Graphic designer Art Chantry, best known for his work with bands such as Nirvana and Hole, teamed up with Ride on a limited release DH2 board. Graphics aside, this board is the business. With no hook and tons of pop, it was selected as one of the “Platinum Picks” in Snowboard Mag for 2010. Available from November 1st at core Ride dealers worldwide. (Rad Collector)

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Israel-based artist ELNA created an impressive commercial for Nike. Blending live action sequences, featuring three pairs of custom Nike Dunks, with animation and music samples referencing sneaker obsession, ELNA crafted a very original spot. Enjoy!

Check out the ELNA for Nike Israel custom Dunks after the jump.

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Curated Mag caught wind of these larger-than-life fat cap chairs. “Graphic designer Sander van Heukelom has developed a new chair out of a his youthful fascination with and practice in graffiti. The fat cap chair is built in the vision of, yes, a spray can cap. Two styles are presented – one sits directly on the ground, while the other is perched on a base. Both are constructed from styrofoam with a protective coating. The project serves to draw attention to the detail of an often overlooked object. Learn more at capchaired.com.”

The New York Fat Cap Chair is pictured here.

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We give you a first look at the new Trek time Trial Bike for Lance Armstrong as designed by Marc Newson. Above is a great shot of the Art Bike in action as Mr. Armstrong takes part in the first time trial of the Tour de France in Monaco. Mr. Armstrong finished ninth as Fabian Cancellara took the stage.

After the jump a more detailed look at the new Lance Armstrong TREK Bike by Marc Newson.

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A while back we first introduced to you Pedalmafia iD, a Japanese bike toy maker, letting you design your very own fixie in small scale. Now they have hooked up with Transformers on two Pedal Mafia mini bikes and they came out pretty nice. Furthermore Pedal Mafia has also worked with Tiny Panx, made up of Kan Takagi and Hiroshi Fujiwara, on an upcoming project.

More info on the above follows after the jump.

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As part of French label Hixsept’s 10th Anniversary celebration, they’ve introduced a new series of t-shirts under the moniker Atomic Peace. This three t-shirt lineup features a set of re-interpreted symbols created with patchwork shapes and colors. Each design is limited to 150 pieces, and features a special 1999-2009 tag.

To complement the t-shirts, Hixsept recruited artist Samuel Francois to design a poster to represent the collection. The result is a drawing full of worrying realism, where a strange character becomes the guru of a new world where anarchy, peace and duality become universal precepts. This poster is limited to 300 examples and is available for free at all Hixsept retailers.

Have a look at more images of the Hixsept Atomic Peace T-Shirts and Poster after the jump.

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Today, Clipse have released the first official single from their upcoming third album Til The Casket Drops. Fans of Pusha and Malice’s classic work will be pleased to hear they’re once again working with Pharrell Williams and The Neptunes. More importantly for some is the original Kaws artwork created for the single. Yes, Kaws will also be designing the cover art for Til The Casket Drops, which is set to drop in September.

Listen now at Complex, or click to download Clipse f/ Pharrell “I’m Good” (Produced by The Neptunes).

Full Clipse x Pharrell x Kaws | I’m Good cover art after the jump.

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Following up on stellar work with the likes of Krink, Parra and Steven Harrington, the fourth installment of Incase’s Curated by Arkitip series features work by New York-based design/film studio HunterGatherer. For now all we have is a preview of a woodgrain-inspired laptop sleeve based on a design collaboration between HunterGatherer’s founder Todd St. John and Gary Benzel. We expect more items to surface soon as the HunterGatherer x Incase “Curated by Arkitip” products are set to release this June 23, 2009.

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Design Museum has joined forces with Beefeater 24 to celebrate the fearlessly progressive spirit of London’s greatest creative minds, past and present. At the heart of the exhibition are fifteen commissions from some of London’s most dynamic creatives, as a group they demonstrate the diverse approaches to design in London. Among the participants in the exhibition are Zaha Hadid, Tom Dixon, Paul Smith and others.

Paul Smith created a rabbit rubbish bin for the city of London. The ‘New London Rubbish Bin’ will be popping up in Covent Garden and Holland Park for a four-month trial period from 28th May. The giant rabbit bins, with ears that light up when anyone puts rubbish in them, are Paul Smith’s contribution to Super Contemporary – an exhibition which opens on 3rd June 2009 at the Design Museum.

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Nylon TV has a great new episode. They visited design guru Karim Rashid at home and the designer talked about music, creativity and ideas. Check it out!

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For the Tokyo Auto Salon 2009, Teriyaki Boyz member and designer Verbal got to work on the new Toyota iQ. The entire exterior got a chrome look and the interior comes in clean white leather, matching the wheels. The concept was inspired by artist Jeff Koons.

Take a more detailed look at the Toyota iQ x Verbal Car after the jump.

