Lisa Levine Catch the Sun Jewelry

by Ami Kealoha

Refinery29 Shops offers up their latest collaboration, "Catch the Sun," an exclusive, limited-edition collection of jewelry by Lisa Levine. Levine's Mexican-inspired designs combine vibrant hand beading with her signature chain metal work to create woven earrings, pendants, and chains that are sure to inspire sun worship.

We particularly like the crescent-shaped "Harvest Moon Pendant" (pictured right) that looks like something a hippie mom would wear without the patchouli overtones. The entire collection is a great way to add warm multicolored hues that are as equally effective layered as they are alone. Each piece has been limited to a production of 10, so act now before they disappear with summer Fridays.

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Bridge

by Josh Rubin

Bridge was London artist Michael Cross' installation for the 2006 London Design Festival, allowing any member of the flock to walk on water inside a former church. Cross achieved the effect by half-filling the century-old church with water and installing steps that seemed to magically appear as visitors walked across the water. Purely mechanical, the weight of a person activates each step, which rises just above the surface of the water as they walk forward. There are some 30 steps in all, ending in the middle of the church—isolation that may be peaceful for some and terrifying for others.

The space itself, Dilston Grove, is interesting. Formerly the Clare College Mission Church in Southwark Park, London, it's a listed building and one of the earliest examples of poured concrete construction. No longer consecrated ground, it is now the city's only permanent large-scale space available for artists.

Tank Books

by Leonora Oppenheim

At the recent First Exposure brand exhibition I was greeted by the amazing sight of a woman in full '50s cigarette girl outfit: vertiginous heels, nylons, hot pants, little jacket, pill box hat, red lipstick—minus the cigarettes. This lovely lady, in accordance with the very recent smoking ban taking effect in the U.K., wasn't about to light up, but she did produce some beautiful cigarette packs, which actually house miniature editions of books called Tank Books. The graphics looked like cigarette brands, but the canonical author names suggest otherwise: Conrad, Hemingway, Tolstoy, Kipling, Kafka. Was she trying to sell me the first chapter of "Metamorphosis" squeezed into this little box? "No no, it's the whole book," she said. "But it must be an abridged version?," I asked. "No no it's the whole book," she said and indeed it was!

The novel idea (excuse the pun) is the brainchild of the creative people at Tank Magazine who say "Tank Books pay homage to this monumentally successful piece of packaging design by employing it in the service of great literature...Tank Books are for people on the move, lovers of literature and connoisseurs of design. Try one and you'll be hooked." As a substitute for smoking, reading really is so much healthier. Although you might think that you'll be swapping lung damage for some serious eye strain, the amazing thing is that you can read these tiny things without a magnifying glass. The series brings new meaning to the term "light reading."

Black Sheep & Prodigal Sons x BBlessing Limited-Edition Necklaces

by Ami Kealoha

For jewelry designer Derek Cruz, of Black Sheep & Prodigal Sons, vintage ivory piano keys proved the perfect canvas for his latest collection: a limited-edition line of necklaces made exclusively for BBlessing in New York. The collection is creating quite a buzz—there are 15 necklaces in total; five different designs, three of each design. The five intricately sketched designs tell the story of a young, lonesome girl and the friendship she develops with, well, bees. Each piece comes wrapped in a beautiful handmade linden wood "book box" made in the Carpathian mountains, with wood joints only, no nails or glue. So head on over to BBlessing to see how the story plays out, but hurry if you want to be a member of this exclusive 15-member group of talism owners.

By Natalia Rachlin

Suprb

by Lost At E Minor

Responsible for some of the slickest graphic design in Stockholm, Suprb creates typography and graphics across all mediums from print to kitchen decor. Super chic and unmistakably Scandinavian, we're loving the clean, bold, glass-covered lines of this kitchen outfit.

Moo MiniStickers

by Seth Brau

MOO launches their new MiniStickers concept today and it's another awesome customizable stationary accessory. Like their other items, you can upload pictures from a Flickr, Bebo or Habbo account (or directly through their site) but this time they end up as high-quality, beautifully printed, scratch-proof stickers. The stickers are sized as 22mm squares but they pack a punch with 90 different stickers, on fifteen individual, tear-out sheets in a brightly packaged stickerbook in a color of your choice. At only $10 these will come in handy when you want to "stick" it to the man.

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