Simon Dale and his family wanted to build a organic house. The result is a beautiful house straight out of Lord of the Ring.
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Valle House by Guilherme Machado Vaz. The house buries into the slopes to vanish into the context. Has a great pool.
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FEATUREDGift Guide Day 6 ~ for this sunday guide, here's my wishlist of random items that didn't fit in the other guides! NOTWishlist!
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Ukrainian chain of restaurants in soviet style interior design, with home atmosphere under soviet skin.
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Gum Ease ~ a new alternative to oral pain relieve without drugs ~ basically its like a flexible ice pack to go on your gums and numb them...
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Austrian ceramicist Renate Hattinger unveiled her series of porcelain hearts and brains at Blikfang 2007 in Zurich last month. In Biscuit or Gold, you can order them at www. Pureaustriandesign.com. But look at her other work as well.
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Air-sickness bags were the inspiration for a series of vases and dishes designed by Hedwig Rotter and produced by mano designs of Vienna. They have air india and air thai as well.
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Is your name Althea, Quincy, Ysabel or Zeynep? Letcetera patterns are available in any letter customizing any occasion to anyone.
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FEATUREDGift Guide Day 7 ~ SNOW DAY! For all of you lucky enough to have some snow to play in, here are some toys and gadgets to help make the most of it.
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What is the value of energy? A mindful play of extensions in objects and their use.
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‘M_US__EUM‘ : neon, 2007 by TJ Norris and Scott Wayne Indiana, 40″ x 10″ - edition of 3 with 2APs
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Bowers & Wilkins takes car audio to the next level with their spiral diffuser.
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Beautiful typography for Doz Gallery's Art Noel show
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Lightworks : An exhibition by Marcus Tremonto at Phillips de Pury & Company | New York
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FEATUREDPolitical Finger puppets ~ the perfect gift set for the politics obsessed to act out their issues
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There's something fascinating about a calendar that covers 300 years... and love that its a giant wheel to spin... 300 year astro calendar by piet hein.
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Web agency AKQA has created a live Xmas card for 2007 featuring a large neon sign powered by 2 festive hamsters.
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Little TV that rest in your hand! While exploring the post #7697, those little creature-like, organic toys caught me. The best part is they have a mother.
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FEATUREDVox AmPlug + OhMiBod = Vibrator(s) controlled by Guitar. (Could also work wonders for the girlfs of gamer boys)
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Kanye West bought himself a really dope fixed gear bike from Trackstar, a track bike only boutique in NYC.
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Hallmark and (PRODUCT)RED competition to design a card with the theme CONNECTING(RED). Winner will be decided from ten finalists through online voting ending January 11th.
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FEATUREDGift Guide Day 8 ~ Indulge Your Vices ~ Whatever they may be... we pass no judgments, but i'm focusing this one on drinking, smoking, sexing, etc...
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Gerhard Richter's computer-generated pixel pattern fills this stained glass window at Cologne Cathedral. Better photos at Flickr - http://flickr.com/search/?q=richter%20cathedral
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These vegetable-tanned card cases are great from Billykirk.
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Keep your dirty laundry/boots/shoes/wet suit away from the rest of your clean clothes with these Flight 001 Go Clean bags.
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A wild west showdown around your waist? Jon Wye - Showdown Belt (buckle not included ~ so you can really make it uniquely *yours*)
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FEATUREDRotor in Brussels did this great kitchen using industrial leftovers from a company specialized in die-cutting cardboard for the packaging of luxury-goods!
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VIDEOOk. XKCD lovers, i just watched this hour long ramble between Randall Munroe and the googlers... and it was pretty sweet (in that leave on in the background kind of way) ~ he even draws at the end...
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Print them out, fill one out with your clothing sizes and give it to your partner. Get your partner to fill out the other and give it back. Then head out shopping!
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The building in post #7692 looks similar to the Metal Shutter Houses in NYC, which recently opened for sale. The website is equally stunning.
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The Sony PCM-D1 is the most beautiful field record I've ever seen. I makes me want to become a sound engineer and go record pretty sounds.
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Karl Lagerfeld has teamed up with French baker's Lenotre to release a holiday log cake.
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The new KITT is a Ford Mustang. NBC sets the date for Knight Rider premier and yes, David Hasselhoff will make a cameo.
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FEATUREDI got hands on with the Oakley Minute Machine Titanium Edition ~ and the carbon fiber self lubricating rings are really fun!
