HEY, isn't this the SketchUp favorite?

Maybe my lack of enthusiam for the designer
has blinded me to see the real "genius" to this particular design...

'Ottawa Chair'
by: Karim Rashid

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let it sink in.

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Does the design not look like a
disproportioned and sllllightly rounder
version of...

Herman Miller, Nelson Coconut Chair (1955)

(aka// the first thing that pops up when you enter
'Chair' in the SketchUp Warehouse)

[more info @ HermanMiller]

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...hmm...

streetology.

Buying tees from a vending machine.
Convenient and actually kinda cool :)

Hanging from each "dispenser" is the sample item for inspection.

A total 0f 2550 items can be in inventory and on display at once.
Sure, there's not such thing as "Streetology"
but the patterns created by the various levels of inventory
can pretty much act as a bar graph (haven't made those in ages)
and display the trends of all those tee shirt advocates.

'Streetology' -- Sydney.
by: Facet Studio
Project Team: Olivia Shih, Yoshihito Kashiwagi
Area: 30m2

today...

:)

urban disintegration.

This is LITERALLY watching the city eat something up.

Red Peak Branding did a urban experiment.

Throwing a fully loaded bike into the urban streets of
New York City.

How long can this bike last in the wild?

Paul Rand.

"Without concept there is no core"

{Paul Rand}

Paul Rand, some know him as the father of Graphic Design.
To me, he's the first "designer" I've ever written a essay on& all I gotta say is.

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Thanks man.

- - -

'Paul Rand Retrospective'
Director: Mark Gardener

Producer: Cara McKenney

Designer/Animators: Jeremy Cox, Joey Salim & Liz Centolela

Animators: Andrew Chung, Sean Eno & Chase Massingil

Editor: Corey Weisz

Sound Design: Derek Lee

what happens to your digitized self when you die.

"The data of every status update, blog post, image, video and email is floating around the internet. Have you ever wondered what happens to all that data once we pass?"

bangarang.

discovered just this morning

& it is now going to be blasted on max

during my oh so fantastic drive

... to Dollarama.

'Bangarang'

by: Skrillex

to the general public:

I'm just as shocked as you are with my new found

love eargasm i-wake-up-and-dance-in-my-undies-sort-of-liking

interest.

in Dubstep.

But I can't tell you how badass I feel when I'm driving to this.

. . .

But on a more ME note:

(the beat. i do not have a general like for korean music

but dyaaaaaum, are their beats sweet)

'고백 (Go Back)'

by: Dynamic Duo (ft. 정인)

"dark vador with fries please"

Too bad it's only for sale in France.

Jomo, you should head down from Germany, just sayin'.

YUP.

It's not mouldy, it's just for the force.

'Dark Vador Burger'

@ Quick -- France.

family is forever.

Although it has already been a few days since

Chinese New Year the family dinner stil ain't stopping.

DISCLAIMER:
This ad may make you tear a little (or a lot),
it did for me... :'(

"Family is forever"

I LOVE YOU MOMMA & PAPA MOK!!!!

zoom booties.

& there was light!

...on the Forces.

For a good 5 seconds I legit thought

that the images were draw on with "paint"

(yup. Windows XP style)

Master of contemporary light: Marcus Tremonto

Using electroluminecent paper and custom graphics

TO MAKE SOME LIGHT STREAKS

'Nike' Zoom Force-1 Snow Boots

by: Marcus Tremonto

type binge #5: Words can fly a thousand miles

Inspired by origami paper cranes

comes this 3d Typographic poster.

I'm dying.

On a side note, is it creepy that I'm mentally

modelling this in SketchUp right now?

I don't think that's normal.

black crow.

room decor?

$14 a pop.

... my decor ideas are more expensive than drugs.

type binge #4: type and tear.

Who knew that vintage books could do so much more

than just smell fantasticularrrrr?!

(Don't lie, y'all are totally guilty of shoving your nose into

the spines of those old baby-sitters club novels)

Outdated dictionaries, encyclopedias & history text

... I think this is much better of an application than actually reading them... just sayin'

'Textonomy'

by: Brian Dettmer

type binge #3.

My name is Michelle Mok & I'm a typography addict.

& i also have a love hate relationship with cardboard.

by: Farah Tamachi

because true passion never dies.

'Getting Up: The Tempt One Story Trailer'

With the attack of ALS, graffiti artist
Tony "Tempt" Quan
was left paralyzed.

Through what is truly one of the world's most
REMARKABLE inventions, he gets to get once
again share his passion, his talent and his voice
with such a blessed crowd such as us.

CREDITS to Jon Chan for sharing avec moi :)

temper trap.

This makes me wanna jam in

wayfarers & royal blue heels

all in the midst of poppin' some bubble gum.

'Love Lost'

by: The Temper Trap

note: royal blue heels are probably provoked by the image.

the slicing of the tape measures.

I'm pretty convinced that even the most mundane things when

"ctrl + d"-ed

in real life can somehow to turn into fascinating installations.

'Tape Recorders' Installation@ Museum of Contemporary Art -- Sydney

by: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

the internet blackout-- learn & fight the SOPA/PIPA war.

Today, thousands of websites
-BLACKED OUT-
as a protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Piracy IP Act.

