Karim Rashid recently designed the new Majik Cafe in Belgrade, Serbia enamoring it with his trademark ‘digipop’ look that is accented with an amalgam of RG LED panels that change the color and mood of the place throughout the day. The restaurant also features a scrolling LED message board that displays customer’s text messages.

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Currently residing in Florence, Serbian-born Draga Obradovic graduated with a degree in painting and has honed her own distinctive designs. She has refined an exceptional technique of directly painting on fabrics imparting an inimitable style that’s a mélange of quaint, contemporary and timeless. Whether it’s a monochrome, floral armchair or a chair boasting quirky, tongue-in-cheek messages, every piece possesses an intrinsically charming appeal that will have you craving to own one.

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Draga Obradovic

Chair couture – the very name bears connotations of sitting pretty or languorously laying atop luxe designs. Margaret Elman has knack for reupholstering French antique furniture by giving them a new lease of life. She creates one-of-a kind, exceptionally vibrant pieces by incorporating audacious prints in recycled polyester and organic cotton. Every fabric has a specific use for every piece of vintage furniture from classical chaise lounges to ornate chairs. The prints range from serene aquatic ripples, sepia-toned dandelion stalks and even lush, verdant patch of grass. For that consummate experience of sitting on a grassy knoll indoors, you might want to commission bergères from Elman.

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Chair Couture

Who needs hideous scaffolding coverage when there’s faux-foliage from Camouflage? The original objective has diversified with Camouflage now used in indoors and stage-backdrops. Designed by Iikka Airas and Markus Wikar, Camouflage is created from sheets of tarpaulin and the installation is devised to incorporate a three-dimensional effect once it’s hanged. In a city with a proliferation of construction cranes and towering edifices, Dubai can certainly do with this scaffolding makeover. Additionally, I can’t think of a better way to eliminate unsightly advertising rife on the half-constructed, let alone finished, structures.

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Camouflage

Plant is a public furniture collection that consists of benches and fences that have LEDs integrated into them which the intention that they will glow and light up in the night. The Leds are solar powered so they get their energy during the day.

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Goodmorning Technology

Noa Bembibre is a Spanish designer and has unveiled her unconventional calendar for 2008. Whimsical typography leaps out and the coloured letters denote the month. The quirky expressions bound off the wall and will definitely initiate banter.

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Noa Bembibre

In this day and age of double speak, it isn’t such a stretch to see Peace symbols made aggressive by combining them with symbols of violence i.e. the Bomber plane, a Noose, a Rifle – all part of a collection of accessories by New York based designer Brian Crumley.

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Crumley

Brilliant packaging by Goodmorning Technology for Widex, a hearing aid company by creating slits on the outside cover so that when you slide the box, it shows the waveform underneath the cover through the incision thus animating the audio image.

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Goodmorning Technology

Miss Geschick & Lady Lapus is a collection of shock apparel and accessories that includes such novelties such as Hairy, a pair of underwear that has fake hair drawn in strategic locations, or Chewy Beauty, which is a chewing gum shaped hair clip.

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Mis Geschick & Lady Lapsus (via RFC)

‘Smile’ is graphic designer Alex Bec’s cheeky attempt at an all out war against misery by spreading ’smile’ stickers that subvert otherwise ordinary, mundane objects.

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Alex Bec

Blow is a new Bubble inspired lamp from designer Agustin Otegui.

Inspiration

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Agustin Otegui – Blow

American sculptor Forrest Myer’s upcoming exhibition in November includes an installation of ‘furniture’ sculpted with wire.

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Friedman Benda Gallery

Kirsten Hassenfed’s Dans La Lune is very much a delightful jaunt across magical realms. Lush with elaborate details yet stark in its colour scheme, this installation is simply ethereal. Abound are concatenation of stars ensconced in domes, miniature gazebos, winsome cameos aglow, translucent feminine tchotches and illuminated orbs all adorned with trimmings, crystals, curlicues and scalloped edges. Everything is handmade with extraordinary finesse from paper and intricately layered, embellished and garlanded. The entire tableau is a captivating wonderland.

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Rice Gallery : Hassenfeld

Recent noteworthy accessories from a recent Marc Jacobs including a Legos inspired belt buckle that hasn’t hit the market yet and a blocky bracelet, pictured below.

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Marc Jacobs (via Kanye)

During a recent excursion to Hong Kong, Sensory attended Hong Kong based artist Carrie Chau Wun Ying’s art show that has become an annual event for the past four years. This year’s show was titled “I’ve never been a troublemaker”.

More Images after the jump.

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Fashionistas are well acquainted with Moschino’s whimsical and witty pieces that take design to new frontiers. Now, Moschino have breezed into the world of interiors with their definitive epic-chic lamps: the bag, the boot and, my favourite, the bustier. A definitely witty way to recycle designer accessories!

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Moschino

They could have started out as an impeccable rectangular slabs (in flouro-hues or pristine white) bearing the fundamental promise of erasing inane and not-so-silly errors. But erasers are soon transformed into scruffy little lumps that are indifferently discarded. The chu-keshi eraser however is already endowed with oblique edges and thusly far likely to feel like a beloved pair of jeans or a tiny talisman.

