Design
The Death of Cool cruiser x Woodiart
Clément Bouchonneau decided to put his sense of aesthetics and craftmanship into practice by working wood, and he gave birth to some extremely atypicial skateboards, with a retro sixties influence and beautiful finishing touches. Woodiart was born. Now Desillusions Mag teamed up with him. Inspired by Desillusion’s world, THE DEATH OF COOL cruiser is a [...]
snowboardlampen.de – your boards’ second live
That’s something we’ve all been waiting for! snowboardlampen.de offers a custom solution that lets your snowboard become a lamp. Ideal for your workplace or to have your showroom tuned. There is a vary of styles or solutions you can choose from. Either you pick an original or you can even design your own snowboardlampe. Just [...]
Desillusion Mag 20 – Ivresse Issue
Today we feature an extraordinary french Skate, Snow, Surf, BMX and Culture Magazine. The Desillusion Magazine. Even the covers are outstanding through their complex making. The issue no 20 comes with a lenticular cover! The content of the mag is a nice mixture of those beloved sports and cultures mentioned above with interviews, portfolios and [...]
Mountain Dew – Green Label Art, Volume III – Limited Edition Art-Inspired Aluminum Bottle Series
Beginning September 7th, the Mountain Dew – Green Label Art, Volume III will be available at select US retailers for eight weeks. It’s about an awesome limited edition series of collectible aluminum bottles adorned with custom designs from six of today’s leading artists. Artists spanning the worlds of action sports, music, vinyl toys, video games, [...]
Limited Edition L-R-G x OAKLEY A FRAME Goggle series released for 2009
Oakley and Lifted Research Group – LRG teamed up to bring two exclusive limited editions of the famous Oakley A Frame snow goggles. The L-R-G x Oakley A Frame Purple goggle features L-R-G Interlocking Trees all-over printed on the frame and the L-R-G logo is laser-engraved on the lower corner of the Black Iridium® lens. [...]
Show some Blog love: Creativeroots.org – Design from across the World
Creativeroots.org Design from across the World has a very unique concept. Is about to create an art and design collection, based on countries of the world. Every post has some historical or cultural relationship expressed through art and design, which is either related to or influenced by a specific country. That makes creativeroots.org to an [...]
PLAYBOARD MAGAZINE – Skate- & Snowboarding Magazine Design e-book
5 years ago, the Playboard graphic-designer Peter Nitsch published his first Design Book. Now this book is published as adequate e-book via iTunes for iPhone and iPod Touch. PLAYBOARD MAGAZINE – Skate-& Snowboarding Magazine Design is probably the first fully illustrated design book with 10 unreleased layout designs from the early days of the Playboard [...]
The Presets x COLAB Eyewear
We’ve recently featured COLAB Eyewear with the 2009/2010 Collection on CLDFX. Today we focus on a very special collaboration between one of the most unique eyewear brands and one of the best electro rock artists, we’re talking about The Presets Colab shades for the upcoming season. Using elements of Ray Ban’s Wayfarer, with silk shimmering [...]
Leica à la carte – Custom Photo / Design classic
The “Leica à la carte” is one of the most exclusive and interesting customizing solutions. Leica offers over 4000 different technical and styling nuances to make your own Leica M7 or Leica MP unique. CLDFX took the time and tested the configurator for you. Here is how it works: Choose your type of camera, you [...]
Paper Towels
These Tea Towels are awesome and of course eyecatching. The Paper Towels are designed to look like a sheet of lined notepaper. The Paper Tea Towels have been designed by Designed by super-creative London studio, Saw It First. The Towels are available trough retailers like Design Museum Shop for $16.
Photoshop Notebook by German Kapitonov
German Kapitonov created the Photoshop Notebooks inspired by the idea of having an Undo function when actually drawing on real papers. The notebooks come with a cover featuring the Adobe Photoshop CS 3 icon, as well as the Illustrator or Dreamweaver one. That definitely grabs some attention but the coolest thing might be that the [...]
