In an experiment to see if Thanksgiving "Hand Turkey” technology translates to other holidays, "Spread Eagle Santa" is one of a few “Hand Santa” prototypes for your holiday enjoyment.
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Tomin Vladimir (spacejump, myaki-ru) is a Russian illustrator / designer with a great style.
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Scotty Reifsnyder's book The Man Who Couldn't Cry ~ looks adorable! Awesome illustrations, die cuts so the face is always showing in the same place on each page... and based on the Johnny Cash song!
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liu jianhua's first solo show 'dream in conflict' at galleria continua in San gimignano ~ includes dice and poker chips stacked in the outline of shanghai!
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It's the 5th year of the exhibit of artist's interpretations of the traditional Christmas Tree at Germany's Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Check out some of the best entries since the inception of the exhibit here.
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Swedish Jenny Marchi lets you turn your Swedish social security number into visual shapes that are printed as posters.
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Newly posted photos from Carrie Chau's Indigo Child public art exhibition in Hong Kong (via flickr user doc18).
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The teaser trailer has been released for the feature length animated film 9. Tim Burton is a producer for the adaptation of Shane Acker's 2005 Academy Award nominated short film...
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Moscow-based studio FIRMA, interesting concepts.
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Infamous London-based artist, Vinti Andrews, has developed quite a name for herself with switch-ups and custom apparel work. This time she’s created two life-sized pitbulls using Nike sneakers.
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The amazing ceramics of Doug Herren, now featured in the latest issue of Ceramics Monthly.
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"Since her first exhibition of paintings in 1992, the Finnish born artist Mia Leijonstedt (b.1971) has pursued her interest in artist’s books and studied both traditional and modern bookbinding skills."
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Illustrator Paperbullet pokes fun at people who take themselves too seriously.
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'72 Chevy Truck Coffee Table by Joel Hester is constructed with a beautifully cleaned, reformed, and clear coated hood of a 72 Chevy pickup. The table has wonderful detail with the truck's vin tags bolted to welded U shaped legs.
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A program that randomly combines images in photoshop with great results
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This image is a transformed oil-painting, as found at flea-markets and secondhand shops. These traditional paintings are adapted by using an industrial laser-technique. By erasing parts and adding new elements they get a new dimension.
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Australian artist Emma Hack's body art is just unbelievable. Her series in which she paints nudes against Florence Broadhurst wallpaper is really impressive.
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Christmas Illustration by Alison Cardinale based off of the Poem "Nicholas Was" by Neil Gaiman from the book"Smoke and Mirrors".
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Cornelius Bass is an illustrator/graphic designer from Sweden who currently is busy creating an advent calendar, with one typographic poster containing the current date every day. Nice!
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“Correspondence greeting cards with seasonal and fresh tastes” by designer Akihiro Kumagaya. Each season, you send seasonal fruits, peel the skins to see the what is inside the fruits.
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With a mission to create a "greener" holiday card, the advertising agency TURKEL found a fun way to recycle vintage greeting cards into something new. They collected 3,000 cards...
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"Advanced Beauty", the exploration of digital soundscapes curated by Matt Pyke and Universal Everything, has finally been released and the HD-DVD is up for sale around the world.
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Stencil Artist Peat Wollaeger www.stenSOUL.com has been putting up his latest Series Eyes all over the Streets from St. Louis to Melbourne on walls, poles, vintage trucks, fire hydrants and more.
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Ten strange and funny forms of human transportation.
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Author and Artist Daniel Patrick Helmstetter has just released a brand new web platform for exploring his work and territories on the world wide web.
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Zoybar is a modular hardware kit for creating custom electric string instruments and effects by its users.
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A calendar designed for a stylish 2009, by artist Susan Connor of Susy Jack*. On recycled cover stock and printed with soy inks, they are eco-friendly and made in the U.S.A.
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We heard about some Red Ladies at the British Library. We sent our photographer Oli Longmore down hunt them down. Then we spoke to Suzy Willson of Clod Ensemble who masterminded the whole affair.
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This is a great website made by students. They come from a variety of art schools and combine their different areas of expertise. Some great furniture, paintings, t-shirts, silkscreens, photographs and lots more.
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Fantastic music video from Onesize for The American Dollar’s “Anything You Synthesize.” Absolutely beautiful ~ no people, incredible use of timelapsing, you have to watch it to understand!
