I guess when you’re as good-looking as Apple is, you get a little defensive when others try to emulate. And so it was recently, when the computer giant reached from California to Victoria, BC to pluck from the branding tree another apple-based logo, used by the Victoria School of Business and Technology. Apple thinks the [...]
And so it’s that time of year again when we strip our yards of the pretty things and prepare our little outdoor worlds for the onslaught. I could be wistful here, and pine for the summer that barely happened, but alas… Anyway, if you’re someone who forayed into the world of outdoor ponds and ecosystems [...]
Welcome to Draw Ball. An online collaborative art project that invites users to draw digitally on a huge virtual canvas. Each user is able to e-etch a tiny amount per day, equal to approximately 1/10,000th of the surface of this thing. It began with aspirations of encouraging crafties to express themselves, but through time, has [...]
This sign was spotted recently on the lawn of the Capitol Building in Washington and serves as a reminder that this two-year Battle Royale is finally coming to a hopeful close. Whatever will we talk about?
UK Designer Mikael Metthey could potentially become God in the eyes of the world’s children with ‘Pox Teddy’ – a concept toy that if successful, could eliminate the need for syringed vaccinations. (Needle Day was always the most dreaded at school.) This smart little bear exposes kids to a virus in order to foster their [...]
Yahoo’s latest offering to the world is a site by the name of startwearingpurple.com. It’s a promotional attempt on the company’s behalf to convince the world how youthful and cool they are — in short, by trying to own this ‘zany’ colour. UK’s Cadbury does a much better job at laying claim by leveraging purple’s [...]
Sotheby’s announced last week that in one day, UK artstar Damien Hirst raised more than $125 million at auction. It’s a new world record for an auction day of art offered by a single artist. (The previous record was held by a day of Pablo Picasso in 1993, which raised a mere $20 million.) The [...]
As the financial engine of the world begins to screech to a near-cataclysmic halt, one Japanese company has found a way for people all over the world to save their money reliably. ‘Facebank’ works its magic in a way that the ‘green-worm-coming-out-of-the-apple’ bank never did. Available in a variety of colours and looks and textures, [...]
If it appears you won’t be able to make the trip to Venice for this year’s Future of Science World Conference (the fourth annual), here’s a taste of what you’ll be missing. A trio of entrepreneurs will be unveiling their plan for turning the Sahara Desert into a huge source for renewable food, water and [...]
Well we’re colour people so we can’t possibly ignore something like this. Cymbolism.com is a new website that attempts to make an emotive correlation between certain English words and the hues at which they hint. Visitors to the site are shown a word and then vote on which colour they believe best represents the featured [...]
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