Unlike MDF, cardboard furniture can’t kill you and, even better, if you’re moving house you can make your children carry the sideboard. Reinhard Dienes has designed a range of cardboard furniture for Fashion for Home that is light weight, eco friendly and – not always a given with eco ranges – it looks good. Below is the Georgia sideboard which costs £149. The furniture company, which has recently started selling online in
The ultimate crafting video? Dot the 9mm girl triumphs over her microscopic world, tames the marauding fabric and fashions a blanket. Ed Patterson & Will Studd are a directing duo specialising in different forms of animation. Together they are Sumo Science. Their biggest success to date is for Nokia with the film ‘Dot.’ The spot went on to win 15 major advertising awards as well as claiming a Guiness World
If you get past the hair clippings at the start, this is hugely enjoyable. It comes from the Predatory Bird blog of Aberdeen born, California based John Rattray who is, in his own description, a ‘grown man skateboarder’: ‘The above video is a collection of self-portrait clips shot over the course of a 3 month period in which I completely forgot to shave. The more observant among you may glimpse
Chefs are no longer just chefs it seems. They are expected to be social activists and help to make the world a better place. They need a beautiful building, reminiscent of a pile of dinner plates, in which to be able to do this. The Basque Culinary Centre (above) opened in autumn 2011 and was designed by Spanish architects Vaumm. At the helm is Spain’s Ferran Adria, of El Bulli
Other than waltzing across the beach like the couple in local boy Jack Vettriano’s famous painting, the people of Leven have not had much to do in the way of entertainment. Thanks to the efforts of local volunteers however they now have their very own cinema showing a mix of blockbuster and arthouse films, seven days a week. Having spent years as a bingo hall, The Regent Cinema reopened its doors
The internet let the cat out of the bag and now cat virals are everywhere. Toronto-based ad agency, John St has succumbed to the inevitable and launched ‘catvertising’.
Food art is a funny and easy ingredient for many art and design blogs. Here Judith Klausner has done something different, creating very intricate and accomplished cameos with Oreo biscuits. Judith Klausner explains: ‘My latest series uses Victorian handicraft processes to transform modern packaged foods, exploring how the intertwined histories of gender and craft have shaped one another and our everyday lives. I hope to change the way people see
If you design movie posters for a living, look away now. French blogger and movie distributor, Christopher Courtois has just added another movie poster cliche to his collection. Femme sans tete – Woman without a head (above) is the latest addition. 2. Man running at a tilt in blue tint. 3. Big, scary eye. 4. Back to back poses 5. Back view of loner wearing long, black coat holding weapon of
Today’s post comes courtesy of Jennifer Cairney – teacher, East End resident and lurker in graveyards – who on a recent walk around Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park was struck by its magical, secret garden quality. It may not have the celebrity internments of other London graveyards but it still has plenty of stories to tell… ‘The tilted gravestones, toppled statues and overturned urns of Tower Hamlets Cemetery park make it
Until 27 May, The Freud Museum in London hosts a unique exhibition of the work of Louise Bourgeois which features, along with her sculptures and paintings, papers documenting her 30 years in psychoanalysis. Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 and died in New York in 2012. She is seen as the founder of confessional art with her famous ‘maman’ spider sculptures hinting at the fragility and strength of the