ReadWriteWeb did an awesome list of "Ten Sites for Finding Wonderful Things" ~ and we were lucky enough to make the list! I'm sure you know the others, but if not, definitely go check it out.
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The world's first eco luxury vodka is here. Vodka 360 is quadruple distilled using sustainable technologies and utilizes green packaging. Drink up and make the world a greener place!
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Visual exploration and digital art, by Alan Woo.
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Google's office in Zürich: who wouldn't like to work there? Check out the video, and surf the web for more pics...
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The Singing, Ringing Tree stands tall on land previously surfaced by radio towers.
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FEATUREDThe Nomad Yurt from EcoShack ~ its 120 sq ft of instant pop up space we all need... this really stole the show at CA Boom V ~ see my pics from inside!
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The KTM RC8: stunning superbike design from a company better known for motocross.
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David Reimondo, like Rodrigo Bruna #6620, does some incredible art with TOAST! from the map of the world, to a giant keyboard, to a fingerprint mosaic...
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the strong lines and shape of this stealth lounge chair, created by the norwegian design duo petter skogstad and haakon vold, were inspired by modern military aircraft.
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Mel Kadel and a great handful of other artists are releasing limited editions with POVevolving! If you happen to be in LA on the 28th of March you can be the first to snag one...
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FEATUREDRoyal VKB's Kid's Puzzle Dinner Tray ~ a fun melamine puzzle to help kids learn what goes where... and keep them busy while you enjoy your meal...
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Jeff Koons is my new hero! His awesome sculptures are currently on display in Chicago, New York, and France. [Editor's Note: Couldn't resist letting this rediscovery of a design icon go up...]
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Energy that will not run out. Geothermal energy. | Adhesives in the giant plugs were glued to the ground thereby generating the illusion that the plugs were on Earth, making connection to the definition of Geothermal energy, the 'energy of the earth'!
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Braun Woodline's line of Round Expanding Tables endowed with an exclusive and patented mechanism allowing the table to remain perfectly circular in its spread position! Watch the videos!
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The summerhouse is a seasonal hideaway for a Hackney-based family of four, designed by Ullmayer Sylvester Architects. Simple structure but the mirror siding makes the whole thing much more interesting, and helps to enlarge the garden.
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The real face of the Mario | The designers of the site Pixeloon, managed to render a quite realistic as would be the real face of Mario, hero of the nintendo games.
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"Conflict Chair" by Aviad Gil - olive wood + red felt. Trees that were used to manufacture this chair were uprooted during the construction of "The Conflict Wall" that separates Israel and Palestine. ONE-OFF piece.
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VIDEOCreative Stop Motion! Institutional video from Hello Interactive. Sao Paulo / Brazil - very fun.
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DEAR HE-MAN - and the utter disappointment that followed. My dreams of creating the next He-Man character are summarily crushed by the Mattel legal department.
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Braithwaite Wallets #9343~ i want to buy this Daedalus for guys who love their guitars... not only does the wallet have a theme song, but it has external slots for your picks, and if no picks, the silk shows thru.
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VIDEOLasse Gjertsen cant play the piano or the drums but threw editing he has created the amazing video "Amateur"
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Dear Deer, a New Product available from the Vienna crew at Walking Chair
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One of two new wallets by Braithwaite Wallets - each wallet even has its own theme song! They are also looking for new wallet designers.
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FEATUREDThe amazing, abandoned resort of San Zhi in Taiwan.
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When will guys spend so much time online that the thought of a virtual girlfriend will become appealing? The answer is right after they watch this video. [Editor's Note: the virtual bf is hilarious too]
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VIDEONew music video for the band The Beangrowers' single 'Not in a Million Lovers'. Directed by Duncan Bone. Nice photo collaging/piling...
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St. Patrick's Day ~ Google Maps Style! Check out streetview and you become a little leprechaun (and as you fly around deciding, check out the rainbow from your feet!)
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Nikka Whiskey is produced in Japan and some bottles are enshrouded in a metal coat of samurai armor.
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Pantone, the color matching system is coming out with an eyewear collection of four styles (metal optical, semi rimless, sport metal and sport) that have interchangeable colored arms! Available soon!
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Siftables: fun little motion-sensitive LCD screens for a more natural, visual manipulation of media and information, from MIT.
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Bouncing Oil Jet! When oil plunges into the same fluid, a cushion of air prevents the two parts from merging instantly. The movie is more interesting...
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Yayoi Kusama's troubled past has resulted in amazing artwork and surreal environmental installations.
