Makita drills in partnership with Saatchi Johannesburg put together a series of out door billboards true to the brand. While the ad itself isn’t so revolutionary in messaging, it’s the way it was built that is genius and captures what the brand is all about: making holes. Each billboard image was made by drilling holes in order to form the image in what looks like a take on a Chuck Close painting or a pixelated Lichtenstein print. Link via Quiet Glover
Check out this interesting design concept for fuss-free indoor plant care. The lamp doubles as a vessel that carries the plant and lights it via (what I’m assuming are) natural lights. Seems perfect for herbs, since when not in use, the whole unit collapses down for safekeeping. Read more about the LightPot.
Using new media to its advantage, the Kogi Korean BBQ-To-Go taco truck pulls-in upwards of 400 customers a night. The popular taco truck does no traditional advertising, but starting last November they started an immensely popular Twitter feed. Tweets are sent to the hungry and loyal followers every night so they can locate exactly where the truck is stationed for the evening. With over 11,000 followers, demand is something they’re never short of – if you happen to be in the LA area, expect a 2 hour wait before you get your $2 taco. Read the full story here.
Simply amazing. Disruptive. Awesome. Hit up the link for more examples and other videos here.
Urban Camouflage deals with the question how to camouflage
oneself and one’s identity in the urban space. Our costumes are
inspired by the «ghillie suits», the military camouflage suit. It was
an adventure to wear the suit in the stores because of the conflicts
with the employees, the reaction of the customers and also to see
the pretty well camouflage effect in a real situation.
The geniuses over at i-hacked.com have an awesome tutorial on how to hack into digital road signs. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to drive past one again without a serious urge to pull over and have some fun.
As part of his current art exhibition, Chinese artist, Liu Jianhua, built a replica of the Shanghai Skyline using nothing but poker chips and dice. Head over to the Italian art gallery to see the rest of his exhibition, Dreams in Conflict.
The city of Tirana in Albania will be getting a new architectural look with this year’s MVRDV design winner. The competition called upon an urban masterplan to create a livable urban neighborhood, complete with park and public facilities, right off the shore of Tirana Lake, Albania. The winning design, entitled Tirana Rocks, will look like collapsing buildings, toppled over onto one another and create a pretty dramatic urban skyline when built.
Hit the link for more info.
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One Australian inventor took to finding a practical solution to saving and reusing water – it wasn’t the most obvious solution, but it was the most simple: move it from one place to another. The Hughie Sink does just that – built like a bucket, but able to fit to the contours of the sink, once you’re done doing whatever just lift the handles and empty out the contents to wherever water is needed – plants, animals, fires, etc..
This is apparently as close as it’s going to get to running barefoot. Newton, a newcomer to the sneaker world that preaches that body mechanics are best served when it behaves as closely to its primal state as possible – hence a running shoe that enables you to run as if you were barefoot. While it’s an interesting idea and a clever name for a shoe company that’s all about the evolution of movement, what really caught my eye was the packaging. While I can’t seem to find it on the actual site (just the other blog I found the story), it reminds me of how retail companies are changing the way they approach shipping and packaging material use for the good of the earth – remember this post? Sweet.
Check out these new pieces of guerrilla graffiti tactics on this subway ad in Berlin. The street artist printed out giant replicas of Photoshop’s tool bar and pasted them onto this billboard – it attempts to expose how these false depictions of women are heavily edited. Couldn’t have picked a better billboard if you ask me…
Creative director Sol Sender tells the story of the Obama ’08 logo from conception to birth, including the strategy behind it, developmental concepts and finalist designs for the identity not chosen by the campaign.
Responsible for the worldwide urban space invader effort and one of my favorite street artists, Invader takes a few minutes to explain his new Binary Code street art. This new media utilizes hi-tech Binary Code technology combined with his trademark lo-tech ceramic tile work as seen in urban centers all around the world. Now, with a simple IPhone Application called I-Matrix (now known as BeeTag) you can translate the hidden meanings behind his street-art.
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jCauty&Son are holding a “splatter exhibition” at The Aquarium in London (whatever that means). The multi-media art show focuses on “the plausible impossibility of death in the mind of cartoon characters”. Uh huh. All I know is that Looney Tunes + Death = AWESOME.
Dutch designer Pieke Bergmans has created a series of one-of-a-kind crystal LED lamps that are shocking, beautiful and functional. Imagine if everything could be described that way.
Here’s an awesome idea for a coat rack. These sturdy, stainless steel darts are tipped with screws so they function as wall-mounted coat hooks. Perfect for any bachelor who enjoys, well, looking like a bachelor.
I came across an article about an art show opening in Hollywood which features an artist who paints on canvases only an inch across in size (as seen above). I thought that was particularly interesting since Charlie Kaufman’s next movie (Synecdoche, New York) features a very similar character. So I looked into it…
The supposed “Berlin artist, Adele Lack” is actually the name of Catherine Keener’s character as listed on IMDb.com (as seen below). None of the websites or blogs I found on the topic made this connection to the film. They think it’s a legitimate show!
Apparently the event is just a viral attempt to promote the movie, which is premiering at the end of the month. Pretty clever if you ask me. Here is how the event is being billed on several art blogs and websites:
The show entitled “Small Miracles: The Paintings of Adele Lack” earns its title due to the extremely small size and the astonishing precision/detailing of Lack’s paintings. The only way to admire them is with the aid of a magnifying glass, as the naked eye cannot take in the full extent of their beauty. Magnifying glasses will be provided so that all 27 paintings on display can be viewed. There will be a public viewing of her work beginning on October 22nd and ending on October 26th at the The Montalbán Gallery in Hollywood.
My desk is littered with old sticky notes. I really should find a better way of displaying them (throw them out you say?). Enter SUCK UK with their own way of properly handling worthless sticky notes… with origami! Each note is designed to allow you to follow some simple guidelines and transform your note into one of ten animals.
Smart Car is helping push its brand essence to new heights by making online information sharing easier (and yes, smarter). By leveraging Twitter, they’ve developed a web app which simplifies and shortens a url into an easy to manage link to be directly embedded within your tweet. 
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