maarten baas has issued a line of mass-produced furnishings based on sloppy clay designs. the industrial clay is hand-molded around a metal frame to reveal the craft behind the product. in exchange for seeing the artist’s hand in the work you can pay $2,000-$8,000 for these pieces.
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virtual fit
louise guay, president and founder of my virtual model, presented her company’s avatar-based fashion shopping and social networking system tuesday at the moda+tecnologia gathering at the ICA. on-line shopping for clothes is notoriously unsatisfying, especially if you care about fit and detail. americans only buy 8% of their clothes on-line, as compared to 41% of […]
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interknit
netGranny is a revolutionary service where consumers directly commission grandmothers in switzerland to custom-knit socks for them. it has the spirit of transparency of programs like dole’s organic labels, with the mass customization you would expect from local experts, all the while supporting elderly people to make an independent income. this is something i’d like […]
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photovoltaic payback
with solar panels (once again) the craze, a lot of discussion goes into whether they are truly efficient and whether they do the environment any good. most solar cells require a lot of energy and materials to manufacture, and many do not produce much energy over the course of their lives. under optimal conditions (in […]
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edible cups
what’s better than composting dishes? eating them! amit zoran‘s coffee cups are made from baklava so you can eat them when you’re finished drinking the coffee. anna bullus‘ ‘one cup or two’ is made of sugar, so the coffee gets sweeter over time (some version have flavorings too). what if everything was edible? via
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almost made in china
atelier van lieshout‘s ‘almost perfect’ is a chair that was drawn on a napkin and sent to china without further information. most of the detail was achieved by the chinese manufacturer, lending a sense of imperfection and the mystique of a knock-off to the finished product. on the opposite end is the incessant attention to […]
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kitchen blogs
olivier peyricot’s video set is a set of cookware with integrated cameras that allows their contents to be captured and displayed on computer. this reminds me of takashi okamoto’s kitchen blog project, in which a simple countertop device allows video to be recorded and edited and posted to a blog for friends and families to […]
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future fashion
anyone considering submitting to this year’s seamless fashion show might want to watch this compilation of projects from last summer’s siggraph unravel show of future fashions. this is my latest edit of all the projects i was able to grab as well as interviews with a number of designers.
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