Creative

Insecurity Envelopes are a series of laser-cut envelopes that JK Keller has been developing based on the patterns printed inside security envelopes.

The results are strangely beautiful, and perhaps, still useable.

It's been suggested that because of the exposure, people will be less inclined to send valablues through the mail, thus remaining safe from theft.

What? Design gurus Wallpaper* and Victorinox have recently collaborated on 3 designer Swiss Army Knives. One was designed in-house by the Wallpaper* tastemakers, and one each by British designers James Joyce and Jamie Cullen.

The brief? To create an elemental design that expressed the beauty of its craftsmanship and function in a visual and tactile way.

And where...

Justin M. Maller is a freelance illustrator and art director based in Melbourne. His personal and campaign work is vivid and lush, often with a collage like effect. His entire portfolio is a real treat for jaded eyes.

Maller's clients include DC Shoe Company, Asus computers, Quiksilver, Lee Jeans and Samsung, to name a only few.

Do your eyes pick out incorrect kerning at ten paces? Do you spend hours getting the proportions just so?

Then this acrylic ring set has been designed with you in mind – two rings, one KE and one RN, set in ‘Neutra Text’ for hours of fun. Fingers together, fingers apart....

3 weeks ago in Amsterdam a couple of artists,  Yuri Suzuki and Maza Kimura, started to build a Rube Goldberg style Breakfast Machine.

If you're not familiar, a Rube Goldberg machine is "a deliberately overengineered apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction."

This one can serve you an omelet,...

First Jeff Koons showcased his kitschy blow-up sculptures at the Palace of Versailles, now artist Xavier Veilhan has taken over Marie Antoinette’s former home.

“The crisp modernity of Veilhan’s pieces are sharply contrasted by their posh and extravagant surroundings, and make for an overwhelmingly successful exhibit.”

The best sculpture of the exhibition? A work called "Le carrosse" (The large...

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To celebrate the successful completion of what many believed to be a Sisyphean task, Vice Online have asked 24 of their favorite artists to tap into their earliest memories of how the Where The Wild Things Are book affected their youth and interpret these recollections via pen, pencil, and brush.

As you will see on the blog throughout...

A sunny afternoon in London's Regent Park and what do we spy? Why, a giant shiny skull made out of kitchenware.

It’s a massive head full of pots, pans, kettles, cheese graters and pancake flippers.

The Giant Skull Kitchen Sculpture was designed by Subodh Gupta, an artist fascinated by all things steel and oversized, for the Frieze Art Fair –...

From designer Rob Matthews: it's big, it's bad, it's the Wikbible!

Clocking in at 5000 pages and 1ft 7 inches high, Wikipedia is kind of available in book form.

To be precise it only contains 0.01% of Wikipedia content - the featured articles section, but that's more than enough to keep you in...

You've got the lampshade, the juicer, the toothbrush and now you can have the ultimate Philippe Starck collectible... A super yacht!

Mr Starck says of the project: “I am an environmentalist and a left winger: yachts are among the most daftest capitalist toys imaginable…

I decided I might as well at least help her create something different; a yacht that is...

Camilla Engman is a Swedish illustration, painting and photography powerhouse.

Her blog is beloved by readers all over the world (most of them smitten with her dog Morran, too); and you’ll find she’s worked with the New York Times, Converse and Google (the illustrations above are from one such project).

Infused with...

Crate Man has been spotted at several places around Aussie.

His first appearance was in the street art mecca of Melbourne but since then he has been roaming far and wide.

Along the way he’s picked up a few mates, climbed a few fences, fished in creeks, gone for a cruise on his bike or simply just...

Architect Sou Fujimoto wanted to create a wooden house that could be described as both primitive and modern.

The Jenga house he built in Kumamoto, Japan achieves this in a playful way.

Inspired by the classic wooden tower game, he used cedar blocks as beams, columns, foundations and walls.

Challenging the idea of ‘floorspace’; each wood block was...

UK Designer Scott Jarvie designed this fiddly and beautiful chair, made out of an incredible 10,000 common drinking straws.

“The Clutch Chair is an exploratory research piece that passes comment on our disposable culture.

The development process of this piece also informed that of the Clutch Light, both of which were developed from an observation of the...

Jessie Douglas is a 24 year old illustrator and printmaker, working in grimy Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.

Douglas grew up on the sunny-party-good-time island of Ibiza and has found her new urban location offers a wealth of inspiration for her delicate line-drawings, as seen on her blog.

“Everything I discover around me has potential... urban detritus, peeling paint...

What is Luxirare? Who is Luxirare? And why is this blog getting hundreds of swooning comments on every post?

