Unique products to inspire and amuse. Lightsaber Chopsticks. Just don’t invite Darth Vader over for Chinese. Creepy Hand Wrench. The perfect gift for your creepy plumber buddy. Daily Affirmation Gum. Because I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! Sing-A-Long Salad Tongs. Nothing says songfest like tossing some greens. Photos by […]
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Seattle Times: Like many brides and bridegrooms, Katie Mercurio and Jeremy Geddis had specific ideas about their wedding. No pink. Lots of lavender. Traditional Seattle food and ingredients. And rock-poster invitations. For that, they turned to Seattle-based designer Matt Terich, who makes wedding-poster invitations, on top of his poster work for bands and his day
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Fast Company: The James Dyson Awards, a sprawling event that garners thousands of entries from design students the world over, is a pretty phenomenal wellspring of ideas–the short list runs into the hundreds. Treehugger points us to one concept we hadn’t seen: A collapsible milk jug that makes the milk last longer. The designer–who has
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Pour water on a typical greeting card and you’ve got a soggy mess. Do the same to a Postcarden, and you’ve got the beginnings of a miniature garden. According to DailyGrommet.com, Postcarden creator Aimee Furnival had an idea to re-think the greeting card and in a way that is stylish, playful, completely unexpected and yes,
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You’ve probably seen a lot of variations of bikes already and even perhaps choose one for yourself. But this bike allow you to be absolutely unique! Swiss art director Juri Zaech came up with a witty and original series of bikes. Their frames are created in form of elegant inscriptions of names of their owners.
Melanie Jacober is definitely at the head of her business. Of course, it helps that she is in the business of upholstering headboards. When some people knit a blanket or sew together a quilt, Melanie found her calling in the world of bedding, reports Calgary Herald. She started on her path to custom headboards as
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Have you ever wondered why fancy glasses and goblets were so, well, plain? Kristy Peters couldn’t help but ask herself the same question. She decided to tap into her artistic talents and created Lani Designs. It is time to take the plain out of the glasses you use in your home and add a little
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Dana Burck and Greg Hill of Cincinnati were a happy young couple who enjoyed traveling, watching movies, and did a lot of online shopping together. The New York Times reports that last Tuesday evening, Hill kept Burck up late with caffeine and back rubs, until about 1 a.m., when she says, “and then we went
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Frank Fish was on vacation with his fiancée in Boston when he spotted a fine-art sculpture of a humpback whale in Quincy Market. On closer inspection, he noticed the flippers had bumps on the edges. “I thought ‘The artist got this all wrong,’” he recalls. “But when the store manager pulled out a picture of
April over at BlacksburgBelle.com takes a look at some books for creative entrepreneurs you might have missed. The Creative Entrepreneur by Lisa Sonora Beam This is a DIY visual guidebook for making business ideas real. Do you ever wonder why business, numbers, and marketing aren’t that easy for artists and other creatives? It’s because we
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