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...
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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...
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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...
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Incredible Paintings by Jeremy Geddes
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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…
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