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Eco Pots
While at a friend’s house the other day I admired her beautiful flower pots: they are called Eco Pots and are made from renewable and sustainable plant by-products.
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Boom Goes the Cloud
In Beta and Alpha versions last year, CX (formerly Cloud Experience), a "cloud storage and data file management system," launched this month. Aiming to compete against Dropbox, CX allows users to sync...
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Overlook
A wonderful photo of Stanley Kubrick standing on the set of the hedge maze during production of The Shining. From The Overlook Hotel, a collection of Shining ephemera, including this British tv spot....
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Design for Speed
The homepage of Some Random Dude as of today is 39.6Kb spread across 5 requests (13.1Kb and 2 of those requests are Google Analytics). Over 30% of pages sampled load in 1 second or less. 74.5% of pages...
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Mistick Krewe of Comus
BibliOdyssey on the Mistick Krewe of Comus 1873 'Missing Links' Parade Costume Designs and 1910 Float Designs. Laissez le bon temps rouler.
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Come Running
Found while looking for something else. Van "Come Running," Randall's Island NY, July 1970.
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♥ / Design Public
A big thank you to Design Public for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed! Design Public was started with the belief that everybody should have access to great modern design, no matter where they live, who...
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rebranding teachers
The design team at Hyperakt rebrands the teaching profession. Free, downloadable images are here.
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Terra
"The glass icosahedron is framed in Hard Maple and spins on top of a matching tripod base allowing the viewer to experience the plants from 360 degrees." Via Design*Sponge.
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Pen Tracking
A fun look at illustration from a different perspective as a pen is motion tracked. Reminds me a lot of Keith Schofield's great music vid for Supergrass' Bad Blood.
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Color Blind Tea Mug
This Color Blind Tea Mug made me look. (I hope I am not hurting any color-blind-person’s feelings by posting this. I simply find it a charming design.)
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Henri's Walk to Paris
In 1962, Saul Bass collaborated with former librarian Leonore Klein on his only children's book, which spent decades as a prized out-of-print collector's item. This month, exactly half a century later,...
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Sparkle and Spin
Speaking of great designers' children's books, any budding infant designer will love Sparkle and Spin by Ann (not Ayn!) and Paul Rand.
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Sci-Fi Convention, 1980
A collection of photos from a sci-fi convention held in Los Angeles in 1980.
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That Time We Beat the Americans
Writer Stephen Marche takes a look back at Canadian history and the War of 1812: "That Time We Beat the Americans." Also an interesting read: the Globe and Mail's "The War of 1812: Stupid, But Important."
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NOLA live web cam
In case you're stuck at your desk, here's a live webcam of the New Orleans Mardi Gras parades.
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Stop Motion Assembly 3D of a Lego Millennium Falcon
Stop motion assembly 3D of a Lego Millennium Falcon.
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