Combining her love of taxidermy with her love of jewelry, Australian jewellery designer Julia DeVille combines her creative accessory output with the art of taxidermy for a gorgeously morbid result.

Inspired by nature, history, life and death, Julia DeVille's work are emphasizing the beauty of life in relation to its end rather than the standard gruesome morbidity we’ve come to relate with passing on. From the immortalisation of baby animals like kittens and deer with sparkling jewels in their eyes to the molding of gold and silver in the delicate nuances of turtledove bones, Julia DeVille’s work is a celebration of even the shortest breath taken.

Using only animals that have died from natural causes, increasingly DeVille finds that people who have encountered her work and recognize art in the afterlife donate the majority of her materials.

Julia now produces her jewellery under the label DISCE MORI. Her artworks are created under her own name.





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Making clothes hanger from broken chair. That's the idea of Abitudini created by Antonello Fusè from REsign, a body aims art recreating value from wasted objects, which have been rejected by the main stream production process, aiming to create, thanks to the re-use, a new meaning, characterized by a high identity and interpersonal value.

By fixing a metal hook into broken chair back which was cut off at various points, a new object is being created. Giving a second life to old chair that going to throw away. A simple process in creating something useful and provocative.





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Another recycling project from Antonello Fusè. This time Antonello transform unwanted water pipe/ tubes into a series of table and wall lamps. No matter you love it or hate it, these creation will definitely make some 'design statements' in your home.

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A treasure trove of gold, diamonds and precious stones worth billions of pounds has been found from secret underground chambers beneath a 16th century temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

It's like a scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. According to locals, generations of rich Travancore maharajas who built the temple more than four centuries ago secreted immense riches within six of its thick underground stone vaults, three of which had not been opened since 1872. Official sources said vaults 'B' remain to be opened and are expected to disgorge many more royal treasures.

Built in the 16th Century by the kings of Travancore, Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple has been controlled by a trust run by the descendants of the Travancore royal family since Independence. It has historically been a royal temple, but offerings to the Lord Vishnu, in the form of gold and jewellery, have come not just from Travancore kings and other Kerala royalty but millions of ordinary devotees.

"Though we knew that offerings made to the temple by devotees for the last 500 years were lying in these secret cellars, the scale of the treasure has definitely surprised us," temple official Hari Kumar told the Guardian.

Historians estimate the total value of the found treasure to be worth much more as the historical value of the objects recovered would need to be assessed along with their "astronomical" intrinsic value.

Several temples in India have billions of dollars worth of wealth as devotees donate gold and other precious objects as gifts to spiritual or religious institutions that run hospitals, schools and colleges. The Tirumala temple in eastern Andhra Pradesh state is reported to have three tonnes of gold, a third of which it deposited with the State Bank of India last year, while spiritual guru Sai Baba, who died in April, left behind an $9bn estate.




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The brainchild of designer Patrick Marsilli, who build his first model in France in 1988. The Domespace Home is an eco-friendly rotating house with unique structures. Constructed using only FSC-certified wood, the house feature unique system and design allows for the entire structure to rotate. This enables you to orient your home's windows to either face or oppose the sun anytime you want in order to passively balance the internal temperature and reduce energy consumption. This feature also permits a change of scenery any time you wish.

The use of pressure formed wooden arches as the main structural support also procures unparalleled earthquake resistance and integrity due to the lack of perpendicularity to seismic rays. The structures' natural aerodynamic shape provides great resistance to high winds and has been proven to resist hurricane force winds as well.

The structures which only occupied a small foundation also made it versatile for lands that are typically harder to develop and build, such as steep incline, mountain flank or ocean front.

Domespace Home is currently distributed by Solaleya in the US.






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DING3000 is the studio of the designers Carsten Schelling, Sven Rudolph and Ralf Webermann. After their collective studies in Hanover and working for different studios such as Vogt&Weizenegger and Marcel Wanders, the trio started to work together in 2005 designing consumer goods like furniture, luminaires and residential accessories.

Their design philosophy cannot be described by a dogma or an 'ism'. DING3000 design come through a situation which takes place somewhere in between method and magic. The way to the product lies in the search for a new, better, different, unjustly forgotten, humorous idea. Their work is evidence of the pleasure they take in challenging materials, products and not least people's behavior. They often question available solutions and popular assumptions and proceed in a way that is contradictory to them. As a result, DING3000 continually make wonderful discoveries off the beaten track.


BASKETBIN - Paperwaste Basket 2009


Animal Tales - Collection of Objects 2008

DING3000 became known with drafts characterized by profound and charming ideas, such as Pimp My Billy (2005), a series of "tuning items" for "Billy" from IKEA, the world's biggest seller when it comes to shelves, or the S-XL CAKE (2007), a silicone baking pan that bakes a cake whose slices already come in different sizes and shapes.

DING3000 has so far received more than 25 design prizes including the internationally renowned iF Product Design Award, the Good Design Award, the RedDot Design Award and the Design Plus Award. Apart from a multitude of further publications in Germany and abroad, DING3000 work was introduced in several books, among them "Design Now!" published by Taschen, "Furnish" and "Desire - The Shape of Things to Come" by Gestalten publishers.


