Also from the Danish Crafts show, Jacob Skov’s Stack it! cups, which have interlocking indentations that allow you to stack the cups in a number of different configurations, and Helgo’s ASTACK – a stackable candleholder made up of various aluminuma and wood shapes.

Designboom previewed the Extra Ordinary Craft show at Danish Crafts. There’s some great work in the show – my favorite being Liv Eskholm’s What is Jewellery collection. From the website:

The 24Carat collection is made of 0.7-mm 925 Sterling silver and 0.7-mm gold-plated 925 Sterling silver. The inscription suggests a material value that exceeds the actual value, thus illuminating society’s material focus. In both series, the pieces are designed to appear as randomly cut silver/gold plates. The pin-prick inscription is then added in a simple but time-consuming technique. Finally, the pieces are carefully processed to preserve a simple, raw expression.

Rip Off_ is worn on the body, attached with adhesive tape, while 24Carat has been commercialised by being shaped as an actual brooch, a pendant with a ball chain, and a finger ring. The jewellery has a rough expression, where the only and very simple ornamentation is a pin-prick inscription that conveys the title of the piece in question. The individual pieces in the Rip Off collection are made of 0.5-mm 925 Sterling silver or 0.4-mm 14-carat gold, while the adhesive tape is either white or transparent and selected specifically for skin contact.

Love Chrissy Lau’s submission to Follow the Leader. Chrissy is a freelance illustrator who draws quirky folks – check out her portfolio of work!

The Desert: 128 Miles northeast of Los Angeles from Arkitip on Vimeo.

The latest issue of Arkitip is out, featuring a new body of work created by Steven Harrington and Justin Krietemeyer called The Desert: 128 Miles northeast of Los Angeles.

“Steven & Justin spent several days in Joshua Tree with photographer Brigitte Sire to create this new portfolio specifically for this issue edition. Arkitip went along for the desert drive and asked Felipe Lima to create a video supplement to the stills presented in the latest installment in the Arkitip Chronicles.”

The issue looks awesome – with a photograph of a sculpture created by Steven Harrington on the cover. Each issue includes a feather bookmark that completes the picture, and is wrapped in a 100% Jamaican Cotton Scarf. Love it! In addition, Arkitip has released a limited edition screenprint (20 prints) by Steven Harrington called “Drifter”, featuring the sculpture used for the cover of the magazine. Each is one of a kind.

The structure on the underside of Bram Geenen’s Gaudi Stool is just amazing. It’s made of lightweight carbon fiber and weighs only a kilogram. From Geenen’s website:

The shape of the stool was defined in the same way that Antoní Gaudi designed the structure of his churches; by making a model out of hanging chains, and so letting gravity determine the strongest shape for taking forces.

A thin shell made of carbon fiber deals with the compressive forces. There’s a beam-grid substructure which resist bending of the shell. The substructure was made using rapid-prototyping techniques, to achieve the required complexity. The rapid-prototyped structure was then used as a mold for the carbon-fiber laminates. This combining of these two high-tech techniques decreased costs of both of them, and made them applicable in a functional product.

Via MoCo Loco.

Two great projects from one of my new favorite blogs, For Print Only. FPO showcases their favorite printed projects and provides a breakdown of each project – price, printing specifications, time to produce, etc. It’s a great resource – check it out!

The first project (above) is the San Francisco Center for the Book’s Small Plates edition, Rabbitpox. The book was both written and illustrated by Allison Weiner. Only 100 books were made – I believe it was entirely letterpressed and was saddle-stitched with rabbit fur thread and housed in a handmade box. More specs here.

The second project (below) is a brochure made for Eco-Urban Homes, designed by Toky. It comes with series of individual cards, each which has been laser cut to create an interlocking house of cards. The cover was routed from bamboo and the whole brochure is bound together by a custom rubber band. More specs here.

Commissioned by the city of New York and designed by Fuseproject, the new helmet ‘caps’ are meant to make helmets more customized, more fashionable, and less conspicuous. I think it’s a great idea except for the fact that they almost become more conspicuous because of the added bulk of the ‘caps’ and the bright colors used. And I would rather not wear something that looks like a diaper on my helmet.

If you’re going to go for one with flare, why not check out the Watts helmet by Bern (below). It’s way slicker and they are designed and tested by riders. The shell comes in lots of solids, graphics, and color blocks, it has an integral visor, plus there are lots of options like knit liners and audio hook-ups.

NYC helmet via Wired