The new iPod shuffle. The first music player that talks to you.
The new iPod shuffle is jaw-droppingly small. It’s half the size of the previous generation. Yet there’s room for so much more. With 4GB of storage, it now holds up to 1,000 songs,1 and lets you enjoy multiple playlists, too.
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Ayazpasa Apartment in Istanbul
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The transitional trend became the cure to those who had a traditional element inside their veins but got suffocated in a classical marbelesque residence, and at the same time appreciated and related to the simplicity of modernism but felt too cold around it. You may actually say that the idea of merging these two styles together under one roof was absolutely waiting to happen…
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Totally Rad at the Museum of Arts and Design
The Museum of Arts and Design unveiled their new building this past fall. Among other things, the museum added a new design and innovation gallery that aims to showcase emerging design trends through guest curated shot-term exhibits. ‘Totally Rad’ is their first exhibit in the gallery featuring contemporary radiators as curated by designer Karim Rashid.
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Saskia Diez: ‘Papier’ bags
German-based designer Saskia Diez created a new collection of bags ‘papier’. The different-size travelling bags are made of DuPont™Tyvek®, a synthetic paper that is extremely light but at the same time robust. A silk-screen printing technique was used on the surface of the material. The bags are light, waterproof, recyclable and tear proof.
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Lepidoptera Chair by Simone LeAmon
Australian designer Simone LeAmon has won the 2009 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award for the Lepidoptera Chair. The award focuses on contemporary design in the Australian state of Victoria, and is organized by the National Gallery of Victoria. This year, the award was dedicated to contemporary seat furniture design.
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Noose light by Ana-Maria Pasescu Stewart
Designer Ana-Maria Pasescu Stewart has created a light inspired by a hangman’s noose. The lamps are made from thick rope with a power cable woven into the middle.
Via & more: Dezeen
Jean Nouvel: Building C1 Boulogne Billancourt, France
French architect Jean Nouvel has designed the ‘C1′ building, situated in the heart of a new quarter currently being developed on the former renault factory site at Boulogne Billancourt, France. The building contains about 40 000 meters squared of offices and shops. Construction began in december 2008 and the project is expected to be completed by 2011.
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The Fawcett Ranch House has been listed at $2.7 million
Although a house that was designed in the 1950’s might be pushing the limits on what is generally considered to be contemporary, we’re making an exception in this case because it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who was well ahead of his time. The Fawcett Ranch House, which was designed by Wright in 1954, has been put up for sale. Located on 80 acres of farmland in California’s San Joaguin Valley, the 3,800 square foot residence has had only one owner.
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959 launches collection of recycled seatbelts bags
50 years since it first came into use the traditional seatbelt has found itself a new role in life with the new 959 bag range. 959 has kept the idea of the seatbelt whilst transforming it into a collection of bags made entirely out of material recuperated from scrap yards.
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