Based on one of the most successful pieces of packaging design in history, Tank Books has released a new black and gold tin for its award-winning cigarette books. Underneath the tough exterior of the flip-top cigarette packs sealed in cellophane, each miniature book is a classic novel and a tale to take your breath away – all perfectly wrapped in silver foil. First introduced in 2005, the books have soared in popularity since the smoking ban and are an easy gift to please design enthusiasts and those who enjoy a ripping yarn... A cigarette tin includes 6 books and in total 11 novels: the Man who would be King, the Phantom ’Rickshaw and Black Jack by Rudyard Kipling; the Death of Ivan Ilych and Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy; the Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad; the Metamorphis and In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; the Undefeated and the Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway.

A tin is £43 and each individual book is £8 available at tankmagazine.com

3D printing for the home? Life-logging camera? Flat-pack house you can design and build yourself? These are not some in-development projects being researched in a remote high-tech lab at a far corner of the world; they are all part of the “New Industrial Revolution,” lead by Wired. Opening up a Pop-Up store in London for the first time, Wired are bringing the pages of their December issue to life by bringing visionary creative products, exhibits and demonstrations to your doorstep. Exhibiting and offering the opportunity to order products such as the MakerBot 3D printer, ArcBotics Hexapod customisable robot, WikiHouse flat-pack home, and BERG studio’s tiny networked printer that offers you bespoke newspapers every morning, this pop-up is a unique shopping experience that offers a glimpse of the world in 2013. Moreover, Wired have partnered with Samsung who will be unveiling their largest ever 75 inch LED SMART TV screen, which will be linked to a number of interactive showcases such as MakieLab iconic 3D-printed dolls, which could be customised on the screen, young jeans brand Hiut Denim’s History Tag, which links traces the life of each pair, and S[edition]’s Digital Art Gallery, exhibiting works by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Shepard Fairey, which would be available for purchase on smartphones, tablets and SMART TVs. It’s a new industrial era, and there’s never been a better time to catch-up than the present moment: check the website for the full calendar of events, screenings and talks and dive into a vision of the future that is much closer than it seems.

The Wired Pop-Up store will be open from Friday 30 November through to Wednesday 5 December at the Quadrant Arcade, Regent Street, Greater London W1B 5HF. #SamsungWIRED

Text by Maria Dimitrova

Above: Rug by Jack Teagle

This is the time of year when we start to batten down the hatches. When nights out in Dalston are traded for re-runs of Location, Location, Location and hour long conversations can be held about just how cold and how dark it's suddenly become. So since the great indoors gets all our attention, what could be more perfect than injecting some much-needed colour into the home with some exuberant rugs? Make that the cutting-edge artworks of 11 contemporary artists turned into luxuriously exuberant hand-knotted rugs, assembled into an exhibition by the innovative rug production house Foundation.

Having aptly called it The Rug Addicts, Foundation have challenged the artists to work within the textile medium for the first time, ending up with an array of stunning designs, from the fabulously graphic pop-art of Anthony Burrill and Paul Insect to the surrealistic animal illustrations of Alexone and Jack Teagle. True to their dedication to traditional carpet-weaving craftsmanship, Foundation have produced each design on their looms housed within a 19th century palace in Cairo, with each one-off rug having taken just over a year to create. An additional 20 of each design will be woven as a heritage project here in the UK, making also the work of Pete Fowler, Present, Tomato, Natasha Law (Jude Law’s sister), No Days Off, Si Scott and Yann Brien available to adorn your floors or walls. An overdose of pretty, you won’t need to be sweeping this addiction under the rug.

The collection will be displayed at the Dray Walk Gallery at the Old Truman Brewery from the 2nd to the 6th of November, with a private view on the 1st of November.

Pete Fowler