Our new website.

This blog has now moved to www.designisagoodidea.com

anitabling.

These are some of anitabling’s taller sculptural works, housed inside acrylic boxes, are displayed like museum pieces, she also references the cutting technique in some of her other unbordered pieces by literally driving knives or saw blades into them. Haphazardly, like a knife left-over in the butter dish after a hurried breakfast, as if more chromatic cutting and splicing and slashing is left to be done once she returns.

Unfortunately, her Flickr page doesn’t link to another site and it’s all in Spanish.

Counting every Millisecond.

Have you ever wondered what it would look like if a porcelain vase exploded in slow motion? Using advanced 3D virtual simulations, this vase was modeled and destroyed one frame at a time, and then captured at various ‘Millisecond’ intervals throughout the explosion. The vases are produced and manufactured using the latest 3D Printing technology and Rapid Prototyping. Designed by Bruce Cowie in collaboration with Hong Kong based luxury goods company Hilton Qiu, Each vase is limited to 5 pieces worldwide, and the 4 different ‘Millisecond’ versions will be available exclusively through the Design is a good idea showroom at 44 Stanley.

Price on request. To reserve this very limited piece or for further information, contact: sales@designisagoodidea.com

The Hybrid.

The fantastic Irish artist Brendan Lee Satish Tang was born in Dublin, Ireland. He creates generous doses of Asian ceramic culture, with western pop icons, blinding colours, manga aesthetics, and last but not least, a huge amount of craziness and creativity into his magical work.

We are Pantone Lovers.

A concept design of Pantone Nail Polish and Eye Shadow by Renata Veiga.

Daylight is the Enemy.

This exclusive lamp named “Ikon” was made by Karim Rashid, and it is to be released at the Miami Design Week. The limited lamp has only 30 in quantity, and 10 for each colour.

New Build™ Stuff.

Build™ are having an exhibition at Magma in Manchester, and have just released this cute 5 badge set under the ‘Woodland Creatures’ series. When placed in the correct order the badges spell out the word ‘B’ ‘U’ ‘I’ ‘L’ ‘D’. Other pieces in the series included a t-shirt and mug.

We love people who love Lego®.

The CEO Writers Desk, inspired by Lego® Bricks and designed by Staffan Holm & Johannes Tjernberg is completely amazing!!!

New Format.

Non-Format have consistently been blowing us away with their beautiful typographic work for years now. They have just released their long awaited first commercially available font called ‘Otto’, which can be purchased from HypeForType.

New World Error.

A series of playful custom typographic illustrations. © 2009 Christoph Ruprecht

Very well crafted and beautiful typographic work.

a.) 3rd World Artificial / Gold

b.) Broke People

c.) Child Labour Products

d.) Error No.67

e.) Underground nuclear bombings

f.) Chemical Weapons

g.) Under-age soldier

e.) The era of evil is over…