Munich-based photography studio Mierswa-Kluska was recently commissioned by the Goodyear Dunlop brand to develop a photographic series which expresses the key characteristics of the company’s product line. Conceived under the art direction of Carl Elkins, ’treadwear’ alludes to goodyear’s commitment to producing tires which are strong, robust and provide protection under various driving conditions. Elkin depicts these main properties …

Artist Hervé Graumann creates impressive installations using mass-produced every day objects. His works are at once thrones to commodity culture and disdainful commentary on the never ending supply of useless consumer goods. Graumann says, “ My ‘inspiration’ started when I took the ‘computer’ as a model. It was in the 80′s, and it was quite …

Johnson Banks have designed a set of postage stamps that celebrate the last 60 years of British fashion. Johnson Banks: The great British fashion stamps have been created by London-based graphic designers Johnson Banks, who commissioned highly respected fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø to photograph 10 outfits chosento summarise the last 60 years of british fasion. …

At the Cool Collector we received this beautiful and fun project by Dutch photographer Niqi Segers: the Hundred Beards project. Niqi Segers started the Hundred Beards project in 2010 and will continue with it until the result of a hundred beards is accomplished. When the time comes the whole collection will be shown in a …

The Olympics will take place in London in 2012. There will not only be sport games but the city provides all kinds of events for the people who are in London during the Olympics. A famous part are the ‘houses’ in London during the Olympic Games. A few examples are: Heineken House, Africa House, Casa …

‘Ella’ is a foosball table outfitted with female players who have been replicated to match the exact proportions of their male counterparts… but of course with more curves. Produced by spanish company rs barcelona, on the pitch ella’s game is just as precise and intense, and her kick equally as powerful as the men’s team. There really are …

Octavia Xiaozi Yang moved to London in 2010 to join the MA Fashion Artefact at London College of Fashion, after completing her BA Jewellery Design course in Shanghai. Her MA collection is named ‘ Joinery in Jewels ‘. It is inspired by Asian joinery which was used in timber architecture and furniture for about 7000 …

Austrian artist Klaus Pichler has developed ‘one third’, a highly legible photographic commentary of the connection between the individual wastage of food and globalized food production. After learning the UN finding that one third of the world’s food supply is left to rot. A vast selection of foods are set in bouquet-like arrangements and photographed as they …

Louis Vuitton’s menswear designer Kim Jones teams up with Ambush Designs co-founder and Reebok Asia creative director VERBAL to launch their collaborative Spring/Summer 2012 PLAYBUTTON project: a limited edition Louis Vuitton mp3 player that you can wear on your sleeve similar to a pin. Boasting a Louis Vuitton-inspired motif, the player is equipped with custom brushed metal headphone buds …