While for some reason I wish that these were erasers, they are still pretty sweet as porcelain speech bubbles. If desired, Atelier Gilet will customize them with your own message.

Hudson/Nichols designed this beautiful packaging for the limited re-release of the iconic Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim Camera for Four Corner Store, a shop that specializes in toy cameras. 75 units were created for the limited edition.

Our friend Halley Tsai checked out Camper’s New “House of Shoes”, designed by Shigeru Ban, which opened in NYC on Tuesday evening in Soho. Shigeru Ban’s signature paper tubes make an appearance in the design, in the form of a gable roof. The tubes are a temporary art installation, but they contribute to the concept of a “House of Shoes”

Using the Camper red and white colors, a design was created which has the floor to shelving at the back wall of the store. The angled fin walls of the shelving units each have a piece of the Camper logo. When viewed from Prince Street on angle the logo is read as a complete word. From the Greene Street view, the letters are broken.

The dimensions of the shelving unit correspond to red stripes on the concrete flooring and to the corrugated red and white ceiling. Furniture in the store is designed by Shigeru and fabricated by Artek.

The original exterior windows and walls between the structural piers were demolished. In place are sliding floor to ceiling glass doors which open the entire facade on Green and Prince Streets in the warmer weather, so that it feels like an open market on its site on the corner.

All photos were taken by Halley Tsai, except where noted otherwise. Thanks, Halley!

Sketch: Shigeru Ban

Photo Credit: Billy Farrell Agency

I love the angled fin walls that display the Camper logo when viewed at the right perspective, but which are broken up and abstract when viewed from other angles.

The seating area is made up of elements from Shigeru Ban’s 10-Unit-System.

Shigeru Ban and Miguel Fluxá, Camper’s general manager, discussing the collaboration. Shigeru Ban felt that the original building looked lonely, so he added the paper tube gable roof to visually suggest a home.

Studio DUNN recently released some beautiful new pieces. The Corliss Chair has a fluid shape and appears to be made of continuous hardwood construction, but in reality consists of a maple seat and a handcrafted aluminum back.

The Narragansett Bowls mimic the shells found on beaches along Rhode Island, and were inspired by Native American traditions of plating food on a variety of shells.  Available in brass or cast iron, the Narragansett Bowls create an earthy vessel to display edible or decorative items.  Exposed edges embellish angular shadows thrown from their bends.

The Coddington Vase is a sweet decorative container that provides a shallow vase for buds, or a display for fruit or other small objects.

NYC Department of Records digitized a huge cache of historical documents recently, including some creepy Police evidence.

These pieces of jewelry by Moldarina are so beautiful! They are from the new collection, Talking About People, and all of the pieces are handmade with cotton fabrics, linen, and hand-painted wood beads.

New print release! We are so excited to be working with artist Harry Diaz again (his last print with The Working Proof was Same Sun), to offer this weeks’ print Deep Sea. I love the combination of bold lines, symbols and the blue/green colors. The way the paint is applied through the screens for the print, heightens the feeling of being underwater, adding a subtle sense of movement to the graphic print. This print perfectly accomplishes Harry’s original purpose:

I was invited to a group show in May and Deep Sea was my submission for it. The title of the show was “Creatures From The Deep.” Ironically the printshop where I printed these used to be an aquarium shop called “Deep Sea.” Hence the title of the print.

Beautiful and touching short – Crayon Dragon by Toniko Pantoja. When watching this, I was thinking about how much the things I draw are related more to the things I see with my eyes than the things I see with my brain. We could all use a little more imagination.

Designer Pete KL launched a collection of Modular Memoro blocks at the Pratt booth at ICFF this weekend. The students were challenged in a collaboration between Pratt and Herman Miller to create objects that promote physical and mental well-being.

The Modular Memoro blocks encourage active engagement with one’s cherished memories, and allow for countless configurations of tablescapes to create a stage for the stories of the objects you collect and treasure.

In addition to the standard collection of Modular Memoro blocks, Pete collaborated with friends and designers to come up with an Artist’s Series of Memoro blocks, including a solid ebony block decorated with gold leaf by Lucia Oceguera (above), and a collaboration between two artists, MP Landis and Les Seifer (below), which includes a piece of art that was folded and mailed between the two artists until one of them declared it finished.

Martin Margiela collaborates with Culter & Gross for their SS12 eyewear collection, and my favorite is the Maison Martin Margiela 8 Cable Temple Sunglasses in black (also comes in tortoise/gold). Classic. It’s all in the details – look at those titanium alloy hook arms. More views and the rest of the collection at oki-ni.