This is no new news, but our dear friends at Lomography have opened up their PopUpShop in NYC. And it’s literally 3 blocks away from our store on 69 E. 8th Street. For all you photographers and Lomography fans the shop is obvious a mecca that you must visit and splurge some to help the economy. It’s possible the shop will remain permanent. We are certainly crossing our fingers (our last Robot Love Party with them was such a success we want to do it again; they throw the bestest parties in town for photographers).

Lomography’s PopUpShop @ 41W 8th Street

It’s obvious that Power Graphixx doesn’t like to make websites.

Having to make up websites sucks.

They said. But I say, that totally rocks – if you are good at it and get paid big bucks doing it. Power Graphixx is one of my all-time favorite Japanese design firms and they get to design for MTV, Konami’s Metal Gear Solid, come up with graphic design books on robots, and create furniture. The designs are just so clean. Can I work as an intern, for a summer?

Check out their website which is essentially a blog of all their past projects, and get inspired.

I first stumbled upon YOSOH via a link posted in k10k.net. Yosoh is a Chicago based artist that expresses through the combination of digital and ceramic art. His work often contains Asian/Japanese themes and objects (such as dorama, maneki neko) used with digital and graphic designs – thereby creating an aesthetically pleasing hybrid form of art, indeed visually stimulating.

YOSOH has some limitied edition UniPo figures available for purchase at UNKL. Not your typical, now highly commercialized “fashion figures” from Kidrobot, these are, in my book, a little more graphical and underground.

Merry Christmas, all!

If you’re like me, the holidays can involve a lot of  sitting around and twiddling your thumbs. Put some of that idle time to good use, thanks to a tip-off from IHeartDaily.

At Origami Club, you can perfect a paper tree. Or reindeer. Or…is that a SANTA BEAR?

Instructions are available in diagram mode or as an easy-to-follow step-by-step flash animation. With all this time on my hands today, it’s hard to resist…

Sure, it’s a little cutesy-wootsy. Hey, it’s Christmas. Anyway, you can always give the cute bastard a piece of your mind when you’re finished. Who does he think he is, anyway? I know he doesn’t need a Santa cap to keep warm, being that his head is basically a trapper hat. What a jerk.

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Origami Club

Fuck You, Penguin

It’s cute, a little bizarre and looks really functional, provided you watch your shins around the antlers. There’s a rustic charm to it, which makes it even better that the design is applied to a power outlet, something so far removed from the natural world.

Freeman’s Restaurant

Anyway, taxidermy’s been back in a big way in the big city, especially on the L.E.S.

TheCast

I’m sure there are some who would say it never left.

An inspired combination of night light and iPod/iPhone charger, this seems to be getting some mixed reactions as it makes the blog rounds.

The execution is simple — there could hardly be a more practical way of combining the two than what Scosche has done here. It keeps the iPod/iPhone on display and out-of-the-way with no cords involved, and the design sticks close to the familiar look of the traditional night-light.

As I tripped over my iPod charger cord last night in the dark stumbling my way to the bathroom, I mentally put this one on my list.

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Spotted in this month’s issue of Interview: an eye-catching object d’art from Cecilia Lundgren — designer, illustrator and manager of Cecilia Design. “Silent Drama” was produced with the help of Julia Buhler, Martin Helwig and Giovanni Levanti at Milan’s Domus Academy.

From her website: “The concept suggests the combination of a carpet arising from a “fallen” lamp, giving shape to a new domestic furniture. A silent drama is staged in your living room.”

Don’t get your hopes up about staging this drama in your living room, however. The word from the Interview blurb: “Sadly, there are no plans to produce this admittedly impractical light fixture, but you can catch more of this upstart’s furniture designs at Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile this April.”

You can bet we’ll keep an eye out.

Cecilia Design

Interview Magazine