VIDEOA video my creative partner and I made simply for fun, which ended up getting us both jobs. This is part 2 of 2. We did the entire thing stop motion (nearly 7,000 frames) and wrote and sang to the song in it.
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A series of Papertoys Troop made to celebrate the 10th personal custom of Lemi the Space Wanderer, and to mark the first 100.000 visitors of Thunderpanda.com . The toys released one by one each day, starting today.
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The Shed ~ coat rack, keyring holder, random paper/mail/mitten holder... adorable multipurpose design by Domesticity
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A chilean girl makes these stylish boots using recycled plastic bags.
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I am digging this A Typical Day poster by Effektive Design. The red indicates time spent sleeping, and black time spent awake.
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Fun retro style prints from Lab Partners' Hunt and Gather show.
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A slick collection of black and white Quantum of Solace images by London photographer, Kwame Busia.
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This is a Norwegian girl, who broke up with her boyfriend and decided to redo her apartment in such a way she would never be "allowed" to by a boyfriend. Black! I love it though!!!!
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Stadtnomaden's Piepschau bird house is adorable! And it can be taken apart and dispatched in an A4 box
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Dutch Design studio, gewoon guus, schenkan - fascinating carafe i can't seem to take my eyes off of it ~ what an interesting juxtaposition of materials!
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Melbourne based designer homewares brand MOZI has just launched Christmas 2008 products, screen printed teatowels, felt decorations, body bars, soaps, candles, aprons.... So much to buy!
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Aluminum rims for your Bugaboo. This could be the coolest Bugaboo upgrade yet.
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Bowl Championship Series by Fox Sports Design and Method Labs...
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Holiday Gift Tags with an edge. My favorite: "I made this myself. In China."
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Lovely work done by Tjep in a public space in Holland, the Amstel Train Station... see also www.lsworks.eu
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Creative idea to spread a school of meditation.
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Installation art, created by David Bowen based on the movement of flies.
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TENOVER6 opened its doors to L.A. shoppers in the beginning of August 2008 with beautifully curated displays of fashion forward accessories and fashion gadgets...
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aastrial house by kwk promos, amazing driveway goes under the house
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Completely beautiful and utterly bizarre--wooden necklaces by Norwegian artist Liv Blåvarp
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Alga Science is a series of 14 edutainment toys from Swedish Alga. The toys teach how weather, wind, chemistry, water and electricity works. And when the toys are but together you get a working product, such as a solar music box!
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Could the WiFi Multipass MintPad Mini Tablet with 1.3MP webcam be the ultimate in pocket gadgets? Allowing internet browsing and messaging, as well as offering full PMP cababilities, we think so.
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Hospitalis | you to a restaurant that is' dying of hunger '.
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Bay Area painter Yvette Molina creates work that is both a celebration of nature as well as an invitation to consider its fragility.
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Designer Manish Arora showed this “visible human” outfit with Swarovski crystals” at the Swarovski Runway Rocks fashion show during London Jewellery Week. Surprise by the bones on clothes.
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Li Wei is a Chinese photographer who creates crazy, gravity-defying images - without digital manipulation! He apparently uses mirrors, wires and scaffolding to create his work.
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A battle between Italian papercrafter PHIL and the Japanese papercrafter Shin Tanaka has started with this one email Shin sent to all PHIL’s subscribers.
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LEGO 3D runway from Fashion Designer Jean Charles de Castelbajac - So cool !
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Beautifully designed ad for UNICEF, from the ad agency Luminus Creative out of Zagreb, Croatia and art directors Mislav Vidovic and Tonci Klaric.
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FEATUREDOn awesome box design ~ the way the Jurlique Biodynamic Beauty Serum literally unfolds and opens itself, presenting the gorgeous frosted glass bottle to you.... such a nice unboxing experience! See pics of the line, and box scans!
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Founded in 2003 by product designer/carpenter René Mueller and forester Nina Griesshammer, Woodloops strives to “covey our original views to common behaviors, weaving known circumstances into new and curious concepts”.
