Archive for May, 2011

Dior 001

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The Dior 001 gun, designed by the amsterdam-based atelier Ted Noten.
The weapon hides lip-gloss, medicine, an antique hairpin, a USB stick with ‘secret information’ and a 100 gram sterling silver bar. The firearm is made from a 3D printed nylon body with 18 carat gold details executed through traditional goldsmithing methods.

[via designboom]

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Casualties of War

Written by Valentina on . Posted in Art, design, toys

Casualties of War, Plastic moulded figurines by Dorothy:

“The hell of war comes home. In July 2009 Colorado Springs Gazettea published a two-part series entitled “Casualties of War”. The articles focused on a single battalion based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, who since returning from duty in Iraq had been involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals, domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides. Returning soldiers were committing murder at a rate 20 times greater than other young American males. A seperate investiagtion into the high suicide rate among veterans published in the New York Times in October 2010 revealed that three times as many California veterans and active service members were dying soon after returning home than those being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. We hear little about the personal hell soldiers live through after returning home.”

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