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National Magazine Awards
If are bored of reading the same old magazines every week maybe you should try mixing it up a bit. The 45th National Magazine Awards has just announced its finalists – a quick scan down the list might inspire you to read Garden & Gun, Travel + Leisure or Martha Stewart Living. But if you [...]
Kidnap Me
French company Ultime Réalité offers to kidnap you without warning (after payment of EUR900). You’ll be dragged off the street, tied up and gagged for up to ten hours. Other options include a manhunt or waking up in a morgue. Customers include high-level executives who want an extreme immersive experience.
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The Cove Team Takes on LA
Whilst waiting to collect their Oscar, it seems that Louie Psihoyos, director of feature-length dolphin slasher documentary The Cove couldn’t help but indulge in a little more activisim, this time in a Santa Monica sushi bar call the Hump, which was suspected of serving illegal whale meat. Louie and his team turned up for dinner [...]
Real Good Experiment
Blu Dot’s Real Good Experiment aims to track what happens to unwanted furniture when it is left in the street. They left 25 GPS tagged chairs on the sidewalk in NYC and sat back and waited to see what would happen. Watch the video to see what did happen.
Love Letters to the Future
Love Letters to the Future is an interactive website that encourages people to send a love letter to the future, asking the question “what would you say to your great grandchild?” Once you’ve read other people’s letters you can can vote for favourites or upload your own.
Inevitably there are a lot of letters that imagine [...]
Fashion That Changed the World
Fifty Dresses That Changed the World from London’s Design Museum is a collection of iconic dresses, such as the 1915 Delphos Pleated dress and Hussein Chalayan’s 2007 LED dress.
The book is part of a design series that also covers shoes, cars and chairs. Read about them on Dexigner.
Periodic Table of Typefaces
If you are looking for the perfect font for your proposal but find the drop down box in Word unwieldy, check out the periodic table of typefaces that lays out the most “popular, influential and notorious” typefaces.
The Most Dangerous Job in Vegas
Norm Clarke is a gossip columnist for the Las Vegas-Review journal. He cuts an interesting figure, part silver fox, part pirate, with a black eye-patch over his right eye. He covered Britney Spear’s quickie wedding and divorce and has been threatened by stars who’d rather he didn’t write about them. After all, what happens in [...]
Multigenerational Housing
Economic constraints mean that more families are having to live in multi-generational homes, according to Reuters. This most often involves elderly parents moving into a granny flat or graduates returning home after college. Does this mean real estate developers will start factoring this into their new-builds?
Brooklyn Brainery
Brooklyn Brainery is a new kind of night school. It hosts peer-to-peer classes on everything from Applied Meteorology to Paper Arts via Beauty School Dropout (the history and politics of make up), which are described as “book clubs on steroids”. Whilst class tutors know about the subject, their role is more one of guidance than [...]
