M.I.A

The MIA program is a showcase of the skate scene in Miami over the last ten years, there some wonderful photographs by Ian O Connor, Frankie Galland, and paintings by Taylor Kienholz.

More photos at Cool Hunting

Karim Rashid

though about half of what Rashid does is questionable, this new chair for Domodinamica is lovely,

images thanks to designboom.

Summer of Love

Branca

This is another great piece from Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility, a london based studio that do lots of minimal pieces and work for the likes of muji,





the design is based on the growth of tree branches. .check out more industrial facility here.

Air Max

Alejandro Aravena

I posted about the pocket chair last week yet for some unknown reason i did not give credit to the man who designed it, Alejandro Aravena is a chilean architect who is known fir his simple and truly effective architecture, here is some of his award winning work.

NIKE MUSIC SHOE

Pieke Bergman and Studio Job

Milan

Way to much stuff to post about from milan, Here are some new Campana Brothers pieces for Edra

ok so this looks like the cousin from the addams family, but its the campana brothers and the rest is great

Daniel Liebeskind's Bauhaus inspired tubular steel chair and table. . .I love the table but that chair is horrific.

Stefano Giovannoni new murano vanity chair and table, only looks nice in the dark colours.

more to come soon

Nacho Carbonell

If you remember i posted some of Nacho Carbonell's work a few weeks ago, he has now done 20 new pieces all on show in Milan (i wish i could be there). Here some lovely images.....

Check out designboom for more!

pocket chair

The ultimate iPad accessory "Chairless" by Vitra will be shown at the Salone this week,

LORCAN MAK

Finally some nice posters for a college election, usually they are awful and made without an ounce of invention but Shane Kenna and Imogen Oh of Little Bike and NCAD have made these posters for superstar DJ Lorcan Mak.

Lighthouse lamp

The Bouroullec brothers cant seem to do anything wrong,

this is the new lamp by Ronan and Erwan, they have created beautiful and simple products for years, check out their website for more, like the steelwood chair below. .

Janos Hubler

applied literature bookshelves

Lik & Neon

Amazing retail interior by Gitta Gschwendtner in London,

more images at dezeen, awesome

Revenge

Revenge from Lernert & Sander on Vimeo.

Sander Plug and Lernert Engelberts have created this wonderfully engaging video.

Tokyo baby cafe

by nendo

the website is lovely too,

Frederik Roije breed and retreat

A new way of life for chickens, this will be shown at Milan this year. The dutch just know how to do things right!