reasonable prices. The opening hours vary a fair bit, but the regular ones are tuesdays and thursdays from 17.00-20.00 and wednesdays from 12.00-20.00.
Two of the artists are Ingrid Holand and Randi Antonsen - there are at the moment about 5 artists who exhitit their work at the studio/gallery.


Take a look at the website for more information - www.utkast.no
(btw.unforunately not all the content on the website is translated into english)

have a blast!

Bjørn Jørund Blikstad

and a part of his master project at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway; a modular shelving unit.

I find it very facinating the way he has been able to build a 3D storage unit that, when looking at it it seems like a 2D image.
He greatest inspiration behind this peculiar design was Ernö Rubik the man behind the coloured cube puzzle, which personally I find extremely annoying.(Escpecially when looking at 7year old kids solving it within seconds..)But anyway.!- Bjørn made it in the 2010 graduate directory in Wallpaper magazine this winter, you can find him here , along side many other great up-and coming designers from all over tha world! I already found my favourites:)
Hurray for fun design!

♥ Eve ♥

 

Sigh! One day you shall be mine!!!

Claesson Koivisto Rune (Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune) are the designers behind this stunning bangle. I first saw it a couple of years ago but couldn't remember who was behind it - then by fate it suddenly re-appeared to me yesterday in a random magazine. Absolutely love it.

Charles and Marie

Now, do you have the same problem that I do? That my chair's legs go cold in winter? Now the solution has arrived! You'll no longer hear the moaning from your freezing chairs, just put these socks on and they're happy singing again.
Pretty weird stuff, but I kinda like them.

Lola & Bailey

 

COFA graduates Theresa Nguyen and Cheri Flewell-Smith are the master brains of this simply magnificent necklace. They don't have many products up on their site, but definitly worth a look around! Stunning and right up our alley.

Hats off.

Pureprint

This is genious! Let's spread the word together with the attitude.

Cheeky as I am I've copied the summary below, because it describes it so well. (Courtesy of lagomdesign.co.uk)

Pureprint© environmental print technology, a guaranteed, low carbon, low waste, independently audited process that reduces the environmental impact of the printing process available only from Pureprint Group. The  system guarantees products manufactured to the most exacting environmental standards with work being produced by a cleaner, greener technology of direct benefit to the environment.  Pureprint is one of the first British products to be named as a Millennium Product and is your guarantee that  all our paper products will be produced to the highest environmental standards.

– No harmful isopropyl alcohol (IPA) used in the printing process

– Vegetable oil based inks

– Recycling of press room solvents

– Biodegradable laminate made from natural materials

– No film or film processing chemicals used

– Electricity generated from renewable sources

– Benign waterbased coating made from inert materials

– 98% of dry waste is diverted from landfill

Jenny Hart

This is awesome. Jenny Hart, maker of incredibly cool hand stitched pics. Fantastic.

http://www.jennyhart.net

Jon Burgeman

The straight down coolest wallpaper there is. Your very own "color in". By Jon Burgeman, through "1973". Check out the link for further sweets. Want it! Want it! Want it!