Brass Stow-Away Capsule

I'm not an outdoorsy type at all, but everything on Best Made Company's site makes me wish I was. Including this little beauty. Their designs are so beautiful.

Best Made Company — Brass Stow-Away Capsule

Post-Itable | SoupStudio design

Well, this is fun. I like.

Post-Itable | SoupStudio design

Airplane Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style

I'd probably be very annoyed if I was on a flight and needed to use the loo, but this made me laugh.

Nina Katchadourian: Airplane Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style

Salt Made From Tears.

I love Hoxton Street Monster Supplies.

Salt Made From Tears combines centuries-old craft with the freshest human tears which are gently boiled, released into shallow crystallisation tanks, then harvested by hand and finally rinsed in brine. Experience the full range of these flavours in this exclusive collection.

Salt Made From Tears Range - Hoxton Street Monster Supplies

(via incredible things)

The Caketrope: a zoetrope cake.

This Tim Burton zoetrope cake is way too nifty to eat

Wine Bottle Tiki Torch kits.

Sweet! A kit to recycle wine bottles into Tiki torches. I like.

Etsy: 4 HARDWARE ONLY Wine Bottle Tiki Torch kits by GreatBottlesofFire

(via PureWow)

LEGO Taxidermy Kits by David Cole.

Fun! And completely vegan.

David Cole Gift Shop

Real-life video games.

I'm not even a gamer, and this "Jump'N'Run" photo series by Patrick Runte makes me super happy.

Patrick Runte Fotografie

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Helvetica Poster.

This poster, in eight pieces, is quite lovely and very reasonably priced. (Especially since you don't have to frame it.) Nice job, Print Handbook Store.

These posters are printed using silver metallic ink (Pantone 877) on 250gsm Burgundy Keaykolour. 

Each poster is made from 8 individual A5 cards (148 x 210mm or 5.8 x 8.3in). When combined they produce a poster that is slightly larger than A2 (420 x 594mm or 16.5 x 23.4in).

Helvetica Poster - The Print Handbook Store

Rainbow by Helmut Smits

Title: Rainbow
Year: 2010
Materials: acrylic paint
Photos by Lotte Stekelenburg

Rainbow :: Helmut Smits

BBC: Perfume-puffing robot sniffs out social media mentions

I find the idea of a social media-driven air freshener strangely disturbing.

Called Olly, the robot watches the millions of messages passing through social networks and spots when its owner is mentioned. For every mention or referral Olly emits a waft of scent as a "reward" for the online interaction.

BBC News - Perfume-puffing robot sniffs out social media mentions

Retro Basic Custom Wall Sticker.

I was never a gamer, but I kind of want one of these retro custom wall stickers.

A bit target reference, but anyone who owned a home computer in the 80's whether it be a ZX-81, Commodore 64 or BBC (acorn electron doesn't count!), will remember typing this in at some point (we certainly did!). Anyway, you can customise this wall sticker with your own text to add a bit of retro basic to your wall. 

Spin Collective UK - Retro Basic Custom Wall Sticker

Signs of Affection project.

If I ran the world, most of the design industry would be busy making/doing stuff like this.

Established in May 2010, the Signs of Affection project aims to make the walls talk. Short positive messages are placed in public spaces around the world to be seen by thousands. To get involved you can submit a few words [...] If your entry is chosen it will be designed, screen-printed and sent to you all for free! Copies will also be sent across the world to be pasted-up on the walls of other cities.

Go on – submit an idea to The Signs of Affection Project.


(via HUH magazine)

Calming Manatee

Just what it says on the tin.

Calming Manatee (Thank you, Sami!)

First Book: Access to New Books for Children in Need

Does your mom (like mine) insist that she doesn't need any gifts for Mother's Day? If you still want to give her a gift without getting yelled at, you might want to consider donating to this really lovely organization. They provide books to schools and community programs so low-income kids can learn to love the same bedtime stories the rest of us do.

Forty-two percent of children in the United States — more than 30 million — live in low-income households. Most of these children have no age-appropriate books at home, and the classrooms and programs they attend are woefully under-resourced. Approximately two-thirds of these schools and programs cannot afford to buy books at retail prices.

Visit First Book.org for more info

Taxi Tattly!

I'm in love with this week's Tattly temporary tattoo. Beep beep.

Tattly™ Designy Temporary Tattoos — Taxi

Urban Plant Tags | Carmichael Collective

Full of yay and giantness.


Urban Plant Tags - Carmichael Collective

(via FastCo) (Thanks, Karina!)

The Real Reason They Still Play 'Mrs. Robinson' On The Radio.

A tiny piece of a big, beautiful infographic about the ridiculous amounts of power and money The Big Six have over America's media.

Enabled by FCC deregulation and a decades-long orgy of mergers and acquisitions, [...] six giants dominate our media landscape. Until regulations return (or they buy each other out of existence), they will continue to control 90% of everything Americans see, hear and consider important.

Upworthy: The Real Reason They Still Play 'Mrs. Robinson' On The Radio

Birds of Paradise.

