best of the rest

Courtesy of Marc Teer, check out Dezeen's Top Ten Interiors

list! It is a round-up of the site's top ten most viewed stories

since the online mag started. The list has the likes of the

Phillip Lim store in Toyko and NYU Philosophy Building.

Once you're done with the list, check out the rest of their

site!

shopahaulic

Jason Hall sent over this link to supermarkethq.com. Similar to
Etsy.com, supermarket will suck your time like you never had it
in the first place. But, you'll come out of it much cooler cause you
bought some really great stuff!

line up

Flickr user Brittnybadger has a great photo set of appliances that

she'd taken apart and laid out in a meticulous manner. This was

part of her thesis project at school: "...I took apart used

cooking/cleaning appliances, and arranged their interior parts

very systematically on a white sheet of bristol board. My intention

was to explore the hidden 'brains' of these appliances; allowing

us to view these everyday objects from a new perspective."

see more here.

(via kottke)

knock knock

I came across this great page of vintage door hangers - of the hotel 'do not disturb' variety.
See more here.

photo call

You know how you look for inspiration images and never can find anything new or good?

Jackpot.

-stylefiles
-remodelista
-desiretoinspire

sign language

This carpark in Melbourne Austrailia has taken an interesting
approach to their wayfinding signage. Upon certain angles,
the graphics are perfectly legible and in others, ah not so much.
Accident inducing or good idea?

book arts

Japanese designer Katsumi Komagata started making children's books

in 1994 when he became a father. These incredible books beautifully

tell stories through die cuts and color combinations on each page.

The most interesting concept is I'm Gonna Be Born which

describes birth from a baby's perspective. Komagata also has a series

of tactile books for the visually impared and another of die cut cards for

children to interact with their parents. They are all almost too pretty

to put in a kid's hands. Learn more here.

fade to black

Brazillian artist Iran do Espirito Santo's "En Passant"

is a comment on art shows (read more here) but what

caught my eye was that it looks like the gradient we

use, a lot, in Illustrator. I suggest you read the artist's

actual intent...it's much smarter.

(via coolhunting.com)

office of campus life

The New York Times had an interesting article in the Sunday

Magazine this past weekend about the corporate campuses

of yore. There is also a collection of wonderful images of IBM,

Bell Labs, and Pespsi-Co. Both IBM and Bell capuses are for

sale and could possibly be torn down.

The article is called 'The Office as Architectural Touchstone'.

hide and seek

People painted like their surroundings by Dutch artist Desiree Palman.
Read more here.