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Perhaps you think a commissioned portrait of yourself or a loved one is a little out of financial reach, but sketch artist Benjamin Hammond wishes to prove you wrong. Hammond presents One-Minute Portraits, an online invitation to submit a photograph of anyone, so he may turn it into an original piece of drawn portraiture. He'll take one minute to finish the piece and then post it on his site; if you like the results, you can purchase the original work for $20 USD. While the artist is currently overloaded with requests it would seem, check back now and again for your chance to be immortalized in Hammond's uh, distinct style.

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You've heard of white noise. Often broadcast to mask the common day-to-day sounds heard in offices, or public spaces, white noise lends an aural privacy to an environment because it distracts the ears with a din that's steady, yet unimposing.

Have you heard of pink noise however, or brown noise? The site SimplyNoise.com offers a free generator for these colours of noise, so on the nights when rain on your roof isn't lulling you to sleep, this application will. No word yet on when chartreuse noise will be developed.

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Here's a viral ad for Levi's in which a guy named Mike 'walks' across America. Shot over two weeks, the vid is so good, that we're happy to do what Levi's wants us to do and pass it along.

A Google map of Mike's journey can be found here.

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In the 1940s, the United States Navy commissioned from the Electric Machine and Equipment Company (Emeco) a chair that would be able to withstand the impact of torpedo blasts to the side of the battleship that carried it. The Emeco 1006 was born - the result of a 2-week, 77-step manufacturing process that gives the aluminum beauty a life expectancy of 150 years. After a few appearances on Sex and the City, as well as being featured inspiration for a line of Philippe Starck furniture, the 1006 has reestablished its footing as an ageless classic, which has led to its marriage to another American icon.

Emeco has teamed with Coca-Cola to create the 111 Navy Chair - a plastic reproduction of the original 1006, made from the plastic of 111 Coca-Cola bottles. Available for order online, Emeco and Coke expect the 111 Navy Chair project to keep an estimated 3 million plastic bottles out of landfills, which is the beginning of an ageless classic of its own.

And with colour names like Grass and Persimmon - and of course Coca-Cola Red - we couldn't ignore this beauty.

Click here before this link turns into a good looking chair.

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As a nod to The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish and company, Converse has just released a summer collection of sneaks that look as if they were drawn by Dr. Seuss. Sized for big kids or for real kids, (big kids will get more out of these, I think), the shoe maker has nailed the Seussian aesthetic with a sketcherly line and slap of the right colour. Available for order online here.

ps. We loved these so much that they inspired the Haft2 trend colour palette this week, found on Colourlovers.com as well as on our own homepage, haft2.com. (Did you know we change our homepage trend palette every week?)

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We love the customization trend, so here's a sweet Summer bit of custom ordering that'll definitely turn some heads. Smart cars is offering a chance to wrap your new little 'fortwo' in any number of custom prints and patterns, including topological designs, streetmaps, houndstooth, racecar patterns - the list goes on. Available to upload your own design also - or for those who wish to play it safter, there's an array of about 30 colours to choose from if you wish to leave the sporting of pattern to your louder friends.

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Perhaps you think a commissioned portrait of yourself or a loved one is a little out of financial reach, but sketch artist Benjamin Hammond wishes to prove you wrong. Hammond presents One-Minute Portraits, an online invitation to submit a photograph of anyone, so he may turn it into an original piece of drawn portraiture. He'll take one minute to finish the piece and then post it on his site; if you like the results, you can purchase the original work for $20 USD. While the artist is currently overloaded with requests it would seem, check back now and again for your chance to be immortalized in Hammond's uh, distinct style.

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You've heard of white noise. Often broadcast to mask the common day-to-day sounds heard in offices, or public spaces, white noise lends an aural privacy to an environment because it distracts the ears with a din that's steady, yet unimposing.

Have you heard of pink noise however, or brown noise? The site SimplyNoise.com offers a free generator for these colours of noise, so on the nights when rain on your roof isn't lulling you to sleep, this application will. No word yet on when chartreuse noise will be developed.

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Here's a viral ad for Levi's in which a guy named Mike 'walks' across America. Shot over two weeks, the vid is so good, that we're happy to do what Levi's wants us to do and pass it along.

A Google map of Mike's journey can be found here.

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In the 1940s, the United States Navy commissioned from the Electric Machine and Equipment Company (Emeco) a chair that would be able to withstand the impact of torpedo blasts to the side of the battleship that carried it. The Emeco 1006 was born - the result of a 2-week, 77-step manufacturing process that gives the aluminum beauty a life expectancy of 150 years. After a few appearances on Sex and the City, as well as being featured inspiration for a line of Philippe Starck furniture, the 1006 has reestablished its footing as an ageless classic, which has led to its marriage to another American icon.

Emeco has teamed with Coca-Cola to create the 111 Navy Chair - a plastic reproduction of the original 1006, made from the plastic of 111 Coca-Cola bottles. Available for order online, Emeco and Coke expect the 111 Navy Chair project to keep an estimated 3 million plastic bottles out of landfills, which is the beginning of an ageless classic of its own.

And with colour names like Grass and Persimmon - and of course Coca-Cola Red - we couldn't ignore this beauty.

Click here before this link turns into a good looking chair.

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As a nod to The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish and company, Converse has just released a summer collection of sneaks that look as if they were drawn by Dr. Seuss. Sized for big kids or for real kids, (big kids will get more out of these, I think), the shoe maker has nailed the Seussian aesthetic with a sketcherly line and slap of the right colour. Available for order online here.

ps. We loved these so much that they inspired the Haft2 trend colour palette this week, found on Colourlovers.com as well as on our own homepage, haft2.com. (Did you know we change our homepage trend palette every week?)

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