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Amazing sketches, notes, production drawings, and photographs of the development of “Monster Bash”, a 1998 pinball machine designed by George Gomez.
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Offline, a small-run publication with a focus on designers and artists working on self-initiated projects in Chicago. Co-Founded by designers Darrin Higgins and Emily Haasch.
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Ant colonies cast in molten aluminum. I hate ant bites as much as anyone but this has to count as some form of animal cruelty. Still, way cool sculptures in the end.
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The always entertaining John Foster brings you: The Worst Album Art of 2013.
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The Bureau of Betterment brings you 24 Danish Christmas icons and a fun vocabulary key code, including julebryg (beer you drink around Christmas) and pebernødder (delightful tiny cookies with a distinctive cardamom and pepper flavor, often sold in triangular bags called ‘kræmmerhuse’).
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“12 Shoes for 12 Lovers” by Sebastian Errazuriz. Shown: The Jetsetter, GI Jane, The Ice Queen, and The Heartbreaker.
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Great piece on the Colby Poster Printing Company in Los Angeles, which closed its doors last year and printed everything from boxing bouts to rodeos to reggae concerts seen in the streets of LA since the 1950s.
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The Casual Optimist selects his 50 favorite book covers of 2013. Shown: design by Jenny Grigg.
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The public has unleashed it’s humor on Amazon with hilarious reviews for the BIC Cristal For Her Ball Pen. I urge you to go read them now before someone catches on.
12.11.2013
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