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Elephant Journal breaks out their Top Ten Albums of 2008 - great recommendations of the best indie and rock albums of the year.
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Dsrupt™ is the online selected works of the portuguese Art Director Nuno Trafaria.
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Victor Britto's art is amazing. He combined graphic design with graffiti. His advertisements for Asics are brilliant.
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Craig Hubbard's Chubbard ~ i just lost quite a bit of time browsing his incredible illustration and motion graphics portfolio
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3D decoration object - iron skeleton with glowing strings , in a night club .
created by kabriha decoration - israel. :)
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Awesome inspiration: Mid-Century Illustrated Flickr pool!
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Gallery 1988's January show sounds incredible ~ "Under the Influence: An Official Tribute to Beastie Boys" - 100 participating artists
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Great flickr set of the collab: "c13 recently teamed up with AMG to create a series of custom Munny’s for some industry heavies." Here's the Veuve Clicquot Munny!
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Fascinating to see what inspires those who inspire us ~ check out Audrey Kawasaki's Ffffound [might lean on the NSFW side]
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Howies has collaborated with Tom Seymour to create a range of extra large care labels with instructions of how to look after the environment.
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Check out Tellart's beautiful, interactive "augmented reality" holiday card for 2008. Use your webcam to create flurries on your desk and play winter melodies.
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Julie West letterpressed Artist's Series cards now available from Letter Pressed.
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Tres Birds has some incredible inspiring architectural, artistic and interior installations/spaces!
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'In from the cold' is a four weeks Xmas event at the Royal Festival Hall, London, come and join us for music, dance and film in this winter wonderland! Three large scale Cloud Chandeliers designed by Jordy Fu.
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The "Could Be Me" project keeps on getting bigger... Well worth checking out and seeing whats being added to it... Some big names popping up on there as well :D
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Loving the new sculptural chair by dutch artist Parra!
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Ornaments for the Holidays to commemorate the year of the mustache.
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The Brooklyn-based painter, Bettina Sellmann, digs deep and finds bolder, more conflicted work. In these intense, richly colored paintings, two opposing forces are at work: one of beauty and lyricism, and one seething with violence.
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Leah Evans is a textile artist doing some innovative quilting. Each quilt features a map with intense, hand-sewn details that create abstracted patterns. The quilts map out imaginary places.
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Cameron Moll designed this crazy letterpress poster of the Salt Lake Temple using bazillions of tiny letters to create the image.
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In "Skunk Hour" Seattle based artist Mike Simi captures your attention and has you wondering what will happen next. Be sure to watch the video!
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Dutch artist Bart van Leeuwen (aka Im All Fake) Illustrations are just genius...
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Mattias Inks ~ awesome blog of illustrations ~ absolutely adorable must see header ~ and this is one of his many self portraits
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These vintage internal disney holiday cards/calendars are so fun to look through
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Love this zebra print by Richard Wilkinson.
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This complex NYC subway commission, three years in the making, features curved glass walls laced with silhouettes of trees, a marble mosaic topographic map of Manhattan, and imagery from nearby Battery Park.
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Seattle artist Parskid has 3 new Giclee prints of his vector illustration work available at Flatcolor.com.
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In Volkswagen's BioRunner, "the rider is positioned inside a protective cage on a motorcycle-like saddle with controls attached to the hands and feet."
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Two new 20x200 editions from the design studio Superdeluxe, part of their Card Suits series.
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The Indian Highway exhibition at London's Serpentine Gallery sees new and established Indian artists reflecting on the changes occurring in their country.
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Gisele Ganne's DIVORCE jewellery are amazing!!! Madonna should get one!!
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Six designers, three Asian restaurants, twelve crumpled fortunes, twenty-four crossed fingers and one letterpress. A calendar by redblackbrown.
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Cute typographic illustration by London-based Illustrator and Graphic Designer Lindsay J. Haynes.
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New work from Raymond Pettibon at Regen Projects II in LA.
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Put simply, Modern Tots bent birch rocker rocks, designed by sirch.
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Photographed by Stacey Evans, a detail from Harriet Arthur's "The Waiting Room," one of the light-centered art installations included in the Dec. 12 exhibition, "Let There Be Light," celebrating the upcoming winter solstice.
