Beginning life as a market stall in 2006, Unpackaged is a unique and brilliant concept that is so simple it hurts, especially considering the sheer amount of packaging waste that is ridiculously filling our planet’s landfill sites. Within the beautifully designed shop, organic whole foods, dried fruit, nuts and seeds, herbs and spices, even refillable oils, vinegars and wines are all available to place straight into your own containers, that you will have brought along with you. If you haven’t, then reusable bags are available. Daily fresh bread, wonderful locally produced cheeses and other general high on quality, low on waste groceries are available too.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2eiP12hQQY

This Cool Misa Digital Guitar with a touchpad that plays digital guitar, watch the video. By Sydney-based designer Michael.

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Frank Buchwald is a Berlin based designer whom has created this inspiring series of lamps, the idea he says was developed over many years of dealing with the nature of modern technology, especially the mechanical artifacts of the industrial age.

Buchwald also notes that the models were not simply a spontaneous moment of realisation and inspiration, but rather a long process. It took a long time until the moment was reached in which it could be said that the objects had a meaningful form and the designs were moving in the right direction.

Buchwald has captured the raw energy and excitement of industrialization, and has bundled it into these desktop sized, mechanical objects.

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The effect is astonishing: by using the natural shape of trees rather than milling them into dimensional lumber, the resulting architecture becomes organic and lifelike as if it were a living, breathing and growing structure – though correspondingly more difficult to construct, each custom branch and trunk needing to fit somehow in with the rest.

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See more of his artwork at his website http://www.chrisdent.co.uk/ and if you’re particularly attached to his work (I don’t blame you), then you can head on over to his shop!

While his small-scale works may be the most widely known, Peter Callesen has also created many framed pieces based on similar techniques as well as large installation artworks likewise revolving around paper cut, bent, glued and reshaped into forms both familiar and fascinating.

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An independant recording artist with an amazing website with a video for the background. Check it out:

http://www.mroliverblank.com

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Chinese designer Daizi Zheng created a range of healthy snacks packaged to look like drugs and junk food, including these blueberries in a blister pack. Called Stereotype, the project includes carrot sticks packaged like cigarettes and celery sticks in a french fry carton.

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