October 2011
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eBay Inspiration Shop On Park Avenue, NYC
eBay teamed up with designer Jonathan Adler to launch a ‘shoppable storefront’ on 404 Park Avenue South in New York City. The storefront features various products chosen by top trendsetters who were asked to compile their fall shopping wishlists. Items are accompanied with QR codes, which shoppers scan using the eBay app. Scanning a code brings the user to a buy page in the app–hence the...
Oct 26th
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Heinz Sends Personalised Get Well Soup To Your...
Instead of sending your friends a Get Well Soon card, you can now send them a can of Heinz soup with a personalized label. The promotion is only available for Heinz Soup UK’s Facebook fans. Each personalised soup come in two flavours, either Heinz Cream of Chicken or Heinz Cream of Tomato. For £1.99, Facebook fans can send a Get Well soup to their friends featuring the friend’s name on the...
Oct 25th
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Moleskine Competition
In collaboration with Moleskine, designboom has organized a competition to select the new logo for official blog Moleskinerie. The piece of artwork needs to be easily recognisable and reproducible, and it can either be text-based only or have a graphic symbol too. Entrants need to upload their design with a brief description to the website before the deadline on November 10th. A shortlist...
Oct 25th
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Incredible Paintings by Jeremy Geddes
Here.
Oct 21st
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Beautiful Bike by Core77
Just to show that there are no limits in the current world of branding, Core 77, one of the kings of the design blog scene is launching its own bike. Instead of doing the obvious and launching a publishing arm and producing books, Core 77 used its connections and understanding of the zeitgeist to produce a beautiful hand-crafted bicycle.
Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Oct 19th
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Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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New York Gardens
  The road to creating one of New York’s most beloved parks was not unlike the unruly terrain that Friends of the High Line co-founders Joshua David and Robert Hammond were determined to transform. Stretching from the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street, the mile-and-a-half-long elevated park represents the extraordinary rescue of an abandoned, overgrown eyesore by two inexperienced...
Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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iPhone Barnacle
Not just another smartphone accessory, the Barnacle defies gravity to make devices all the more handy. The holder uses simple suction to affix phones to nearly any smooth surface—from desks and windows to walls and windshields. With a symmetrical design, each side of the Barnacle can be used interchangeably, making the intuitive tool even easier to use.
Oct 18th
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Face Off
REAL-f, a start-up company in Japan, is making face masks that are very realistic replicas. These 3 dimension photo forms (3DPFs) are 3D copies of human faces, created by taking photographs of a person’s face from lots of different angles and then imprinting the final image onto vinyl chloride resin stretched over a mold. Their unique production technology means that even minute details like...
Oct 17th
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Timescope
The ‘timescope’ was co-developed by ART+COM as a way for visitors and residents of Berlin to discover its history and see where the wall used to be located. People can use the telescopic device to pan around and choose a date, and historical photographs and films from that location can be superimposed over the present-day view. The timescope uses a combination of binocular optics and web cam...
Oct 17th
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Oct 17th
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Oct 17th
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The Life and Times of Steve Jobs [INFOGRAPHIC] →
Steve Jobs packed a lot of living into his 56 years. If his career had ended 30 years ago, he still would have made history for helping popularize the personal computer. But he did so much more than that. As we all know, Jobs defied F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous quote, “There are no second acts…
Oct 14th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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Louis Vuitton City Guide
In Louis Vuitton City Guide 2012, the French fashion house takes you on a journey to Rome, London and Hong Kong. Each travel guide has been carefully curated and focus on a particular theme of a city. Each guide comes in its own individual case and reflects Louis Vuitton’s distinct style of being timeless, fashion-forward and trendy.
Oct 12th
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Seamless Sneaks
Global sports brand Nike is revamping its original design of iconic sneakers using an innovative method known as thermo molding. It allows the shoes to be created using a vacuum compression that holds everything together without the need for noticeable seams or stitching. As part of its Holiday 2011 collection, Nike has released three models with Vac Tech uppers in various colorways. It adds a...
Oct 12th
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Sabres and Subways
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Japan recently installed life-sized lightsabers in place of hand rails in Tokyo’s trains as part of its promotion for the new ‘Star Wars – The Complete Saga’ Blu-ray DVD boxset release. The lightsabers have built-in LED lights which can be turned on at the press of a button. The campaign has received positive reviews thus far, as it is the first time that this...
Oct 12th
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The Chromezone
The world’s first Google store, ‘The Chromezone,’ is now open inside a branch of PC World on Tottenham Court Road. The temporary 285 square-foot store will be there until Christmas, selling Google’s Chromebook laptop and a range of accessories. Worth a look.
Oct 11th
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Limited Edition Diet Coke Can.
Nice. What is even better is the bottle….see below:
Oct 11th
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WatchWatch
Brixton has extended its own local currency the Brixton Pound (B£), to also include the world’s first local e-currency (B£e). The B£ e-currency will allow users to pay electronically just by texting when they check out from locally-owned businesses.
Oct 10th
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Beer and Shoes
Two things I love.  Artist Mark O’Brien has found a new way to recycle the corrugated cardboard that’s often used to package beer— by turning them into stylish and innovative shoes.
Oct 10th
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Oct 10th
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Oct 10th
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Oct 10th
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Oct 10th
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Microsoft should probably enter for The Turner Prize.
Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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Philips Carousel Watching tha matrix for the first time good. Incredible.
Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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Autoplay Wordpress Theme
Blog fullscreen and create your own video channel on the internet. The Autoplay Theme is a full-frame YouTube player for WordPress. Based on his marvellous What Movie Should I Watch Tonight site, a full-screen movie trailer website. Also, check out the prints, they are ace of spades.
Oct 7th
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