If your a designer, then you have no doubt dipped into the surreal world of stock photography. This funny little video highlights what an odd place it really is…

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What self-proclaimed geek could be without a couple of pairs of these retro designed slippers/shoes featuring: Tetris
Pacman
Zelda
and that camp plumber guy…
You can also order your own style or game icons. via

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We all love Apple’s coverflow interface. Well now you can have your very own coverflow right there on your shelf filled with your real cd albums.

Designer Li Jianye has brought coverflow into the physical world and called it “iShelf”. (clever).via

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Ive you have ever jumped in bed and wished that you were a soggy tomato inbetween a beef pate and a bread bun then this piece of furniture might be the one for you!
The Burger Lounger…with cheese, luttuce courgette and tomato. With a sprinkling of seasame seeds.
Respect students!

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The ultimate complaint to the gods. Or just something to wave about at the passing traffic! A genius design from Art.Lebedev. A steal at $40 odd dollars! (via)

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…one of the great entries into this years, often controversial, Chip Shop Design awards. This one is a campaign for Tourette’s Syndrome Association UK by Caspa Marketing.
“Please Give Generously. Wankers”

And this one is for the National Lottery, UK.
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Being both a designer and lover of meat i couldnt resist showing you this great font…the Packed Meat Font.

Each letter is made from raw mince beef. Its hand shaped, packed then individually photographed…

It was created by Rob Bolesta. Take a look at his great portfolio here. via

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These pieces of unique embroidery art is by about:blank favourite Xiang Yang
This piece, titled “Bushism-Saddamism”, explores the relationship between our favorite comic book characters. Bush on one side of the room connected to Saddam on the other side.

And this one is particularly relevant for this evenings final of The Apprentice here in the UK.

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The FlexibleLove furniture piece (Great name eh!), by Chishen Chiu, incorporates an ‘accordion-like, honeycomb’ structure that enables the owner to push and pull it around to make the chair, sofa, lounger that they like and then push it back when they have finished or bored of its current shape…

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Based on the question “Does the skin of a car really need to be made of metal”, the designers at BMW have come up an awesome new concept BMW called the GINA Light Visionary.

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