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I am not one prone to envy but the studio that Bark Design Architects, a small Australian practice located in Noosa Heads, Queensland, have designed for themselves to work in, has me turning shades of green.

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Loving the thoroughly engineered raw functionlism of the Studio System 1 + Worklight from Teenage Engineering.

Gucci’s towering Peep-toe bootees!

Via Jak & Jil blog.

Loving the rustic feel of this desk/chair combo from Japanese furniture designers, Tokuhiko Kise and Hiromi Karatsu, aka Truck Furniture.

A great archive of photographs of the work of Mid-Century Modernist architect William Krisel over on PS Modcom (The Palm Springs Modern Commitee), together with a collection of his hand drawn renderings.

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I am indebted to Daniel for giving me the heads up on this white Olivetti Valentine S typewriter, designed by Ettore Sotsass in 1969 and on sale from City Furniture.

He says he wants it too but I am willing to fight him for it (and I reckon I am harder than he is).

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Another fine example by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office, displaying their ability to make concrete beautiful through clever juxtaposition with other materials and the use of light.

Built in an area of Hiroshima where there are no outdoor gardens, they have created the kind of place that you could almost call a real garden, with  sunlit rooms using natural materials and raw finishing in an effort to evoke elements of the outdoors and bring a sense of the garden indoors.

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Isn’t that a portable Panasonic Travelvision from the early 1980’s…?

(…or just a feeble attempt at trying to justify the inclusion of yet more gratuitous nudity in one’s blog?)

Via Retrodoll.

I am loving the keen pricing on the UJ Denim range from UNIQLO. Their prices are always pretty good but with jeans going from £14.99 to £24.99 that’s darn good value.

If you are a guy, go here.

If you are a lady, go here.

Nice work on the ad campaign too, by MP Creative.

This neat identity system for ‘media architects’ Zweidrei is just one of many cool projects by Berlin based designer Till Wiedeck, aka HelloMe.