The Consult's clever stationery design for communications company Bang Your Own Drum.
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Artist Haze's New Mural at The Standard Hotel LA.
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JT Fridsma's visualization of the journey of the Fellowship in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.
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Awesome paintball machine in this ad for V energy drinks.
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Jan Habraken's Ice Cube Tray Battleship for Kikkerland.
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Grain Creative designed these clever boxes of tea as gifts for their clients.
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Star Wars Propaganda posters! Enlist today, Darth can't do it alone!
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Divis dining table by Mike & Maaike of Council.
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Pop Surrealist atmospheres with photography, by Rafa Torre.
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I love these works by Kirra Jamison. The free-flowing compositions have a psychedelic twist.
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& Smith's fun visual identity for The Barn.
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Baby Gundi (a small North African rodent) at the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam. Such a cute, but bizarre looking animal!
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If Ikea did Sci-Fi Manuals...by Caldwell Tanner, Susanna Wolff and Conor McKeon.
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FEATUREDAnother beautiful week here at NOTCOT.org means another gorgeous roundup! We’ve got exploding water balloons, bouncing gelatin, a duo of gobies and more.
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A peek at the JP Morgan Palladium Card benefits... it's minted out of palladium and 23k gold and laser engraved with cardholder info
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Modern Minis: Tiny, concrete, modern architecture collections by designer/architect Chelsea Raine of Raine Designs.
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This angular and unique house, set in the Danish woods, belongs to a family of four. Shared with us by thedesignerpad.
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Installation Art by Vasily KasSab based on the thesis 'Present, Future ... in Absentia'
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Mieke Meijer invented NewspaperWood, a wood made from laminated newspapers. Check out product design made from the material, shown at Milan Design Week!
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Experience a day in the life of Origo Branding Company. New environment video up with some great cinematography highlighting a cool office and employee interaction.
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'Redemption' by Kelly McKernan. Watercolor. Limited edition print.
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Bryan Peele's cut and fold paper model of Escher's Relativity made from a single paper and held together without tape or glue.
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Shyama Golden has some pretty crazy business cards. Pink edges and llamas with glasses. Designed by Shyama Golden and printed by the Mandate Press.
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The British brand Moulton's dual suspended compact bicycle with a crazy support system and small wheels that delivers speed.
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Bourgeois Utopia is a line of gorgeous silk scarves printed with stunning shots of London suburbia by photographer Gemma Land and produced by The Creatives Archives (TCA), a platform for driven emerging talent.
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Renault launches the Laguna 4wd with 4 wheel steering for a shorter turning radius. To translate this visually unique steering angle, Publicis Paris displayed the Laguna on street corner walls.
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S'more to love! Use it indoors in your oven or toaster over, or outside on your grill + includes Marshmallow Blaster for infusing marshmallows with delicious fillings
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Beautiful new campaign for Audi A1. Spot directed by Sam Brown.
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Patterns from cityscape illustrator Laura Barnard.
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Caixa by Paolo Cappello is a cabinet with integrated ipod/tv speakers, its design reinterprets the aestethics of the 50's with vibrant and bright colors.
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Recycling frame by Helena Mattila, the simplicity of a trashcan. Quite ingenious, use it alone or in pairs.
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Obtract, a Mac app designed to track and reduce digital distraction for small teams of knowledge workers. Identify and reduce your distractions.
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VIDEOFantastic time lapse from Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, NYC and Chicago. Made by Dominic Boudreault.
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The Guardian offers a look inside Albertus Seba's 18th century Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, now available from Taschen.
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The Final Hours of Portal 2 app shows the creative process behind the new video game.
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Icon Magazine's events for May include Daniel Buren: Echoes, Work in Situ at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
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Coca–Cola have reproduced four of their very first bottle designs for the brand's 125th Anniversary. Available at Selfridges as a box set or individually!
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In NYC the Bowery Mission's new rooftop farm!
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VIDEOVideo of Flottille, micro-origami shapes that open in the water by capillarity. BY Etienne Cliquet.
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Typetoken is a new online magazine that asks you to join its journey into the symbolic world of typography. The site showcases, discusses and reviews the world of typography, icons and visual language.
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VIDEOAmazing video-art work by Shinichi Maruyama. Pure water. Composited by Tetsushi Wakasugi.
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Bibliophibian onesie ~ for book loving babies! (References the awesome Wondermark comic)
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The Fox is Black drop by Pop Cameos: An Exhibit by Olly Moss at Gallery 1988.
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Globe Trotter limited edition skull suitcase with Mastermind Japan
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A visit to Andy Cruz's home and studio in Delaware, the founder of House Industries.
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Adorable Think Note Jotter Centennial ~ from IBM! There are even bags, pins, plaques, tees and more celebrating the Centennial.
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Inspiring work coming out of this contest of illustrations based on Cumulus (the toy!)
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Craiggers - a nice UI for an easier way to browse Craigslist
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Tobias Friedrich won the overall category of this year's University of Miami's Underwater Photography Contest. Check out the other winners or enter your own images for next year's contest.