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FEATUREDTheosaurus ~ we first saw them in #7013 ~ but now i have some up close, hands on shots of these adorable porcelain piggy banks for you!
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"When you run out of pencils, you run out of education" - ads from Escala Comunication and Marketing out of Brazil and art directors Marcelo Peresin, Pedro Perurena and Gabriel Costa.
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The Self-destruct table by Studio 1am. It's a limited edition that removes a piece as each one is manufactured.
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Pontiac G8 GT ad is glorious homage to one of the great arcade games of the '80s: "Spy Hunter"
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FEATUREDJavier Mariscal has designed some incredible, playful children's furniture with Magis... view them all (and they will get that kid inside of you excited no matter how old you are!)
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FEATUREDMagis' Me Too Collection launched a new sky blue Puppy (designed by design god, Eero Aarnio) at CA Boom today!
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I would love to have a blind with a tree silhouette printed on it even if it wasn't a giant piece of ASCII art. By dutch designer Nienke Sybrandy
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Pimped-out Easter Eggs. Egg- knocking as you've never seen it ever before.
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Really nice spot created by Goodby Silverstein & Partners and The Mill for Nascar/Sprint Speed Monsters campaign with cool lightning effects.
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Frida Kahlo's Studio an amazing dollhouse by Elsa Mora
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The MOMA has a multi-colored vinyl floor installation as part of a new exhibition, Color Chart.
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From the time of the transistor radio to the modern day mp3 player, Singgih Kartono has masterfully combined the old with the new (using sustainable woods) into something of pure genius.
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Designer Joel Escalona's USB memory bomb is one serious weapon of mass storage.
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Why choose if you can combine? A great print ad from Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel.
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gorgeous ether ceiling light from canada's eurofase might make you feel like you're under the sea.
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Clip Alphabetical | Designer Stephen Reed, created such interesting clips where each has a letter, thus serving to organize more easily, for example, documents that are required separated by alphabetical order!
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Colorful renovation of a kitchen in West London, by Surface Architects. Great to see someone having the guts to use strong colors in a kitchen!
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Dutch designer and font-master Job Routers created "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" - a fascinating video of himself and his 4-year old nephew Gradus drawing the alphabet. The kid is killer!
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Tim Simpson's Bread Spoons are made using a bespoke pastry cutter and baking tray that forms the shape of the spoons in pairs. I'm thinking... really thick soup....maybe. You'd use a lot of spoons with thin broth.
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Chris Nieratko comically interviews celebrities and famous musicians. He's also never made a mistake in his life ... he thought he did once, but he was wrong.
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CA Boom V opens today at the Santa Monica Airport, this 3 day event focuses upon interior design, modern and prefab architecture and gives tours on local homes as well. [Editor's Note: on my way now]
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Mirrored sculpture by Michel de Broin set deep within the woods. How interesting it might be to stumble upon this sculpture while walking through the forest...
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Wallypower is sure my preferred superyacht. It's a great example of sport and luxory design.
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Two amazingly weird skycrapers - Death Star and Half-Moon are to be built in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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FEATUREDGlowing Jar Full Of NOTCOTs! (and dissection of a Sun Jar)
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The Life Clock. Clock mechanism slowed down 61320 times (each number represents years)
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BUILDING BLOCKS - Experimental display type using only the most crucial elements of each letter, while still feeling friendly.
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FEATUREDAMT's Me-Rors are now available, and we have an exclusive unboxing for you! Beautifully packaged, and playful perfect gifts, these come in both classic oval, and a vintage silhouette mirror floating in glass...
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Ultra's Space Station 6 - Cute tempting credit card filled with 6 tiny USB flash drives... 6 2GB drive is only 90$!
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Thompson’s innovative and beautifully stylish Symbio serves as a standard and DECT VoiP phone, an internet radio and even picks up RSS feeds.
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Futuristic vehicle doodles taken from the mysterious book, The Codex Transportica.
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Simple, subtle work from Canadian collage artist Paul Butler. Bringing his art to life, Butler also created Collage Party, a 'travelling experimental group studio with a rotating cast".
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"Anyone who abuses drugs and alcohol is unrecognizable." Another alternative media campaign against drugs from Publicis to university Mackenzie, a mirror that distorts the reflection of the person.
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Scottie's Fine Art Caves , because your primal pup prefers a cave to a cage. Only 30 made each year. Get yours today!
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A digital clock with mechanically driven visual elements. Beautifully simple! See the video...
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Sphere 2003 is a sculpture by Olafur Eliasson located in the Fünf Höfe shopping mall in Munich, Germany.