Wow. I love birds anyway, but these completely blow my mind.

Pteridophora alberti
Plumes such as the King of Saxony's graceful head ribbons offer ancestral strength to the people who wear them, according to local belief.

Paradisaea rubra
Framed by its wiry tail feathers, a red bird of paradise is nature's valentine—an apt emblem for this family of birds famous for fanciful plumage and elaborate courtship rituals.

Birds of Paradise - National Geographic Magazine

(via the always-lovely Sub-Studio Design Blog)

Holly Golightly's Breakfast at Tiffany's House Sells For $6M.

I have no burning desire to be rich, but, man, this makes me wish I was.

...the 15-foot-wide Upper East Side townhouse has just sold for $6M, a smidge above the $5.85M ask.

Holly Golightly's Breakfast at Tiffany's House Sells For $6M - Sold Stuff - Curbed National

Hierbas de botica (Pharmacy herbs) by luzinterruptus.

How can you fight light pollution? If you're a guerrilla artist, you can do a playful installation with a serious message. Really lovely.

Of all the environmental pollution that can be found in the city of Madrid, the most evident is light pollution, so much so that in our sky we can never see the Milky Way and hardly any stars. This overillumination is evident to the naked eye at a distance of more than 200 kms and produces a glow that can be seen with a medium-size telescope for more than 700 kms.

It is therefore very surprising, that at a time when the European Union is so careful with issues of environmental pollution, the Dept. of the Environment of the City Council of Madrid rules for illuminated signs, adopted a couple of years ago, changed the rules for pharmacy signs, to allow them to be replaced with much more powerful ones.

So much light emanates from the new crosses that the environment that surrounds each pharmacy, is permanently tinted a deep, vibrant and unnatural green color. Objectively speaking, one could say that the majority of the urban green spaces in our city, are more the result of erroneous illuminated sign rules than the commitment of our institutions to provide the city with places where you can be in contact with nature.


Read the whole story and see more fab photos over at luzinterruptus' site:
Hierbas de botica / Pharmacy herbs | luzinterruptus

(via Cassandra Daily)

Limited edition Sakura Ni Poster.

This lovely limited edition poster (celebrating Washington D.C.'s annual cherry blossom festival) is available over at Felt & Wire Shop. 50% of all poster sales will be donated to Washington, DC’s Bread for the City charity to support their ongoing efforts to feed and clothe district residents in need.

Felt & Wire Shop: Sakura Ni Poster from Polygraph

Jason Lee may have the best daughters ever.

These two are like the living embodiment of Calvin & Hobbes, too. Especially since most of the ideas are theirs. The whole collection make me molto smiley.

See the rest over at Bored Panda.

Pro/Con Journal – Decision-Making Technology.

Love it.

The Pro/Con Journal represents decision-making technology at its finest! Inspired by our bestselling Pro/Con Pad, this efficient journal will help you make the right choice, and track the outcome of future (and better informed!) decisions.

• Make decisions with systematic satisfaction!
• Review past decisions with 20/20 hindsight!
• Hardcover, 102 pages; 4.25 x 9.25 inches

Pro/Con Journal – A Decision-Making Journal by Knock Knock

(Danke, Martina!)

David Schwen's type sandwiches.

I've seen the others, but I'd never seen "Grilled Cheese" until yesterday. It makes me happy.

David Schwen | Type Sandwiches – the Behance Network

Floating Chinese Sky Lanterns.

Wow. Groupon is actually featuring something that makes me go "oooooh." I'd love to send a bunch of these off into the sky...



These sky lanterns are handmade and imported from China, where traditional lanterns have lifted off for centuries and are considered good luck. Packs of 10 or 20 pristine lanterns, each about the size of a large beach ball or a 1/100,000-scale model of Jupiter, float peacefully into the sky, propelled by hot air wafting from a small flame within. After about 15 minutes of flight, flames self-extinguish, and the fire-resistant lantern body gently falls and begins to completely biodegrade. Launching Chinese sky lanterns can lend extra pomp and symbolism to events such as memorial services, weddings, and driver’s ed class reunions.

Floating Chinese Sky Lanterns Deal of the Day | Groupon Abilene, TX

Flavorwire: The Very Best of Sandwich Design.

This may be my favorite design piece this month. Like a Dagwood sammich, I love it on so many levels.

Flavorwire:  The Very Best of Sandwich Design

Flower nails.

Oh, hellooo. How cute are these? Somebody in the US needs to get on this and make these types of decorative nails at a reasonable price.

FLOWER NAIL 6 SET / RAUMGESTALT / MASAHARU ONO / フラワー ネイル 6本入り / ラウムゲシュタルト / マサハル オオノ - TRICO / トリコ

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Best Made Company badges

 I love Best Made Company. Their site, their products. All of it. And I think these badges are completely charming.

 

Best Made Company — Badges

New at Blik: FUNBUS by Dan Golden.

I heart Dan Golden.

blik - ALL ABOARD THE FUNBUS. GIVEAWAYS INCLUDED.