Posts from — November 2008

Who doesn’t like to watch dominoes topple? Domino Day 2008 was on November 15th, and the Weijers Domino Productions team tried to break the current world record for domino toppling by setting up 4.5 million dominoes.

Watch the video below to see what happened and click the link to read more..

Domino Day is huge

Cosmic Motors is a book written by Daniel Simon, who in real life has worked for Bugatti and Lamborghini. It contains lots of gorgeous renderings of futuristic vehicles with a little backstory.

Get Cosmic Motors: Ships, Cars and Pilots of Another Galaxy
More on Cosmic-Motors.com

Via The Awesomer

Technorati Tags: Cosmic Motors, design, futuristic vehicles, illustration, models, Daniel Simon

These modular shelving units from Russian industrial designer Maria Yasko are lovely, eyecatching side pieces for your rooms. Together with the wall graphics they look just like a CAD drawing!

Via

Technorati Tags: design, furniture, interiors, Maria Yasko

Driftwood sculptures by Yalos Alanya. Driftwood pieces are collected and put together and to bring out the beauty perfectly created by nature. The objects are not changed in anyway.

Via NotCot

Technorati Tags: art, crafts, driftwood, sculpture

Florian Krautli has created a magnetic curtain – a simple, brilliant idea. This would save me having to manipulate our curtains countless times to get it to stay as I want.

“A curtain which you can shape to any form. Through the incorporated structure and magnets, it stays in the shape you push and pull it to.”

Via SwissMiss

Technorati Tags: design, interiors, magnetic curtain, Florian Krautli

Yurko Gutsulyak designed this delightfully dangerous Calendar of Matches.

Each page is a month with a comb made of matches with each match corresponding to a day.

The matches are real and the construction of the calendar is absolutely safe, although I would suggest this item is for the riskier of us. Maybe if there are any stuntmen in the house?

Via NotCot

Technorati Tags: Calendar of Matches, design, ideas

Pharell’s Billionaire Boys Club have released a new accessory – the “Star Trek” Gloves. These form the famous Vulcan salute, as seen in the movies.

Now all you trekkies can salute all you like during Winter and not feel the cold.

Via NotCot

Technorati Tags: fashion, film, Star Trek, Star Trek gloves, Vulcan salute

Siggeir Hafsteinsson brings Star Wars to Iceland with these old halftone art photos that depict storm troopers, Nebulon-Bs and AT-ATs. Reykjavik will never be the same!

More on Siggeir’s website

Via The Awesomer

Also check out the previously posted photos by French Photographer Cédric Delsaux’s Real Life Star Wars Series

Technorati Tags: half tone art, Siggeir Hafsteinsson, Star Wars

Who wouldn’t want to be as flexible as this guy? Well, probably alot of you, but this ad still carries across the message of the flexible toothbrush – you can’t miss that head!

Via I Believe in Advertising

Technorati Tags: advertising, flexible man, human toothbrush

Following our previous Vintage and Retro Typography Showcase, here are some inspirational Vintage advertisements.

They look like they were spot on in terms of attracting sales at the time, but if taken seriously now, would be laughable. But that’s what makes them appealing now, so the retro touch can be used when appropriate to sell afterall!

More on Well Medicated

Technorati Tags: advertising, retro, vintage