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illustrator Ryan Chapman's simple twist on Andy Warhols classic banana.
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Guallart Architects created Microcostas Vinaròs out of hexagonal wood platforms as a series of micro coasts, forming islands on the beach
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100 hand painted chairs, which show moods, emotions, destinies and ways of human life. There is a movie made with stop animation about one hundred chairs in stroll through my city and the book “100lica stolica”
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The Monstera Pendant by Flame, must cast some great shadows...
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Interview with Duty Gorn, one of the most important contemporary artist in Milan. His works are becoming well-known for interior design projects.
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Israeli Military Photo/camera Bags ~ wow ~ KATA's 3N1-20 Sling Bag for photography gear ~ so awesome, Core77 has a nice write up on it!
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Amazing jewelry by Anthony Roussel, who laser cuts and then layers sculptural jewelry pieces.
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The Experimental Pavilion, pushes the limits of ultra high-performance concrete. The thinness and forms achieved contradict the heaviness and thickness that we think concrete is limited to.
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Artist Brian Stauffer’s “A Very Long Tunnel” visually sums up this momentous week in American history.
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FEATUREDMore Mobile - Portable Architecture for Today ~ take a peek inside this awesome new book filled with the architectural solutions for us nomads ~ shipping container building lovers will love this one!
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Here is preview of Turn, Italy's big annual art week, when the Luci D’Artista festival, the Turin Triennale, and the Artissima art fair all have their debuts. Includes works by Rebecca Horn and Olafur Eliasson.
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Malmö Streets Project is a sweden group of artists that replaced the usual grey street tiles for beautiful and inspiring images.
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This "pipe cabinet" comes from woodworker Palo Samko. The four circular drawers are designed to accomodate differently sized pipes.
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Liquid Cardboard is an eco-friendly material developed by cardboarddesign, with a honeycomb cell shape that makes it durable and lightweight. Each piece can be molded into a variety of designs to create vases, bowls, votive holders...
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Under New management! Obama 2008! Time to CHANGE your shirt! by the Print Liberation.
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FEATUREDBoarding Pass Wines ~ they really do jump right off the shelf... if you're a packaging junkie! The fonts and graphics were too fun not to buy and take pics of!
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Coöp designed a logo for 1:1 Architects. The logo incorporates a 3-D element and is meant to represent the process of architecture. The placement of the design in different settings emphasizes the human approach taken by 1:1 Architects.
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A lovely short by amazing animator Kat Morris.
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Love Joonhuyn Kim's take on the light bulb - the Flat Bulb is 1/3 the size of a regular bulb. [Editor's Note: their site seems to be over their bandwidth limit!!!]
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CNN's Jessica Yellin goes holographic to chat with Wolf Blitzer in New York, from Chicago.
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Fatih Baltas' variation on the traditional Rock Paper Scissors game.
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Stop Motion Day Video by Micah Spear - with Notcot browsing inside!
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Coalfinger ~ an animated bond-like campaign by Greenpeace - Along with his dopey sidekick Dr. Anthracite, Coalfinger plans to cover the world in coal-fired power stations and destroy the climate in Operation Browncloud.
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ENESS takes a regular whiteboard, regular markers and plays PONG irregularly.
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morfai "selections" Experiments with illustration. [Editor's Note: brilliant! you have to click and see it in action for sure]
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Body Navigation is an impressive reactive floor projection designed for a dance performance. Collaboration between Ole Kristensen, Jonas Jongejan, choreographer Tina Tarpgaard, and the Recoil Performance Group.
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Loving Ron English's new KISS inspired show at the Shooting Gallery. Old masters reborn!
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Obamabats ~ for when you're speechless and can't type words.... congrats to our 44th president ~ Barack Obama!
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Flexible Faucet from Paini - Hybrid is LED illuminated
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An amazing house by KWK Promes in Poland. A white volume over stone walls create a spectacular inner space.
