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Transformers for adults—jewelry that conceals erotic accessories

When we came across industrial designer Ti Chang’s line of discreet pleasure devices at the Adult Entertainment Expo recently, the assortment of sleekly-designed sex toys far outshone the typically ill-conceived gadgets saturating the market. The second surprise came when we realized that each accessory doubles as a wearable fashion piece, cleverly disguising its true purpose. Some stand outs in her current nine-piece collection include the …

American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow

Exhibition of 20th-century industrial design highlights futuristic visions from the past

With a focus on the curvaceous forms and clean sleek lines that characterized design in post-depression America, the exhibit “American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow” next visits the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, OK, following presentations in Miami, New York City and Montreal. The show captures the collective hope in the American psyche about the future during a period of economic and social …

Memory

Bike spokes upcycled into handy oversized paperclips

Faced with high unemployment in Switzerland, poverty in Africa and a hobby of collecting old bikes, social entrepreneur Paolo Richter started Gump- und Drahtesel, a program in Bern which puts the unemployable to work restoring and upcycling bicycles. Most of the bikes go to Africa, but among the products the workshop produces— rubberbands made from bike tires, bike rims repurposed as hangers—this clip might be …