The MVA – Creative Studio Portfolio
We came across the MVA as we told you about the “New Skateboard Graphics by J. Namdev Hardisty” after the pretty much liked all the work. We saw from Namdev we asked him to tell us something about the MVA, how all came into existence, on which projects they are working and what the future [...]
Pop Up Skatepark – Transformer and Space Invaders Theme
Is this what skateparks will look like in the future? Well according to TheCoolHunter, yes. TCH created these two pop-up skateparks, one with a Transformers Theme the other one features Space Invaders. Those concept renders look pretty nice colorful and all that. But for me it doesn’t really look skateable, although one could shoot some [...]
Ben Thomas – Digital Artist’s Work
UK based digital artist Ben Thomas just put up his online portfolio. We take this opportunity to show you some of his awesome work. Ben’s work has this eye catching style that makes you want to see more and more. Additionally some pieces of his work are available on T-Shirts, Prints and Skatedecks. Shown above [...]
DesignandDesign.com – Book of the Year
Design and Design is an independent and non-profit on/off-line venture developed by french-italian designer Marc Praquin to help talented designers to promote for free their work on an international basis. There are to design pieces shown every day, one is a graphic design work and the other one is a product or packaging design piece. [...]
Buddy Carr Skateboards ”Hello” T Shirt
We’ve recently shown you the Buddy Carr “Hello” Skateboard colabo with graphic designer Antonio Carusone. After the great success of this beautiful design piece they come up with an exclusive “Hello” T Shirt. It has the same print as the corresponding skate deck, simple white Tee with the word “Hello” printed in 10 different languages. [...]
New Skateboard Graphics by J. Namdev Hardisty
The New Skateboard Graphics book by J. Namdev Hardisty is very interesting for skateboarders, graphic designers as well as product designers. The book contains almost 300 selected skateboard graphics and interviews with designers Michael Leon and Yogi Proctor. Another interesting aspect are the last pages where all deck designers are credited, a nice insight on [...]
Show some Blog Love Weekend: fubiz
Fubiz – daily dose of inspiration is a blog available in two languages french and english. the Fubiz site is centered on the subjects of the graphic world, the urban culture, the products tendencies and numerical arts. Other nice features are the galleries as well as the community with easy content submit and quick links. [...]
Show some Blog Love Weekend: Notcot. the Notempire
Another highly recommendable site on the web, well it’s a couple of sites is the NOTEMPIRE. Consisting of notcot.com. notcot.org, notcouture.com, liqurious.com, notlabs.com and the notcontests. The NOTEMPIRE is a network of design sites and with notcot.org a creative community is included. If you want to quick check what has happend in design over the [...]
Nooka x Undrcrwn
New York based design company Nooka and footwear, appareal company UNDRCRWN teamed up to to bring us this colorful Nooka x Undrcrwn wristwatch. This design piece features a black aluminum face and colorful polyurethane band. Nooka is most famously known for its line of innovative and unique digital wristwatches which take the concept of telling [...]
Exclusive Custom: Lakai Koston Select – Don’t Stop Push It!
Everybody’s talking about Mr. Koston and his Nike SB sponsoring these days. We want to show you one of the most exclusive Pro Models from his time at Lakai. This is the Lakai Koston Select “Don’t Stop Push It” designed by Germany based graphic designer Julien Fincker.
Get a detailed look in the gallery.
Tre lamp by Elina Järvinen
Very simple but yet very extraordinary. The “Tre” lamp by Elina Järvinen is a 120 cm metal tripod with a turnable lamp. Elina is a member of the Musta design Network. The Tre lamp is manufactored by Selki-asema and is available for 395 € - $680 at the finishdesignshop. Via design milk
‘Mesblock’ by Robert Knight
Robert Knight describes this mesblock with “Love it or Hate it” that statement fits. Definitely nothing for the Hello Kitty fans. The Mesblock is a design piece by Robert Knight, a designer based out of the Netherlands. The Mesblock is limited to 10 pieces and is handmade by the designer…
Detailed images after the jump.