Recently ‘discovered’ by a Sugru customer in Germany: the fact that LEGO minifig hands are exactly the right size and shape to grip a range of cables and jacks.
Category Archives: Design
Find Guidelines – a nifty one-stop shop (for developers and the like) with instant links to the brand asset guidelines of major online outfits.
The Sealander, part camper, part boat with a host of optional extras from sound systems to portaloo and seating for six that transforms into a double berth.
Price on application.
Pale Shelter
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Two awareness-raising and practical designs in Vancouver by Spring Advertising for the Canadian charity Rain City Housing, which provides accommodation for the homeless.
Created by UK inventor Alex Shirley-Smith in 2010 and since developed for mass production, the Tentsile Stingray (€550) is a portable, rain-proof, insect-proof treehouse that anchors to trees, hangs suspended like a three-point hammock and folds away into a backpack when not in use.
Realistic scented candles from Flick Candles.
Old but good: samples from a collection of posters curated by design duo Mark and Paddy, inspired by actual ad/marketing/design client feedback originally exhibited at Dublin’s Little Green Café, Bar and Gallery in 2012 in aid of Temple Street Children’s Hospital.
Back in circulation in case you missed them.
SEE THEM ALL: A Creative Catharsis (Sharp Suits)
A guide by illustrator Julia Lepetit
iSopod
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Fancy an outsized silver or gold IPhone case in the shape of a giant peracarid crustacean?
Well, you can’t have one unless you’re quick (only 500 will be made) live in Japan (to which shipping is limited) and have between €60 (silver) and €75 (gold) to spend.
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Bounce Below is a labyrinthine playground in a slate quarry cavern in the Welsh mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog: three huge trampolines suspended up to 25 metres above the cavern floor, surrounded by walls of netting, connected by walkways and illuminated by a green, pink and purple light display.
Sean Taylor of Zip World sez:
“We got the idea when my business partner saw this done in woods in France but this has never been done in a cavern, this really is a world first in Wales. It’s a one hour activity where customers get dressed up in a cotton overall and given a helmet, they then jump on a train and travel inside the mountain.”
Dude, you had us at ‘cotton overall’..