Designed by Here Design this lovely hand-crafted leather case was made for The Balvenie Ambassador to present the Balvenie story from barley to bottle. It contains a miniature copper still, cask samples, miniature barrels and tasting bottles in bespoke boxes all beautifully finished. Be sure you’ll check the Here Design site for more great pieces of The Balvenie.
[Via LP]

Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov, former editors at the design magazine I.D. started the online publication Sight Unseen focusing on people and creativity.
They’ve already shared some very interesting views behind-the-scenes at design studios and factories as well as some nice book reviews and ‘city guides’ by creatives. As they can say it best ‘Sight Unseen uncovers the stories, inspirations, and obsessions of people who love to make things.’
A ‘must subscribe’ blog full of inspiration. And hopefully Sight Unseen and Anothersomething will collaborate somehow somewhere in a near future. To be continued…

Studio Juju made these beautiful cases to store your jewellery, to enrich the experience of choosing, matching and wearing the right accessories, almost as a ritual…

Is it a shop? No – It is a beautiful walk-in closet with walls of glass, made by Spazzi, the master cabinet maker from Spain. (via Trendir)

Daniel Heer, a young swiss designer now living and working in Berlin shared his work with us. Besides his fine horsehair mattresses called ROSSHAAR and lovely seating cubes called KEIL (made from walnut wood and leather a.o.) he creates this fantastic collection of bags called CHROM. Functional aesthetics and high-quality materials all come together in these minimalistic leather bags. Read the rest of this entry »

A little update from our favorite shop in Berlin. Andreas Murkudis organized a little Weihnachtsmarkt combined with the presentation of these beautiful Windmühlen knifes on 12 december from 12 til 19h at the Münzstrasse 21.

The people behind Project No 8 mailed me with this nice deck of playing cards. A series of cards designed by Tauba Auerbach, created in two iterations, Shapes and Functions. Each deck is produced in a hand numbered edition of 250. They’re available online at Moss and offline at No. 8b, 38 Orchard Street (corner of Hester Street) NY.

A lazy sunday afternoon, browsing thru my found and emailed links of the past week came, I across this one. I’m so much enjoying almost everything in the Japanese online shop Kirpputori (the Finnish word for flea market ). Beautiful felt animals, birch wood boxes and envelopes and lovely table ware, all antique and handcrafted goods from Finland.

The ninth issue of Acne Paper addresses the dual themes of Art and Spirituality, and explores the relationship between these two inextricably linked areas of study.
The cover story sees a unique collaboration between Tilda Swinton and Paolo Roversi. Other collaborators include David Lynch, Marina Abramovic and Maureen Paley, and an extensive art portfolio is curated by Lisa Rovner and Neville Wakefield. Enjoy 131 pages of beauty by Acne. And if you’re in Amsterdam, this issue will be available at Tenue de Nîmes next week.

Studio Jo Meesters creates concepts and products based on the keywords of matter and traditional craftsmanship. The ongoing search for innovation in materials and techniques is the major drive of the design studio, which is considered a laboratory for product concepts. A laboratory focused on the research of new ways of material handling and the exploration of the boundaries of the intersection of craftsmanship and mass production techniques.

TESTLAB is about experiments and prototypes, exploring the possibilities of the materials and transforming them into new types of furniture and objects. New and existing work will be shown during the event held at Studio Jo Meesters. Follow the activities on Twitter.

Lately we’ve been busy creating a ‘news paper’ for Joolz. As Anothersomething we participated in the paper by selecting some beautiful toys, books and kids’ stuff in the Jewels page. Clockwise: A beautiful shinning Egg Bank by J Schatz, a swiss Deer by Big Game, some Japanese Table Manners by FunFam, a colorful Flight Suit by Sneraev, this lovely little book Victor and Susie by Brighten the Corners, the beautiful leather Ollie by Olivia Bertus (available at Mos, Maastricht), my favorite baby blankets by Mantita, the uber-slick Streamliner by PlaySam, Play All Day published by die Gestalten, the cardboard Trojan Horse by Kids On Roof and some cool toys by Play Forever. Enough for your little love…

To read the article click here.
To read the whole Joolz Paper click here.