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Robotic water striders! Awesome video too... The CMU Water Strider by NanoRobotics Laboratory
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This new building in Vancouver, Canada has garage doors for windows.
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Polaroid Composite work from Patrick Winfield. Each piece tells a story, maybe even a few.
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LERY: pop-up gallery/retail collaboration by odg/boosted in nyc, featuring the work of madsteez, mint & serf and mainframe. it's open until the end of the month!
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KRINK has got some new colors to help aid in colorfully beautiful destruction!
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Architecture on postage stamps, from different countries and ages.
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Vincent Dixon is one of the best photographers in the advertising show. Check out this awesome ad made by TBWA\Paris.
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On brilliant/insane new marketing ideas ~ Brazilian ice-cream company Kibon is including their prizes INSIDE... ipod shuffles are being frozen into popsicles...
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FEATUREDDigital truly meets analog in these reused record and cassette tape ipod classic and nano cases ~ and naturally no two are alike. 45 iPod Cases
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FEATUREDGift Guide Day 9 ~ Reusable Shopping bags, after having researched SO many, here are our favorites and unexpected pics, as well as some woody accessories to go with!
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Beautiful film with splendid animations. French with english subtitles, but worth it.
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FEATURED24th Cartier Polo World Cup on Snow will take place from 24 to 27 January 2008 up in St Moritz!
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FEATUREDIndigo Snow has a line of snowboards, skis, helmets, goggles and more with a fusion of 3d snakeskin prints, leather, and wood.
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The At This Rate booklet and poster were produced to raise awareness of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest for the US-based charity Rain forest Action Network.
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Jason Salavon, "This project, a large light box, contains all 374 pages of the 2007 IKEA catalogue, each simplified to a rectangle of pure color and arranged left-to-right , top-to-bottom."
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FEATUREDArbor skateboards are quite the work of art ~ and tempting me to buy one even if i can't quite skate well!
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a new take on... finger painting. absolutely beautiful.
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Vujj is a small furniture manufacturer from Malmö, Sweden. If you ask me, their furniture is innovative and timeless.
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Thousands of children can't be reached. Help us receive more calls. BRIS Sweden.
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Lavazza's 2008 calendar is here. Amazing photos by Finlay Mackay and a fabulous flash site with stories, games, behind the scenes and more.
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Custom KR Dunny from mheisler. This one is called SLODUNNY HYDRO.
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Adobe has redesigned their website. Finally doesn't look like another corporate software site (well mostly).
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“Chewie” incorporates his own cartoon characters into surfaces and textures of the environment for "the skelewags"
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Studio Job's newest work was unveiled at Design Miami. This table is a patinated bronze “factory”, whose four chimneys produce a “polluted cloud” of polished bronze, which becomes the open-work tabletop.
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Museum of Lost Interactions 2: Forgotten Chairs opened on the 12th of December 2007. The exhibition featured 10 chairs restored by 3rd year Interactive Media Design students from the University of Dundee. Visit the online version.
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Herringbone Houses, by Allison Brooks Architects. Two houses in South London, that get their name after their cladding.
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Mixing ancient and modern: Laurent Savioz' 'Conversion of a Dwelling' for an artist in Chamoson, Switzerland. Gorgeous.
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Fingertips is a typographic study by Jonathan Looman
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Giant knitting needles are used to hand made these giant Flocks Poufs.
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Awesome traditional looking chair that transforms into a step ladder
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Curiosity Inc conceived the C-1 house, located in Tokyo, as a design product in which architecture, furnishings and equipment blend into a single program.
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Amazing photography and retouching. Made by Grey Paris.
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Faces on the Moon stress balls by Makiko Yoshida now in grey!
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Velour PJs for those who need a little more help deluding themselves that their little one is an angel. by Marie Chantal
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Great, playful, logo and mascot for Poky by Tak! More companies should use clay figures as mascots...
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Gif Animation flickr set . Animated Gifs. The new digital craft work. [Editor's note: how old school!]
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Litroenergy - The new light that can glow for 12 years with no additional energy needed, non toxic, and extremely durable.
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The guys over at Royale created this imaginative short for Flaunt magazine's 9th anniversary. They used subject matter from Diesel's campaign (Sponsor) and mixed them with the pages of Flaunt. Very Cool.
