Oakley founder Jim Jannard is about to change digital cinema with his low-priced RED-camera. Indie film makers 'll love it...
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Spencer Tunick + Greenpeace...
In order to raise awareness for global warming
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FEATUREDMari Santos does some seriously impressive tshirt surgeries... From giant tee to sexy dresses and tops.
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A Dozen Pencils by Yuta Watanabe. 12 deconstructions and reconstructions of the humble writing instrument.
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#5797
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The Arrival by Shaun Tan is a picture book written entirely without words. I love the illustration style, and their use as rich sepia-toned pictograms.
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FEATUREDDolce & Gabbana Metal Corset Belt ~ with laceup back, padlock, key, chain... the works.
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I just noticed the background of "Next Nature" is all Corporate Animals.... also check out the "Bisected Brontosaurus in a Water-filled Case" a la Damien Hirst's "Natural History" series
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The new Roomba's seem all the rage today ~ with their new 500 series offering the "most efficient room-to-room cleaning"
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#5793
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Loving the animals in Shag's "The Immoderates" - especially "The Faux Pas" (a piece of it seen above)
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Murano House makes drains for your sink with watch faces! Now you can see exactly how late you are running! They also make amazing stone, marble and glass drains for sinks and showers.
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FEATUREDPocket Shots - exactly what they sound like... single serving shots on the go... oh the packaging design opportunities here!
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There's something kind of mesmerizing about these Lilo & Stitch inspired pin-up like sketches of Chris Sanders - or did these inspire the film? (He directed Lilo & Stitch - read his awesome bio)
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fashion trends + interior decor + repTile! ceramic tiles in snake, croc and lizard skin patterns, from turkish industrial designer can yalman for canakkale seramik.
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Karl Lagerfeld asked 15 artists to create work inspired by the iconic quilted Chanel bag (1955). Hadid’s sculptural building, started after a conversation with him last fall, captures new geometries in design and architecture.
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FEATUREDSteven Nicholson's Self Portrait is proof of what you can do with 10 different sized hole punches and a piece of paper
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FEATUREDIs it really any surprise that Murakami will be popping up a fully functional Louis Vuitton Boutique literally in the middle of his exhibition at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary?
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Bioshock fan-art tee shirt design. Fantastic.
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behold the colossal new 3 or 5 foot diameter led davinci chandelier from schonbek! ensconced in swarovski crystals, it features halogen and led modes for your ever changing moods.
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The nevershare syringe is the world’s first syringe designed for injecting drug users! – With plungers in a range of colours to reduce accidental sharing that could lead to getting viruses like HIV.
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Inspiring installations from Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama using infinity mirror walls.
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These photos were taken the night before the organ was ripped out to be replaced as part of refurbishment. Photographer Dan Price tried his best to preserve it with these photos.
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The people over at Amosu have dipped the Prada Phone by LG in 24-karat gold.
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adidas is doing Star Wars inspired sneakers called "The Force" pack as part of their Consortium project. The black sneaker is for Darth Vader, the light one is for Yoda.
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Shiro i Shiro restaurant & bar inside Lux 11 hotel in BERLIN
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#5775
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These Rosetta multimedia speakers from Korea's Britz may not be the most powerful speakers out there, but they sure look swell.
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the best of minnesota artist thomas allen's fabulous pulp fiction photographs have been assembled in a new book from the aperture foundation, to be released in september!
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Tree Surgeon - by Peckerwood Golf. Part axe part putter... for those who hang out in the rough... and other stuff.
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#5771
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THIS people is precisely why i am attempting (mildly successfully) to be on vacation - "Legally required paid annual leave around the world, in days."
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Attention all shopper ~ Design*Sponge's two parter on recommended online shopping destinations of bloggers (my picks included) are up!
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Dedicated to Daisy, the new fragrance for women by Marc Jacobs. Each daisy is a profile, and by creating one and exploring the site you'll be eligible for the chance to win Marc Jacobs merchandise and recieve exclusive giveaways and content.
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New elegant spot for Numericable : a lot of motion graphics and a soundtrack by Justice band !
