Cool Hunting
| 20 December 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Lascivious Playing Cards
by Ami Kealoha
Lascivious started with super vampy lingerie, but Chloe and Ozy, the brother-and-sister creative duo behind Lascivious, always expressed their interest towards sex illustration. Their online look-books have always been prurient eye candy made with photos, cocktail recipes, cut-out dolls, erotic tickets and the like.
In their world populated by modern vixens, bombshells and dominatrixes, when the urge to give more room to art became pressing, Chloe and Ozy created this superb playing card deck in collaboration with 37 artists and designers, hand-picked from the best known as well as the cream of the up-and coming.
The result is a sexy deck made solely of erotic illustrations, ranging from chaste to subtle to very explicit, all different, suitable for every sexual orientation and signed by Jeremyville, Tokidoki, Jon Burgerman, Tado and many others (you can browse the entire deck on their website). And, in keeping with Lascivious' exquisite attention to every detail (they even provide a custom-made tassel service), the deck comes in a beautiful metal tin lacquered with black enamel and their trademark grey flowers.
The deck costs £10 from Lascivious.by Tacita Vero
Jacob Jensen's Beowatch
by Watchismo
Jacob Jensen, one of the top designers of Bang & Olufsen's hi-fi components since the late sixties, created the Beowatch (a combination wristwatch and remote control) for the Beocenter stereo system that he designed for B&O in 1986. The Beowatch's angular curvexing reminds me of the Sinclair Radio Watch. Incredibly scarce today, the Beowatch appears to have only been produced for a very short period of time.
To see more of Jensen's sleek geometro-futuristic designs for B&O and his own company Jacob Jensen Design—which are part of the MoMA permanent collection and were exhibited there for his solo show—go here.
