Beautiful Hirsaki Knife Box by Keiji Ashizawa Design.
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The beautiful Bell Jet Bubble Visor might be the perfect addition to your bike helmet!
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VIDEOJotun Paints, one of the leading manufacturer of paints globally, launched the new color trends with a igloo party with penguins for the architects and designers in Istanbul Modern Museum.
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What does your money face look like? Reddit user MadSon11 posted his head matched with Alexander Hamiltons jaw and inspired money portraits around the world.
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FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org includes a Periodic Table of Swearing, quantum levitation and an insect-powered smartphone.
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LYO Food - New product line of ECO freeze-dried food for alpinists, mountaineers, sailors and all outdoor enthusiasts.
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This study shows how a super-entity of 147 companies (less than 1% of all the companies included in this study) control over 40% of the global economy. This time the facts are with the 'conspiracy theorists'.
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Chow makes a fake ad for their Trixie Stix Recipes.
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La Maison Champs Elysées in Paris is full of surrealism, trompe l'oeil and unique designer touches.
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VIDEOCubeStormer II solves the Rubik's Cube puzzle faster than the human world record.
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Eliodomestico is a solar still for developing countries, designed by Gabriele Diamanti. It can turn salt water into freshwater, using sunlight. Finalist at the Prix Émile Hermès 2011.
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VIDEOPure Smoke allows you to make thick, vaporous, ethereal streams of smoke emerge from your bare hands. Used by magicians, bartenders and stage performers around the world.
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Spike Jonze has teamed up with designer Olympia Le-Tan to create an impressive new stop-motion video that uses 3,000 pieces of felt, all cut by hand.
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A great chat with Bompas and Parr, the English duo who make amazing creations out of jelly.
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Using Sequins, plastic, and plywood New York-based artist, Theresa Himmer creates shiny, pixilated installations dripping from the top of buildings.
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Dombon-a-tanya and TheBétaVersion pull together an unconventional project for the 2011 Design Week in Budapest.
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'Inside the Parisian Theaters' photographs by Franck Bohbot.
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FEATUREDHelp Remedies ~ a peek in to the large pill filled box, Take Less board book (for grown ups!), and the packaging of their basics for headaches, colds, boo boos and more...
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2,000 Suspended Dandelions by Regine Ramseier.
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MakerBot artist-in-resident Miles Lightwood makes 3D printed shells for homeless hermit crabs.
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'Green Pads' by Luca Nichetto is a shelf for storing plants and flower pots.
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FEATUREDQuail egg cakes, dodo cakes and medicinal marshmallows were all part of this year's Experimental Food Society Spectacular!
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The Rock ‘n’ Roll birds of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot.
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Artist Retreat in Fiskars, Finland by 0 to 1.
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Renaud Marion's attraction series captures wild animals and their attraction to the public.
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Hitchcock meets Angry Birds in 'Them Birds' by illustrators Dan Eijah Fajardo (aka Dandingeroz) and Pedro Kramer (aka Badbasilisk).
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The NYtimes explores how our love of the chambered nautilis may threaten their existence.
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Fun children's furniture by Bo Reudler at Dutch Design Week.
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On the Corner, a beautiful apartment complex by EASTERN design office in Shiga, Japan.
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These bone sculptures by Christy Rupp appear to be archeological artifacts, but the bird skeletons are in fact fabricated entirely from fast food chicken bones!
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Snake + Herring wines, with packaging by brainCELLS.
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Phill, a restaurant in Bucharest designed by Nuca Studio, has a play area for children including a four meter-high model elephant.
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VIDEOONE PIG, by Matthew Herbert, an album of music made exclusively from sounds recorded during the life cycle of a single farm animal, from birth to plate.
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Mirror cube art installation on Paris' Place Vendome by Arnaud Lapierre for for the 2011 FIAC Art Fair.
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Colaboratorium, a collective of ten graduating design and marketing students. Lovely packaging design by Andrea Avidad.
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Metalmorphosis, a 14-ton moving, mirrored fountain/sculpture in Charlotte, North Carolina by David Černý.
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Michelin-starred chef Nuno Mendes opened his second eatery The Corner Room at the Town Hall Hotel, London.
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David Franklin's Delen Memory Table has an attached camera that takes photos at predetermined times so you can create stop-motion of whatever it is you're doing.
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Monome Arc, ultra-high resolution optical rotary encoders, with push buttons. high-density variable-brightness led rings, in two and four knob versions.
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Australian artist Paul Caporn creates tableaux using ordinary construction tool levels.
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VIDEOProcess video from start to finish for Juxt Interactive's work on the Toyota Touch Wall.
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Imagine not having to worry about getting a new calendar until 2030! Mechanical paper perpetual calendar by Crankbunny.
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Snijlab's wood flexes and folds thanks to an intricate pattern of laser-cut grooves.
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'Weight' vases in polished concrete and metal by Thinkk Studio for Specimen Editions.
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VIDEO'Reverse: a space odyssey 2011' by Helmut Kool, a film created with analog techniques and all object movements are based on physical forces within their real environment.