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Articolo #28: Table Design by Christoph Boeninger. Corrugated Aluminum.
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Corriette Schoenarts mixes fashion photography with cartography.
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Can't afford your own Transformers toy? Well why not design and make your own?! A mind-blowing paper model including work in progress pics!
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The Safe Bedside Table: easily transformed into a medieval battle suit when burglars pick your house. By James McAdam
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Great work by the parisian illustrator JulesJulien
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The Hau Hauz products and fabrics are designed by the Finnish designer Satu Makkonen. Scandinavian contemporary design in the finest 100% quality linen fabrics combined with handscreen printed prints bringing you a cool breeze of air from Finland.
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MiniCat catameran: The boat that fits in the trunk of your car - honestly!
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Custom Carbonite. This "lucky" fella had his mates take a mold of his head, then add it to a replica prop of Han Solo encased in carbonite. Nice.
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#5758
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soak your tootsies around strangers? how plebian. do it in the privacy of your own home instead with this luxurious personal pedicure spa from kohler.
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A design for a 13,000 ft. skyscraper to be constructed in Tokyo - X-SEED 4000: World’s tallest tower will house 1 million people
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#5756
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Eric Clapton recently bought a series of paintings by graffiti legend LEE Quinones. He shelled out $120k for twelve paintings, and each "depicts a shoplifter grabbing an album from the Seventies."
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#5754
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Hey freelancers... here's a knight t-shirt : Sir Freelancelot
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FEATUREDQuick update on all things NOTCOT if you want to peek into our world.
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#5750
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This is an example of something that is NOT quite NotCouture material (but totally org-able)... swiss miss is right, these viking baby beanies are hilarious - although the horns could be improved upon.
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#5749
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B is a young new clothing brand from Bogotá, Colombia influenced by the city's erratic lifestyle.
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#5748
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DANSK Magazine #015 is coming out, Autumn 2007 issue with Evilism theme, unisex fashion magazine from Denmark, just enjoy it.
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Sexy pie fight in underwear ! Anyone to organize one? - [Davenport gets attention for their cotton undies by adding cream pies and jello.]
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#5746
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101 E Radialstrahler Reference - coolest speakers in the world? From mbl of Germany.
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Adorable Hermes Hippopotamus lock, silver and palladium plated
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#5744
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Cool post over at No Good For Me ~ they dug up music videos Sofia Coppola has been in... Sonic Youth, Black Crowes, Madonna, Chemical Brothers...
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Le Beanock - bean bag meets hammock. Sounds so perfect right now.
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Monsterism ROCK BAND coming from Pete Fowler
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#5740
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Are these "mutant" golden frogs in japan a sign of good luck? (don't they just seem more albino leaning than 5 eyeballs kind of mutant?)
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You shake to open? This is one creepy door Hand-le by Naomi Thellier de Poncheville
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Wow lucky climbers makes some seriously cool children's climbing structures.
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GENIE IN THE BOTTLE will guard over your leftover vino when you can't make it to the bottom of a bottle. Designed by SUCK UK. CHEERS!
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Galactic Suite: The world's first Space Hotel set to open within the next three years. Great views, lousy food.
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Artzmania are back with our latest x.5 issue - ColorWonderland.
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Like playing Top Trumps? Like type? You need Rick Banks' Type Top Trumps
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Viewsonic LCD monitor encrusted with thousands of Swarovski crytals. Bringing the bling to your home computer system.
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#5730
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They finally arrived from press: Zeixs - four books full of inspiration and design excellence showing about 2200 artworks from more than 400 international designers. Have a look :)
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#5729
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anyone who knows me will understand my excitement over vending machine ramen.
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#5728
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Canon USA drops 11 press releases today... including the (finally!) EOS 40D - and the 21mgp Canon EOS-1D Mark III - both of which i'm completely drooling over already
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Shoes as architecture. The conceptual collection by Gil Carvalho. Alloy, leather and elastic metallic thread.
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VIDEOA painstaking stop-motion video made from coloured dice, with the numbers being used for subtle tonal variations. Music video for Fujiya & Miyagi's Ankle Injuries. Directed by Wade Shotter.