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Rainbow in your hands flip book by Masashia Kawamura
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An aluzinc cladding house in the Chilean south., its bronze color looks great with any ligthing. By Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects, with pictures by Cristobal Palma.
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Justin Ladda's 1981 "The Thing" mural is an amazing combination of perspective, decay, and draftsmanship. Make sure to click the "side view".
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Enough with the haggis! THIS is what you do with a sheep's stomach. The glow of this lamp has a gorgeous hue. If you visit Julia Lohmann's site, be sure to check out the cow benches, as well.
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AdCoffee | Logos in your coffee in the morning!
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A high quality mailer in the form of a leather embossed envelope with a chrome plate inner.
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AA Ads - "in flight wifi, just in case" Extremely fun ads, most likely mock ups seeing as they are from a school, from Miami Ad School out of Miami Beach and art director Vanessa Castañeda.
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New collection called MIASMA from Danish label Woven Flesh. - A new webshop launched recently as well including prints, tees and jewellery.
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Hotel Aire de Bardenas is located near a national park and biosphere reserve on the plains of Navarre, Spain.
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visualizations of worms, viruses and trojans. Characteristics of the malware are tracked, analyzed, and then allowed to grow into a virtual 3D entity. Hope they start selling prints soon.
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Unique dog beds with modern graphic prints made in Brooklyn.
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Chris Ware had a feature animation incorporated into the third episode of a television series This American Life. (There should be a second season coming to Showtime sometime soon.)
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Anime Britney Spears for her new video for "Break The Ice" ~ its bizarre/interesting to see pop music go anime (very Ghost In The Shell) Watch it here.
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A great way to use a Tord Boontje design. The guys from the Pouvlov Store took the Kvadrat fabric and playfully used it in a special design version of the Pouvlov.
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Bathman, designed by italian Massimiliano De Falco, is public toilet made using steel. It looks like a paper-folding .
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The Clover 1s uses VacuumPress technology and sophisticated parameter controls to create the perfect single serving of coffee.
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The final trailer for the new Pixar film, Wall-E, is finally out and it's maybe the most adorable thing ever.
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FEATUREDBigger isn't always better - the world's thinnest ring.
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National Cryptologic Museum, an institution devoted to two contradictory human impulses: keeping secrets and telling stories, funded by the National Security Agency!
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the new york times has a great special section on museums this week.
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Diesel Wall 2008 ~ its that time of year again! So get your entries in... this year its NY, Manchester, Zurich, and Barcelona
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Paul Smith designed a high-fashion ping-pong table, perfect for any fashionista's playful living room.
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NY Times covers an architecture studio that was converted from an old auto shop. The bathroom has "a floor of Mexican beach pebbles for drainage..."
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I love this ad from Mccann Erickson out of Mumbai, India and art directors Kapil Tammal and Sandesh Kambli for Soakies brand tissues.
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The Suburban Tipi by designer John Paananen. Kids would love these, I'm sure.
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Linda Farrow vintage worked this season with Bernhard Wilhem, Jeremy Scott and Raf Simons on a collection of sunglasses.
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Just a really great idea for bikers, to let the cars behind you know where you are going. Leah Buechley used her LilyPad Arduino to make this soft circuit turn signal bicycle jacket, great for spring.
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Hustler of Culture ~ how did this blog not make it on my radar until now?!?! It's been around since 2004, and i love the name. Cool Hunters, Trend Hunters, none sound nearly as sweet as being the Hustler.
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Residencial Alviento is a great building of a seven apartment building constructed on a plot of land located on the top of a mountain that overlooks the Bay of Puerto Marques in Acapulco, Mexico. By Mexican Bunker Arquitectura.
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Help is a totally fresh take on pharmaceuticals. If you thought bandaids and aspirin couldn't be high design, enviro-friendly, and hot enough to show off... think again.
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Ring_Me by Project Sneeze - Engraving the phone number onto the inside of the ring to be given to someone who you wish to "ring" you
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Extra ID jewelry by Dutch designer Anke Weiss imitates the security tags attached to items of clothing in shops to prevent them from being stolen.
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Tokujin Yoshioka: has designed the first Swarovski flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo. The amazing facade is covered with stainless-steel mirror reliefs.
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The new Vertu Constellation Monogram collection draws inspiration from the Louis Vuitton and Goyard monograms.
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The newest contributor to The Desktop Wallpaper Project is the master of self-portraits and multi-colred gems, UPSO.
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Quite possibly the geekiest, most distinctive blender in the world, this beast is powered by a 23cc 4-stroke engine and comes complete with handlebars with working throttle!
