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While recycling has become an integral part in the lives of urban dwellers, there is still an absence of recycling organic waste in bigger cities. This might sound like an ‘obsessiveness towards recycling’, but designer Matthew Waldman of Nooka decided to go an extra mile to make a difference. He saved up his used ground coffee [...]

Form meets function: Clip Bag by designer Peter Bristol Designed by Seattle based designer Peter Bristol, the Clip Bag is an ironic and playful office bag created from the over sizing of an ordinary black office paper-clip. The bag is constructed from simple materials like wool felt and aluminium tubing. The interesting part about Bristol’s work is his [...]

Atira builds Canada’s first container housing complex Builders love old shipping containers. Structurally sound, if not a little ugly, they can be turned into instant structures. Drive-through banks or coffee kiosks come to mind. They’ve even been turned into single family homes. Now, a Vancouver non-profit is going one step further, creating Canada’s first multi-unit housing complex [...]

Karim Rashid’s Nafir lighting design for Axo light at nhow Milan nhow Milan, a design hotel from the NH Hoteles chain, was presented at the recent Milan Design Week with an exclusively restyled bar area by designer Karim Rashid, who based the lighting project around Nafir, the suspension lamp designed by himself for Axo Light. With this [...]

Through their artist residency project, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai provides an unique opportunity to young artists to travel to Shanghai and explore the contemporary art scene, magnificent ateliers, theatres  galleries and museums that light up the city, transforming Shanghai into an avant-garde experiment in imagining the future.  While the Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist [...]

Sandwich Bike by Dutch Design Studio Bleijh  Conceptualized seven years ago by Dutch design studio Bleijh, the Sandwich Bike is finally out in to the markets. Instead of using a regular welded frame, this unconventional design consists of a frame which is made out of two pieces of pressed plywood connected together using ‘smart cylinders’, [...]

iPhone Mashup Shoe by designer Alan Nguyen Designed by Alan Nguyen, the iPhone Mashup Shoe is an attempt to combine art, fashion and product design with 3D printing technology. This pair of 3D printed platform heels comes with a holster on the side to hold an iPhone. The design was commissioned by Dutch 3D printing house, [...]

Home Chic, by India Mahdavi,  is a guidebook for simple folk.  Its’ glossy illustrations and its personalized tips enables us to understand how to use space in a fashionable way without just filling it up with décor.  Divided into two main sections: the home guide and the designer’s top design venues across the world. In the last [...]

ME.WE electric car concept by French architect Jean-Marie Massaud for Toyota Toyota recently revealed it’s latest electric car concept called ME.WE which was developed in collaboration with French architect Jean-Marie Massaud. The car has been conceptualized with an aim of instilling human, economic and environmental challenges into a realistic conception of an ‘anti-crisis’ car of today. [...]

ING Direct opened it’s fourth Italian branch in the city of Milan. Designed by Newtone Architects, the space is created in a way to facilitate the relationship with the customer and to facilitate the operations that he/ she can play in autonomy or assisted by a consultant for other banking products & services. The bank which has [...]