Everytime you use your BAGGU bag instead of plastic or paper you are doing something GOOD… Nice!

Nice work by We have a problem

Beautiful, very Scandinavian, and very style full fashion brand: Hope
Thank you Menno for sharing.

Very nice works by art director/graphic designer Sean Carmody

Lovely ceramics by Coe & Waito

Forgotten Futures is a data sculpture which visualizes 100 years of forward thought. Using web-crawls of Google News, Google Blog and Google Scholar, the phrase “in the future” was associated with key words and phrases which reveal previous though about the future of our world. The top 100 terms for each year were categorized using the Dewey Decimal system, and mapped onto a grid. Holes were drilled into sheets of plexiglass whose sizes correspond to their frequency. For example, “war” is the biggest hole in 1945.

A beautiful plexiglass sculpture by Christopher O’Leary.
Via Infosthetics

Very nice and light room dividers by Parametre.
Via ApartementTherapy

Machina is a collection of photographs taken in research laboratories, depicting high tech machines. By Marten Lange

The entire series, 34 images in total, has been published as a book by Farewell Books.

Via IHP

Amazing ceramic works by Justin Novak.

“The ceramic figurine has historically embodied a mainstream, bourgeois ideology, and for this reason, I have employed it in the presentation of an alternative vision; an ironic anti-figurine, or ‘disfigurine’. This subversion of the genre challenges the promotion of conformism manifested in traditional figurines.
In the ‘disfigurine’ series, physical wounds such as bruises and lacerations serve as metaphors for injury to self-esteem and other psychological harm. Whereas the figurine has historically represented the dominant culture’s norms and ideals, the disfigurines aim to expose the damage inflicted by those very same expectations.”

Via WKB

Beautiful and strange works by Christopher Reiger.

A brilliant story, shared by NotCot, about the shape of the Chanel No.5 bottle! Brilliant!

“…Coco Chanel designed her first Chanel No.5 bottle to perfectly match the shape of Place Vendome (where the Ritz is, and where she basically lived… although her apartment for inspiration and taking guests was just behind it on Rue Cambon… but more on that in a few days). They also claim that it is unknown whether this matching shape was intentional…”

Rainmusic: A nice French net label with some beautiful music (all free downloadable!)

A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives worthwhile. My teacher, and one of the founders of the Pratt industrial design program, Rowena Reed Kostellow, said, “Pure, unadulterated beauty should be the goal of civilization.” From a pragmatic point of view, for something to be beautiful, it has to work. In order to make this idea clearer I have combined the ideas of beauty and function into one word: Beautility. — Tucker Viemeister.

More interesting thoughts about design at Design Feast

I’m getting quite emotional when i see the pictures of Alex MacLean while listening to the music of Arvo Pärt. There is so much beauty!!

I’ve had a lovely, inspiring week on the sea. Sailing from Denmark (Søndeborg, Faaborg and Aeroscobing) to Germany (Schleimünde, Kiel and Cuxhaven) on a trimaran with two friends.