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Takashi Murakami / Louis Vuitton for Manhattan - Monogram Multicolor
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A collection of vintage Christmas cards from the 60's.
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Amazing work by NY based Korean artist Jinyoung Shin - Jinyoung has developed a very unique* style strongly influenced by Japanese manga look but with a very decay feeling, very interesting and intense...
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Charlotte X. C. Sullivan mixes ink with soapy water and allows the bubbles to dry on paper. I like how you can sometimes see the burst bubble.
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Pentagram's Angus Hyland designed this free bag for CassArt - how many well-known silhouetted artworks can you spot?
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Created on the dome of the Human Rights room in the UN in Geneva, this gigantic multicolored canopy was designed by the renowned Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo.
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Amazing knot & tangle sculptures in bronze by artist Joshua Harker
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'Stop Designing, Start Playing' is the motto printmaker Wendy Chapple and designer Coralie Bickford-Smith pass onto students at the London College of Communication.
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Artistic action imagined on the elevators of subway in Toulouse / France.
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Very fun teapot from talented duo making up Lilach Lotan Pottery. The driving teapot was created by the Canada based team of Lilach & Ron Lotan.
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Love this giant pixelated facade on a parking garage in Adelaid - so much more fun that Times Square's typical jumbo screen. Each of the 748 square panels of the Rundle Lantern are lit by two LEDs.
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FEATUREDTake a peek inside the 2009 CIA (Central Illustration Agency) Super Hero 2009 Calendar!!!
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A green organic temporary installation by LAVA, using hi-tech nylon. The organic shape climbs through the atrium of the building.
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The Lunchbox Auction, by Gourmet magazine, is an online auction for hunger-relief organizations, featuring custom-designed lunchboxes by artists, chefs, and celebrities.
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DDB Germany new adds for the Volkwagen Polo Blue Motion looks for inspiration in the works of Magritte and Dali
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Playing cards uniquely engineered to military precision, with original, iconic style and unsurpassed quality. PROPAGANDA is grunge with an edge of 20th century military imagery.
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"99 Denials" is the name of Belgrade artist Iva Musovic exhibition. On 99 photographs are 99 portraits pictured with long exposition. "I wanted to explore the denials of ordinary people", said Iva.
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Beautiful paintings by Ann Toebbe. Love this one of all the boots warming by the fire.
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I love Dan Funderburgh's design, City Park, for Flavor Paper. A fun take on the traditional toile, rats and all!
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Brandi Milne always loved to draw, paint and color as a child, but her mom never thought she was anything special.
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Jason de Caires creates sculptures underwater and leaves them to grow organically. Until we find Atlantis, this does quite nicely.
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Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa - Roger Alsing created a small program that keeps a string of DNA for polygon rendering. Very cool.
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Superb veneer bows from artist Christine Tillman. Think of it as a bit of holiday cheer that can last all year without seeming cheesy. Handmade and very affordable.
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Felicia Atanasiu's illustration style is a combination of naturalistic drawing, abstract painting, patterns, photography and textiles.
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New addition to the NOTCOT Holiday Coupon Book! Scott over at ISO50 has generously offered you 30% off at his store of gorgeous posters, shirts, and music! Use the code NOTCOT08 (not combinable with other offers)
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2008 Iconique Societas Award for the 'Excellence in Fashion Illustration Award' went to Choon Fai Yip of Singapore for his entry 'Awakening of the Puppresses'.
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FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #28: Matthew Rolston's beautyLIGHT ~ a gorgeous coffee table book featuring the celebrity + fashion photography of Rolston ~ who is considered Warhol's protégé!
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Go back to the 70's with drip candles redesigned by the Woodstock Candle Company. The corners of the candle turn into spires that bend and curl in a most unique way. Day-Glo and Blacklight reactive colors.
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Wonderful character-based vector work by 27-year-old German artist Aros.
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The Tag Tree Project. 100's of tags sent across the world. 200 artists. Customize. 1 tree to hang. Flickr Group. Organized by MyDogSighs a UK based street artist.
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Gorgeous photography by Germany's Florian Maier-Aichen.
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London's V&A Museum presents Cold War Modern, the first exhibition to explore international developments in modern art, design, architecture and film in the context of the Cold War.
