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iHandle

|Clever but pricy iPad Grip. Product ColorWare Grip Design TCH Price $300

Smart dog

|The next two weeks I am not writing for NRC newspaper. Overall theme is a smart thing, related to design. Love this smart initiative: a

Fun on two wheels

|Mini released the Scooter E Concept. It is full of gadgets, like the iPhone dock in the handlebar and two coffee cups (having a nice tea

Unaffordable

|The famous Atelier van Lieshout’s Family Lamp from 2007 is exactly 2 meters high and now for sale (1 out of 10) at Carpenters Workshop

Pink Shoe

|Click here to see how Niels Shoe Meulman writes a calligraphic pink car for Mercedes for ‘Pink Ribbon’. Via mestudio.org

Fighting vulgarity

|Click here to hear design guru Massimo Vignelli: “You have to train yourself to have vision, courage and determination, without them there is no reason for

Out of this world

|“I am going and I hope you will be joining me”, says one of my heroes Sir Richard Branson in his introduction film for Galactic’s

4-D brands

|Four dimensional logos are hot. The latest one is for the famous accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers, designed over the last three years by Wolff Olins. The solution

Digital branding

|Animated logos are also hot. Pentagram designed this one for the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. SECCA just has renovated its galleries, that can constantly transform into new

Fun beer

|Last saturday in NRC Magazine, I wrote about a couple of friends that started a fresh beer brand only four years ago in Australia. Part

The best of

|Click here to watch the 125 most creative YouTube films. All 20 winners shall be announced at the Guggenheim NY at October 21. Stefan Sagmeister

Nature tufted

|Land carpets made with Google Earth. The hand-tufted fields differ in height: left = Europe, top right = Central Africa and bottom right = USA. Design

Blown away

|Just visited the renovated National Glass Museum, Leerdam with a beautiful Berlage collection from 1928 (L) and a petit grand installation by Belgian fashion designer

Visible Light

|A true understanding of catching the light Photographer Alexander Harding Via Booooooom

Joy

|Wonderful moment of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. Can anybody tell me who the photographer is?

Don’t do this

|Hideous promotional pictures for the largest chain of plastic surgery clinics in The Netherlands. While this brand should be all about aesthetics, their website tells in

Heroes of Birth

|Funny installation of underpants collected from the artist and her friends and family, accompanied by beautiful melodic sounds from the romantic Pippilotti Rist. Art ‘Massachusetts Chandelier’ Exhibition

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