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From the portfolio of New York designer Rebecca Cole, gabion wire mesh tables and benches filled with firewood instead of rocks.
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Brianna Reaganart's Grip of Madness ~ beautiful portfolio
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Tanner Glaves' beautiful branding (especially the clipboard!) for Kay Bros Barbeque
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'Merge & morph' manipulation of the old school rocking chair and traditional doghouse generates a hybrid furniture that combines the idea of shelter and body relaxation and pushes its functionality to a different, more personal level.
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New summer Bag from Designgroup, Big Bag's made from Tyvek® may look like paper but as durable as fabric.
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Zombie Marie Curie on Greatness - inspiring XKCD
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FEATUREDI wish i were at Il San Pietro di Positano ~ a close up look at the breath taking views of this 61 room hotel nestled into the cliffs overlooking Positano, Italy!
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FEATUREDMöbius Pasta aglio e olio from Steve Kass - where math meets deliciousness!
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A brief history of the evolution of the airline seat from Conde Nast Traveller.
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Copen*hagen by Carlsberg is a new beer targeting design aware 25–35 year olds. The clean design was made inhouse at Carlsberg.
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Greek designer Yiannis Ghikas 'Game of Trust' coat rack. Three identical elements support each other from falling and make a wonderful coat rack.
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Now that spring is here, more outdoor cooking time, but no barbecue looks like the Druida BBQ by Mermelada Estudio. It is simply stunning!
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Amazing editorial by Daniel Sannwald for the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of L’Officiel Hommes Germany.
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At this year's Salone Satellite, Tokyo based Rends Design Studio presented for the second time its modest, considered designs, whose elegant wood joinery fascinates audiences.
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Lighting or ingenious sculpture ??? Nearco - by designer Karim Rashid - with a polyethylene roto-molded mirror finish, reflecting the halogen light source located in the ceiling....
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Visualized: Google Search Volume Around the Globe. Introducing Search Globe, a new tool that visualizes search queries on its search engine from around the world. Designed by the Google Data Arts Team using WebGL.
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Wurm + Wurm's Oberkirch Media Centre has some stunning staircases!
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Akama Studio's new campaign for French Kid's channel TiJi, takes the world from black and white and colors it in. One little animal misses out, however!
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Limited edition Think Global Taste Local extra virgin olive oil from Italy, Spain and Portugal.
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The newly opened Metropol Parason [see post #35776] in Seville is officially the largest wooden structure in the world.
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Video of a Giant Water Balloon Exploding in Slow Motion.
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Madareteto bird feeder from Hungary for either seed or water. By Nora Nagy Anna, Aniko Juhasz and Eszter Stibranyi.
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FEATUREDDid you know the origin of Nudie cards is tied to the Kama Sutra? Here's a close up look at the new Blacklight Nudie Cards by Ryan McGinness for The Standard.
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VIDEOMiniatur Wunderland unveiled its $5 million miniaturized replica of the Hamburg airport that has 40 model aircraft take off and land, and 90 vehicles that move about runways aided by computers.
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Yellow Brick House from Vilnius, Lithuania from G. Natkevicius & Partners.
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Baguette Cutting Board in Handsome Rose American Cherry by Gray Works Design
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Hard Graft Bill Folder wallet in grey ~ Made from one cleverly cut piece of leather it fits six credit cards (more once it’s worn it in a bit) and all your notes without being at all bulky.
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uBeauty Pots and Plants recycled tire pots!
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The broken plate turns china into porcelain knuckles
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Gorgeous new iTunes visualizer called Planetary from the artist at Bloom. Your iPad needs this amazing visualization for your music library ~ artists are stars, albums are planets, tracks are moons... stunning app we previewed at Eyeo Festival!
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Ross Phillips does an awesome yeti ~ see more of his beautiful illustrations on The Mighty Pencil
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In Square Lab's collaboration with MPC Digital and Existential called "Urban Prairie," an interactive window installation with street facing optical sensors that translate the motion of passersby into a simulated breeze through the grass.
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See it. Feel it. Kiss it on the mouth. Tether fuses form and function into the iconic bolt on Gatorade's new G Series Recover bottle.
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AYouTube theater - plug in your phone, and you've got a giant screen!
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What happens when artists take their cues from fashion photography and set their eyes on creating something new?
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Psychedelic illustrations by Australian illustrator Leif Podhajsky .
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Jonas Damon's wood stands for your iphone and ipad.
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The video for Apache, a song by the band Danger Beach, by director and illustrator Ned Wenlock tells a story by literally unfolding it. Also see how it's made!
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Think-work-play is a magazine format site that explores the creative process from inception, through to realisation with interviews with Dominic Wilcox, Ken Leung and Daniel Pemberton.
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Swinging! The quintessential recess game gets a visual aid in this art print by Jason Byron Nelson
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Picture Tuesday is a dynamic photo exhibition by photographer Andre Magarao and professional kiteboarder Reno Romeu.
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Pattern Matters creates amazingly complex calendars, posters, and interactive cards using delicately cut and folded paper.
