TK Garment Supply, a Japanese clothing line established in 2005, specializes in using vintage clothing and fabrics to create completely new looks while retaining the nostalgia of the original pieces. This military jacket from TK is composed of vintage tent canvas, which makes for an interesting color-blocked look in different shades of green. Whether you’ll […]

Grocery bags, they’re everywhere you look. Fluttering from tree branches, stuck in sewage drains and jammed into that one drawer in the corner of your kitchen. Why do you jam that drawer full of plastic bags? Do you need that many bags? Really the only thing I use them for is wrapping my smoke alarm. […]

Inspired by the accumulation of endless piles of broken skateboard decks, the founder of Deckstool decided to make good use of them. Using trucks and broken boards, these stools are made from retired skateboards and can be used as seats or side tables. And by utilizing the more bruised and battered decks, the stools have […]

Frank M. Rinderknecht — Swiss-born inventor, entrepreneur and founder of Rinspeed Inc. — always seems to debut something wacky and automotively fringe every year in Geneva, and this year was no different. Compared to the Rinspeed sQuba or Splash (or last year’s uber-useless iChange, the first car to be controlled by an iPhone), this year’s […]

This bookshelf by  fashion4home is made from 100% bamboo, hence the name, and is unique enough to add a positive aesthetic to any room, but still completely practical. Standing at 71″ wide, 47″ tall, and  15″ deep, the shelf is certified sustainable because of it’s utilization of the super fast growing, and ultra strong, bamboo […]

We here at LIAS get excited about all sorts of interesting designs, even when it’s something as minuscule as a 2″ x 2″ air freshener. And don’t let the unsuspecting size and simplicity of this air freshener fool you, it’s actually got some real technical punch. The Chikuno Cube is made from a combination of […]

The EBIQ is a dual-purposed concept electric bike designed by Yuji Fujimura. First, when you pedal it stores energy in its lithium ion battery that you can later use to motor the bike if and when you get too lazy or tired to pedal. Secondly, it has a compartment in which you can store — […]

There’s something to be said about the implementation of green technology, a term that years ago would have seemed completely contradictory. The Green Computer from Design Hara almost embodies that phrase…in body only, perhaps (seen above with keyboard from La Chae Homme). Critics have argued that just because this computer’s casing is made from wood, […]