April 25th ‘08
April 28th ‘08
Napping boosts productivity, creativity and concentration, it’s scientifically proven. Unless that is, you continuously take naps at work, effectively stopping you from doing anything productive or creative. But of you have to nap, the NutShell is the place to do it.
Napshell
Nike Skateboarding collides with 1986 cult favorite Ferris Bueller’s day off to create this amazing limited edition Dunk.
Nike Bueller’s
Bad design, shitty actors, wacky typefaces, everything is so bad in it that it just makes you feel good. Check out some great finds over at Designer Daily.
More Crap Ads
Cool felt weaponry. Despite being essentially pointless for defending yourself with, they are definitely worth fighting for. Check out more ‘weapons’ at MP Industries.
Felt Weapons
This work entitled Flowing Pixels, was taken in New York in East Village, between the 9th Street and the 2nd and 3rd Avenues. It’s like Mario land coming to life.
Pixel Art
The amazing and very memorable portfolio of French Artist Christopher Huet. Wow.
Christopher Huet
April 29th ‘08
A very innovative motion engineer / artist who creates the most amazing kinetic sculptures. Download or watch a fascinating TED Talk, watch a new BMW ad here and visit the brilliantly named Strendbeest.com here.
Theo Jansen
All Mario fans the world over will appreciate such a simple yet interesting way to see Marioland, I just wish there were more pictures like this out there, but at the moment this is the only one.
Real Life Mario
More NES inspired stuff here with this new Beck 8 Bit Single. Designed like an old NES cartridge by Design Had No Name, it’s excellent stuff and a real nostalgia trip. There’s a load of great photos over at The Dieline.
Beck 8 Bit
It looks like a crossbred sidecar on steroids and although I’m not sure I’d be brave enough to ride it, I bet it’d be helluva fun.
The Uno
The Japanese lunar explorer KAGUYA is currently flying in a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km and filmed this amazing ‘EarthRise’. Watch the video here.
Earth Rise from Moon
Designed by John Pszeniczny and inspired by the F1 race car world and constructed of carbon fiber, Swarovski crystal, rubber and metal, this timepiece has 18 identical rubies and tells the time in everyone of the 18 cities on the 2008 F1 circuit.
F1 Carbon Watch
Inspired by Swarovski’s expertise in crystal and Signity’s brilliance in gems, the Luna Watch is made of crystal, stainless steel and a Spessartite Garnet. To tell time just touch the two contact points and time seems to magically float inside the crystal. More here.
Luna Watch
It might have been around for a while, but it’s a cool new addition to my MacBook Pro. I do love the Mac screensavers, but this is a nice typographic change which is beautiful and practical at the same time.
Word Clock
An awesome psychedelic portfolio of stunning work by Gianluca Fallone. What a treat it was to look through this amazing portfolio, so big thanks to Sabor Argentino who brought him to my attention.
Gianluca Fallone
A refreshing change of direction for the new NIke Ad. Brilliantly shot and completely compelling. I wont spoil it for you, but you can watch it here. Anyone for a kickabout?
Nike Ad
Festo's AirJelly is powered by some magical jelly fish properties, a lithium-ion battery, an electric motor and a bit of helium. Sound’s ok, but wait until you see the video. Wow.
Air Jelly
A performative photographer, Lilly McElroy wanders into bars and asks strange men if she can jump on them. If they say yes, she takes running leaps at them while a friend snaps photographs.
Flying Woman
May 1st ‘08
Is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics. Watch a cool video of it in action here.
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Sweet new Nike’s from Karmaloop for $65. Great colour scheme and I’m loving the velcro strap, which looks like a headband.
Nike Vandal Low
A nifty free screengrab tool that is far superior that the standard ‘ctrl+shift+4’. The video on their site is far more informative than I am, but you can edit and rename screengrabs which is a great feature as my mac is full of ‘picture 1’ png’s.
Skitch
If they taste as good as they look, then I’m sold. The picture above was enough for me and it’s not even been baked yet!
Peanut Butter Cookies
The ultimate in Geek Chic. A built in Keyboard Crotch and Knee Speakers mean that the only place you’ll be seen in these trousers is your bedroom, where your computer is anyway.
Air Jelly
The Hijos de Villa Tequila Gun chooses to opt out the violence of bullets, and replace every “shot” with 200ml of tequila
Tequila Shot
May 5th ‘08
Here’s the largest table football game in the world. In fact, Table Football XXL is so huge, two entire football teams — 22 players — can play a match without ever setting foos on a real pitch.
22 Player Foosball
Tumi-Ishi
These stunning rugs by John Pour Home are made of felt and provide a much more stylish welcome than a dirty doormat. Trouble is, you’ll never allow people to wipe their feet on them, which is unfotunately the point of having a doormat in the first place.
Typographic Rugs
The SKYplay photo set on Flickr. So simple, yet so effective.
Sky Play Photos
Mr Arnold has built himself a beautiful website that showcases an exquisite portfolio of truly beautiful and very sophisticated design.
Dustin Arnold
A great range of cool tees for ladies from ‘Free Gold Watch’. There’s a great selection over at Karmaloop, with the Pink/Blue Tiger and Louboutin Tees standing out.
Free Gold Watch Tee
