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Like The Standard Hotel itself, the three designers chosen to highlight the hotel's three locations with limited edition shirts are anything but ordinary. Contemporary artists Jose Parla, Eric Haze and Natas Kaupas took to the challenge by creating graphic tees that represent their personal street style and handwriting in each of the cities reflected on the front, which include Miami, New York, and L.A. respectively.Parla,...

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Leave it to the Aussies to figure out a way to combine extreme sports with innovative design. Using their own software program, Pixile, the interactive designers at ENESS were able to calibrate video projections of eyeballs onto giant snowballs, creating an eerie Big Brother feeling as skiers go by. Using a laptop and a projector and snow, ENESS illuminated the slopes at Mount Buller until...

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The hallowed halls of New York's MoMA will have a brand new attraction today in the form of an orchestrated "art jump." The phenomenon was spearheaded by Allison Reimus — who runs the blog Jumping in Art Museums — and basically involves jumping for joy in front of a work of art, and oftentimes documenting it. The MoMA jump will go from 6:30 to...

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Few architecture books dare to take on the mantle of Atlas, but "The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture" seems to comfortably wear it. The book is a sequel to Phaidon's 2004 "Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture"—whose general outline and format the current book shares—and by looking at the measly amount of buildings that showed up in magazines between now and then, you would...

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by Tamara Warren In 1989 Chinese students protested in Tiananmen Square, Yo MTV Raps! made its debut and the original Reebok Pump hit the basketball courts. The first of its kind, the iconic sneaker has come a long way since it was sported famously by Woody Harrelson in “White Man Can’t Jump." This week is your last chance (last day is 14 December 2008) to...

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One of my favorite installations at this year's Scope Miami was "Without You Baby, There Ain't No Us," a special Scope project by Comenius Reothlisberger and Admir Jahic of The Invisible Heroes. Fascinated with the YouTube phenomenon, Comenius and Admir have created a series of drawings on handmade paper which document a variety of videos, from the utterly absurd (a video featuring an animated potato)...

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by Laura Neilson When it comes to describing jewelry designer Katherine Sturgis' handmade bracelets and necklaces, oxymorons abound. Stunningly elegant, her pieces are thoroughly rough-and-tumble at the same time. Thick oxidized silver chains entwine with silk thread, thin leather bands and the occasional strand of vintage rhinestones. Sophisticated hardware, glammed-up friendship bracelets, luxe lanyards...the list of dichotomies go on. Just as her jewelry is...

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Although business documents are swiftly transitioning from paper to digital, there's still room for innovative briefcase design. Case in point, Alexandros Stasinopoulos's high-tech concept for BRΙΕFC(eramic)ACE. Though clumsily titled, the case is a sleek, hardshell container that makes extensive use of Zirconium Oxide, an extremely rigid though rarely utilized form of ceramic. The project looks to reconcile the primitive nature of ceramics (think traditional...

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We were recently reminded of Graham & Brown, purveyors of fine wallcoverings, when the Times mentioned their new line designed by Barbara Hulanicki, of Biba fame. The pattern shown here Viva ($60 for a double roll) draws from Hulanicki's Art Nouveau influences. Graham & Brown also carries a variety of designs by several other talents. We love Olivia White's line drawings that make for...

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The PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, which was conceived to bridge the gap between larger, more established fairs and experimental counterparts like NADA, had a particularly strong collection of artists on exhibit this year. Kenneth Tin-Kin Hun recently embarked on a series of artwork documenting the presidency of Barack Obama. A vibrant mash-up of political figures and corporate logos, "HOPE he can CHANGE this shit!" (above)...

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