Tag Archives: design

Cool table made from a reclaimed door

Posted on November 15, 2011 | Comments Off

Manoteca is a design studio located in Bologna (Italy) focusing on reclaimed furniture design. The first piece is called outdoor, it’s a table built starting from an old exterior door. It can be used as a table for 8 or it can be opened and used as desk/work station. See more of this type of stuff at at Manoteca’s site.

Manoteca Found Object Furniture (core77.com)
Cool Multifunctional Furniture Designs (dreamschooner.wordpress.com)
25 Rad Items Made from Reclaimed & Recycled Tires (webecoist.com)

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Posted in Art and Design, New Products & Gadgets, Random Stuff

Tagged art, design, door table, Furniture, Furniture design, Manoteca, reclaimed art

The Walking Dead Meets Mad Magazine

Posted on October 11, 2011 | Comments Off

The December issue of Mad Magazine features Alfred E. Neuman being attacked by zombies from The Walking Dead. (via /Film)

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Posted in Books Music Movies & Entertainment

Tagged Alfred E. Neuman, AMC, design, Film, Mad, Mad Magazine, Magazine art, Walking Dead, zombies

An open letter to small businesses trying to pick a typeface

Posted on September 30, 2011 | 2 comments

I hate the font Copperplate Gothic. I am not alone. Here are some examples of its overuse in society. CPG and Comic Sans need to ride off into the sunset.

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Posted in Marketing & Advertising, Random Stuff

Tagged advertising, comic sans, Copperplate Gothic, design, fonts, logos, Marketing, small business, typeface

Gimme, gimme, gimme. Please, please, please.

Posted on September 8, 2011 | Comments Off

The Samsung Galaxy Skin concept was on display at The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) recently. Right now, the phone is just an idea that they are working on that seems influenced by the art of Salvador Dali.

Features:
4-inch Super Flexible AMOLED screen, 800 x 480 resolution display, an 8MP camera with 720HD video capture, and a projector.

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Posted in New Products & Gadgets

Tagged cell phone concept, cell phone technology, CES, design, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy Skin

A cool idea for a direct mail envelope

Posted on August 17, 2011 | Comments Off

Who doesn’t love a clever advertising idea? Check out this window cleaner envelope by Henk Oortwijn.

(via Inspire Me Now)

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Posted in Marketing & Advertising

Tagged clever advertising, design, direct mail ideas, window cleaner ad

Minnesota team wins Red Bull’s Creation event

Posted on July 13, 2011 | Comments Off

Red Bull’s annual Creation event involved 16 teams from across the country who came together for three days of high stakes innovation with the city as their playground. A secret warehouse in Brooklyn full of tools, materials and hardware hackers were given the task of building a creation designed to move the weight of a person (100lbs) from point A to point B without using any fossil fuels. They had 3 days. The winning team is named 1.21 Jigawatts, and they are from Minneapolis.

They created a massive hamster wheel, wired into a mobile network, given its own phone number that could somehow receive up to 60,000 one-word text messages at a time. Once it received the text message, the hamster wheel would actually roll and perfectly print the word out along the ground. Grand prize – $5k. Pretty cool huh?

Thanks for the great pictures CoolThings.com and MaximumTech.

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Human Powered Text Message Printer Wins RedBull Challenge (textually.org)
Red Bull “Creation” Event: The Official Gear Diary Report (geardiary.com)
Red Bull Creation Spawns Wheelie Mobile, Spinning See-Saw, And Other Crazy Contraptions (techcrunch.com)

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Posted in Art and Design, Marketing & Advertising, Minnesota, New Products & Gadgets, Random Stuff

Tagged 1.21 Jigawatts, 2011 Red Bull creation event, Brooklyn, design, DIY, innovation, Minnesota news, Red Bull Creation event, Text messaging

10 cool new inventions I wish I had thought of

Posted on May 26, 2011 | Comments Off

(via Dump a Day)

Buy the water fountain faucet converter here.
Buy the strawberry slicer here.
Get the arm pillow here.

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Posted in New Products & Gadgets, Random Stuff

Tagged arm pillow, Better Sleep Pillow, cool gadgets, design, drinking fountain converter, faucet fountain, ideas, innovation, inventions, Strawberry slicer, Tapi water fountain

How to make things look official

Posted on April 27, 2011 | Comments Off

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Posted in Funny Pictures & Videos, Marketing & Advertising, Random Stuff

Tagged design, How to make anything look official, humor, typography

Four really good LEGO ads

Posted on April 5, 2011 | Comments Off

Here is a well-executed print campaign for LEGO. These four ads beautifully convey the power of a child’s imagination. Will all of the technology and gadgets we have today, none of them can compare to what the mind can create. I hope we never lose toys like LEGO.