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FEATUREDGift Guide Day 10 ~ Culinary Gadgetry perfect for every kitchen no matter how much or little you cook, a contest to win a digicam if you're a tastespotter, AND crazy new all 20 guides so far view!
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#7653
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Yes, it's real. Stylish wigs, kitty-sized, to give you more reasons to take photos of your beloved.
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Fantastic new prints by Douglas Wilson (the keep calm carry on guy). Hand letterpressed onto select pieces from his collection of antique maps.
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"Capsule People" are images of people and technology today. A touch of manga, Beardsley and Secession in those limited edition prints from Zuzamade.
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Puma released in their two Black Stores (NYC and Tokyo) a new range of urban bikes. Each bike has matching sneakers, clothing and accessories such as bags. Love it!
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Fulltank from Santa Monica added some new projects including a brand new reel!
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FEATUREDFelt egg cozies and keyrings from Parkhaus Berlin!
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#7647
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Internet on airplanes is a life changer... engadget tries out jetblue's wifi equipped airbus
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#7646
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NYTimes has a cute article on the efficiency of UPS' right hand turn only rule...
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#7645
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PMC3 consists of fine silver particles suspended in an organic clay. When PMC3 was fired in oven, the clay burns out and leave a 99.99% fine silver piece.
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Interesting bluetooth vibrating bracelet. 100 hours on a 3 hour charge. Not so pretty, but best they can do with all those electronics perhaps?
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FEATUREDGift Guide Day 11 is all about Child's Play ~ some simple toys from robotic dinos and wifi bunnies to finger crayons and pirate sailboats.
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FEATUREDNOTCOT Stickers! Limited Edition Series 1 ~ full sheet of 33 matte black vinyl stickers hand printed + weeded + sent out by me!
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This is the ultra stylish, ultra green Sunset Idea House for 2007 in San Francisco. Pictures all in one place.
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FEATUREDGood Granny, Bad Granny ~ hilarious new kids book, and bad granny is definitely our kind of lady, she even takes then to neiman marcus to buy fingerless gloves.
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The Eiffel Tower on your desk, only for Paris lovers !
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#7636
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Coffee candle made from coffee cup for using in cafe.
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FEATUREDLocal Celebrity takes their classic "Respect Your Mother" to a great canvas tote!
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Impressive roundup of disney/pixar easter eggs throughout their films... all starting from this one about where Wall-E is in Ratatouille
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#7633
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I need an Ortery Photosimile... digitally controlled shadowfree desktop photostudio
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#7632
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This Key-Ring is part of chloë coulson's Wellbeings catalog of products
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FEATUREDGift Guide Day 12 ~ NOTCOT Contributor Anna of Sub-Studio shares some of her picks for this season's gifting... all framed in her illustrations... LOVE the robot!
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FEATUREDJewelgraphy cards by innovative design firm D-BROS, plus lots of other great products.
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#7628
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Nyko is launching wireless nunchucks! Finally your wiimote and nunchuck can be free... but how heavy will they each be?
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CONTURA platinum 10mm - a ring that is made from the profile of the carrier or the presenter. You submit a profile photo along with ring size to Fitzsu and we send the information to Germany to be custom made. WOW.
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An NYU photography student, Dan Sakamoto, has an eye for great pictures
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FEATUREDSagaform ~ here is a collage of far too many products i've completely fallen for ~ something for every aspect of your lifestyle to be just a little more clean, designy, + swedish...
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#7624
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New aibos? Pleo watch out? This is looking seriously space aged, and somehow that reflection has his feet looking like hooves.
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#7623
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Newspaper Brick maker ~ wet the newspapers, smoosh them in, press out water ~ perfect as fireplace "logs" or fort building?
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#7622
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On incredible things i could do with the vinyl cutter... this great roundup of map artwork on DesignBoom is giving me lots of ideas...
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#7621
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Latest glossy glowing hard drive design - LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton, with "Surprising blue LED for ambient underside glow" (As if we need one MORE thing in the room with lights)
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BeoSound 3 by Bang & Olufsen. It’s a portable radio, clock and digital music player that also integrates a single, full-range loudspeaker unit within its compact form. Powered by a rechargeable battery, there are no cables or plugs – just incredible sound.Pre-order now.
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The tiny, minimalist Williams Cabin by Stephen Atkinson is located in Durango, Colorado. What more do you need in a modern getaway cabin, seriously?!
