Zak Designs Ice Cream Keeper

by Karen Day

Screaming for ice cream is easier than ever with Ice Cream Keeper, an insulated foam-core container than keeps your ice cream frozen while in transit. From Zak Designs, a leader in dinnerware and lunch kits made from melamine, a very durable thermosetting plastic. In combination with the insulation is the keeper's screw-off lid with freezable gel insert, which helps keep ice cream cold for up to an hour and a half. Available in four colors and large enough to hold a pint-sized container, the Ice Cream Keeper is great for taking ice cream home from the grocery or as dessert to a dinner party.

While the patent is still pending, the keeper should be ready just in time for summer enjoyment.

Furni x Raised by Wolves Digital Watch

by Doug Black

This trio of retro digital watches comes courtesy of a collaboration between Raised by Wolves and Furni (who worked with CH on the ever-popular Farmer Watch last year). This time around, our friends from the north opted for three color options to reflect a 3D theme (Black, Red and Cyan) and a 1980s-style LCD screen. Water-resistant and bound with a sturdy PVC strap, the watch has an Indiglo-style lighting system and bears an engraving perfectly suited for the Canadian winter. Other features include a phone book, stop watch, countdown timer and multiple alarms with variable melodies.

The watches can be purchased in the Furni shop for $28 each, or as a two-watch combo for $58. To sweeten the deal, the first 50 combo sets come with a free 3D book titled "You, Me and 3D: Workstations in Different Places." The book (pictured above, conveniently opened to the Cool Hunting page) shows the workplaces used by dozens of artists, editors, designers and all-around awesome people, as chosen by Furni and Raised by Wolves.

Aston Martin One-77

by Tim Yu

There's a lot of buzz around Aston Martin these days and deservedly so. You might have heard about the new Aston One-77 (it's been around the blogs) and if you've seen the "Quantum of Solace" Bond flick then you've glimpsed the new Aston Martin DBS. While both are attractive and presumably provide a great driving experience, we're more captivated with the Aston One-77 because of its customization possibilities, high-quality craftsmanship and low volume production run—only 77 were made (hence the name) and all have already sold for £1.2 million each.

With the new One-77, the Aston Martin brand has carved out a level of luxury rarely available to even the wealthiest. The low volume production of 77 vehicles gives Aston Martin the freedom to approach the design and manufacturing process in a different way. By doing so, they pretty much skip mass production techniques, handcrafting each exterior panel of the One-77. Featuring a carbon fiber body structure, the engineers will even customize the paddle shifts according to your preference—some like them heavier or lighter feeling. The car boasts a 700hp, 7.3 L, v12, six-speed manual transmission engine and is said to accelerate dramatically in any gear at any speed. "It almost feels as if you're doing something wrong," comments the design director Marek Reichman.

Check out the two videos produced by Aston Martin above to learn more about the One-77 and the Aston Martin brand (part one at top, part two at middle).

Unity Peg

by Karen Day

Unity Peg's unconventional graphics of conventional domestic products printed on tea towels and tablecloths are an easy way to liven up kitchens with modern graphic flair. The brainchild of an Australian husband-and-wife duo, their goal with Unity Peg it to explore visual ideas and carry them out on textiles, making the mundane household item modern and relevant again.

Beginning with the "Wash Up" series, furniture designer Jane Atfield and artist Robert Shepherd created a range of tea towels which boast bold colors and simple outlines of items like cleaning supplies and plumbing. Their acute sense for captivating color schemes and interesting compositions is apparent from their initial series to their latest, which features playful graphics of various weather elements. Included in their collection is a customizable tea towel, offering the important date of your choice in large block numbers.

Designed to evoke emotion, the tablecloth "Picnic" encourages people to dine together outside or to bring about a sense of nature indoors if used as a wall hanging. Even more curious though are Utility Peg's self adhesive wall stickers, a collection of high quality cut-outs that range from animals to musical instruments. Easy to apply to a variety of smooth surfaces, they are great for decorating a child's room or adding a bit of character to a lackluster wall, the perfect example below in which Unity Peg was commissioned to brighten up the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.

Unity Peg products are available on their website, where you can also see their list of upcoming exhibitions and shows.

Roger Hiorns

by Lost At E Minor

In an abandoned apartment in the south of the city, Roger Hiorns turned the idea of sculpture inside out, covering the walls of a room with copper sulphate solution which, after a few weeks, transformed into bright blue copper sulphate crystals. Whether there's any political message in covering a room in crystals in Elephant and Castle, certainly one of London's less affluent neighborhoods, has been left open to debate.