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Klaus Staudt is an internationally received artist who creates geometric abstractions with the focus on creating a sense of geometrical systematic thinking, within the constructivist movement.
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Brian Jurgen created this collection of totemic representations of Native culture in Canada using iconic Michael Jordan athletic footwear to express and explore what he refers to his concepts as "Prototypes for New Understanding". This is #16
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These sneakers are dope. Fully made out of reflective swiss fabric. These are dropping this Thursday in a limited edition of 60 pairs at the DDCLAB flagship Soho store in NY. Try to make a flash picture of these....
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VIDEOChildren of the Video Gaming Generation take their Halloween costume to the next level! Check out Video of a homemade chicken walking Mech costume. Too Cool/Too Cute!
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Susie Mendive of SUM knows just how to add a little film noir feel to a bathroom.
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Dark Daze shoots dramatic and gaudy scenes in a way that would make David LaChapelle jealous. Nice set with DeadDeadDead down in Brighton
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Kazimir Malevich's "Suprematist Composition" (1916), sold for $60,002,500 at Sotheby's last night. Check out other works from the auction that brought in a total of $223,812,500 and included Edvard Munch’s "Vampire."
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Paul Smith teams up with Lomography ~ for this adorable limited edition fisheye camera!
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Some nice creative photography from LSD s.r.l.
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Sarah's Smash Shack in san diego... because sometimes you just need to break something! Think they do birthday parties?... "we recycle our broken bits through mosaic art programs."
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Plunger Lamp by Irina Blok ~ for the ultimate super creepy bathroom lighting?
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CoolIris' gorgeous picture browser ~ now for your iPhone!
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Designed by Brits mosleymeetswilcox, ToothBrushBuddy keeps flies, faeces and all kinds of germs off your toothbrush (and out of your mouth).
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Big on efficiency, style and performance the Audi A1 Sportback Plug-in Electric Hybrid goes 0 to 62mph in 7.9 seconds with a top speed of 124mph all the while getting 72.4 mpg!
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Simple, sculptural Architectonic rings by Mayza João.
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Cool and clean furniture by the autodidact designer Peter Petersen and his company Signalement.
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FEATUREDParts 2 and 3 of the NOTCOT / Rachel’s cocktail collaboration: the White Flower Bramble, and the Sweet Revival.
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Razionalismo Comasco - Como, with stunning views, Architect Marco Castelletti nods to 30's Italian architecture in a modernist house, proportioned and segmented with precision.
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WeJustLiveHere.com is a 2008 presidential election site for US aliens. It’s for all of us who live here and pay our taxes, yet have no say in how the country is run.
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The sleek solar-powered Xof1 car recently rolled into Victoria, Canada to break the world’s record for the longest distance traveled in a solar vehicle!
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Marc Praquin designed the gorgeous packaging for Bruichladdich Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky.
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The Yangtze is the longest river in the world to run through one single country. Nadav Kander travelled its length to take these photographs.
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Some classic Haynes Manual covers collected together by Sell! Sell! with a short piece on cover illustrator Terry Davey
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A unique modern bach by Wolveridge Architects, Australia. This Monolithic residence proves modern design can accommodate all a client's needs without compromising on style.
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Gorgeous gift food packaging by Pearlfisher for Fortnum & Mason.
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How to Make a Custom One-Off Skateboard. Thanks to a previous post on NOTCOT, Grease from Half Tone Def decided to give it a try and document the process from begging to end. The final Product came out RAD!
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Ania Wagner's Barnacle Chair is made from sustainably harvested ash and lined with reclaimed industrial felt. It has two faces and two functions - the felt chair side, and the ash side that can be used to lean back on.
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Wisdom by Andrew Zuckerman (yes, who did Creature). Short Movie & Book: Influential people leaving words of wisdom for us all.
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BUNNY HEAD! The cutest bunny hat you never knew you needed from Superfishal - Jeremy Fish
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"It's Not Funny, It's Art" ~ the story of Blanca and her love of art... adorable animated short
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