Can I Get A Napkin, Please?

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Dog Milk!

Sweet! What's not to dig about these Dog House Wall Decals from GECKO!


I know you love your dog as much as I love Ringo & Dazy, that's why I know you're really gonna love Dog Milk!


And I found this this cool Dog Type poster over at: The Daily What.

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Manual Espresso

Bringing the press back to espresso - check out this environmentally friendly, manually operated Espresso Maker.

Using almost zero electricity and enabling you to make great café-style coffee at home, the only enegry it requires is the amount of energy it takes to boil some water and then a little human-powered force to press down the arms of the machine.

Nice!

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Thanks to: Mantteriashop and Design Milk.

Leo Burnett Rules!

One of Leo Burnett's famous speeches, “When to Take My Name Off the Door”, circa 1967.

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Preserve

Preserve is on going project by Mark Spurgeonto of Australia. The goal of the project is to produce a permanent visual record of hand painted building signage in his native land. Sweet!

As Mark explains on the site, many of these signs are being erased from our cityscapes either being worn away by weather over time, covered as buildings have been repainted, disappearing as buildings are demolished or replaced with modern signage equivalents.

The Preserve site is updated regularly with Mark's latest images from New Zealand and Australia and you are invited to contribute to this work also.

Very cool, especially if you're a typography freak like I am!

Enjoy: Preserve!

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David van Alphen’s Modern Shed

Check out the nice step-by-step deconstruction and process photos of David van Alphen’s modern 8′ x 12′ shed built in his backyard for just about $3000 - without using a kit!


Take me to The Shed!

Great job David!

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Thanks to the smart folks at Design Milk.

Go Faster Go!

You'd never guess it, but these big toys for big boys were at the height of their design during the 1970s – by sheer chance.

Mechanics and team members – not designers or marketing strategists – adorned racecars with all of those flashy stripes, logos, numbers and colors prevalent at any Formula One race today.

Dig: The Graphic Design of Racing Cars!

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Thanks to Grain Edit

Logorama!

And the Oscar for Best Animated Short film goes to.... Logorama!!

Genius - congratulations!

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KSYM Pledge Drive 2010

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You know you want a KSYM Jazz Java Mug or perhaps one of the super hip KSYM Jazz Record Bags!

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Elding Oscarson Wallpaper

Designed by Elding Oscarson for Oktavilla, this genius wallpaper concept of bundled and stacked magazines is a perfect solution for a research driven design studio interior.

Thanks to Dornob.

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Your Ideal Home

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Miller Goodman Rubberwood Blocks

Me want: ShapeMaker!

Muchas gracias to the smart folks over at Thinking For A Living, a great new design site that's really worth checking out.

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Happy Birthday Steve Jobs!

Steve Jobs turns 55 today. If you think you know Steve Jobs, think again!

Do youself a favor and check out his Stanford Commencement Address delivered on June 12, 2005, just a year after being treated for cancer.

Not bad for a college drop out!

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ICA Poster

Really digging the design and execution of this poster for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston from Lubbock, Texas design team f2, AKA Dirk and Carol Fowler.

Check out more of thier great work: f2 Design.

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Shiner

Looking for some really sweet, modern, eco-friendly American made furninshing? Of course you are.

Well then, Dig: Shiner

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Aspiral Clocks

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'...

The Aspiral Clock is pretty simple and totally genius. Instead of a dial, a spiral and instead of hands, a ball.

Designed and produced in London by Will Aspinall and Niel Lambeth, the face of the Aspiral Clock turns slowly over a twelve hour period while a ball rests on the spiral ledge. As the clock reaches the final twelfth hour the ball drops through a hole and the twelve hour process begins again.

Awesome!

Aspiral Clocks

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Straight From The Heart

Straight From The Heart: A Valentine of Sorts from your friends at Swirl. A finely tuned Mystery Stream via iF: Irregular Frequency Network.

If you're celebrating Valentines Day you might dig the latest Mystery Stream podcast I just finished for my talented buds at Swirl, Parrish Ticer and Carlos Zapata.

Click hear: Straight From The Heart

Enjoy your flight.

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Your iPhone Will Dig This

Ok, this is what I'm talking about! The genius folks at Zagg have just released the perfect portable USB charger and travel companion, The Zagg Sparq.

Sure, the 2 USB ports are sweet and handy but the real deal sealer is the built-in, 6000 mAh battery enabling you to charge your iPhone up to 4 times without having to plug into the wall! And another more cool thing - the The Zagg Sparq recharges when plugged in, all while charging 2 USB devices.

Pretty dang cool.

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Train Of Thought: Mystery Stream Episode 118

This planet just lost one of it's best inhabitants. RIP Randy "The Rib King" Goss - miss you already, I love you man!



Click Hear: if: Mystery Stream Episode 118: Train Of Though Derailed

Subscribe Gratis to the HMK Mystery Stream in iTunes: HMK Mystery Streams or check out the HMK Mystery Stream Archives for more info.

Long Live The Rib King! Get it all over ya and make it louder!

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The Art of Philip K. Dick Covers

Thanks to the children of Philip K. Dick, world-famous science-fiction writer and creator of futuristic worlds such as Blade Runner (based on Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) and Total Recall (based on We Can Remember It for You Wholesale), we've got an amazingly comprehensive site dedicated to his life work of futuristic novels, stories, and essays.



Check out the amazingly varied interpretations of his novels via this ever growing collection of over 650 PKD book covers contributed from fans around the world.




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Thanks to good folks over at Design Observer.

World Wide Bakery: Calendar 2010

Nice promo for the World Wide Bakery - a calendar for 2010 via Agency: Futura2/2, Skopje, Macedonia.

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Thanks to the smart folks at Inspire Me Now.

Another Day, Another Collection

This is really cool. Since the first week of this new year I've been following San Francisco mixed media artist and illustrator Lisa Congdon's blog A Collection A Day.


The project will span exactly one year, from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010. If you're like me and you can't get enough type and design inspiration, this is a nice little blog to keep the creative juices flowing.

Nice job Lisa, best of luck with the project and thanks for sharing.

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OfficePOD

Wow, what's not to like about this! Behold the OfficePOD!

Some of the benefits of working from home are obvious, reducing commute time and saving you money while enabling you to be more productive. The tricky part, at least from my experience, is keeping work, with it's constant interruptions and home life separate in an effort to maintain the balance of everyday life.

I'm lucky enough to have the luxury of my little office, a detatched garage, just a few steps from the main house. But man, I'm really digging the looks and smart use of space of the OfficePOD as an option for a dedicated work space!

Mucho mas: OfficePOD.

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RIP Bob Noorda

“Don’t bore the public with mysterious designs,” Mr. Noorda once said, and he put that dictum into practice. He was a master of spare, elegant and logical designs that caught the eye, from minimalist corporate logos for the Italian publishing house Feltrinelli and the ENI Group of Milan to impressionistic posters for Pirelli, the Italian tire maker.

Mr. Noorda’s best-known work in the United States was for the Metropolitan Transit Authority, which in 1966 commissioned his firm, Unimark International, to modernize and unify the look of the subway system’s signs. The firm had been recommended by Mildred Constantine, an influential design curator at the Museum of Modern Art.

Bob Noorda, an internationally known graphic designer who helped introduce a Modernist look to advertising posters, corporate logos and, in the 1960s, the entire New York City subway system, died on Jan. 11 in Milan, his adopted city. He was 82.

Read the entire piece over at: NYT Art & Design.

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Registration Lables

As an avid collector of type centric vintage stamps, lables and stickers I am totally digging this nice little collection of Registration Lables thanks to James Phillips Williams.

Ok, back to work!

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