Next time you’re downtown, and you feel that a billboard is talking to you, it actually might be. Jameson’s Irish Whiskey has ads that move throughout city centres in search of their target market, (i.e. basketball fans, entertainment district frequenters, etc.) The ad then gets projected onto a big wall and someone begins typing real-time [...]
NYC’s eVolo recently announced the three winners of their annual skyscraper design contest and among the cream is Eric Vergne’s ‘Dystopian Farm’ – a biomorphic building that will harvest the elements in order to provide a massive, self-sustaining food source to any city in which it’s built. It’s said that by 2050 almost 80% of [...]
Taking recycling to a different level are Jenny and Clarissa of The Ugly Sweater Store, which features a small online catalogue of, uh, sweaters that are ugly. And wow, have these been well chosen. They’re terrible looking and a visual affront, and yet they’ll take you somewhere personal where you may or may not wish [...]
It’s been quite the winter for us, but after a shift in site hosts, as well as one in our physical digs, we’re happy to begin again. And so, welcome back. http://www.haft2know.com
The link below will take you to a group of photos that features the Arabic versions of some very Western brands. The really fascinating thing here is to see how some of these fonts have translated into a very different visual language from our own Latin-based alphabet. And yet, even without a knowledge of Arabic, [...]
Whether you’re from the Americas or Europe, the people at UK paper purveyors presentandcorrect.com have assembled a collection of goods that’ll make some distant part of your past salute the present day. From vintage snail mail goods, to primary education tools your Kindergarten teacher would have tacked up above the blackboard, this site is packed [...]
Here’s an idea from Hokkaido, Japan. It’s a stretch of pavement that’s paved in such a way that it plays a tune when you drive over it. (Think of the vacuum-cleaner-like drone that you can hum to as your tires ride over the different textures on the road.) I’m thinking there’s an untapped opportunity here [...]
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