After folding you'll see a Dutch landscape appear with windmills etc.. very funny! It has no bottom so use a dish or let the table and bowl work together. Beautiful when a lamp or sunlight shines on the bowl
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Alfredo Häberli's very lovely Los Bancos Suizos.
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Burger King announces the opening of its first "Whopper Bar" | In 2009 the BK debuting a new concept with a cross between restaurant and bar, the "Whopper Bar".
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What recession? From 10/25 through 01/06, guests can pay to stay overnight at the Guggenheim in artist Carsten Höller's Revolving Hotel Room. Actually, considering where you're sleeping, the $259 - $799 price tag doesn't seem so bad. Sadly, it's sold out.
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Eco-friendly letterpress calendar for 2009. Sweet critters letterpressed in 9 soy-based inks on 100% cotton (tree-free!) paper.
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General Mills recently redesigned a few of their cereal brands - Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and Franken Berry. I like the clean design and the close-up of the characters.
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Zaha Hadid's Chanel Pavilion comes to NYC's Central Park, open until November 9th.
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vampire bats are just one of the nyt's featured phlebotomists (yes, thats a blood sucker).
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Love this amazing section through an elephant shaped structure. It was drawn by Charles-François Ribart in 1758.
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The UK-based, Freshwest, showed this table at Tent London. Pool Table is made from 50mm acrylic with miniature diving board, reflected and refracted light in such a way that it resembled the depth and hue of an actual swimming pool.
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Place Tile ~ like place cards, but ceramic tile you can write on with dry erase markers... reusable, and gorgeously gift wrapped in a tiffany colored box
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The Louis XV Commode by Axis FormLAB is a twist on the traditional chest of drawers. It comes in three variations - plywood, mdf and acrylic. The acrylic one would be my choice since the commode would essentially read as a line drawing.
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Shelby Supercars has announced that it plans to trump the Tesla Roadster and all other competitors by building the world’s fastest electric car, the Ultimate Aero EV.
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Starwars ABC with beautiful Illustrations from tweedlebop
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I want my sunset now. The viewer adjusts the rising and setting of the sun at their own desired speed. Via vvork.com
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3 in 1 Font by Marcus Schaefer. Turn the letters around to change the typeface and find reams of random fonts between the given ones.
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Chanel Gun Shoes, by Karl Lagerfeld and Laurence Decade, worn by Madonna
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FEATUREDWhile watching Chuck tonight, i was smitten by the black/white/green decor and furniture picks - check out the headboard!
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Forza Mare Hotel is located in Montenegro. at the shore of the Bay of Kotor. All off the rooms are completely different inspired by: Africa, India, Dubai, Japan and China...
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“By writing thousands of protest letters every year, Amnesty International Malaysia has played a role in freeing dozens of political prisoners. But really, it’s just a drop in the ocean. There are still dozens more still being wrongfully imprisoned for their opinions.find out how you can help, log on to http://www.aimalaysia.org/ to become a freedom writer. Amnesty International. Write for freedom.”
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Partical Zoo ~ because it's got a fun site design, and what is a more perfect gift than quarks and antiparticles?
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Opto-isolator is a truly creepy piece of art that makes eye contact and mimics blinking. Gotta love those eyes.
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Incase slider cases in metallics ~ right on trend, and oh so tempting (change them with each outfit?)
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Katrin Olina creates “fantastical worlds of multilayered imagery and ethereal characters.”
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A sports and culture centre in Copenhagen by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. The new building is a literal extension of the old one, as the pavillions seem to be extruded from the old masonry walls.
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This waterfall installation located in the Canal City Hakata shopping complex in Fukuoka, Japan can form intricate patters using water sprayed from hundreds of nozzles that are precisely controlled by computers.
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No wonder the architects named this the White Apartment. Located in Romania, by Parasite Studio. Sleek interiors.
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Gunwook Nam’s Human Pump is a clever solution to the world’s water crisis that captures kinetic energy generated from human foot traffic and uses it to power a system of pumps that bring fresh drinking water to the surface...
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ImageSynth - It’s the ultimate organic pattern making tool for creating infinitely tileable images.