As far as we can tell, Luxirare is Ji – a blogger with incredible skills in both haute cuisine and fashion.

She makes wafer thin gourmet ‘chips, miniature cocktail jellies, pie pops and high octane outfits. Everything idea is...

It's Nice That have done it again, releasing the second issue of their hard-copy design-laden creative publication.

Inside you'll find 128 pages of advertising-free content, "documenting the best of the work we’ve featured on the site in the past six months in more depth, alongside a series of interviews and features written by current practitioners that have...

This month Samsung has invited local celebrities to participate in an exclusive photographic exhibition and auction to launch the new Samsung Ultra TOUCH phone and raise valuable funds for Youthline, a charity dedicated to supporting young people to achieve their potential.

The exhibition, to be held at Zambesi’s new store in Newmarket on Wednesday, 16th September, will feature...

Equation: More $ = More Power. A clever piece of sports apparatus and financial tool from Hong Kong designer Mike Mak.

It’s simple - the more money you save inside this money bank, the more power you need to lift the dumbbell up.

Auckland Art Gallery celebrates fashion in Rita Angus: Life & Vision on Thursday, 24 September with a highly anticipated catwalk show.

Fashion students from AUT University will be presenting designer garments they’ve created in response to Rita Angus’ work.

Designers found range of starting points “Some used the 1930s clothes in Rita’s portraits as a starting point for...

BBC TV/Top Gear presenter James May, has been busy building a house out of bricks. 816 million Lego ones to be more precise!

The house is constructed of larger Lego blocks containing 272 individual pieces. To finish the house, over three million bricks are needed which totals the astronomical 816 million figure.

The house will have a working...

"Through his explorations of language Sam Winston creates sculpture, drawings and books that question our understanding of words, both as a carriers of messages and as information itself."

One example of this is Wintson's series of collages based on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.

Taking the entire text of the play, he has split the work into three - the...

You gotta look good. Spring is here and summer is just around the corner, time to pick up a signature drink for all those sunning sessions outside on the deck.

Lemonaid to the rescue! Lemonade has been transformed, repackaged in classic, silk-screened green bottles that are a refreshing mix of simplicity and style.  The drink itself is...

Stockholm architects Wilhelmson Arkitekter have designed a housing project for a site just north of Helsingborg, Sweden.  

The X-factor of this project is the windows, that will look like gilded picture frames. A touch of luxury, making one wonder where is the art – inside or out?

Aside from the framing, they’re planning 14...

1948 is Nike’s amazing ‘experience’ store under located under the old brick railway arches in Shoreditch, London’s creative epicentre. As well as selling shoes, the Nike store exhibits art, hosts loads of events (with the likes of cool kid Kate Moross) and serves as a hub of the community.

The latest installation in 1948 is the vision of Finnish...

Waiting in traffic behind The Link just got that much cooler. Tiger Beer and Cut Collective have taken bus art beyond being a bit of scrawled sharpie on the back of a seat, to 10 amazing stenciled artworks on the back of inner-city Auckland buses.
 
“Buses are a great way to get art into an environment normally reserved for...

A group of farmers have created natural murals by planting rice in different colours in Japanese paddy fields.

Using 4 different ‘shades’ of plants, they plan the designs on computers first so that they know exactly where the rice needs to be planted.

Want to see it for yourself? Head to the village of Inakadate, 600 miles north of Toyko,...

Never forget! The ceramic Polaroid camera is a chunky ode to our instant image making friends.

Made of glazed earthenware, cast by hand by artisans in Oregon.

Perfect if you’ve already hocked your polaroid camera off on eBay in despair at the film situation but still want to remember the glory days.

Ingeniously scary - Spanish designer Hector Serrano has created a set of 8 crazy coloured monster temporary tattoos for your hands!

Also available is a selection of 8 more placid animals – from giraffes to sweet bees.

For children and those stuck for dress-up costume ideas alike.

California design collective Grayscaled have designed a gorgeous minimal interior for Mission Bicycle Store in San Francisco.

The store design is closely linked to the digital architecture of their online store - achieved through text, a bicycle building narrative, and the integration of a computer interface onto the sales floor.

The perfect shop framework for selling...

Pop culture, doe eyed girls, animals and tattoos all have a place in the heart of illustrator Rik Lee.

Living in Melbourne, Lee works globally, working for Nylon, Vibe, Vice Australia, Girlfriend, The Sunday Telegraph, Mooks, Stussy and Lee Jeans.

His specific inspirations? We’re not too sure, but he apparently “enjoys the radar on the Bureau of Meteorology...

“Hi, how are you? Up to much this weekend?”

