Robson Street Gap store in Vancouver, BC was literally flipped upside down for the launch of Sprize. Exclusive to Vancouver area Gap stores - Sprize is turning shopping on its head. Link here.

Last year, Sebastian Brajkovic’s Lathe VIII was bought by London’s Victoria & Albert Museum for the recent exhibition Telling Tales - Fear and Fantasy in Contemporary Design, and for their permanent collection. This year, another international museum will have one of his chairs in their permanent collection. New York’s Museum of Arts and Design recently purchased Lathe V. The chair is made of bronze and embroidered upholstery. Brajkovic’s first series of Lathe Chairs were his graduation project from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2006. (via Daily Icon)

Designer Harry Allen’s Brush Vase was originally intended for holding paint brushes, but a glass insert that holds water makes it ideal for displaying flowers as well. New York-based Harry Allen has received many awards, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Modernism/Young Designer award and the Industrial Design Excellence award. Available here.

Black painted wooden coat hanger by Ingibjorg Hanna. The hanger is shaped like a bird in flight with wire hook at the top. Buy here.

Hopside Down is for those beer drinkers that like to drink straight from the bottle. Hopside Down now enables you to drink from a deluxe novelty shaped beer glass where the inside is shaped like a bottle. So you’re kind of still drinking from a bottle but without the burps. Whatever you do make sure you pour your beer into a Hopside Down glass, pour it into a normal pint glass and realise how much you don’t get in a bottle. Hopside Down is hand-blown, precisely crafted, and unexpectedly deluxe. Individually gift boxed. The Hopside Down Beer Glass measures 7 inches tall x 3 inches in diameter. (via Lazybone)

The world’s most famous movie scene can be reenacted in your bathroom! Do you have some houseguests that are staying a bit too long? Put up this showercurtain before they wake up, and it will send them packing! These curtains have been sold internationally and are the original ones that were sold through the Universal Studios Florida and Hollywood in their Alfred Hitchcock pavilions which housed the Bates Motel Gift Shop! Motel quality. Buy here.

Give your iPod some style and a bit of attitude. Chavs might look a bit stupid but your Ipod or MP3 player certainly won’t. Dressing up your iPod in clothes might normally earn you some strange looks, but adorning it in this Hoody cover makes it look good whilst keeping it protected. (via Lazybone)

‘ East meets West ’ by Tonio de Roover is a sofa that invites people together to sit, talk or read. In visual sense, ‘East meets West’ a sculptural object, an item that refers to a flying carpet that want to rise from the earth. It is reminiscent of the ‘tales of a thousand and One Nights’, thus heralding a connection with non-Western cultures. The simplicity of the shape and the materials used to emphasise this image.

The United Nude Lo Res is part of an new semi-automatic design method by United Nude. An object is digitially scanned into a 3-D computer model and re-generated into various resolutions. The Lo Res shoe is part of an automated design revolution.

Now these are just fabolous! Love, love, love this item. Check out designer Beverly Hsu’s Helvetica cookie cutters here.