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White Cave by Takao Shiotsuka Atelier. A concrete volume that adapts to the topography. The house looks silent to me, as a stone placed on a quiet landscape.
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New Media School: Morphogenesis of School Typologies - The morphogenetic school typology is initiated by the study of school types and layout, and the comparison between gothic and modern architecture.
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Mail Merge for creative Sharkproject which is an initiative to raise awareness about the threat of extinction of sharks.
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dreaming of lucid living: amazing animation work by miwa matreyek. her use of video projection plus live performance is absolutely magical.
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Roger Numbers is the new animated host for a daily morning web newscast created by GOOD magazine...
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Beautiful illustration work by Kooshinni (student at Central Saint Martins)
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Feather eyelashes are part of the trend in Japan thanks to the Tokyo Lash Bar.
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Boom-de-ah-dah, boom-de-ah-dah...From the top of the world to its molten lava rivers and its deepest oceans, "The World Is Just Awesome" celebrates the love of the planet we all have and the spirit of Discovery.
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Great package design work from embroidery artist Ruben Trelles.
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Digital artist Alexia Sinclair mixes history, photography and illustration to create "The Regal Twelve", a series about powerful historical women
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Very funny, spot-on parody of financial services-type advertising. [Editor's Note: this makes me want ribs...]
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Architectural and design photographer Jeff Herron documented the new KNOLL showroom in downtown Miami.
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World Class Gyms in Stockholm, Sweden used a several caricature artists in various places and offered free portraits to passersby. What they got back is what they might look like if they really used the facilities at the new gym.
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YouTube has launched “The Screening Room”, which is a platform for short films from around the world to find the audiences they deserve.
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PaperMonster’s work is based around women in various states of shock, fear, or wonder. Every canvas is its own story.
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Lebron James teams with Ralph Lauren’s Purple Label Division on this limited edition signed basketball. 100% of net proceeds will benefit the LeBron James Family Foundation.
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Typography and design experiments by brazilian art director Tiago Marcondes.
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Squeezing out a space for a car on a tiny land is one of the most important tasks when designing a house in urban Japan. A nice design by Akira Yoneda.
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FEATUREDSneak Preview of BACKYARD: Pancho Tolchinsky and Catalina Estrada ~ Cati's mesmerizingly beautiful digital illustrations layered on the backyard photography of Pancho are just magical!
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Véra Nováková creates metal jewelry with an organic feel - fingerprints, wood grains, etc are imprinted into her pieces.
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Since they are constantly exposed to the sun, solar power satellites could provide the earth with a continuous stream of 5-10 gigawatts of energy each.
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Interview with Dyna Moe, the woman behind the popular MAD MEN desktop & iphone wallpapers, prints, & icon sets.
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Police in Mexico find private zoo at drug cartel's party house - from panthers to albino tigers to lions ~ they certainly looked like they were living a luxurious lifestyle... check out the slideshow
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New installation from James Jarvis at Nike London.
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Eduardo Berlin Razmilic's House 2 in Santiago, Chile. The house is excavated into the site, with the main facade appearing to be only 11.5 feet above street level.
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Anna Geslev studio came up with a fun and colorful project for igloo ice cream.
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I am digging the very simple packaging by Due Mani Non Bastano for Pandora Design's cutlery (post 6429).
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natural urbano, mexican designer, shows us granizo (hail) amazing table/sculpture
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The Minox Agent M DSC DigitalSpyCam is a tiny digital camera - only 3.14" x 1.14" x 0.79". At 5 megapixels, it's a good little portable camera.
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It's oyster eating season! Raw, fried, or smoked it all adds up to delicious. This Wellfleet Oyster Print honors this tasty time of year.
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Great branding and packaging of McCraw's Confections by Craig Skinner.
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The Seoul Design Olympiad fuses together in 3-weeks a great mix of culture, architecture, graphic, culinary, product, industrial, fashion and textile design. Here are some highlights in photos...
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Japanese brand Ambush presents the Beeeeethoven jewelry series. Hilarious!
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The Big Picture covers World Animal Day. The narwhal is a crazy mammal.
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Champion Graphics's cover design for a Monster Children notebook, produced by Penguin.
