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Limited Edition Light Bulbs by KAWS

These cool KAWS x Standard collaboration of limited edition filament light bulbs along with KAWS pillows and KAWS companion key chains will be exclusively available for sale at the New York Standard shop.
I was able to get my hands on a few of these bulbs courtesy of The Standard and they’re neato. Exposed bulbs are very trendy these days and these KAWS limited edition (1,000 sets of 3 bulbs each) take this trend to the next level with the signature KAWS XX mark and three fun colors in each set: red, purple and green. These are certainly not reading lights — but they’re really cool for setting a party mood.




KAWS is Brooklyn-based artist and designer Brian Donnelly, who is known for his street art, product and industrial design and toys.
Buy the bulbs and other KAWS merch at The Standard Shop.

Beautiful design by new designers.

Made Out Portugal

It never ceases to amaze me how many awesome international design collectives there are out there to help boost the careers of young designers. I feel like they’re more popular in the UK and Europe. I get excited when I see new international design from lots of talent all in one place — this is why I blog. Thus, when I got an email from Made Out Portugal I was overjoyed. Made Out Portugal is a design platform for Portuguese designers working outside of Portugal that acts like a collective rather than a brand.

Promoting personal ideas and designs, the aim is to promote individual upcoming designers. Made Out Portugal organizes events and exhibitions to help the designers get their work out to the public and takes no authorship or ownership of the pieces.

Here are a few of the designers that they’re working with.

Filipa Ricardo‘s About Waste is a series of products where the main material comes from industrial waste, the unwanted parts that come out of production lines. Sa-weet!



Bruno Carvalho creates Site-Specific Furniture in which he uses the structure of internal architecture as a jumping off point to create furniture.

João Valente is also in The Netherlands and his # Another Contemporary chair is a project that is about the personal relationship that this object has with the designer. Shaped like a chair’s shadow, it is a reflection of the designer as well as the sitter.


Manuel Netto‘s Dock lamp is a lamp that is connected not by a button but rather by a precise action, such as moving the light to a specific place. There are points on the lamp where electrical currents and to turn it off, simply move it back to its resting place.

Tiago Sa Da Costa created this Bottlelegged is a table that reuses old glass bottles as table legs.