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Collaborating with Kidrobort and Capacity, Cartoon Network’s new brand identity injects urban cool in the form of figures called Noods. Well played!

If you were expecting a picture of a half dressed gypsy… think again! The latest of the cardreaders, now from SanDisk is beautiful! Buy them right here!

what a beautiful idea of blowing a bulb. Buy it here!

…and have the coolest business card ever!

Read more here!

My favourite branding site BrandNew has a great article up on WolfOlins latest work for “Living Proof“. I am really intrigued by the concept of, for the sake of this post, what I will now refer to as “Donut Branding”.

Is a donut still a donut without its hole? Can a donut hole exist without the donut around it? Can a brand exist without a logo? Can a logo exist without its brand?

I could never imagine how you could ever make a typewriter for the 5000 or more different chinese characters, but it had apparently exsisted for a brief point in time. See more of it here.

Oh I do love this take of Harry Potter book covers by M.S. Corley. I wish they were for sale!

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A fantastic reference to the music recording media of old. This digital music player not only looks like a cassette tape but lets you relive the days where rewinding or forwarding required the state of the art “sticking a finger in the hole” method. Sweet!

See more here!

Superbly retro! A wonderful collection of vintage tape inserts.

Via 30gms.

LSD-fied. I want me a flying mushroom!

The results for the world press photo has just been announced. Head over to CR Blog to see all the pictures and get a brief writeup. Although the image below did not win the coveted premier award, it was my favourite of the lot.

part toy part force trainer, Darth Vader anymore? See more pics and videos here!

First, bike lessons. Next, look like a Lego guy!

wahahahaha!

Via ReubenMiller.

I do not know how better to describe this item, except for how beautiful it is and how much I want to lay my grubby hands on it, so in the designer’s own words… “A continuous ring, delicately proportioned, beautifully polished and seemingly flawless. There is only one tiny imperfection. A speck, no larger than a piece of dust. At a glance, it is barely noticeable. Upon close examination, it appears intentional and more clearly defined. Only magnification reveals the actual object set within the miniature interior. It is a model of the known universe. Inspired by the writing of Stephen Hawking and loosely based on the anthropic theory to22 puts our daily pursuits into perspective and reminds us that we are always a part of something bigger. “

See more of it at to22.

Yes! Let’s! Casio launches a series of ubber cool new mobile phones and a website to go along with it. I never thought I’d say this…I would like one please!

Via Adverblog.

…a walking around London town. Made of used fabric from the London Tube trains, what better way to walk around London but in them?

Get them here!

Haha! Ace!

I love tagclouds. They are beautiful, functional, and a perfect representation of the the Wed2.0 way of organising information. Wordle takes the idea and makes it an easy to use wordart tagcloud generator. Now everything can be pretty!

I never could have enough of KitKat since they always come in such small tiny bars. Thankfully there’s PimpThatSnack. Now I will never have to go hungry again!

so wrong its perfect. :D See them here.

HP has for a long time gone the opposite direction of how you should be selling computers. From the initial launch of their “The Computer is Personal Again” tagline, to the use of the controversial “Nightmare Before Christmas” fonts, HP has stayed true to their new brand proposition.This has also brought them into the realm of “Touch Computer”, a real great example of how a branding idea leads into product development. Whether they took over Dell as the largest PC manufacturer into world because of this new positioning we will never know for sure, but we do know that it stands out, is fresh and perfect for the craft-hungry hand-made new economy.

I have to say that I never was a real fan of any of their ads as it somehow all seems too gimmicky and rather sterile. The “Wake Up Your Feelings” website however hits all the right spots with amazin graphics, cute characters and beautiful score and voiceover. Will I buy a computer from HP? Not likely. Will I have them on my Apple as a desktop image? Yes please!

Love bacon so much you wish you could have it on your favourite websites? Now you can!

I want one.

Via Inhabitat.

…in these lean times, and none make saving quite as fun as the Hedgefunds by Christian Lessing. Roll your way to good times with these piggy banks and see how many revolutions it takes for the penny to drop!

Via MoCo Loco.

I love Sheeshas! Buy me one here!

Bulbs are seldom the centrepiece in any interior and rarely steal the limelight (pun intended) from the lamps that they are installed in. Along comes the G08 LED Warm White light bulb from Chinavision and suddenly I find myself going “Wow. What a beautiful bulb.”

Buy it for roughly S$45 here.