Things of Random Hollow Coolness. I love the randomness of Section by Council Design. It’s basically a random hollow thing that looks cool, and thats all I care about. However, Council Design put it more elegantly:

Raising the bar for modular flexibility, this piece can be used as seating (hard and soft) or storage and display. Hollow units sliced at an angle can be arranged in myriad formations—stacked, joined, or isolated—to reveal new surfaces and cavities. Available veneered with natural wood or upholstered for indoor use or in powder-coated steel or polished stainless to extend its application to the outdoors. Finishes include natural woods, various upholstery options, and powder coats in brilliant hues.

See more great work by Council Design.

I like sausages as much as the next guy, but… Víctor Castillo seems to have an unhealthy obsession with featuring sausages in his artworks. If you’re a fan of pigs, sausages and Ren & Stimpy-esque stylings go and check out at the work of Víctor Castillo at the Iguapop Gallery website.

You can find more work at Víctor Castillo’s own website.

Great work I can’t link to. The award winning, multi-disciplinary design studio Burn Everything have some great work in their portfolio. Although, as usual with fancy flash sites, I can’t link directly to anything in particular, so you’ll just have to rumage around the site yourself.

Highlights are the business cards that Burn created for themselves (found in the ‘identity’ section), in which they’ve simply blind de-bossed their details ontp heavyweight stock. It’s a simple, minimal and beautiful idea. But the crown in the portfolio for me is the work on the Negresco Sud bar & restaurant (found in the ‘interior’ section), which contains some fantastic style elements.

You’ll just have to go and check out Burn Everything yourself to see what I mean.

Visual film fingerprints. Brendan Dawes has a great poster available over at the Coudal Partners fantastic Swapmeat.

The limited edition poster is based around the film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. As Brendan explains it, “A specially written piece of software takes a tiny snapshot of the film every second. Each row contains sixty of these frames, representing one minute of film time. This process continues for the whole movie resulting in an image that becomes greater than the sum of its parts, in effect creating a unique visual fingerprint of the film.”

I love it when potentially geeky elements (software programming, cult films, etc) are used to create something undeniably cool.

Go and check out the poster, and more at Swapmeat.

Wallpaper with an urban aesthetic. If you’re looking for wallpaper that has more of a harder urban edge, you should check out the All City Papers range from Tres Tintas.

All City Papers is Tres Tintas BCN’s new commitment to renovation in the design of wallpaper. This commitment, taken on in 2004, is now complemented by a vibrant collection by Inocuo Design Studio experimenting with the languages and style of contemporary urban art… In All City Papers, Inocuo’s creativity adapts to the technical and artistic demands of wallpaper, in a delicate exercise synthesising the languages, styles and techniques of urban art, transposing their illustrations to contemporary interior design.

Go and check it out Tres Tintas.