Cementing your love for coffee

Shmuel Linski has designed a fantastic coffee maker using concrete. Not a very portable machine but a great addition to any urban kitchen, the Expresso Solo machine only makes expresso but will certainly look great in the kitchen. See how it was made on Yanko Design.

Beetle's House for V&A Museum

Artist Terunobu Fujimori has created a tiny building for the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the exhibition “1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces”. Web Urbanist says, 'Looking like a prop from a Tim Burton film, the little structure lives up to its name: Beetle’s House. It stands on four slightly off-kilter legs presenting its charred pine wood exterior, like the protective shell of an insect, and seems as if it could get up and walk away at any moment.'

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George Logan puts African Wildlife in Unusual Locations

A project by photographer George Logan, Translocation puts African wildlife into less predictable settings. Logan has been developing this photographic series for five years and they have recently been published as a book, which will be sold with 100% of the sale price going to the international wildlife charity, the Born Free Foundation.

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New Kinetic Sign for V&A by Troika

Troika has unveiled a kinetic sign directing visitors to London's V&A Museum. The sign is installed in the tunnel from South Kensington tube station and uses Alan Fletcher's identity for the museum to create Palindrome. The piece features a revolving V&A monogram suspended in a cylindrical ceiling-mounted capsule. According to Troika "the logo decontructs and reconnects itself with each half turn forming a playful palindrome legible from either side, while the wheels produce a gentle ticking sound reminiscent of a Victorian automaton clockwork."

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