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by ricardo cordoba
A great little video about cartoonist Rube Goldberg, plus a related article about a new book, Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius.
12.09.2013
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by armin
Silkscreen poster by Abby Ryan Design showing 50 of the most popular holiday toys from the past 50 years.
12.09.2013
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by armin
Nice tribute to Purple Rain rendered as purple rain by Yoni Alter. Available as a silkscreen, vinyl album-sized print.
12.09.2013
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by armin
Artist Nobutaka Aozaki has gone around 105 supermarkets with the same can of corn and paid for it again and again for a total of $113.07. (Other interesting pieces at his site).
12.09.2013
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by ricardo cordoba
A slide show of posters created and used for a global anti-apartheid campaign, spanning the years 1967 through 1990, when Nelson Mandela was in prison. Shown here is a poster designed by David King for a 1980 rally.
12.07.2013
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by josh berta
“Palette empowers you to build a physical interface customized to your personal needs. It’s a hardware platform made up of a variety of modules. Each module has a single physical input, like a button, dial or a slider. You snap together modules like Lego.”
12.06.2013
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by armin
Somewhere in Tel-Aviv an escalator has the opening crawl to Star Wars (Episode IV) reproduced on the steps.
12.06.2013
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Hermann Zschiegner photographs 1-cent coins blended into the asphalt around his studio in the Lower East of New York.
12.06.2013
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