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FEATUREDGloji juice ~ goji berry juice - and goji+pomegranate juice.... the ones in the light bulb shaped bottles.
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FEATUREDWhen art meets food... it doesn't get more delicious than the work of Lesia Chernish's portfolio i-delicious... her girlie pics are really fun
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Sung-Hee Seewald has a gorgeous photography portfolio
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Inspiring work of John Bauer Swedish Illustrator (1882–1918)
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Pink and powder, puf and pillow by Maria Kirk Mikkelsen
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Tord Boontje's classic Garland Light now available in white.
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Stunning toaster from the German Manufactum, check out the other pictures too!
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If your kid (or you) is going to have a traditional wooden toy yacht ~ make it black. With a pirate flag sail.
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Topiade is a lay-over facade structure designed to renew an existing Louis Vuitton store building without a major reconstruction. The concept of topiary and the French garden were taken to extend and exhibit the luxurious quality of Louis Vuitton.
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wood etching on skateboard by nico puertollano, pablo gallery, cubao philippines
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James Westwater has a whole new take on "prefab". His 48" x 48" Plywood Chateaux incorporate a floakti cushion on wheels in it's own artsy cube environment. Check them out.
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Danish artist Julie Nord had her first UK solo show this summer... her work looks amazing!
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Currently obsessing on the incredible fishtank worlds of Takashi Amano
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Asymptote Architecture is developing a signature 50-story residential tower now under way in the United Arab Emirates.
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Interiors for Rocco's Pizza in Santiago de Chile by Ramirez Moletto Architects.
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Skateboard art by Ken Mori. Inspired by hand painted Mexican street graphics, retro technology and the ubiquitous shape of decks as a blank canvas.
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#5705
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Pouvlov, the beginning of a changing behavior. Fabrics by Kvadrat.
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#5704
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Designer Paul Smith took his signature multistripe vertical patterns and printed it on this leather soccer ball ('football' for purists).
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VIDEOVery funny and informative Video Introduction to Design. Guaranteed to make you laugh!
Directed by David Ngo (Stanford Designer)
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VIDEOVery clever use of pop-ups in a music video. Video for Shitdisco's song "OK". Pop-up book puppetry at it's best!
Directed by Price James.
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#5701
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Reware's Juice bag solar beach tote lets you charge with cigarette lighter adapters... pity that the bag is so ugly though...
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BYOBag to the market is great and all... but back in italy, i remember that when THAT tired, i envied the old ladies with their rollers... this PUMA one is pretty sweet. (and 20% off with BTS20)
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FEATUREDHeadhoods ~ pull your hood up and take on a whole new persona
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#5698
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Ayako Takagi's new limited-edition Buuts Buuts Uamou figures - there is something incredibly calming about these guys. As if they are anti-stress deities?
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Design Gangster Video - hahahaha - "my clients call me snoop 'cuz my concepts is so high"....
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Lyndon Wade is a NY photographer who shoots for world’s most famous ad agencies, such as BBDO, makinġ ads for Nintendo, Sonic, Vox vodka and others
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AIAIAI earphones from Denmark. Cool colours and design. Nice alternativ to your white iPod earphones...
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Portland artist/designer Stephanie Simek's Tammy Faye Necklace uses real human hair and sterling silver...and it freaks me out. [Also NotCouture #747]
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FEATUREDSo many fingerless gloves, so little time. These are just some of the ones I found today! Personally I like the black ones by Generra (check out the post on notcot.com to see 'em!)
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Jennifer Gooch pushed "Minimalist Tacos" (empty taco shells) for a day in Marfa, Texas - interested in the anomalous intersection of art and culture in this southwestern rural landscape. Lots of other great projects on her site.
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New auditorium and facilities for Universidad de Chile's Art Faculty by Emilio Marin + Albert Tidy in Santiago, Chile. Featured in Plataforma Arquitectura with Cristobal Palma pictures.
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#5688
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Can you believe Fake Steve Jobs is doing a book? I kind of want it...
