Do you know a vintage suitcase can be a wall cabinet, the Etsy seller VanityCase is selling a Vanity Cabinet ($300) with pull switch lights and mini drawers.

“This meticulously handcrafted cabinet is made from a vintage leather suitcase scavenged in the underbelly of Astoria . It was specially custom made for my Friend Marion, a world traveler. This one can’t be yours, sorry, but you can get your very own custom designed. This knick-knack stuffer comes loaded with amazing cabinet-like features such as shelves and drawers, plus extra cool stuff like pull switch lights, a magnifying accordion mirror that and all kinds of straps. It will hold your toiletries, apothecary supplies and dearest secrets.”

via Likecool

Keybag by Joao Sabino Studio. It is a good idea, made from 393 plastic computer keyboard keys, it is better that if uses the recycled Keyboard keys… Available in black, white, pink and red colors.

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“Play” is a series of children’s furniture designed by Jesper K. Thomsen. The series is produced by Normann Copenhagen and is part of their recently launched new danish modern collection. The series is inspired by the slapped-together look of a child’s soapbox  car and even includes one in the collection. 

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Anna Garfort and Elly Stevens, together make up the design tandem El&Abe, do not like to limit themselves with electronic displays and printed materials, preferring a more tangible interaction with the environment. Their first joint project is called MOSSengers and represents graffiti applied to walls and other surfaces with moss. The artists are investing in new equipment, special intention – to draw the attention of urban residents in the complex ecological systems on which we depend and who take for granted, through the synthesis of the achievements of civilization and nature.

via Experiment.ru

via Swiss Miss

Advertising Agency: Scala JWT, Bucharest, Romania
Executive Creative Director: Mihai Cojocaru
Creative Catalyst: Angela Teodorescu
Art Director: Virgiliu Andone
Photographers: Andrei Orcula, Virgiliu Andone
Copywriter: Andreea Dragomir

 

via I Believe In Adv

This is a hands on/tear-down for the new album by P.O.S., a minneapolis based hip-hop artist.  This is one of the coolest packaging experiances I have seen in the cd world in quite (maybe since Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” hard copy realese).

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Dutch activists of the association Platform21, positions itself as a platform for people interested in the future, published Repair Manifesto – a manifesto calling for us to stop throwing things, instead of the beginning of their repair.

From Experiment.ru

German-based designer Saskia Diez created a new collection of bags “Papier”. The different-size travelling bags are made of DuPontTyvek®, a synthetic paper that is extremely light but at the same time robust. A silk-screen printing technique was used on the surface of the material. The bags are light, waterproof, recyclable and tear proof. 

From Designboom

KilledIdeas.com seeks to collect the best “killed ideas” (creative that never saw the light of day). Steve Hall of AdRants will be vetting and selecting the final 50 best killed ideas to appear in a book called Best Killed Ideas Vol. 1.

 

from Swiss Miss