Sushi Roller
This sushi roller by german based studio osko + deichmann makes it easy to make your own sushi rolls. No more hassle with the traditional bamboo-mat but perfectly thick maki rolls for everybody in the comfort of your own home. More on Designboom.
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Public space is a funny thing. People mostly seem to be avoiding each other or trying to make some form of meaningful contact… often, paradoxically, at the same time. The park bench is a perfect example of this — one person sits down and for the most part, that is now their bench. But what if benches were loads of fun to be around and on? Enter the amusing, interactive seating of Jeppe Hein.
Hein’s whimsical and sometime impractical benches blur the boundary between art and functional design, providing surfaces that are bent, folded, chopped and even very highly placed.
BBDO Brazil and director Cisma just released this fantastically clever stop motion video that tells the story of life “from love to bingo” for client Getty Images by winnowing through their exhaustive library of some 38 million images. The one minute clip took six months to research and animate.
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If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.
Opportunity is missed by most because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
A photographic series by Agan Harahap where he imposes superhero characters into historical war images. Brilliant idea and well executed.
Loving these cityscapes by Portland based painter Matte Stephens. Got a lovely M.Sasek-esque feel to them, I’m sure he must be a fan of his judging from the influences he lists;
“I love Mid 20th century industrial and graphic design like the work of Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, George Nelson/Irving Harper and fine artists of the same era like Ben Shahn and Paul Klee.”
He doesn’t just do city paintings though! All his work is really lovely so go have a look;
25 words that don't exist in english
I’ve pulled out the ones I really like, check out the whole list here.
Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut
Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for you that you didn’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude
Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist
Bakku-shan (Japanese): A beautiful girl… as long as she’s being viewed from behind
Forelsket (Norwegian): The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love
Gigil (pronounced Gheegle; Filipino): The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute
Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time
L’esprit de l’escalier (French): usually translated as “staircase wit,” is the act of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it
Mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan): A look between two people that suggests an unspoken, shared desire
Meraki (pronounced may-rah-kee; Greek): Doing something with soul, creativity, or love. It’s when you put something of yourself into what you’re doing
Taarradhin (Arabic): implies a happy solution for everyone, or “I win. You win.” It’s a way of reconciling without anyone losing face. Arabic has no word for “compromise,” in the sense of reaching an arrangement via struggle and disagreement
Tingo (Pascuense language of Easter Island): to borrow objects one by one from a neighbor’s house until there is nothing left
Waldeinsamkeit (German): The feeling of being alone in the woods
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My string lanterns I made for my brothers wedding.
