Ted Noten - Make Up Kit

Good looks are every woman's weapon - Ted Noten took that literally. Known for his jewelery (we wrote about it here), he has broadened his offer with a make up kit that's shaped as weapon.
via fastco design
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Tiderdesign - Furniture Jewelery

There is a moment in your life when you just can't buy any more chairs. So what do you do when your apartment won't't fit any more amazing furniture? You buy a mini version and wear it on you neck!
by Tider Design.

Peter Jakubik

Imagine that women ♥ handbags and shoes. Think about it. Then give it to them in one object.

Express your individuality by wearing this luxury handmade bag. This unique handbag is made from mahogany cowhide by handmade leather moulding technique. Extraordionary blending of high heel and leathercraft makes from this bag seductive fetish fashion object. By Peter Jakubik.

Kibako - Zipper Jewellery

 

I'm going to post one more thing about kibako's jewellery (the previous one is a few posts below). The use of zippers obviously reminds me of Kate Cusack, so if you like that check out the post about Kate's designs here and here.

Kibako Grass Jewellery

This unique jewelery was sent to me by Anna Sklodowska, who is also the author of these pieces and owner of kibako – internet gallery showcasing unusual jewellery. Her designs are based on the recycling of everyday objects and materials, as she tries to turn them into something beautiful and different to the original use. She likes bold shapes, often playing with assymetry. The „Grass” collection (above) is made of thin rubber threads that Anna bought at a florist, they immitate grass pretty well. Oh, also an intersting fact – Anna is actually and archologist, but she also works at frescos preservation!

Kotik - Recycled Packaging Jewellery

I was browsing The Dieline for new package design excellence yesterday and I saw these beautiful jewellery pieces by Kotik, presented as an example of unusual way to use packaging. I especially adore the top left one made of Diet Coke caps, for the beautiful clean lines. I would be seriously honoured if someone made jewellery out of my package design... Check out the full size photos after the break.

Tomasz Ogrodowski's Jewellery

Beautiful jewellery by a Polish designer Tomasz Ogrodowski. via designitpoland.

Goshico

Yet another link / suggestion from my cousin (perhaps she should edit the blog...?). This time some folk inspired beautiful fashion accesories from a Polish dou Goshico.

Punctirus Jewelry

When I was a kid I used to love to cut things out and the dotted lines with scissors at the end alkways meant fun and a beginning of a new adventure. This funny jewelry plays on that image. I have to say when I look at the bracelet and the line and scissssors I think - doesn't it look like you're supposed to cut the hand off...?
Well, better not to think about it too much!
Jewelry by Benoit Patoure, via 1designperday.

Miniature Food Jewelry by Stéphanie Kilgast

OK. I have to admit I have not written in a while. I feel guity if any of you have visited Say Hi! to see what's new while there was obviously nothing new being published. But I'll get back to the usual schedule this week, at least I hope so! Things got busy at work as my boss went to Turkey, to sizzle on a beach, and someone has to have a little control over what's going on at the studio :)

For a good start of the week a perfect combination - food with no calories and a beautiful treat to the eye. The miniture food jewelry by Stéphanie Kilgast stole my heart recently. She makes rings and earrings and broches being 1/12 of the size of regular sweets such as cupcakes and donuts and cookies. They are decorated just like the regular food, with the difference everything is just so adorably tiny...

Joanna Figurniak - Felt Bags

Joanna Figurniak is a Polish designer whom I previously featured here with her wine carry bags. Joanna likes to work with felt and her line of bags are also made from this material. They are a combionation of bold colours and simple curved lines. She also works with recycled materials producing amazing objects to decorate your house, but that's a subject for another post! Clik here to check out Joanna's Moo Studio.

Kate Cusack & Julia Pogodina

Last September I had a short post on the amazing jewelry (made entirely of zippers) by Kate Cusack. Ever since discovering her unique fashion accessories, I try to follow Kate's work process on her blog - Kate's Update. The thing I wanted to share with you today however, isn't very recent and includes photos by Russian photographer Julia Pogodina. Julia was born and raised in Saint Petersburg and moved to New York to pursue her career in fashion photography (which she started while working full time as a corporate lawyer). Last year she made a photoshoot with Kate's jewelery, which apparently was widely discussed and commented for featuring an aged model - Candace Woodward. Personally I think the model looks stunning and I can't imagine the jewelry looking better on any celebrity or young and anorectic model. There's something about her rather unhappy face, the sad eye, beautiful hair...

If you want to learn a little bit more about Kate and Julia read interviews with them at afingo (Kate) and copiousmagazine (Julia). And follow up after the break to see the rest of the photos and read Julia's reaction to the comments on the session.

Waiting For the Sun - Wooden Sunglasses

French boutiques Kulte cooperated with another French team Waiting For The Sun to come up with something unique: very fashionable sunglasses made of wood. Each pair is: handmade, carved out of tea wood, ultra light, stylish, enviroment friendly, wrapped in one of a kind packaging (2041 cm2 scarf designed by various artists).

Melanie Bilenker Jewelry

The jewelery by Melanie Bilenker features something I really like - the beauty of everyday life. Her beautiful rings and broochers show moments as ordinary as combing your hair or talking on the phone. Melanie lets you enter the most intimate moments of someone's life (is it Melanie herself?) and keep them on a beautiful piece of jewelery.

The Victorians kept lockets of hair and miniature portraits painted with ground hair and pigment to secure the memory of a lost love. In much the same way, I secure my memories through photographic images rendered in lines of my own hair, the physical remnants. I do not reproduce events, but quiet minutes, the mundane, the domestic, the ordinary moments.

Isak

 I have to throw a house warming party and register my gift list at ISAK...

Haoshi Jewellery

Do you remember my post from November about Ted Noten's jewellery? If you do and you liked it, you will appreciate these beauties by Haoshi Studio from Taiwan. Looking at the small, intricate rings and necklaces, portraying animals and everyday objects, I'm convinced that any given object can become art. Just like Marcel Duchamp and his readymades.

Alexander Girard & Marilyn Neuhart’s dolls

When I was a kid we used to saw our own dolls at school, during art classes. Not that they were very pretty or worth remembering, but these cuties reminded me of good old times...

Alexander Girard was so smitten with Marilyn Neuhart’s dolls that he asked her to make 100 for the 1961 opening of his Textile & Objects store. Since they were the catalyst for his creative partnership with the Neuharts, we asked Marilyn to create four new designs. Made in the USA with Mexican cotton from the same family-owned mill that she used for her originals.

Pencil Crayon Jewellery

Oh my, what a colourful and funny idea! Jewellery designed and made by Maria Cristina Bellucci out of pencil crayons. Amazing. via designboom.

Ted Noten's Jewellery

This is the first batch of Tod Noten's work I'm going to post in the near future - his jewellery. I think I found it in the recent issue of Machina Design and was intrigued enough to search the web to find more examples of his crazy imagination turned into jewellery. Noten takes small objects of everyday life and changes them into intricate piece of art, to be worn on a daily basis.

You can read a short interview with Noten here.
Photos via Atelier Ted Noten and yatzer.

Kate And Kate Jewellery

Going through the latest issue of Elle Decor (polish edition) I stumbled upon an advertisement of a new fashion jewellery store opened in Krakow. Kate and Kate (despite the name, there's only one Kate behind the project) offers unique selection of fashion or costume jewellery from renowned designers. It's a rather expensive choice of accessories but if you want to own something beautiful and also one of a kind, Kate and Kate might be your destination.