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Cemal Okten's I ♥ VEGETABLES : Part IIA project - a project that explores our connection to food, desiring to bring the process of farming vegetables into the home. The final product is a selection of vases which support the growth of vegetables.
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FEATUREDFirst REAL NOTCOT Video (in HD even)! We've seen the pics of Banksy's Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill, and some mediocre youtubes... since i couldn't go, we've commissioned Seth Brau to make a film to show us all the details and the full experience!
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Lia Halloran- Photography exhibition at the Fredric Snitzer in Miami. The Light that is captured in the photograph, is the patterns she creates when she is skateboarding. Simply beautiful!
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FEATUREDBee Cool ~ a Liqurious Original by Anita ~ because we really are silly enough to take on a dare to invent a drink inspired by yogurt flavors.
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The BMW Group is about to become the first manufacturer of premium automobiles to deploy a fleet of nearly 500 all electric vehicles for private use in daily traffic.
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Moving forest.
By NL architets ... trees for everyone
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JR - The French Master of Fashion Collage is bringing more than just AMAZING collage - He also offers the mp3 Soundtrack of EVERY single Runway Show
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The new german design brand 'maigrau' offers their products via its brand new online shop ~ like this great coat rack!
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WTF? A green platypus tee... no clue why i'm wanting this tonight... also, i hadn't realized you can get Some eCards graphics on tees at busted tees!
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New Synthesis reports on Visual Culture; design fashion art lifestyle interiors architecture technology innovation science ~ lots of links since
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kokkugia is an international design practice based in london and new york that operates through design, research, experimentation and teaching.
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Interesting travel hack: apparently packing a starter pistol in your luggage means you can lock it with a real lock and it might be tracked more closely by the airport. Could be worth a shot for those with a lot of gear.
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Poster designs for the UK release of Oliver Stone's W., by Scott Woolston.
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Nice teardown of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro by iFixit, who says "This may be the most beautiful laptop we've disassembled."
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EDIN CROW: The New York based artist that has a well-known Disaster Series, a series of self-portrait photographs.
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New Honda Accord spot from RPA and Motion Theory, showing how they put everything they know in one place.
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NATHAN OTA has a new vinyl toy. His artwork transcends well to this platform. Incredible!
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Dear friends, have a bit of fun with the latest collection of Tokyo Metro manner posters.
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Ideographic Alphabet :Very specific chair with different letter form.
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FEATUREDOn notebooks and pens ~ here are some recent obsessions that came in the form of DWR Tools for Living Press Kit (best notebook!) and the Federated Media pen from the summit (it's a keeper too!)
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Rapper.
Funny commercial from Fallon Mnneapolis for Hollyday Inn Express
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The Wilson Bros. teams with Stussy on development of this limted edition white Brooks Swallow Saddle. The classic Swallow racer is treated with an excetional white leather finish. Imagine the patina on this saddle after a few months of use.
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Beautiful stop motion animation using cut-out photos by Joseph Mann.
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Kathleen Lolley - Solo exhibition at Art Star PA. Loving her dreamy worlds.
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Tape Measure Project by Debbie Smyth - Incredible 3D geometric sculptures
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Core77 highlighted the NEMO Recycled/sample tent pieces reusable bags
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Men’s Vogue commissioned renowned graphic designer Michael Bierut to design this patriotic lapel pin. All proceeds benefit Dog Tags.
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Gorgeous joints on the Mojo Dining Table by De Design Copenhagen
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Nooka - trippy videos - The story unfolds as we fall through the universe and logic to discover time. Completely concepted, animated, directed and designed by yours truly.
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Aveda Institutes Florida ~ fun look at the new building from sketches to final
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Seoane has some beautiful tables ~ love the wood with a splash of color
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Animal Alphabet poster ~ Petit Collage, 2008 ~ Oakland, CA
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Judy Hudson's Butterfly Necklaces at Barney's ~ i can't decide whether they are awesome b/c you can see the wings so beautifully, or if its grotesque like you ripped the arms off a butterfly...
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HemeroscopiumHouse, Las Rozas- Madrid - Spain / Antón García- Abril - Ensamble Studio
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1st the Water Cube in Bejing and now the Magic Box in Madrid. The size and scope of the retractable roofs are amazing!
