Monster Mirrors are cute wooden framed mirrors by B.Light Designs. They come in a range of sizes and materials - including the blackboard monster, who you can scribble or draw on to your hearts content.

Beware though - when one looks in the mirror, they become the monster's next meal!

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Remember those cheap, gleaming digits you twinkled proudly at school?

For as long as we can remember, nail polish has been shiny, shimmery or sparkled almost beyond belief.

So with a little sigh of relief we announce that, finally, some 1940s-glamour-meets-high-fashion is here.

OPI, trusty purveyors of high-quality varnish that they are, have mattified their six most...

Think Pink (Or Blue, Or Purple)

Paintbox is a range of semi-permanent colours from Fudge that let you go wild and create your own unique look.

Whether you use Paintbox to add a subtle baby pink glaze à la Dree Hemingway or opt for a full head of juicy tangerine dyed locks, the colour will stick around for up to 30...

Children Of Vision is a high-end fashion boutique nestled in the majestic arms of St Kevin’s Arcade on Auckland’s Karangahape Road.

They describe themselves as “fearless supporters of all that is avant garde, intellectual and unusual,” and more daring locals in the know flock there for an exclusive fashion fix.

And now they’ve gone and made the experience digital...

More addictive than Farmville and nicotine put together, you say?

It’s Kanvas, the game where you can use images, words and uploaded photos to create your own beautiful, bizarre, or just downright hilarious masterpieces, brought to you by the team at Smoking Not Our Future.

Kanvas follows on from the success of Smoking Not Our Future’s award winning game Kiss Off, which had...

Auckland based t-shirt website www.closet.co.nz has commissioned a group of Haiti Relief Fund t-shirts with all the proceeds going to Oxfam’s Haitian Relief Fund.

The tees have been designed by 4 of New Zealand’s top graphic designers - Kelvin Soh and Simon Oosterdijk (The Wilderness & Pie Paper), Simon Chesterman (Team Uniform & Consortium), and Sarah Larnach; designer of the award winning album artwork for Ladyhawke’s debut...

Pinhole Photographs
2 – 27 February 2010
Bartley + Company Art

Summertime is a good time to slow down, to take time and to linger with things, and that is exactly what photographer Ross T Smith has done, and is asking viewers to do, with his new body of pinhole photographs.

Smith first came to prominence a decade ago...

The silicone Tea Sub, designed by Ototo submerges tea leaves to the bottom of your cup, creating the perfect infusion of your favourite brew....

The perfect couple. The perfect lover. A perfectly scandalous secret.

The Lover. A new play by Harold Pinter. Directed by Caroline Bell-Booth and starring Craig Hall, Michelle Langstone and Matt MacDougall.
 
A passionate exploration of sexuality and the nature of desire, The Lover, set in early 1960's London, presents a seemingly ordinary bourgeois couple fascinated with the world of fetish and fantasy. But...

John Briscella has his eye on city life, and it’s clear that this is one of the major influences for all of the furniture he produces.

Whether it is New York or Tokyo, the big cities are seen in the erratic, sporadic, and chaotic forms that make up his lounge chairs, clocks, and bins.

The above pictured lounge chair is designed...

Ah, to live the Chanel lifestyle...

For those to whom mere bags, jewellery, cosmetics, fragrances, shoes and clothing is not enough, treat yourself to a Chanel inflatable dinghy, surfboard, basketball, guitar or snowboard....

What is completely constructed of steel, reinforced with corrugated steel walls, able to withstand winds up to 140 mph, and can make a comfortable living space for the survivors of the Haitian earthquake? A standard shipping container. And researchers at Clemson University are scurrying to figure out how to turn their project, known as SEED, into a way to contribute emergency housing to Haiti right...

Sriwhana Spong
Channeling Mr B

27 January - 6 March 2010
Preview Wednesday 27 January 2010 6-8pm
Tuesday - Friday 11am-6pm
Saturday 11am-3pm

Michael Lett is pleased to announce the opening of Channeling Mr B, an exhibition of new work by Sriwhana Spong comprising a film, Costume for a Mourner, and a hanging sculpture entitled Field Figures.

Costume...

The Infinity furniture and lighting collection by Tangle Creations is based on the Tibetan Infinite Knot.

Also recognized as the Endless or Eternal Knot, the Buddhist symbol has no beginning and no end.

Infinity design collection pieces entitled Art, Sky and Sun, the latter being a globular light fixture.

Designer Richard X Zawitz said, “I finally saw the first...

Yes, it’s the Holga, it’s green and it’s special!

Let us introduce the latest Special edition Holga to the Lomo clan.

It’s the same chunky, plastic-lensed Holga we’ve grown to know, love and become deeply obsessed with…

The same legendary misty, soft-focused, vignetted images…

Only in green.

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The Belgian architectural firm dmvA designed the blob VB3, a smooth white structure that resembles a hard boiled egg, as a mobile office for xfactoragencies.

Initially, they intended to design an extension for the Xfactoragencies office, but the planned designs were repeatedly rejected by local building regulations. So, they decided to create a 'mobile' office which skirted around the strict building codes.

The...

From Pitchfork.com - Very, very sad news: It has been confirmed that Jay Reatard has died. He was 29 years old. More details are forthcoming.

Goner Records writes, "It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our good friend Jay Reatard. Jay died in his sleep last night. We will pass along information about funeral arrangements when they are made public."...

Japanese architects Archivision Hirotani Studio has recently completed this copper-clad beauty parlour, situated in the Omote-sando area of Tokyo, Japan.

The building has three skylight roof openings which provide natural light into the interior of the beauty parlour.

This natural light is then carried further in to the building by slit-like openings in the floor, which in turn can be seen from the street...

We do like us a pair of Ray Bans in the summer, but this is a whole new level...

Not sure what the story here is but either this guy really, really loves Ray Bans, or he is in it for the money...

You can even watch the sunglass frames being tattooed onto his face on YouTube - not for the squeamish!

PLR IP Holdings, LLC, owners of the Polaroid brand, has announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Lady Gaga, who will serve as creative director for a specialty line of Polaroid Imaging products.  

The partnership brings together one of the world’s most iconic brands with today’s fastest rising musical artist and cultural trend setter, known for her string of smash global hits including Paparazzi,...