“No, not really, just relaxing. What about you?”

“I’m just working on my last minute entry for the The Physics Room's Cash 'n' Carry Tote Bag Fundraiser & Design Competition. I'm making an image to adorn one of their new series of limited edition fundraising tote bags....

Clever photography from David Sykes. Unsurprisingly, he lives and works in London, the home of sausages for breakfast.

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Thanks to the Indie Rock Colouring Book, you no longer have to be neither a small child nor a tattooist to indulge in ‘colouring inside the lines’.

Described as an “interactive and colourful journey of creativity, artistic expression, music, and charity” the book has been created by illustrator Andy J. Miller in collaboration with Yellow Bird Project to...

A series of photographs by James Reynolds documenting former Death Row prisoners' requests for their last meal before execution.

Fascinating, and would be even more so if we knew the names behind the requests.

Confronting beauty, consumer culture and object of the everyday with a blade, Nate Page’s works are strangely beautiful. Sitting halfway between a flat image and a sculpture he uses “methods of drawing and assemblage to set new rules to my physical surroundings and to alter found objects across my daily path.”

By the sounds of it, Page is...

So you love Diana, Holga and all those other toy cameras with womanly names… but really can’t be bothered finding 120 film and then paying for all that special processing?

Lomo hears ya. They’ve developed a super sweet Diana mini – a camera that gives you all the fun of the Diana F+, but obligingly using 35mm film.

Drying the dishes just got a whole lot more attractive, thanks to this tea towel by Auckland’s Cut Collective.

A little piece of contemporary New Zealand art, it features a brown tiki print, printed on 100% cotton.

This piece contributed to by all members of the collective: Component, Enforce One, Flox, Kool and Trust Me.

This clever set of chopsticks uses a small magnet to give you that satisfying feeling of pulling apart wooden chopsticks, without using up the whole rainforest on disposable wooden jobbies.

It has a neat woodpecker top that fits together and looks cute to boot.

Available from Tokyomade.com
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Dutch designer Frans Schrofer of Studio Schrofer has created the Möbius Chair for a design competition conducted by Fritz Becker, a German manufacturer of formed wood products.

Says Schrofer of his entry - "The chair was named Möbius for its resemblance of a continuous and twisted ribbon of wood. Because of its sheer complexity, we were pretty convinced it...

Scenario 1: Dishwasher load is done, now you take out the dishes and place them in their respective shelves, cabinets etc. Been doing this all your life!



Scenario 2: Wall mounted Electrolux Bifoliate Double Dishwasher uses one compartment to clean the dishes via ultrasonic wave technology - you then transfer the clean load into the next shelf. Space saving, less...

These blooming lovely decals by Australian illustrator Mae are based on vintage fabrics and feature all the cutest most colourful animals birds and trees in the forest.

Better still, the Sylvanian Wonderland-esque designs are removable, reusable and even washable.

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Now there's a notebook stand that gives you comfort coming and going.

The Kensington TwoFold Notebook Stand and Sleeve raises your notebook's screen to reduce eye and neck strain.

And when you're ready to hit the road, it quickly converts into a protective sleeve for comfort you can take with you.

Sweet!

kensington.com...

Cutest and most practical USB key we've seen in a while - a waterproof submarine version, by Manworks Design, in four fun rubbery colours....

Uber-cool transportation designer Greg Scott Stoermer has created these very cool designer Stat Keys collection - stylised blank keys that can be cut to fit the  majority of  locks, adding a little extra style to your entries and exits.

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'Stratospheric' is a Corian light sculpture by New Zealand designer Fletcher Vaughan, installed at the Brick Bay Sculpture trail.

In daylight is has the appearance of clean white marble, but as the light fades the sculpture changes mood and has a warm glow emitting from within.

www.fletcher-systems.co.nz...

Chris Yee has his dream job. It's many people's dream job. He plays computer games for a living, and gets to make his own.

Chris had a bit of a thing for gaming, and a knack for 3D animation, so he started his training with Natcoll’s Diploma of Multimedia, which gave him a good grounding in many aspects of...

24 Carat Pets from Kvast in Berlin are items of jewellery that used to be second hand toys or collector's items, made from wood, plastic and porcelain and coated in gold.

Collected from fleamarkets, attics and secondhand shops, they are attached to a loop and cord and a glaze of pure 24 carat gold holds the pendant and...

Universe Beach House is a beautiful beach house design with a swimming pool a roof.

Designed by Tatiana Bilbao, located on the pretty shoreline of Mexico, the structure was built on the concept of a camp with separate interconnected rooms.

Excellent to throw a few parties with all your buddies, the Universal House looks like the place...