Custom ZARB Champagne Bottles

Interesting custom champagne bottle designs by Dutch design label, "They" for the new ZARB Champagne brand...

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Happy Halloween!!

To celebrate Halloween this year, we went and found some of the best pumpkin carvings out there.

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Maurizio Savini Chewing Gum Sculpture

Check out these freaky sculptures by Maurizio Savini. They are all made with fibreglass and pink chewing gum. Mario Codognato wrote about his work:

"The sensual act of chewing, the voluptuous warmth of rebelling saliva, the artificial and secretly aseptic fragrance which spreads from the mouth as a promise and missed kiss. The synthetic fleshliness of the pink color, the obsessive square shape of the product unwrapped and ready to be shred to pieces by the power of the tongue, all compete in crashing on the senses. Applying all this to the power and energy of the Sculpture and its history causes a short circuit having the capacity of turning the ludic into stately and vice versa."

Ummmm, ooook...whatever you say Mario....







Many thanks again to Adriana Wong for the heads up!

San Francisco in Jell-O

Thought this was an interesting photo/art project by Liz Hickok..
"This project consists of photographs and video, which depict various San Francisco landscapes. I make the landscapes by constructing scale models of the architectural elements which I use to make molds. I then cast the buildings in Jell-O. Similar to making a movie set, I add backdrops, which I often paint, and elements such as mountains or trees, and then I dramatically light the scenes from the back or underneath. The Jell-O sculptures quickly decay, leaving the photographs and video as the remains."







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O-No Sushi Sets By Andrew Bell

This is a very original toy set created by artist, Andrew Bell who has now made 3 editions..with the Purple one being the newest incarnation of his evil sushi packs. The red and green sold out pretty quickly and so will the purple! Get 'em from HERE.




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Greener Gadgets Competition

The third annual Greener Gadgets design competition was held in New York earlier this week.
First prize went to a gadget called Augmented Living Goods. It's a concept for a cellphone app to help people choose local and sustainably produced groceries.
A user would scan the barcode of an item in a shop, and their cellphone would then inform them where it came from and whether or not it is in season, and relate its price history and comments from others who have already bought it. It was designed by Shane Blomburg, John Healy, Seth Laupus and Andrew Reeves. The other entries can be seen here.

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Punk Cupcakes Look Delicious

Now that's a cool present to receive!
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The Geekiest Bento Boxes

You know you're a geek when your lunch looks like this.

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London Skyline Made Of Vegetables

An Artist has created London's skyline out of 26 different types of fruit & veg. It took 3 weeks to create with a team of 5 sculptors for the Good Food Channel.



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Divorce Cake Art

I didn't even know people had 'divorce' parties, let alone make special cakes to signify the demise of your relationship with your unsignificant other.....(I also love how the cake designers put a lil bit of graff on the sides too!)




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The Kiss Of Tea And Coffee

Ying-Yeung is a popular drink in Hong Kong, made up of coffee and tea. Artist, Tsang Cheung Shing from Hong Kong, used this concept to create his sculpture, entitled YuanYang II. The kiss not only represents a Hong Kong cultural thing but also is a symbol of love and marriage...


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Nike Air Max 90 Burger

A tasty shoe created by Olle Hemmendorff
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Giant Wiimote Cake

Last week, a 9-year-old boy received the birthday cake of his life in the form of a giant Wiimote.
At the request of one very loving parent, pastry chef Roshel Michaeli from Schicks Gourmet Bakery got to work meticulously measuring the Wiimote before scaling it to feed a small to medium army of children. The chocolate cake with mousse filling was coated with (edible) rolled fondant, depicting the Wiimote's buttons in perfect detail—including even a properly shaped expansion port in the bottom.
The custom cake cost $360, but we have a feeling that it's a memory the child will not soon forget. Though without a strap, this thing will make a huge mess all over the TV.

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