How cool are these made to order spray can lights? Not only do they look great and are practical, but the spray nozzle acts as an ‘on/off’ switch.
Spray Can Lamp
The talented and innovative guerilla artist is back and this time it’s the daily London Paper who is the victim. There are pictures on Flickr and a video of the stunt on YouTube. I’m looking forward to his next stunt already.
The Decapitator
This is great. ThisAintNoDisco offers you a chance to have a sneak peek around loads of different creative offices all from the comfort of your laptop. The brilliant Karmarama is my favourite. Link via Swiss Miss.
Office Space
Those guys at Improv Everywhere never fail to impress. This time over 200 ‘agents’ froze for over 5 minutes at exactly the same time at Grand Central Station. Watch the video here.
Grand Central Freeze
And there was me thinking the DS was small enough already. If you fancy making your very own paperclip sized DS click here for instructions and a video guide.
Tiny DS
We all hate a wet bench, but now that problem has been eliminated by the observant and forward thinking Sungwoo Park who is becoming a bit of a regular on here. Simply rotate to find a dry bit to sit on. Clever.
Rolling Bench
Beautiful typography and design from animal fan Jeremy Pettis. Visit his site here and start scrolling to the right to see the whole A-Z. I love the Cobra poster on flickr.
Jeremy Pettis
Carlos Aires creates these cool vinyl silhouettes from old records and each one is unique. Another cool way to recycle old vinyl, a bit like these excellent Vinylux gifts by Jeff Davis.
Love is in the Air
Interesting packaging based photography by Derek Stroup that shows off how the packaging of certain products is so recognisable that it doesn’t even need a logo.
Derek Stroup
A fascinating look at how some of the world’s most well known logos from Nokia, Google, IBM, Canon and more, evolved from humble beginnings to what we know them as today.
Logo Evolution
what’s more fun than sipping your half-caff double latte venti from a stacked-up, three-handled, trompe l’oeil tower of cups?
Stacked Coffe Cup
Glow Graffiti
10th Feb ‘08
8th Feb ‘08
The “Klein Bottle” is a non-orientable surface, i.e., a surface (a two-dimensionaltopological space) with no distinction between the “inside” and “outside” surfaces. Huh? Maybe the designers translate that for me please?
Klein Bottle House
Another chunky beaut of a typeface from the recent additions made over at the excellent DaFont.com. This is called Bola and it’s one of the nicest i’ve seen in a while. Download your free copy here.
Bola
I struggle with Scrabble at the best of times and regularly lose to my 84 year old Gran. At least with Chocolate Scrabble, I can eat all her good letters when she’s not looking and then I might actually win!
Chocolate Scrabble
“Take the work, out of your workout,
The Hawaii chair!
If you can sit, you can get fit,
The Hawaii chair!”
Watch the ridiculous video here
Hawaii Chair
Designed by Vincent "Factone" Ficarra, a renowned graffiti and fine artist in New York these cool looking cans, named the Subway Series are believe it or not for Iced Tea.
All City NRG
This new interactive video/catalog for IKEA is great. Cool quick cut intros lead into slow motion sequences that show off each room.
Ikea Catalogue
13th Feb ‘08
Yeah baby! Become the coolest guy in the neighbourhood with your very own Backyard Drive In. Who could resist the temptation of a private movie screen and hot tub?
Backyard Drive In
A strangely addictive site that I can’t stop clicking on. Each time you a bizarre but very endearing ‘Barack-ism’.
Barack-isms
Another shrewd bit of space saving design from the thoughtful Thout. The ‘Hallway Utilitile’ is so simple, stylish and something I wished I’d thought of
Utilitile
A fascinating article from the excellent PingMag on how the Japanese decorate their rolls of tape with dynamics graphics and illustrations.
Tale of the Tape
This ‘toy’ kind of creeps me out. It’s a fluffy toy heart....that beats like a real heart.
My Beating Heart
Designed by Langton Stead, the s(tool) is a bent wood seat back with two garden forks attached to the bottom, when inserted into your lawn you can sit back and relax.
S(tool)
19th Feb ‘08
This Utilitile from Thout Design is the weirdest way to store cutlery I’ve ever seen. Despite looking like a circus knife throwers practice board, I actually quite like it.
Forked Up
Cool idea that is fascinating to watch. It’s ironic that a futuristic and modern concept, is demonstrated in a very dated 80’s style video.
Disappearing Car Door
Art Streiber, Norman Jean Roy, Julian Broad and Mark Seliger have recreated the world of Hitchcock for Vanity Fair. Every photograph represents one of the Hitchcock movie posters, with today's stars.
Hitchcock Spreads
This cool and eco-friendly wooden radio by Singgih Kartono features ‘MP3 ready technology’ and an FM Radio and is now available from Areaware for $275. For more info and pictures have a read at this article from Treehugger.com.
Wooden Radio
Fontifier lets you turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font that you can use on your Mac or PC.
Fontifier
A great interview with New York artist/designer Maya Hayuk over at the excellent Fecal Face. have a read and then stop by her excellent website for more of her stunning work.
Maya Hayuk
18th Feb ‘08
