by Fünchkins
Inspired by Willy Wonka from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, McVitie’s decided to cover an elevator in London with a lick-able wallpaper printed with 1,325 Jaffa Cakes.
Leaning over, ever so slightly, on your way to the top floor and licking the walls is not awkward at all.
*Find out more information on McVitie’s advertising efforts through SmartPlanet
This beautiful wallpaper was designed by Emily Evans for two Latin bars in London, called Barrio Central and Barrio North.
The wallpaper features iconic skulls in metallic gold ink on peacock, charcoal, and raspberry backgrounds.
*More information on the Day of the Dead wallpaper can be found at Anatomy Boutique
I mentioned the other day that I found a really neat post by the “Jones Design Company” about how to change your boring light covers. Well today I want to recommend another brilliant post by them, a post on how to use a stencil on cheap plain wallpaper and give yourself an amazing finish that looks very much like an expensive wall covering.
Again the tutorial is extremely easy to follow but I will say you are going to need a lot of time and patience to work on it, although I’m sure on completion, the project will definetly be worth the effort put in.
* If you like to try this project yourself, the full tutorial can be found on the Jones Design Company blog
Minakani has a wallpaper range that is out of this world, the images are giant and fun enough for kiddies’ bedroooms but modern enough to grow with them. The wallpaper would even be fitting for an accent wall in a lounge or kitchen. In some of the designs, you can even pick your own colours!
Minakani wallpaper is available for order through the Minakani website
In an effort to slow humanity down, Samuel Wilson has devised Biome, a terrarium with climate controlled through your smart phone or tablet computer. It works just like those Tamagotchis from the nineties. Please don’t make me feel any older than I already do and say you remember them, if you don’t, lie. Anyway, the climate, water level, and nutrients given to the plants are controlled by an application on your smart phone or tablet computer. The only difference between killing these plants and killing your tamagotchi is the guilt, these plants are actually alive. The Biome was developed for an exhibition titled Slow Tech – Designs for Digital Downtime at trend agency Protein’s exhibition space in August. The exhibition was curated by Henrietta Thompson editor-at-large at Wallpaper*.
Ying Gao and glass artist Michèle Lapointe were fascinated by the idea of carrying a ten gram shirt in a ten kilogram bag. So, by working together, they came up with the answer of putting a super light weight shirt made from organza in to a glass handbag. The glass handbag has a rounded contour in which the shirt is placed. Ying Gao is based in Montreal and is the only fashion designer included by the British magazine Wallpaper in its Canadian Top 40.
