Via Cool Hunting:
“In a move that tackles both the lack of bike racks in NYC and the problem of what to do with obsolete parking meters, the city recently started a campaign transforming 225 of the old metal poles into circular stations for locking up bikes.”
As a cyclist I’m happy to have more spots to lock up, and regular parking meters are so safe when using chains because the bike can be lifted off and carried away to be unlocked else where.
“Codeorgan analyses the “Body” content of any web page and translates that content into music”
“Designed to fit to your keychain that enables you to point and shoot anywhere, anytime. The super compact Ikimono camera allows you to take 3×5″ or 4×6″ prints - only for daytime bright light shooting. Printed with a cute cartoon on the surface and the bright colours used will definitely catch your attention! This kawaii camera uses 110 film which is less common in Singapore. However, designs like Whale, Hamster, Donkey & Scar Cat comes in packages along with a 110 film. Once again, who can resist such a cute mini camera that really works!”
I haven’t tried one of these, but they look pretty cool!
More sample photos on Flickr
Drop Caps, Ribbon fonts and logos.
Letter press, die cuts and odd shapes. Some great ideas and results with these 60 designs.
“Using the online superpower’s vast database of photography, Budapest-based designer Lehel Kovács illustrates a partial alphabet of locations such as Florence, Indianapolis and Ostrava in a series of vignettes.”
Via Cool Hunting
Insightful article on the NY Times about how luxury brands are not using the digital space in any way that reflects their implied creativity and igenuity.
“Fashion houses, despite their creative clout on the runway, have been surprisingly slow to bring the same level of authority and artistic vision to their Web sites. Selling luxury goods online isn’t the problem — that’s a done deal. Rather, it is that designers and fashion chiefs, the very people who are supposed to predict the future and tell the rest of us what we need, can’t seem to grasp the most obvious aspect of the present: the Web.”
Read the article here.
Ads to promote Google’s new Chrome browser use hand cranked animations, and everything from Mercury to Knitting!
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