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Tease before satisfy

|Of course these design guys/ex colleagues from London know very well how to create a good site, I especially like the idea of starting with just words

Spread content through social media

|Fantastic use of responsive design, all together at the homepage of this couture house. News via Twitter, Videos via YouTube, In-house via Instagram, e-Boutique via

My name is Haas

|In today’s overload of information, people need to literally get in touch with things (and society), so to get in touch with their original selves. Uniqueness of character in a

RIP Jan Asselbergs

|This week my father’s brother – a portrait painter – died. To my surprise I discovered the Rijksmuseum owns 20 works by him. I never asked

Into the not too wild

|The perfect artist’s studio. The architect designed a metal frame over the building for plants to climb. Love the unpainted galvanized steel window frames. Location Raethian

Chocolatexture

|Beautiful 3D-printed (I guess) chocolates, including treats with pointed tips, hollow interiors and rough textures. The textures create different tastes and have names like tubu-tubu, sube-sube, zara-zara, toge-toge, goro-goro, fuwa-fuwa, poki-poki, suka-suka, zaku-zaku. Design Nendo

1 = 8

|Rings based on the simplicity of laser cutting. Each ring consists of 8 parts which one can ‘pivot’ or ‘push’ to create different ways of

Mirror, mirror on the wall

|Crazy (wedding) dresses, well-draped with elaborate jewellery by the one and only John Galliano who infused new life into what is overlooked and discarded. Deconstruction and humor are

Fun play with heritage

|Deconstructed jewellery collection like a painting with its frame hanging next to it. Material sapphire, diamonds and 18k white gold Price €2.900 – 4.500 Design Pompadour by Martin Margiela

Soft bums

|Wonderful boudoir piece Sofa Cipria Design Fernando e Humberto Campana for Edra

Create your own history

|These cool oil paintings are obviously inspired by famous Renaissance paintings. The artist is exploring their relevance to twenty-first century culture. The abstract translations started through an idea by

Have an opinion and put it in the work

|Controversial work, examining the cliché, digging deeper into the idea and challenging the boundaries of taste. Click here if you want to follow the online classes of Designer James

Most beautiful flow

|In my opinion Richter’s latest and very small pieces of colorful work are truly inspiring. Material Enamel on back of glass mounted on Alu Dibond Art

Reality overpainted to abstraction

|For years I’ve blogged about these overpainted photographs. In 2015, a catalogue is scheduled about this specific trouvaille. To my surprise the oeuvre still seems to be largely unknown to art

Catch an 8 minute pose

|First try-outs of nude painting, next time I’ll catch the background. I know it is still crap, still loved the making of in the attick of

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