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Ugly is great

|Since US markets toss out 15 billion dollars worth of fruits and vegetables each year just because they are bruised or discolored, a smart design student

In control of sexual chaos

|People say she’s painting like a man in the fifties, because she’s combining abstract with figurative. According to Picasso there is no abstract art. You

Drink to survival

|A single pine tree stands as a testament to survival after Japan’s tsunami of 2011. This beer’s name means One Pine Tree and is symbol

Embroidered positions

|To me embroidered type always works. May be because my mother made one of those old fashioned needlework samplers (right) when I was a kid. Unfortunately

Eat smog

|This facade of depolluting elements is coated with titanium dioxide, a pollution-fighting technology which is activated by daylight. The coated tiles break down and neutralize

Hobby x Work

|This designer knows how to take her hobby seriously. She paints self-initiated maps in her spare time and applies that work into her daytime job,

The Happy Show

|Can designers become artists? At The Happy Show the boundary between art and design is shown via mainly typography. Visitors experience a walk into the designer’s mind

Made by instinct

|Gsus sindustries SS14 Men collection Design & illustration Jan Schrijver

Nuclear energy play

|A children’s game, designed after research into public space and architecture. The game shows the excessive landscape of contemporary architecture with mega factories and nuclear

Serious meat game

|Playing with food gets another meaning with this serious kit (and a serious price). Parents traditionally teach their children not to play with their food and

Invisible helmet

|Their teacher thinks these girls will soon become millionaires with this invention of the invisible helmet for cyclists. A nylon, hood-shaped airbag is built into

Imagine What You See

|Loved these micro-cabinets at last year’s show at the Design Academy Eindhoven. The mini objects show a real power of imagination and reveal what can be achieved

Become a brewer

|For all fathers at Father’s Day. Offer them a great new hobby. This apartment-sized beer kit should even get city dwellers brewing. From Brussels Black to

Sugarglasses

|They look antique and the idea is so simple: mix sugar, water and glucose and heat up to 160 degrees Celsius. Pour the syrup in a mould

Naughty shots

| The text on this porcelain jug dates from an 18th-century naughty love-poem in which a young man and a girl meet which results in

Delft Blues

|My favorite hand-painted Delft blue plates. The raw herring dish differs, depending on the painter. Design Royal Delft

Flat & straight

|This is where I live, in between some entrancing farmer art and plain garden art. Location Beets, Holland.

Siliknits

|These clothes remind me of last year’s Comme des Garçons collection, still the mix of the knitting patterns moulded in silicon combined with Barbie-pastels is

Bricks tables

|Big little tables from wood residues, from € 250 Design Christiaan Oppewal

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