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Belvedere IX has continued their collaboration with famed Parisian graffiti artist and nightlife king Andre Saraiva with a new film, called Mr. IX.

The new film documents the creation of Andre’s latest graffiti personality who embodies the spirit and energy of the night: Mr. IX.

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After the ready-to-wear edition of the bottle in 2009, designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier, Evian works with Baccarat to create five exclusive limited edition bottles. Five unique bottles dressed transparently to evoke Evian’s best asset: purity.

“Bubbles bottle, drops bottle, tray bottle, reflection bottle and spring bottle: 5 exceptional creations presenting the tremendous savoir-faire of Baccarat artisans. These pieces have been shown in various cities such as London, Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, Moscow, Dubaï, Melbourne and of course Paris”.

colette will present them from March 16th to 21st and at Maison Baccarat March 24th to 30th before being auctioned next April 7th at 8pm at Artcurial, to raise money for the RAMSAR convention, which Evian supports for more than 10 years.

Have a detailed look at all five Evian x Jean-Paul Gaultier x Baccarat Bottles after the jump.

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The Wallpaper Design Awards 2009 winners have been announced today. Among the judges you find Kanye West, Jean Nouvel, Ines de la Fressange, Marc Newson, Sir Ken Adam and Stefano Pilati. As you can imagine this panel made sure that only the very best was chosed in each category.

Browse the winners in categories fashion, furniture, hotels, buildings and more here.

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House Industries “Letters and Ligatures” has just opened at LA’s Subliminal Gallery. The show celebrates the Delaware firms interest in and dedication to fonts and typography. Thanks to Andy Cruz, over at House, we’ve got a few images to share from the show for those that won’t get out to LA. If you think you might, the show stands until December 5.

A few preview shots from “Letters and Ligatures” after the jump.

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One of the strengths of the Museum of Modern Art in New York is its ability to transfer ideas and experiences from the galleries to the web. Among the accomplishments, and perhaps the finest, in this vein is Design and the Elastic Mind. In short, the exhibit is about the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world. How adjustments in human behavior are understood by science, and made to useful objects through the design process. Many of the objects that feature on the web are not on view on site. The web portion itself is a free flowing exhibition, allowing us to bounce back and forth through topics, people and place and create our own trajectory through Design and the Elastic Mind.

Check out digital ping pong after the jump, one of our favorites from the exhibition.

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LA-based SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS opens Letters and Ligatures on Saturday, November 8. The exhibition delves into the alphabetical world of the Delaware-based House Industries. The irreverently relevant type foundry proudly showcases a collection of prints, patterns, installations, and sculptures based on their recent typographical explorations. The exhibition will remain on view until December 5, 2008.

For Letters and Ligatures, House Industries conveys a single, yet complex philosophy: visual nomenclature fuels language, facilitates communication, and forms the basis of a civilized society. The written language strings together letters, words, and sentences, conveying the innermost thoughts and ideas that human beings communicate to the outside world. It is tied to our primitive nature, governing our individual choices and observations, our collective socio-anthropologic history.

House Industries understands that each design requires a commitment of time, energy, and creativity. With each project, the bond between artist and font is deepened. The two work closely together, first coming to an understanding of the project’s origins and meaning, then translating that abstraction into something that compliments but does not distract from the main idea. In essence, House Industries’ Letters and Ligatures aims to invite us to share in that close bond and is proof of House’s instrumental role as innovators and directors in the multifaceted communications of our society.

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Saturday auctions at Phillips de Pury & Company offer some stellar lots at relatively low cost estimates. This coming Saturday urban and contemporary art, design, photography and vinyl toys share the stage. Artists ranging from Takashi Murakami to Jeff Koons (with Faile and Invader mixed in) are represented. On the design end, furniture from Marc Newson stands along the masters of modernism. Don’t miss it if you are in New York this weekend.

Selections from the sale after the jump.

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Written by graphic designer Cey Adams, with help from noted hip-hop photographer/historian Bill Adler, DEFinition: The Art and Design of Hip-Hop gets to the nuts and bolts of establishing the hip-hop aesthetic. Both Adams and Adler contribute essays, as do notables like Russel Simmons and Sacha Jenkins. Visuals, the driving force behind the book, come from the likes of HAZE and Dapper Dan. Fine arts are also represented, with the work of Mr. Cartoon, Kehinde Wiley and others reproduced and dissected.

A must for anyone interested in hip-hop and its many spin-offs. Out now from Collins Design.

Images from DEFinition after the jump.

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The latest feature from Honeyee focuses on the collaboration between Mastermind Japan and Core Jewels. The resulting pieces are really quite striking. Different designs based on a core interest in the skull. An interesting look into variation and the manipulation of material to the same end. 

More from Mastermind and Core after the jump.

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