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Shooting Hoops in Your Rearview Mirror
By Aart van Bezooijen - Apr 30, 2007
Right on time for the NBA Play-offs: The Portable-B-Ball, a hitch basketball system for your car.
Just add this in-car Golf Set so we can start looking forward to the next traffic jam!
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Aart van Bezooijen
Aart van Bezooijen is a Dutch optimist and motivator for materials in design. He lives and works in Hamburg where he founded Material Stories (2005) to inspire and enable the best use of materials to make design more competitive, creative and sustainable.
2011 he explored sustainable solutions from around the world during the "It's Not Easy Being Green" project with graphic designer Paula Raché. He co-organized the Materials Café exhibitions at the Hannover Messe in Germany, the world's leading trade fair for industrial technology. Since 2012, he works as Professor for Material and Technology Transfer at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle growing a new materials library.
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By Allan Chochinov - Apr 30, 2007
iPod earbud earrings
Ashley Gehman is a Philadelphia-based designer whose iArtifact project tempts Apple fandom with a logical extreme: non-functional iPod ear buds as silver jewelry. Exploring what happens when the icon is separated from its digital manifestation, the earrings provide a nice commentary on object obsession culture when it collides with fashion....
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By squirrelbait - Apr 30, 2007
The Concrete Jungle all up, over, and around NYC
This isn't the first time we've seen rogue plastic figurines on the streets of NYC, and this one doesn't involve turds or anything, but we're delighted by these uber-literal efforts better known as The Concrete Jungle. Here we see jungle animals scampering about this crazy city we call home--well, not...
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By squirrelbait - Apr 30, 2007
DWR to offer customized Airstream (within reach)
Design Within Reach and Airstream have collaborated with architect/designer Chris Deam to serve up a tastefully outfitted trailer in June of this year. The overall look is to be "light and airy," and favorites like the Nelson clock, Tom Dixon's wire coat rack, and Paul Smith's Maharam fabric-covered cushions are...
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By squirrelbait - Apr 30, 2007
Kleiderleiste coatrack by Schindlersalmeron
Your narrow-space coat-hanging hang-ups can easily be relieved thanks to Schindlersalmeron's front-facing Kleiderleiste coatrack solution. The CNC-cut stainless steel fixture features grooves where hangers can be positioned to align garments along the wall as opposed to perpendicular to it. Kleiderleiste is produced in 60, 80 and 100cm lengths and can...
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