This is what I call smart design

Tie Tea Cup, by designer George Lee

$42.6m

Roy Lichtenstein

Warhol Coca Cola painting sells for 35 million dollars

Read the article in The Independent.

Paper boat

A German-made paper boat has floated successfully down the London Thames, with the suitable name of "HMS Origami." It measured 5.4m in length. German conceptual artist Frank Bolter, who was using would normally be used in the manufacture of drinks cartons. I spent the whole day glueing sheets together for you,’ he said. ‘Then I had to cut it into three pieces because the van wasn’t big enough to transport them to the dock. Now I shall glue them back together again.

Paper Boat by Artist Frank Bolter

Leaf shirts

Designer: Dave Rittinger

I wish I were that organised

Lena Brown Designs

$29.95 USD: must add to cart!

Instant art

"Who wouldn't want one? Picasso or Van Gogh would
have snapped one up," the artist David Hockney tells
me at the opening of his latest show in Paris
called Fleurs Fraiches, or Fresh Flowers.

Source: BBC Click