The newly opened Designers Makers Market showcases unique, 100% handmade new products from UK based designers and craftspeople.
It is an excellent excuse to head over to Hackney, East London over a sunny Saturday - find new interesting products then explore the local area with its numerous galleries, shops and much more. Finish off the day with a leisurely stroll over Regent’s Canal or join the hipsters for a picnic in London Fields - just remember to bring heavy, black frame shades...
Northern California artists Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector built a 65-foot-tall, 10,000-pound obelisk out of around 340 bicycles, and one tricycle. Called “Cyclisk”. It was installed on a streetcorner in Santa Rosa, California. Grieve and Spector c...
Do you really care about your toilet paper? Is its lifecycle really worth a mention? Do we want to discuss toilet-habits on YD? So many questions…and there is only one answer for this… “Day Re”! The deal is that once you’re done with the tissue part of the toilet paper roll, you toss the brown core into the trash, right? However if you buy a Day Re toilet roll…you just extended its life and purpose on earth! The core comes with a sticker tab that unfolds to a memo pad. Good enough to take daily or weekly notes! Question is; do we want toilet paper to be like a coconut tree and use every bit of it? Or do we just want some soft tissues to wipe our bums clean, and that’s the end of its story! You decide. | via
Designer: Kim Ji-eun
A Cambridge schoolboy has converted two budget vacuum cleaners into a Spiderman gadget which helps him scale walls.
Hibiki Kono, 13, a big fan of the superhero, made the incredible climbing machine using the suction from two Tesco Value vacuum cleaners. The schoolboy then amazed his friends by using the giant suckerpads to climb the school wall during morning assembly.
"I used to dress up as Spiderman when ...
There’s more than enough attention on the state of the world’s coastal regions at the moment, and Save the Beach continues the focus. An initiative started by Corona beer to raise awareness to the amount of rubbish being washed up on our shores, they’ve taken the only logical alert – to build a hotel on the shore out of the waste.
It’s doors were swung open last week ...
Aladdin’s magic Lamp Soap designed by Chloe Coulson for Suck UK.
Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray tend to Brooklyn’s first window farm. This form of urban agriculture is catching on in cities around the world, as downtown farmers go online to share techniques for growing greens indoors.
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Unhappy hipsters would be happier with an hipster puppy.
Reknit è un fantastico servizio offerto da Haik Avanian. Spedendo un vecchio maglione di lana, la mamma di Haik lo disferà e vi riconfezionerà un paio di guanti, alla modica cifra di 30 euro. | Via
If you’ve got a spare five minutes to kill, walk don’t run to the Monobrow website — a shrine to that ubiquitous eyebrow mustache — and have a crack at the Monopoly memory game, where you’re tasked with finding matching pairs of famous Monobrows amongst somewhat less salubrious company. | Via
I know, August is probably not the best month to remind you the existence of umbrellas, but this way you will be able to get it from Amazon Japan before autumn's rain catches you by surprise.
Umbrella Shoulder Holder will allow you to do whatever you want with your hands while you're outside and it's raining.
Unless you have to bend, of course.
Eternal moonwalk by Studio Brussel & Group94 is a tribute to Michael Jackson showcasing a never-ending line of videos with people from all over the world performing the famous moonwalk.
A funky little site where you can upload your own moonwalk video into an eternal wall of moonwalks, kicked off by a video of Michael.
They left two disposable cameras on park benches--one in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn. The guys @ Glamour USA were curious to see what would happen! Would they be stolen? Would people take rude photos? The same night, when they returned to the scene, both cameras were there, and the rolls of film had been shot. Here's what they found... click for the photos
