Bianca Chang is a freelance designer and part-time paper artist based in Sydney, Australia who creates typographic sculptures from cutting shifting forms sequentially out of many sheets of paper. The 3D letterforms become visible when the sheets are stacked together — and when sequenced together with stop-motion can create skilled animations, as seen in the […]

Wood Thumb, a San Francisco-based start-up, is inspired by wood. The eco-friendly company manufactures ties built from reclaimed wood. Using material culled from places like demolition projects or construction development, the team crafts each tie by hand. Though made out of recycled wood, sections of these ties are put together to make for a lightweight […]

Do you want to get your friends incredibly stoked, only to pull the rug out from under them to absolutely guarantee fists clenched at the sky? Give your next shipment to them a crappy surprise with Financial Padding — a package cushioning alternative to foam peanuts that look just like crumpled up paper banknotes. Besides being […]

Berlin-based Werner Aisslinger claims to have designed the world’s first monobloc chair made from natural fibers — in this case the renewable raw materials are hemp and kenaf, compressed with a water-based thermoset binder to form an eco-friendly, lightweight and yet strong composite. Aisslinger notes that consumers are striving towards a lifestyle that is in […]

Artist Kate McDowell‘s porcelain sculptures are not only breathtaking in their amount of vivid detail, but they also hold an intrinsic meaning behind them. Like much of the art today, they resonate with the everlasting struggle of Man versus Nature. Her sculptures consists of wild animals using tools to survive the world in the environmental […]

I suppose it was only a matter of time before WASTED GERMAN YOUTH took his craft-work and applied to Germany’s oldest and most valued profession: brewing. WASTED GERMAN BEER for now is not currently available in the US, but if you know a good beer store you may want to inquire about getting them to […]

We touched on this epic plastic dilemma facing the Planet Earth a couple years back when we covered photographer Chris Jordan’s Midway: Message from the Gyre in 2009, but it doesn’t get any less scary. We have a serious, serious fucked up problem with our consumption of plastics, and if nothing changes we can just […]

Growing up my parents had a chair in the downstairs playroom left over from the 70s that looked a lot like the Silkchair above. As a child I was drawn to its woven complexity; I couldn’t understand how all that space still held me up, and I couldn’t quite figure out the logic to its […]