Philips Design has deveoped a series of "dynamic garments" as a part of the ongoing design probe research program called skin.

Skin is an experimental project exploring forms of garments that examines the future integration of sensitive materials in the area of emotional sensing.

It looks at more ‘analog’ phenomena like emotional sensing, exploring technologies that are ’sensitive’ rather than ‘intelligent’. Two outfits have been developed as part of SKIN to identify a new way of communicating with those around us by using garments as proxies to convey deep feelings that are difficult to express in words.

Philips Design Website

Félix Larher is a French practitioner working in the fields of photography, art and animation. He began his career whilst living in London from 1994 to 1997.

Larher has been making a name for himself with his ironic/iconic photomontages that play out bizzare scenes, created with a mix of stolen and original imagery.

Felix Larher website for more..

Jan Saudek is currently the most renowned Czech photographer. Adored as well as vilified, celebrated as well as despised, worshiped as well as cursed. He holds a unique place in the development of Czech as well as world photography. Because he is distinctive and original, his work is not part of any genre or movement. He cannot be compared to anyone and there is no way to classify him. And even if we tried to do so, ultimately he would be all alone in such a “pigeon hole”.

Saudek’s work is a matter of vision; the result of his yearning for freedom and ‘another’, personal world where all human dreams, passions, and pleasures, as well as secret perversions can be fulfilled. Thus, it is primarily the question of human identity, which provokes us so much in Saudek’s photographs.

The whole of Saudek’s work is very intimate and he is quite easily vulnerable to it himself. He is constantly taking chances that the viewer starts laughing or becomes angry - be it due to embarrassment, stuffiness or misunderstanding. And he has been aware of this risk all his life. But whether his photographs deal with most tender emotions or the questionable sides of human being, as a whole, they are a massive celebration of humanness. And it is this very original, provocative adoration of manhood - to which anything human is not strange - that makes Jan Saudek a unique character in contemporary photography.

   
1990: Honoured as a ‘Chevalier des Arts et Lettres’.

Jan Saudek

Straight out of a toilet and into your bed!

The highly unconventional plush toys direct from Sweden. According to their website Pee & Poo also have their own clothing range from temporary tattoos to t-shirts and socks.

The controversy surrounding a line of toys representing human waste has created publicity and the designer has launched her name into the designer world spotlight. Originally sold separately Pee & Poo now come in a duo pack. So you get both bodily functions covered in the one box.

But..  Could it be that only a Swedish designer could get away with making plush toys that represent pee and poo, and have them called cute, cuddly and unique?

Excuse me…  But this is weird. I don’t like the idea behind the pee & poo thing. Whatever, if you like the toyz, here is a website that you can purchase   ;  Pee & Poo Toyz website

Three years ago Docteur Gecko found a way for "hacking" advertising that you find in bus shelters around the world. What’s unique about what Gecko does is that his modifications can only be seen during the night, when the city lights the shelters. However, during daytime the ad modified seems to be untouched.

He’s undoubtably copying some of the ideas of the bigger boys -but- he certainly puts a new slant on it; in these examples, he uses some kind of clever light-reactive technology.

Jessica Joslin works as a commercial model maker, building prototypes of toys. She creates some surprisingly elegant and beautiful sculptures out of animal bones and hardware materials.

"I had been making mixed-media sculptures, which incorporated bones, seedpods, and other natural objects with man-made found objects (especially parts from very old cash registers, adding machines and medical equipment). One day, I found, by chance, a bag of exquisite taxidermied bird parts, used for millinery c. 1900. That was the beginning of the first of my beasts." says Jessica.

Jessica Joslin’s website