It’s Ok for me to feel like a serial killer / stalker / kidnapper, because I’m sending nice messages.
Try it for yourself with this ‘Ransom Note Generator’.
Ransom Notes
Fantastically simple and charming illustrations from Reilly Stroope. His sketches are equally as interesting. See the Flickr set here.
Reilly Stroope
Great use of typography in the unique doormat that can be rotated to either greet or dismiss your guests depending on you your mood.
Come In / Go Away
Stylish Graphic Design from Stefan Lucut. His use of strong colours and compositions are a pleasure to view. Check out his portfolio here.
Stefan Lucut
Get that ‘light coming through a window blind’ look, but without the need for a window.
Light Blind
Beat Box Font
Decadent and desirable chocolate that looks as good as it tastes thanks to smart packaging from New Zealand brand Bloomsbury.
Survival Chocolate
A new range of collectable toy cars, but with a twist...they’ve already been smashed up. Find out more at ChinnyChinChin.
Urban Collectables
Forward thinking and creative design solutions in a plentiful supply. I just bought their excellent book which I high recommend.
Non Format
Like the name says...Origami with money. Brilliant.
Money-Gami
More chocolate with more fantastic packaging. This extremely desirable and decadent offering comes from Scotland, yes Scotland.
Kshcolat
Now you’ll never have the problem of trying to remember ‘which one is my cup?’ thanks to this beautifully simple design solution.
Folding Cup
No matter how fussy people can be, there’s no excuse for making a shoddy cup of tea thanks to this brilliantly simple mug from those design heroes at Suck UK. Just don’t forget who ordered what.
Milk, 2 Sugars
“Hlaska's wallets and bags redefine luxury, adding intelligent design and well-engineered utility to premium materials, custom-crafted hardware and meticulous workmanship” or more simply, “Nice wallet dude”.
hlaska
Every flower of this ruler is exactly 1 cm apart. Great for aesthetics, but confusing when you get a “8 flowers wide by 7 flowers tall” reply to a question about the dimensions of an envelope.
Flower Ruler
Check out the Uber-Cool range of stylish, tees, sneakers and much more at the fabulous SuperFly Deluxe.
Red Dot Tee
Lovely, subtle candle designed specifically for coffee shops. Just make sure you don’t try and dunk a biscuit in it.
Coffee Candle
Turn old newspapers into bricks, perfect for the fire or just a good old fashioned smash ‘n’ grab.
Newspaper Bricks
A huge selection of uber-cool, if a little nerdy USB flash drives. Find your favourite from an excellently extensive selection at Mimobot.
Mimobot
This is what happens when a innocent robe is taken advantage of by a cheeky blanket in a one night stand. The deliciously comfy ‘Slanket’.
The Slanket
Where has this guy been hiding? Someone of this talent surely deserves international recognition or at least a national holiday named after them. An exceptional portfolio, the best of the year for sure.
Theo Gennitsakis
This guys has brilliantly turned old vinyl records into all sorts of cool stuff like tea coasters, ashtrays, bowls and much more. Check it out at Vinylux.
Vinylux
As fascinating as it is unsettling. Who wouldn’t love a ‘squegg’ for Christmas?
Egg Cube
A phenomenal portfolio of work from the humbly named ‘Ben the Illustrator’, who creates these wonderfully colourful and happy worlds that are so nice, they make me want to live there.
Ben the Illustrator
I’ve just been into these grotto of e-numbers and artificial colours and it was great. I’m stocked up now with Nintendo Mints, Nerds and Duff for Xmas and expect to spend it off my tits on sugar.
Cyber Candy
Remember ‘Ben the Illustrator from yesterday? Well his site gets even better when you visit ‘SpeakerDog’. I wont say anymore as it’ll ruin the surprise, but check it out you wont regret it.
Speaker Dog
A fascinating and very in-depth article on the self referential antics of Pixar in their movies. I loved it as I’ve seen these movies 100’s of times as they’re on a loop at home as my son loves them.
Pixar
Nice to see the hand make the clock do the work for a change. Another victory for the Overworked Clock Hands Union.
Time Inverted
A modern take on the classic Stained Glass Window by Gerhard Richter. See the jaw dropping Flickr set here.
Stained Glass Pixels
Not everyone likes Christmas, but even the grumpiest old sod will raise a smile at these fantastically offensive offerings from Scribbler.
Xmas Cards
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