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Watch Concept from Beats by Dr. Dre

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Beats is a headphone and audio periphery company created and managed by Dr. Dre himself. He’s done design collaborations with musicians like Lady Gaga, Lebron James, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and a few others big named stars.


Designer Alexandre Duhail was so impressed by the designs coming out from Beats that he was inspired to make the time piece in the image of the headphones.

Sleek, futuristic, and sexy as hell, this concept not only tells time, but acts as a personal speaker set. Keep an eye out for this daring design on the Beat main website.

Coordination Asia- Shanghai Office

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Style and design are limitless in where they can be applied. Take the work of Coordination Asia as a prime example of aesthetic and modern design application in museum development. This group of German and Chinese creative gurus has multiple successful architectural projects under its belt ranging from flagship store design, to entire museums of modern art and design.

The company has recently moved offices to Huangpi Road 688 in Shanghai after they “decided to move somewhere more downtown. We followed the invitation of the Shanghai Glass Company to fill their former headquarter with life until the building will be entirely renovated by the end of 2012,” says CEO Tilman Thuermer.

Judging by the pictures of their new office, they didn’t cut a single corner when designing their office. The office is dark and modern, yet inviting and highly stylish. It’s one of those places I dream about working at. Who knows, maybe companies here in the West will take a nod from companies like Coordination Asia one day and realize that cubicles just don’t cut it for a good office environment anymore.

Coma: A Beautifully Entrancing Flash Game

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Coma defies any traditional description of a browser based flash game in its execution, style, story, underlying meanings, and soothing music created by actual instruments, not synthesized. In laymen terms, this game was created as work of passion and art instead of a simple flash animation. Despite being short and having only a few areas and scenes, each scene was lovingly crafted and drawn with meticulous detail to ensure the purveying theme of the game was reflected in the art.

The creator made sure the visual matched the mental, and he did his job damn well.

You play as "Pete" in Coma, a simply animated character who simply exist. He isn't thrown into some epic struggle, faced with some monster, nor is he attempting to save a damsel in distress. He simply is, and he doesn't question it...until the game continues. I won't spoil it for anyone who plays, but just keep your eyes opened. Don't approach this like a regular game. Take in the sights, sounds, words, story, drink everything in as greedily as you can.

Despite being short in game play, the story and ending nearly brought a tear to my eye. It was absolutely wonderful. For any naysayers who think that games are not a form of true art or expression, I dare you to play this game and say that after you've finished. Art and style is in everything and anything, as long as you put effort and passion into it. Clearly, Mr. Thomas Brush, the games creator, put a LOT of effort and passion into this game.

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Something A La Mode Feat. Karl Lagerfeld

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I'm starting to wonder just what Karl Lagerfeld won't get into as opposed to what he might get into next. After his own clothing line, jewelry design sting, house design and development in Dubai, voice-over acting for a character in a video game, why not keep going strong with a guest appearance in a music video, yes?

Something A La Mode consists of Thomas Roussel (violin and electronics) and Yannick Grandjean (cello and electronics). The pair met in Dijon, France and have been blending classical styles with modern electro and dance music with great success. I personally love their song 5AM.

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B Honey-Cachaça Sting Shots: Design by Pereira & O’Dell

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“B”, The Honey Cachaça stinger, was co-founded by Formula 1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr. and friends. It utilizes natural ingredients and flavors to bring a crisp and tasteful rum to Brazil. "B” is made ​​with sugar harvested from Brazil which is then refined and blended into the perfect mixture of sweet and citrus. The drink also combines "honey, lemon and generous doses of sophistication," according to the recipe on the packaging.

What got me about this drink was the beauty of the packaging, as opposed to the interesting combination of flavors in a rum. It is a simple, clean, and clear design that works remarkably well with the natural yellow color of the liquor. The drop shaped logo designed to appear bee-like, the cap and spout covering adorned in black and yellow, along with the very smooth and organic shape of the bottle really makes this liquor well branded and easily spotted on any store shelf. Clearly, the designers at Pereira & O'Dell knew exactly what they wanted and how to go about achieving it.

The drink is currently only available in Brazil, but should be hitting U.S. stores later this year. I, for one, will be picking up a bottle as soon as I can find one.

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Dining In The Ocean: Sea Underwater Dining

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Of all the places breaking the rules with architecture and design, the Maldives is a silent giant among those who'd create rooms and buildings beyond the mundane structures we normally see. Anantara Kihavah in the Maldives plays host to a brilliantly designed underwater dining facility named Sea. The facility is part of the resort's Sea Fire Salt and Sky dining quartet, where each restaurant plays host to a very different theme and style of cooking.

Sea also boasts an impressive wine collection of over 250 labels from 14 different countries. What better way to spend a tropical sunny noon than to sample your favorite wines while admiring the coral reef and ocean life while underwater?

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Ryoji Ikeda: "the transfinite"

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It’s a very difficult thing to get people excited about data from research or computer algorithms. But once you think outside the realms of typical thought familiar to your everyday mathematician, engineer, or computer scientists, that data has the potential to become something far more interesting and beautiful. Enter Ryoji Ikeda.

Mr. Ikeda is a sound artist currently residing in Paris, France. He blends the science of raw data collection and art together seamlessly in his modern and original art pieces. An example is his most recent piece at the Park Avenue Armory.

This behemoth of a display takes constantly streaming data in its purest, most raw form, and then translates it into something visually stunning and entrancing. Ikeda has essentially created a piece where visitors are confronted with data on a scale that defies comprehension, logic, or traditional thought. It gives a sense of the infinite, and a feeling of never ending flow.

To see a video of the display, please click here.

To see a timelapse of this beautiful giant being put together, click here.

To see another of his works (which is just as intriguing), click here.

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