It might be a bit pretentiously presented (complete with cute little rusticated tags), but would you be less than boastful if you brought together so many elements in one design? These clever works are a combination of local, free-trade,…

Paper has a poor reputation as flimsy, failing on various material fronts including general durability and appearance, not to mention its vulnerability when wet – making these furnishings look at first implausible, then ingenious. There is a silver (or…

Have an unsightly seat you would like nothing more than to disguise? Perhaps the metal frame is rusting, the wood seat is splintering or the plastic-back surface finish is wearing a way. Whatever the reason, there is a cheap…

[ Filed under More or in the Fashion & Style category ] Clothed in paper as skinny as she is, this model looks about as natural and comfortable as the dresses designed around her. Even as women’s evening wear…

[ Filed under Various Rooms or in the Interiors category ] There are a number of good reasons for designing houses with right angles and standard roof slopes, and avoiding odd-angled intersections or (more complex yet) curves. Still, if…

[ Filed under More or in the Art of Design category ] Taking the new title for the world’s largest free-standing house of playing cards, this delicate new art structure took nearly a quarter-million cards to make – and…

[ Filed under More or in the Industrial Design category ] Counting calories? Worried about your weight or just want to worry less about what you consume? Forget food: if all you want is something tasty to snack on…

[ Filed under Tableware or in the Furnishings category ] There are some difficult decisions that are made over and over again in the realm of industrial design. Two of them exist in tension within this unusually elegant series…

[ Filed under Portable or in the Architecture category ] There are many marvelous ideas for turning old buildings into new habitable structures, but unless the existing units are modular the plans can rarely apply to multiple similar structures…

[ Filed under More or in the Gadgets & Tech category ] How about a portable desktop printer that prints out pages you can erase? Beyond being a great, green and cheap alternative to buying endless colored ink cartridges,…