stand up and say hello

UCLA art student Emerson Taymor designed these super clever

business cards! (via bblinks)

flickr goes my heart

I don't know about you, but I just adore the things you can
find on flickr! It's nearing holiday time and most of us know
about that can-shaped cranberry stuff, right? well here
is a flickr set that is all of food shaped like the packaging
they came in.

mass transit

These images show the space needed for the same number

of people to travel by car, bus or bike.

(from the Munster Planning Office, Germany via cup of joe)

real world: photoshop

This is apparently an ad for PhotoShop's Indonesian market.

I think it's pretty funny.

straw scape

Brooklyn artist Tara Donovan creates her artwork from everyday

manufactured items like plastic cups, scotch tape and drinking straws

and transforms them into massive volumes.

The giant collections of items take on amorphous and nearly landscape

forms. Her work has been shown at the Hammer Museum in

LA, the Whitney in NY

if you have some time...

use it to look around British artist Keith Tyson's website. His
work consists of large scale sculptures, installations and paintings.
The website is a great interactive experience that is worth
taken the time to explore.
(thanks Rita/David)

jenga anyone?

Sou Fujimoto Architects in Japan's very Jenga-like house
has no separation between wall/floor/ceiling/furniture.
Each serves the other's purpose and become what the
user needs or sees them as. More photos here.
(thanks Jason)

a tree grows in wisconsin

Brian Pittman sent over photos from his trip up to Door County, WI

last weekend. It reminded me that oh yeah, it is fall and leaves turn

colors! We don't see a whole lot of that en masse living in the city.

Sure, Chicago has loads of trees but not blankets of color like this.

Thanks Brian!

le cube, c'est chic

The ever talented Yves Behar and his Fuse Project studio have

come up with a very beautiful piece of equipment for your (french)

tv. Le Cube was developed by Behar in conjunction with French

TV channel Canal to produce and innovative and useful

experience for users. The system provides information and

personal preferences on a beautiful pixel display.

Read more here via Mocoloco.

the amazing race

From yesterdays post, Good magazine has some funny bi-partisan political

information. This one is 'good'. The above illustration is depicting what our

candidates suits would look like if they were like nascar drivers and had

uniforms with their sponsors covering them.