Alexa Meade’s real life paintings are so surreal and out of this world. She paints people and puts them in painted backgrounds. You would swear that it is not a real person. You can actually be part of a painting. Alexa Meade has innovated a Trompe-L’Oeil painting technique that can perceptually compress three-dimensional space into […]
Wedding rings to some people is the end all of self adornment of greed. For some the size of a ring is the ultimate affection of true love or just a payment away from getting a bad credit rating. The train of thought for many is different . Some like big rocks. Other like Lego. […]
Don’t you hate it when people take their dogs for walks on rainy days. Poor dogs get drenched in the rain. Fret not my friend, I got your dog covered. Introducing the dogbrella. Sheltered from the rain and your dog is ready to walk to his heart’s desire. All we need are rain booties and […]
Now you can make your own meat head for this Halloween. No, not this kind of meat head. If you are craving this type of cranium then you can make your own courtesy Make. via-makeprojects
Positive Posters is about rewarding positive thinking. The new annual contest was created by Melbourne-based artist Nick Hallam. Positive Posters will reward the winning poster that exemplifies positiveness from top posters from 30 finalists with the winner’s poster reproduced with 4,000 posters printed and will grace many walls in Melbourne.
I am enamored by the new Tang packaging. Enough with that dull old green and orange. The space drink now is a bit more tangy. “Revival of a dying brand is a favorite challenge of the design and research studio Streng. The Streng UXD team kicked off this project with a large scale participatory study. […]
The iArm is a testament to the iGeneration. Apple is the gadget crack to the masses that has a hold on the world. Everybody wants an iSomething or another. Put a lowercase i in front of any item and perhaps you can piggyback on some Apple cash. The iArm is a prank product from the […]
True Grit is one of those movies that should not be remade. John Wayne’s zombie body would come out and eat the comatose brain that came up with this idea and spit out like cheap tobacco. Pitooie! One thing about this movie, Jeff Bridges is a dead ringer for Kris Kristofferson. Maybe Kris had the […]
The wedding industry is on the down. The recession is hitting marriage pretty hard. Less people are getting hitched. On the upswing, divorce is down. Separation is a bad economic decision for some. The new figures show, among other things, that marriages fell to a record low level in 2009, with just 52 percent of […]
When we get our credit card bills there is only one color we see. Red. Well now Pantone and Visa want you to see the world in a whole new way. A more colorful one. The two companies are unleashing a new line of four official Pantone colored cards. I would love to see a […]
Are you addicted to Facebook? Here are some signs that maybe there is something missing in your life. Has Facebook become a substitution for something missing in your life? You wake up and the first thing you do is “check Facebook”. And it’s the last thing you do at night. Nothing else thrills you or […]
The lonely shopping cart is sprawled in many shopping areas all over the world, without them life would be a bit hard transporting many things. Taizo Yamamoto has a love affair with shopping carts, he draws them with graphite and pencil. Some artists love drawing nudes or fruits, Taizo Yamamoto loves drawing shopping carts. To […]