Every now and then Sagmeister takes a whole year off to dedicate to experiments.

Since graduating my desire to read has been stronger than ever.
While reading Bukowski’s “Women,” I was reminded of Coke
Spoon 2 by Tobias Wong and Ju$t Another Rich Kid.

Having updated Bew’s links, I would like to bring your attention to Luxirare.com.
I am absolutely in love with this site. The hi-res images of fashion and culinary art will make you drool.

Similar style,
new layout,
and appears to have more products available…
http://www.droog.com/

Occasionally we feel the need to inform another party that they should stop speaking now. Two items that efficiently fill this need are:

Atypyk’s Shut-Up Tape

and Allison Riley’s Stop Talking business cards

Shu Uemura’s eyelashes first caught my eye when they appeared on PingMag.
I was happy to find that dutch fashion designers, Viktor & Rolf, have designed lashes for Shu Uemura. They can be purchased at Colette (beware of flash and musical roll-overs).

Fredrikson Stallard’s Rug “The Lovers” each urethane puddle represents the average volume of human blood

Antonio Murado’s porcelain Salome Coffee Set

Kacper Hamilton’s 7 Deadly Glasses

Bob Partington’s Blood Pen

I love these photos from Nadav Kander.

Chongqing IX, from his work, Yangtze, The Long River

This advertisement is from his series of photos for Absolut.

Back in 2007, Design Miami featured a three day tattoo parlor furnished by DWR. Organized by Tobias Wong, Josée Lepage, and Aric Chen, “As Long As It Lasts,” featured tattoos designed by Hella Jongerius, 5.5 Designers, Yves Behar, Tord Boontje, Vito Acconci, KAWS, Juergen Meyer H, Andrew Allenson, and Lawrence Weiner.
Some photos on sallyTV’s flickr.

Tord Boontje’s work translates beautifully:


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Boontje’s Cut Here temporary tattoos


OOF also makes a series of fun temporary tattoos.


Then there are concept tattoos, like in Fredrickson Stallard’s “Pantone.”

Tattoo furniture



Minima Tattoo Chair



Reddish’s Yakuza table



Polka Tattoo Furniture/Notcot

Tattoos of furniture

By Nick Baxter

Beck Linneman’s Eames Wire Chair tattoo

And to sum it all up, beautiful tattoos of work by Audrey Kawasaki:


photo from Assburrito!’s flickr


sleepboy’s flickr


and Kiki Smith via Eyeteeth

Bubblle Dress
Lucy McRae is often described as a “body architect.” Her interests lie in fashion, technology, and the human body. In a collaborative piece with Rachel Wingfield, she developed a body suit called Frisson for Philips Design Probe. The garment has LEDs that light up as biometric sensors respond to being blown on. Another garment, called Bubelle the “blush dress”, has biometric sensors that respond to the wearer’s emotions. Its sensitive enough that it’s response is unique to the individual wearing it. These emotions are then displayed onto the outer layer of the garment.

Bart Hess graduated from the from the Man and Identity department at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, Netherlands. This department focuses on forecasting trends and finding new materials. For his material collection, “A Hunt for Hightech,” Hess was inspired by archetypes of animals, human instinct, robotic forms, prosthetic technology and fetishism.

Bart Hess and Lucy McRae collaborated on a number of projects. One of their projects was for the Philips Design team, called Electronic Tattoo. The tattoo creates a new way for people to communicate, as it reacts to touch, gesture, and emotion. The idea is that the ink is electronic, and unlike other tattoos, can morph and change.

WMMNA Interview with Bart Hess

The Honeycomb Vase by Studio Libertiny is made by 40,000 bees.
Referred to as “slow prototyping,” it takes a week for the bees to complete just one vase.

For Paper Vases, 700 prints were glued, compressed, and then shaped on a lathe. The results are quite beautiful…

Photo by Nan Goldin

Kiki Smith is a sculptor, printmaker, photographer, and installation artist. Her subjects range from anatomy, art history, mythology, science and feminism. She’s known for her provocative sculptures of the body and its anatomical parts. Typically they express vulnerability through potentially humiliating yet natural functions, such as urination and menstruation. She works in a variety of mediums including wax, ceramic, plaster, paper, glass, and bronze, to name a few.

A few weeks ago Smith gave a lecture at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum on Origins. To Smith, Origins is about not having control of how she stays inspired. Being an artist is about sitting, waiting, and listening. Smith presented slides of her work at random, as she explained the origins of her ideas. She talked about how she accumulates “convoluted configurations” of her resources, and often “cannibalizes” her subjects. “Cannibalized” was her way of describing rehashing, or investigating of work.

Kiki Smith chose not to discuss certain slides, claiming they were “secret.” However, her other slides were presented with small anecdotes. For her sculpture of fallen Jesus (Untitled 1995),

the figure is half man/half woman, as her male neighbor had to go home before she finished. Another slide she showed was that of a terra cotta rib cage. The piece is actually glued together, breaking after her return from Germany.

Salón Internacional de la Moda Flamenca (SIMOF) 2008 is an annual fashion show dedicated to the fashions of flamenco. Held in Seville, Spain, new collections from 40 designers were presented in 32 shows from January 31st to February 3rd. Tight, asymmetric dresses were presented on the catwalk in a variety of different textiles, colors, and patterns. The main textiles included poplin, organdie, satin, silk, muslin, linen, lycra, taffeta, and twilled cotton.

Inspired by postings of Betsy Johnson’s home,



Great design objects in pink:

Hella Jongerius, Soft Urn 1995

Karim Rashid, Butterfly chair 2003

Ipod Nano

Tord Boontje, Blossom chandelier 2002

Campana brothers, Anemone chair 2001