For Breakfast: Archive

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Jonathan Ive to be knighted

Apple’s designer Jonathan Ive is to receive a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours List. Ive has said that he is “both humbled and sincerely grateful” for the award. Apple’s senior vice president, industrial design, will receive the KBE for “services to design and enterprise”. He had previously received the CBE. Ive joined Apple in 1992, becoming head...

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Pincel de Zorro. Hug Codinach’s project to promote the book Pincel de Zorro, now in its second edition, published by Ediciones Ondina. An illustrated tale from the Spanish author Sergio A. Sierra, Pincel de Zorro is a whimsical story set in Japan, full of tenderness, magic and sadness. The story is complemented by unique illustrations, all of which are hand drawn by Meritxell Ribas using...

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Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

From Arise India Forum: “For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each...

Dec 29th

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Little Talks - Of Monsters And Men The...

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Gianluca Folì

We talked already sometime ago about one of my favorite illustrators: Gianluca Folì. This time i want to share with you one of his latest projects, entitled Origami Girls Born in a warm May night in 1978 in Rome, Gianluca Folì has always loved drawing. As a child of extreme curiosity he fed his passion year by year and now, from his Studio between the Castelli Romani vineyards, he collaborates...

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Victorinox Tomo

Swiss company Victorinox has become synonymous with reliability and enduring craftsmanship and maintains its lifetime warranty. And here they release yet another edition: Victorinox Tomo. Tomo, Japanese for companion and friend, is the special edition capsule collection, featuring an array of colourful pocket knives designed with a purist, effeminate aesthetic, the reductionism of wabi sabi and...

Dec 28th

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Iconic Industrial Designer Sori Yanagi dies at age...

Iconic Japanese industrial designer Sori Yanagi (柳宗理) passed away on December 25, 2011 at a hospital in Tokyo due to pneumonia-related complications. He was 96 years old. Sori Yanagi was known for his unique forms, which brought simplicity and unexpected practicality into everyday homes through his industrial designs in everything from kitchenware and furniture to toys and even bridges....

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“More than this… you know, there’s nothing.”

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My Girlfriend Ronnie, by Wild Honey Wild Honey...

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“To want and to be ambitious and to want to be successful, is not enough—that’s...”

– Kevin Spacey.

Dec 21st

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The big gamble

There’s a blizzard outside of Stockholm’s Hotel Skeppsholmen, as is usually the case during Stockholm Furniture Fair every February, and staff has started to light candles in the lounge. This stormy afternoon a French carpet producer has flown to Stockholm for the sole purpose of meeting the American designer who sits in front of him in this cosy setting. The carpet producer wants to...

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“We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil;...”

– W. Winwood Reade

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Flower / C4D Displacement

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“Reality found a way to mutate into an image.”

– Baudrillard

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Julien David presents a short video retracing the creation and then the making of his scarves in Japanese workshops. The video is attenuated by a couple of scenes with skateboard, “precise and circular movements of which remind sometimes those of our scarves preparation”. “We wanted to make a movie documenting the process and the different steps involved in the printing of our scarves. We went...

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