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• Muzuhiki, Japanese Knotting Art
• No More Tape And Scissors!
• Happily Nailed To The Wall
• Not that Kind of Avatar Watch
• More Radio Rolling, More Gaga
• Second and a Half Dimension Shelves

Muzuhiki, Japanese Knotting Art Posted: 12 May 2010 08:50 AM PDT The art of Mizuhiki goes back to 7th century Japan the paper knotting was used to tie samurai hair. The paper craft brand OEY has taken that art and applied it to modern table ware and launched their new collection at Milan Design Week. The intricately corded paper rings, chopsticks, and napkin holders come in an assortment of beautiful rich colors, each handmade from paper and silk. Even the most drab table settings would benefit from it. Designers: Ken Yokomizo & Mariko Murai for Design Yard

No More Tape And Scissors! Posted: 12 May 2010 05:09 AM PDT Many may not be aware but our ed-in-chief Long Tran is in the process of building up his fashion line for men, and I helped him out a bit by getting some T-shirts dyed here in India. While I received his package in good shape, sending the Tees back in this big brown box was a nightmarish story! Triple rounds of duct tape and many snips later, the box still looked a bit insecure to me. Concepts like "No More Tape And Scissors" can come in handy for folks like me, who don't ship goods on a regular basis and find professionals too expensive. Designer: Jaesik Heo

Happily Nailed To The Wall Posted: 12 May 2010 04:26 AM PDT Do you have unsightly nails sticking out of your walls? You generally don't but for argument's sake, if you did….would you let it be there like an eyesore or cover it up with a happy face Nail Cap? Pulling it out can be an option; but imagine capped nails delightfully doubling up as pegs to hang your keys and stuff. How Kitsch! Designer: Jung-Woo Lee for Ek Design

Not that Kind of Avatar Watch Posted: 12 May 2010 12:15 AM PDT The timepiece in this post is called the “Avatar 1259B Watch.” It’s got nothing to do with the movie, but it’s no less epic. Really! You’ll have the entire world at your beckoning call when you grace their vision with this devastatingly amazing looking arm-clock. Made by the same people as what I like to call the Killer Robot Death Watch, this Avatar watch is just as metal, just as robotic, just as color bleeper intensive. Know this! This is the most intense strap-to-watchface timepiece you’ll ever own. Three light-related gauges that tell the time, radically excellent craftsmanship. The round dial contains 12 LED lights and indicates the hour, the bottom line contains 5 LEDs and shows tens of minutes, top line has 9 LEDs and shows one minute increments. You know what time it is. Time for a rave. Of other-worldly proportions. Designer: Seahope [ Buy it Here, Avatar 1259C Watch is available for $159.00 @ YD Store ] Avatar 1259C Watch is available for $159.00 @ YD Store

More Radio Rolling, More Gaga Posted: 12 May 2010 12:05 AM PDT I’m talking about Queen, the pop star Lady, and everyone in between! That’s right, stumble upon the middles of music. That’s what this project is all about, the finding of new things through happy accidents and utterly excellent analog instruments. It’s the “Radio Ball” and it means to take you back to a time when finding your favorite tune meant searching through radio stations, one after another. Along the way you might find what you need isn’t always what you were looking for. This is the Radio Ball. Spin it, flip it, bop it. Make it do what you want to do to it, and find a magical blend of static and radio music. Turn it over to turn it on, spin it on it’s butt to turn it up or down. Once you’ve found a station you love, mark it with a stanard-size plug that fits right into the honeycomb of the ball. You can go back to it whenever you wish by flipping the ball back over to that stopper, as each comb acts a platform for flat standing when you want to listen to a straight up song. And for when you want to go wild- just roll it! Designer: Ben Collette and Adam Kumpf for Teague

Second and a Half Dimension Shelves Posted: 12 May 2010 12:01 AM PDT This project goes by the name “Imeüble” and it’s a shelving system that accesses not just your eyeballs and book-storing hands, it works with your mind to help you store information the same way you learn to associate words to their meanings! The easiest comparison is one the designer uses: when you read the word “cornfield,” you imagine a field full of corn, not the word “cornfield.” In that the shelf appears to be 2D but is actually 3D, this whole system works in the same environment of learning. Confused? It’s really quite simple and wonderful. As you look at the shelves, they appear to be flat, sideways, weird in some way or another to your eyes. In reality, they’re simple plastic, shaped in a way that instills an image that’s much stronger than it’s actual simple function. Thus it’s relationship to how spoken/written words work – while the word itself is quite simple, what it represents can be quite complicated. In this fabulous work of associations, designer Bjørn Jørund Blikstad hopes to inspire you to take another look at what storing items on these shelves really means. Fabulovely! Designer: Bjørn Jørund Blikstad

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