For two thousand years, people throughout the world have chosen a Springtime day to honour motherhood. It wasn’t until 1870 however, that American writer Julia Ward Howe called on mothers to come together in protest against the American Civil War and what she saw as the futility of sons of mothers killing other sons of [...]
Absolutely anyone who’s ever played the most famous board game in the world will love this new print ad campaign. Monopoly’s new “Own It All” campaign aims to reawaken the world to the pleasures, and pains of investing a Sunday afternoon in playing a simple board game. Each of the four photographs depicts the interior [...]
Artists, designers, writers, poets, hermits, actors, spokespersons and creatives everywhere, take heed! American artist Catherine Massaro has a solution for what everyone suffers now and again – imaginative drought, and it’s called The Creative Stimulus Package. For a fee, anyone can order this custom made, one-of-a-kind, eclectic, “what’s-going-on-here?” box, absolutely (and quite literally) brimming with [...]
Reality television is making everyone (and anyone) a star. Sites like Youtube and Twitter are making filmmakers and writers out of all of us. Well here’s an idea that strives to make artists out of the anonymous. Igotanenvelope is a collaborative project in which you leave an open, self-addressed, stamped envelope somewhere in the world [...]
From France comes Le Whif – the zero-calorie solution to overcoming your craving for chocolate – by inhaling it! Le Whif is available in four flavours, will be purse and pocket friendly on a hot day, and comes in boxes of 24. Aerosol technology is at the heart of this little olfactory delicacy, and almost [...]
As we search for cleaner ways to make us go faster, it’s nice to be reminded of the basics once in a while. British engineer Richard Jenkins just broke the speed record for a vehicle powered solely by wind, clocking in at almost 203 km/h. This little bird’s design enables it to travel at between [...]
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