Welcome to Playlist-45 which will bring you into the New Year. In this month's installment we have some new music by Kate Boy, The New Division, School of Seven Bells and more... So come along on the journey and press play!

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Simone Back has strapped on a pair of snowshoes and lumbered out into freshly fallen snow at Les Arc ski resort, located in France since 2004. Each of his works can take anywhere from 6 hours or two days to complete while he slowly tramples out geometrical patterns, foot print by footprint.  All these image below where just from last week but you can see several more other years on his Facebook.



Source: Colossal

A South Korean advertising company Welcomm Publis Worldwide has created a series of iconic musician as earbuds for the Sony Earphone campaign. The earbuds are "dressed" in various famous characteristics related to each musician - recreating legends in the field such as Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley and Mozart. Which one is your favorite?



Source: Designboom

Kota Hiratsuka a Japanese paper engineer has created these complex and beautiful origami mosaics. They rely on cut and folded geometric patterns to create these images below. Kota plans on turning these designs into various templates as downloadable PDFs through his website but not just yet.  In the mean time you can check out more of his work on his site and on Flickr.



Source: This is Colossal

Designer Madella Simone has come up with a new type of concept bike. MOOBY which plays with the word mobility to show that this one-speed is up for the challenges of urban riding. It even offers a modular system that makes it possible to re-skin your ride with a more personalized graphic. That means you can keep on changing the look depending on your mood. Simone hopes that more riders will be drawn into the fashionable style and opt for 2 wheels over 4.



Source: Yanko Desgin