There is nothing new in having your helmet painted, but just for fun these choices of helmet was a result of an experiment where on the different side of the helmet shows a different portrait of the object all together. Would you like to gross people out with your brain helmet or have people call you watermelon head? Really, it’s just a matter of having fun and putting a smile on the viewer of the motorcyclist supporting one of these helmets.

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Holding similarity to the type of illustration that you would see at a newspaper, The New Yorker, Iker Ayestaran, a spanish illustrator brings forth a compilation of geometric design, color washes with fine typography. Simple yet effective and playful.

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Maff studio is a building at the Hague, Netherlands that was designed as a hotel suite without being a hotel itself. The thought to this is that like a hotel, the city around the suite offers numerous functions and attractions that can be comparable to a hotel package. Different from a hotel, Maff studio’s main qualities lie in its interior space and its close proximity to the city. Via archdaily.

Architects: RDKA | Architectture Research Urbanism
Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
Project Team: Robert-Jan de Kort (RDKA), Teun van den Dries (Eckhart)
Contractor: JNM Techniek, Den Haag
Project Area: 61 sqm
Project Year: 2009-2010

We’ve explained it in our post numerous times. And we will proclaim yet again our utter love for notebooks and skecthbooks.  This time for a notebook with the name ‘Zujipuli‘, a brand from Thailand that carries a range of notebooks including  a B5 size notebook for both lecture and meeting purposes, and as they say to make your notes more remarkable they have included stickers that would characterize your most-important information. Available at theabsoluteshop.net

Pictures are courtesy of zujipuli facebook page.

Do you think it is the ordinary enamel cup? You are mistaken then.These are actually a rendition of the old days enamel cups. Made beautifully and close to imperfection (so imperfect, that they are perfect!), these cups really encapsulate the rustic feeling of the original cups. Rob Brandt designed these cups and made them from ceramic, something that not many people would think of. These brilliant hand-painted cups can be purchased from R G Madden.

With a remarkable history of 70 years, the years of manufacturing quality wood furniture speaks for itself. For Karimoku New Standard, a line of international design talents took part in designing the furniture under the creative direction of Teruhiro Yanagihara. Their latest collection will be available on July 17^th at Aoyama CIBONE. via Openers.jp

Aoyama CIBONE
2-14-6 Kita-Aoyama, Minato-ku
B1F Aoyama Bell Commons

Started by a couple of post on their website/blog. It’s Nice That has evolved to curating a biannual publication and running a creative studio. Since 2007, the studio is dedicated to discovering and collecting new talents from around the world, adding to their online archive daily. The publication itself is a compilation of selected individuals or studios from their online archives with more in-depth information and interview.

Visit their website to read their online articles and to buy It’s Nice That publication.

T.shelf is a triangle shelf. Sturdy yet easy to flatten down for packing. Definitely looks good on the wall.
M.stool is a stool constructed from three triangular forms. Combine two of this stool and you will get a cube. Take eight and surprisingly it will turn out to be a circle.
V.stand is a multipurpose side table with V shaped leg.
C.Lamp is a laser-cut lampshade made with polypropylene.
D.cloud is a digital cloud.

If you like them, those items are from J1studio. They experiment on furniture design and put concern on functionality while ensuring their peculiar ideas come to life.

“A sketchbook is a place to put your heart and soul.”

If you agree, do check The Sketchbook Project by Art House Co-op and you might end up being one of the participant. The project is about submitting a sketchbook that you creatively filled with drawings, doodles and other hand generated works, and it will be part of a nationwide tour and exhibition. To be part of the project is quite simple, you just have to choose a theme that interest you, submit your name, address and payment (for the postage and the sketchbook itself), wait until the sketchbook arrives, be creative, and send it back to Art House and let them do the rest. Each submitted sketchbook will have a unique bar code, so the owner can track down how many times their sketchbook has been read and browsed by visitors.

Visit The Sketchbook Project official website for more information.

It is almost like a labyrinth, a huge one. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, VitraHaus is an amazingly structured chaos. Containing Vitra’s Home Collection, which was launched in January 2004, this stacked ‘houses’ definitely is the perfect display space for the collection because it simply depicts how a house should be. The concept of archetypal house and stacked volumes lay behind the twelve houses, located at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein. The spaciousness made from the connection of the houses is staggering, it is expansive and captivating at the same time. Such an elegant restrain of dominance is created by this space; the charcoal colored exterior connects it to the surrounding, the walls inside are painted in white so they are not overpowering the furniture. Charles and Ray Eames must be glad that their Lounge Chair is sitting serenely here.

Image references: archdaily