The "Explosion Cabinet" by Sabastian Errazuriz Quick Facts // maple, glass, and stainless steel 29 1/4 x 56 x 15 7/8 in. (74.30 x 142.24 x 40.48 cm) carnegie museum of art, pittsburgh, women’s committee acquisition fund This will be a picturebook addition. No explanations needed here. Enjoy! [all images courtesy of sebastian errazuriz] Palladio I Designer I The DesignBloc #wood #furniture #furnituredesign #design #craft #creativity #art #productdesign #product

Another espresso bar hits the streets of Soho, New York. Studio Vural Principal Selim Vuram said the design process started with an accidental find during demolition. A photograph in the rubble of a blue man playing a flute to a woman is what started it. It was the Indian God Krishna, playing his flute as a gesture of love and harmony to his lover. “Iconic Cafe is an architectural reflection on Krishna & Radha’s timeless story adapted to NYC. We fused the richness of pattern

Okay, so it's not really a birthmark, but it sure does come close to one! Google, Motorola, and VivaLnk inc have come to the conclusion that unlocking our phone by typing or swiping our finger is just too annoying for us to handle. According to their research, "the average mobile phone user spends 2.3 seconds to access their phone, approximately 39 times a day", and because of this horrific time loss, things just had to change around here. World peace has to take a back seat

This is interesting concept and perhaps a little unorthodox, but we're going to share anyways because here at The Bloc, that's what we do! Feel free to share your afterthoughts in the comment box below. There is a new font program out called "HomelessFonts", and it's exactly what you're thinking--fonts created from the signs of homeless men and women. Now you can download Lorraine's font, Luis' font, and so on. Someone's handwritting can reveal a lot about their personality,

Growing up within 30 mins to some of the nation's best beaches, pretty much every child was given some sort of board as their birthright. If you're a surfer like I am, you know that the worst thing is getting old wax off of your board without killing a credit card or other plastic necessity. EAST Surf Co. now has an answer to all your wax removal problems. This Brooklyn-based surfwax maker decided to design a wax comb that is as elegant as it is useful. The design is simple:

Summer is here and what is a better way to cool off than with ice cream! We've all tried ice cream sundaes, waffle bowls, and globs of ice cream on cones, the but after a while that gets boring. That's when Coolhaus comes in and saves that day. Coolhaus (a wordplay on Rem Koolhaus's name), is an icecream company that takes your design senses on a ride, and will be sure to fix your ice cream cravings this summer. The co-founder of Coolhaus, Natasha Case, was not trained as a c

Music and architecture are pretty amazing alone, but when you combine the two art forms, it's just magical. Zaha Hadid Architects created magic when they designed today's featured building, the Beethoven Concert Hall. The Beethoven Concert Hall is a renovation of the once limiting 1950's building located in Bonn, Germany. It not only gave the existing building a facelift, but it incorporated a "multifaceted crystalline mass, growing out of the earth, floating on water," state

Dutch artist, Telmo Pieper has given some of his childhood drawings a second chance at life. We all remember as a child, when we didn't care if our drawings had proportioned bodies or the same sized eyes. Well as a 4-year old, Piper didn't care about intricate details as well, and he is sharing his childhood artwork with a whole new twist. As you will see below, Pieper took the time to enhance and digitally render a few of his former adolescent masterpieces by adding material

Award Winning Product: "Beater" by Ding3000 Check out this great product by Product Design firm, Ding3000. It's a cleverly designed whisk that both expands and retracts by the swivel of a ring! "BEATER is a whisk that is sculpturesque, space-saving and functional all at the same time". With it's functional design, it can be folded together, saving space wherever it's stored. Beater's unique design has won won several awards already, including the recent win of the Design Plus

What a Beautiful Idea Imagine a world with less empty coke bottles flooding our rivers and polluting our streets. In fact, think of a world where all empty bottles can have a 2nd life. This video shares with us what that may look like. Coca Cola teamed up with award-winning ad agency Ogilvy & Mather China on a new “2nd Lives” campaign, and created 16 red screw-on caps that transform these plastic bottles into something fun, usable, and functional. Graham Fink, the chief creat