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Nendo

Ah, slot this one under “Endlessly Amusing Time-Killer”. Paper Critters is an online creation tool for creating and sharing boxy digital toys. With an easy drag-and-drop editor together with various stencils and drawing tools, you can enhance the features of your toy (wacky eyebrows? yes please). You can even personalize the critter by uploading one of your own images (or sworn foes). Once completed, the critters can be shared by emailing it across or simply sending the permalink as well as adding it to a blog or website.

All creatures can be viewed in The Colony and, what’s more, you can customize creatures that already exist and give it your own spin without affecting the original. All creatures have a rating feature: Cute/Evil; Loyal or Rebel.

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Paper Critters

What can one do with a non-functional pair of headphones that are destined for the bin? Why recycle them as earrings (iRings) of course! Yet another one for the ‘Why Didn’t *I* Think of That?!’ files.

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Felipov

This one’s self-explanatory: a mega-sized indispensable object transformed into functional furniture; allowing an essential yet constantly obscured object be disclosed for a change.

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Finnish Design Shop: Screw Table

While designing the space for the 2007 collection of 100% Products, Nendo decided to lock the entire exhibit – furniture and all on to the wall surface. The spatial hack was intended to create attention by allowing the viewer to see the exhibit from a floor above. In addition, any visitor the booth would end being part of the exhibit by appearing to be walking on the wall of the room.

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Nendo

Tjep was asked by the ROC professional training school in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands to design the new reception area of the economics department.

In return, they created a space that represented the complexity and diversity of economical processes in modern society: A conference room in the shape of a factory, the origin of industrial goods; A reception desk formed by abstracted crate shapes, representing transportation; a meeting table in the shape of a five meter long key, representing real-estate but also a world of opportunities for graduated students; Stools as calculator buttons, numbers being the language of economics; A table football game with it’s scaled down stadium, representing the economics of leisure; And finally, at the center of the floor design we find a student with a huge heart, a little reminder that the heart should be the starting point of economic decisions.

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Tjep

Once upon a time Italian designer Alessandro Mendini created a special vase for Alessi. In order to make it even more special, Alessi gathered an army of hundred artists and designers to customize the vase. Each custom design was replicated on a hundred vases thus creating a collection of ten thousand limited edition vases that were auctioned off. This was in 1989. On November 1st this year, they’ll be doing their fifteen event in San Francisco. Unfortunately, We can’t make it but you can.

To attend, please RSVP no later than October 25, 2007 to 212-353-1383 or RSVP15@bdeonline.biz. Just Remember 10% of the night’s proceeds will benefit Creativity Explored, a nonprofit visual arts center where artists with developmental disabilities create, exhibit, and sell art.

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Event Info: Thursday, November 1, 2007, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Alessi San Francisco, 424 Sutter Street (at Stockton Street), San Francisco, CA

Genius new CD packaging for Vonnegut Dollhouse that literally turns into a paper doll house.

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Rethink Communications (via The Serif)

If you don’t know Atypyk, you aren’t a regular around here. Atypyk is a secret cabal of design geeks who conspire to remix everyday objects into cheeky statements.

Consider their latest update – A 6 Pack of Cans that act as a Vase, a Non slippery Banana Peel (It’s a Sticker), a Brand Puzzle to indoctrinate your kids early on, a necklace made out of gold plated pasta, gold plated badges, a lighter you can flip in order to decide whether you should light or not, Sugar cubes that are shaped like candy, and a t-shirt that looks like you have a tarantula spider on your back.

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Atypyk

Somewhere in the world, there’s a club waiting to give this alcohol inspired sofa set a home.

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Abhinav Dapke

Employing stringent simplification by using only cardboard and glue, Chris Gilmour’s creations provoke an enhanced appreciation of everyday objects. Gilmour’s interpretations of familiar objects using only a single material – cardboard – add a certain quixotic appeal and provoke us to perceive these commonplace objects in a distinct conceptual light.

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Chris Gilmour

These nifty little purses don’t just apply to fizzy beverage fans. Fashioned out of recycled aluminium tabs, all these bags have a nylon liner and a zipper closure and come in a variation of sizes; the Chica Rosa is the perfect party clutch. What’s more, the bags are all handmade in Brazil by Women’s Cooperatives. As green living gathers steam, these are ideal for your inner eco-warrior.

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Ecoist

This one’s for those averse to actually employing their fingers when it comes to food. A bit squeamish about tucking into a condiment-laden canapé or perhaps that bowl of nuts everyone dips their fingers into? Fear not, this set of miniature cutlery comprising a fork, knife and spoon should erase your intense hygienic fears. The economic size means you can always be prepared by tucking this set into your pocket or clutch. Just make sure to keep it away from the prying fingers of toddlers.

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Despite their design, a crossover between improvised trash-bin liners and mutated bonnets, the Office Collar is the perfect spatial isolators. Imbued with the pledge of seclusion, these are ideal to quickly strap on whenever you have a looming deadline or simply to deter irksome colleagues loitering near your elbow for some idle palaver. On the downside, obstructing peripheral vision is extremely detrimental to the industrious employee image as it impedes swift reach to those precious alt + tab keys.

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Office Collar