On fun design concepts, here's a submission by Agustin Otegui. X4: 2 watch faces, two straps, 4 options, in one watch... also check out his first place Bombay Sapphire Ice-olate winning design.
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FEATUREDWith all the shopping to do, made a quick list of fun stores, so i don't forget... If you need a last minute gift... or the perfect gift... here are some good places to look
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FEATUREDObsessing about the Material Furniture Knock Down/Drag Out Collection today
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Ooooh Muji's holiday selection is far too fun... also take a look at the city-handkerchiefs in London, NY, HK, Tokyo versions
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Muji also has some great acrylic bangles and rings (black, clear, green, red)
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Shoplifter: The audacity of doing my Christmas shopping with this bag, I can't wait to see the reaction.
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Bert Simons paper clone was made using 3D CG techniques, then printed and glued together. (reminds me of #2020)
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FEATUREDThe way we browse and search through images is quickly changing ~ don't miss Like.com and Retrievr
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Marionette Mac - most artistic use of the internal accelerometer i've seen yet
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Found on oO's eclectic ~ notcot had a TERRIBLE acronym, i can only wish it were as perfect as RUGenius' "Robotic Unit Generated for Exploration, Nocturnal Infiltration and Ultimate Sabotage"
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A few foodie bloggers are turning me on to design in food... and Sean's Supperclub review is just too delectable an experience not to share. Happy Belated Birthday, Sean!
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this ad campaign made me really happy. it's denver's save water campaign, but applies to so much more. just use what you need!
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FEATUREDThe work of Keith Noodzy, love the woody art, great squids, dinos, and more.
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a vespa for the kids? one of the times' best picks this week. a battery operated mini-vespa. for the stylish youngsters on your list.
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FEATUREDIn rebellion against traditional gift guides, lets get creative! Here's my Thanksgiving morning, "Gifts for your Indie Ninja" - aka gorgeously fun black products
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Your Name On Toast! Pay to put words on toast, all money goes to charity. Toast can make the world better. Cute logo as well.
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hehe, you guys know the toast obsession, check out minale maeda's table manners. =)
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WOW. The imagery of animal fetus' in the womb through birth are just amazing, and i've only seen the extended preview... can't wait to see the discovery channel show.
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Someone's gone and done it - its like hot or not, for art... only prettier, you win money, and it got on techcrunch.
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Silver , plastic and Astroturf, "Balancing Antelope" ring from the "Portable Landscape Series"
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This is the Opus Operis, a PDA from Zenum... It's freak'n sleek. More impressive is the name behind the look -Jaren Goh- famous for the opulent Black Diamond Mobile and Obelisk 2 PS3 Clone. Keep your eyes peeled for more of his super stylish designs...
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FEATUREDShilo made the new Samsung Blackjack ad an incredibly lust worthy tech gadget with this Cingular Ad.
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Good music, great animated films and a sweet menu screen. The "Doorsteps" movie is my personal favorite. [Editor's note: WOW. can't stop watching these]
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The Strandbeests are these incredible wind-powered robotic sculptures by dutch artist/engineer Theo Jansen
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FEATUREDSo much love for Questionable Content ~ time to take a closer look at the sketches and gadgets featured in the strip.
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its nice to have some life around the house, but this seems like minimalism to the point of discomfort for the fish...but more humane than fishtank-birdcages.
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Virtual Hitman Design (vhm) from Alex Cerry. Web and Print design.
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FEATUREDFrom the makers of VOSS ~ comes G Pure Energy... the next hot thing in packaging... and energy drinks?
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"Pretty Things to Offset Your Ugly" who couldn't use a little something extra to proclaim their designer sensibilities? i've thrown together a thisnext list of some of our favorite jewelry pieces this season.
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FEATUREDMimobots Star Wars series - the final character announced! Now we just have to sit back and wait patiently for their release in January...
