This winter, stripes are in!

This is obviously more of a musing than a design-related post. The constant melting and then freezing again of icebergs creates some pretty amazing stripe patterns.

Link: Revealed: The Antarctic iceberg that looks like a giant humbug | the Daily Mail

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A P[lace] of Beauty

Architects; Wojciech Kakowski, Natalia Paszkowska, and Marcin Mostafa have won the design competition to create the Polish Pavilion for Shanghai's EXPO 2010. The design reinterprets traditional Polish folk art elements in a contemporary way. Hopefully, the structure doesn't outshine all that which it houses.

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Justen Ladda

Justen Ladda did some really neat installations in the '80's that play a lot with light and perspective. 

Link: installations index new

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Googled Birthday: Brittany Hull

Today marks the anniversary of Brit's entrance to the world. We're celebrating by standing outside, watching a crane hover precariously over our office holding a two-ton air conditioning unit.

Happy Birthday Brittany!! 

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battery-powered packaging

Every NXT shaving product carries an LED in its base that lights up the gel inside, similar to a lava lamp. The lights last for about a year and don't start working until they're on a shelf, because of a rolling switch that turns them off when they're not set upright. The products will sell for around $5 each and will start lighting up the shelves at Target this month.

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