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Laura Lampugnani

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This guy’s a damn hot head

Have you always wanted to keep your head warm with an enormous slice of pizza? Now you can. Australian master of knitting Phil Ferguson, FKA ChiliPhilly, is now breaking the Instagram with his collection of amazingly croqueted hats, each one of which is shaped in the form of a different pop and colorful type of …

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My Santa is better than yours

Tired of the classic Dickensian Christmas cards, all reindeers and crackling fireplaces? This year you can amaze your fashionista friends with a finally up to date Santa, to enrich your presents. Great people from Joint (huge creative agency in London) have dressed him up as a perfect Sartorialist subject – Kenzo, Marni, Raf Simons or …

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The sky is your canvas

OK, starting from now, the sky is a better place to dream of. French artist Thomas Lamadieu / aka Roots Art / has decided to start taking fisheye photos of buildings, whenever he steps into some place he likes. The sky so becomes a sort of negative space he uses like a canvas: superb stories …

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Rock band Icons

Are you in the mood for a little music quiz? Spanish graphic design studio Tata&friends has produced this huge set of “rock band icons”, minimal posters which rewrite the names of famous bands through pictograms. Hot yellow background and black thick lines will make you whisper a silent “wow”. Let’s start the game, can you …

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A handy marketing guide?

Maybe because the sun of culture is low and so dwarves cast long shadows, but fictional Don Draper is nowadays considered the ultimate honorary marketing god. So the award winning Liverpool based Glow, web design and digital marketing agency, has decided to create a witty and eye-candy infographic cating his best quotes. In the end, …

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Packaging guys really know how to cha-cha[nel]

OK, in the last day almost everything has already been said about the 80 y.o. French kiddo’s ultimate coup de théâtre. Yes of course it’s Karl Lagerfeld and yes of course it’s Chanel show at Paris Fashion Week and yes of course it’s Chanel Shopping Center at Grand Palais. I absolutely don’t want to play …

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Hungry of new horizons? Enjoy foodscapes

That’s-food-for-your-hungry-eyes. There’s nothing more to say: this stunning series of Foodscapes by London-based photographer Carl Warner is actually created out of fresh foods and will leave you breathless! Recently famous for his other series of (naked) Bodyscapes, Carl has been working in advertising and shooting still lives for over 25 years, and has been developing …

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A summer dejavu: oh, turntables!

Dreaming of a picnic moment, green grass and lemonade, a checkered table cover, white linen dresses? Or a lonely beach, raccoon hats? Wes Anderson would appreciate it, but of course with a musical touch: you need an object which would change your summer memories forever – a portable, romantic and f*ing beautiful turntable. Crosley, a …

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Cassettes won’t listen

The discreet charm of outmoded objects is still safe and sound: from typewriters to intercoms, from lomo cameras to dial telephones to vinyls, all of us is secretly in love with every stuff which once lose in a standard war. The poetry of defeated objects continues living in an actual celebration of their shapes and …

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Inside the Music – Print Campaign

This year, Berliner Philarmonic Orchestra wants to touch our inner chords. No tricks, no vectors, no graphic art: Berliner agency Scholz & Friends has created this astonishing print campaign using macro photographs taken inside the cramped spaces of classical instruments. You can experience the inner worlds which silently live hidden in violins, cellos, flutes, guitars …

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Back to Basics: from paper to paper

Welcome back Eigthies! Thanks to the creative duo of Zim&Zou (Lucie Thomas + Thibault Zimmermann, both 25 y.o.), a French studio based in Nancy, 80’s style is now alive and fluo in form of paper sculptures. This series, ’80s pieces of design and tech, is one of their best ones in terms of incredible “paper-living” …

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Art + Copy is the new Sonny + Cher

All famous couples in history made the difference through their complementary qualities. Think to Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Starsky and Hutch, Bart and Milhouse, Andre Agassi and Brooke Shields, Roger and Jessica Rabbit, John and Yoko, Mulder and Scully, Will and Grace, Thelma and Louise, Batman and Robin, Catherine …

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Eatiquette, a dinner etiquette

If forks, dishes and spoons were real, they would probably look like the Great Gatsby or maybe Don Draper. At least, according to the opinion of Australian stylist and art director Sonia Rentsch, who created a delicious set of still life compositions which actually explain the art of setting the table giving cutlery a human …