Majik Cafe
Karim Rashid recently designed the new Majik Cafe in Belgrade, Serbia enamoring it with his trademark ‘digipop’ look that is accented with an amalgam of RG LED panels that change the color and mood of the place throughout the day. The restaurant also features a scrolling LED message board that displays customer’s text messages.
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Draga Obradovic
Currently residing in Florence, Serbian-born Draga Obradovic graduated with a degree in painting and has honed her own distinctive designs. She has refined an exceptional technique of directly painting on fabrics imparting an inimitable style that’s a mélange of quaint, contemporary and timeless. Whether it’s a monochrome, floral armchair or a chair boasting quirky, tongue-in-cheek messages, every piece possesses an intrinsically charming appeal that will have you craving to own one.
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Draga Obradovic
Chair couture
Chair couture – the very name bears connotations of sitting pretty or languorously laying atop luxe designs. Margaret Elman has knack for reupholstering French antique furniture by giving them a new lease of life. She creates one-of-a kind, exceptionally vibrant pieces by incorporating audacious prints in recycled polyester and organic cotton. Every fabric has a specific use for every piece of vintage furniture from classical chaise lounges to ornate chairs. The prints range from serene aquatic ripples, sepia-toned dandelion stalks and even lush, verdant patch of grass. For that consummate experience of sitting on a grassy knoll indoors, you might want to commission bergères from Elman.
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Chair Couture
Camouflage
Who needs hideous scaffolding coverage when there’s faux-foliage from Camouflage? The original objective has diversified with Camouflage now used in indoors and stage-backdrops. Designed by Iikka Airas and Markus Wikar, Camouflage is created from sheets of tarpaulin and the installation is devised to incorporate a three-dimensional effect once it’s hanged. In a city with a proliferation of construction cranes and towering edifices, Dubai can certainly do with this scaffolding makeover. Additionally, I can’t think of a better way to eliminate unsightly advertising rife on the half-constructed, let alone finished, structures.
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Camouflage
Plant
Plant is a public furniture collection that consists of benches and fences that have LEDs integrated into them which the intention that they will glow and light up in the night. The Leds are solar powered so they get their energy during the day.
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Goodmorning Technology
Cats Roar Calendar
Noa Bembibre is a Spanish designer and has unveiled her unconventional calendar for 2008. Whimsical typography leaps out and the coloured letters denote the month. The quirky expressions bound off the wall and will definitely initiate banter.
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Noa Bembibre
Peace Under Fire
In this day and age of double speak, it isn’t such a stretch to see Peace symbols made aggressive by combining them with symbols of violence i.e. the Bomber plane, a Noose, a Rifle – all part of a collection of accessories by New York based designer Brian Crumley.
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Crumley
Animated Audio Wave
Brilliant packaging by Goodmorning Technology for Widex, a hearing aid company by creating slits on the outside cover so that when you slide the box, it shows the waveform underneath the cover through the incision thus animating the audio image.
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Widex
Goodmorning Technology
Fashion Shock Jocks
Miss Geschick & Lady Lapus is a collection of shock apparel and accessories that includes such novelties such as Hairy, a pair of underwear that has fake hair drawn in strategic locations, or Chewy Beauty, which is a chewing gum shaped hair clip.
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Mis Geschick & Lady Lapsus (via RFC)
Spreading Cheer
‘Smile’ is graphic designer Alex Bec’s cheeky attempt at an all out war against misery by spreading ’smile’ stickers that subvert otherwise ordinary, mundane objects.
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Alex Bec
Blow
Blow is a new Bubble inspired lamp from designer Agustin Otegui.
Inspiration
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Agustin Otegui – Blow
Preview: Wire Furniture
American sculptor Forrest Myer’s upcoming exhibition in November includes an installation of ‘furniture’ sculpted with wire.
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Friedman Benda Gallery
Dans La Lune
Kirsten Hassenfed’s Dans La Lune is very much a delightful jaunt across magical realms. Lush with elaborate details yet stark in its colour scheme, this installation is simply ethereal. Abound are concatenation of stars ensconced in domes, miniature gazebos, winsome cameos aglow, translucent feminine tchotches and illuminated orbs all adorned with trimmings, crystals, curlicues and scalloped edges. Everything is handmade with extraordinary finesse from paper and intricately layered, embellished and garlanded. The entire tableau is a captivating wonderland.
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Rice Gallery : Hassenfeld
Marc Jacobs x Legos
Recent noteworthy accessories from a recent Marc Jacobs including a Legos inspired belt buckle that hasn’t hit the market yet and a blocky bracelet, pictured below.
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Marc Jacobs (via Kanye)
Troublemaker
During a recent excursion to Hong Kong, Sensory attended Hong Kong based artist Carrie Chau Wun Ying’s art show that has become an annual event for the past four years. This year’s show was titled “I’ve never been a troublemaker”.
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Moschino now makes lamps
Fashionistas are well acquainted with Moschino’s whimsical and witty pieces that take design to new frontiers. Now, Moschino have breezed into the world of interiors with their definitive epic-chic lamps: the bag, the boot and, my favourite, the bustier. A definitely witty way to recycle designer accessories!
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Moschino
Eraser
They could have started out as an impeccable rectangular slabs (in flouro-hues or pristine white) bearing the fundamental promise of erasing inane and not-so-silly errors. But erasers are soon transformed into scruffy little lumps that are indifferently discarded. The chu-keshi eraser however is already endowed with oblique edges and thusly far likely to feel like a beloved pair of jeans or a tiny talisman.
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Nendo
Paper Critters
Ah, slot this one under “Endlessly Amusing Time-Killer”. Paper Critters is an online creation tool for creating and sharing boxy digital toys. With an easy drag-and-drop editor together with various stencils and drawing tools, you can enhance the features of your toy (wacky eyebrows? yes please). You can even personalize the critter by uploading one of your own images (or sworn foes). Once completed, the critters can be shared by emailing it across or simply sending the permalink as well as adding it to a blog or website.
All creatures can be viewed in The Colony and, what’s more, you can customize creatures that already exist and give it your own spin without affecting the original. All creatures have a rating feature: Cute/Evil; Loyal or Rebel.
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Paper Critters
iRings
What can one do with a non-functional pair of headphones that are destined for the bin? Why recycle them as earrings (iRings) of course! Yet another one for the ‘Why Didn’t *I* Think of That?!’ files.
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Felipov
Screw Table
This one’s self-explanatory: a mega-sized indispensable object transformed into functional furniture; allowing an essential yet constantly obscured object be disclosed for a change.