The Kosmos Project have designed a compelling — if somewhat morbid — table clock shaped like a human skull called Memento Mori. Launched in 2006 by Ewa Bochen and Maciej Jelski, the Warsaw studio describes the Memento Mori clock as “a red projection on the forehead bone. The time looks like integral part of the […]

There are many ways to individualize your self, and your home, and they don’t all have to be expensive luxury-house accessories or oh-so painfully hip collaborations. Sometimes all it takes is something as thoughtfully unique as this Horncastle double-size patchwork quilt. It is pieced and hand-stitched using a variety of fabrics and prints, combined with […]

A design borrowed from the Ayoreo Indians of Northern Paraguay, Chairless allows you sit…well…chairless. It’s essentially a belt that sits down on your knees and around your back, giving you support while sitting *ahem* Indian style. Portions of the money made from Chairless sales will go to the Foundation for Paraguayan Indian Communities.

For me the ideal modern product not only looks visually engaging, and ads some aesthetic enjoyment to your life, but also does so while being sustainable…or at least doesn’t club pandas in the Arctic while doing so. Which is why I dig product designer Lori Weitzner‘s wallpaper made of 100% up-cycled newspaper print. Her Newsworthy […]

Using sixty rotating mirrors to reflect a single laser beam, the ingenious Reflectius clock concept is a study in precision. Created by Moscow-based design house Art. Lebedev Studio, the clock is intelligent both in its display and casing design. If you’re at all confused, check out the design page to see exactly how the Reflectius’ mirror-driven timekeeping […]

When I really need to score some drugs I don’t use my cell phone to do so, that’s how you get caught. Public phones are the way to go when calling your dopeman. What can I say, we are an addicted culture. That’s why when I make my call to the neighborhood pharmacy for my […]

Los Angeles-based designer Ramón Coronado has made some furniture that we can really get behind here at LIAS headquarters. We should have the Meadows — our secret, subterranean offices — stuffed with the plastic seating. Mercado Negro, or Black Market, is Coronado’s attempt at reclaiming these devices of corporate consumerism. In making his shopping cart […]

Do you ever find yourself in the middle of dinner thinking, “Man, I could really go for some ragtime Scott Joplin-style piano playing right now.” No? Ok, well even so, this piano/dinner table is a creative innovation from Georg Bohle. The two things in your house that always take up the most space have now […]