Single-use backyard barbie tableware — 100 per cent tree-free, made from renewable sugar cane fiber, reed pulp and bamboo. Biodegradable and compostable. Available for retail or in bulk.

Designed by Shinichiro Ogata for WASARA.

via wit+delight and Ready Made Magazine.

The spellbinding work of photographer Fulvio Bonavia.

via 2ndStudio and ShareSomeCandy, which I’ve gladly done.

With a nod to the periodic table of elements, the work of designer Eduardo del Fraile of Spain, an offshoot of his SoSo salt campaign. via LovelyPackage

Legend

Na Natural

Tr Truffled

Pi Five peppers

Ba Barbecue

As Asian

Pm Smoked paprika

Me Mediterranean

Ar Arabian

In Indian

Says Fast Company, who found it: The Xylem Brooch by Nervous System, which was based on a cross section of the circulatory systems of plants. The brooch’s minute details would have been impossible without rapid prototyping.

Says Nervous System, who made it: Veins radiate from three stem points in the center of the brooch, creating fan-shaped zones of growth that ultimately join into one network. The pattern was grown in our computer simulation of leaf venation and etched from a sheet of stainless steel.

$75

Buy it for me for Christmas.

Metal work by David Clarke via Share Some Candy

Luckily, our tap water doesn’t need filtering.

Launched in the UK by HarveyNichols.

Design: Karim Rashid.

The work of Luxirare [the complete breakdown of these "health bars" here] via TheCoolist.

A bit too fussy and delux for me, but unmistakably beautiful, so props for that.

Spotted by @badbanana, who is generally hilarious, but dead serious about design

via ffffound, originating @ Information Aesthetics reporting  a trial of Economist pizza-box advertising on college campuses in the Philadelphia area.

The work of Swiss designer Gaëtan Rossler via the lovely SwissMiss.

Eames-love shows no sign of dying down any time soon.