Remember the long lost art of the mixtape?  The cassette tape ushered in the era of portable playable music that could not only coax any emotion from your intended listener, but could also be right there existing in the heat of the moment. On the cusp of the 50th anniversary of the now retro audio [...]

Recently, artist Kevin Champeny designed this delicious looking chandelier for the eccentric home furnishing company Jellio. The Candelier is made from 3,000 hand-casted acrylic gummie bears and weights a whopping 50 pounds. It is available for purchase in 2 sizes — 18″ and 30″ — and retails at $2,400 and $6,500 respectfully.  More looks at [...]

James Hopkins, an artist from the UK, is going after the big skull. Who ever would have thought it possible to make teeth out of beer bottles and champagne glasses? In his Vanitas series Hopkins takes on the idea of the classic still life paintings of the same name from the 16th/17th centuries in northern Europe, which [...]

We actually covered the the Comic Shelf by Oscar Nuñez several years ago, but back then it was just a commission piece some clever Mexican designer had come up with. Well now the Comic Shelf is seeing the light of production via Groopti, after Nuñez won their Creative Shelving Contest. A pretty clever way to [...]

Is the world ready for alphabet furniture? If have you an obsessive need to narcissistically  spell out your name in your home or office, designer Sascha Grewe has a solution. Her A-Z furniture was part of the DMY 2011 Asia Exhibition tour and includes various stools, desks, chairs and book shelves in 250 bright, modern [...]

How many three Excedrin mornings have you pulled yourself from a Don Julio-induced coma, heroically dragged yourself to a thankless job, only to fool no one that you’ve got “allergies” and instead unwittingly reinforced everyone’s fears that you may indeed have a Bukowski-level drinking issue. The best you can do is channel your inner Costanza [...]

Once again French label A.P.C. teams up with Carhartt for another collection, this time for the 2011 Fall/Winter 2011 season. Although there are tshirts and pants included in the collection, the standout pieces are the jackets, 3 in total, designed by A.P.C.’s Jean Touitou. The first, above is a Captain Dinner jacket, the second a [...]

The last time we mentioned the Kartell Loves Milano Project at the end of October, we spoke of the auction that was held to raise funds that would benefit  the Umberto Veronesi Foundation. As we mentioned, 45 different artists re-imagined designs for the project. Kartell has sent us an expanded gallery of the re-imagined works, [...]