All-around lifestyle site Lifelounge launched a new charity project recently called the 22 Flavours project. They’ve invited 22 hot/new/swanky/sweet artists and designers each to design a t-shirt based on a flavor: cotton candy, banana split, strawberries & cream, etc. Each design will be printed on 22 t-shirts and sold for 22 days on the Lifelounge website, and all of the proceeds will benefit a charity to feed the homeless called Street Smart Australia.

The shop isn’t up and running yet, but keep an eye on it; it looks like about a third of the designs have been posted so far, with more coming in every couple of days. This is your chance to own a limited edition tee by some of the hottest artists from around the world — not to mention that you’d be helping out a good cause. My mouth’s already watering for the “Orange Fizz” flavor. You can bet that you’ll have to duke it out with me to get your hands on one of those!

–Danny Nathan

Before we go any further, you need to watch this YouTube clip — which I hope to God is tongue-in-cheek — introducing Timothy Schreiber’s E_Volve_Table. You really can’t use Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra in the post-2001 universe without either being completely oblivious or self-parodying. So I would argue that Timothy Schreiber’s table is not revolutionary (Legs? Check. Table top? Check.), but is the sexiest table we’ve seen in a long, long time.

Schreiber has a way, which you can see in virtually all of the products up on his website, of playing with the eye and producing the unexpected. His A_Chair has all the trappings of a normal folding chair, but it is actually made of one piece of aluminum and is rigid. The Zero_G_Table, on the other hand, with its elegantly curved legs, appears to be another one-piece job but in this case the legs detach. The E_Volve_Table takes the structural ambiguity of those other pieces to the next level; its legs join together to form a completely organic and seamless base, but that base is composed of separate pieces — pieces that fit together like the branches of a tree coalesce at the trunk.

It’s funny, because unlike most of the things I’m led to write about, the subject of this post has been snaking its way into an increasing number of my girl-to-girl conversations. Maybe it’s because the subject in question could be described as “inventive”; maybe it’s just because it involves chocolate… but either way, The Baker’s Edge brownie pan has been making the rounds.

What the Baker’s Edge pan promises to do is create “two delicious, chewy edges” on each individual serving of brownie. My first response after reading that was well, I’m more of a gooey middles girl myself, and got ready to write the whole thing off..but then I recalled a few experiences I’ve had involving really, really tasty brownies, and how brownies of that caliber do, in fact, have delicious, scrumptious, delectably chewy edges. And after that, I started drooling. A lot, actually. So, aside from the fact that it probably takes a chef of some skill to get those perfect peripheries, I now am a fan of the Baker’s Edge brownie pan. That same fact sort of cuts me out of the type of person that’s qualified to grab one — but because our readers are in all other aspects brilliant, I see no reason why their genius should not extend to the kitchen…and then to the post office, where you can mail me some, for a very reasonable price.

My sisters and I used to love inflatable toys because they could be kicked and thrown around without causing too much damage (always good for staing un-grounded) to both furniture and ourselves. Sao Paulo artist Pinky Wainer has the same affectionate endearment for the inflatable animals that she as a kid would buy from corner street vendors, but she’s found a way, after much experimenting, to keep them enduring through the years without losing air or novelty. The secret is in layers. She blows up the inflatable animals, like elephants, horses and cats, to their full size and coats them in layers of various materials — secret, of course — waiting lots of time in between each layer before finally finishing off the last one with slick, shiny, automotive paint that she uses to make a design. In the end, the plastic toys are fully functional again, but as contemporary art pieces. Wainer’s currently working on an inflatable plane and doll and what she says are unexpected forms. You can get them at her eclectic shop-slash-book publishing unit, Loja do Bispo.

It’s gittin’ close to huntin’ season — at least that’s what a lot of rural Coloradans have been telling me lately. And while I’m not a hunter per se, I do enjoy venturing out into the mountains to see deer and elk — and lately, bears — in their natural setting. Unfortunately, lately the bears have been calling my trash cans ‘home.’ Cole Gerst, the mastermind behind ecologically in-tune Option G, has some new screen prints for sale — including the Deer Island Series shown here — that are well-themed for huntin’ season, although I don’t think Cole’s an avid hunter, either. In fact, Cole has become a well-recognized artist, designer, and animator, having been featured in the Vans Sky Gallery, having created animations for Scion, and having won the Sundance Channel’s Greenimation competition with his ‘green' themed animated short, Yung Yeti. Look out for his new 5-part animated series on Sundance modeled after Yung Yeti. We love your stuff, Cole!