Your fortune according to your crockery! Redstr/Collective has created the Alma Fortune cups & saucer range based on an abstraction and reinterpretation of Turkish coffee fortune telling (a kind of tasseography.) Ground up pigments serve to create the fortunes, which are fixed as permanent decoration on the items, and allow each cup and saucer to be set with it’s own unique fortune.

The cup and saucers, which are currently being produced by Areaware, are now also available in a limited edition collaboration with Tobias Wong. Wong has taken the Alma Fortune cup & saucer sets to a new level of esoteric luxury by suspending the fortunes in 22ct Gold!

See more work by Redstr/Collective.

Wonky tables are now something to be embraced! I love the table that Nina Farsen has created as part of her Invalid Project.

Malfunction is usually avoided in design and art. A designed object should always be complete and perfectly well-engineered. Imperfection however is a spring of creativity. Deviations from the conventional, which are usually perceived as defective, often develop into something truly new and unknown.

The Table that has been created is missing two legs, and should inevitably topple over, but it doesn’t. Why not? The missing legs are compensated by weights held by nearly invisible thin strings which act as a counter-balance. It’s a clever idea, and a surprisingly beautiful object.

See more work by Nina Farsen.

Cheer up meal times. If you’re a bad cook, then you’re probably going to need some cheerful plates to lighten the gloom that your dinner guests feel when forced to eat your awful attempts at gastronomy. Luckily, the wonderfully colourful stylings of Geneviève Gauckler have been put onto plates for Domestic. In fact, there’s a whole range of cool plates available docorated by a number of great designers, illustrators and artists.

Check ‘em out at Domestic.

Art is dirty. I’ve seen a few clever ideas that use the removal of dirt and grime to create something new, but I particularly like Simon Heijdens’ ‘Clean Carpets’ project. Through the use of a high-pressure sprayer and a template, grime is removed from the pavement in the shape of a carpet. The clean spot appears, a place where one would want to sit. The image is made by taking away instead of adding. The carpet slowly disappears over time as the streets gathers fresh grime.

See more work at simonheijdens.com

Charles Eames + Tony Hawk = ? With references to classic designers such as Isamu Noguchi, Charles & Ray Eames and George Nelson, Pierre-Andre Senizergues and fellow skateboarder, Gil Le Bon de Lapointe, have been constructing modern design classics out of skateboard parts.

Read more on the Skate Study House.

Word up! (geddit?!! it’s a reference to… never mind.) I think these Coat Pegs are kind of quirky. Nobody really notices coat pegs, so by turning them into an object that resembles the cameos and the black paper silhouettes typical of the 18th century, they’ve been created into decorative items in their own right.

THe coat pegs are from Big Game, in collaboration with Adrien Rovero.

See more at Big Game

More shoot locations. I can’t get enough of the inside of other peoples houses. I can’t help myself, it’s a sickness. So companies that provide shooting locations for the media are like crack dealers to me. I’ve mentioned a few before such as Shootspaces and Shoot Factory, but I’ve found a new dealer in Zownir Locations. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to gorge myself upon some shoot locations.

Check out the house porn at Zownir Locations.