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Many years ago Mos Burger gave away limited X’mas lego’s. This year they’re selling super cute limited edition mobile strap designed by Devil Robots. Better grab a meal and get them while stock last.

Singapore Design Festival kick starts this week. 53 exhibition and conference. 13 parties. With designers like KesselsKramer, Groovisions, Karim Rashid and many other renown designers from all over the globe. iSh has done up a quick guide to all the parties and events. Grab your off-iSh-al now!

Meiji’s 100% Chocolate Cafe is getting better and better. More tasty treats on the menu. More chocolates!!! They just came out with the alphabet gift box, which you can customize the message you wanna sent. Geez it just makes me wanna fly to Tokyo now! But well maybe I just settle for Canele for now :\

[Source: Meiji]

It’s time of the year where for X’mas shopping. Deadline, schedules and crowds sometimes just make your X’mas shopping seem like a mission impossible. Here’s a X’mas gift idea with a little touch of surprise. Breeding Ground’s A Beautiful X’mas cards may just be the perfect gift to light up the holidays. Get creative and let’s get back to the times we last made something for our love ones.

[Source: Breeding Ground]

40 be@rbricks. 6 bottles of acrylic paint. 20 brushes. 1 glue gun. 1 week.
Superheroes, Yakuza, 3D, Scarf edition and many others.

See more our our Asylum Nike Windrunner x Be@rbricks.

[Source: Asylum]

Beijing. 17 milion people. 16,801 km². Tons of cars. It’s the new vibrant city of Asia. Just get back from Beijing, which was pretty different from what I first though it was. It’s a mixed between Taiwan, Tang Dynasty and the playground of some world-class architects. While the whole was great and some of the architecture are simply breathtaking.

Commune By the Great Wall

Resort villas like they just pops out of the Wallpaper magazines. Conceptualise by Ms Zhang Xin, designed by 12 of Asia’s best known architects. Later, bought over by the Kempinski Hotel Group. Simply amazing if we could have US$1000 to spare that day.

[Source: Wikipedia & Commune]

Beijing National Stadium

Design by Herzog & de Meuro, together Ai Weiwei as Artistic Consultant. This new stadium will sit 100,000 spectators during the Olympics. 400 over milions to build.

[Source: Wikipedia]

Beijing National Aquatics Centre

65,000 square feet. 17000 capacity. This gaint bubble cube will be hosting the aquatic events for the upcoming Olympics in 2008. Designed by Australia’s PTW Architects, engineering firm Arup, and China State Construction Design International, the Water Cube has a structural system unlike any other building. The engineers are use “two layers of a high-performance plastic film called ethylene tetrafluoroethylene or ETFE.”

[Source: Gizmodo]

CCTV Headquarters

234 feet skyscaper stood in the middle of Beijing CBD is the new CCTV HQ. 2 enormous oblique towers will connect at floor, forming one of the greatest modern architecture of current time. Design by . Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, they sure bring they ideas to the wildest.

[Source: Wikipedia & BlogBlog]

Linked Hybrid

The sky city that can house 2,500 people in 700 apartments with one of the world’s largest geothermal cooling and heating systems. The housing standards in Beijing will be bought to another realm, challenging other world-class housing towers.

[Source: We-make-money-not-art & worldtraveldirectories]

Digital Building

Last is a strange harddisk looking building near the site of National Stadium and the watercube. The bus driver told us it’s a news centre. It’s Digital Beijing Building is to eplore the digital age in a unique way, the building will serve as the control and data center for this 2008 Olympics. But this is madness. It looks like something from Matrix.

[Source: Miragestudio7]

Another crazy project by Uniqlo x Yugo Nakamura.
Grids. Have fun playing =)

http://www.uniqlo.com/grid

[Source: FWA]

In an exclusive Singapore debut, GROOVISIONS (GRV) is set to groove with its unique blend of full dimensional graphic designs. Enjoy the award winning motion graphics, innovative products and designs of one of Japan’s leading and most provocative design teams.

Based in Tokyo, GROOVISIONS will be making a rare international appearance in Singapore to share their expressive talents and display retroactive designs and products.

Meet the much-loved and much-talked about icon, CHAPPIE, the affable, multi-dimensional Japanese celebrity character, designed and talent managed by GROOVISIONS.

Exhibition starts 28 Nov to 6 Jan. Opens 1000-1800. Admission is free.

[Source: National Museum]

In this day and age, will all the intellectual property in place, copyright and trademarks, people started claiming that anything and everything is theirs. Sony bravia ripping Kozynden’s artwork. Honda’s Cog lawsuit. In the recent case where T-Mobile is urging some Dutch brands such as Slam FM, Compello and 100% NL to not use Magenta in their logos. What’s next? The world not affiliated to T-Mobile got to surrender their Magenta items?

Join the movement to free magenta!

[Source: Adverblog]

Utterubbish: A Collection of UseLess Ideas, an independently-curated design event will make its debut as the feature event of the Singapore Design Festival 2007 this November. Presented by DesignSingapore Council and produced by Utterubbish Pte Ltd and curated by Jackson Tan, Black Design, Utterubbish is a unique design event that presents ideas, works and exhibits by 30 leading international and local designers and creators unified in their exploration on how design can create value for individuals, society and the world, whether Social, Cultural, Emotional, Functional, Economic, Commercial or Intellectual. It fully integrates an exhibition, a conference, talks and workshops, a publication and a retail concept store to engage audiences as diverse as professional designers and design students to school students, community groups and families in presentations that dramatically highlight the role and direction design plays in creating a sustainable future. This landmark event runs from 28 November to 16 December 2007 at the historic City Hall of Singapore.

Jackson Tan, Curator and Creative Director of Utterubbish, stresses that “Many people still think of designers as only ‘brand names’ and that design is beyond the reach and involvement of the average individual. We want to show in a fun, witty and interactive way that everyone can understand and participate in the design process and how it can create value for ourselves, society and the world. We want to engage the audience in the design process and make design accessible to everyone. Anyone can come and look at the exhibits, interacting with designers at the conference, soaking in the experience at workshops, read design publications and even buy sustainable design products at the UseLess Shop. In my view, all this goes towards building and fostering design sensibilities and culture in Singapore.”

Utterubbish is founded on the basic premise that ‘less is more’, Utterubbish is a witty review of recycling, redemption and recourse through design. By transmuting the original meaning of “Useless” to “Use Less”, it demonstrates that what seems less sane can make more sense, less money can inspire more value, less machine means more human and less resources leads to more creativity. Over-arching themes include sustainable design and eco-design, design activism, a return to the promotion of craft and personal involvement and experience in the design process. The event also highlights how design can be intelligent, meaningful, useful and most of all, fun.

[Source: fivefootway.com]