Screw putting up a dry erase board in your home office — turn a whole wall into one with IdeaPaint . This ingenious paint turns anything you can paint into a reusable dry-erase surface, making it great for the office, kitchen, kid’s room, or garage, the latter so you can keep track of how many beers you’ve had while attempting to “fix” that old junker you’ve been tinkering with.
[Via ideapaint ]
The Japanese design brand O-E-Y have produced a new set of chopsticks and dining accessories in bright, living color. The Mutsumi Hashi Chopsticks are a range of chopsticks wrapped in colored Japanese paper twine and silk. The are bound on their non-business end with a stylish loop, ensuring your pair does not get separated. Along with these chopsticks are a set of napkin holders, wine markers and more that enjoy the same styling sensibility, with bright loops of color adding a nice accent to your next meal. Bon appétit! [Via O-E-Y]
Swedish artist Stina Persson is coming to the states with a solo show at Gallery Hanahou in New York this September. As a commercial illustrator, she normally has to create more altered, defined, flawless sorts of pieces for clients. So, for this show she decided to offer her original work with flaws and all. To her, that means skewed perspectives, unorthodox color combinations and visible paint drips. And I think the results are absolutely gorgeous! Here’s a little sneak peek at some of her pieces for the upcoming show.
Featured below original tights are offered by French company Les Queues de Sardines. Elegant and eye-catching tights are decorated by unique graphic images. Screen-printed by hand on a farm in rural France these exclusive fashion tights will never go unnoticed. All tights are created in limited number so you should hurry up if you want to have some.
Imagine being able to subtly show off exactly where you’ve been on your holidays. Well, with the My Scratch Map scratch-off maps, it’s easy to make anyone who pops round feel thoroughly jealous of exactly how well-travelled you are. On first glance, it’s quite a classy-looking wall map, but if you carefully scratch off the places you’ve been on holiday, it reveals some lovely colourful and geographic detail. More importantly, though, it’s perfect for letting everyone know how exotic, learned and very Palin-esque you are.
The top layer of the map is gold foil for easy scratching, and you only need to rub it with the edge of a coin, scratch-card style, to reveal the gorgeous detail underneath. This makes a super gift for anyone who’s been around a bit (geographically speaking, obviously), and a great talking point for wherever you might hang it. The only problem might be the excessive amounts of money you’ll have to spend on trotting around the globe so you can finally reveal that missing patch of Belize or Inner Mongolia that you so desperately want to see the detail of. Palin’s one would be amazing.
The Brazilian brand H.Stern in partnership with Disney has released an extraordinary luxury collection of unusual ring inspired by “Alice in Wonderland” of Tim Burton. Strange roses, colorful mushrooms, bird from beautiful garden, the Cheshire Cat, Jabberwocky and other wonders of the world through the mirror served as the inspiration for designers brand. The collection consists of five rings, they are all made of gold, some items are covered with colored enamel and adorned with diamonds. All products are made under the order, and, like in the movie everything is reduced or increased to gigantic proportions, and jewelry can be ordered two sizes – “human dimension” and “extraordinary dimension” that are enormous sculptures.
Cheshire Cat: The Chesire Cat ring was reproduced in detail in a small sculpture of gold dipped in blue enamel, and is seen stretched out on a smattering of gold and diamond branches. The golden cat’s smile received a special treatment and, as in the film, glows in the dark.
Mushroom Forest: The Forest of mushrooms where Alice wanders in the film inspired the creation of this enameled gold ring in colors and textures carefully chosen to represent the natural forms. In order to reproduce the tones used in the film, dozens of colors were tested until the ideal tone for each piece was achieved. The texture of the real toadstools is seen not only on the outside of the ring but also on the inside. Some are covered with diamonds.
Living Flowers: The roses in Alice’s garden are now sculptured in Noble Gold, and thanks to the finish in enamel, gain a tone of dark purple, which contrasts with delicate buttons sprinkled with diamonds.
Jabberwocky: The intriguing dragon that terrifies Wonderland gave origin to an impressive ring with a gothic look in the style of Tim Burton. The body of the dragon is represented with black gold and diamonds on a double-band ring.
Topiary Garden: The film shows plants artistically cut out in topiary technique forming a magnificent garden. This scenario led the H.Stern designers to create a bird made of hundreds of golden leaves, soldered one by one and covered by green enamel.
An excellent initiative Adele Enersen, from Helsinki with this project entitled “Mila’s Daydreams. During the period of maternity leave, she shows every day and imagine the dreams of her baby. The ensemble is to discover in the following section.
‘Ribbonesia’ is the art project which artist and illustrator ‘BAKU’ Maeda has been working on.
As an artist, ‘BAKU’ has been using brush and pen as extension of his hands and imagination.
Last couple of years, he found more interest in the way of expression in 3 dimensional and sculptural way by using ribbon and other fabric materials.
He has been always obsessed in varieties of animals and its expressions and habits since his early ages.
His obsession towards animals becomes his major motif of his daily creation.
Recently, he is working with many colors of ribbon and creating various animals expression.
This simple repetition of twist and bend sublime such rich expression of animals and it often capture the essence of life.
every animals are delicately made by hands. colors are carefully chosen. so, none of the animals are the same. They are all different and special.
Far from regular wrapping usage, ‘BAKU’ made his own world, “the world of Ribbonesia” with full of life and joy.
“By covering surface of an object with transparent glass beads, the existence of the object itself is replaced by “a husk of light”, and the new vision “the cell of an image” (PixCell) is shown. Most of the motifs, like stuffed animals are found through the internet. I search some auction sites and choose from the images which appear on a monitor as pixel. However, the stuffed animals which actually have been purchased and sent have real flesh feel and smell, and have a discrepancy with images on the monitor. I then transpose them to PixCell in turn.” – Kohei Nawa
Via Kohei Nawa / More Sandwich
