Letter cards.

Sweet.

Hang your initial on the wall with one of these old classroom cards. The blue and red lines are a nice detail, much like a piece of foolscap. Neat black letters in upper and lower case. Choose your letter. 16.5x7.5". £11.50

Present & Correct - Letter cards

Mike Lowery.

There's some fun stuff over in Mike Lowery's Scoutmob Shoppe.

Scoutmob Shoppe: Mike Lowery

Twig Terrarium: Forensics in the Flora

I know it's wrong to want this, but I've invested so much time in Bones and Law & Order that I can't help it.

Twig Terrarium Forensics in the Flora

Buildings Shaped Like Cute Animals.

Just because.

Flavorwire - Architectural Zoo: 10 Buildings Shaped Like Cute Animals

The Bedford – Wicker Park Chicago.

I need to go to here. What an amazing location for a restaurant!

The Bedford – Wicker Park Chicago

Mini Morse code satellite.

Science is cool. I might need to learn Morse code.

A couple of months ago we reported on the ArduSat project, which aimed to enable anyone to control a CubeSat orbiting space. Using similar technology, the FITSAT-1 developed by researchers at the Fukuoka Institute of Technology in Japan houses LEDs that can create a morse code message that can be seen from earth.

Mini satellite can create visible Morse code across the night sky | Springwise

"Thanks for flying SkyOats."

"Hog the armrest = 4 hours in the hole."

How commercial airplanes SHOULD be laid out - The Oatmeal

FILMography.

My brother sent this site to me, knowing that I'd love it. I do. Especially since the first photo that I saw when I went there was a photo with Cary Grant from "That Touch of Mink" (I have a serious weakness for this particular Doris Day movie). The other photos below are from "Godspell" and "The Fisher King," two other faves of mine. I could spend hours on this site.

All photos by Christopher Moloney, aka @Moloknee.

FILMography

BRAUN SK55 Vintage Record Player w/ AM-FM Radio

This is an absolute beauty.

Vintage 1960s Braun Record phonograph and 3 band radio with a tube amplifier in fully working and good looking condition. Designed by Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot, it's an industrial design & audio milestone. This music system was part of the traveling exhibit "Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams" and is part of the permanent collection of MoMA. The player has been professionally restored replacing capacitors and resistors as needed to reduce hum, get good radio reception and play records correctly. All tubes were tested good for good emission. Control pots have been sprayed so they are quiet when turned. A new phonograph needle was installed.

eBay ::: BRAUN SK55 Vintage RECORD PLAYER Am-Fm RADIO ~ Dieter Rams Design 

(via Zuburbia's eBAY ROUNDUP of Vintage Home Finds)

Ouchlet.

Adorbs.

It's preventative medicine for outlet shocks! Keep your kids and pets safe from being electrocuted with our Ouchlets. Just toss them into any inviting outlet to let kids know that a bandage equals an ouchie! We weren’t going to say it, but here it goes… keep your sometimes dim-witted better-half safe with these whimsically designed outlet covers. Set of four.

Fancy - Ouchlet Outlet Cover

Motorcycle Chain Wall Sculpture.

This heavy gauge motorcycle chain is manipulated, then spot welded to make one of our favorite shapes.
We ❤
17.5" x 15"

Motorcycle Chain Wall Sculpture - Aesthetic Correlation

(Available for sale over on Fancy)

Alan Wolfson: "KATZ'S DELI / CLOSING TIME" (2012)

My friend Bradley turned me on to Alan Wolfson's magnificent miniature sculptures. The detail is mindboggling, and the subjects are always strangely charming. (I particularly love the little Patti Smith gig poster detail in the last photo. Click the image to embiggen it.)

 "KATZ'S DELI / CLOSING TIME" (2012)

Typewriter Lamp.

I could never buy this because I'd never be able to keep cat hair out of it. But, man, do I love this lamp.

Recreate: Typewriter Lamp – Seville 4000

World's Best Father.

I adore creative parents who take fun photo series with/of their kids.

World’s Best Father: An Amazing & Funny Dad & Daughter Photo Series

James Bond Skyfall cufflinks.

Do you know a special someone who loves James Bond? Do you have buckets of cash to get rid of quickly? If so, you need to buy these film prop cufflinks from Christies' James Bond auction. So cool.

A pair of black enamel coat-of-arms cufflinks by Tom Ford worn by Daniel Craig as James Bond in Skyfall.

Each circular plaque with central Bond family coat-of-arms bearing the motto "Orbit Non Sufficit" (The World Is Not Enough) within a black enamel surround, each signed Tom Ford.

Approximately 30 pairs of these cufflinks were made by Tom Ford for the film.
Bond's family coat of arms is first seen in On Her Majesty's Secret Service and features again in Skyfall.


Christies: 50 Years of James Bond auction

Design Museum time capsule.

Time capsules are cool. This is what the new Design Museum in London buried in theirs.

Buried in the foundations of the new building, here is the contents of the new Design Museum time capsule and who nominated each object:

Cecil Balmond
European Union Flag
One Euro Coin

2p Stamp
USB containing images of jazz and blues music album covers, including John Coltrane and Bing Crosby

Sir Paul Smith
Isle of Man, London 2012 Olympic Games Stamps designed by Paul Smith

Sir Terence Conran
iPhone 4S
Tin of Anchovies
A good bottle of 2012 Burgundy

Deyan Sudjic
London 2012 Olympic Torch designed by BarberOsgerby
Badoiiing game, 2012 winner of the museum’s Design Ventura competition for 13-16 year-old D&T students

Margaret Howell
Image of Battersea Power Station © Luke Hayes

Zaha Hadid
Model of the MAXXI museum in Rome
Book by Patrik Schumacher, The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Vol.1: A New Framework for Architecture

John Pawson
1949 Wish Bone Chair (miniature model) for Hans J. Wegner for Carl Hansen and Son

Kenneth Grange
Cylinder Line Coffee Pot designed by Arne Jacobsen

Marc Newson
Mini Lockheed Lounge

Thomas Heatherwick with Ingo Maurer
Standard light bulb

The Mayor for London
Artists Tube Maps

Image by Dominic French 

Facebook: Design Museum

A murphy bunk bed.

The price is completely ridiculous ($3300 for a plywood bed?), but it's REALLY cool. Letsee how long it takes IKEA to knock it off.

 Clever Folding Bunk Bed Leaves So Much Extra Space for Activities

A Brief History of Emeco’s 1006 Chair

A lovely little post on Design Public's blog about one of my fave chairs. (One of my first days at our design firm, I noticed these chairs in the lunchroom and thought, "Hey, those are the chairs on Homicide!" Anything that can be used in "the box" and high-end boutique hotels is ace in my book.)

A Brief History of Emeco’s 1006 Chair | Hatch: The Design Public Blog

Secret Club Key Tags.

I love these key tags from Three Potato Four. May have to order some for my spare catsitter sets o' keys.

An adaptation of classic hotel key tags. Six different designs each based on nostalgic extra-curricular clubs and activities. Select your desired club from the dropdown menu to the right before clicking "add to cart". Please note that your membership number is exclusive with no two alike. Tags measure 4.75" x 2.125" and come with metal c-ring.

Three Potato Four - Secret Club Tags - Series No.1

yuri suzuki: london underground circuit map radio

Gorgeous. Click image to embiggen and see the lovely details.

 

yuri suzuki: london underground circuit map radio