If you read Christopher Moore's "Lamb," you'll find this even funnier.

The Original JesusPan - Seen and Heard Everywhere

Civilitea earthenware tea cups

Objects like these just reinforce how much I appreciate simple, good design.

The double-walled slipcast earthenware cups don a cast silver boat hardware detail. The user wraps the teabag string around the cleat, holding it in place.

Core77 :: Design Studio Bullitts

I love Zen koans.

Tiny stories to focus and still your mind. Lovely.


AshidaKim.com :: Zen Koans

If you like these, I recommend this Zen Koan Card Pack as well.

(via linkbunnies.org)

Ready Meals dinner plates

soop :: ready meals

I have a weakness for web generators.

The Newspaper Clipping Generator :: Create your own fun newspaper.

Xing Danwen :: Urban Fiction

The architectural structures that I photographed are all maquettes made to promote real-estate developments that are being planned in China today. Some of the buildings already exist, and others will soon begin construction [...]

The models of these new living spaces are perfect and clean and beautiful but they are also so empty and detached of human drama. When you take these models and begin to add real life--even a single drop of it--so much changes.

This entire body of work is playful and fictitious, wandering between reality and fantasy. All the figures in this series are images of me, playing different characters.

Danwen

Jean-Luc Cornec's telephone sheep.

They made me smile.

From the Museum of Telecommunication in Frankfurt.

(photo credit: Alamy.com)

Wikipedia :: Museum fuer Telekommunikation Telefonschafe

The Inflatable Chicken Protector

Inflate makes a lot of cool products, but – hands down - this is my favorite.

Inflate - Latest Projects - Inflatable Structures and Products

Blippity Fling-Flang

Amusing to those of us that use greeking on a regular basis. Results are kinda like the now-defunct Shizzolator's, except more hepcat than hip hop.

Anyway, I 'flangitized' my site, and I have to admit, it's kinda sweet.

Blippity Fling-Flang

(via Found on the Web)

Hoffa cupcakes

The citizens of Milford, Michigan (where the FBI is trying to dig up Jimmy Hoffa's remains) can munch of these topical delights for 95 cents at a local bakery. Gotta love it.

Sploid :: Hoffa cupcakes

Quote of the day.

Because if you can’t have the bottom half of your leg back, Zeste Mandarine Pamplemousse is a decent replacement.

Gawker :: What Wounded Soldier Doesn't Want to Smell Zesty?

Souvenir of Canada - a film by Douglas Coupland

SOUVENIR OF CANADA joins internationally celebrated author Douglas Coupland (Generation X, jPod) on a journey to find out what makes Canadians, Canadians. Coupland seeks out the answers in the darnedest of places: like stubby beer bottles, Ookpiks, bilingual cereal boxes and Terry’s Fox’s worn-out sock. His dream is to build a “Canada House” to house all these unique pop objects and memories, that only Canadians will understand.

Souvenir of Canada :: official web site

Cheeeeeeese.

I need a dribble bib after reading The Nibble's newsletter this week. It's always informative and interesting, but it's particularly gorgeous this week.


THE NIBBLE Product Review :: Mozzarella Fresca's Mozzarella, Mascarpone, Ricotta and Dolce

czeltic girl's brew city photo tour.

While I wasn't paying attention, CG's been here, there and everywhere in Milwaukee, clicking up a storm. The city's never looked as fabulous or interesting as through her shutter. Damn. Check it out.



brew city - a photoset on Flickr

Two of my fave things together.

A lamp in the shape of a globe.


Land of Nod :: Light Up Illuminated Globe

Also very cool: Nodism Self-Adhesive Wall Quotes

Milwaukee :: Erie Street Plaza Design Competition Winner

The City of Milwaukee will soon add a landmark public plaza to Milwaukee’s Harbor entrance that features a mix of industrial design, native plantings and a touch of the exotic-- illuminated fiberglass benches scattered among a grove of bamboo trees. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett recently signed legislation to move forward with the winner of an international design competition for Erie Street Plaza in the Historic Third Ward.


Milwaukee DCD: Erie Street Plaza Design Competition

(via treehugger.com)

New Aesthetic Apparatus art prints.

I dig their new wood prints.
Below: Belle of the Butter Boat, Shrinkin' Lincoln and Gay Nazi Dairy Council.




