The Tastemakers Society

The best night-light ever. This little man trying to unplug himself is playful and a designed perfectly. It’s how I feel about gummi bears, I try to pull myself away from them but I never manage too. And it’s fitting that the socket man as I call him was designed by a group who call themselves The Play Coalition.

via: dezona

The balance between art and function collide once again for another object eye candy for us, and we can thank Juan Sebastian Beltran for that.

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If the bike world was put on the same scale as the internet the Strida would be the 2.0 version and your Huffy would have faded back in the crazy “bike crash” that spiraled out of control at the early parts of the new century. It was just too much bike funding going around to underperforming bikepreneurs ( bike entrepreneurs). But now we’ve fought through that era learned alot from scrapping back up to the top and now we’ve got the Strida, an easy ride and an even easier fold-up system. The strida can be folded up easily and stored away or stuffed in some large carry-on bag and taken with you somewhere. But just like web 2.0, bike 2.0 is all about making things that much easier for you in life. Watch the fold process step by step after the jump.

Dezeen has a podcast interview with Italian designer Patricia Urquiola while she was at the Design Museum in London. Urquiola talks about her current exhibition, Purely Porcelain, that’s on display until January 25th.

Chair master, not really much like the stair master but the name was good enough to rip off. These 80 chair designs will have you hating your current lack luster seating furniture you refer to as a chair or couch. No look in dismay and envy, and maybe be inspired by some of the best designs for your tush that have surfaced recently. 80 designs at Made in Mundo.

If you’re a furniture company and you are opening up a store or showroom then you need to take notes from Danish furniture company Fritz Hansen. They had Stefano Tagliacarne design their Milan showroom creating a space that envokes fun and buying, because the setup will have you in a gaze only thinking how you could do some more creative stuff around your own house. Chairs on the wall is something I’m looking into right now actually, it should help with floor space.

via: coolboom

Tired of those flat boring to touch wallpapers(I sound like an infomercial) now introducing 3D wallpaper by Daniel Pirsc. Daniel created these 3D porcelain pieces to make your wallpaper more lively and much better looking than that floral pattern at your grandmothers house.

via: design east eu

The Balloona Stool was designed by Natalie Kruch and has a pretty basic but nifty (been wanting to use that word) idea. She took 500 balloons and wrapped, twisted and tied them to a wooden stool. When finished you get Balloona Stool.

via: design milk

The newest non-product from the studio of Sruli Recht is the Bound Skarf. It’s over 3 meters long with pleated black wool bound in ivory cotton and is light weight. The skarf is long enough to be wrapped around your neck or head giving you that complete warmth and comfort, perfect for the winter that’s coming right around the corner. You can purchase the bound skarf at either sruli recht’s website or at Birkiland.

Paper Wars is an exhibition dealing with paper and guns, all the weapons were made out of paper. The exhibition was created by the multidisiplenary design company Postlerferguson based out of the UK who have created works dabbling in many fields of creativity. More paper guns after the jump.

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Guns aren’t exactly what you’d consider nice things, their only function is to hurt, but when you let Yvonne Lee Schultz at them it becomes a whole new story. Yvonne created a series called, Porcelain Pistols, they’re replicas of James Bonds’ PPK guns designed to make the pistols more appealing, like matching them up with tea sets. Yvonne has also made the gun something more tasteful like his chocolate gun.

Belgian Artist Arne Quinze does everything from paintings to sculptural work that would marvel even the best of the creative’s roaming the planet. Arne seems to merge so many aspects into his work, painting, design, architecture, wide array of material use, you only attach the word artist to Arne because their isn’t a word yet that describes all he does. Just looking through Arne Quinze’s website will show you just how many various projects he’s been involved in, and how he’s able to jump from this field to the next seamlessly without a hiccup. Arne clearly doesn’t live by the rules of having limits or boundaries which is why his work explores elements in multiple ways. Enough of me talking just look for yourself.