Add a spot of decorative yet functional product art to your kitchen or dining room with these Totem Cups (set of four, $84.00) from Toronto-based designer, Rob Southcott, made for fellow Torontonians, producteurs imm Living. The stackable set is made from ceramic and stands 8.5″ tall.
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Turning the least attractive member of the office supply family into a sleek, well-designed, ahem, staple of desks everywhere is a daunting task indeed. Leave it to the Italians, who make staplers that vaguely resemble whales, like Zenith’s clear shelled ones shown above ($32.00). Also of note are these industrialish ones from Present&Correct that run closer to $15.00.
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All of us from the Jailbreak Collective are currently holed up at booth No. 4822 at the NYC Toy Fair, which, as luck would have it, puts us right next to the nice folks from Kotobukiya, who just happen to have damned near the coolest product of the entire show. Yes, these brilliant Lightsaber Chopsticks (aka [...]

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Wallets suck. Plain and simple. The feeling it gives the bum during long drives and while flying on airplanes is something I detest, so my front right pocket is generally its designated spot. But then if there’s too much cash, hypothetically because of the whole, you know, being poor thing, then it’s also often uncomfortable. [...]

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Self proclaimed bike-riding fanatic, Julien Jaborska, has channeled his passion and flipped it into wearable art via the use of recycled bike parts. The belt shown above was made from an old knobby mountain bike tread ($30.00), and is one of the most unique fashion accessories you’ll find today. While writing this post, it was [...]

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Milan, Italy-based art director/product designer, Matteo Cibic, has just announced the pre-release of his dog-with-neck-cone-sans-head-shaped ceramic speaker called, nicely, Hi-Fido. Only 50 (1o here in the U.S.) will be produced upon its actual release this April, so head over to his site and claim one if it suits your fancy. [Via]
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It’s difficult to decide which is more disturbing: a.) Lady Gaga has become so inexplicably famous–due to both a fashion sense born from doing drugs the rest of us don’t even know exist and, ahem, her damn catchy music–that she has found her way onto this series of dollar bills by artist Craig Gleason (site [...]

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This might be old news to some folks out there in the vast depths of the blogosphere, but a recent peruse through the latest catalog from our friends at Think Geek reminded me how fantastic this knife holder is. Part art, part product, The Ex – Unique Knife Holder ($69.99, also available in black or [...]

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Pretty self-explanatory product here. $20.00 from UK design studio, J-Me.
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Art? Tool? Design Object? How should we define the sexy, powerful, and now green (!) axes ($200-$400.00) in Best Made Company’s 2010 winter catalog? Ultimately it’s pretty irrelevant. On one hand, these beauties could hang in NYC apartments or condos in Aspen, and fit right in. Conversely, they can also serve their innate purpose and [...]

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