First day cover for Norway 1966 - Feat Sam Eyde 1866/1940 stamp and Kristian Birkeland 1867/1917 stamp.
Beautiful set of stamps dedicated to the Norwegian engineer Samuel Eyde and the scientist Kristian Olaf Birkeland. My copy (above) has a postmark on it, so I tracked down another version without the post mark at the excellent Postimerkki.
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Modern Vintage Stamps from Norway - First Day Cover 1966
Doshi Levien - Base Patterns for Tefal Teflon cookware
Bottom of Tefal pans designed by Doshi Levien
This makes me ashamed to look at my crappy IKEA pans.
(via the awesome orange you lucky!)
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SLEEPY TIME! Do Not Disturb Hotel Door Hangers
Athens Hotel door hanger + El Al Airlines hanger for sleepy time
Woah, Michael Lebowitz just posted an awesome collection of hotel door hangers.
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Luggage label from Norway
Modern luggage label from Switzerland
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Matte Stephens interview
I’m really excited to present today’s interview. Matte is one of my favorite artists and an all around rad guy. Matte makes amazing art and lives in a house with lots of cool modern furniture. In Matte’s conversation with us he shares some of the people/things that inspire his work, the characters that frequent his [...]
the girl effect typographic movie
a typograpical movie about the powerful social & economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate in their society.
[link: girleffect.org]
periodic coffee table
a coffee-table display case for samples of all existing stable elements. each element sample is individually embedded inside a solid acrylic block, while all the blocks are arranged in the grid of the periodic table, priced EU 6,890, US $8,550. more interactive versions of “periodic” display walls exist as well.
[link: element-collection.com|via bornrich.org & boingboing.net]
product space network graph
a detailed network representation giving an overview of the international products space, with different colors for each product class (e.g. petroleum, animal products, cereals, machinery, chemical, electronics), node size denoting the average income per-capita associated with that good & link color indicating a range in the proximity values
[link: chidalgo.com]
Lego-based time-tracking
an alternative way to represent time schedule tracking by stacking different lengths of Lego blocks as a way to convey different sequential time periods. stacking hourly rows on top of each other builds up the whole day, while color represents the different projects at hand. a whole week of time tracking is created by setting [...]
multi-touch spherical display
a novel display interface that allows simultaneous collaborative actions by multiple people, while each user perceives an equally-valid view & no-one has a “master position” over the displayed information. projected objects can be passed around the sphere by different gestural actions.
applications include photo-browsing, geographical mapping, the navigation of live omnidirectional camera images & a pong [...]
Widgenie data sharing widgets
a new online socially-driven data visualization service, in the same line of Many Eyes & Swivel & Track-n-Graph, which allows users to visualize & share information through the use of small widgets. Widgenie allows data to be acquired from spreadsheets & be visually shared online through a sequence of simple, online steps. the current visualization [...]
