For those of you that feel creatively-limited by someecards, try Pigspigot, a new user-generated greeting card site. Users can upload their own personal graphics as well as include their own greeting message making for a completely customized product. These cards can then be sent digitally for free, or printed and snail-mailed for $3.99. All card [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘design’
August 27, 2009
Stupid Shit – IV
Alain Berteau Designworks is a Brussels-based architecture practice that has evolved into an award-winning product and interior design agency. One of her designs, called Pick Up Wood, is for clothing hangers… well, sorta.
Sold by sets of 8, these “hangers” are literally just hooks… requiring buyers to then go outdoors and find branches into which [...]
August 17, 2009
Art Imitates… Art
This is one of Brandon Jan Blommaert’s junk sculptures. I love the idea of re-using junk but I think what I like the most is the close resemblance to the monster in Where the Wild Things Are… which, by the way, should be an awesome movie!
August 13, 2009
Flip It Good
Mister Kama used a series of drawings on label stickers and an elevator handrail as his flipbook canvas in Milan. Check it out…
For another interesting flipbook idea, check out Erbert and Gerbert’s Human Flipbook.
August 11, 2009
Bottle Service
Johnnie Walker launched a new $3,000 blend available only in the Singapore airport… random, right?!? It’s a blend from casks from nine distilleries, including some from the company’s hoarded stocks from long-closed distilleries including malt whiskey from Glen Albyn and grain whiskey from Cambus (both closed in 1983). The whiskeys have been blended and given [...]
July 21, 2009
Dumpster Diving
The creative developers behind Macro | Sea are breathing new life into Brooklyn’s urban landscape by transforming retired dumpsters into public swimming pools! Construction Chic! And what’s even cooler? … the company’s mission statement: Macro | Sea is a company created to do projects that we find interesting.
October 22, 2008
Flickd – Design
I’ve been obsessing about design lately.
I used to believe life was all about timing but I have changed my mind. Now I firmly believe life is all about design. Some things work by design while other things don’t… by design.
On a simple scale, this bridge is illustrative of that very idea.
(I have no idea where this bridge is… sorry)
October 14, 2008
Owww… that REALLY hurt!
Doesn’t Banksy’s latest NYC piece remind you of the YouTube darling, Charlie Bit My Finger?
October 13, 2008
T.S.A. Communication
The perfect gift for a world traveler (or anybody who wants to go to jail) - Evan Roth’s T.S.A. Communication…
From the Web site:
T.S.A. Communicationis a project that alters the airport security experience and allows the government to learn more about you then just what’s in your backpack. Thin 8.5 x 11 inch laser-cut sheets of stainless steel comfortably [...]
