urban taster

How a plain box makes a difference.

This box never has to deal with a store shelf. It doesn’t require layers of plastic – so you can open it easily. It can use fewer materials than our retail package – which can make recycling simpler. And it would love to be recycled (where facilities exist).

It’s just one small thing we’re doing to make your experience, and the planet, a little better. your choice to buy online helps make it possible.

A brown box may not be pretty, but we think the results are beautiful.

I think so too. Thank Logitech.

For everyone in the branding business, and everyone else who enjoy brands everyday.. Merry Christmas!

I love the works of Amano Takashi who turns fresh water aquariums into works of living art. I would put one in my living room, even if it takes up the entire space! Simply stunning.

A real store in actual real existence, the Hoxton Street Monster Supplies stocks top quality goods for everyday monsters, and the monsters in all of us. We Made This took the idea, and executed a perfect old-world apothecary with hand-stuck labels and painted door signs. The most interesting part of this store? Behind a cupboard lies a secret stairway to lead up to a writing school for kids, called Ministry of Stories. The store is actually a fake front for a writing centre where kids aged 8-18 can get one-to-one tuition with professional writers and other volunteers. Born out of an idea of the 826 literacy project by Dave Eggers, this is one project that is perfect all over, inside and out.

Once in a while, something comes along that is infinitely useful, perfectly executed, and makes me smile. This project is one of them. A MUST read for anyone or everyone who is using the internet.

… my tombstone should look like this. via Creative Review

Pink underwear with my name on it! I need it! via Kate Loves Me

Awww…..

Mindflyer has some amazing new work up at his site. Drawing upon his childhood memories of Nonya desserts, he paints the sweets in such loving hues and delicate details I can smell the coconut milk and hear the chatter in the background! Catch his work, and much more at the upcoming “Shiok! A Gastronomy of Singapore Design” in Japan, curated by Black Design.

Ahhh… the feeling of love at first sight, in the form of the BMW R60/2, courtesy of Blitz Motorcycles.

Its these little observations on life that makes XKCD the best out there.

Do yourself the biggest favour of the week and head down to the wilderness downtown and have an amazing time. Did I mention technology is amazing and I wanna marry it?

urban taster loves yum yum!

This is how my heaven will look like, chinese tessellation grills in beautiful bright orange coloured craziness! *pants* by Sam Songailo at CACSA

There. Done! via Curled & Feathered

Such a super duper idea! Wish I was 5 again… sighs…

I love Lady Gaga more and more. The styling, the fashion, the sets, the choreography, the dancing, the dancers, the music, the directing, the editing… STUNNING!

Watch Alejandro now here!

I was a click away from having this beautiful timepiece to call my own. The beautiful retro-ish brushed steel dial and huge orange second hand with a digital clock at the 6 o’clock position is just screaming my name.

USD200 including shipping to my wrist. Tell me… should I or should I not?

laughing out loud… buy it here!

Awwww…… seen at Pixdaus

Love it!

What is this?

Love it! Threadles.

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.”

Big Love Sigh….

This exquisite little machine, the color of a delicate Italian caffelatte, caught my attention on the website of Australian motorcycle photographer Phil Aynsley. The picture was taken in a small village near Bassano del Grappa in northern Italy, and the bike appears to be a 1953 Laverda 75 Sport. That means it was built just five years after Francesco Laverda decided to create a lightweight motorcycle for his own use. By 1952, Laverda had created a factory team of four racing bikes to enter into the Milano-Taranta road race—and when all four bikes finished the race, the Laverda name was established in the motorcycling world. The 75 Sport, with a new tubular steel frame, then dominated the 1953 Motogiro d’Italia. And the rest, of course, is history.

Via Bike EXIF.

I kept this for a bit as a pet a while back, and am now wondering if I should start again. Anyone else knows of the magic of the Triops yet?

By showing  you a peekaboo of its insides, the Lyra colourstripe effectively soves the problem of labelling colouring pencils, as well as the age old “how do you redesign something as simple as a colouring pencil”. Stunning work by Formidable

Now who can forget this song by the alien diva from Fifth Element (in my opinion one of the best sci-fi shows ever!) Multi-PASS!!!

I must have watched the old version of this show countless times, as mummy will switch it on when I was young to keep me in my sit while she fed me my meals. Now the trailer for the updated version looks so hot I cannot wait! (and who can forget the scene with the scorpions?!)