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Jónas Valtýsson created this amazing poster by photographing splashed milk for an annual art festival, "Sequences" held in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Let the recession know exactly how you feel about it with this cup from the Future Perfect.
$12 here.
A photo I took at the Neat depiction of the alphabet in American sign language created by New York designer JK Keller. I'm not sure what's going on with the last matchbook in the bottom right corner.
Relatedly, here's a young James Earl Jones perfectly reciting the alphabet in an old episode of Sesame Street.
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Kids nowadays are so goddamn lucky. For distractions they have the Internets, DVRs, BluRay PS3s, Xbox Live, playgrounds that are all hyper safe with padding and shit. And now this rad staircase?? British architect named Alex Michaelis created this staircase-slide combo for his kids at home. When I was growing up I had a NES and a tennis ball.
$1400 
As an avid reader living in a city where space is also a premium, I'm a big fan of this multifunctional bookshelf, the "Lili Lite" created by Dutch designer Thijs Smeets.
Lili Lite is a reading light, a bookmark and a bookshelf combined into one smart product. A sensor turns off the light when an open book is placed on the shelf. When the book is picked up again, the light automatically turns on. Lili Lite also has a switch to turn the light on and off manually.
$125 here.
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This t-shirt graphic combines two of my latest current obsessions: Hadoukening and a Street Fighter character playing classical piano. Knowing this, ladies: you're probably super attracted to me right now.
$18 here.
Publicis Mojo in Sydney created these typographic posters as a "first of a series of self-initiated projects that will see the agency link up and work with various different artists and designers." Or in other words, for shits and giggles. Here are a few I liked:
I think it's deeply important for companies to foster a certain creativity apropos of nothing that is permitted and encouraged to operate in a vacuum.
Flickr photo gallery of variations of the iconic WWII British propaganda poster asking its citizens to keep calm and carry on.
The original designer is unknown and the image now belongs in the public domain. Read more about the fascinating history of this poster at its Wikipedia page.
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The downside to lending friends and coworkers books is that some of them never return it. Cough*CYRUS*Cough. This personal library kit which comes with self adhesive pockets , insert cards, date stamp, and pad will let you tap into your inner librarian. Start stampin' those books and collect late fees!
$20 here.
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Left to Right: George Nelson, Edward Wormley, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Charles Eames and Jens Risom
I dig this iconic photograph from the July, 1961 issue of Playboy Magazine which accompanied a fascinating essay on the leading men of modern design during this epoch.
There is nothing inevitable about a chair any longer. Today the machine is the collaborator rather than the determinant of a design. Instead of pressing a cerebral button to solve a mechanical puzzle, the designer brings his unique imagination, his own emotions, to bear at every point in the development of the object. No bulwark of metaphysics is required to justify its every turn. If a bolt is exposed, it is because the designer enjoys the accent, and he is as likely as not to paint the bolthead black, just for the hell of it. A chair today stands on its own legs in existential – even absurd – delight.
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