Korean jewelry brand Cold Frame creates gold and silver accessories that balance classic style with avant-garde, off-kilter design. The Capitulescence Earrings are inspired by fallen flower petals, with organic, abstract shapes balanced by a neat silver rod. They are made in Seoul from sterling silver, so they won’t lose their color and can be polished from time to time for extra shine. Price is in …
From Seoul-based start-up Bacon, this toy offers pups plenty of entertainment. Inside the plush chicken (which measures 23 by 18 cm), dog owners can stuff the other ingredients for a Samgyetang soup: a chestnut and jujube (that both squeak) and ginseng (that crinkles). Not only do the sounds entertain your pooch, but the act of retrieving the tinier toys from within taps into their hunting …
Seoul-based multi-talented creative Myungsik Jang develops animated characters that exist somewhere between the sweet, strange and surreal. These creations (oftentimes appearing as a kind of anthropomorphic jelly) are animated digitally, though their personalities and textures are somehow tangible—all slimy, shiny, gelatinous dancing characters. Influenced by comics, Jang “relates to the characters with the ability to shapeshift,” and tells Jyni Ong for It’s Nice That, “I’ve had …
