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Thornhill Jewellery of London produces pendants made from old British coins with whimsical/stoner designs hand-carved out of them.
They sell for between £30 and £50, depending on the complexity of the cut.
Fancy That
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Exploitative scheme is exploitative.
Luke Kelly writes:
Came across this site this morning. Logo look familiar to anyone?
Helm’s Beep
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The Daft Club member AgentRayBans‘ retrospective of the various incarnations of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo’s headgear.
Gigantic, readable versions here and here.
Or you could always build your own.
(Hat tip: Ultan)
Shared Space
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The village of Poynton in the UK has instituted a style of urban design originally pioneered by the late Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman – getting rid of traffic lights, pavements and other traditional road architecture to calm traffic and reduce accidents.
Share play though, in shareness.
Lots of Cars and Trucks, No Traffic Signs or Lights: Chaos or Calm? (Atlantic Cities)
Star Guitars
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEraRQ6MBCQ
Retired British printer Tom Bingham spends about three months at a time sourcing wood and metal from car boot sales to construct custom electric guitars, including three based on spaceships from Star Wars (Y-wing, Millennium Falcon and B-wing fighter).
A frankly brilliant proposal to turn the (abandoned since 1983) Battersea Power Station in London into a museum surrounded by an epic rollercoaster track.
Of the design concept, which won top prize in the ArchTriumph Museum of Architecture competition, Parisian architectural firm Atellier Zundel Cristea sez:
Our project puts the power station on centre stage, the structure itself enhancing the site through its impressive scale, its architecture, and its unique brick material. Our created pathway links together a number of spaces for discovery: the square in front of the museum, clearings, footpaths outside and above and inside, footpaths traversing courtyards and exhibition rooms. The angles and perspectives created by the rail’s pathway, through the movement within and outside of the structure, place visitors in a position where they can perceive simultaneously the container and its contents, the work and nature.
Spanish interior designer Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde’s meticulously detailed floor-plans of the sets of movies and popular TV shows.
More (and larger scale versions) here.
The dubious fruits of pre-Jobs Apple CEO Michael Scott’s labours in the early 1980s.
In 1982, Apple was in its sixth year of existence, and Steve Jobs, Apple’s cofounder and Chairman, was twenty-eight years old. Steve, intuitive and fanatical about great design, realized that the company was in crisis.
Above: the hideous Snow White Concept 2 MacBook (1982); the vomitous MacPhone (1984); the deeply stupid Jonathan Mac (1982) and the burn-it-with-fire Workbench and Music Mac (1982).
From Phones To Tablets: 26 Apple Designs That Never Came To Be (fastdesign)