Very cute porcelain Dress-Up Vases, a collaborative between Nendo and Ceramic Japan.

The three forms make up a family: a heavyset ‘father’, a slim ‘mother’ and a smaller ‘child’. Each vase looks like an ordinary vase from one direction. Viewed from the other side, however, each has its own ‘collar’. When we dress, our hair and clothing correspond to each other. These vases play on the similar relationship between the flower and the vase.

(via Young and Brilliant)

Well, it’s about time that I make this official: My new portfolio site is up.

To those of you who are members of the excellent Cargo Collective, this may be old news. I still have other recent projects to post and revisions to make, but I’ll get to them one-by-one.

Leaf Ties by Lufdesign, Korea, are cable ties that cause your wires and cables to resemble tied twigs or vines. I’m in love with how simply these ties add an aesthetic spark of life to otherwise cold and inorganic places and things.

Although the product page states that its profits “are used to benefit causes for ecology campaign,” I haven’t yet found a way to purchase these through Lufdesign or otherwise. If I make any headway (or if any of you find the right link), I’ll post it here.

Alright, I just got an update from Tsunho Wang, Lufdesign’s design director and president. Leaf Tie production was completed as of last week, and he will be taking orders from the Lufdesign site via PayPal in the near future, as he has not yet found another distributor.

(via Yanko Design)

Geometry, dimension, and translucency. Veerle’s blog has an interesting article on the evolution of Adobe’s CS5 branding.

(via @AisleOne)

I can relate. Alright, But not quite by illustrator Luke Ferenc Pearson. Inspired by an Apples In Stereo song.

(via Matthew Lyons)

An oldie but a goodie: SUCK UK has their Come in/Go Away Doormat back in stock. Made from natural coconut husk.

Gotta love bookmarked-yet-prematurely-forgotten gems like this. Before you leave the office for the night, enjoy an old-school game of Browser Pong by Stewart Smith. For 1–2 players.

During his studies at Konstfack University, Stockholm, Taiwanese designer Yen-Wen Tseng created the Hand In Hand Clock (a name shared with the Johan Bisse Mattsson concept two posts down), where the hour and minute hands are linked by two more pivoting arms. Unique shapes are made by the interaction between the four joined hands.

I like how the two additional hands always mirror the timekeeping hands. I also concur with Oscar in the Dezeen comments, and would be interested in what kind of spirograph pattern is made as the pivot point advances across the wall.

Another fun note is that most craft stores I’ve shopped have all the necessary clock parts to Frankenstein your own. Definite DIY potential.

And yes, I realize I should probably just retitle my blog Hello Unusual Clock-Type-Things.

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Bold, playful typography by Boston designer Chris Piascik.

(via @Behance)

Continue Time is a concept clock by Sander Mulder, where each of the three clock hands are connected end-to-end and rotate around each other (for example, the top photo shows the clock at 1:43:03, the lower photo at 3:38:30).

To see this idea in motion, Hand in Hand Clock is a similar concept by Stockholm designer Johan Bisse Mattsson, who offers his work in digital/screensaver form.

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