It’s that time again – time for a whole new year. A fresh start.

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The Best 2013 Modern Calendars

Happy Friday! Hope you have a great weekend ahead.

Here’s this week’s Weekly Six:

1 – An easy make-ahead recipe for holiday entertaining.

2 – Cute ways to spice up your holiday wrapping.

3 – Love this wooden bow tie – a great gift idea!

4 – Can’t get enough of art arrangements such as this.

5 – A fun yellow accented dining room – would you do something like this in your own home?

6 – I’ve drooled over the paintings of Caitlin McGauley for a long time – and now she has adorable trays!

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One of the highlights of last month’s trip to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was The Vignelli Center for Design Studies . Melamine dishes for Heller Massimo and Lella Vignelli , who founded Vignelli Associates in the 1970, have designed some of the most iconic graphics, signage, packaging and products known in the world of design. Some are classics, like their Heller melamine dinnerware (pictured above) or their 2003 Heller chair, are well-known by many. Other iconic designs that have become staples in our everyday lives were also designed by the Vignellis

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A Visit to The Vignelli Center for Design Studies at RIT

Pig on the Wings is a stool that has animal-like feet. They look like webbed duck feet to me, but – hey – pigs will work, too. Designed by Gentle Giants Studio , the stool is an homage to the Traccia Table by Meret Oppenheim . It assembles without using any screws or glue; all parts are wedged together. Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook .

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Pig on the Wings Stool by Gentle Giants Studio

Sometimes a living space just isn’t big enough to fit a desk in it but, boy, it sure is handy to have a workstation sometimes. The Flatmate aims to give you just such a spot without taking up the valuable floor space that most desks do. Designed by Michael Hilgers for Müller Möbelwerkstätten , the slim design barely sticks out from its spot against the wall but gives you plenty of room to attend to all of your desk duties when opened up.

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Flatmate Desk by Michael Hilgers for Müller Möbelwerkstätten

Doll is the new table lamp by French designer Ionna Vautrin for Foscarini where the shape looks like a cross between old oil lamps and those wooden Japanese kokeshi dolls that have skinny bodies and big faces. The bulging shades are made from glass while the narrow bases come in four colors – red, gray, green, and ivory. To help welcome the new Doll lamps to the market, Foscarini has launched a new Facebook app with the help of Hub09 Social Agency called MyDoll , where you can virtually customize your very own lamp. Using a drawing tool, users get to add outfits, hair, faces, and facial expressions that will then be displayed in 3D for you to share. Dress your very own doll here ! Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook

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Doll Table Lamp by Foscarini

It doesn’t matter who I’m out dining with, but if I’m in a restaurant and there’s an option to sit on a bench versus chairs, I always fight for the bench. Are you like that? There’s just something so cozy and intimate about bench dining.

Which leads me to today’s product pick – the Tomato Bench Dining Set. With this modern dining set, I could have the bench seat every day of my life! Available at Wharfside, the Tomato Bench is made to order, so you can choose from a large variety of leathers and fabrics to suit your style. I’m really liking the fabric and leather contrast in the image above – and I would love to add some bright fun pillows to my kitchen.

What do you think of the Tomato Bench? Would you love to have bench seating in your home?

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Korean designer  Jeong Yong created this perpetual table calendar that’s made of three differently-sized rings. The biggest ring represents the days – the 31 units during which the sun rises and sets. The middle ring, for the months, represents the moon’s orbit around the Earth. And, finally, the smallest ring, with seven units, represents the days of the week, or as the designer says “the people who created the seven days of the week.” Held together with strong magnets, you can join up the month, day and week to keep you on track, but with the added bonus of a cool, desktop sculpture.

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ONE Perpetual Calendar Circles by Jeong Yong

TMU stands for Tie Me Up, a plywood chair designed by Luca Macrì ( LAM ) that you put together yourself. Using cable ties, you put the pieces of the chair together yourself like a giant puzzle. I’ll bet this is much more fun than using an Allen wrench and pictogram directions… Wouldn’t it be fun to have a competition to see who can put it together the fastest? Photos by PEPE fotografia .

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Tie Me Up (TMU) Zip Tie Chair by LAM

December’s Designer Dailies  focuses on a well-known favorite, contemporary furniture design company,  Blu Dot . Its founders, John Christakos, Maurice Blanks, and Charles Lazor (who has since left), were college buddies who all appreciated architecture, art, and design, and all of whom were less than thrilled with the furnishings they could afford once they graduated. Rather than simply complaining, in 1997 they formed Blu Dot, with the goal of bringing good design to as many people as possible

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Designer Dailies: Blu Dot