The little hipster on my shoulder is demanding I point out the schveeeeeet schketchings happening in Mattias Adolfsson’s many moleskines. He had me with his “viking almost inventing fishing” doodle. See if you can find it. The viking is REALLY close. And yet so far.
It’s hard to look at actually.
Should mention Mattias also has a piece in the local (local = Toronto) Lonely Robots exhibit. And really, if you think about it, arent’ we ALL just robots that are lonely?
Do yourself a solid, and view this at a more comprehensive resolution. Your boy Laser Bread has been banging out the hits from his crib in Minneapolis for some time now. Aside from his awesome moniker, Laser Bread (aka Brock Davis), has a bunch of winners over on Threadless, but this piece recently caught my eye. I’ve got a bit of a penchant for turning an artistic lense to technololgy, but is this techno-criticism, praise, or just plain clever? I’m not sure, and the jury’s still out. Maybe Pollster could settle this…
I stumbled upon this old Diet Coke advertisement while getting around on the interwebs and it made me ponder who in their right mind would take an ice cold (Diet) Coke for breakfast instead of the defacto cuppa joe. I, for one, can’t stand aspartame, at any time of day, so I can scarcely imagine giving up my morning coffee for Coke. I know people that would take a DC and a cigarette over most other foods, but for breakfast? What do you think? Sound off in the comments.
Monocle is a buying guide for high society. Sure, I can’t even begin to afford most of the items in their “things to improve your life” column (unfortunately custom made boats aren’t on my simple pleasures list), or even most of what they expect their readers to do daily. But a boy can dream, can’t he?
Check out Monocle for a excellently designed website full of things you’ll never be able to own.
Movie poster remakes have become standard fair in the design community as of late, but there’s something refreshing about them being used to actually advertise movies. I’m not sure how they can afford to do it, but the Alamo Drafthouse has been commissioning poster remakes for their special screenings, like all-night screenings and cult movie marathons. The posters birthed from these bastard unions (like the annual Quentin Tarantino film festival, hosted by the man himself) are epic tapestries, stitched together from fabrics of various continuities.
And they are awesome.
Very few books make the claim that they are the definitive authority on a given subject, but this is no mortal tome! Dark names, scarcely whispered in decrepit alleys dance across its blasphemous pages, inspiring a primal fear in even the most stalwart of readers. The shadow priest Dan Nelson, Herald of Nugg’suthoth, has put to pen a list that’s comprehensiveness is surpassed only by its foulness, containing the epithets of over 50 000 disciples of the forbidden arts. Just beholding the alien lines of its eldritch form was enough to drive a score of lesser men to the brink of sanity. You have been warned!
James HOUSTON, y’all.
He’s a recent design school grad from Scotland, new on the scene, but I wanted to quickly point at his work with my e-finger.
In particular his wicked performance of Radiohead’s Nude using outmoded electronics. I’m trying to figure out if that’s just a heavily distorted recording of Thom Yorke singing, or an awesome approximation using said equipment. Sounds terrible either way, and I dig it.
Now that Adam has opened your appetites up with some delicious eggs, how about a side of toast? Today is the 81st birthday of none-other than the best invention to-date (or so I’m told) pre-sliced bread. First sold as Kleen Maid Sliced Bread by the Chillicothe Baking Company on this day in 1928. The product exists today thanks to Otto Frederick Rohwedder, the inventor of the slicing machine. Two years later, in 1930, Wonder Bread started selling this product nation wide, making your day just that much better.
So how about a real toast to Mr. Rohwedder because without him, I’d never eat bread.
Every girl has a pair of chandelier earrings, but how many of them really live up to the name?
Introducing the chandelearring:
Ornate brass sculpture? Check.
Extra fine gold-finish chain? Check.
Swarovski crystal? Check.
These things are exactly like a real chandelier in every way. Okay, so they don’t actually light up, but you’ll still light up the room wearing these elegant handcrafted earrings. Buy them here.
A bit of a departure from our standard fare, but I couldn’t resist. I love eggs of any variety, but poached and boiled top off my list. Imagine my delight when I discovered these bad boys in the prepared food section of my local grocery. Individually packed and peeled, Naturegg has got a surefire health food hit on their hands with these. They’ve got more protein than you can shake a stick at, and they’re only 99 cents! I don’t know about you, but I’d rather mack on some eggs than a Mars bar.
