Screwhead and Dovetail Tape

Shift designers Richard Shed and Sam Johnson created these tape rolls for last year's London Design Festival. They are both a tongue-in-cheek look at modern versus traditional structural solutions. Conceptual explorations aside, they make for some fun packaging. Limited availability, contact Richard Shed for more information. Thanks, Greg!

Woofer

Though I'm not sure what the sound quality is like, this Woofer is brilliant sculptural double entendre none-the-less. Created by Buro Vormkrijgers, a Dutch design studio founded by Sander Mulder and Dave Keune, the headless dog speaker system is available as a single woofer or a pair of stereo speakers. The team is also planning to follow-up with Tweeter, a bird-like desktop speaker system. No …

Phaidon Design Classics

I's all over. Next time someone declares something a design classic, unless it's in this, they're just wrong. So exhaustive is this hefty trio of tomes that it's very difficult to argue for anything else pre-2004 to go in. Starting with a pair of scissors from 17th century China and finishing with the Lunar bathroom range, the book takes in all sorts of objects (excluding …