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Lethal injection at 12:31 a.m.

|Anatomy always fascinates me. Here is a follow up on the Visible Human Project that I posted lately. That animation of a cadaver was played full

Bach

|When you click here you see a fantastic artwork that has been produced for an ad of Japanese cell phone manufacturer Touchwood. The company only uses discarded

Catching

|Click here to review a great online magazine on trends and innovation with case studies from the UK. Or click here to check their excellent and free report

Making (is linked to) a future

|At last year’s Design Indaba, Tord Boontje spoke about the link between creativity and the actual making/craft. At art school he learned not to decorate: instead

1,8 Millimetre

|Fantastic pictures of the human body, with a cruel story though. Joseph Jernigan was sentenced to death for fatally shooting a 75-year-old man during a 1981 burglary.

It’s in the air

|Beautiful test-shot by my friend Martin Pyper for a new poster he is currently working on. Photography Bart Oomes with MeStudio

4,5%

|One cool cider. Brewery Macks Design Bjørn Viggo Ottem, Tank

Canteens

|Simple beautiful dinnerware, designed for big canteens by Norwegian producer Figgjo. Design Olav Joa for Figgjo Via Bright

In the air

|This is my first trend forecasting spread for marketing magazine Adformatie. It is about the brightest colour of blue, symbol of creativity and audacity at the

Made of horseshoe steel

|Someone called me with the question if I could promote these classic Scandinavian handmade chairs, designed for the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition by the Lindqvist family and originally

Augmented reality on a stamp

|Since a couple of years people hardly use stamps. The person who is responsible for the release of new Dutch stamps – Julius Vermeulen –

Design to inspire

|I started this blog the day Obama was inaugurated and I told five friends about it. As of last month The Motor got 42,786 hits

Libya from space

|Beautiful Libya (L) photographed by astronauts on the International Space Station and (R) at Google maps. Date February 2011

Life unframed

|Yves Béhar designed this ergonomic and cheap office chair for Herman Miller. SF’s Golden Gate Bridge was the inspiration to start with a tower for vertical

24/3

|Today is my man’s birthday. We gave him a cheesecake with a motorbike on top and this long sleeve Rapha henley made from extremely breathable merino.

Nº 5

|Check out this well-designed London based mag featuring quite some Dutch designers and photographers Magazine It’s nice that

Insight

|Energy efficient and thoughtful light with the contours of a normal bulb from two industrial designers from Minsk. Design Solovyov

Transplastic

|Humberto Campana: “I feel passionate with the possibilities of plastic and discovered an elasticity in this project that is very fulfilling. To me it has a special meaning

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