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BMW Art Car project - this "vehicle" is the result of handing over BMW's hydrogen-powered H2R race car to modern artist Olafur Eliasson... and yes - that's ice
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Beautiful website of make up artist Filippa Smedhagen in full flash. I like the navigation in drag and drop.
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#5685
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FEATUREDOn cool new coat hook options - Bach Coat Hooks from Delta Design aren't supposed to stretch your clothes as much
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FEATUREDI'm so mesmerized by the perceived fragility of these glass bubbles by Crumley... also their peace under fire collection is making the rounds on the internets today
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#5683
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Custom painted Transformer figure transcends the original design. Sublime.
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#5682
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Sarah Hirneisen's work titled "Shrine" is a Levantine reliquary housing over 3,000 oil-filled glass vials. Working with Kadie Salfi, their show opens at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art in San Francisco on September 6, 2007.
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Jonathan Aspinall's Link Mugs are making breakfast a little more communal.
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#5679
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1960's pro-segregation comic book depicting George Wallace's ideas for a racially divided state. It's not very good. Not a web-slinger or man-of-steel in sight.
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#5678
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Chrome roll-top waterproof backpacks.. my new MacBook Pro gonna like it, even in case it rains!
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#5677
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This Burton snowboarding helmet lets you connect MP3 players and other devices via the Motorola Bluetooth.
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#5676
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Move over iPhone. The CECT W100 wrist-phone is pack full of features including bluetooth, a 2mp camera and, get this, a touch screen!
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#5675
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Unboxing of the Jason Markk + Undftd sneaker cleaning kit.
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#5674
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Martin McMillan graduated this summer with a beautiful yet disturbing photographic portfolio
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For the book lovers who need something better than a feather duster to keep those books clean... the Book Brush! Shaped like a book, and for books!
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FEATUREDWant a sneak peek at the upcoming characters and stories of the latest Monsterism 4: Pets and Owners Toy collection? They are adorable!
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#5671
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FEATUREDTOO FUN! HP Toyrama - HP and Pete Fowler's Monsterism creatures team up to let YOU be the animator making movies in this latest contest.
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#5670
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Endless sketchwalls that "float" and store markers neatly in the side...
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#5669
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Newspaper machine with an lcd monitor shows a newspaper slideshow. A news "jukebox"?
via boingboing
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#5668
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Waterless Urinals by Kohler - ecology / design / urinal / FEELS GOOD !
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#5666
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Siggraph 2007: a few picks from this year's Emerging Technologies
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#5664
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Beautiful graphics for this guide to FUROSHIKI wrapping by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment . Personally, I would print it directly on the cloth.
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#5663
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New parskid giclee prints are beautiful and bright. He also currently has work in the Guys' Guys group show at Gallery 1988 in LA, which opened on the 14th.
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#5662
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Apple's sleek new wireless aluminum keyboard is pushing all my design buttons.
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#5661
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Slideshow story of Clearview! Drivers say that they would like to see less clutter and more readability, but there is something that seems untouchable about this layer of information in the landscape.
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FEATUREDSO, what DOES come in that mysterious black briefcase in the Porsche Design Edition 1? Porsche just sent over a high res image of the goods.
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True Fruits - loving the packaging and the graphic design on the site of this German Smoothie line
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#5657
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FEATUREDWhile on cars... have you seen the freshly announced Porsche Design Edition 1 - a limited edition black cayman S... with a slew of extra design work and accessories?
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Pictures of the new 2008 Ferrari 430 Scuderia.
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#5655
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Ninja vs Pirates DODGEBALL.... the console is TBD... but i can't wait regardless.
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#5654
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The stylish Juke Tower waterproof MP3 speaker looks positively gorgeous and takes up no more room than a shampoo bottle.
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Intimate Control was created by Jennifer Chowdhury for her class thesis project. The aim of the game is to help bring couples together for a more intimate and closer game playing experience. See video.
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#5652
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FEATUREDThey aren't just for drinking from.... Nalgene now has KITS - for auto, first aid, emergencies, heat stress, kids, and dogs
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Incredible textured wallpapers by Catherine Hammerton
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