March 2013
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Ready to go, Antithesis mixes traditional craft skills with contemporary nomadic techniques to create two versions of a hand bag line that are as traditional and nonconformist as they are natural and petrochemical. Working hand in hand with the craftsmen of Marrakech, Mr.&Mr. deviates from the traditional natural materials commonly used, by creating in contrast, contemporary forms of...
Mar 23rd
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Mar 22nd
MUJI Redesigns Naoto Fukasawa’s Classic CD Player
Recycling the iconic, the Wall-mounted Bluetooth Speaker by MUJI recasts MUJI’s very similar wall-mount CD player by Naoto Fukasawa, one of the most popular pieces of industrial design in Japan over the last decade. 
Mar 21st
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TOUCH*PLAY- Research into Autism
TOUCH * PLAY is an ongoing project which explores how technology could be used to enable children with Autistic Spectrum Conditions to play, explore and express their emotions and feelings through their senses. It looks at autism from a design point of view in order to understand how design could benefit autism and people who lives around them. Via curiosity of exploring whether machines could...
Mar 19th
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Color Wheel from Siggi Eggertsson
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February 2013
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We are working in one of our latest adventures: Toldo, a project based in functionality and emotional simplicity. Soon more info about it! 
Feb 18th
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“The secret to mastering your time is to systematically focus on importance and...”
– Oliver Emberton
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Mingei Artist, Minoru Kano Minoru Kano is one of the premier Mingei artists in Japan. Mingei roughly translates as “folk craft,” and is further explained by Kano himself during this documentary short. He also discusses the importance of moving away from a mass-produced culture and embracing, instead, the use of items that are hand-crafted from natural materials. After learning economics, he...
Feb 6th
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Japan Handmade Digest
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“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm”
–  Willa Cather
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Music For Breakfast 2013_02_01
We wanna start february listening to Efterklang, a band from Copenhagen, Denmark. The band consists of the 3 childhood friends Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen & Rasmus Stolberg. Performing live Efterklang is joined by sweet and talented people like Peter Broderick (piano, guitar, violin etc),Tatu Rönkkö (drums), Katinka Fogh Vindelev (piano, vocal) and often also full symphonic orchestras. ...
Feb 4th
January 2013
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Jan 12th
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PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society
PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society is an intervention created by Andrés Jaque at the Barcelona Pavilion, resulting from the research which Jaque has carried out over the last two years, at the invitation of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Banc Sabadell Foundation. A significant portion of the items which are safeguarded in the basement upon which the Pavilion was built have been distributed at...
Jan 11th
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Kei Kei Watch, by Ori Takemura
Imagine fireflies as your interface between your watch, you, your phone and time…  Kei Kei watch is an interaction design concept where instead of conventional digital language of icons, words, pictures etc, the information is communicated in anemotional, nature inspired way – mimicking avibrant swarm of fireflies. See more on the project page. 
Jan 10th
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D2C Generation
Helped by the Internet, the designer-to-consumer model (D2C) avoids traditional distribution costs, allowing the designer to sell fewer items at a higher margins than traditional manufacturers. The industrial design practice that emerged in the 20th century, and is still prominent today, was a business-to-business or designer-to-business service. The designer provided design to a manufacturer...
Jan 9th
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WOW speaker, by KAKKOii
KAKKOii is a boutique design company set up by Antonio Arevalo.   A London designer, Arevalo makes innovative, high quality products that fit the urban lifestyle; WOW (WOW - Without Wires) is the first in the KAKKOii range.   Take it to the park, the beach, on holiday, to work. You need WOW wherever you need your music. Compact, durable, wireless, easy to connect and recharge, WOW makes all...
Jan 8th
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Yves Béhar for Nivea
On its 100th anniversary, the historical German brand gets a complete overhaul: Béhar and fuseproject sought to transform Nivea’s typographical Bauhaus purity into something more contemporary. Ralph Gusko, of Nivea’s executive board explains that the rebrand was much needed after the brand experienced a massive growth which simultaneously presented a visually confusing series of options...
Jan 7th
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Music for Breakfast 2013_01_02 (Dave Brubeck...
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Trip to Mexico, by Andrew Julian
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Music for Breakfast 13_01_01
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Music for Breakfast 12_12_04
Here our last Music For Breakfast of 2012! This time totally dedicated to one of our discoveries of the year: Nils Frahm (born 1982) a German musician and composer based in Berlin. He has released solo material under his own name and also with several notable performers such as Anne Müller, Ólafur Arnalds and F.S. Blumm. Back in September he released “Screws”. This free release...
Dec 24th
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