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presented during 2019's edition of dutch design week, 'affair with earth' brought together ukrainian designers to explore new sustainable materials.

The post affair with earth showcases hemp fur, soil furniture and paper made from fallen leaves appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

Mexico did not pay for Trump's border wall, as promised, but you will.

The Pentagon will free up $3.6 Billion dollars of defense funding to pay for 175 miles of wall to be built along the US-Mexico border.

Senator Chuck Schumer: "This decision will harm already planned, important projects intended to support our service members."

Warith Zaki and Amir Amzar have envisioned using bamboo grown and harvested on Mars to build the first colony on the red planet. Read more

We’ve previously featured Hilarious British Anti-Trump Signs by brilliant Brits with an excellent sense of humor. Now it’s time to take a look at UK citizens who doesn’t think that leaving EU is such a good idea…

If you’ve been closely following this site, you know that we love medieval drawings. We’ve previously featured People Not Caring About Getting Stabbed, Cats Licking Butts, and Ugly Medieval Cat Paintings. Featured below is another hilariously weird medieval-themed gallery. This time a group of Czech students decided to recreate medieval drawings and the result is brilliant.

Working in an office can often be a distracting experience, so distracting that the mindless chatter around you ends up making your productivity take a hit.

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Alarm Clock (wip) #clock #alarm

Give your garden an eye-catching wow-factor by planting these giant Gunnera Manicata seeds. Being one of the largest herbaceous perennials in the world, these incredible plants are capable of growing ginormous leaves over 6-feet in diameter!

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15 Massive Street Art Murals Around the World My Modern Metropolis #canada

urban taster | a quick (almost daily) taste of the urban landscape #mona #cat #meme #art #lisa

Ha llegado la hora de darle algún capricho a tus testículos. Ya sabemos cuál es el mejor regalo para ellos, pero también somos conscientes de que no siempre disponemos de la pareja adecuada que nos ayude con ese tema.

El Testicuzzi está ideado para ayudarte en esas temporadas de «estrés» y tensión sexual no resuelta.

Se trata, como su nombre da a entender, de un pequeño jacuzzi diseñado para dar cabida a tus dos hermanitos gemelos. Como puedes observar, dispone de un «cojín» frontal para dar soporte al hermano mayor.

Como no puede ser de otra forma, las «hueveras», que han de ser llenadas con agua caliente, tienen unos agujeritos por donde sale aire a presión para conseguir el efecto jacuzzi. Unas pilas se encargan de dotar de energía al aparato.

En testicuzzi.com anuncian la disponibilidad para Diciembre de este año. Está disponible en blanco, negro y en oro. Los dos primeros a unos 40€ y, el tercero, se dispara a los 10.000€. Tu sabrás qué modelo se merecen.

Escrito en: El Testicuzzi es lo que parece: un jacuzzi para tus testículos
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Dribbble - Napoleon by alex badovsky #sushi #logo #napoleon

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the project is characterized by a 'carved' void in its center that beautifully contrasts with the surrounding geometry.

The post zaha hadid’s ‘carved’ opus shortlisted for world architecture festival 2019 appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

known as 'nukege hats' (nukege being the japanese word for shedded fur), the craze makes use of old sheds by shaping and moulding them into wacky creations.

The post ryo yamazaki captures cats in hats crafted using their own fur appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

I wonder what it's like to live your entire life with talent like this, the burden of all that masterful skill must crush this guy every morning.

This is the point of those breathing exercises in yoga class.

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The Throw-away Society we live in every second is not only built by the needs of consumers but also well-planned by market-driven designers and brands. They, or we, did so well in capturing and utilizing the desirability of goods that consumers have been educated to perceive that "new is better than old." We have got used to easily throw old things away instead of repairing them.

Repairing Society is a speculative design practice inviting us to imagine an alternative way of consumption and production that is opposed to our current Throw-away Society. It focuses on cultivating a stronger emotional attachment between objects and human through building a 'Repair not Replace' lifestyle. By encouraging repairing things, we can cultivate a longer relationship with objects and revive our bonds with old things.

