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Play with space

|24 m2 Casco apartment in Barcelona turned it into a Zen-space Architecture Christian Schallert (click to see the enthusiastic boy opening all cabinets) Via Arnaud Gelauff

A man with a vision

|Such a brilliant story: a multi-talented designer blocks his agenda for 3 days to redesign Microsoft’s brand ID. His redesign goes all over the world

Voltage

|3D Objet-printed outfits made through a new collaboration of a fashion designer and MIT’s Media Lab researcher Neri Oxman, who has spent five years researching and designing

Show your identity

|Sketches for a pitch concerning a new container park in Berlin. Part of the proposal is to give the park a special identity. Inkjet printed

Glass Farm

|Great response to kitsch architecture in The Netherlands! This building looks like a farm, but the exterior is printed glass with a collage of local farms.

Recycle design

|This designer (re-)searches the intrinsic quality of anonymized design, found in products that usually are not associated with ‘design’. Here a fifties plywood mold was reused with

Knockin’ on heaven’s door

|In Belgium great organisation Rasa brings modern art to children with the message ‘experience-think-act’. They work with some of the best Belgian artists like Panamarenko and

Super swing

|This object was created by using open source parts from Thomas Lommée & Jo Van Bostraeten. Design LoFi Studio/Christiane Hoegner

Sweet lunch

|Japanese make the cutest Bento lunch boxes voor children. Imagery found at Google

Simple place to hide

|All compartments just follow the slope of this temporary wooden structure made up of plastic sheets, wood, warm lighting and a small heater. Hikers love this place

Authentic housing

|I am investigating Hundertwasser and Gaudi for the graphics of a student housing project that I work on with architects Arons & Gelauff. Wonder why

Men like polka dots

|Two 65+ twin hookers say in ‘Ouwehoeren‘, a Dutch documentary and book about their lives, that men love polka dots. Way to go, click here to

Experiment @ FabLab

|At Fablab you can try out lasercutters, embroidery machines, 3D scanning and some other new machines for free. Lasercut fabric Antoine Peters  

Yellow makes you eat

|Spatial graphics always work: this beautiful graph is for a paint company showing peoples relationship between colour and space. The psychological impact of a yellow

Renewable resources

|Good thinking: connecting (cheap) small pieces into a bigger structure has resulted in a flexible chair, that responds to the user’s body, also adapting to

Celebrate change in 2013!

 |ID by one of my favorite designers for The Floating Eye, the Sydney Pavilion at the 9th Shanghai Biennale. The image presents a city that is both beautiful

Most economical car ever

|It is still a guess but this very lightweight car may become the car hit of 2013 (in a limited edition). The vehicle will be ultra-fuel-efficient with

Emerald

|This year I watched a beautiful emerald sea at the Azores which mesmerized me. The rich grass-green colored precious stone, kissed with a touch of blue is

Merry Go ‘Round

|A simple exercise makes a great Xmas card. The circles are the result of a drawing exercise – drawing 60 circles, one drawn each second for

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