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I am always for unique, expressive and innovative products that are designed to enrich our daily thoughts and experiences by balancing our life styles. Maybe some of these products can help us extract prolonged and focused pleasures out of our daily rituals!

How about a transparent tea pot that is full of tea leaves–interesting visual!!

 

This mnemonic placemat indicates the match between the food color and what we need to eat everyday for a healthier diet. Fruits and vegetables get many of their colors from phytonutrients, compounds that play key roles in health and reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer. 

Whatever the lifestyle is, using time wisely matters!!! blackboard -style face watch created by rolf sachs

 

The balanced life style comes with the harmony amongst the physical, mental, spiritual and emotional, what about a reminder how fragile love can be!  These wounded vases are available at the Guggenheim.

We cannot afford to be physically inactive!  A glove for the foot, for casual comfort, or as a lifestyle statement, fivefingers brings the feeling of barefootedness back to our lives!

 

 
  

Catching The WAVE

While walking the floor of the Dwell On Design show in Los Angeles this past weekend, this could only catch my eye.  I was not sure if it was a hang glider but quickly realized it was better because I would not need lessons to use it. 

The WAVE hammock was designed by Erik Nyberg and Gustav Strom and is manufactured by Royal Botania, known for fabulous outdoor furniture and providing a canopy which offers 86% sun protection.  First launched at The Hotel Show in Dubai in June 2008, where it received huge attention and design acclaim.  The WAVE, is winner of Interior Design Magazine’s Best of the Year Award.  Which if funny since it is design for the exterior.  But who cares great design is great design.

WAVE creates a unique floating impression by being pivoted on one single point at the base. The construction is strong enough to withstand the weight of people and weather conditions.  The WAVE can gently swing if required or remain static for ultimate serenity. 

View not included…but then who is really looking when your eyes are closed.

Take it for a test drive. You may never come back.  Available through Inexsite.com.

Have an infinitely modern day!

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Having an Architecture kind of day...here are some of the most beautiful structures being posted around the design web these days...

 

by Studio 804...courtesy of reDesign.

 

Sometimes it's hard to appreciate the real beauty of architecture from the inside...a birds eye view is always nice! This is the Brazilian Leaf House posted on cribcandy.

 

This screams~come visit in person!! Have you heard about this? The 'Let's Colour Project'? Spreading colour all over the world...I am dying to see more paint projects pop up around the world!

 

Modern in Miami! A new parking structure by German firm, Herzog & Meuron. Found at: dezeen.

Gemma Correll

My favorite type has smiling turnips, cats with party hats and french presses! Love these recent Letterpress prints by UK illustrator Gemma Correll. I can't stop admiring all the fun details and shapes! Find the Ampersand print in her etsy shop here.

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I am recycling some good content regarding reclaimed products... Amazing reuses!

 

Good one from Better Living Through Design.

This home, plentiful with repurposed pieces, has views of the pacific ocean. Tucked away in the Santa Cruz mountains...happens to be in my dream location too...found on Design Milk.

 

This one is attainable and very clever. Apartment Therapy is a well know destination for highlighting DIY with repurposed finds.

 

Eco-Poof made from scraps of cloth used to clean printing press. mocoloco

Kakinoie House by Hiroshi Shoji

 
 
 

P-Kan

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I enjoy so many of the clever names that people choose for their blogs. Some are to the point and others often don't really work for me.  

Today I am briefing you from blogs that I read daily and...find the name amusing each time I open it.

 

Cribcandy...one of my favorites...Manhattan never looked so pretty. Incidently, Cribcandy found this from a blog by an artist named Jennifer Hill...her blog name...wait for it...it's clever-Brandflakes for Breakfast.

 

You know its a cool book-gift when you want to read it before you give it away. If your into retro trailers or anything retro design, this is a good one. What else is good? The blog name where I spotted it, Cool Hunting.

 

I love Nooka watches. I have nooka envy of a friend who owns several. I love how they have that distinctly Nooka style that is modern and retros 80's all at the same time..-oh, found these on another favorite blog of mine, Sight Unseen. Such a great name for a blog that often presents things and design that I can't find anywhere else on the web.

Mood Mugs :: Thabto

These new mugs from London-based design studio Thabto (short for "two heads are better than one") are pure silliness.  Not that that's a bad thing.  I'm all for more humor in the design world!

Available in three moods: "Happy as Larry", "Monstrously Moody", and "Seriously Sleepy".  All three designs make me chuckle, but my favorite is probably the little sleepy guy.  Just looking at him makes me yawn!

About:  Mood Mugs are a range of insulated mugs with quirky facial expressions to reflect your mood. These beautifully simple hand made porcelain mugs are cleverly designed with double wall insulation to keep your drink warm and hand cool, whilst showing everybody how you're feeling.

Mood Mugs by Thabto: £8.95 / aprox. $13.50

waldi and a little girl

Otl Aicher is best known for his graphics for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, which incorporated a system of universally recognizable pictograms that has become the standard throughout the world. He also created the olympic's posters, postcards, tickets, and timetables.

In graphic design conveying information with the right colors improve the communication efforts.

   Otl Aicher's color selection is not only an aesthetic choice but it also achieves the purpose for his client. In the case of yellow here, it represents the heat of the games, the vitality it brings to its spectators and the energy it spreads around.
 

 

The first official olympic mascot Waldi, a dashchund was also created by Otl Aicher. Waldi appreared in several color schemes containing some of the olympics five colors.

 

Talking about color, world, cultures and vitality the benetton group's research center fabrica's publication “colors” magazine has great graphics, unusual topics, big pictures and an unique way of communication style. Its first sold out issue of 1991 is now available on Ipad. 

Its front cover showed a little girl being born dramatically representing the arrival of a new magazine “colors” into the publishing world.

 

BuzziBooth

 

Working in an open space with other people, I do feel the need to step outside to make that all important call for a bit of privacy.  But now there is the BuzziBooth which solves that problem. What is a BuzziBooth?  A modern phone booth or rather an acoustical cocoon made out of BuzziFelt, which is produced out of 100% recycled PET Bottles.  Belgian designer Alain Gilles, of BuzziSpace  must have needed to make a private phone call as well.  Comes in fun and fabulous colors pink, lime, orange, grey, black, white.  They also make wall dividers.

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Have an infinitely modern day!