Postcarden

Show and grow love with living cards

A fresh take on conventional greeting cards and their fleeting enjoyment, Postcarden recently made an Internet splash as a charmingly clever card-gift hybrid. Now available for the first time in the United States, London-based A Studio for Design conceived of the mini garden (which ships via post as an actual card). The Postcarden comes packaged in illustrated card stock, with an inner growing tray, a …

B&M Store

Design, crafts and exclusives at a new modern curiosity shop in Western Australia

Located in Western Australia, the newly-opened B&M Store carries a carefully edited selection of design wares alongside proprietors’ Bug & Megs‘ signature handmade 100% wool felt products. Housed on recycled pine shelves, goods such as the CH fave carry-all Baggu, bento and lunch boxes from Japanese/Danish brand HanaBlomst, pixelated eBoy posters, Cardboard Safari animals and a bevy of curious magazines and stationery make up the …

Quali Cose Siamo?

Milan's Triennale tackles big design questions with a new exhibit on the meaning of objects

After taking a look at Italian design origins in one exhibit by designer Italo Rota and exploring production contradictions with curator Andrea Branzi’s “Serie Fuori Serie,” this time the Triennale Design Museum turns to another maestro, Alessandro Mendini, to conceive the latest installation “Quali Cose Siamo?” Asking “what things are we?,” the exhibit journeys through collective and private memories, defined through over 800 objects on …