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Magi by Pottinger & Cole is a practical solution for the storage of magazines. Integrated handle and compact proportions allow it to be placed against any wall, chair or sofa.
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The Zizm’s unique faceted crystal lens produces a refracted view of time on the ZenH display. This faceted surface creates a pattern that continues throughout the entire design of the timepiece, including Nooka’s first silicone strap.
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The weapons used for criminal acts in South Africa are represented in 'FearLess'. Huge wooden artworks, a reflection on how fear conditions the daily life of thousands of people.
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VIDEOA look at the House Industries Eames LTR Exhibition at Herman Miller Japan.
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Rima is a nice hightech lamp by german brand Dreipuls. With 4 rings you can easily pick the parts you want to illuminate.
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The Microbial Home by Philips as part of Dutch Design Week.
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Jump associates reflect on what designing the new Girl Scouts Innovation Badges can teach us about raising leaders.
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Illustrator Khadia's packaging for the three types of Teatul teas.
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These straps are melted in form with intensive heat. This allows the swiss designer Markus Bangerter to create such light but very powerful structures like in this gorgeous chair.
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The Jupitris phone charger by Jin Kuramoto for Iida.
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Having conquered the online domain, The Design Files will step out into 3D with a temporary pop-up shop/open house.
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Gorgeous Barcelona cafe, Fastvinic by Alfons Tost.
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Sam Kittinger redesigns classic board games.
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Richard Branson opens the home of his Virgin Galactic operation at Spaceport America in New Mexico designed by Foster + Partners.
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Madcap Geometries: See FIAC's Irreverent Outdoor Sculptures in Paris's Tuileries Gardens.
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Occupy the internet. Webpage owners can voice their support via F.A.T. Lab's new and easy to install script!
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1001 Nights House by A-cero, Joaquin Torres Architects.
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The Volcanic Casing Heater by Jeremy Murier & Daniel Martinez for the Prix Émile Hermès Competition.
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Blast Off! Norman Foster Unveils His Launchpad for Richard Branson's $200,000-a-Flight Virgin Galactic Spaceline.
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Highlights from the Good Design Awards 2011 in Tokyo.
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Pink Floyd flying pig flies over Battersea Power Station again !
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VIDEOQualcomm: Check out the world's first 100 percent insect-powered smartphone.
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At SpazioFGM an exhibition about the major entrepreneur who left a mark in Italian architecture & design history…
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Marc Von S and STUDIOLAV interpret traditional dinnerware where decorative features unfold into a contemporary narrative. A reflection on what craft could be in the age of digital...
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VIDEOTel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field.
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Paris based designers Dan Yeffet and Lucie Koldova are back with a new series of elegant handmade blown glass lamps "Balloons" designed for Czech editor Brokis.
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Pizza Scissors with a built in spatula means no more fiddly serving.
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VIDEOA time lapse film was shot during the Icelandic Midnight Sun in June of 2011. A beautiful look at what 24 hours of light looks like.
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Beautiful Tom Burr Table-Tennis Table. Limited edition of 10 tables.
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VIDEONovum Magazine Cover by Paperlux covered with 1,000 flexible colored triangles.
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This amazing record-playing "Feats per Minute" bike blasts music as you pedal!
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Little Darlings print series from Sharon Montrose featuring gorgeous baby animals.
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This elegant table with a gently undulating form is by Rene Barthtélemy who's designed it for the furniture firm Olika.
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Clay Interactive's Periodic Table of Swearing for Modern Toss with over 100 buttons 100 meters of cabling and over 300 soldered joints.
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Coleman's INSTANT TENT 8 ~ put it up or take it down in 1 minute! and you can fit two queen inflatable mattresses inside...
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Designer Oscar Lhermitte will bring back the stars in the London night sky at the Royal Observatory Greenwich on the 22nd of October.
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Mille Bolle soft suspension by Adriano Rachele.
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Wonderfully old fashioned illustrations by Kimiaki Yaegashi.
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Drawings on fogged glass come to life thanks to a masterful blend of classic hand-drawn animation and live action. Director Hoku Uchiyama uses impressive animation techniques in Evelyn Evelyn’s video for ‘Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn'.
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Occupy Design, a grassroots project connecting designers with on-the-ground demonstrators in the Occupy Together movement.
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A map of the change in immigrant population across American cities.
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Philographics, a series of posters to explain complex philosophical theories by Genis Carreras.
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Sideshow Press's picnic basket invitation for a private dinner gathering of the finest chefs in Charelston, South Carolina.
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Magnetic & iron filing type by Dominic Le-Hair. The font is created by cutting rubber magnets, then shaping the fillings between pieces of paper.
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Jonathan Brilliant creates full-room, site-specific installations from thousands of coffee stir sticks, as well as, coffee cup sleeves and covers.
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New Zealand public service campaign posters by Clemenger BBDO in Wellington.
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Sako Architect’s new Radial office in Beijing has left no PMS color ignored. Slick, lacquered white surfaces meet bright pops of crimson, fuchsia and lime green.
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FEATURED The Pie Hole ~ Downtown Los Angeles's newest pie shop just wants to "do right by the pie." They have a cute shop full of a great selection of rotating handmade-from-scratch seasonal pies... and one filled with mac and cheese.