I very much love this rocking hot dog by Jaime Hayon and Nienke Klunder who are now showing their collaborative work at Spring Projects in London (until october 22nd). The beautiful mix of materials like fiberglass, aluminium, leather, maple wood and chromed metal made this ‘fun to ride’ Hotdog highly aesthetic. It is produced by a formula 1 manufacturer and made in an edition of 8. If you’re around, this exhibition at Spring Projects is really worth a visit. (found at designboom)

A lovely birdhouse for your pied-à-terre. ‘This Birdhouse links the balcony to its green surroundings, the inhabi- tants of apartments to the birds outside. Lacking a garden in her LEGO like apartment building, Emilie Cazin created this Birdhouse in order to attract birds to her balcony and thus stand out from all the piled up apartments with the same windows, same walls, same bal- conies. The uniform balcony is transformed into a lookout for bird- watchers. Birdhouse, with a form that refers to, but clearly deviates from the parabolic antennas in the cityscape, is an invitation to the city’s birds to nest close to one’s window.’ Emilie Cazin at Vlaemsch.

Beautiful work on the quite abstract and minimalistic website of Central Office & Co., the studio of Max Erdenberger.

Kimberly Lloyd just emailed us to say they released the first Qompendium Print Publication. Qompendium is an evolving and ever-changing platform for philosophy, art, culture and science, represented by a series of print publications: magazines, books and monographs. Furthermore, it is enriched by a real gallery concept, a workshop and a fast-moving online portal.
Volume 1 is a selective journey through the multiverse of intentional and unintentional time capsules featuring an array of exceptional pictorial essays, unabridged interviews and supplementary brand editorials by an impressive list of contributors.
Get a preview here >

T. M. Schmid from Strala updated us with some older work while working on new designs. We specially like this minimalistic wall light called Pompidu. In his own words: ‘Pipes cover the electric cabling of ‘pompidu’, at the same time giving it a firm shape. It is the reduction of everything down to what is strictly necessary. A lighting object in which the supporting structure, electric current and optical appearance interact in a subtle and poetic way.’ Available at his own Strala Gallery, Dufourstrasse 169 in Zurich, Switzerland… Stay tuned for some new work which will be published here in about two months.

This weekend Another Shop is represented at Inside Design by Elle. The texelse boys bags, the mysterious something’s and the thank you too card books are available at the Lloyd Hotel.

A fantastic collection of carefully selected goods, colours and shapes, arranged by Faye Toogood and studio. ‘Studio Toogood designs, directs and executes interiors and environments from concept through to creation… Formerly the Senior Stylist of the World of Interiors magazine, Faye Toogood now contributes regularly to Wallpaper, Elle Decoration, the Telegraph and Vogue. From location to the studio, the micro to the macro, an instinctual approach to composition, space, colour and interiors is evident in all of her work.’
Shared by Robin/A Smile in the Mind.

I’m a fan of the wooden toys by Brooklyn-based designer David Weeks for Areaware. This time he collaborated with Kidrobot to create a wooden version of the Dunny toy. This limited edition beauty (only five were fashioned) is hand-hewn and sanded from zebra-striped hard pine and comes in a custom wooden crate box featuring the Chiseler, the new Dunny is due to drop on Sep 22 at Kidrobot…
Via KRonikle.

I like desks, especially when they are designed by a Japanese designer and produced in Switzerland since they have a certain feeling for order and cleanness, but always with a high functionality. Designed by Tomoko Azumi for Röthlisberger, this AT-AT desk offers space for your macbook, cables and power supplies for electronic devices can be stowed in a special compartment, even fountain pens and paper have their own place. Once the drop-down lid is closed, any unsightly clutter disappears. How nice!