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Design Couple: Carl and Evelina Kleiner

Photographer Carl Kleiner and his partner Evelina are known for some of their highly-designed photography for IKEA. Carl works as photographer and Evelina as the stylist. Together, their projects are beautiful and fun, showing a great sense of pattern and color. Here is a collection of some of their more well-known work, plus some you [ READ MORE ]

Beautiful Polar Panorama Shots

Excellent shots by Flickr User Dayva&Daniel Want to know how to create your own Polar Panorama, aka Little Planet shots? PhotoJojo has a great tutorial[ READ MORE ]

A World Without These Guys…

Via Cool Hunting: A fascinating and hilarious look at some very rich and famous people, and what we as a society would be without, had they never come along.  I, for one, could do without the brash narcissism of Donald Trump, but folks like Bill Gates and Richard Branson really have left an indelible mark [ READ MORE ]

Picasso Painting With Light

Pablo Picasso remains probably my favorite artist of all time. I was thrilled to come upon this gallery of him painting with light. Via LIFE: LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949. The meeting of these two marvelous minds and sensibilities was [ READ MORE ]

Specimens

Photo Specimens, Via Colossal: Photographic Specimens by Michael Mapes New York artist Michael Mapes creates elaborate specimen boxes by dissecting photographs and then compartmentalizing individual fragments within plastic bags, glass vials, magnifiers, in gelatin capsules and on insect pins. Click here for more![ READ MORE ]

It’s All Just Hot Air

Some fantastic hot air balloons, via The Cool Hunter and Life in the Fast Lane: There’s something about hot air balloons that makes us all smile. Perhaps it’s the colors, the roundness, the weightlessness? Or maybe it is our eternal desire to fly, to be weightless, to float happily in the air? At home, colorful [ READ MORE ]

Book Bugs

Via Colossal, a nice collection of hand-painted bugs on old book covers. Artist Rose Sanderson has a great skill with a brush, and the textured and weathered book covers lend a historical and Darwin-esque historical feel to her artwork[ READ MORE ]

The Tallest Building in NYC (Again)

Via The New York Times The Empire State Building was long overshadowed as the tallest building in New York City with the rise of the World Trade Center Towers. The twin monoliths indeed claimed the title of world’s tallest buildings, and they remained a dominant part of the skyline until their demise in 2001.  Now, [ READ MORE ]

Bike Helmet Airbag

Leave it to the Swedes to invent a stylish and unique alternative to a bike helmet. Enter Hövding. Via Cool Hunting Hövding Invisible Bicycle Helmet Changing the way cyclists view safety and style with an innovative airbag hood by L.S. Winkler In 2005, Swedish designers Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin began work on a joint [ READ MORE ]

Sushi Meets Lasers

Beautiful deliciousness. Is it too pretty to eat? Nah…. Via DesignBoom: lasercut nori for designer sushi ‘design nori’, developed by creative agency I&S BBDO for the umino seaweed shop Developed by international ad agency I&S BBDO for the umino seaweed shop, ‘design nori’ is a series of intricately laser-cut seaweed for rolling sushi. each sheet [ READ MORE ]

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