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The comfort of a Louis XV armchair, the integrated sound stylings of your iPod. the Amadeus Sound System is a black lacquer/ upholstered Louis 15th chair with integrated speakers, amplifier and a pocket for your iPod. Found on MocoLoco
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#2158
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Graphic Designers have until Dec 1st to submit their design made from these shapes for the upcoming VORMATOR collaborative book.
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#2157
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Core77 reminded me that I missed Sydney's Sculpture By The Sea this year. Love the melted ice-cream truck
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Sadly, these Pantone Universe Totes are only available in Japan at the Loft and Franc Franc Store...
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#2155
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For the color theorists and amateur alike, KULER is a great little color palette generator from Adobe Labs
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#2154
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Great ad from Philips: Shaven John Doe explains the benefits of "shaving everywhere." Reminds me of Ms. Dewey a bit.
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samova believes in friendship and tasty hot water - and - stylish design
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CANDY FOR RICHMEN. ok they got me with the title... but pretty illustration on the site UI as well
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Of all the crazy cuffs out there, this one is for baseball lovers... i love that you can collect autographs (and *ahem* cheat notes) on it as well... fun idea by Danielle Strle.
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The Dish Up ceramic dinnerware creates partitions for your food, and their unique flat edge allows them to be stored vertically.
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#2144
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Continue riding the font wave..."We don't just sell type, we live for it. The FontFeed is a font blog, updated at least weekly with typography tips, fresh new fonts, and the latest FontShop news. Feed your creativity."
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Font designer Erik Spiekerman is a fontagrapher god. Design Within Reach is honoring this fact with a collection of house numbers based on his work. Including the Helvetica killer FF Meta!
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The packet claims that eating the 1up Mushroom will grant "immortal life beyond dreams of man." It also has the warning: Do not put in face. - It gave us a good laugh.
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Stainless Steel Credit card subway map for NY! Pretty handy. Where's the one for SF..?
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Fabulist find! Coolest necklace ever? T-rex skeleton that people wouldn't be able to help themselves but to comment on.
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Joom is an artist, designer who makes pillows with a touch of asia
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Silver butterflies in stainless steel dance on the wall, creating a dreamy atmosphere with a fluorinated layer on the back
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Thank goodness for Coroflot and their great GLOBAL AESTHETIC PRACTICE ESTIMATE ~ to help us all keep tabs on how much we are and should be earning for our creative ways.
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The packaging and photography for the new Shu Uemura Rogue Unlimited lipstick... its otherworldly.
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Ladies, protect yourselves with a stylish jacket! This article of clothing, when armed and grabbed, sends 80,000 volts of electricity through your attacker, while keeping you safe.
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Innovative rotating USB port design Great Colors!
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#2127
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Mogga was designed for small spaces. Imaginary scenario was created by the designer where people would need a chair that could be turned into a table without many problems.
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Play & Freeze Ice Cream Ball might be the coolest way to make ice cream. Six gem-like colors, but personally I like the Ruby Red.
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#2128
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The Contactbox collects and hides cords and chargers, leaving your charger easy to find and with no more tangeled messy cords.
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Also liking the 80's Purple layout/rollovers for their sunglasses page
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80's Purple has a homepage UI that made me take notice... so sharing it. Crazy rollovers on the frames.
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A vase like this will be hard to break. Menu Rubber Red Vase deisgned by Henriette Melchiorsen.
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Of all the lego batman characters ~ they did the best job designing catwoman... no lego i've seen has pulled off such a brilliantly devious look. And holds a whip?
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Ever wonder how it would feel if you hung a fury lamp from your ceiling? Dark from Belgium might have had this thought when they designed their D-range collection.
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A wallpaper consisting of four layers of varying grey tones on a bright primary backing... peel off post it notes
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Little collaboration with amazing Finnish photographer Diana Luganski. See more of Brand:Nu works via the link.
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Every artist has a vision. For Momo , the vision was to tag the entire width of Manhattan.
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A collective of international designers have been brought together to illustrate new functional and aesthetic approaches to body art in the Reset Design Tattoo Collection.
