INSPIRE / SHOWCASE

Please welcome the third and final addition to the “Pleasure to the People” range of pleasurable products.

Biotypography, invented by type designer and experimentalist Oded Ezer, is a term that refers to typography that uses biological systems.

Biologically creative

Mathieu Lehanneur, Arik Levy, Matali Crasset and Florence Jaffrain shared their fantasies in the Preliminaries exhibition.

Many ways to love

“Pussy, Ass & Dick.” To most people these words are inappropriate and vulgar, their use impermissible in society. Arik Levy challenges that.

Changing the inappropriate

According to international trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, sex is gaining importance in society and the bordello is making a comeback.

Sex is the new yellow

Designer Malika Favre of Airside design studio considers letters and the ability to turn anything into letter-form to be beautiful.

Blame it on the bunny

Garth Walker's Winky font is a bondage-inspired font that has been published globally, but has rarely been seen in South Africa.

African Bondage

There’s something that makes you double take when you look at a piece of Stuart Bird’s work. At first you simply see it for the artwork...

Beneath the surface

Inspired by an old-school good homemaker book, Hostess Koekies is a spunky alternative to the over-subscribed Rules Book.

A little koekie time

Tracey-Lee Scully's Auto-Erotic Photo-Romantic project was inspired by her travels to Berlin and the Photoautomat machines in the city.

Sensual beginnings

If Queen Anne of England was alive today there’s a good chance she’d have plenty to say about Ernst van der Val’s ball&claw series.

Queering Anne

While many buy condoms and only see them for the function they serve, this fraction of rubber has a great deal of history behind it.

A rubber history

The name “Olga” brings to mind many unsavoury images of women – courtesy of cinema magic – deep in the rural towns of Russia.

Metallic masterpiece

What happens when you have a passion for beautiful clothing and the seductive feeling of latex? You get Kaori Matsubara’s Latex Dreams.

Delicious second skin

Sex toys aren’t top pf the list when it comes to designers looking to start their career and make an impact. It is for this reason that...

Oh so hip Bone

Targeting the claim that applying a condom “kills the vibe”, 4secs:condoms were designed by Roelf Mulder of ...XYZ design.

Fun in four seconds

The Form 2 vibrator by Yves Béhar is the first in Jimmyjane’s “Pleasure to the People” series.

Double the fun

We’ve all heard about the vibrator that can be attached to your iPod and vibrate according to the music you play. Now it's wireless.

Musical pleasure

The Milkmaid, made by Guido Ooms of Studio OOOMS and Davy Grosemans, was inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s painting Het Melkmeisje.

Milk anyone?

More Showcases

Bookish

Showcase

Calling all book lovers! Take a look at this collection of interesting and alternative bookcases.

Highlights from Milan Design Week 2011

Showcase

Looking back at some of the highlights of the 2011 Milan Design Week when the International Furniture Fair celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Good vibes

Pleasure comes in many, multiple forms in this overview of sex-related creative produce, compiled by Maciek Dubla.

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Interaction Design

Product Design

Joy stick