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The RE-PLY Chair is made with recycled cardboard using only two bolts on a minimal metallic frame. Currently on Kickstarter.
10.25.2012
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by armin
Wow. A pop-up Starbucks in Japan designed like a library, devoted to learning about espresso drinks. By Tokyo-based Nendo.
10.25.2012
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Tim Lampe is designing posters for his favorite tweets from @Horse_ebooks, a “spam Twitter account that,” the New York Times explains “spits out random, jumbled-together fragments of sentences from books about horses and other things in an attempt to get people to buy electronic books, is something else entirely.” Many more weird tweets awesomely illustrated at the link.
10.25.2012
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Have a hard time knowing which character’s which and who loves who in A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Portland Center Stage made a map to keep ‘em all straight.
10.25.2012
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by joe marianek
Type guru Jesse Ragan has launched a prolific new blog, We Will Be Close, featuring humorous found photos of “words communicating more than they mean to.”
10.24.2012
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by armin
Better described officially: “The Sony Music Timeline celebrates 125 years of musical history covering almost 150 square meters of wall space in Sony’s Derry Street headquarters. Using just CNC cut vinyl as the sole medium, 54 columns measuring over 2 meters tall cover feature nearly 1000 of Sony Music’s signed artists from 1887 to the present day.” By Alex Fowkes.
10.24.2012
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by armin
A sobering look at the realities of checking baggage with low-cost airlines. Bastards.
10.24.2012
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