Little Bits

Some of you already know about my upcoming project – Pretty Rad For A Dad.
(if not – or you’d like to know more, drop me a note)

Seeing the above video after returning from a visit with the brilliant team from I-Drone / SWARM has got my blood pumping to build, break and create stuff in a way I haven’t felt in years.

Bring on the Summer of building stuff!

Insta-Forest

If we got a chandelier, it would probably be a scary ass one like this

Beer bottle chandelier

via Design Milk

For the London types

poster by Blanka

Mr Tee

Mr T made out of t-shirts and printed on a tee. Geddit!? created by Phil Jones via Threadless

Repair & Repurpose

REPAIR AND REPURPOSE ARE THE NEW KILLER APPS.

The typical early adopter cares about function and capability above all else. But what about the rest of us? As technology penetrates formerly closed markets around the world, the ability to fix and upgrade in the field is increasingly sought after. Even in tech-savvy urban centers, there’s a growing consumer subculture that sees hacking and repairing as an indicator of true ownership. Show the tinkerers some love. The smartest technology companies in 2013 won’t make everything totally field serviceable, but they‘ll offer access to those who want it. Rather than just optimizing for speed, compactness or low-cost, they’ll offer products and services that invite users to actively maintain and modify, winning loyalty and love along the way. image and thinking by Ziba via FastCo Design

3Doodler: World’s first 3D printing pen

The future is looking crazy bright.
Get in on the 3D doodle action at their Kickstarter page here

Design Nerds Assemble

Jag Nagra spent 365 from January 29th 2012 to January 28th 2013 creating 1 illustration per day as a way of pushing past the comfort zone. Here is a video showcasing the product of this challenge  

Mine Mapping

Mine Map by Elizabeth Sampson, 2012 Illustrating how mining has literally shaped Australia via Truly Deeply

Inside the mind of Kanye West

Infographic by Charlie Brown , the self-appointed 'King of YouTube'

Ryan Gosling as Walt Disney

Just one of many beautiful fakes by French graphic designer Pascal Witaszeck. See the whole lot here

Julian Bialowas imagery

via Fox In The Pine

How to piss off your designer friends

Gameboy iPhone case

via The Fancy

Obama as an Architect

Space Invader business cards

created by Italian Art Director Paolo Castellaneta
via Design Taxi

I love you

via Word Boner

This poster will tear us apart. Again

Data visualisation of 85 recorded versions of the Joy Division classic.
Designed by Peter Crnokrak, aka The Luxury of Protest

Show some respect

via Design You Trust

Pass me another death stick

Packaging design by Reynolds & Reyner

There’s always money in the banana stand

There’s always money in the banana stand
Art inspired by Arrested Development

via FastCo.Create

Ten great years

created by Maxim Dalton
via Loasby

Laser cut nori makes designer sushi

‘Design Nori’, created for the Umino Seaweed Shop by I & S BBDO

via DesignBoom

Your love is like a rollercoaster, baby

via Design You Trust

Galileo solves a truly 21st century problem

This Kickstarter project has made so much money it could fund itself five times over.

(At time of post) You’ve still got 9 days to fund buy one of these little beauties here

Bean Ergonomic Mouse by Rene Lee

There are too many reasons to list why this is a brilliant piece of design.

So instead, we thought we’d just post the beautiful illustrations of the Bean left & right handed ergonomic mouse and if you want to know more, check it out here

via Behance

Test your colour matching skills with Color

Color has been created by Maria Manuera & Mark MacKay as part of their brilliant Method of Action program… Helping super left brain, analytical programmer types wrap their head around design.

So yes, it’s clever… But it’s also super fun!
Check it out here

Inner Demons II by Meggs

If you’re in Melbourne tonight, and a fan of pretty much anything Everfresh – get along to Backwoods Gallery to see Meggs unveil some hella skulls and awesome shtuff 

via DailyMelbourne.com

Melbourne designed iPhone 4 case with bottle opener

Congratulations to Melbourne lads Rob Ward & Chris Peters, who recently launched this cracking idea after reaching 50% of their Kickstarter Project finance in the first week.

Opena Case is just 40 bones, available here

Show us ya floppy disk… art

created by Nick Gentry
via BuzzFeed