S.T Dupont MiniJets

A pretty cool initiative by S.T Dupont. Known for its classic luxury lighters with the signature "clinking" sound once closed, the brand has always aimed for the more "mature" crowd.

Today, S.T Dupont has decided to widen its target to include a younger generation with the launch of their very compact, flashy, spicy and exotic new incarnations. There are 14 trendy colors such as; Fuchsia Buzz, Bleu Eclectique, and Orange Fizz.

To promote the MiniJet series, Dupont has launched a Facebook app whereby you can send coded messages to your list of friends based on the choice of colors you choose. Pretty cool!

Try it out here.

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CMYK Pillows

Meninos launched these new geeky CMYK pillows!
But "Cyan" is spelled wrong!!!

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Cecelia's Flowers

Cecelia Webber creates images of flowers entirely constructed from photographs of the human body.

Her work consists of only the naked human body, often her own, photographed in the most peculiar of positions then painstakingly overlaid using Photoshop to form the familiar shapes of petals, stamen and stem. So familiar the shapes are and so acutely formed that at first glance it is hard to tell that you're looking at naked people. Lastly, but always first in our book, she saturates the forms with stunning color. Her work pays great homage to nature: the beauty of the human figure and the shapes and colors that connect all living things.

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Fat Monkey

Amazing installation entitled "Fat Monkey" by Macaco Gardo for the Pixelshow 2010 conference in Sao Paulo, Brasil. The students made this huge monkey out of thousands of colorful flip-flops! Pretty cool!

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Rainbow Office

Designed by Dutch architecture firm Hofman Dujardin, the DLA Piper office is a playful space intended to accentuate the variations in sunlight throughout a typical working day.

What does that mean? The side of the building that receives the most sunlight is balanced with cooler tones, while the side that receives the least is compensated with warm tones.

Meanwhile, the giant gradient of carpet connects the four main meeting rooms, while also creating a simple and clear sense of orientation within the building.

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Japanese Rice Paddy Art

Each year, Japanese rice paddies are transformed into land art, using different kinds of rice to obtain different colors, most notably in Aomori where you can find the finest rice crop art.

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Glass USB Drive

A USB drive concept by Mac Funamizu.

The see-through glass would light up when plugged in, with different colors indicating individual file types it stores.

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Slim Chips

Designer Hafsteinn Juliusson of Iceland and Italy presented flavoured paper snacks in Milan last week.

Called Slim Chips, the snacks are made of edible paper with organic colours and flavours in peppermint, blueberry and sweet potato.

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Pushpin Portraits

Born in California and now residing in Northern Michigan, 33 year old husband, father and artist Eric Daigh creates portraits by putting ordinary pushpins in posterboard. Daigh uses blue, red, white, yellow and black push pins (he sprays green pushpins black since there are no black pushpins) to create his masterpieces. Each portrait requires about 11,000 pushpins which Daigh applies by one at a time.
More pics here.

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Nathan Sawaya: Brick By Brick

LEGO brick artist Nathan Sawaya's 'Brick by Brick' is the first solo exhibition of his art works, comprised entirely of LEGO bricks, in New York.

Sawaya quit his job as a corporate lawyer back in 2001 to pursue his childhood fascination with the ubiquitous building blocks, transforming them into an artistic medium.

He has used LEGO's shapes and bright colors to develop a range of sculptures including pop culture icons, the human form, planets.He's even created a life-sized self-portrait, expressing the limitless possibilities of this medium.

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