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 […]
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 […]
IKEA is a no nonsense company, perfection and originality are the most important ingredients to success. They are releasing a recipe book of 30 recipes with practically no words. It’s photographed with ingredients sprawled out on a table. Not your usual type of recipe book, makes sense when you glance through it. See more recipes>> […]
50 years ago on September 1960, the word cyborg was coined by Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline and it changed the sci-fi landscape. Tim Maly of 50 Posts About Cyborgs celebrates the benchmark by posting 50 entries about cyborgs in the past 50 years. Steve Austin is outfitted with two new legs capable of propelling […]
http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=130079590&m=130086381=undefined&t=video The housing markets almost crippled a nation and perhaps the world. The ramifications still being felt even today. NPR’s Planet Money bought the toxic asset at $1000.00, the ilk of which diluted mortgages to stock holders and gave them promise of wealth. A pyramid scheme at best. They named their stock, “Toxie” and this […]
If you are to believe the unicorn song by Irish Rovers, the unicorn didn’t make it on the ark was due to the fact he was battling zombies. “Zombies vs. Unicorns” illustrated by Josh Cochran is a perfect addition to Halloween folklore. I see legs with this idea, the ever loving unicorn fighting zombies is […]
Japanese artist Shuichi Nakano’s world is an artistic metaphor of wild life mixed in city backdrops. In Japan everything is big, the animals are bigger than life in every aspect. A whole new realm jumps at us with originality. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something […]
As the world keeps spinning, there is never a shortage of love to spread. Love can come from the strangest places. Hamed Kohan from Iran and his wheel design is a friendly reminder that what makes the world go around is love. via-designboom Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or […]