Polite In Public ~ Photobooths you can't do without for events. They will build mini sets complete with props, professional lighting and photography, live slideshows... everyone looks incredible!
Dwell Studio launches a baby line of furniture and linens for Target! Adorable prints as always, and even cute cribs, glider/rockers, and changing table... nice and affordable.
Glass Carafes that resemble plastic water bottles have definitely been trendy lately, here's another take on it from Martino Gamper's new Total Trattoria, opening March 7 in London
Obama - The ultimate branding machine? Great interview with Michael Bieruit at Newsweek's blog, stumper, looking at the branding, visual consistency, and comfort through brand association...
Is your child a tagger? Hahahaha... wow. From the city of Santa Ana, there is a diagram of all the components of being a tagger... from the hoody, to the black sketchbook and fat markers...
Amazon Upgrade ~ interesting move by Amazon, letting you "upgrade" your physical books to digital books you can read online, search, annotate, etc. Especially interesting for searching all your recipes!
Papabubble ~ Incredible playful candy made by hand daily from sugar, glucose, + water ~ coolhunting's video even takes you behind the scenes and shows you the whole process!
Doonesbury ~ where politics and comics are mixing, this recent thread on the "Poetry of Barack Obama" and "The Prose of Hillary Clinton" classes causing a stir on the fictitious Walden campus are quite amusing.
Mixko's new ceramic Barbie face rings... much like the skull ring i have and love ~ mixko has launched a few new accessories at the Stockholm DesignBoom Mart!
The Slacker - a throne for gamers ~ from swedish designers Fredrik Olsson and Sam Sihvonen, this throne combines scandinavian woodwork with "Game Over" engravings and sentimentality...
Phil Cuttance's Trophy Hangers are adorably twisted. Read the nice little story of how he teamed up with Charles & Marie who manufactured the line (hippos, giraffes, and moose!)
How to make an Edible Martini (video) ~ a gin/vermouth infused flash pickled cucumber... a scientific/culinary alternative to jello shots for your next party?
Nestography - Adam Mathes - screenshots of retro games coupled with poignant statements as art. While at first i was skeptical, i somehow found myself reading every single one.
Gravitas: Portraits of a Universe in Motion ~ this DVD is available as a free torrent download. Beautiful "visual and musical celebration of the beauty in a dynamic universe driven by gravity". Works with 3D glasses!
Sami Rinne has a beautiful line of ceramics, particularly intriguing are her black and white, good and evil, coffee cups, espresso cups, and related accessories.
Animated Documentary-Mockumentary about Evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day. Student project was animated frame by frame in flash and composited and textured in AfterEffects.
Ceramic delft blue dildo with cork. Designers: Guido Ooms & Davy Grosemans. The Milkmaid by Studio Oooms is not your typical Dutch Souvenir inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s innocent painting ‘Het Melkmeisje’
Red Glass Ibis from Ittala - The Iittala Birds collection was created by Oiva Toikka, an internationally renowned artist and one of the greatest names in Finnish glass.
INFLATE ~ i fell in love with their Luna stark white glowingly cool igloo of air while at IDS, and you simply must check out the various sized semi-perm and perm structures!
Sheridan's Coffee Layered Liqueur ~ finally tracked down a bottle, and it is still the coolest bottle design yet. The two separate black and white filled glass bottle share a cap, which pours perfectly layered drinks.
Polite In Public ~ Photobooths you can't do without for events. They will build mini sets complete with props, professional lighting and photography, live slideshows... everyone looks incredible!
