Not that I condone binge drinking, but yeah, this version of Battleship definitely needs to be played. Anyone? Bueller?
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I'm a firm believer that all paper should have sports ball patterns printed on the back of them. It makes office sports just that much more real.
I previously mentioned the Campana collaboration with Lacoste, but this design duo from Brazil have also created some buzz with their crazy chairs. Take a look.
Hide your park boozin' intentions and keep the beers chilled with this genius cooler masked as a messenger bag. $110 at Timbuk2. Filed under summer wants.
Brazilian duo Fernando and Humberto Campana designed a limited edition line of polos for Lacoste's fourth Holiday Collector’s Series. Fact. They are hideous.
Ray and Charles Eames created this sculpture in 1943 and it sold at a Christie's auction for $365,500 last year (it was estimated at $80,000 to $120,000)! In case you're wondering, this measures 37 inches high, 27 inches wide, and 13 inches deep.
Go blazing into your executive meetings with these bullet cufflinks from YSL.
This clock's alarm will quite literally shake and rock you awake. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-l5PlDa-k&fmt=18]
Try keeping up with these Joneses living in this Louis Vuitton branded house spotted in Mexicali, Mexico. Incidentally, during college my favorite hot dog at Spike's on Thayer Street in Providence, Rhode Island was the "Mexicali."
The canvas tote has become a popular badge of a consumer's eco-consciousness in a "sharp" rebuke to the plastic shopping bag. In addition to its environmentally friendly quality, graphic artists and designers have also embraced it because "the canvas provides a beautiful off-white ground and the material is as wonderfully suited to silk-screen printing as primed canvas is to oil paint."
Aside from the question of whether the canvas tote's mainstream popularity, now often used as a "substrate for messaging, branding, promotion" has diminished its eco-friendly merits, what we can agree on is that the content on many of them are so goddamn smug. Creative Review highlights these subversive canvas bags from a decidedly unsubversive source, ad agency TBWA.
This "open letter" to one of the magazines I subscribe to made me chuckle. Kinda true...
Dear Dwell:Love the magazine. As a favor, I have rewritten the Table of Contents of your July/August issue:
Cover House with Horizontal Wood Slats Page 43 House with Vertical Wood Slats Page 52 House with Horizontal Wood Slats Page 58 Ice Cream Makers Page 66 Pavilion with Horizontal Wood Slats Page 70 Philadelphia Page 80 House with Horizontal Wood Slats Page 88 House with Horizontal Wood Slats Page 96 House with Vertical Wood Slats
I hope you find this useful.
Fondly,
Jeff Speck, AICP Washington, DC
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I could have used one of these ingenius pillows designed by Junghwan Chei when I was in school, especially during finals period. This pillow looks more comfortable than resting my head on a stack of books.
Relatedly, during one particular finals week at Columbia University, I documented into a comics format the napping habits of my fellow classmates at Butler Library. Enjoy.
Here are some bumper stickers that are nuanced for the meek driver who desire to communicate a message to others without necessarily informing them their kids and their money went to Harvard or the hilarity of Calvin from "Calvin & Hobbes" pissing on something.
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The Critic reminded me to bring an umbrella this week because sharing isn't in their vocabulary. I think this water gun-umbrella hybrid might suffice. Relatedly, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was killed in 1978 by what many believe to be with an umbrella gun of sorts carried by a KGB assassin.
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If you work in an online or technology company, then you should be able to relate to this cheeky image which made me chuckle and ripe for immediate forwards.
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