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HolmbackNordentoft just created a new set of graphic-looking black knives for Stelton. An instant classic!

One thing upfront. I do not care how this thing sounds. Looking like a pair of ultra-futuristic robotic E.T. eyes is reason enough for my gadget lust. The BeoSound8 encapsulates the Bauhaus movement perfectly, with simple shapes and obvious usage. Dieter Rams will be proud.

To match your personal taste and the room you place it in, BeoSound 8 comes in either black or white with aluminium details and matching power cord. When you feel the need to add a splash of colour to the room, the list of options includes six fabric speaker covers in lavender blue, purple, green, yellow, black and white.

Have a game with your cuppa! Concept from Danil Zdorov.

For a little more fun in our daily lives, Taiwan design company bitplay has created a design concept for Bang!, a lamp that shoot the lights out. You fire a gun at the lamp to turn it off. The light goes out and the lampshade knocks to the side, showing that it’s been hit.

This is a brilliant brilliant idea! Soap Flakes by Nathalie Stämpfli gives you the hygienic plus side of liquid soap, where you don’t have to be touching the wet bar soap of the previous user, and the plus side of bar soaps, which are great at saving space in shipping containers instead of moving water all around the globe.

Today, most of the soap we use is liquid soap, which contains a lot of water. Block soap instead is more concentrated and therefore has some ecological benefits: You don’t transport unnecessary water around. In place of plastic bottles you can simply use paper for packaging. The solid blocks can easily be piled and allow a greater space efficiency in a truck.

Give anything a pair of arms and suddenly it becomes a living thing, with emotions, expressions and moods. Buy it now, at krasznai

A perfectly flexible vase, where you can swap out the neck to suit different arrangements. Truly a vase for every occasion. by dutch design outfit Vij5.

I am a notebook hoarder. I have so many of them I can never finish using them. Yet I continuously buy more and more of them. Of all the notes books that I have ever used, the one thing I really wished I have is a pen holder! There is never a right place for them between notebooks. Finally, the Pen holder Pen Clip by Stefan Diez made for Authentics solves my problem by attaching itself to any note book and any pen or pencil. Now I can have my pen eaxactly where it needs to be, beside my notebook!

Kate Moross has a new collab with watch manufacturer Firetrap that is all colours and crazy graphics. ZAP!

While you are at it, check out her amazing body of work for all sorts of droolworthy clients.

For the people in  your life who cannot decide if they prefer barbecued delights or a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet. Now they don’t have to choose!

I am having some serious lust over this Killspencer bag its not funny. Too bad Christmas is over and my New Year Resolution is to start saving up. But gifts from friends, on the other hand, are perfectly acceptable.

Perfect for folks where exact timing does not matter as much as style.. the ZIIIRO watch.

The ZIIIRO Gravity presents a simple and unique way of reading time. The tip of the inner swirl represents the current hour, while the outer swirl displays the minutes, with a continuous gradient movement showing the passing through time. Resting on our patent pending bracelet strap, it combines silicone and metal to form a flexible bracelet watch. This model also features an interchangeable clock body switchable with multi color straps. ZIIIRO Gravity comes in 6 colors of white, red, green, yellow, blue and magenta.

Aren’t these the cutest wooden USB drives ever? Designed by Lambria and made by hand out of wood, these are surely a must for friends who still used the USB stick drive thingys. 

This credit card case from Paul Smith is right up my alley, in bright orange tie dye print on iguana leather, with purple stripped lining!

Using the first domino to show the hour, and the last two dominos showing the minutes, Carbon Design Group creates a truly original clock that is actually useable.

A perfect wallet for the season! Now go ahead and buy it at Darkroom

Here’s a device who cannot decide if it wants to be a wall-driller or a wine-opener… so its both! buy it at Amazon!

I always love the idea of making something seem like its something else.( I am sure there’s a big word for that, but I digress.) Raw Edges, an Israeli firm formed by Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay, from whom we recently loved their Coiling Chairs, created a ceramic tile resembling folded paper. The result is something that seems fragile and tactile. Comes in three models, maxifolded, midifolded and minifolded. via experimenta

Daniel Weil latest extraordinary project is a clock, its parts stripped from each other and displayed for the word to see. All the basic runnings of the a clock is there, beautifully presented, all plated in chrome. I especially love how the numbers for the hours and seconds were done, one set on the inside rim, and the other on the outside. Simply beautiful!

Constance Guisset decided it a good idea to mix fishes with birds in a beautiful, home proud ‘Duplex’ structure of a cage and tank. So now birds can try swimming and fishes can… well… feel doubly enclosed in a caged up tank?

Blingy diamonds are not usually my thing, but this Cartier Crocodile watch is so beautiful I just have to share it! The delicate artistry of the realistic crocodile around the mechanical, precision engineered tourbillon is just such an exciting contrast! via the Luxist

Dopludό has an identity that changes and morphs and is just plain design fun!

Although just a mock-up for now, the scary thing is this seems perfectly possible in the near future. A shoe that twits for you? Location and all? Trembles…. via Gizmodo

A shot or a pint? Choose your poison. Buy it at homewetbar.com

Simple in it’s execution, Autum’s latest product for Apple devices is simple quality leather and suede stitched and delivered.

Fred has consistently some of the most fun products on the market, and their new range does not disappoint! A soda pull-tab inspired bottlecap opener? Perfect for Christmas!

If there is any word I would never ever use on a pizza cutter, it will be sexy. But.. here it is. A seriously sexy pizza cutter, from Danish product company eva solo.

I cannot get over how amazing the colours look in these long, beautiful new rugs by Patricia Urquiola for Gandia Blasco. via Contemporist

Boom goes the orange sake decanter!

What a refreshing idea! A simple pinch and it turns any tap into a water cooler! By Dreamfarm.