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by armin
Uplifting in a design-career kind of way: James Edmondson’s passion for creating letterforms.
12.19.2011
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by james i bowie
Goodyear, Snickers, and Heinz are playfully leveraging the familiarity of their logos to change their brand images.
12.18.2011
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by niki blaker
My light-night run to Walmart for cold medicine resulted in the discovery of this game featured in the holiday gift aisle. I may have to go back and buy it. (Plus the commercials are amusing)
12.18.2011
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by diane zerr
Artist Herb Williams has created fire-like sculptures out of Crayola crayons. Five swirling flames are on display until the end of the year in Lubbock, Texas.
12.16.2011
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by josh berta
Crosby’s Fancy Molasses of Canada has discovered sex sells. Even old lady sex. Compellingly funny and repulsive in equal measure.
Click thru for Grandma Fancy’s cooking videos, too.
12.16.2011
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by josh berta
Law requires pig farmers in the EU to provide entertainment to their livestock as a way of keeping them in good emotional health. With that in mind, designers from Utrecht School of the Arts and Wageningen University in the Netherlands have developed a game humans and pigs can play together. Coming to an iPad near you.
12.16.2011
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by armin
This shoes for Portuguese futbol superstar Cristiano Ronaldo by Nike are designed to confuse opponents so that they can’t tell where his feet are moving to. Want ‘em? They’ll set you back a cool $400.
12.16.2011
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by diane zerr
The Weight of Walmart in an informative graphic, it’s very long so I only posted the very beginning of it.
There is also one for Amazon.
12.16.2011
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