Design for Life, Philippe Starck's new reality TV show

The catch... if you win it you get a 6 month placement at his HQ in Paris! (Nice!) in the program starck sets the young participating designers creative tasks, and each week he eliminates the weakest! The show first started on the 14th of September and is going to be screening on BBC2 in the coming weeks! There are 12 young eager designers (6 boys and 5 girls) that are part of the show, they where chosen from the portfolios that Philippe Starck received! 


for more about the program click here

Believe it or not... a LEGO house

As a child you build these lego houses, everytime wishing it was big enough to live in, but it never is... Well in this case, this LEGO house is every little childs dream house, built entirely out of legos.  James May, host of a new BBC series called James May’s Toy Stories had to wait until adulthood, but he’s finally fulfilling that dream. James intends to live in the world’s first life-size Lego house for a few days – “or until it falls down,” according to him. The house is being built in Surrey. Construction began on August 17th, with more than 2000 people helping in the construction of the plastic house, which is two stories tall and includes working doors, a bedroom, toilet, shower and staircase.

Just a piece of A4 paper

brilliant!

When you just need that EXTRA bit of space

The Bloomframe is now in production! This concept for a window that transforms into a balcony space first spread across the internet in November 2005 by Apartment Therapy. The model is now available to order and buy from Hurks, a specialist window and door manufacturer in The Netherlands.

If only eyes could speak

here they definitely do...



The work of an artist called Kevin Ledo who stuck a pair of eyes on anything that looked like a face to him. He does not explain the purpose of this project but these pictures are just a couple that I picked out, have a look at the whole collection of pictures here

Sydney International Food Festival Ad Campaign

To celebrate their World Chef Showcase Weekend, the Sydney International Food Festival has developed this brilliant ad campaign.  The participating nations are represented in these images by their flag and cuisine, with their local fare being used to create the image of the flag. 

To see the rest of the countries click here

The after office tie

This is one of the final shortlisted design entries to designboom's competition 'it's aperitivo time' in collaboration with peroni nastro azzurro. It's a bottle opener attached to the edge of the tie which allows men to open bottles easily for any occasion. Its designed by argentinian sinapsis studio.