Rethink form
One thing that always amazes me is when people are able (especially designers) to look behind traditional forms and apply new concepts to everyday things.
Much like this example, found here
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Tzipporah in Plettenberg Bay
I just returned from 3 weeks throughout South Africa and have to share some inspirations. First of them is a little clothing shop featuring work from local South African Designers, very neat stuff, wonderful presented with some real unique items being on display. The owner, Claire Trebilcock, also has furniture items like... read on
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Once again
I found a reference to something I posted a while ago, a little shop in Vienna specialising on Upcycling Design. It is located in the 4th near the Point of Sale Cafe.
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Cup design, once again
Very much related to one of my older postings I see the meme of tea cups working with the inside space of the cup spreading around the world.
MyCuppa Mugs
I wonder if this is an evolving trend that could lead to unexpected, wonderful things. read on
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Upcycling
Another inspiration that caught my eye and may be worth something for people here on Shapeshifters to describe what they do. I don't know if this is common knowledge already, but I read about the term
Upcycling
The word Upcycling was coined by William McDonaugh and Michael Braugart in their book on ecologically intelligent... read on
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Growing / Changing Tea Cup
I know that this might not make a difference in other part of the worlds, but it reminds me a lot about the posting that Helge made a while ago concerning items that have been set into a new context. Why do things have to get "old" when beeing used more often, maybe they can just "grow" and "change" with their usage. That... read on
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A success story - etsy.com
I have to share a success story of shapeshifters, because I found something here that I wouldn't have considered otherwise. Here's the story:
My cousin is sewing little animals out of fleece for a while, she started to do this for her kids and then one day we talked about selling those cute little animals on the internet.... read on
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The quality banana
Some years ago as I strolled through Vienna I noticed a small yellow banana painted to various walls in the city center, mostly nearby galleries with paintings inside. I always wondered what that might be, then I heard it was some kind of "quality sign", sprayed to these walls by someone named Thomas Baumgärtel.
http://www.galerie-fox.de/de/a rtist/Baumgaertel/... read on
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