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Pretty new HTC Advantage X7510 smartphone looks very laptop like. I don't think I'd want to be seen talking into it, but its magnetic keyboard looks spacious.
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Absolutely gorgeous and elaborate abstract drawings by Chicago artist Noelle Allen. All of her drawings are done with graphite and water color. She has some excellent sculptures, as well.
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House kn by Kochi Architects Studio ~ i love the way this courtyard's walls are sliced and lit
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Sheer is an amazing kitchen which can be closed to appear like a sphere.
Designed and produced in Italy.
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Amazing Japanese reality show video of human Tetris. You have to bend your body to get through the shapes as they come down. Miss and you fly into the water.
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Gamer Pillow designed by Tofu ~ Upper Playground has this perfect pillow for gamer interiors...
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Diesel Sweeties ~ Free comic archives in pdf form! Grab the torrents, share the love... first up is eBook #1 (of 10) featuring comics 1-200 of diesel sweeties...
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Photography of Alison Brady - Dark but beautiful. Great photographs, love the guy half way sticking out of the stove.
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UsTrendy is a forum for aspiring musicians, models, designers, and artists to showcase their work. Then fans decide what they like, and items get produced!
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OTTO ergonomic play table and chairs set designed by Hakan Gürsu,Dr.Ind DESIGNNOBIS
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To the uninitiated eye this image looks like “computer art”. I would like to stress that this “photo” is documentation of a real city, in real time, and real light. -Alan Grinberg
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Seeing this pencil sharpener at the MoMa store makes me want to pull out all the odd sizes pencils around... and start sketching? and coloring? and sharpening!
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Double-Walled Bottle by Romain Gauthrot, 2007 - glass, insulated, and microwave safe! Holds 16oz.
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Italian designer Dum Dum Arredamente's home is La Casa Nella Cisterna, a converted ancient water tower. How cool is that?
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Magpul prototype FMG-9 submachine gun. Disguised as a flashlight, a touch of a button lets you pull a Megatron and flip out a fully-functional submachine gun. Designers - use your powers for good not evil!
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Schizophrenic Brain: the artworks of brazilian Guilherme Marconi.
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"Piñata" - hilarious new spot for Chocolate Mix Skittles. Following in the morbid footsteps of last year's brilliant "Touch" and created again by TBWA/Chiat/Day.
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Trap, catch and explore live bugs with this motion activated Venus Fly Trap. I hope you are catching these bugs outside because if you able to catch enough bugs inside your house to create a bug habitat you need to clean your place up now.
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Andrew Bell (#2106, #5828) has a new show on display at Gallery1988 LA. I missed last weeks opening reception (wrong coast!) but it will be on display until March 27th
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VIDEOMathematical Society of Traffic Flow in Japan replicated traffic jams that occur for no reason on a circular test track. Fun video of the jam propagating backwards like a shock wave.
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I'm just amazed by this piece by El Mac which was painted as a color negative. click to see what happens to the image when you invert it.
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These fabulous mirrors by Jean-Marie Masaud for Glass Italia slowly fade from reflective to transparent.
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FEATUREDNOTConcept 001 ~ Part 2! We took the many ideas form last week a step further, and are exploring the concept of modular "smart jacks" for grilling/heating, and the suspended outdoor grill!
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Really nice ad for Craftsman from Y&R Chicago and creative directors Dave Loew and Jon Wyville. Just a fun little ad and I really like the way they used different Craftsman tools to create a visually effective human skeleton.
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"Cargo is securely locked. Crew have no access to keys. The Far East's most desirable export since 1932." Tiger Beer - by CHI & Partners out of London and creative directors Ed Edwards and Dave Masterman.
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FEATUREDNOTCOT on the Amazon Kindle ~ I didn't think i'd love or even be interested in it, but since it showed up this morning i've been smitten - first with the packaging... and the experience of book reading....
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Looking to clear up some space in the house? Then check out Bedup, a bed that actually "retracts into the ceiling." Very cool
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"Quick Change" - A visual metaphor created by director Reynier Molenaar that describes how we all need to make changes in our lives in order to solve the climate crisis.
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a clean and compact pair of pants for dirty babies on the go !!!!
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Louis Vuitton Japan is now taking advantage of "white day" to market their brand toward brand conscious Japanese boys and girls with white roses with LV logo on them.
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On NOTCOT firsts ~ here's the first thank you note/ meta snail mail / sketch of the buttons i sent out to Johanna in Germany!
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HOT TOYS' STAR WARS CHUBBY SERIES 2 - I can't figure out if they are cute, or just so bizarre i can't stop looking... and they have magnetic feet!
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