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Flowerbox allows you to hang flowers on the wall.
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amazing campaign of Woofy by Gabriel Nigro for NORMANN Copenhagen
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#7615
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FEATUREDGift Guide Day 13 (i'm back on track!) ~ is hand picked by our Shade Elaine to find you what we're calling "Weird Science" ~ really its a continuation of Gorgeously Goth Day 16!
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FEATUREDGift Guide Day 14 (belated) ~ is all about Creature Comforts for those animal companions... dogs, cats, fish, birds....
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An international competition winning design by AKA architetti to be built in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy -- the 1,400 sf, low-energy home will have a glassy first floor and more private second.
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'you think, therefore I am', work by po-yun jack wang - incredible CCA thesis proj that won the 2007 adobe design achievement award... self portrait from afar, tiny people up close.
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Congrats to our friends at AudioCube on their retail store launch in NY! AC Gears ~ the boys of dvice have pictures of the launch
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#7610
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The Charming Man, Edward Janssen makes knuckle sandwiches - on necklaces
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#7609
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Joy riders can now collect their very own models courtesy of these pre-wrecked and burned out model vehicles, thus making them feel right at home.
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#7608
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Keep your hands free at parties by keeping your wine close at heart! This clever little clip with adjustable strap holds a regular-size stemmed glass to your chest, giving you the freedom to snack and socialize as you sip!
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FEATUREDThis 25th year ~ my perfect birthday present is my new Vinyl Cutter ~ and to test it out between ai files and doodles, we have even decorated the wiimotes! [this image is just the beginning]
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The Crucifixion according to Google Earth: photographic project featuring four Biblical scenes as viewed from on high
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#7602
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This beautiful imagery caught my eye on Church Street yesterday. I went to the Skaggs site listed on the window and found a post explaining the art!
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Hypnotic videos of undersea creatures. Website is lovely too. Navigation like looking at Final Cut Pro. Whale Footage!
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A new external hard disk drive with Ethernet to use it on your local network. What a beautiful present for X-Mac! Western Digital World Book. [too bad its crippled by DRM, preventing the sharing of divx, mp3, etc...]
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#7599
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M card is Business card with added advantage of the memory storage.
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Pixel bodrum* by okyzan.
*Bodrum is a beautiful holiday place known with its "small and white" houses in Turkei.
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Geoff McFetridge's Monster Dice, a block of European Oak featuring a laser engraved story about a boy who draws monsters who start drawing more monsters. Really awesome.
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FEATUREDGift Guide Day 15 - some designer lifesavers for all those weekend warriors... and the hardcore outdoors folks. Why, yes, that IS a magic swedish fire starter.
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you won't be able to sit on it, but you can still surround yourself with fabulous iconic modern furniture everyday with these fun prints from missouri artist matt mills!
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The new $40,000 gold and glass FORCE center speaker from Perfect8.
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TNT "tea discs" come in these awesome little dynamite style sticks. You might not want to take them in carry-on luggage! I found them at Cafe Grumpy in NYC.
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Fabulous sculptures of light and wood from a Venezuelan artist, who bring to life dead trees, thorns and dry barks. Go smoothly with your mouse through the website homepage and download the PDF for more photos.
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Who knew that great tasting chocolate could come from Scotland? It doesn't hurt that Kchocolât makes their chocolate look great either...
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For all those familiar with Magnum Photo's, this book titled 'Magnum Magnum' is a celebration of 60 years of photography and photojournalism, since it's formation in 1947.
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Very cute and very dark: Kangaroo Alliance's music video for the band Of Montreal. Good song, too.
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FEATUREDFinally ~ unboxing of Pleo ~ my latest house guest for the next few weeks... now you can see the packaging the ended up with, his encounter with the roboraptor, and more to come for sure...
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The Floating Boathouse and the Sleeping Cottage, both designed by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of MOS, are located on an island in Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada.
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FEATUREDGift Guide Day 16 is for your Dark Side ~ or for the rather darker leaning friends of yours... Shade Elaine put together this Gorgeously Goth (but not exclusive to goths what-so-ever) Guide.
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#7584
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Bug + Paint = Bug Art. Steven Kucher dips each leg of his miniature artists in watercolors, and let's them scurry allover the paper to create these abstract paintings.
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Memo Cups, availabled in lined, gridded and dotted patterns from Fishseddy. Sadly no Doane paper option
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