Aesthetic Apparatus :: ART PRINTS

Create your own COLORS magazine.

Request a blank book, fill it in, send it back.

It will become part of the COLORS NOTEBOOK Project that will be exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris at the end of October 2006. Thousands of COLORS Magazines to celebrate freedom of expression.

COLORS Magazine Notebook

Mini sculptures of artists

Fantastic.




Joe Fig :: Sculpture

Dear NSA

Q: Where did I leave my keys?
A: Inside pocket of your gray jacket (it's hanging in the front closet).

Q: Can I substitute margarine for butter in my Toll House cookie recipe?
A: We know that you've been smoking pot.

Dear NSA

(via YBNBY)

Feeding my greeting card fetish beast.

Hand screened and lovely.


:: Blend Creations :: Paper Goods

(via designspotter.com)

Run Danny Run

My friend/co-worker/drinking buddy, Dan, is running the Chicago Marathon this year to support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Dan's mom was recently diagnosed with a form of blood cancer that is very serious, but, thankfully, treatable because of cancer research. His mom is doing quite well (yay, Danny's mom!), and Dan's looking to raise $2300 in donations to help fight this ugly disease.

If you have a few bucks to spare, please help Danny reach his goal. (It'll probably make him feel a tiny bit better that he'll miss our Thursday night drinks at RR to train.)

Cheers, bud.

Run Danny Run

We all know one.

Thanks to whichever co-worker posted this on the fridge at work.

Coworker Most Valuable To Office When He Fails To Show Up
(The Onion - America's Finest News Source)

Jessica Lertvilai :: Love is Blind

The designer has collected love letters, received by or given to participants of the project. These letters have been transcribed into Braille and transferred in relief pattern onto the surface of the vase.

Vest Collective :: Love is Blind

I am neglecting you.

I know. It's bad. I'm sorry. Just in a bit of a work crunch right now, kids. Should let up soon. In the meantime, enjoy some Drew.

toothpaste for dinner :: "the most addictive comic on the web"

They Might Be Giants ringtones.

I admit it. I'm a sucker for TMBG. And their "Ring Ring" ringtone makes me wish I had an updated phone so I could use it.

TMBG :: Ringtones

(via YesButNoButYes)

FOUND Magazine | Find of the Day

Always interesting. These are from Milwaukee. Aw.



FOUND Magazine | Find of the Day

Kleptones :: Down on Bennies

I listened to this the day YBNBY posted it, and it keeps coming back to me. So I downloaded 24 Hours for free from the Kleptones site.

SO good.


(image and tip courtesy of the wonderful YesButNoButYes)

How to get rid of those pesky credit card offers.

Use them for subversive junk mail. Love it.


One is a pamphlet [...] designed to be included in postage paid return mail envelopes that come with credit card offers. The pamphlet is in the style of an airline safety card, and shows mail processors overturning their desks and creating a new utopian society within their office complex. Packard is collecting the business reply postage paid envelopes to send pamphlets in and would appreciate anyone who sends some his way care of the gallery.

Stay Free! Daily :: Packard Jennings at Catherine Clark Gallery, SF

Justin Clayton's daily paintings.

I like his work, and I like the concept. And this one made a lovely Mother's Day present for me mum.



Daily paintings :: Justin Clayton

(Kudos to swissmiss for tipping me off about him back in April.)

Not your same old shower curtain...

Izola offers fresh and sophisticated shower curtains that incorporate the work of groundbreaking artists, bold patterns and iconic global destinations.

izolashower.com
International Center of Photography :: Izola Shower Curtains

Learning a little something every day - jus primae noctis

Apparently, my co-worker, Jack, has invoked this right, based on helping Kathryn, an engaged co-worker, put together her new bike. (This is the kind of office I work in.)

In fact the jus primae noctis was, in the European late medieval context, a widespread popular belief in an ancient privilege of the lord of a manor to share the bed with his peasants' newlywed brides on their wedding nights. Symbolic gestures, reflecting this belief, were developed by the lords and used as humiliating signs of superiority over the dependent peasants in a time of disappearing status differences. Actual intercourse on behalf of the alleged right is difficult to prove. It probably never occurred.

Wikipedia :: Droit de seigneur (or jus primae noctis)

(Thank you, Bradley, for edumacating me. I'd no idea.)

