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Latest short film by The People's Republic of Animation. Narrated by Nick Cave. Directed by Eddie White & Ari Gibson. Produced by Jessica Brentnall
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This Obscura CueLight pool table is found at Esquire's ultimate bachelor pad in NYC. It features sensors and a projector that projects an image only where the balls are on the table.
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Aufhanger is the re-design of an ordinary hanger sans hooks. It uses magnets within its body to latch onto the steel rod of the wardrobe. The body of the hanger could be of cast aluminum, but wood or plastic can also be used. Magnets like Neodymium N42 or N50 can also be used for their strength and stability. A hook-less hanger not only looks classy but is quite functional as well. BTW, the magnet part is nestled on the top rim.
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Dzmitry Samal designed a unique concept for beverage cans. The shape is much more geometric - featuring facets, instead of the familiar smooth round cylinder we're used to. The new can design utilizes a process called impact extrusion, a process where an aluminum slug (solid piece of metal) is pressed at a high velocity with extreme force into a die/mold by a punch.
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Thilo Fuente, a Swiss designer who recently graduated from ECAL in Lausanne, has tired of the endless, meaningless variations on the Swiss Army Knife. In response, he's teamed up with Wenger, maker of the original, to "strengthen the original design values by quoting the great classics and modernising some of the most characteristic details." But we think he goes further, questioning the archetype of the folding pocket knife—for some, maybe it is more handy to have the tools hanging loosely around one's neck, for others the knife is a luxury item, suited best for preparing absinthe.
All his variations are the real deal, made from anodized aluminum and original Wenger blade steel.
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The Whuffie Bank is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a new currency based on reputation that could be redeemed for real and virtual products and services. The higher your reputation, the wealthier you are.
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The annual Good Design Expo — billed as one of the biggest design events in Asia — showcases thousands of well-designed products under consideration for the year’s Good Design Awards. Over 2,000 items ranging consumer electronics, automobiles and furniture to office equipment, building designs and sporting goods were exhibited at this year’s event, which was held at Tokyo Big Sight this weekend (Aug 28-30). Here are just a few of the many eye-catching designs on display.One the most interesting items was this hourglass-shaped freshness label for meat products (designed by TO-GENKYO). The label contains special ink that changes color based on the amount of ammonia emitted by the meat (the older the meat, the more ammonia it releases).
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Now I want to send mail?
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In this picture my 21 month son Cy sits before something he calls a ‘telephone’. He wants to see and speak to his grandparents in England (via Skype). In the back of the room is a TV which he calls ‘music’ because I play early morning tunes to him via the Apple TV box that’s connected to the set.
The way he labels things differently makes me think that his perception of technology as he grows up will be radically different than mine. I see a laptop I can make calls with, or a TV I can play music through. He’ll see these things as something different and will probably wonder one day why we keep some items still around when others (or maybe just an other) can do it all for you.
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Considering fashion is all about change, the fashion-marketing model is really old fashioned. It took a recession for people to accept that the selling cycle doesn’t work, and although advertising isn’t as effective as it used to be, brands still invest heavily in formulaic print ads, along with the same old sponsorships, trunk shows, pop-up shops, collaborations and now blogs, videos and social networking.“
In fashion, we create mystique, and that’s the strategy. The mystique of creative collaborations, the mystique of pop-up shops, the mystique of photography – these are the tools to reframe the context of a fashion brand within culture. To make it more complex, fashion is a culture that thrives on itself, at its root, fashion is and always will be about itself. It creates to impress itself. In other product categories, strategy avoids mystique and relies on clarity.
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In 2001 New York-based artist Justin Gignac set out to prove the value of packaging design to a colleague. Roaming the streets, Gignac realised the most effective way to make his point was to sell a product no one in their right mind would want – garbage. To date, over 1,200 of his ‘Garbage of New York City’ cubes have sold to residents of more than 25 different countries worldwide. Alongside the original range of garbage cubes, Gignac offers ‘limited edition’ cubes from significant events such as ‘New Year’s Eve Times Square 1-1-08′ and ‘Last Game at Yankee Stadium 9-21-08′.
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Modern mobile food vendors are changing the ways that we discover food and simultaneously rendering the static dining experience offered by traditional establishments obsolete. Increasing numbers of enterprises are rethinking notions of connecting to customers and putting people into seats, by delivering their unique products and services directly to their audiences instead. Social networking technology assists in the success of these ventures, keeping food growers and producers in touch with consumers.
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New Balance Lifestyle has launched a campaign around a limited release of 480 of their 574 Clips running shoes in a direct attempt to solidify its standing with influential sneaker fans and bloggers. The handmade shoes are composed of leftover material clippings sourced from New Balance’s Lawrence, Massachusetts factory – the suede comes from their 993 series, and the mesh from the 996.
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In a move that aims to enhance the storytelling experience, HBO has unveiled a four-panel video installation called the HBO Cube. It’s a unique new effort that offers four different perspectives on the same scene simultaneously. In telling the same story from four distinct points of view, each side of the cube stands alone as an engaging film, and as a piece of a larger puzzle. As viewers move around the cube, they watch the story unfold from different perspectives, forming different perceptions of the characters and plot.
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THAT'S AWESOME!
and according to my next link, ppl seem to love it!
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I'm working with the concept of apprehension right now for my master thesis (that is, how bad you can feel because of a companion in a particular situation) and that kinda express this emotion well…
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Starbucks is under assault at both the high and low ends of the coffee market, putting the company into a very tricky spot. It must fend off maneuvers by mass-market powerhouses McDonald's and Dunkin Donuts, while fighting for credibility among the connoisseurs. On the high end where Starbucks originally made its name, superpremium coffee roasters like Chicago-based Intelligentsia and local, word-of-mouth cafés like Cafe Vivace in Seattle have grabbed the mantle of leadership. Meanwhile, on the lower end, the fast-food giants, which historically churned out coffee as though it were Coke, have decided to gussy up their image by creating lattes and the espressos. “These are two separate businesses,” says Richard Honack, a marketing professor at Kellogg School of Management. “They have different tactics to go after the two audiences.” Russell Winer, chair of the marketing department at New York University’s Stern School of Business, warns that the dual strategy “is not easy to pull off.”
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Banksy meets Thom Yorke
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