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What a cool way for kids, or why not also grownups for that matter, to keep track of their height. Ana Mir's Measuring Plant is that perfect wallpaper decor.
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How about having your own horse in the livingroom? Designed by Front for Moooi
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Leaning on the frightening/creepy side - there's still something interesting about this hand that is all graphite... a giant pencil lead hand, if you will.
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Colorcube: an impressive "toy" that would look great on a designer's desk/shelf/etc... and something fun to play with while visualizing and picking colors... in 3D
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Every kid has to go through the sorting box to learn shapes... why wasn't mine as sleek glossy black as this Brio one?
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HELMUT the Dragon (makes me think of helmut lang)... but love the design, with the wide stretched arms, not to mention its on sale. I'm very impressed with the Zebra Hall toy collection
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Items like this Go Go Racer and Hitch, make me wish i was or had a kid somewhere to play with this with. Gorgeously sleek minimalist design ~ and functional too!
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Bamboo Cheese Grater/holder ~ very cute eco friendly design for the bamboo lovers [this one aimed at jermacide]
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On holiday shopping, here's some cute packaging ~ C.O.Bigelow Forever Mentha Tin ~ has 12 mini mentha lip shine tubes... freshens breath too
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This clean looking "ElectroScoot" is designed by GRO design. You can drive it for about 40-50 km on its lithium battery, and to run it costs only 50 cents for 50km!
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Kids today only know the new degrassi - but does anyone else remember the original class of '88? Other than Young Lovers who made a shirt of their yearbook page in their new collection...
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Copro-Nason has two new limited edition prints from Lori Earley
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FEATUREDTimbuk2 announces their new Canvas Single Speed line of bags
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Each room in the Kunst Hotel is different. This one is toon shaded, with a thin black line painted on all the visible edges.
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First-person shooter glasses. [Editor's Note: HA! Just incase you feel safest when wandering around a virtual world seeing your gun in front of you... now for the real world too!]
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The Skyway is constructed of 1 piece of 3/4" lucite. Perfect as a side table, the skyway can also be pulled up to your sofa to host your favorite drink. by william earle
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Anyone who owns a PC knows of the problem with electric cables running everywhere. Richard Shed's design aims to alleviate these tangled problems.
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Louise Campbell Veryround Armchair - Veryround is pleased to announce that it doesn't care much about what other chairs look like.' (Louise Campbell)
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Takumi Shimamura's wooden briefcase, Bag-Kaku, made in Japanese cedar. Wonderfull craftsmanship.
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Normann Copenhagen has 3 different lamp shades in their product line. What's so special about them? You assemble the whole lamp yourself from scratch.
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meet mozzarella. the first of tokidoki's 'moofia'.
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How about your own little dragon for your towels? Pluto Produkter has a great series of metal hanger/racks.
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FEATUREDPicked up Pleo at a bar in Beverly Hills this week. This guy is supposedly the next big step in consumer robotics ~ they're getting cuter AND more hackable.
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In case any other treo users haven't grabbed Google Maps ~ FINALLY live traffic while driving ~ directions, locals businesses, satellite view, etc.
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FEATUREDImpressive illustrations on silk ties by Cyberoptix. Mind blowing.
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Tom Seymour's Honey Comb lights are simple in design as well as construction. These flat pack lights emit a warm ambient glow. They come in various shapes and sizes.
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Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni - Mezzadro Stool
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The simplest chair, designed by Ulf Jansson.Via redhousedesign.blogspot.com
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Dear Ingo created by Ron Gilad, a beautiful and bizarre pendant lamp.
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Also over at the Zune Arts page ~ love Jeremy Fish's Antisocial poster.
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TokyoPlastic's latest for Zune ~ CPLuv calls it beautiful ~ which it is ~ but does no one else think its a bit on the phallic side? and whats up with the butt clenching? music by gotan project
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"The Rotor Coffee Table is a wonderful combination of minimalism and versatility."
