My future bachelor loft will have this chair by designed by Alessandro Mendini to add a splash of color in the living room.
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In celebration of the 60th anniversary of Charlie Brown and the gang, Peanuts teamed up with Lacoste's croc. Available in UK only.
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This watch is so rad.
The story goes that a Cesar DeTray, a wealthy businessman and friend of Jacques-David LeCoultre, grandson of the company’s founder, approached the watchmaker with the type of problem that is unique to the idle rich. He has been playing a great deal of polo with British officers stationed in India, a needed a timepiece that would be able to withstand a strike from an errant mallet. LeCoultre’s referred the request to his lead designer Alfred Chauvot, who devised a tank shaped watch with a swiveling case that could be flipped around without removing the watch, exposing instead a thick pane of solid gold that safely encased the watch’s inner workings.
Helvetictoc. Where's Comictoc? [Via]
Pictures of plaid upholstered Porsche interiors. Why oh why?
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Ernő Rubik's, inventor of the Rubik's cube, letterhead from 1983.
Jason Nelson's interactive Rubik's cube digital poem. Filed under "Cool, but I don't get it."
Invader made custom skateboard decks with his trademark touch using tiles taken from Rubik's Cubes. One of these will hang on the wall of my future bachelor pad.

Jon Sherman's bachelor pad is the penthouse of a 4-story building in Brooklyn that also houses his company Flavor Paper which "designs, fabricates, and markets hand-screened wall coverings for projects ranging from Lenny Kravitz’s house in New Orleans to Frank Gehry’s IAC Building. ("We did holographic wallpaper for their executive garage," Sherman says. "Clearly prerecession.")"
He designed that stunning brass instrument sculpture hanging in his living room: "I bought all these off eBay, went down to a welder in Park Slope, and stood there and had him weld it,” he says.
Hey who told him he could move into my dream apartment without my permission?
Joey Roth's "Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler." I would hang this in my imaginary corner office. 1,000 hand signed and numbered prints available for $25.
Some novelty helmet prototypes by a (random alert) Republic of Kazakhstan marketing company Good.
This alien abduction lamp is outta this world.
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Brand New analyzes Miller High Life's redesign of their brand packaging and graphics. It's subtle to the untrained eye, but everything was updated including Lucy otherwise known as "The Girl in the Moon." Supposedly she was originally a drawing of the granddaughter of Mr. Miller, who must be stoked that in addition to a nose job, Lucy 2.0 now features a deeper cleavage.
Is it still a trompe l'oeil if what it looks like is actually not what it is and it is actually what it is not? That question aside, I want this match quality soccer ball silk screened with wood textures by Eric Quebral. Currently in pre-order status.
"The Revolving Internet" is Constant Dullaart's latest art project which spins the Internet around and around to the song of "Windmills of Your Life." [Via]
For reasons I do not know there is this: Uneven Google.
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Helmut Smits, "I Love New Work."
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Unofficial and informal, but totally accurate alternative names used by brand managers and designers for familiar brand logos. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
Andre Woolery needed a coat rack in his room, so he sharpie'd one up on the wall. I like this a lot. It left an impression on me. I thought it was pretty sharp.
Puma