16 Oct
Designer Maximo Riera's disturbing Beetle Chair

There are many an innovative way to furnish your home — you could sit your ass down on an Alphabet, Space Invader or Monster Chair. Designer Maximo Riera wants to add to those opportunities. His new Beetle Chair is based on the European rhinoceros beetle — one of the largest beetles and strongest animals on […]


2 Jul
Watch made from fragments of Apollo 11 & actual moon rocks

The release of the original ‘Space Invaders’ arcade game caused a shortage of Yen when it was first released in Japan 1978. Switzerland-based watch designer Romain Jerome was an active participant in that epic arcade frenzy, and his latest innovation is this limited edition blue version of his previous ‘Space Invaders watch which we’ve previously […]


2 May
Amsterdam designer Frank Tjepkema's "Invader Aiko" ring

People can’t seem to get over seminal arcade game Space Invaders invading all forms of their design. Its simple, pixelated genius has so sunk so deep in our cultural consciousness that you can find that 2-bit celestial aggressor on everything from Silver Pendents to Multi-Tool Keychains to Limited Edition Watches to of course street artist […]


7 Jul
Wooster Collective defends the merits of street art on urban living

At the recent TED x Talks this past June in Bloomington, Indiana, the duo behind the highly influential Wooster Collective — Marc and Sara Schiller — discuss the positive effect that street art has on urban centers, whether blighted or not. A hotly contested issue pitting those who find street art offensive graffiti versus those […]


26 Apr
MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch attempts to redeem himself

Art In the Streets is kind of a funny name for an exhibit that all happens inside the pricey, heavily guarded, air-conditioned walls of a museum. Obviously this art isn’t in the streets at all. Doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. It’s in the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, in downtown Los Angeles, with […]


19 Jan
SeaSideSew's handmade designs for all your gadget needs

SeasideSew is an Etsy designer who strives for quality products with simple design. These water resistant cases are hand made to protect all your various gadgets — iPhone, iPod, iPad, Kindle, Palm, Blackberry etc. The 100% designer cotton cases are fully lined in high-end Kona Cotton and feature eco friendly bamboo padding, and come in […]


13 Jan
Mark Lauckhardt's Typography Furniture

Typography has become this year’s anthem to good design, and Mark Lauckhardt has found yet another way to incorporate it with something usually unrelated to typeface: furniture design. Lauckhardt has created a line that consists of a lamps, tables, chairs and couches all replicating different letters in the alphabet. The clean lines and modern design […]


8 Sep
Singaporean aritist GaenKoh's "Tat-ris" couch

I guess there’s some unspoken video-games-as-furniture zeitgeist going on in the world, what with industrial designer GaenKoh‘s incredibly Tetris-like ”tat-ris” furniture seeing the light only weeks after that famed Space Invader couch. The Singaporean designer created this piece of interactive modular seating after seeing kids at play, and how they couldn’t sit down for more […]