This week's MoCo picks.

+ Michael Christensen's Asserbo House, "in essence a timber clad raft, constructed on piles leaving it hovering just above the grass.". Via DESIGNSPOTTER.

+ Espace Mobile's Espace prefab, an "affordable prefabricated line of customizable homes, ranging from €55,000 to €95,000.". Via Inhabitat.

+ Dirk Dieter's 250 square foot house featuring "streamlined living.". Via Core77.

+ Airstream's limited edition 75th Anniversary Bambi Edition, "Designer David Winick paid careful attention to Airstream founder Wally Byam's original design, and the result is a beautiful 19' trailer that blends 1940s tailoring cues with modern-day materials". Via Core77.

+ Michael Meredith's Ivy coatrack for mos Office. Via design*sponge.

+ Priestman Goode's Yotel, "a new chain of economy hotels based on a cross between Japanese capsule hotels and first-class airline cabins". Via Dezeen.

+ Philippe Starck’s Naked Body clothing collection for PUMA, "a series of streamlined, skin-tight, and selectively see-through men’s and women’s wear.". Via Josh Spear.

+ Arik Levy's Transition sportswear for Korean sportswear brand Kolon Sport, "a fresh new concept of ultra elegant urban-chic wear". Via Dezeen.

+ Miss Julia's cardboard furniture, "Julia has spent several years exploring the myriad of possibilities offered by cardboard.". Via trucdesign.com.

+ Donna Brady’s Hi-Light pendant lights, "made from photos of her Brooklyn neighborhood.". Via PadStyle.

The week at Art MoCo started as many weeks often do, with thoughts of bludgeoning all those nasty Monday things that get in the way. The Inky Dreadfuls drawings by Michael Mararian were very helpful in this respect.

Things settled down on Tuesday with Souther Salazar’s cheerful and calming collages took us away to more delightful surroundings.

Then José Lerma startled us slightly with fleshy bits and body parts, most of which bore some resemblance to Pinocchio.

Peter Reginato let us lose ourselves in his abstract paintings, a two-dimensional change from his sculptures.

And Hyung Koo Kang ended the week with several rather serious gazes from the likes of Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh. SM

More at Art MoCo.

Putting a spin on the idea of ‘less is more’, the Big-Game designers, Grégoire Jeanmonod, Elric Petit and Augustin Scott de Martinville, recently launched their Plus is More collection, comprising a chair, chandelier, coat rack, dumbbells, rug and sweatshirt. The idea is to bring a ‘plus’ to a basic starting point, be it material, principle or archetype.



Our favorite amongst your recent designs have got to be the Bold chair, the Miles rug and the Link chandelier, all of which interpret an idea of connection and interconnectedness. Are these curves coincidence or did you mean for this to be a theme to Plus is More?
The idea behind "Plus is More" is to use a simple strategy to create objects. "Bold" is a chair structure that becomes functional under the effect upholstery. "Link" is a pragmatic tool to create a chandelier out of basic light sources. "Miles" is a rug that is born from children's playing habits. We never use shapes as a starting point, always ideas. So I guess the interconnectedness and the curvy forms must come from the unconscious part of our brains.

Today's London Times has a survey of "best property blogs on the web" and MoCo Loco is one of them. Per The Times, MoCo Loco is "an eclectic mix of modern design and architecture". Thank you Lucia!

Last week I was invited to preview the MoMA Store's Fall/ Winter collection. Like their current Spring/ Summer collection, the products they showed were smart, playful, and only vaguely articulated the season. The buyers seemed to be particularly into monochromatic colors, geometric patterns, and use of materials that pushes the boundary of manufacturing, in a few cases subverting accepted material applications. More after the jump. JR

MoCo Loco welcomes another contributor this week, Joey Roth. We had written about Joey's designs before meeting him at the first Design Blogfest in 2006. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Joey Roth is an industrial designer who uses stories as the initial sketches for his products. Joey used to be a student of creative writing, and loved it because it allowed him to construct entire worlds for his characters. While at Swarthmore he realized that he would rather tell stories through physical objects, and still strives to make each product an immersive world.