New Scientist always has the most intriguing headlines.

They always get me interested, even in things in which I don't have a particular interest. Like this:
Hooligan chants silenced by delayed echoes

They also have some great blogs:
New Scientist :: Short Sharp Science blog
New Scientist :: Invention blog
New Scientist :: Technology Blog

Beautiful gift wrap from Paper Source.

These are so lovely I'm thinking of framing them.


Paper Source

Helvetica pencil case.

Geek out. Yeah.

Super 7 Store

The FRAGILE vase.

The FRAGILE vase is made of expanded polystyrene, an unusual material for this type of objects. It opposes to the archetypal image of the vase as being a fragile object. As FRAGILE is its own packaging, it is easily storable, transportable and shippable.

This company's product designs are brilliant. Thoughtful, economical and so funny.
BIG-GAME

Textbook disclaimer stickers

The last one is my favorite.

Wording for the first disclaimer [...] is taken verbatim from the sticker designed by the Cobb County School District ("A community with a passion for learning") in Georgia. Really, I'm not making this up. The other 14 are mildly educational variants that demonstrate the real meaning of a scientific "theory" as well as the true motivations of the School Board members and their creationist supporters.

Textbook disclaimer stickers

(via Ektopia)

Giant stretched canvas digital images.

Up to 60". Some are quite nice. (Swissmiss, you oughta hook up with these guys! Your photos would rock as giant canvases...)


m-dc :: shop for modern digital canvas

Fabulous hotel :: Hemingway House

If I'm ever in Cape Town, South Africa, this is where I'm staying.

Hemingway House



Just one of many gorgeous places at Concierge.com :: Conde Nast Traveler Hot List Hotels (Under $200).

I love my co-workers, Part 865.

A post from my fab co-worker just down the aisle (who actually had her camera today to capture this).

Czeltic Girl :: Oh, the irony

David Sedaris :: Memento Mori (When gifts come back to haunt you)

For the past ten years or so, I’ve made it a habit to carry a small notebook in my front pocket. The model I favor is called the Europa, and I pull it out an average of ten times a day, jotting down grocery lists, observations, and little thoughts on how to make money, or torment people. The last page is always reserved for phone numbers, and the second to last I use for gift ideas. These are not things I might give to other people, but things that they might give to me: a shoehorn, for instance—always wanted one. The same goes for a pencil case, which, on the low end, probably costs no more than a doughnut...

Read the rest here @ The New Yorker.

Tonight's Tiny Showcase featured artist is a Milwaukeean.

Milwaukee's own Ric Stultz has a print on the Tiny Showcase block starting at 8:30 EST tonight. I like his stuff. (Lotsa robots!)

A little intro from his recent 4WALL Gallery exhibit in London:

Ric Stultz lives in the Riverwest area of Milwaukee, WI USA. He splits his time between drawing, painting, and designing for some of the greatest galleries and agencies across the US. His illustrated images are published and collected internationally but it is his stunning paintings which caused 4WALL to chase him down across America to exhibit. We think Ric has huge worldwide appeal and one of the most arresting styles in our group.


ric stultz :: us_here_now_and_then

Stop sign stickers.

Not a huge fan of graffiti, but these made me chuckle. Especially, "STOP is the new go."

(Minus points, though, for using the "Hammertime" tag that real graffiti kids have been using for years.)

glarkware :: counter-hippie stop sign stickers

(via Found on the Web)

If you need a laugh today, look no further.

And there's loads of webbity goodness for designer types throughout the rest of the site.

Warning: The film starts loading immediately, so check your speaker volume.

12foot6 :: dog films

Posterhanger by Jorgen Moller

Yes, these kinds of poster hangers have been around for years. What's great about this site is that it has extra large hangers for prints up to 60 inches wide.

Posterhanger by Jorgen Moller

Fun! It's a biscuit font!

Automatic biscuit image creator

(via I like)

Comfy rocks...

Couches, pillows... they all look like beach stones. Who knows what they're like up close, but they look great in pictures. (Not available in the U.S. yet.)

livingstones :: les coussins galets

(via coolhunting and design*sponge)

Love these tile coasters.

And I'm impressed with how they customized their Cafe Press store. Nice job!



SPLIT DESIGN

(via NOTCOT.)