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Street smart and safe. These reflective snake skin tyres will make moutainbiking safer at night.
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Introducing the half pint glass in a pint glass. It's insulated so your drinks stay hot or cold, depending on what they were in the first place.
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Found via the b3ta.com best of the board, It's a Sanitary Owl by the talented Phillip Blackman creator of biro-art.com. Terrible pun well executed.
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More skulls: Alexandre Orion creates art using soot.
Via Wooster Collective
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the craziest shoe storage system i've seen so far. its like a ferris wheel for your heels.
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Tofer silver egg series, "Glam Metal", custom-made and exclusive to All Purpose.
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Black Flood - black and white illustration book with a TRAILER that you NEED to see. Breathtakingly gorgeous.
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FEATUREDTarget just keeps unveiling more and more Tord Boontje goodness ~ here are links to Tord TV spots, and the translucent giftcard!
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A range of tees built on the curious background of Dick Ealy. Available this (Southern Hemisphere) summer.
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Light Shade Shade is a one way mirror that reflects its environment as well as concealing the chandelier within.
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Michael Young and Katrin Petursdottir Tree Coat Hanger
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#2029
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Naoto Fukasawa Twist - Groove Pencil Holders
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#2027
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mooncruise* magazine V2.05, featuring photography and music by international artists.
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Urban Medium's CheTrooper is now available as a limited edition bust
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#2022
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Crocodile Hunter Hunter T-shirt......
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#2016
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Fabulist has some great pics of the Square Foot Show over at Thinkspace. Oh, Audrey Kawasaki, why do your pieces never cease to mesmerize me?
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#2015
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Abstract music video for the song "Futures" by "Zero 7 feat. Jose Gonzalez" from Robert Seidel, the director/animator of the award winning short _grau ...
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#2013
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I WANT YOUR SKULL features art and design around one of the oldest themes in art's history: the skull.
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#2002
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The new cd burning app for OS X called "Disco" has a really pretty icon. The app itself looks pretty sweet too.
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#2011
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You have a message from Geo-Greeting, an alphabet entirely built from google earth images.
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#2010
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FEATUREDoO shares HAPPY FEET/ANIMAL LOGIC shirt designs with us!
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#2008
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FEATUREDoooh! a lorem ipsum cuff. style. from veer!
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#2007
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Ever wonder what goes on inside of your cells? Harvard commissioned a very graceful and accurate animation of the inner workings of a cell. Our bodies have the best design of all. Cool music too.
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#2006
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Neiman Marcus has quite the gift guide as always ~ these Scanty Owl Panties had a great graphic...
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#2005
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The iconic Battersea Powerstation and the area around it (think, Pink Floyd Animals album cover) is being redesigned to be an energy efficient residential and commercial area.
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#2004
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A completely mesmerizing animation involving Dick & Jane. Check it out.
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#2003
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This work is inspired by the curved staircases which are so much a part of Montreal's identity. Here, the staircase twists into a knot.
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#1999
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nothing says 'tis the season like katamari. check out the new line of shirts from way of the rodent.
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#2001
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Mr Clement exhibition: PlayLounge, London ~ Dec 3rd + new book "Yeah Kou PHOBIA" and matching toys
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#1998
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Haven't you heard? There's a fun new way to keep track of your keys! EAR RINGS are a simple, clever idea - a jewel-toned silicone ear pierced with a heavy duty split ring.
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#1997
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This creased cup signed by Rob Brandt became a classic of the design. Play of material, diversion of the object, Realized in white ceramic.
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#1996
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Just in case you don't check daily ~ bookmark Creatures in My Head for your daily dose of, well, creatures!
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#1995
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Girl massages anole bellies, and has the ability to have them relax in her hand - she dresses them up, poses them, and her father takes pictures.
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#1994
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Sponge Coasters. Brilliant. (doesn't it make you want to run and grab your sponges and a pair of scissors?) via SwissMiss
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