July 20, 2010

80 Penguins.

I think this might be my favorite ad campaign ever.





Ad Campaign Archive: 80 Penguins

(Function Key, you rock. Seriously. Thanks for making my day.)

July 16, 2010

July 12, 2010

A knitting clock.

Marking the passage of time with a clock that knits a scarf?? Oh, Design Milk, you minx. You just made my day.



365 Clock by Siren Elise Wilhelmsen | Design Milk

July 08, 2010

The Wish Tree (Washington D.C.)


Every autumn, sometime in November, the leaves fall off and the tree becomes a whispering tree. Rather than hang their wishes from the tree on small strips of paper, as they do during the warmer months, visitors are encouraged to snuggle up to the tree and whisper their wishes to it.

But, come June, the tree buds again and the Hirshhorn provides pencils and little tags to write with and to hang on the tree.

Each day exhibit staff and intern volunteers pluck the tags from the tree.

“We harvest the wishes and send them to the Yoko Ono Peace Tower in Iceland where they become part of a larger collection of wishes that the artist has amassed,” Hirshhorn communications director Gabriel Riera told me in an e-mail.


When You Wish Upon a Tree at the Hirshhorn | Around The Mall

July 05, 2010

NPR: A Very Scary Fireworks Show – Exploding H-Bombs In Space

Back in the summer of 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in outer space, some 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. It was a weapons test, but one that created a man-made light show that has never been equaled — and hopefully never will.


NPR – A Very Scary Fireworks Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space

July 02, 2010

Puccino’s Coffee Shops packaging.

My favorite? The sugar packet that says "Sprinkle onto shoulders of enemy."



I've got to find one of these shops in London when I'm there later this summer.

Puccino’s Coffee Shops Packaging | Minimalissimo

Tourbillon (Whirlwind)

Wow. Just...wow.


A+A cooren design studio

(hat tip to the always fab sub-studio design blog for the amazing find)