Bag designer Lulu Guinness created this human-sized pin toy as part of Clerkenwell Design Week in the UK and placed the interactive sculpture for passers-by to have fun with.
2) Waterproof Your iPhone, Everything Else With This Spray
Ross Nanotechnology has developed NeverWet, a silicon-based spray-on super-hydrophobic coating that completely repels water and heavy oils.
3) ‘Helveticards’: Minimalist Typography Cards for the Typophile, Gambler
Helveticards are minimalist typographic playing cards, and an alternative to traditional decks of cards.
4) A Rollercoaster Designed to Kill Humanely
Julijonas Urbonas created his coaster as a hypothetical euthanasia machine; it will, he claims, take lives as humanely and euphorically as possible.
5) Director of ‘Black Swan’ Creates Horrifying Anti-Meth Ads
Director of Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky, directed four horrifying spots for The Meth Project.
6) Landscapes Made of Food
Mountains of bread, rivers of linguini—many photographers have intertwined food with their art. But London-based photographer Carl Warner pieces food together to construct diorama landscapes and captures them on camera.
7) Legendary Album Covers Re-imagined with Kittens
Aym Visuals re-imagined legendary album covers as if from a world dominated by kittens.
8) It’s Alive!: A Tribute to Frankenstein’s Monsters
The It’s Alive! project pays tribute to Dr Frankenstein’s monster with 80 busts—each by a different artist—that reinterpret the feared visage.
9) Japanese Typography Gets Redesigned with Illustrations
Japanese designer Masaaki Hiromura combined Japanese typography (Kanji) with symbols. In the Kitasenju Pictograms, specific portions of Kanji words are replaced with illustrations that the word embodies.
10) Japanese Student Creates Font Out of Leg Hair, Without a Computer
Japanese student Mayuko Kanazawa developed a font out of leg hair.
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