French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created Local River, a concept for a domestic “refrigerator-aquarium” that breeds freshwater fish for eating and grows vegetables at the same time. [ via: Dezeen ] Vegetables growing in floating pots would help purify the water by removing nitrates and other minerals.

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Inspired by her Uzbek grandmother’s indomitable strength and 1930s glamour, Cheyenne Morris, the designer of luxury shoe line Tashkent—named after the capital city of Uzbekistan—is giving the shoe landscape a distinctive new silhouette. [ via: JC|Report ]

Link ── The “FOLK” line came into existence as a new series for Visvim. Would you explain the line to us? Hiroki Nakamura (N) Well, the simplified version is that I just wanted to create “something good,” and I guess the inception of our FOLK series began with that intention. But at first I didn’t […]

JC|Report You might have been unwittingly introduced to Behance when a colleague whipped out one of their nifty action notebooks, but these cleverly designed pads tailored to maximize creative output are just part of the brand’s larger mission, which is all about connecting creatives and making ideas happen. Recently named as one of the most […]

I spoke of him before here. Link him on Behance Networks. Sidebar, he’ll be going hard w/ film soon so be easy. As an inspired film-maker, he took his motion camera and switched it to still photography. Young in age, he traveled the world with his father & mother who were stationed in the military. […]

Hogarth Architects have remodelled the interior of a listed apartment on Queen’s Gate Terrace in South Kensington, London. Retaining the historic fire surround and cornice but removing later partitions and a false ceiling, the architects inserted a two-level timber structure containing the kitchen, bathroom, a mezzanine and storage.

Martin Magielka / Untitled, Wes / Footpatrol, Richard Vaughn / Triumvir, Angel Cabada / Supra & KR3W, Selim Varol / Toy Giants, Jason Maggio / OFFICIAL, Mike McCarney / Akomplice Clothing, Jeff Staple / STAPLE DESIGN, Kazu Mataraki / DREAMTEAM CLOTHING, Alex Valman / HOMEROOM, Derrick / Dangerous Work, & Jeremy Castron / UNDRCRWN.

via: JC|Report Liam Maher is on a militant tailoring mission. With little more than a few jacket prototypes and a rigorous, Dogma 95-style manifesto, Maher launched Young Meagher three years ago—and the menswear line/conceptual fashion project has been incubating whilst wrapped in a shroud of secrecy ever since. A self-described “failed art student”, Maher began […]

Until The Kingdom Comes In his photographs, Simen Johan explores darkly the human proclivity towards fantasy and our attempts, knowing or otherwise, to craft alternate realities for ourselves. Merging traditional photographic techniques with digital methods, Johan creates each of his images from as many as one hundred negatives, having first constructed or discovered each element […]

The Virtual Shoe Museum was initiated by Liza Snook in 2004. Once the idea was born, a long search began for designers, photographers and publishers connected to shoes. New friendships developed and our mailbox filled with loads of material on fantastic shoes, art and design on shoes.

To tell the truth it is the plantation of the rubber tree in Vietnam. Most rubber goods which exist in society are born from the resin of these trees. Of course, when the rubber of the tire and the shoes of the car from this resin, with you think, it is the strange feeling. Every […]

Lejkarama’s inherent design philosophy begins with an examination of created & found objects. Transforming & modifying them into new aesthetic purposes. [ link ]

via: designboom The danish artist Olafur Eliasson‘s longstanding interest the connection between natural phenomena and industrial technology is reflected in his discourse with the BMW H2R racing car. Eliasson was commissioned by BMW to develop the ’16th BMW art car‘ back in 2005 and he has been closely collaborating with architects and scientists since then […]

URB Magazine : Art + Creative Direction by The KDU Issues No. 151 & No. 152 Next 100 Out Now A Great American Magazine Reborn : Keep Watch KDU provided full creative direction & design on this project. Peep Nontype’s editorial genius, see his visual house dance. More image’s on Lex’s site and more here. […]