Chipchopsliceserve by Spunique

Solid beech chopping board for slicing and serving your favourite salami or cheese. A great example of Michael Marriott’s design (and sporting) skills..

Scott C’s Home Slice

Scott C. (aka Scott Campbell) recently posted a slew of images from his recent gallery show, Home Slice. The show is made up of some of Scott’s trademark watercolour paintings of tiny characters and their bizarre, surreal environments. In this case, those enivronments are cross-section dwellings shaped like everything from a dinosaur to Honest Abe.
You can see (and purchase) all the pieces over at Gallery Nucleus.
Be sure also not to miss the interview with Scott over at Hunt & Gather.
Previously:
Lots of Fun Stuff from Scott Campbell
Scott Campbell Blogs!

English things

I don’t know what it is about list-making that I find so satisfying, but pair it with drawing and it’s a strangely sublime combination. So I certainly love drawings of collections of things, and here Hwa Young Jung has drawn a series of decidedly English brands and products.
Related posts:
Blackstock’s Collections: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant
Every Person in New York

Hope, an animated short

Fernando Cintra created this short animated film as his final project at Vanarts. I found it a bit too saccharine for my tastes, but visually it’s quite gorgeous.

This Just In-box: “Vessel” Coat Tent by Justin Gargasz | Reconstructed Chandeliers by Ward Van Gemert

Vessel designed by Justin Gargasz. LINK

“Vessel addresses this universal need to get away by providing the user a cocoon integrated into a jacket. At any given moment the user can go outside, take the jacket off, tie the arms around a tree, pull out the cocoon and go inside. Distance and solitude become the ends to which one escapes, Vessel providing a meditative and introspective experience during any part of a persons’ everyday routine.”

Reconstructed Chandeliers designed by Ward Van Gemert. LINK

“They are made of second hand brass ballcrown chandeliers. I’ve cut the old chandeliers into pieces and reconstructed these pieces into new modern chandeliers. The actual electrical wire is used both for lighting the lightbulbs and for construction of the new designed chandelier.” (more…)

Commissioned Industrial

Cloudraker: No Bullshit

After one look at the website of CloudRaker, a digital branding agency based in Montreal, you know you’re in the presence of something ultra cool. But, refreshingly, it’s the type of cool that’s more “join in” than “make way.” Founded on Valentines day of 2000, CloudRaker provides its clients – Soїa and Kyo, Air France, Onitsuka Tiger, and eBay Canada, among many more – overall branding solutions in a largely digital format.

Tumble Stool

Wrapped in foam, this stool can be rolled onto its various surfaces for different seating experiences. It’s not often you get a playful piece of furniture looking so simple (as in, not bright pink or stripes or what not), so I’d say it’s a wonderful choice for extra seating.

tumble playfully suggests to be flipped. Each position yields a different seating experience: flat, curved, inclined, and the amusing rocker. It is lightweight, durable and versatile. It can be lined-up as bench or scattered in different positions creating a continuously dynamic landscape. Hotel lobbies, gallery spaces, and resort pools are some of the public spaces that tumble can add color and vibrancy, but it is also whimsical enough for a child to roll around on at home.

Designer: GO.LO.GOR.SKY.STUDIO
Black or Gray.
materials: 2.5″ thick foam wrapped around high gloss interior aluminum frame.
dimensions: 18″H x 18″D x 15″W
weight: 8lbs

5.00, Buy it here.

[via iheartluxe (thanks Aaron!)]

[posted by katie]

Build’s grid based clock screensaver

Based on an idea by Sleepatwork, designed by Build and built by Geoffroy Delobel, the grid based clock screensaver has been re-released for Intel OSX.
Click here to preview (Mac and PC).

Half Dose #61: Forestal

Browsing the web to find some south of the equator projects to make up for the admittedly north-centric buildings featured on this and my weekly page, I came across Forestal, an installation at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile by Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects.

[installation diagram | image source]

I could find very little information beyond the imagery, but I did discover (via eldivan) that 27,5000 sheets of office paper and 120,000 steel staples were used in the construction of the piece.

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