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BotoxCloud by SAQ & Zirkumflex

I’m currently fighting a head cold but couldn’t resist posting about this pretty cool light installation by Berlin-based SAQ. If you bear with me, I would have to partially rely on the designers’ own account of the project, and will do my best to describe the assembly: SAQ has developed a reactive modular lighting system [...]

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Fold by Riyo Nemeth

Artist Riyo Nemeth created the simple Fold series of black-and-white photocopied prints resulted from folds on paper.

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Ropes by Christian Haas

The Ropes is a series of lamps conceived by Paris-based designer Christian Haas, incorporating energy efficient technology with traditional method of knotting cords. Note: prepare to scrooooll!

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Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

London’s Barbican Art Gallery is currently showing Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion – a survey of avant-garde Japanese garments. Drawing from the 1980s to the present (featuring names such as Junya Watanabe and Yohji Yamamoto), the exhibition explores the unique sensibilities and notions of beauty embedded in Japanese design – with heavy inspirations [...]

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Bidum by Laetitia Florin

Bidum is a series of flexible mesh containers characterized more by motion than by functionality. Designed by Lætitia Florin, a graduate of Switzerland’s ECAL (University of Art & Design Lausanne), the containers are made from thin spring-steel strips sheathed in cotton. The flexible form moves and bounces with the slightest touch but can’t tumble or [...]

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Hypo: spinographic stitch prints

Matt Booth and Peter Crawley created Hypo: hypotrochoid designs generated by adobe flash and stitched on paper. Matt built a small Flash tool which controls the radius and rotation speeds of the circles, with a code to specify colors and line thicknesses. Working like a digital spinograph, the tool performs an animation, and the designs [...]

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Iris van Herpen Haute Couture SS2011

Dutch fashion designer, Iris van Herpen made her debut at the Paris Haute Couture Week, and once again WOW-ed us with her futuristic collection inspired by the sculptures of American artist, Kris Kuksi. Just like her previous spring/summer collection, Iris employed 3D printing technique on her garments with the help of architect Daniel Widrig. Unconventional [...]

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Accordion Cabinet with Wooden Textiles

Recently shown at the IMM Cologne was the Accordion Cabinet – a shelf with flexible skin. The cabinet is the result of a collaboration between designer Elisa Strozyk and artist Sebastian Neeb, and is constructed with a combination of veneer wood and textile with accordion-like folds that can be opened and closed.

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Zip Jacket: a personal device control garment

Designer Jennifer Darmour of electricfoxy recently revealed her latest project: ZIP is a garment that allows you to interact with your music player by using the zipper as a volume control element. Zip your jacket up to raise the volume and protect yourself from the outside world. Unzip to turn the volume down and engage [...]

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Pleat Farm’s Top Picks: Folding Paper Typography

Happy Monday! Featuring: Pleat Farm’s favorite selection of cut and fold-happy paper typefaces for your viewing pleasure.

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Totem: Reflections on the Future of Fashion

As part of the Pitti fashion fairs in Florence, fashion school Polimoda staged a video-photography exhibition of future fashion concepts generated by students in the Fashion Design and Fashion Marketing departments. Aside from video projections, the exhibition showcased nine 4-metre high translucent canvases with images of the “Fashion Totems”: mythological and supernatural beings that abandon [...]

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Wear Out by Carolina Reis

“What if the wearer could become whoever he is without having to choose a certain representation in his outfit? Is it possible to approach fashion design without imposing a certain model to follow?” Wear Out is a response to the notion of discrimination in individuals through the garments they wear. To break free from the [...]

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Paper Series Photography by Nicholas Alan Cope

Check out these stunningly sublime images of folded papers by Los Angeles-based photographer, Nicholas Alan Cope. Inspirational at best!

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Tze Goh: Spring/Summer 2011

Designer Tze Goh‘s new Spring/Summer 2011 collection recalls his signature sculptural silhouettes from his graduate collection. The wearable pieces in bonded 3D jerseys incorporate various shades of white and pops of summery colors. The loose fitting garments are held in shape with internal harnesses for ease of wear.

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Model A’la Experiment by Rasmus Svingel

Danish architecture student, Rasmus Svingel, has created a model with movable surfaces as part of an architectural study on space and program.

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Papercraft Self Portrait by Eric Testroete

Inspired by big-head models seen in video games, Canadian artist Eric Testroete, with the help of Bert Simons and Haywan Chiu, created a self-portrait, faceted paper head mask for his Halloween costume.

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