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Beetle-Inspired Tiny Treehouse by Terunobu Fujimori

On August 7, 2010 By

[ By Steph in Archi­tec­ture & Design , Fur­ni­ture & Inte­ri­ors . ] Look­ing like a prop from a Tim Bur­ton film, the lit­tle struc­ture lives up to its name: Beetle’s House . It stands on four slightly off-kilter legs pre­sent­ing its charred pine wood exte­rior, like the pro­tec­tive shell of an insect, and seems as if it could get up and walk away at any moment

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Domestic Narcisse Laser Cut Mirrors

On August 7, 2010 By

Your Reflec­tion Has Never looked This Good Gaz­ing into the mir­ror just became a whole lot more inter­est­ing. The dec­o­ra­tive wall art gurus at France’s Domes­tic have brought together a bunch of tal­ented artists and design­ers for the Domes­tic Nar­cisse range of laser cut mir­rors. Mov­ing beyond mere reflec­tive func­tion­al­ity, these works address another key aspect of the mir­ror – the qual­ity, design and work­man­ship of its frame

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Cause-Driven Laptop Cases — ‘The Steven’ for the 13” Macbook Pro by Krochet Kids (GALLERY)

On August 7, 2010 By

(TrendHunter.com) As an addi­tion to its Spring/Summer 2010 line, Kro­chet Kids has released ‘The Steven’ lap­top case, which is made of organic cot­ton and 100 per­cent sourced raw mate­ri­als from east­ern Africa. Kro­chet Kids…

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Design competition: Sustainable cosmetic brushes

On August 6, 2010 By

I hate to admit it, but every time I have a DIY job that requires paint or stain, I buy a crapload of these dis­pos­able foam brushes above rather than use the few bris­tle brushes I own. Clean­ing bris­tle brushes prop­erly requires loads of min­eral spir­its and run­ning the tap for what feels like 10 min­utes per brush. I’m not sure which is worse for the environment

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Industrial designer Martha Davis DIY’s her career into shoe design

On August 6, 2010 By

I sup­pose you could say it about a lot of fields, but to me, indus­trial design is problem-solving. And the edu­ca­tion involved–at least the one I had, which com­bined the­ory, a good amount of hands-on work, and very lim­ited resources–imparted a strong sense of DIY, which is why many of us at school made a lot of the things in our dorms, apart­ments and stu­dio spaces with our own hands. We always had a sense that if you couldn’t find some­thing you needed, or you found it but couldn’t afford to buy it, you made one yourself.

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Bird-Embodying Photography — ‘Reckless Canary’ from Iryna Duch is Avian Artistry (GALLERY)

On August 5, 2010 By

(TrendHunter.com) The ‘Reck­less Canary’ pho­to­shoot from Iryna Duch is bird-resembling and bril­liant. The makeup on the model is per­fect, look­ing like a beau­ti­ful bird’s eyes.

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Olympic designer Omer Arbel continues racking up awards

On August 5, 2010 By

Vancouver-based archi­tect and designer Omer Arbel, who runs an epony­mous design office, is hav­ing a hell of a year. His designs for the 2010 Olympics and Par­a­lympics medals, which fea­tured art­work by artist Corinne Hunt, won one of I.D.

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Gimme a Sammich!

On August 5, 2010 By

Sam­mich­SID is the “no excuses” MIDI­box SID syn­the­sizer kit designed in Mel­bourne by Jason Williams. What type of prod­ucts do you make with Ponoko? Cases for DIY elec­tronic projects, like sam­mich­SID How did you used to make prod­ucts before com­ing across Ponoko?

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The Core77 Store: Hand-Eye Supply is Now Open Online!

On August 5, 2010 By

Core77’s Hand-Eye Sup­ply A Voca­tional Hab­er­dash­ery and Sup­ply Store for Cre­ative Activ­i­ties www.handeyesupply.com Open 24 Hours-a-Day Online! Open 12–6 pm, Mon­day — Sat­ur­day at 23 NW 4th Avenue Port­land, Ore. Fea­tur­ing Stu­dio & Shop Sup­plies Imple­ments & Mate­ri­als Occu­pa­tional Accou­trements Old School and Nu-Style Work­wear Gifts for Cre­ative Types Brands both Domes­tic and For­eign Open to the Pub­lic Our Debut Inven­tory Ros­ter Work­wear Utility-specific work­wear is a focus of our cloth­ing inven­tory — not the kind of work­wear that you get to wear out on the town, although we’ve got some cool pants that have some flair (not flare!).

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4 Monochromatic Materials for USA

On August 4, 2010 By

Includ­ing Stain­less Steel and Alu­minum!* 0.9mm/0.040″ Stain­less Steel — great for com­po­nent hous­ings, jew­elry, robots and out­door appli­ca­tions. 6.4mm/0.252″ White Melamine fin­ished MDF — great for mak­ing toys, fur­ni­ture, coaster and lamps. 0.5mm/0.020″ Sil­i­con Rub­ber — great for gas­kets, auto­mo­tive appli­ca­tions, apparel, elec­tron­ics and more.

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