Mike and Maaike's beautiful
pixelated leather jewelry caught my eye among an amassment of fabulously geeky items at the 2007 International Contemporary Furniture Fair, so I was delighted to learn more about the makers and collection. According to their
website, the effort was an exploration of tangible vs virtual in relation to real and perceived value.
"Using google image search, we browsed through some of the most expensive and often famous jewelry in the world, the low-res images we found were stolen, doctored, then transferred to leather, creating a tangible new incarnation.
I was unable to attend
ICFF 2007 last month, but my top secret spy was sweet enough to sneak a peek at the Humanscale Design Studio's prototype for its new chaise lounge workstation. It's geek, it's chic and sadly, we can't get our mittens on it yet.
The piece was designed to marry a modern lounge chair and ottoman with an ergonomically designed laptop computer support.
ICFF week is still going strong in New York and with it are some amazing tech-meets-art- meets-function innovations that I am crossing my fingers see eventual mass production. The folks over at
They Should Do That found this wall mountable printer at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. Designed by Ransmeier & Floyd, the prototype for the printer was created in 2005.
The 2007 International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York kicked off yesterday, and while I was unable to sneak away - ahem, I couldn't miss
Maker Faire - plenty of bloggers are keeping me updated on all of the geeky wares.
Mocoloco captured this great image of
Mike and Maaike's beautiful pixelated leather jewelry.
A kissing cousin of the
Lego Obsession and
Tetris necklaces from the spring, the pixelated leather jewelry has that certain dose of elegance and simplicity that the gaming necklaces lacked.
