Human Blinkers To Wear At Work, And More Of The Week's Coolest Design

Every week, we curate the best designs in art, architecture and graphic and product design so you can sit back and enjoy some beautiful works of creativity. Here are this week's picks:

That Origami Looks Good On You

Loctin specifically formed each dress's shape and color palette to the dancer who would be modeling it, and Dez worked to situate her models in iconic settings from the streets of New York City to the Louvre Museum in Paris. 

[Read more at Colossal]

What If Famous Artists Were Hipsters?

what would frida kahlo, vincent van gogh, salvador dalí, andy warhol, and pablo picasso, look like if they were tattooed, gluten-free vegans who favour a coconut latte over an americano?

[Read more at Designboom]

A Simple DIY House Owners Can Build Themselves

A couple in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, reached out to Reset Architecture after purchasing a plot of land in 2013. Their request was rather out of the ordinary in that they were requesting the firm to just design the house and to let them build it themselves.

[Read more at Design Milk]

Put Your Blinkers On

This extreme dystopia alert comes courtesy Panasonic. The blinkers you see above and below were designed by the company, allegedly to combat the distractions involved with open workspaces. 

[Read more at Yanko Design]

I Like My Coffee In A Box

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has stacked 29 recycled shipping containers to make a Starbucks coffee shop alongside a shopping centre in Hualien, Taiwan.

[Read more at Dezeen]

A Girl Takes Over A Building

His most recent mural art sees William-Adolphe Bouguereau's solemn-looking subject from Au pied de la falaise (1886), scaled up and pasted onto the side of a factory building in Memphis, Tennessee. 

[Read more at My Modern Met]