Artist Connects 6,239 Dots, Draws Mona Lisa

Thomas Pavitte decided to create his own 6,239-dot puzzle. As you’d imagine, something of that magnitude should result in something other than a rocketship, an apple, or a telephone. In fact, Mr. Pavitte ended up connecting all the dots and creating his own version of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa!!!

The project took him nine hours to complete drawing, but that doesn’t include however much time it took him to actually plot out the dots and number them in the first place.

Due to the sheer number of dots, he also color-coded them, switching the hue every 400 dots in order to keep from being distracted by literally thousands of other potential vertices.

The whole drawing is essentially one continuous string of segments, though, and their result is pretty clearly the Mona Lisa.

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Pi necklace by Japan-based design team RGB-works.

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Re-Clock

This unusual concept timepiece gradually reveals the current time with tactile, dimensional digits for each hour emerging from behind a cloth face. No minute display, but the general idea is cool.

Check it out.

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The Little Time

The Little Time by Rafael Morgan, a clock with magnifiers for hands! 
"Little Time comes with numbers printed so small they're difficult to read except when the hour or minute hand, which are tipped with magnifying lenses, passes over them."

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More Typographic Playing Cards

London based design studio Hat Trick Design has created their own set of playing cards using only typographical elements. The deck of cards features the usual 52 cards and 4 suits each reinterpreted using letters and numbers.

Each card is completely different representing the suit in a different way
each time using the number of the card. So the seven of hearts is represented using the number 7 arranged in a heart motif, while the queen of spades is represented using only the letter "q" arranged in a spade motif. You can purchase the deck through their online shop.

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Tasty Calendar

An advertisement for World Wide Bakery.

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'Tis The Season: Infograph

Here are some interesting facts and figures about our favorite time of year.

"‘Tis the season for Christmas trees, lights and gifts, and in the past that has also meant the season of outrageous spending. While the holidays may not be cheap, hard times sometimes call for desperate measures and drastic budget changes. Here’s a look at the hard facts and numbers of this most wonderful time of the year."

Click here to see this up close.

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Letter Coasters & Number Placemats

By Little Factory.

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OS Calculator

OS calculator concepts that look like the calculator apps in Windows and OS X.

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SIMbooks (Requires Manual Data Entry)

A SIM for all your contact numbers!

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Ink Calendar

"Ink Calendar" makes use the timed pace of the ink spreading on the paper to indicate time.

The ink is absorbed slowly, and the numbers in the calendar are "printed" daily. One a day, they are filled with ink until the end of the month. A calendar self-updated, which enhances the perception of time passing and not only signaling it.


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Sudoku Toilet Paper

They say that's where our brains function best!

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Takeout Menu Organizer

Call it Menu management.
Includes: pen and 50-sheet pad for taking orders, tipping guide and chart, helpful ordering advice, adhesive tab labels for easy organization, frequently called numbers list, and 9 tabbed dividers with menu storage pockets and service records.
We sure could use one of those around the office. Everybody just keeps on misplacing
the menus.

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