Among these include website giants & information pools such as:
*Google *Wikipedia *Craigslist *Wordpress

Seems irrelevant?
Watch & See how it can affect you


PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future

SUMMARY:
Government and corporations could block any site,
foreign or domestic for ONE infringing link.
Site like YOUTUBE. TWITTER & FACEBOOK
would have to censor their users or shut down
since they are now reliable for EVERYTHING users post.

Any ORDINARY user could got jail for FIVE YEARS
for positing copyrighted work... even COVERS of pop songs.

http://www.wordpress.org/
--scroll down to petition.

Follow @nytlive for live coverage on the issue

macro-plas-tas-tic.

It all began with a trip to a train model shop.

'Plastic Life' a book released by Vincent Bousserez
is a collection of ironic, cute, and smile worthy photographs
of mini train people (screw being tech term correct)
in a larger than life world.




This creeper cam aint' that good at being stealthy.

This may look creepy...
BUT I WANT A STUFFED ANIMAL THAT LARGE & IN CHARGE.

Is it totally innappropriate that I think this looks like
the little people are make lines of Coke?

...wait I think that's what he's implying.

ON A SIDE NOTE:
I'd like to let everyone know that the world
needs to be built more small people friendly.
I can't reach or see anything in this world built
for genetically modified GIANTS.

'The Plastic Life'
by: Vincent Bousserez

keep it pumpin'.

#productivityfeelsawesome

EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE.

First novel

(that wasn't a Sophie Kinsella or Baby Sitters Club)

I ever read cover to cover.

(don't judge me just cause that was me in Gr. 12)

But more importantly this was the first novel that

ever made sit in awe... and tears.

'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' Trailer

IN THEATRES JANUARY 20TH.

** please read the novel prior to watching the movie.

TRUST me on this one.

fotoshop.

"I was watching TV one sleepless night and stumbled upon an infomercial

for some beauty product. The commercial showed before and after

portraits, that to my eye, looked like the same photo just photoshopped.

I laughed to myself.

Then I made this video"

'Fotoshop by Adobe'

by: Jesse Rosten

[Shared to me by the greatest Marzy]

PS. these girls, even "Before" and "unFotoshopped"

are still kinda good looking.

--way to make me feel worse.

flipping large balls.

3D mapping for building facades are slowly getting

not as exciting as their debut.

BUT this one, is an INTERACTIVE pinball game.

I'd totally waste my quarters on this one.

@Lyon Festival of Lights 2011

by: Carol Martin + Thibaut Berbezier

site intervention.

Tree. Not-tree. Tree.

A 3D intervention made for a genius 2D outcome.

I'm in love.

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'Tree-Line'

by: Zander Olsen

taken

@ Hampshire.

taken @ Surry.

taken

@ Wales.

braille burgers.

This has to be one of the most

creative, loving, thoughtful & stupefyingly beautiful

things I've seen in a while.

THE WORD TO BE SPREAD :

To let all visually impaired people know that braille menus are offered @ all Wimpy Burger locations.

HOW THEY SPREAD THE WORD:

Sesame seeds on the burgers were placed to ACT like braille

so that they were able to experience their meal with more than

just their taste buds :).

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More acceptance.

More consideration.

More creativity.

Make it your challenge of the week!

MONDAY FUNDAY!

put it together.

For whatever reason, my life has recently been littered

by mad amounts of engagements and wedding bells.

(TOTALLY STOKED & HAPPY FOR Y'ALL BTW :D)

I'm taking it all as happy news/inspiration/splashes of hope for my

(maybe) future & not as the universe's horrid version of a rude tease.

'A Lego Stop-Motion Proposal'

-- story of Nealey & Walter

I don't know you folks, but I'm mad glad you shared it like this

three 13s.

DID YOU KNOW?

That today is the FIRST OF THREE.

Friday the 13ths this year?

WHY THIS DAY IS EVEN A SUPERSTITION:

• On Friday the 13th, 1979, a black cat crossed the path of Houston football player Tony Frisch and was accidentally kicked 67 yards for a world record.
--tough luck bud.

• On Friday the 13th in 1962 a Colorado couple, while watching Channel 13 in the honeymoon suite of a Las Vegas motel, were crushed to death by a falling mirror.
-- is this why we can't be breaking mirrors?

• On Friday the 13th in 1957 a duck hunter, wearing a rabbit's foot around his neck while hunting near 12-Gauge, Texas, was kicked to death by a giant 3-legged jack rabbit.
--that's just karma.

• On Friday the 13th in 1966 a Detroit sociologist, who had just demonstrated his lack of fear by walking under 13 ladders and throwing a black cat through a mirror, was run over by a limousine driven by blind soul singer.

--WHY WAS THAT GUY DRIVING TO BEGIN WITH,
that's just.... ya i guess bad luck.

- - -

Historically, Friday was supposed to be the
MOST UNLUCKY day of the week.
(Clearly, some people were NOT introduced to the 5 day work week)
For good chunk of time in Spanish history,
Tuesday the 13th was the day of bad luck.
So either bad luck just keeps streaming down the week
orrrr we're all just psycho.

- - -

Totally not supersticious.

So....

TGIF ERRBODY

new years resolutions.

The fact that a poster can be generated for NewYear Resolutions
means that we all actually have the same darn goals.

Yet ironically,
with EAT BETTER as the one of the obvious
priorities, the weight of the average American is still shoooting sky high.
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by: Teresa Wozniak