Entries Categorized as 'About:Design'

Notice: Freak watching from window above.

Date April 15, 2008

By Artist/Photographer David Shrigley
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You should get a cream for that Levi…

Date April 10, 2008

This is the amazing self portrait work of Levi van Veluw from the Netherlands.
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This 4-piece series reinterprets the traditional landscape painting, removing plots of grass, clusters of trees, babbling brooks from their intimate 2 dimensional formats and transposing them onto the 3 dimensional […]

The Transformers Canned. Optimus Prime specifically.

Date April 10, 2008

“Canstruction” is a competition held in Vancouver where sculptures are made out of cans…
Heres one entry where Transformer Optimus Prime has been made from cans and some appropriately named products called “Optimum Power”
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Upgrade your office chair with this cheap and cheerful solution!

Date April 8, 2008

The Chair Chair Pad prototype from Chenhui Su

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Crayon Tip Art

Date April 7, 2008

Artist Ryan Peter Miller created this image of a skull using the different colour tips of colored crayons. They are currently on display at the Eye Lounge in Pheonix, AZ

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Scrabble Cushions. How many points is ARSE worth in scrabble?

Date April 7, 2008

How great would it be to have these around the house? Oh the rude childish humor that would occur!

Created by Stephen Reed and Alistair Willmott for the Bloomberg Offices in London.
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Untooned Futurama illustration.

Date April 3, 2008

Untooning seems to be the thing to do these days. Homer and Mario have had the treatment by Pixeloo, now the Futurama cartoon has been given the treatment by artist Dylan Marvin(The site has been dugg, receiving some heavy traffic or simply shat itself so its down)
Thanks for the tip Neil
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You’re not going anywhere…

Date April 2, 2008

Meet the “Defendius”! The innovative, and downright cool, 100% titanium alloy door lock….you would have thought opening a door could be so much fun!

For extra fun, place it on the outside of a toilet door, provide drink and watch the resulting panic.
This innovative lock is designed by Art Lebedev Studio… responsible for the amazing Optimus […]

Hummer made entirely from $35k of bad luck.

Date April 1, 2008

This Hummer H3 “Lottery Edition” made entirely out of $35,000 worth of losing lottery tickets. It was created by husband-wife art partnership Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom.

The project entitled “Ghost of a Dream” was created on the idea that people dream of buying a new car when they are wasting their money scratching off […]

The Bearded Man Font

Date March 31, 2008

Heres a typeface designed by Tim Yarzhombeck based on bearded men which, for some reason, all look like Jesus…
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