Affluenza: September 12

Finally, designers are looking at the most important part of the house...the cereal bowl:

http://www.unitedbrands.us/products/miam/mushrooms.html

(Love these.)

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Kanye West in Interior Design magazine:

http://www.interiordesign.net/id_article/CA6469699/id

http://www.interiordesign.net/index.asp?layout=slideshow_pic&articleid=CA6469699&sortorder=01

"It's been my dream to be in Interior Design."

Apparently his landlord won't let him paint, either. I can totally relate,
Kanye!

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The illustrations of Phillip Newsom:

http://www.newsomart.com/gallery.php?gallery=15

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Honeycomb Table Lamp

http://www.wrapables.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=A57180&prodlist=cj

Fiddy bucks!

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The mindblowing paper constructions of Carlo Giovanni:

http://carlogiovani.com/

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The origami insects of Taketori:

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/09/kiri-origami-creatures/

Uh, despite the URL, I swear this is Safe For Work...

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The Maxime Coat by Aquascutum:

http://www.aquascutum.com/product_info.php/cPath/1_61_13/products_id/126

Aquascutum is seriously the worst name ever. It's almost as bad as "Link Dump."

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I like a nice straightforward blog title:

http://copenhagengirlsonbikes.blogspot.com/

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This "frame tape" is cute and clever. Too bad we can't get a close-up of what it really looks like.

http://www.twentieth.net/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=drg003&Category_Code=ACCES

WHAT?
THE?
F?U?C?K?
is going on in that picture!? Is that Princess Leia and the dude from the Information Society, putting frame tape around a kid who is sticking to wall like Spiderman? In heaven!?

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I'm pretty sure that frame tape was, uh, inspired by Stella Bugbee and Boiler's clever lace tape that was such a big hit last year:

http://www.oboiler.com/tape/tape.html

http://www.mattermatters.com/search.asp?Mode=Product&ProductID=84

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Fred Flare makes some pretty cool packing tape as well:

http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2005/07/tapetastic.php

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The "stampage" wallet by DB Clay:

http://www.dbclay.com/store/products/detail/stampage-brown.html

Yes, I love it. But it's safe to say that if you're reading this you already knew that. Here's the same one in black-on-black, and way less impressive:

http://www.dbclay.com/store/products/detail/stampage-black.html

That has to just be a bad picture, right?

Not too crazy about the gray, either:

http://www.dbclay.com/img/archive/stampage-gray-v2-lg.jpg

Uh, wait a minute. HOLD THE PHONE!

http://www.dbclay.com/store/products/detail/ms-frey-gold.html

http://www.dbclay.com/img/archive/thumbs/ms-frey-black-v1-sm.jpg

Gorgeous!

I'm a little on the fence about this one:

http://www.dbclay.com/img/archive/ms-frey-teal-v1-lg.jpg

These two? Eh, not so much:

http://www.dbclay.com/img/archive/ms-frey-green-v2.jpg

http://www.dbclay.com/img/archive/ms-frey-yellow-v1.jpg

But here's another one I like:

http://www.dbclay.com/img/archive/dammasch-v2-lg.jpg

God, I can't get a handle on this guy at all. Take a look at the rest of his
wallets:

http://www.dbclay.com

The wallets I linked to are so unique, flashy but in a curiously restrained way, but the rest of his (?) wallets are just grody and pedestrian...they look like something you would get at Fossil, for Christ's sake.