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A classroom of seven and eight-year olds at St John's Church of England Primary School in Kingston, Surrey were each given a piece of paper and told to draw their dream chair. Two of the drawings were then selected and actually built by designers Jack Beveridge and Joshua Lake.
The rocking chair pictured above includes a fish bowl which is rather inconsiderate for the fish considering that it's attached to a...rocking chair. Kids...Can't trust them.
The children whose drawings weren't selected were taught a life lesson about winners and losers in life.
Apropos 
In his new book "Things Come Apart: A Teardown Manual for Modern Living," Todd McLellan neatly disassembles
the parts of various familiar objects "from iPads to Blackberry phones, Raleigh bikes to laptops, even a Zenith CH 650 aircraft."
Nope, it isn't Forrest Gump.
In 1963 designer Harvey Ross Ball was "commissioned to create a graphic to raise morale among the employees of an insurance company after a series of difficult mergers and acquisitions. Ball finished the design in less than 10 minutes and was paid $45 for his work. The State Mutual Life Assurance Company (now Allmerica Financial Corporation) made posters, buttons, and signs adorned with the jaundiced grin in the attempt to get their employees to smile more."
I quite prefer the crudeness of Ball's smiley face over the evolved version that we see today. :)
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The most hilarious logo is the Celtics one from 1950 to 1968 which looks like a jester doing number two on an invisible toilet. See the logos 
This rocking chair "has a built-in generator that transforms each rock into power, and charges the iPad or iPhone via its dock."
Frank Lloyd Wright designed this doghouse at the request of a 12 year old boy for his dog Eddie. It was unfortunately torn down in 1973.
I have an advanced degree from this institution. Get this over at 
A clever money clip from Paul Stuart. If you get clip, then you MUST, MUST, MUST also get this.
This neat quaint home has a fascinating architectural history.
2 art directors and 28 artists collaborated to create this deck of cards featuring some of the players that contributed to the economic crash.
I wish Penn Station still looked like this instead of the utter eye sore that it is today. Adding Port Authority and the monstrous towering vomit that is the Verizon building to this eye sore list.
This ceiling fan by Raffaele Iannello made its debut at the 2012 Milan Design Week and is an upside down reproduction in 1:6 scale of a Hughes/MD 500 helicopter.