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A interactive public installation called Musical Chairs was buillt and presented at La Bellevilloise last week.
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FEATUREDThe Mighty Pencil Vol. 1 ~ a first hand peek inside this gorgeous illustration resource! Gorgeous work!
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Texan instrumental band Explosions in the Sky inspires visual art exhibition and plays live at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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Gorgeous illustration of the Wine-Throated Hummingbird by Paperfashion.
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Competitive Swinging, great installation by Paolo Slvagione at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.
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A new video profile by Gestalten of our friends, british duo Bompas and Parr, amazing gelatin craft and other culinary creations.
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The amazing collages of Beth Hoeckel. All made with found paper and archival paste (not created digitally).
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The Drawing Water infographic by David Wicks explores water consumption data from the USGS and rainfall data from NOAA/NWS.
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New POP-Up Store in Denver that sells all local art and design. I Heart Denver Store give 70% of sales directly to the artist/designer to support the local creative economy.
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Mobile libraries are not a new concept - but this converted shipping container that can transform to double its size certainly is! BiebBus by Dutch architect Jord den Hollander.
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FEATUREDGet ready for the weekend with some travel inspiration from NotVenures. There are tips for every traveler, whether you’re after exotic foods, Antarctic adventures or just an escape to the spa.
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Brazilian artist Marlon de Azambuja, based in Madrid, wraps street furniture and objects in colorful duct tape in hopes of expanding people's conceptions and relationships with the city, architecture, and art world.
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Stop motion video documenting New York design firm Spagnola & Associates new pencil wall.
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Adorable wine labels for Finca de la Rica wines by Dorian.
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Une Architecture, an exhibition of the work of Zaha Hadid Architects at the Mobile Art Pavilion.
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Delicious looking wild boar salami from Creminelli. Beautifully packaged gift sets!
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Awesome video of a unique exhibition of Craig Costello's work - Spray Paint the Walls, a collaboration with G-Shock and Krink.
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City in a Jar has just released NY as the next city in their ongoing series as well as a Kickstarter project to help create more locations.
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Daymer Bay Iced Tea has gotten a great redesign by Lisa Claire Stewart. Besides the final versions you'll also see some of the designs that lead up to the final version.
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Sleeping Beauty film by Julia Leigh. Beautiful, eerie trailer.
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This is the Lawnbott, one of the NYtimes' 5 gadgets for your backyard.
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A 50-foot model of Manhattan will open this weekend in NYC - with five different architects' award winning visions of the future build onto it! A project with Audi and Stylepark as part of the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for the New City.
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FEATUREDThe new Worship Street Whistling Shop in Shoreditch, London does a fantastically decadent Victorian style lunch. This hot new watering hole is as much about the food as it is about the drinks.
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PX 680 Color Shade film, more fun instant film from the Impossible Project.
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Ryan Taylor's awesome photos of exploding water balloons.
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Love the packaging on these Selfridges Selection traditional sweets. Sherbert Pips, Cola Cubes, Strawberries and Cream and more favorites.
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Stunning house in Bordeaux, 'Big Black Box' by FABRE/deMARIEN Architects.
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SOFT Rockers, part of MIT's Festival of Art+Science+Technology are solar-powered energy recharging stations disguised as outdoor rocking lounge furniture.
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Page One: Inside The New York Times, a documentary from Andrew Ross premiered at Sundance earlier this year and to be released in June.
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The Silky BIGBOY Teeth Hand Saw will help you sort your garden out with its lightweight folding blade.
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Fun MVRDV converted a former mustard factory into an amazing office for a French telecom company, Teletech Dijon.
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FEATUREDCherry gelatin bouncing in slow motion. Video is simply amazing.
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Joost van Bleiswijk and Alrik Koudenburg have created an incredible cardboard office for Dutch advertising agency Nothing.
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Seoul is now home to Paul Smith's latest flagship store. The futuristic architecture is a new change for the classic Brit designer. Are we witnessing a possible design shift in the well established brand?
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Unchain Yourself by Dan Kuhlken and Nathan Goldman, because there just aren't enough pro-unicycle prints out there
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Great grow your own kit ALLOTINABOX with cute package design from ilovedust.
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Amazing flipbook-style balloon popping ad for MTV Brazil's 21st anniversary
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Awesome poster available soon from handmadeposters. This is Fauna of the Marine Region from Nicholas Di Genova.
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VIDEOCurious how Amsterdam looks from the point of view of a Tesla Roadster 2.5? Well, here it is ~ beautiful video!
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Cycle in style with 3D printed Bicycle Cufflinks by Gotham Smith
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Video in which Benjamin Ball of Ball-Nogues Studio talks about their installation made by suspending 10,000 garments.
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Nick Agin's Pick Your Battles print ~ definitely words to survive by. Also in red or green on kraft paper.
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FEATUREDWish i was here ~ a peek into Giraffe Manor in Nairobi!
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Mishmash bench by Jeremy Petrus, in collaboration with Selle Royal.
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Amazing photos of wolf eels hatching at the Birch Aquarium!
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