Maria Hilft is a new Cologne-based publishing company focussing on unusual products. Currently, Maria Hilft offers an edition of four different product lines: A wall calendar with stunning photographs of Cologne's undiscovered beauty ? skyscrapers, highways, bridges; a blankbook featuring the unique artwork of designer Carmen Strzelecki; gift wrapping paper and a self-adhesive wallpaper showing Cologne's skyline. Watch out for more to come.

Designer: Maria hilft Made in Germany

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Souffrez Pour Moi is bespoke and seductive lingerie for those with a taste for masochistic elegance. Using luxury fabrics and materials, these special jewel-encrusted undergarments creat intimate and temporary tattoos in secret places on the body to reveal a new skin aesthetic.

Designer: Ninette van Kamp Made in The Netherlands (but living in London) Contact: ninettevankamp@yahoo.co.uk

I have had a love affair with painting for many years, ‘UNTITLED’ lights mixes this love with my other obsessions of design, graphics and fine art.Untitled are paintings that are internally lit, I use the familiar scallop standard lamp shade as my canvas. The lamp shade has been made larger than normal 18 inches 23 inches and its internal light fitting redesigned for its new life. The scallop shade is primed as tradititional canvass is with gesso, its structure is made opaque so that no light penetrates its form but instead lights the thickness and stroke of paint marks and colours.

I light colour than colour light. I abandon my artwork to the floor or a table.

Designer: Karen Ryan Made in Uk

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The neon paper-clip light retains its original function as it clips and holds its paper cone base in place.The neon paperclip lights, are each individually hand crafted by neon specialists and are currently bespoke lighting pieces. Exists in two sizes, large floor standing paper-clip 600mm attached to paper-cone,800mm small table paperclip 300mm attached to paper-cone,400mm available in a range of colours on request

Designer: Gaël Horsfall Made in UK

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The new issue of Spoonfork, the online magazine for design and music is now online. No. 14 offers several news: readers may watch some videos, for example an extraordinary animation of “Lichtfaktor” a young lightgraffiti-crew from cologne. But there’s not just new stuff for the eyes, there’s also something for the ears in a special feature about audio plays and audio books with streams and winnings. With Rooms you will find yourself in a High-Tech bus-stop and sheep Berti has sent us a message in a bottle. And if you like to be on the cover of Spoonfork 15, you just have to take part in our first Cover-Competition. Entries can be submitted till end of October, in November readers will vote online, which Cover will be published on the next issue.

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A better tomorrow and DeinDesign™are presenting their collaboration Design Contest. Every Designer is invited to join the Contest. The aim is to build a Design that works simultaneous on a T-Shirt and an electronic Device like MP3 Player, Laptop and Handy. You can win prices and money amounting to 500 €.

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RING ME 18ct Yellow Gold & Oxidised Silver, The true social business card. A bespoke ring, personalised with your own telephone number, allowing you to print your number wherever you go. Sexy, stylish and a naughty little number!Dimensions: H 13 mm, Weight: 22g approx Limited Edition Run of: BESPOKE ORDERS ONLY

Designer: Katie Rowland Made in UK

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The exhibition Creater_Slovak Creative Impact is the first branding of the Slovak creativity providing a unique opportunity to present new talents at one of the most prestigious shows of the world design. The project Creater was created in 2006 as a response to the existing works of the Slovak designers, most of which are currently in the phase of prototypes. The main ambition of the exhibition is to present work of the Slovak authors - unappreciated by now - the innovative designs of those who have strong potential to capture the international audience. The Creater is a combination of several sections of the Slovak creative industry – product design, visual communication and architecture that were chosen especially for this project. The objective of the exhibition is to create an opportunity for naturalisation of the Slovak design at the world designer scene.

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