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The Urban Gridded Notebook - The modern city is controlled by the grid... we should not let it control our creativity. A blank notebook /sketchbook that is gridded with 125 cities from all around the world.
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Production designers tour the crazy Tree House in "Crusoe"
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this media center was built across from my own house! Absolutely beautiful from inside and out. the colored panels are actually stills of important moments on tv.
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Bump Top is a 3 dimensional desktop, a cool way to interact with and organize files.
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pencilworks are the mixture of pencil and ps work of images.
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Showcasing a new business model for Graphic Design Studios.Far From Timid is a lifestyle design company that transforms original works of art into powerful surface patterns for use in home and fashion.
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Boudicca Wode sprays on as a blue spray , and then fades into nothingness (completely invisible). And it comes in a pretty bottle that looks like a spray can.
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In this video taken at MOMA, perfumer Christophe Laudamiel talks about the "Design for the Invisible."
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A "musical component robot" that plays records, CDs and DVDs while looking impressively stylish.
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Fuck&Love, 3 exclusive tools to simply express your emotions in all the situations !
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Images of Japanese matchbox labels from the 1920s and 1930s
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This is a Portrait of Paper Magazine blogger, Julia Frakes. The photo was taken by Garance Doré, and then Danny Roberts illustrated it, as part of his "Blogger Portrait Series"
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The life of photographer Severin Koller in the mandatory military service in Austria. (Series > Mandatory Service)
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The Interior Design Award Nominees for 2008
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Dwight on The Office last night tried to destroy an Orbit Baby stroller in an "extreme road test".
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The UK's Vauxhall Agila has teamed up with British accessories designer, Johnny Loves Rosie to create the first ever Car-sage - a giant flower corsage designed for your car. It retails for £14.99. The ultimate Christmas gift for a car lover?
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Super-fab Bioscleave Fun House promotes play and snazzy colorful aesthetics as a way to increase one's life span and boost the immune system. Architecture as free-radicals.
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Design Boom shows us "seoul design olympiad 08: sdesignunit" ~ prettiest EL Wire packaging and display i've ever seen
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DJ Table by Cocoon for Red Bull ~ hilarious details tucked into this seemingly simple wood table
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Some crazy new t-shirts by UK brand Cassette Playa. The prints are made of Youtube screenshots.
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Penguin Wine bottle. Argentinian design group FUGAmania has some pretty cool stuff. This ceramic wine bottle tries to bring environmental awareness into everyday life, Oil dumped onto a redesigned local icon.
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Cuscuzeira by Guilherme Batista.
New design for old pan to make brazilian cuscuz.
Cuscuz: typical food of Brazil.
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Gaspirator, one half of the Justic music duo, has designed this new t-shirt for Sixpack. Love it!
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yves behar has teamed up with french company canal + and designed 'le cube'.
it is a tv receiver box that has the same capabilities as cell phones, computers and the internet.
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Round, hurricane resistant, green homes that are affordable? No its not BS. The interior is as impressive as the exterior. For those who want to live outside the box Deltec Homes
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A sun seeking plant robot called PlantBot.
"Solar seeking botanical augmentation"
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Credit Card Cutlery by Ineke Hans: must-have !
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Two sweet looking deck available at Woestknap
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THE ANIMALS - use your FOUND leash to help raise public awareness for animal adoption. (Stunning FOUND collars arriving November '08!)
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Typeface, Kartemquin’s latest documentary in progress, will bring together a fascinating junction of historical and contemporary Graphic Design.
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At Spring Mountain ski area, in Schwenksville, PA, you can catch a glimpse of the fall foliage up close in the canopy.
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Quick experiment done with Processing: the first 3,000 characters of "Alice in Wonderland".
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Sculpture from Joey Kirkpatrick & Flora C. Mace.
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Taking a break from their product design chores
Harlem based SPYE adds this patterned tote bag into the mix.
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Jeremy and Claire Weiss, in an effort to return to photography with a more traditional process and feel, began taking portraits of friends with a large format Polaroid camera. The result: Day 19 Polaroid Portraits.
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Palin as President! Made me smile. [Editor's Note: Regardless of what you think of palin, someone put some impressive time into the details of this silly flashy site]
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