Züny

Züny is a toy brand consisting of high-end leather animal dolls. The products look great, and the packaging creates a fun environment for the dolls. The website is also executed really well — it's clean and easy to navigate, but still creates little discoveries of fun with animated scenery and animals gracing the horizon.

Link: Zuny

PS

Is it weird to make animal toys out of leather?

Thinking Outside the Cardboard Box

Jason Schneider has created a portfolio of curious furniture made from cardboard — very recession chic.

Link: JASON SCHNEIDER

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On this Day, March 12

1912: Julliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.

1994: The Church of England ordained women priests for the first time in 460 years.

2009: We celebrated Britt's birthday!

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A Different Kind of Rain Cloud

Dutch designer, Joonsoo Kim, created the Cloud Umbrella which can be carried around in a thin tube and then inflated by pumping the handle.

The Dutch should all mate with the Japanese and make a wonderfully weird world.

Link: Joons, Design and Experience

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Art for Your Nest

Amy Ruppel has created some great pieces of art that illustrate all of the fifty state birds. Can you guess which ones are below?

Link: State Birds Series :: Part 1

Link: State Birds Series :: Part 2

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Lovely Package

This site shows off some really (ahem) nice packages.

www.lovelypackage.com

Box Vox

This site looks at packaging reuse, history, cultural meanings and packaging as art.

www.boxvox.net

Ole McDonald had a Vertical Superstructure

Dubai's outrageous growth has spurred outrageous solutions to its agricultural problems. Within a location lacking fresh water, decent transportation, or nutrient rich soil; will soon rise vertical farms that will use sea water to cool and humidify greenhouses and convert humidity into fresh water for crops. The Italian architectural firm, studiomobile, created the concept.

Link: STUDIOMOBILE_CRISTIANA FAVRETTO+ANTONIO GIRARDI ARCHITETTI

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Sponsorchip

Remember that Popchips music video the "Whatever Hollywood" girls created last year? Well, Popchip's darlings were rewarded with three cases of chips and an official sponsorship for their website. There are not enough exclamation points or smiley emoticons to express how excited these girls are.

Video Link: YouTube - REDEMPTION!! (Popchips Part 2)

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Microsoft's Vision of 2019

A great video by Microsoft, showing what technology could look like in just ten years! Technology is actually catching up with Sci-Fi movies like Minority Report, which takes place in 2054.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9JBSEBu2q8

-Marty

A picture paints a thousand words.

I Can See Her Bloomers

Designers, Niels Van Eijk and Miriam Van der Lubbe, have created "Bloom My Buddy": an interesting take on the flower vase. 

Portfolio Link: Niels van Eijk & Miriam van der Lubbe

Purchasing Link: Generate Design | Bloom My Buddy by Niels Van Eijk & Miriam Van der Lubbe

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World Pieces

Graphic Designer, Kentaro Nagai, has recreated the animals from the Chinese zodiac by rearranging the world map.

Flash Link: Graflex Directions

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Some Books You'll Get Into

Kansas City, Missouri is an oddly interesting Midwestern city for design much like Cincinnati, Ohio and Columbus, Indiana are for architecture. Local citizens were asked to nominate books that most appropriately represented the city. The spines of the chosen books' covers were recreated as an architectural feature to mask the parking garage at the public library.

Link: Innovative Way Of Promoting The Library.

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Don't Judge a Food by Its Cover

Pundo3000 has posted an article comparing food product photography to the actual food product.

Link: Advertising Vs Reality - A Product Comparison Project | Funtasticus.com Humor & Fun Blog

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What the Font!?

Ever wonder what a particular typeface is? Let your iPhone do the work for you.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/iphone-app-sati.html

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Now You Pepsi it, Now You Don't

The Arnell Group explains how the new Pepsi identity is based on the golden ratio, the earth's geodynamo, magnetic fields, magnetic dynamics, subjective emotions, the sun's gravitational pull, universal expansion, and the assassination of JFK.

Link: http://bunnitude.com/misc/files/pepsi_gravitational_field.pdf

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