Posted in Mood of the day,ProductsMay 13, 2013
During their learning age, children keep asking why, why why? Inspired by the children’s hunger for discovery, Spanish brand Yporqué launched a clothing line that aims at stimulating the five senses, through incorporation of fun shapes, sounds, textures, glow-in-the-dark images or games to their products.
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Posted in Culture,ProductsMay 6, 2013
Petits Papiers a Decouper is a brilliant book that keeps children busy for hours. It is one of the best Do it yourself arts and crafts book on the market, a gold mine of beautifully designed patterns to cut, to fold and to play with. Children can easily follow the clear instructions and make Japanese dolls, finger puppets, decorative animals to hang from the ceiling, masks, houses, planes, etc.
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Designer Alvaro Catalán de Ocón knows that pollution generated by plastic bottles is a problem that affects us on a global level. With his project PET Lamp, he is turning an object with a short and specific lifespan into a product enriched by the cosmogony of the local culture of Columbia.
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Vyta is from Lithuania, Christian is German. The two friends met in Barcelona 10 years ago. Today, in the beautiful Roman village in Central Spain where they moved, they created Monkey on a Donkey. A brand of creative vintage furniture and décor for children and their parents, that you can understand better with these 3 words : ”Upcycling goes bananas!”.
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Posted in Mood of the day,ProductsApril 5, 2013
Do you remember Punch’n'cuddle ? The big fun creature, a crossover between a beanbag, a cuddly toy & a punch bag ? There is a new comer in the family, called the Yeti. Ecologically friendly (bamboo and cotton), the Yeti is handmade with love and has therapeutical virtues : it invites and rewards physical and expressive interaction, it absorbs negative energy, it keeps you fit and reflects back positive energy.
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Posted in ProductsMarch 21, 2013
Under the brand Little Name Design, Alexis G. Mcvicker creates interactive objects fuelled with poetry and nostalgia, for the child in all of us. With this first collection, Alexis intents to (take a big breathe before reading!) ”interact and gather and count out sticks and stones or pennies and dimes
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Posted in ProductsMarch 17, 2013
When I saw this new brand at Playtime New York, I had an immediate crush. I also enjoyed very much chatting with Jimena Bruguera, founder of the brand, originally from Argentina and currently living in Brooklyn. HBB Industria Argentina perfectly translates the North Argentinian/Andean crafts in a clean and modern way. This is a truly interesting brand and story; globalisation at its best !
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Posted in ProductsMarch 13, 2013
Based in Latvia, Inga and Evija (two sisters) recently launched an indie design brand called Eduardo Cattus. Not an obvious thing at first sight, for Inga graduated in economics and Evija in environment science. But their childhood was much about fashion and fabrics and their mother, a professional dressmaker with more than
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Posted in ProductsMarch 4, 2013
Sneak peek to No added sugar’s first swimwear collection, in Liberty prints - Lili Bikini
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Posted in ProductsMarch 3, 2013
Spanish wallpaper brand Chipsum is expanding its fun+humoristic+contemporary vision to the world of tattoos, with a brand called Tattuum. The body is the a new canvas for their quirky designs. Five themes and over 90
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