S-XL CAKE - Baking Mould 2007


PIMP MY BILLY - Add-ons for IKEA Billy Bookshellf 2005

Products by DING3000 are part of the permanent collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe as well as the Museum August Kestner in Hanover and were shown on design festivals and exhibitions, for instance within the German pavilion during the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai.

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The iconic Swiss army knife has just venture into the furniture business! Mexico-based Diablo Design has created the Swiss Lounge- purely inspired from the Swiss army knife. With the glorious red Swiss knife color theme, the lounge chair features a rotate-able seating, which rotate will reveal the coffee table top. So, if the small army knife is not enough for you, own this!

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Magician Dynamo, a relatively unknown illusionist, has performed a stunt in front of public by walking on the water across the River Thames. The magician, whose real name is Steve Frayne, made it half way across the stretch of the river in front of the Houses of Parliament in London before he was picked up by what appeared to be a River Police boat.

Stunned onlookers watched from Westminster Bridge as the magician recorded the stunt for his new TV show Dynamo: Magician Impossible.

So, is this real, or just some publicity for his new TV show?




** A comment from dailymail read:"...If you look closely you will notice that water is flowing around it, that can only mean that there might be something supporting him from beneath the surface. Also, if he would be really walking, he would not hold his arms out like that, he looks like he's trying to balance himself. Which, again, suggests something underneath the surface is supporting him. And last, if the river is so fast flowing, how come he stays in a more or less straight line as is suggested in the artikel? If he would really be walking on the water, he would be walking in a oblique line...

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Part of the light installation for i Light Marina Bay, a free outdoor event to celebrate Singapore's nightscape, the Positive Attracts explores the belief that the optimism of our mental state of mind (4th Dimension) can effect a positive outcome of our physical state (3rd Dimension). The installation consists of the Artist's 9 favourite optimistic visionaries (Heroes) who have used their mental state to effect positive outcomes in their physical world. Inspired by songs such as "Rainbow Connection" and "Somewhere over the Rainbow", these Heroes incubate dreams and will "deposit positivity" to the public as they draw near to the Heroes. Famous quotes written at base of each Heroes will enable the public to guess who they are.




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Hypermach SonicStar, a business jet which will be capable of a top speed of 2,664mph – twice as fast as Concorde; and fly at 62,000ft, allowing passengers to see the curvature of the earth. With that speed, a traveller just need two hours to fly from London to New York, five hours from New York to Sydney, a cut by a staggering 75 per cent from a commercial airliner.

Recently unveiled at the Paris Air Show, the 20-seat plane will be able to cruise at Mach 3.1, a speed made possible by S-MAGJET hybrid gas turbine engine technology; nobody has ever travelled that fast before. Its top speed, however, will be Mach 3.6.




With relatively low fuel consumption, the Sonic Star will overcomes the economic and environmental challenges of supersonic flight. By using electromagnetic currents across the fuselage to suppress the sonic boom, the plane is able to overcome the noise regulations that constrict supersonic travel. It has a range of 6,000 nautical miles and its 54,700 thrust class S-MAGJET engine - actually two engines - is optimised to fly the aircraft at 62,000ft. But it is the reduction in jet engine emissions that HyperMach believes will prove the secret of SonicStar's success.

HyperMach plans to build its engine by the end of the decade and to have the plane itself constructed by 2025.

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Loaded with pile of old magazines, graphic design agency Oktavilla has engaged swedish architect Elding Oscarson in creating a magazine wall for their new office. Part of Oktavilla office refurbishment, instead of using conventional brick works to sepearte the meeting room and open plan workstations, architect Oscarson opt for giving the old magazine a new life.

The magazines were bound in small stack to make blocks similiar to a brick. By using the same principle as laying bricks, the magazine were then line up to form the wall, from floor to ceiling with a large window and double doorway.





Colourful magazine spines create a textural and patterned wall that become the centerpiece of the new office. Beside the soundproofing quality of the thick stack of magazines, the magazine wall also speaks for Oktavilla as a design identity.

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The creation of this sticky note is not the house shape that make it special but the meaning behind. By collecting wooden waste found from building a house, the architects then recycled the waste into paper before making the house shape sticky note. While the idea seems simple, the implication is so great that by using the sticky note- piece by piece, we actually do our part to keep the earth green.

These house shape sticky notes were designed by Naruse Inokuma Architects.





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From the design studio of Glodos, Spain, the BIT is an super stylist children bike- fancy colour, trendy design!

BIT is the ultimate machine to help children take their first steps in the world of two wheels, run on their own and develop their balance, coordination and psychomotor skills. Mixing futuristic with timeless design, clean lines and smooth volumes convey the elegance and simplicity of beautiful, organic things.



BIT features wide wheels to help keep balance and stability. Innovative handlebars integrated into the chassis itself boast an ergonomic, anthropometric design to help ensure a good driving position. The handlebar also act as a convenient carrying handle and a practical hanger in home.

The only question I have is: How the children going to steer direction with the bike? Or the bike just design to move in straight line?




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