Tokujin Yoshioka’s Tofu lamp is beautiful, functional, absolutely minimalist and exceedingly expensive. That’s what you’ll get from someone who features regularly at MoMA, I suppose.

Toko, a Dutch duo who operate out of Australia, have an absolutely inspiring and stunning body of work.

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Designed and manufactured in France, the quantity and quality of Le Deun Lumnaires’ LED-driven lighting appliances are excellent. They have these exquisite circular table lamps that would make even the messiest work desk look classy. (No direct links to their products because they have an old-fashioned full Flash site.)

A senior designer at the University of Chicago Press, Isaac Tobin has designed many inspirational, sophisticated yet minimal book covers for a wide variety of subjects.

Combine Modeselektor’s grimy, pirate radio sounding music with Apparat’s elegant minimalism and you get a slightly schizophrenic line-up called Moderat. Easily one of the best albums of 2009, Moderat is a nice fusion of seemingly opposing aural aesthetics. And you really have to give it more than one listen to appreciate the dark layers and graceful subtlety in the background.

I only knew Dick Bruna as the guy who drew Miffy. I didn’t realise how sad and pathetic that was until I recently uncovered a lot of his work that didn’t involve Nijntje. His work is minimal, clever and simply beautiful — exactly the things that make Dutch design so special.

The Around Clock is a round, beautiful, minimal analogue clock designed by Anthony Dickens.

Very nice! If we could keep a cat at home, this is would be brilliant.

Swedish futurist, Anders de Flon, designed this typeface all within a 9 pixel area. Obviously, it has some issues if you were going to use it on a day to day basis (a rapid failure of your ability to see might become a creeping problem) but it’s one of those things that makes you wonder why you didn’t think of first. (Well, I am wondering why I didn’t think of it first anyway.)

By the way, if any of you knows Mr De Flon well, I implore you to please update his badly written Wikipedia entry — it currently reads like a horrible English to Chinese to English translation.

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Brainfuck is so bad it’s good! There is also a JavaScript Brainfuck interpreter if you are so inclined.

If you got a minute, you should check out The Workerman’s T-shirts. Other than two Watchmen inspired T-shirts, he’s got some great typographic t-shirts too!

You could describe Brian Eno’s 1978 ambient album Music For Airports a masterpiece or a classic. You could lavish it as being seminal or quintessential. You could also say it was groundbreaking and extremely accessible. It is a lot of things, but you just shouldn’t spend too much time trying to describe it. You just have to listen to it, hear it and feel it for yourself.

A very smooth DJ mix by Adultnapper, Audiomatique 2.0 features music from the likes of Trentemøller, Gui Boratto, Martin Eyerer and many more. Starting off with stripped down downtempo fare, the mix progresses into slightly more aggressive, dancefloor stuff while maintaining a svelte, minimalist undertone all the way. It’s a nice collection of very urbane, minimal and modern electronica, but it’s not really going to set things on fire and become a classic of the future anytime soon.