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Incase's Terra collection made from natural materials with playful oversized zippers.
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Cool Hunting takes a look at Jennifer Wood's Deadly Dictionaries, based on the Seven Deadly Sins.
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VIDEOTeam Loro - Beautiful shortfilm with singing, skydiving parrots, by amazing swedish animation studio Meindbender. (HD definitely recommended)
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VIDEOCooper-Hewitt’s Icy New National Design Award Trophy and the story behind the award.
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Stunning new offices of design firm No Picnic in Stockholm, Sweden.
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VIDEOChris Harrison's OmniTouch turns any surface into a touchscreen. The prototype uses a body-worn projection/sensing system to capitalize on the tremendous surface area the real world provides.
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Applying Sentiment Analysis to the Bible. Interesting project which algorithmically determines if a piece of text is positive (“I like cheese”) or negative (“I hate cheese”) to create Kurt Vonnegut like story shapes backed by quantitative data.
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FEATUREDAvocado Witches Fingers, Cider Apple Chicken and Harvest Sours are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.
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FEATUREDThe Foldboat at the Dock in london ~ amazing to see it in action as well as how compactly it can be flattened.
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Ugly and cute at the same time, here are 7 birds for Twitter.
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DMesh by Dofl Yun does a beautiful job of using Delaunay triangulation to put a geometric spin on some old-school paintings.
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One of Dev Harlan's beautiful light sculptures
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A couple of tablets, boxes and a lamp can be fixed in this wall mounted board. The final product is a clever, well-designed multi-functional space.
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Animal sculptures made from Louis Vuitton bags by British artist Billie Achilleos.
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FEATUREDBaggu goes LEATHER! With large and small versions of their traditional reusable shopping bag style and two zip pouches available in black, apricot, and platinum leather!
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FEATUREDGif Back - Kinky Beatles LCD Mash-Up: Random nonsense from the world wide intertron. Gifs collected from the web - cut to a mash-up of The Beatles, LCD Soundsystem & The Kinks.
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The Space Beyond Me by Julius von Bismarck and Andreas Schmelas is a project where the projector moves in exactly the same way in which the camera moved. The UV image trail is strangely beautiful.
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'Ipe' modular bench and stool by Luca Nichetto for Mabeo.
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Exciting new artworks from Famous When Dead.
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Old gym mats and gymnastic bench form the basis for this bank. German label 'Zur schönen Linde' strikes again and brings old stuff to a new gorgeous life.
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The green way to transport your precious in style. The Johnny Loco Cargo cruiser.
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Researchers at Rice University working towards creating a synthetic biologically inspired camouflage based on their study of one of nature's best camouflage artists, the squid.
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VIDEODesign, only for humans? Care for Cows by Andreij Nylander is a product that improves the living situation for dairy cattle. The design was awarded the red dot award: product design 2011.
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'The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott' taken around the 1910-13 South Pole expedition’s winter quarters on Ross Island.
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VIDEOTrip Print Press & The Making Of FreshSox.
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Stanton Wiliams' new UAL Campus for Central Saint Martins at King's Cross.
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'Work Hard and Be Nice to People' by Anthony Burrill. Beautiful limited edition prints on red.
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"NEVER FOREVER ...", a visualisation of empires, capturing all known empires, colonies and territorial occupations from 2334 BCE to today representing each empire as a slice in the pie beginning with a known start (+) and end (×) date.
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VIDEOAdorable animations in this Pop-tarts or Joyalicious ad
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Beautiful underwater photography by Mark Laita in his latest book, Sea.
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VIDEOMaterials researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have developed a highly conductive silver ink.
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Baker D Chirico, a bakery that is designed to look like a bread basket in Melbourne.
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The Naturalist Almanac, beautiful print from Free Time.
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Sumo from Bluelounge acts like a paperweight for your cables, preventing them from dropping over the edge of the table.
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Passing Cloud by Tiago Barros ~ fun concept of a cloud zepplin like contraption!
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Thirty years after the World Rally Championship victory in the Talbot Sunbeam Lotus it is time to welcome Lotus back to rally!
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Hunting for Wild Mushrooms with Finnish Chef Antto Melasniemi.
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FEATUREDThe architecture of Gotham, a panoramic ball camera and sentimental cartography are all a part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.
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The Corkcicle is just perfect for all your wine chilling needs.
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VIDEOa_Live_Arch, the implementation of a "site specific" sonic and visual installation in the SCIARC building creates a 'real- virtual' environment. It is an immersive Architectural space that is transformed by and interacts with users.
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The AA School in London will be showcasing 60 architecture magazines, celebratiing the recent resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing from around the world.
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Greenpeace-commissioned artist John Quigley, travelling on board the Arctic Sunrise, made the massive ‘Melting Vitruvian Man’ -- to draw attention to how climate change is causing the rapid melting of sea ice to outstrip predictions.
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The EMAIL GAME. Supposedly - "Get through your inbox faster and develop good email habits."
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FEATUREDDemonBells ~ like kettlebells, only works of "art in motion"
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