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Link's lifesized hat/hair in papercraft pretty much blew my mind when i first saw it ~
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Mimosa or, PANTONE® 14-0848 - the colour of 2009?
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From the awesome Robert Abuda Pop-Up Alice and Wonderland book ~ these Pop-Up Cards are in 12 packs ~ 6 of Alice growing tall from the mushroom and 6 of the roses being painted... 50% off!
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Abbot Mead Vickers of BBDO has created three great new print ads for the V&A’s Museum of Childhood.
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Chronicle Books' artist postcard books are incredible, rounded corners, adorable, really nice thick stock, beautiful printing and 10$ for 30 cards! Just got the James Jean one (and have the crane and yamaguchi ones too!)
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Proving that an ethical design career does not mean hindering creative professionalism, Loz Ives' Because Studio is one to watch!
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The CIA Super Hero Calendar is here again!!! Only 5 pounds in the uk ~ and its an awesomely illustrated weekly!
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London based MA Graphic Design graduate Telli Nourkeyhani gives The Hayward Gallery an Extreme Makeover!
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Sometimes, the conventional Christmas tree just doesn't cut it. Here's a few unusual Christmas tree ideas for inspiration.
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Flicker set by Selflesh - Cool collages of body parts made out of old maps.
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London based agency Represent have challenged the design community to develop innovative and eco-friendly solutions to the problem of wasting wrapping paper!
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I'm loving the dark, floral, Intaglio prints of Jenny Ostraff.
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Patrick Nadeau created 'Nature Individuelle', a series of planters/objects emphasizing the importance of nature in our world. There are some great objects in the series.
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On Wed10th December, British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF) erected a 5m wide x 2m high ICE WALL at the London Southbank Centre to mark the launch a new website showcasing the benefits of frozen food.
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Gerd Arntz Web Archive of absolutely stunning icons from the 30s
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The bankers are sad and broke. Luckily there was a Silent Disco in the city to cheer them up.
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Listed by color depending on the major themes in international news, headlines of the New York Times from 1990 to 2005 were cut, then shortlisted by the artist AJ Bocchino, in order to form rolls of wallpaper. What a creative idea!
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2008 - The Year of the 'Stache - A comprehensive photo list of all things mustache from 2008 -- bags to charts to weddings and more!
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Illustrator/Designer Mike Perry launches his new website with all new work.
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Flavor Paper's Elysian Fields wallpaper is just what I need in my new home. The look of a traditional pattern with modern nuances. Perfect with both antiques and contemporary furniture.
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Andy Sargent paints on salvaged wood and tin - I like the way the found object informs his work.
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Yet again the guys from Uredd have managed to blow me away with their creative minds. This time it was Gaute and Ståle and mr Aasmund who went out in the streets of Trondheim to play with light.
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Non-Format designed three different album covers for The Chap in 2008 - I like the consistent use of balloon animals rendered atypically.
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Paul McCarthy's work ranges from intimate performance videos to spectacular public works - all without sacrificing its unnerving psychosexual tone. His most recent sculptural work is a Santa figure holding a tree-like butt plug.
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Nancy Wu is likely the most diverse designer to come out of Art Center in a long time. Check out her site for amazing and fresh designs from soap chairs to nike shoes. (Btw, she is the younger sister of NOTCOT's feature car designer Kim Wu)
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Yulia Brodskaya makes gorgeous and intricate typographic paper cuts.
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Format recreates over 20 Classic (and some not-so-classic) Hip Hop Album Covers in LEGO.
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Origami sculpture made by Jacquet Fritz Junior. Photography by Matthieu Gauchet.
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Erik Natzke is an interactive designer who is constantly trying to blur the lines between design and technology.
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Coarse Toys has an exhibition in Berlin at the moment. Probably the most impressive vinyl toys on the market right now.
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The Front Page Poster is a collection of the covers of all the major news papers from around the world chronicling Barack Obama's historic win.
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Amazing new summer line from M.I.A.'s sister. By the name of "Hunger" the collection was inspired by how food is seen in other places of the world...
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The Super Ampersand Pillow - Made by hand with some crazy fabric. Now you can have your favorite typographic symbol right next to you on your couch!
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Tony Davidson of Wieden+Kennedy London has made a new book called One Track Mind. Here is a look at Tony the lovable madman and his one track mind.
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