Archive | August, 2011


Lucas Simoes Cut-out Portraits


The cut-out portraits of Brazilian artist Lucas Simões are pretty amazing, consisting of layering the same photo up to 10 times, he invites intimate friends over to tell him a secret as he takes their portrait. However, his intention was not to hear their secret, but to capture the READ MORE


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Mozart Guerra’s Sculptures


With just a bit of nylon rope and Styrofoam, Mozart Guerra manages to churn out amazingly life-like sculptures. The past years have seen this Brazilian-born artist tackle subjects, like geishas, monkey heads, and skulls. Born in 1962, Mozart studied architecture at the University Federal of Pernambuco. His first few jobs included working as a set designer for theater, cinema, and TV, while he continued developing his sculpting skills. Mozart moved to Paris in 1992, READ MORE


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Hotel Crayon : Paris


Le Crayon Hotel is one of Paris’ newest hotels. The hotel mixes colors and patterns as well as materials to create a fresh new and vibrant environment for creative guests from around the world.  “Le Crayon is a patchwork of ideas illustrated through the rich and continuous dialogue between materials and colors within the 27 rooms, all of them different, all of them unique.” It was designed by READ MORE


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Conor Harrington ‘Graffiti’ Paintings


Hailing from Cork Ireland, Conor Harrington has gained notoriety around the globe with a unique style that straddles the line between his graffiti roots and fine art, resulting in energetic large-scale works of art. A top-notch draftsman with pencil, charcoal, spray-can and oil brush – his images evoke themes of READ MORE




Cleaning Bottle Porcelain Vases


An interesting collection presented by Middle Kingdom Porcelain at the New York Gift Fair. Their new line of colorful porcelain cleaning product bottles transformed in vases could give an modern touch to any pop culture lover space.

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Hair Glasses


Hair Glasses is a collection of sustainable fashion eyewear exploring the potential of Human hair. The UK beauty industry imports 15 million pounds worth of human hair per year. As the world’s population continues to increase, human hair has been reimagined as a viable—importantly renewable–material. Hair Glasses comprises of human hair with bioresin as a binding agent, the frames are 100% biodegradable and no harmful READ MORE


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