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Seems hardly graffiti on the city? YrWall provide you a new experience form the latest technology. It’s an interactive drawing art tool where users create virtual digital graffiti on a large wall using a modified spray paint can. The basically graffiti with a can that contains no paint, only a button and IR light source which is tracked using a computer vision system! Enjoy the free interaction graffiti device, however that shit never ever could replace the real graffiti on the wall place!

FREITAG presents a unique limited art edition which cooperation with the Tate Modern London, the Mori Art Museum Tokyo, Palazzo Grassi Venice and the Museum of Contemporary Art L.A. The one-off versions of it’s F52 Miami Vice shopping bag that swapping truck tarps for exhibition banners from these world-leading modern art galleries. FREITAG will release a collection of the museum bags online for each week in August 2009.

Here is the schedule

06.08.2009 TATE Modern, London
13.08.2009 MORI ART Museum, Tokyo
20.08.2009 PALAZZO GRASSI, Venice
27.08.2009 MoCA, Los Angeles

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This door chain concept designed by Artemy Lebedev fell into the category of a good joke. If you have a visitor you might have a dialog like this : “I’ll be right there, hold on!“, just for a seconds …  “Just one more minute, I’ve almost got it!“, because the chain is long enough to reach the far end of the maze. Someone thinksit would help you protect your home against unauthorized entry., but I just contribute it as a time challenge!

How do you think about trash to treasure! Since 2004, Miami-based Ecoist has been at the cutting edge of eco-fashion. From their candy wrapper bracelets and purses to their recycled movie billboards collection of bags, belts, placemats…etc. Ecoist founders Helen and Jonathan are bringing fashion accessories to a new level. In order to saving waste from landfills, they didn’t just stop at candy wrappers, they also use food packaging, soda labels, subway maps, and newspapers to weave together their stylish and study handbags.

Source: Ecoist

For the energy crisis, fuels become most important role in nowadays. Changed plastic bottled water into boxed water that is kinder to the environment and gives back a bit! Even through the website said” About 90% of the Boxed Water container is made from a renewable resource, trees.” I still wonder that could be more recyclable?

Source: boxedwaterisbetter.com

We always have something to say yet! The Sound Advice Project helps some parents record an inspirational message about the drug abuse to their lovely children. Therefore, think big in the forte, custom made would more suit for couple!

The ‘pack chair’ by designer François Azambourg is made of cloth and comes rolled up in a little pack. When a chair becomes necessary, you simply unroll it and flick a switch on the side.The switch activates a polyurethane mixture inside the cloth which expands into foam in seconds, and presto, you’ve got a full size, completely solid chair.

We have seen Roberto Cavalli and Nathalie Rykiel designed Coca-Cola Light Dresses. Now the Spanish designer Manolo Blahnik has been chosen by Coca-Cola Light this year to pay his famous bottle. Available since early January in a limited edition of 10 000 pieces, it is only sold in only a few stores (like Colette). Which one do you prefer? Cavalli, Rykiel, or Manolo Blahnik?

Source: LE BLACK BOOK

Have you ever seen in movies there is an innovative design that aims to tackle the growing loss of front gardens to car park space in urban areas? A West London resident decided to combine the garden with the parking space together, and he has developed a unique design to deal with the loss of front garden areas to car parking space in urban environments. The final result is very practical and it shows how a beautiful garden and parking space can be combined to help maintain the aesthetic appearance of a street.

source:bigfatcars