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This has got to be the most incredible coffee table we have seen in a long time. Mousarris bends reality with wave city coffee table all images courtesy of Mousarris. The 2010 film inception brought viewers into a world where dreams could be manipulated, controlled and coordinated by the dreamer. this scenario allowed characters to build entire cities using their minds, ones which could defy the laws of both gravity and reason. informed by the hit movie, Cyprus based designer Stelios Mousarris has realized the ‘wave city’ coffee table that bends a landscape of buildings in half, using the overlapping surface as the tabletop. made from wood, steel and 3D printing technology, the piece illustrates an urban sidewalk scattered with skyscrapers that seemingly lifts into the air and finally folds back onto itself in a single, continuous curve. a series of meticulously carved buildings add a sense of realism to the otherwise surreal design object, which carefully balances on the low...

Brighten things up with a splash of neon.

THE METHODOLOGY COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS DESIGN THINKING IS A PROVEN AND REPEATABLE PROBLEM-SOLVING PROTOCOL THAT ANY BUSINESS OR PROFESSION CAN EMPLOY TO ACHIEVE EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS. BY  FAST COMPANY STAFF DESIGN THINKING... WHAT IS THAT? I have this image of  Allen Samuels  permanently emblazoned on my brain. This goes back to college. With his usual amazing energy and unrestrained passion, this deeply passionate design professor is explaining to us why the process of design that we are learning is so important. Any profession, he suggests with conviction, medicine, law, choreography or politics can benefit by employing design thinking and achieve better results. Although we all heard and believed then what he was saying, it has taken a great while for the potential of his words to find purchase in a business environment willing to accept his hypothesis. Although Design is most often used to describe an object or end result, Design in its most effective form is a proce...

Some inspiring retail window displays from around the world.

We really love these modern mirrors and hope you enjoy this design inspiration.

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer, as well as a sculptor and painter. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family. The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards. His furniture designs were considered Scandinavian Modern. What is typical for his entire career, however, is a concern for design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art; whereby he – together with his first wife Aino Aalto – would design not just the building, but give specia...