The year of the Moustache?

A few festive highlights of the team sporting the latest in facial fuzz whilst trying to enjoy ourselves at the holiday party.

(and a few more on the server for your viewing pleasure)

Hairy New Year!

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Metro Bus Constrictor

An advertisement for the Copenhagen Zoo on a local city bus.

Link: http://adsoftheworld.com/media/ambient/copenhagen_zoo_snake_bus

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Creepy Santas

...just to get everyone in the mood for the holidays.

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Bombs Away!

Neatorama is selling these clever shotglasses for a limited time.

Link: http://www.neatorama.com/

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Love Gloves

Smittens: mittens built for two. Note the different sizes for the boy and girl gloves.

Link: restorationhardware.com

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Terminatal

Just because it is Friday: the gun-shaped baby carriage.

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Someone has time and glue on their hands.

Conrad Garvey had this one to share. Stan Munro is racing towards a March 2010 deadline to complete his toothpick city which will contain a record-breaking 50 buildings at 1:164 scale. Check out the other images on his website. The amount of detail is to the point where you can make out facial expressions on the sculptures at St. Peters Cathedral.

Link: http://www.toothpickcity.com/

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A Window Display that Blows

Japanese designer, Tokujin Yoshioka, created a window display for Maison Hermés. The piece shows a monitor of a woman interacting with a silk scarf.

Link: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/8384/tokujin-yoshioka-maison-hermes-window-display.html

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On This Day, (Sunday) December 6

1950: 'America's Sweetheart', Shirley temple married Charles Black.

1994: England found oil under Windsor Castle, in Berkshire.

2009: We celebrated Craig's birthday!

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On This Day, December 3

1947: "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.

2006: Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, won re-election.

2009: We celebrated Lizzy's birthday!

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Painting Render Crash

James Theophane, a Creative Director in London, hacked an old painting by adding the beach ball of death and a half-loaded image.

Link: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/8354/painting-render-crash.html

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Bio-Diversity

Christoph Niemann blogged these on New York Times website this week.

Link: http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/bio-diversity/

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Make the Logo BIGGER (or look like it)

Advice from Mr. Bierut at Pentagram.

http://www.core77.com/hack2work/

Harc! A new Coke can approaches!

Harc Lee has proposed a new Coke can free of environmentally harmful inks. The concept relies completely on the embossing of the can. It's difficult to look at this and not worry about how it would translate to Zero and Diet Coke. Nonetheless, it's nice testament to how iconic Coke is in this moment in time and it's cool to see other designers playing with that iconic quality.

Dieline Link: TheDieline.com: Package Design: Colorless Coke Can

Harc has some other neat concepts in his portfolio here: http://www.behance.net/HarcLee

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On this day, November 13

1805: A Viennese butcher invented the frankfurter.

1939: "The Wizard of Oz" was released on the big screen.

2009: We celebrated Josh's birthday!

3-D Building Projections

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.

From Netherlands-based design firm, NuFormer Digital Media, comes a new way of projecting three-dimensional images onto a building exterior. Custom-designed to fit any building façade and scale up to any size, the video mapped objects are made visible by a set of powerful projectors

Link: @Issue

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On this day, November 12

1984: Madonna releases the album "Like a Virgin".

1799: Andrew Ellicott Douglass witnesses the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys.

2009: We celebrated Short Brian's birthday!

Spooky Spools

Aubrey Longely-Cook has some amazing needlepoint pieces on Etsy. Unfortunately, most of them have already sold out.

Blog Link: spool spectrum

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