Harder, Faster, Stronger, Burger Better-er

Following the successful collaboration with Mika in 2010, Coca-Cola will soon release 2 limited-edition aluminum bottles inspired by Daft Punk. The gold and silver bottles are said to "mimic the helmets worn by the French duo". Daftcoke.com will go live in a few months and will offer more details.

Link: http://lovelypackage.com/coca-cola-x-daft-punk/#more-19358

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On This Day, February 24

1979: The highest price for a pig, $42,500, was paid in Stamford, Texas.

1988: The Supreme Court overturned a $200,000 award that Rev. Jerry Falwell had won against Hustler Magazine.

2011: We celebrated Jeff's birthday!

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Illustrator, Anne Bryant

Anne's work may be a good future reference for a Kraft project.

Link: http://www.annebryantcreative.com/

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Inside our studio: TD SF

A few months ago, The Dieline came by the sf studio for a "dream date". See how it went...

http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2011/2/2/inside-the-studio-turner-duckworth.html

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stand out from the i-phone clones

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8295886/Turn-your-iPhone-into-1980s-brick.html

for all those who remember the birth of mobile phone technology

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Google's Art Project

Aiming to open the world’s art collections to online viewers, Google today unveiled the Google Art Project, a website that allows visitors to see more than 1,000 works by 486 artists, take virtual 360-degree tours of galleries, and zoom in for extreme close-up views to inspect a great artist’s brushwork.

There are some great museums on the list, and the level of detail that you can see in the paintings is amazing.

http://www.googleartproject.com/

Typewriter art

http://www.dudecraft.com/2010/12/frosts-qwerty-keys.html






http://www.dudecraft.com/2010/12/unbelievable-typewriter-art.html



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Face Mug


http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/01/face-mug/

The Devil’s Rope is an experimental type piece by designer Andrew Effendy.

… a series of wires pulled across two wooden posts. They are treated to look like barbed wire, except at the spiny, barbed sections where the wires form letters of the alphabet, A through Z. As a whole, the piece seems like a sinister fence of letters, its menacing script casting peculiar shadows on the walls. The allusion of language as a barricade is unavoidable. Effendy’s piece makes you mull over the role of language and how—especially, in today’s world of information overload—language has the power to encourage progress as well as impede it.

http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/01/barbed-type-the-devils-rope/

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Paper Arts

This artist, Isaac Salazar, creates these book sculptures by folding pages with traditional origami techniques.





Artist Mia Liu
This is an amazing, LARGE "painting" made of shredded bits of paper.








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Hot in Minneapolis

Ad agency Colle + McVoy has launched an innovative campaign for Caribou Coffee’s new hot breakfast sandwiches. They have installed bus shelters in Minneapolis that not only look like ovens but are also equipped with real heaters to keep the waiting commuters warm in this cold weather.

http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/bus-shelter-keeps-commuters-warm-while-they-wait-pic.html

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Power Breakfast

eCoupled presented new technology at the Consumer Electronics Show this year that can print illuminated messaging onto paperboard packaging. It can also keep track of expiration dates and send you a shopping list to your smartphone.

http://ecoupled.com/ces/packing-serious-technology/

They also created a can of soup that can cook on your kitchen counter, no stove needed.

Check out the video of the cereal box packaging here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0R5LPhLz_U

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Constructive Paper

Paper illustration studio from Russia, People Too.

Link: http://peopletoo.ru/

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Replenish Bottle Design

A smart take on light-weighting and reuse for spray bottles. In addition they've eliminated the metal springs normally found in pump handles which makes the bottle fully recyclable when you choose to toss it. I like the design but think the company needs to talk more about how well the product cleans. Green might sell a product once, but only once if it doesn't really work. I'm ordering a bottle today and will let you know how it goes.

http://www.myreplenish.com/index.html

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Stamps of Approval

A few years back, Pingmag compiled a list of interesting, and often overlooked, European stamps. Themes run the gamut from children activities to public health services. In addition to interesting graphics, the final segment focuses on material options for stamps: woven or wooden stamps = trés cool.

Link: http://pingmag.jp/2006/06/05/overlooked-graphic-design-european-stamps/

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