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chameleon icons
Chameleon is an stock icon set for the web that features simple, friendly, universal shapes designed and hand-crafted by SimpleBits. The set contains 70 royalty-free icons (preview the full set), each weighing in at a standard 16×16 size (perfect for favicons) in GIF format. Chameleon is unique in its ability to change color, allowing you to custom match the set to your own site’s color palette. Choose either a pre-selected six-pack of standard colors, or create your own set(s) using the background color of your choice.
panda humidifier
Now that’s a humidifier I would put in my apartment: Panda 1 Gallon Humidifier. ($29.99 at Target)
(via shinyshiny)
if there’s a strike…
Here’s a useful guide the NYTimes put together, in case there is a transit strike happening starting midnight.
instructables
Learn how to make your own felted bag. Or how to build your own ‘pimped out megaphone helmet!’
Instructables – step by step instructions to make/build pretty much anything you can think of. Highly entertaining.
an ode to spam:
Just received this spam-poem:
winter goodbye oh within.
with short words.
busy interest remained longer remember?
desire forth room satisfaction thats forty. yellow being quietly, approach wife teacher?
fancy ground easy across turning matter. parents pay arm
I wonder if artists who were active in the Dada Movement back in the days would be the spammers of today?!
small biz 101
Is starting a company the right thing for you? Small Biz 101: How to Get Started
visual thesaurus!
Still looking for a good gift? Give a Visual Thesaurus – A tool for people who think visually. It’s both a thesaurus and a dictionary, that lets you explore and understand language in a new way! Ok, I admit, this is shameless self-promotion, as I am the designer behind the VT (interface, packaging, website etc..) Trust me, I wouldn’t keep mentioning the VT if I didn’t love it so much. I use it daily!
And we offer gift wrapping now, it doesn’t get any easier than that! You can try it for free at visualthesaurus.com.
thomas herbrich | photographer
Thomas Herbrich, a german photographer, managed to take some absolutely stunning images of cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke you’re thinking? See for yourself! The shots have this unbelievably elegant quality.
(via gadgets.fosfor.se)
leica d-lux2
What a beauty: Leica D-Lux2
hornussen
The longer I live in the USA, the more I am amused AND fascinated by some of the swiss traditions. Here’s a wonderful example: Hornussen:
“This sport – a mixture of golf and hockey – was probably invented in the 17th century. In the rural regions this team sport is still very important. Usually there are matches between villages. In the past these matches ended often up in a kind of “civil war” with some rough rules.
At the beginning the ball was just a stone with holes in it ; when it flew through the air, these holes made the ball sound like a hornet. From there is the name of the game “hornet” – Hornussen. Today they use synthetic material: A long plastic stick to slap the ball over 100 meters away in the adversary field. The other team tries to stop the ball (speed: 200 km/h) by throwing wooden panels in the air before it drops on the floor.
my other stroller…
I am not sure if people not living in New York get this baby t-shirt: “My other stroller is a bugaboo!” Definitely made me laugh!
jacket for loners
Takkiainen (a combination of two Finnish words: takki, a coat, and takiainen, a bur) is a jacket for lonely or bored people. It is designed to help the wearer get in contact with others. Since we brush against each other every day as we move around the city, we can use our clothes as a medium for meeting new people. The jacket is covered with Velcro strips that form alternating hook and pile stripes. When these materials touch each other, they grab onto each other. The user can be connected with other loners simply by walking around in the jacket. Even babies can be attached to their parents.
(via no garlic please)
blog down all day
Oh my, my blogservice, Tyepad had another M-A-J-O-R hickup today. My blog was down pretty much all day and now there are still tons of images waiting to be restored. I guess, that’s what happens when a company/service grows too fast. (enter sigh here)
the doubtful guest
The Doubtful Guest by Edward Gorey. Mentioned in the last issue of Domino Magazine as a perfect gift to give if you’re invited to visit someone whose design aesthetic you don’t yet know. It’s about an uninvited, rude creature that never leaves…
sofa & bunkbed in one
Wow, this design totally blows my mind: The Doc XL: Sofa & Bunkbed In One
The Doc XL is a sofa that fiips up into a bunkbed and requires “a simple gesture and no physical strain.” You don’t even have to take the sheets off of the beds before restoring it to sofa config. It is available through that august outfit, Bonbon Trading, from the UK.
(via apartment therapy)
rigi duo cableway
I am soooo getting one of these for ‘Peanutella’. How fun to have an old school cableway go across her room/crib. YAY! You have to understand, G and I will have to make sure she’ll get into the ‘skiing’ spirit quickly! ;)
anatomy of an icon
Anatomy of an icon: Explains techniques for making great pixel icons. (Written by Dan Cederholm of SimpleBits)
(via zachklein)
self-watering plant pot
This self-watering plant pot’s main feature is a medical drip feed. This unique characteristic allows the plant to be nourished with water and food as it is required. The drip feed provides a striking design focus as well as acting as a reminder to its owner as to when it needs topping up.
(another excellent fiind via bb)
exploded VW Beetle
“The ‘exploded’ Beetle owes something to the cartoonist’s bag of tricks: telescoping rods have been inserted so that headlights ‘bug’ outward and a strata of gears and casings fan through the air. Ortega has literalized the spitting, sneezing, ramshackle character of the car; its expansiveness is absurd and poetic at once.”
Damian Ortega’s exploded VW Beetle. Currently on exhibition at the MOCA.
(via gravestmor)