SodaStream Pure

“Stop lugging and storing heavy, bulky bottles, and save money while you help protect the environment. Machine helps reduce bottle and can waste by over 90%, and eliminates transport costs.

Enjoy refreshing sparkling water and soda by itself or as a foundation for cocktails. Innovative and environmentally friendly SodaStream Pure home soda maker quickly and easily turns ordinary water into delicious sparkling beverages at the touch of a button.”

From: Sur La Table via Better Living Through Design

“Taste Explosion: Make meal times a blast with Taste Explosion, the porcelain grenade salt and pepper shakers. Add a bit of boom to your dining room.” From Yanko Design via Better Living Through Design

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“Made from 100% sustainable recycled polyester. Handprinted and handmade in the USA with environmentally-friendly inks with no chemical waste or disposal generated. All paper waste from this process is repurposed as shredded packing material. Product is recyclable at the end of its life-cycle.” See more at Inhabit: Wall Art and Pillows

mini-e is a child-sized replica of the1956 Eames lounge and ottoman by Charles and Ray Eames.

mini-e sits on an aluminium swivel base that is affixed as the original. The plywood shell is veneered in walnut with a semi gloss finish. It is comfortably padded and upholstered with soft leatherette in the perfect shade of white. Every detail in the workmanship has been carefully overseen to mirror the designer’s original, creating such a perfect likeness to the classic Eames product it never fails to bring a smile to your face.

dimensions (mm) chair 630w x 600d x 630h ottoman 490w x 430d x 370h

From Little Nest

Street Napkin

20″ x 20″

100% cotton napkin, double folded sewn hem. Embroidered design with dark grey thread.

From Lovegrove & Repucci

Sam Collection

Named for the founder’s grandfather, the Sam Collection is Muu’s debut suite of modern, sustainable furniture. It is made for Muu in the United States by a woodworking family with over three decades of experience. They blend craftsmanship and innovative manufacturing to produce the highest quality furniture for you.

Once you’ve selected the pieces you need, make them uniquely your own with custom MuuPanels.

From Muu Kids

Font Periodic Elements Chart

The Periodic Table of Typefaces is obviously in the style of all the thousands of over-sized Periodic Table of Elements posters hanging in schools and homes around the world.  This particular table lists 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today.

As with traditional periodic tables, this table presents the subject matter grouped categorically.  The Table of Typefaces groups by families and classes of typefaces:  san-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed.

Each cell of the table lists the typeface and a one or two character “symbol” (made up by me simply based on logic), the designer, year designed and a ranking of 1 through 100.

Ranking was determined by statistically sorting and combining lists and opinions from the the sites listed below.  The final overall ranking was achieved depending on how many lists the particular typeface was presented on and it’s ranking on the lists (if the particular source list used a ranking system; some did not, in which case just the typeface’s presence on the list boosted it’s overall score.)  After averaging the typefaces appearances and rankings a composite score was given and the list was sorted on a spreadsheet then finally given an overall score of 1 through 100 based on it’s final resting position.

Unfortunately, the typefaces could not be sorted exactly numerically on the table while at the same time keeping them in groups of families and classes.  It had to be one or the other.  Of course it COULD have been done but I would have had to seriously sacrifice aesthetics of the overall design (i.e. it wouldn’t have come out looking AT ALL like a traditional periodic table.)  However, upon close inspection, you find that at least the typefaces are ordered within their family/class groupings.
From Behance

David Weeks Sing Sing Tray

An exact replica of the trays used in New York’s most notorious prison, the Sing Sing Tray will keep your peas and corn separate. Made of food-safe orange melamine, the Sing Sing Tray and is perfect for hors d’ouerves, a night in front of the TV, or three squares a day. Originally made for Butter in 2004, it was re-issued by Kikkerland in 2007.
From Bonluxat

With the new LaCie iamaKey, inventive storage meets data protection. The key-shaped design is functional and memorable, and the protection that the LaCie iamaKey offers makes it extremely reliable. Best of all, with its 4GB and 8GB models, you can fit an enormous amount of data in a small flash drive. With the universal Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface, iamaKey can be used with both PC and Macs. Hi-Speed USB 2.0 not only offers universal compatibility and cross-platform convenience, but features a hot-pluggable connection and high-speed transfer rates, and is Windows ReadyBoost™ compatible. With its eye-catching design, the iamaKey certainly stands out, but its connector (Gold SIP) is both water- and scratch-resistant, making it one of the most durable and thinnest USB keys on the market. Protective edges on the connectors ensure that you’ll always insert the LaCie iamaKey properly, keeping it usable and safe.
From LaCie