Remember how you always wished it was more, you know, spawn of Satan-y?
Painter and sculptor Erica Sanada has your new mantlepiece candy right here.
Category Archives: Design
Drip Tease
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A bone china cup and saucer set (£23) designed by Reiko Kaneko, decorated with gilt dribbles.
We wouldn’t have it in the house.
Meat Feet
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A new sock line by American chef and offal specialist, Chris Cosentino whose publicist sez:
Mr. Cosentino’s socks, called Meat Feet, are patterned like mortadella, prosciutto, and sopressata. ‘We put salami meat in a casing. Casings are kind of like socks,’ says Mr. Cosentino…. ‘How funny is that?’
Eh…
$33 for the ‘three-pack sampler’ above.
Research The City tweetz:
Want a flat or house? Is it a choice? This map of Dublin shows how limited our housing choices are.
Logo designer Graham Smith’s entirely plausible ongoing mashup of popular logos and brand names.
More here.
You’ll recall his trolling of the London Olympic sponsors last summer.
Christine writes [via BS app]:
Future entrepreneurs in Galway. Got this through the letter box today. Local kids trying to make a few quid. Nice home made feel to their advertising material, in fairness.
Mmf.
The Adidas Springblade runner ($180), available (in the US) from August. Adidas sez:
Springblade features 16 forward angled blades made out of a high-tech polymer. The highly elastic blades instantaneously react to any environment, compressing and releasing energy to create an efficient push-off that feels like you have springs under your feet. Each blade is precisely tuned in geometry, thickness and position for each phase of a runner’s stride to provide support and a full range of movement.
‘Science communicator’ and PhD student Jamie Gallagher maps where the scientists who discovered the various elements of the Periodic Table were living when they discovered them. Talking to Smart News, Gallagher sez;
One of my favourites has to be polonium, though, the first element to be discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie. They were working in a modified shed with substances so dangerously radioactive their notes are still too active to be handled safely. Working together they isolated this element and later named it Polonium after Marie’s home country. (A country, I may add, that turned her away from her pursuit of education as she was a politically interested female). It was her hope that by naming the element after Poland she could generate interested in the independence (from Germany) campaign for the country. Yet [in my periodic table] the victory comes in under the French flag where the work was carried out. It remains to this day the only element to be named after a political cause, and a wonderful tribute to a phenomenal woman.
Full sized version here.
Jason Allemann’s wonderfully bonkers LEGO walking (or, more accurately, scuttling) machine, inspired by Theo Jansen’s giant kinetic Strandbeest sculptures.
You can build your own, if you’re so inclined.
Hammock Tub
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A pleasingly shaped, utterly indulgent carbon fibre hammock tub created by design company Splinter Works in the UK, what sez:
The peaceful experience of kicking-back in a hammock has been further enhanced by combining it with the immersive comfort of soaking in a hot bath. By literally elevating the experience of bathing into a suspended sculpture the bathroom has been reinvented as a contemplative sanctuary for artful relaxation. Designed for use in a wet room, Vessel is suspended from the walls and does not touch the floor. It is fixed with stainless steel brackets that can be covered over, or left revealed. The bath is filled using a floor standing tap and the waste water released through the base into a floor drain. A downpipe drain can also be installed if a wet room setting is not possible.