The Designer's Balls. CMYK Christmas Ornaments From Veinticuatrodientes.

Since we have to wait until next year, 2012, for the Pantone Balls, here's a fabulous alternative for Christmas ornaments designed to make designers drool. The CMYK Balls designed by Veinticuatrodientes are a set of four ornaments in the four process colors used for printing - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black - and labeled as such. Glossy plastic and 7cm in diameter, the ornaments are available as

2012 Typographic Wall Calendar made with 2,012 Computer Keys by Harald Geisler.

The "2012 Typographic Wall Calendar" is a project to produce a large (70cm x 100cm / 27.56in x 39.37in) printed wall calendar for the year 2012. The calendar is made of two-thousand and twelve used keyboard keys. The keys are arranged manually by German typographer Harald Geisler to write out all days of the year 2012.This is a real, usable calendar. The Typographic Calendar makes finding dates a

iPlates by Todd Borka. Software Editing Interfaces With Food in Four Fun Plates.

French illustrator Todd Borka invites you to play with your food.. or more specifically, edit your food, with his iPlates. Utilizing the interface from popular editing software like Photoshop, Todd has decorated four different china plates with recognizable tools and key commands.iPlate "Import Food":detail:iPlate "Edit Food":iPlate "Image Size":iPlate "Ctrl Z":Not unlike kickstarter, Todd's

UPDATED: A Look At the 9/11 Memorial, Museum and Monument Designs at Ground Zero.

above: aerial view rendering of the 9/11 Memorialabove: one of the two 9/11 Memorial bronze name-etched reflecting pools in the foreground and the 9/11 Museum Pavilion entry in the backgroundToday, on the 10th anniversary of the tragic terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers' twin towers and the Pentagon, there will be several memorials taking place as we honor the victims with moments of

An Illuminating Book From Bentley Meeker; Light X Design: 20 Years Of Lighting

If you didn't think that lighting and staging can completely alter one's experience, you haven't seen the extraordinary work and talents of Bentley Meeker. The lighting designer to the stars transforms events, personal nuptials, dinner parties and more into enchanted, elegant and magical venues.above: from weddings to corporate events, Meeker's designs completely transform a roomLighting is as

Pharmacy Restaurant Ashtrays by Artist Damien Hirst Now Available.

Contemporary artist Damien Hirst tried his hand at the restaurant business in 1998 when he opened the art-filled Pharmacy Restaurant + Bar in London. Filled with pseudo-scientific pharmacy-themed items, Hirst curated every design element from metallic pill-printed wallpaper and pill-shaped ashtrays.above: the gold and silver pill covered wallpaper by Hirst for the restaurant.The gourmet

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23 Thai Artists, Designers & Brands Interpret the MINI in Scale Models.

The MINI Thailand Design Celebration commemorated half a century of the iconic MINI design tradition by commissioning leading Thai artists, designers and brands to interpret the classic car, all in the form of a 1:3 scale fiberglass model.The artists had total freedom to express their individual creativity and the participating designers presented their model MINIs On October 27th to the