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A fun bike, the SeeSaw Bike by My Atomic Mass.

The dating hand stamp from Afroditi. One shake of the hand and your target is branded in ink with your phone number!

Very cool press-out Dodo sculpture kit from Muji, part of their endangered and extinct press-out animal series which also includes, Mammoth, Orangutan and Owl and a set of pop out ‘under the sea’ animals. Made from recycled materials, for every press-out animal from their endangered and instinct series and every ‘under the sea’ kit sold, Muji will donate 5% to the Born Free Foundation whose aim is to protect wildlife around the world. Born Free Foundation.

Amy Driscoll loves living in St. Paul’s Hamline-Midway neighborhood, except for the traffic. Folks passing through drive too fast. Driscoll said, “35 to 40 miles per house isn’t unusual. And there are a lot of kids around here, so that gets a little frustrating.” Sculptor Steven Woodward is used to making big pieces of art, like the big numbers outside the state revenue building or the Braille book at Travelers Insurance.
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NetFlix tear-off flaps are sturdy, colorful, and perfect for origami and paper airplanes, so don’t just toss those wrappers into the recycling bin. Although most origami requires special paper squares, we have adapted these designs so you can use NetFlix flaps without alteration. Just tear them off carefully at the perforated line and follow our step-by-step instructions for making paper-folding magic.

Created to celebrate the union of the art and urban bicycle cultures, the Rolling Canvas Art Collective will highlight and encourage the use of bicycles as a means of artistic expression. These twenty-plus artists will recreate basic, fixed gear bicycles into one-of-a-kind representations of their creative methods ranging from sculpture and metal work, to street art and paint. The art installations will be auctioned off to the public, with each artist donating a portion of the proceeds to Neighborhood Bike Works of Philadelphia.

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You don’t buy your shoes from a cobbler, and you may not get food directly from the farmer, but if you’re looking for something unique, with perhaps a connection to the artisan who created it, Etsy may be the answer. Created to reconnect producer with consumer, with a community that actively supports one another in the shared goal of offering alternatives to mass-produced objects, Etsy is the online market for all things handmade.

The chair is considered one of the paradigms of industrial design. Its reflection has been based, among others, in ergonomic, aesthetic, sociological, anthropological and economic analysis. Nevertheless the chair that is a part of east project takes into account an additional factor: the present invisible fields in the homes and places of work. These fields generate the ion presence (charged particles electrically), which when making contact with enemy with our body affects to us as much psychological as physically. Inspired by the Placebo Project (A.Dunne & F. Raby, 2000-2001) a landmark in conceptual design that raises questions and awareness about the presence of pervasive electromagnetic waves in your home.

Anyone need to know how to make a card holder? Well look no further. The guys over at Design Verb have a really cool DIY tutorial on how to make them from scratch.