Frankly, I just want one for myself…

Visit GarrettWade.com for more information.

International petroleum company Shell has recently dismantles a Nissan 370Z, replicated all its 2000+ parts and created a completely transparent prototype of the car for it’s newest campaign marketing the Helix Ultra engine oil. The intricate idea was to clearly demonstrate the way oil travels throughout the engine. To say that we are a little impressed would be the understatement of the century. Sure, anything is possible when you’ve got a budget as large as one that Nissan can afford, but to be able to execute something like this is truly commendable. I think the creative minds in your design & marketing departments deserve a raise!

See the creative genius at work!

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For all Art & Design lifestyle enthusiasts, you would have to be living under a rock to not have heard about Banksy by now. Renowned for his incredible street art (graffiti) in the UK, Banksy has skipped the pond, made his famous mark on some walls in LA and now he seems to have reappeared in San Francisco! To this day Banksy’s real identity is virtually unknown. He is believed to have been born in 1974 and a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, UK. Banksy’s artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. Having made his mark on hundreds of walls and having had a book published on his various street pieces, the artist himself remains an enigma.

If you are living in or visiting the States, check out Banksy’s Exit Through the Giftshop in select theatres. Watch the mini trailer here …

Visit BanksyFilm.com for select cities and showtimes.

For more information and artwork by this talented artist visit Banksy.co.uk

The company: MODHair, A Rock n’ Roll Hair Salon

Fabio Milito has come up with an ingenious business card design. At first glance the card resembles a pocket comb, AH! but there is more! The comb plays a classic rock theme when rubbed by fingernail, using the same principle of a metallic musicbox comb. How neat is that? Love, Love Love it!

The Lesson: When designing a business card, always think outside the box. Unique concepts can be executed even with a standard black & white print template.

In celebration of Earth Day we’ve found this neat design treasure to appeal to your visual and environmentally conscious senses! The Woven Car was created by Ann Conte and Jeanne Wiley from recycled and leftover materials. Conte and Wiley took an early-model 1960’s MG Midget that was collecting dirt in their back yard and transformed it into a beautiful work of art by weaving overstock car seat belt material (500 yards approximately) to create a hatched woven cover for the car, which they then bolted on to the metal frame. The interior is made of partially-recycled material called Corian Terra (DuPont). In fact Dupont had donated the material to the artists after hearing about this project!

The vehicle is now on display as part of a new exhibit at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, MA, along with a number of other Mixed Media pieces.

The Iron Design Company has recently exhibited their new fluid wine rack creation at the Architectural Design Digest Show in NYC. The gorgeous slick structure is made out of steel and holds up to half a case of wine. The smooth design of the rack looks incredible in modern minimalist spaces, and we love how the shape of the rack seems to be made by the wine bottles themselves. It’s as if they were enveloped in thin sheets of paper!

Everything about this design is appealing to our visual senses.

In fact, Iron Design is notorious for making ultra chic household items which show off stunning shapes and lines. The company was founded by a blacksmith connoisseur Marc Maiorana whose work has been featured in high end publications such as Gourmet, Dwell and the New York Times.

Check out IronDesignCompany.com for a full gallery of their work.

Thought provoking indeed. We appreciate the philosophical parallels between this design and real life. After all, regardless of the speed and effort being put into the cranking of the lever, your minimum wage is set in stone, until the mastermind behind the mechanism changes the rules of the game…

Great metaphorical concept.

Visit BlakeFallConroy.com to find out more about the artist.

On the surface it may not look like a unique concept, it is after all a glowing lamp. Yet if you take a closer look at the luminous design by Maarten De Ceulaer you may be quite intrigued. “The Lighting Project” is going to be intriduced at Spazio Rossana Orlandi (Milano, Italy) during the Salone del Mobile, from 14-19 April, but for those of you who will not be attending we have the wrap.

In the words of the designer: the concept is simple but unique; by adding a few drops of edible food colourants to the water inside the bottle, you can change the colour of the lamp, and the atmosphere of the space. Any colour can be created by the right mix of the primary colours Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. The spherical shape in the bottom of the bottles is sandblasted from below, so the power-LED below it, mounted on an aluminium disc, illuminates it completely.

The food colourants will be supplied with the lamp, can be ordered afterwards, but can also be bought in most supermarkets. All lamps will be handmade in collaboration with a laboratory glass-ware atelier in Brussels. What you see on these images is the first series of prototypes, it will soon be expanded with more typologies of bottles, and various sizes will be available in each model.

Simple yet so beautiful.

With all the hype that has been surrounding Apple’s latest gadget the “IPad”, apparel and packaging companies have been scrambling to find a user friendly, slick and fashionable way to protect and wear this this latest invention. One company in our eyes has succeeded in creating a great, easy to use and fashion conscious design in their latest IPad Case.

Temple Bags has put together two different versions of the case. One is leather and one is leather/canvas. We think it’s very unisex and city chic!

What we love even more is that the cases can also be used as fully functional purses. We could easily see these being worn by young and mature professionals alike in cosmopolitan hotspots across the globe: New York, Paris, London, Tokyo. The company is undoubtedly going to do very well in putting these out on the market as it’s the best design we’ve seen so far in terms of functionality and finesse.

Visit TempleBags.com to see more of the Ipad Case and check out the rest of their product line!

A US based jeweler Cast of Vices has come up with an interesting collection of pieces inspired by society’s vices. It’s unabashedly provocative and we kind of love these designs! The collection features vices from all corners of the dark side: from luxury xanax to blunts on a silver chain. Would You dare to wear your secret vice on your neck? The collection is hand crafted in the USA with solid .926 silver sterling silver and 14k gold by using the lost wax process.

We wouldn’t be surprised to see this on a few hard partying rock stars. We aren’t going to name names … And while we are in no way at all going to condone the glamorization of prescription drugs, from a purely artistic perspective we think the collection is worth a mention. Philosophically speaking it also sheds a light on this generation’s pop culture in an interesting way. In a society where nothing is taboo, where do we draw the line?

“Cast of Vices celebrates the inherent design aesthetic of these substances while at the same time casting a critical eye on pop culture and out obsession with self-medication and addiction. When our Rome falls these will be our remains, cigarette butts, pills, bottle caps, and coke bags.” – Cast of Vices