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Posted on August 4, 2006 Under Design

Collaborations between companies have become extremely prevalent lately, but with some careful filtering you can spot the good and ignore the bad. One recent combination of forces, the wall decal meets t-shirt, is that between blik Surface Graphics and always…

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Magnum

Posted on August 4, 2006 Under Art

Formed in 1947 by photographic luminaries like Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour, Magnum Photos is an elite group of photographers who have documented major events both past and present (above are from the conflict in…

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Front

Posted on August 2, 2006 Under Design

Front, the team of Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren, and Katja Savstrom, is a design agency out of Stockholm, that, as the name suggests, is at the head of the design game. Pushing out concepts and prototypes…

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Pick Chair

Posted on August 2, 2006 Under Design

A novel idea by Dror Benshetrit of design Studio Dror is the Pick Chair for Italian furniture company Sintesi. Dror's designs are more than objects, "becoming part of their narratives, expressed in transformations that are both metaphorical and literal." Exhibiting…

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Kicks Engine

Posted on August 1, 2006 Under Fashion

Hunting for that much desired, limited edition pair of kicks can be an ordeal, especially if you spend your time browsing through page after page of eBay listings. Enter Kicks Engine, a visual tool that relieves your blistered fingers by…

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Dalek Supersampler

Posted on July 31, 2006 Under Art

Back in the winter of 2003, the good people of Lomography lent a Brooklyn gentleman by the name of Dalek a white color-splash camera to customize as he pleased. So impressed were they by the jazzy black and white number…

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Tunto

Posted on July 31, 2006 Under Design

Finland has long been associated with great minimalist design, but they're just as well known for graphic prints and patterns too. It comes as no surprise than that Finnish design house Tunto is combining the best of these two seemingly…

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I.D. Annual Design Review

Posted on July 31, 2006 Under Design

One of our favorite mags for keeping up with the ever changing design world is I.D. and the latest issue, the 2006 Annual Design Review, is America's largest and most prestigious juried design competition. Now into its 52nd iteration, this…

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Alex Dragulescu

Posted on July 28, 2006 Under Art

It is said that one man's garbage is another man's goldmine and Alex Dragulesco has found his in junk e-mail. His inbox, like most of ours, is constantly bombarded with spam mail, but instead of deleting them he collects what…

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Panography

Posted on July 28, 2006 Under Art

Following in the steps of photography trends like Lomography, comes Panography. The concept is to take multiple pictures of the same scene, object, or landscape from different angles and perspectives and then compile them into one kaleidoscopic image utilizing your…

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