How beautiful a zipper can be!
Reborne Jewelry from Paris creates handmade fine jewelry by using materials like zippers in a very unusual manner.
View more of the current collection that features necklaces, cuffs and bracelets here.
Reborne Jewelry from Paris creates handmade fine jewelry by using materials like zippers in a very unusual manner.
View more of the current collection that features necklaces, cuffs and bracelets here.
This was one of my favourite products in DMY 2009 and can now be bought for 15,- EUR online at designspray.

Personality Socks by chris&ruby.
Lately it came to my mind that the wood craft from German Erzgebirge could serve as a source of inspiration for modern character design.
Those Ergebirge miners from about 150 years and even earlier ago developed quite a mania choosing simple forms and shapes, long before Oskar Schlemmer created his Triardisches Ballett.
Having that in mind I stumbled across this exhibition in Berlin Torstrasse presenting these plain big guys:

Nussknacker
by David Mallon
Maison Mallon
Torstrasse 76

Head. Hands. Heart. We believe that there is a real connection between craftsmanship and communication. Working together as a group of skilled craftsmen we fuse contemporary design (Meyer) and the art of storytelling (Miller) with cutting edge technology (Smith), relentlessly pushing into new territory by creating pioneering work.
As information and intelligence becomes the domain of computers, society will place more value on the one human ability that cannot be automated: Emotions.
People want to experience beauty, enjoy one’s work, feel passion, they want to interact with each other. We all want.
That’s why we believe that the future of brands is interaction, not commodity. It’s not something you buy, but something you participate in.