A while ago, they announced the winners of the Cooper-Hewit National Design Awards of 2008. Each year, they honor outstanding peaces of design in the fields of Architecture, Communication Design, Fashion Design, Interior Design, Landscape Design and Product Design. This year, the winners were Tom Kundig, Scott Stowell, Ralph Rucci, Rockwell Group, Olin Partnership and Antenna Design. The last one especially took my attention with the Fujitsu Ultra-Mobile PC. It’s an ultra portable notebook pc that is made of three foldable leaves to create a much smaller area than the current notebooks. When it’s unfolded, you get a full sized keyboard. And off course, it also looks awesome Read the rest of this entry »

Being a bum has never been more trendy than now.

First there was the Duct Tape Wallet, now we have a wallet made out of a plastic shopping bag.

It’s cheap, good for the environment and it looks pretty good.

Here you have the instructions to make one.

We all see them in their music videos, showing off with their bling bling, their huge golden necklaces engraved with diamonds and other expensive rocks and metals.

Sadly, as I mentioned before, most of us just don’t have the money for those kind of luxuries. Damn you 50 Cent, P Diddy and Xzibit.

Mike and Maaike seem to understand our dilemma, and came up with the briljant and hilarious idea to convert bling bling, into our beloved bits and bytes. Result: an impressive series of pixelated necklaces, printed on a peace of leather. It’s hip, It’s trendy, It’s cheap.

For the people who are interested, you can currently see their works at the Velvet da Vinci gallery in San Francisco (that is untill the 30th of June).

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