urban taster

Came across this little fun piece on Starbucks by Margarit Ralev. Hilarious!

It’s logical that for the 50th anniversary they’ll make another logolift*.
I’ve asked myself what it would be …

• She’ll be bigger (1). Not because of all the sweet things they sell in Starbucks, but because they’ll sell more products in any scale and they’ll need a mark with less details, visible in smaller size.
• She’ll no more be a mermaid (1a), she’ll be referred as ”the Green Lady”. As we know – mermaids are kind of nasty and don’t have such a good PR as the fairies, for example.
• She’ll be wearing a bra (2). No, Starbucks will not sell bras! ( Actually I’m not 100% positive about that…) Since the original mermaid was naked – they’ve tried to remove the nipples, but left the same breast shape… so in 2011 she’s still naked but with bad photoshop retouch. Meanwhile the feminist movement will grow even bigger and they’ll read this post some day and they’ll propose to “dress” the poor woman. Besides – with bra – she’ll be even more sexier.
• She’ll be without hair (3). Just kidding. The hair will be there, but again – because of the detail removing – her hair will be removed and marked as a silhouette between the fins.
• She’ll have fin-arms (4). Cropping will leave hands out of the picture ( literrally ) so the fins could be rotated a little bit. This way they’ll not only mark the hair, but they’ll provide the association of hands, holding… cups of coffee ?!
• She’ll smile more (5). Just a little. It’s an American brand after all. Besides – there should be something positive in the press release – she’ll look happier.
• She’ll be no more a trade mark (6). She was a registered mark until 2011, now she’s a trademark and in 2021 she’ll be something more  - an international symbol of the drinking coffee ( and other stuff ) people, protected by the community…

Have a game with your cuppa! Concept from Danil Zdorov.

For a little more fun in our daily lives, Taiwan design company bitplay has created a design concept for Bang!, a lamp that shoot the lights out. You fire a gun at the lamp to turn it off. The light goes out and the lampshade knocks to the side, showing that it’s been hit.

Wehberg installs gigantic 20 meter tall swings for Autostadt GmbH every year. One brilliant example where size does matter, no matter whatever you say… puny swing person.

Sam Cox and Justin LaRosa from Physical Fiction creates retro handmade prints from hand-built Lego. Superb and what fun!

Love the retro Polaroid but the technology of the iPhone? Now you can have both. Polaroid iPhone decal by Photojojo.

Public service message: disease or childbirth may follow!

Haha! Yes thanks Uncle Pete!

Ever wished you could have the mugs of your facebook friends plaster your wall, even when the computer’s not on? Now you can! Social Printshop prints a grid of your friend’s profile images into a long archival-paper poster. For the facebook addict in you.

This is perfect for anyone whose wardrobe is filled with only black and grey clothing. Come on.. you know you want to. By Lazy Oaf.

Florentijn Hofman’s Fat Monkey made entirely out of flipflops!

Fat Monkey (Macaco Gordo)
Sao Paulo 2010
5 x 4 x 15 meters
Inflatable and flip flops

The Fat Monkey is a site specific work which was created out of the question from the Pixelshow to make a sculpture during their conference in 2010. Made with the help of local students and made from the brazilian icon; the flip flop which obviously works as one of the 10.000 pixels. The fat monkey is a work in the series Obeastitas.

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Ikea stock these? via Neatorama

One of those things you laugh at because its true. And then you become sad.. because its true..

The folks at xkcd have done it again.

XKCD is smart. So damn smart.

There. Done! via Curled & Feathered

Laffs!

Eeeeewwwwweeee!!! via Geekistan

At last, a card for all the times you wanted to say thank you, sorry, and fuck you. Letterpressed so they will know you are serious. by You and Me the Royal We

There’s also a Katamari level where everything is just slightly bigger than you, and a Mario level with a star just out of reach. *giggles non stop* via xkcd

Luv the gun-wielding Dino! See more here.

Think Geek’s April Fool’s iCade is so cool they should stop fooling around and get it made!

RageHaus has published a DIY guide for making your own wooden wax seal! I’m gonna give this a spin right away!

A great simple little book for the times when you just need a rainbow in your life! via dornob

Haha! Made me laugh. Wordboner.com

Whahaha! This one made me laugh! Lunchbox paintings. What’s in your lunchbox?

With a purpose to rid the world of bad taste so that only good taste can prevail, the museum derdinge in berlin collects and exhibits items of bad taste. Head over to core77 for a huge gallery and write-up on each item. Below I picked some of my favourites!

EAT IT!!

The 30-Second Rule, A Decision Tree” by Audrey Fukman and Andy Wright.

“NEW LONDON, Conn. — Two Connecticut College student researchers have found that the ‘five-second rule’ – which stipulates that dropped food will be safe to eat if it stays on the floor for fewer than five seconds – might better be known as the ’30-second rule.’

The results prove, according Goettsche and Moin, that you can wait at least 30 seconds to pick up wet foods and more than a minute to pick up dry foods before they become contaminated with bacteria.”