Design UnLeashed!

Unique among the arts, interior design reflects more about our choice of it than it does of the designer. Its 3-dimensionality, its functionality, its size, color, material, pattern, and many other more subtle dimensions of interior design speak volumes about who we are, where we've been, and what we aspire to. Find here the latest, hottest, coolest, most evocative and cleverest international designs... design that's totally unleashed.

Pawel Grunert Still Finds Time To Design With A 'Re Purpose'

by Toby

Just when you thought you'd seen the last soda bottle chandelier, table, or chair... Polish interior designer Pawel Grunert creates the bottle chair to end all bottle chairs: the Eco Chaise Lounge, a magnificent, dynamic sculptured work that's as organic in design as Grunert 's wood and steel masterpieces.

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The First Cardboard Radio: Now That's Green Design

by Toby

....The internal wiring is all set up in a simple card structure. There's not a lot to the Cardboard Radio; it's not a BOSE®, but it does have its own charm, as well as working parts.

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Will Hipsters Can PBR For The 'New' Budweiser?

by Toby

Bud has fallen 204 slots down to number 220 in consumer loyalty among America's top brands during the last quarter century. But a big new campaign - not a new taste, but some new marketing efforts and a newly designed can geared toward attracting young, but legal-age, drinkers - is underway for Budweiser beer.

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The Fontessa, Gaetano Pesce's Innovative Customizable Shoe

by Toby

If you're not too skittish to plop down $120 on a pair of shoes these days, then you have to have to plop it down on the Fontessa. These fashion firsts, designed by Brazilian architect/artist/designer Gaetano Pesce, are right in step with today's customizable products....

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Chocolate's Answer To Silly Putty: Magic Choc

by Toby

If you love experimenting with food and you love chocolate, Magic Choc is the most delicious way to satisfy both urges. It's a molding chocolate that is so forgiving, you can make dozens of models, like you used to do with Silly Putty, until you can't resist gobbling it up!

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Design Your Last Appearance: Your Final Act Of Self Expression:

by Toby

... a London mortuary, Leverton & Sons, has now teamed up with make-up company to the stars, Illamasqua, to give funeral goers a sight they will never forget: the deceased's 'Final Act of Self Expression," directed by the deceased herself.

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Block Sticky Notes Look Awfully Like A Tetris Party!

by Toby

If there's ever a game that sticks in your mind, it's the almost classic video game Tetris®. So, our friends at Suck UK, never too shy to honor a true classic, have commemorated the 10 year old game with a new design by Ben Ambrose: Block Notes. What cooler way to remind you of your 'to do's?'

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Wooden Bulb Casts Some Spooky Shadows

by Toby

Laser-cut wood creates some dazzling designs, especially when they're lit. The Wooden Bulb, created by Barend Hemmes, a South-African born, UK designer, is indeed dazzling. And when you switch it on, it creates a mood that might be eerie to some, but definitely suspenseful, especially if it's the only light in the room.

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Can't Find The Right Chair? BYOC! (Build Your Own Chair)

by Toby

Now that you've tried at least two dozen 'ergonomic' chairs and purchased about half of them, are you tired of finding out that none of them feel like they did when you tried them in the store? Well, by now, you should know which part of each chair actually felt good. And now is when the folks at BioFit have come up with the BYOC option - Build Your Own Chair.

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A Portable Stereo Speaker That Actually Has Some Style: The Genelec 6000A - Tube

by Toby

No boring boxes to broadcast sound from your computer, TV, or iPad. No, nothing so banal.

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