Healthy junk
‘Healthy snacks packaged to look like drugs and junk food’
The work of designer Daizi Zheng.
More images here.
Found via Dezeen
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Coca-Cola irony: Sugar cane bottle
‘You know what else sugar cane is really good for? Making soda. Look into it, Coke.’ -The Consumerist
Coca-Cola’s new ‘PlantBottle™’ is hitting the streets. The bottle is made partially from cane sugar.
So now the container contains cane sugar. It’d also be nice if they got the real sugar back in The Real Thing too.
Pretty Trashy preview items now for sale
Recently, I featured a preview of the new collection I’m working on with Pretty Trashy. A few of these one of a kind pieces are now for sale thru the Bows and Arrows store at Etsy.
Click on the images for product info/jump.
Unhappy in the Modern World
‘Still recovering from broken trust, neither wanted to be the first to try the eggs.’
(Dwell, November 2009)
Over at Tumblr, a blog with dark captions for photos from Dwell magazine.
‘In search of a less bleak playground, the toddler pedaled faster.’
(Dwell, June 2004)
‘Lying on his back, watching the passing clouds, he worried over the Nathaniel Hawthorne lookalike’s role in this grim threesome.’
(Dwell, November 2009)
‘He is sad because his house looks like an elementary school. And all the children have died.’
(Dwell, February 2008)
Found via Twitter.com/exspiro
Italian Roast
Advertising typography for Italian Roast Coffee; crayon on paper
The work of London-based designer Mitsuhiro Aita.
Visit his website. Much more to see.
Italian Roast Coffee: Shadow and texture experiments
Italian Roast Coffee: 100 sheets of burnt white paper
Coffee in Italy
‘If you don’t want to be taken for a tourist in Italy, you should drink coffee as and when the locals do.’
Article here.
Tea submarine
Found via Designer Daily
Gainsbourg, with Beck
Video for Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Heaven Can Wait, featuring Beck. Directed by Keith Schofield.
Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new album IRM dropped this week, find it here. Official website here. Blog here.
Below, live performance of Trick Pony on Letterman from last week:
And
Her work for Balenciaga and Vogue Paris.
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