Repairing Society was inspired by Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. It treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to conceal. Kintsugi proposes that broken and old can be better than the new which resonates with the philosophy of the Repairing Society. In Repairing Society, people can keep and reuse old things by regularly repairing and repurposing. In this model brands and designers are required to consider, from the beginning of product development, how products can be easily repaired or repurposed.

To better illustrate the Repairing Society, I proposed a series of designed services and objects based on three topics below.

REPAIR: Broken is Better than the New

GRAFT: Recombining for Repurpose

AUTOTOMY: Design for Broken

Repaired Basket (3D Scanning and Printing)

The rattan basket repaired with 3d scanning and printing by new repairmen. The composition of half original rattan and half 3d printed woven PLA make this basket hard to be defined as old or new. Ideally, objects give form to ideas, but they also provide us with permission to reimagine what is possible.

Credit: Xiaodong Ma

Repaired Piggy Bank, Plate, and Cup (Kintsugi)

The piggy bank, plate, and cup repaired with Kintsugi technique by traditional repairmen. Each breakage is highlighted with gold instead of being concealed. The golden joineries on the piggy bank tell the stories of its owner.

Credit: Xiaodong Ma

Repaired Dish (Resin)

The dish repaired with clear resin is made by new repairmen. Through the transparent resin, you can observe each broken vine declaring the history of this dish. And the history of objects should be cherished.

Credit: Xiaodong Ma

Watering Cup #2 (Watering Neck + Cup)?

This watering cup is a grafted product made with a plastic watering can spout and broken cup pieces. As its spout neck is vertical to the cup handle, every time I use it to water a plant. I feel like I am pouring tea for an old friend.

Credit: Xiaodong Ma

Tea Mug (Teapot Handle + Mug)

?This Tea Mug is a grafted work made with an elegant ceramic teapot handle and an IKEA glass mug. The mesh and clash of vintage and modern make it much more interesting than the original pieces.

Credit: Xiaodong Ma

Grafted Colander, Spatula, and Protractor?

The colander is grafted into a soup spoon by getting its holes filled with plastic; This spatula is a grafted product made from a plastic barbecue fork. Its graft-designer endowed it with the function of the shovel by extending its surface area; The ruler is a grafted object made from a Protractor. It got a second life by being given a drawing function.

Credit: Xiaodong Ma

Grafted Spoons (Old Spoon + New Spoon)?

These two grafted spoons are great examples to embody the collaboration between old and new. The small one is the combination of a ceramic spoon head and a wooden spoon handle. They are merged with clear resin. The second is a grafted rice spoon made up of a plastic rice-spoon head and a wooden handle with an elephant woodcarving.

Credit: Xiaodong Ma

Watering Cup #1 (Tea Pot Neck + Watering Body)

This watering cup is a grafted product made with a ceramic teapot spout and a plastic watering can. The strong contrast of their sizes and using-context creates the aesthetic of Graft.

Credit: Xiaodong Ma

Autotomy Chopsticks?

Traditional chopsticks break disgracefully because of the structure of the wood fiber. Its messy broken section makes it hard to be repaired. The autotomy chopsticks leaving a groove in one side makes it break from the weaker groove and leave a clean broken part for later repairing and grafting.

Credit: Xiaodong Ma

Autotomy Bowl

Ceramic bowls usually break at the thinner parts, the walls, and rims. The base usually stays complete. Autotomy bowl with five bases can break into five small ones which can be easily repaired and grafted. It is a bowl holding the potential for five future lives.

Credit: Xiaodong Ma

Tesla founder Elon Musk has launched tech startup Neuralink to build implants that connect human brains with computer interfaces via artificial intelligence. Read more

held at tokyo's 21_21 design sight, the show observes the animal's diversity aiming to discover new design possibilities.

The post exhibition seeks to view the world of insects as models for design at 21_21 design sight appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

We’ve previously featured Brutally Honest Logos, but what if companies left their logos intact, but instead replaced their current slogans with honest ones that actually told the truth?

Have you ever wondered how it would look like if Mr. Bean played every role in Hollywood? Well, wonder no more!

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