Category Archives: Design

More infuriating objects from The Uncomfortable – a series of deliberately inconvenient household items created by headwrecking Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani.

Previously: The Uncomfortable Project

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Comparative studies taken from a 2014 book chronicling an ongoing 20 year project by Dutch conceptual artist and photographer Hans Eijkelboom showing how, at least in terms of street apparel, we are more victims of a homogenised transnational monoculture than we like to think.

More here.

People of the 21st Century (Hans Eijkelboom, Phaidon)

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Tenkawa Fishing Cabin – cantilevered out of the grey bedrock at the edge of Mount Omine in Japan – a concrete cuboid with a liner layout (master bedroom, guestroom, kitchen, bathroom and living area) split by an internal plywood partition with spectacular views of the river at one end and the mountain at the other.

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(*For pre order)

Rick’s recent transformation into a homicidal gherkin on Rick And Morty – available next year as a vinyl figure (€9.25 each + P&P) from Funko POP, complete with drill hands or laser cannon.

For all your sewer rat/evil mastermind dismembering needs.

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Behold: the Kode O by Japanese industrial designer Ken Okuyama (who had a hand in the Porsche 911 and Ferrari Enzo) – an actual 700bhp, V12 carbon fibre supercar modelled along the pointy, slanty lines of 1970s Lamborghinis and Lancias.

There are currently no production plans for the Kode O so, in all likelihood, this is the only one that will ever exist.

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Ongoing construction of the twisted skeletal structure of the SOHO Li Ze Tower in Beijing.

Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the 207m skyscraper, with its vast internal atrium wrapped in place by a series of walkways, is currently three quarters complete and due to open in late 2018.

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