The Artisan Collection by Noritaka Tatehana is a unique collection for which all pieces are made by the designer’s handwork, from selecting material to production.  The theme of Artisan Collection 2010 is “Metamorphosis” which makes you meet with nature through unusual styles and materials.
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Studio Jo Meesters creates concepts and products based on the key words of matter and traditional craftsmanship.  Accentuating and highlighting this vision, Studio Jo Meesters  created TESTLAB, an experimental ongoing project about rejuvenating and reusing discarded materials. TESTLAB kicked off with the collection “Odds & Ends, Bits & Pieces”, consisting out of four furniture pieces. The collection which is entirely made out of 34 discarded wooden beams and 16 leftover blankets, is based on upholstering and weaving techniques creating soft variations of everyday objects.

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New York born, North Carolina raised, and San Fran based Sean Hayes is surprisingly a brand new addition to my musical catalog. The track at hand, “Powerful Stuff” off his latest album ‘Run Wolves Run’ caught my attention while I was surfin’ the good ole television recently and came across a Subaru commercial with this soulful gem in the background. READ MORE

The fictional architecture series Bildbauten by Swiss architect Philipp Schaerer makes me think a lot of the crazy building concept of Filip Dujardin. No longer photographs, starting from scratch with a sketch, then using photoshop, Schaerer finalize it to READ MORE

Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo created a 30 second TV commercial for the launch of the new brand campaign ‘more with Google’ in Japan. It features the image search functions ‘sort by colors’ and ‘similar images’ projected as image mapping.

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Self-taught painter and renowned British ‘street’ artist Adam Neate has a new exhibition at Elms Lester Painting Rooms. With a very distinctive style, his ’3D’ paintings look like a modern remix of Dali, Bacon and Picasso. Neat’s used to give away his work to friends and donate it to charity shops, until he realized  READ MORE