I love this kind of illustration. It reminds me of books with beautiful botanical illustrations my grandfather would show me as a kid.
Original: “The Cephalopoda” — BibliOdyssey
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I was just listening to this and thought I’d share.
I knew Don Draper had an iPhone 4.
Some more shots of the cast off-camera, from Rolling Stone’s coverage of Mad Men, also capturing the contrast between life in 2010 and 1965, can be seen at core77.
Jose Pulido is a California based Illustrator/Printmaker who specializes on the Mexican thematic of “Dia de los Muertos”. You can also buy his work here.
I specially liked this “Young Elvis Calavera” Print.
My Grandfather once had one of these Mercedes 300SL “Gull-wing”. Wish he’d kept it…
“Squidhouse in wintertime” by Andy Helms
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Can we go now?
These are some really interesting vintage 1976-1982 Subway warning posters from Tokyo. Some of them with nice comic-style illustrations and humour. See more over at pinktentacle.
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This is a single released following the announcement of Arcade Fire’s third album expected to be released in the 2nd of August. Enjoy!
“A Field Guide to Typestaches” — A typography poster designed by Tor Weeks available to purchase at Old Tom Foolery.
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Chocolate Mug Cake
So it’s raining outside. What about a quick and clean individual chocolate cake in a mug?
I saw a reference to this on a friend’s RSS shares and found it quite interesting. Chocolate cakes take some time to make and get all sorts of pots and pans dirty along with the kitchen. What if you could make 1 serving of cake for yourself in under 5 minutes only getting the actual mug you’re eating it in dirty? I tweaked this recipe a bit to be minimal and easy to remember, and it still tastes delicious:
- Grab a mug. Put 50g of broken dark chocolate bits and 3 tablespoons of butter. Put that in the microwave for 1 minute to get it to melt. Mix well.
- Add 1 egg and mix well. Add 4 tablespoons of flour, 4 tablespoons of sugar, 3 tablespoons of milk and a dash of vanilla extract and mix well (I mean well) again.
- Put the mug in the microwave, 50% power for 1 ½ minute. The cake will rise in the mug and sink again. Enjoy!
This looks like fun… — Daytona Beach 1950’s
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Herculean was the first single released by Damon Albarn (of Gorillaz), Paul Simonon, Simon Tong and Tony Allen in 2006 for their 2007 “The Good, The Bad & The Queen” Album to an unnamed British band (usually unofficially mentioned as “The Good, The Bad & The Queen”) whose songs are all themed around modern life in London. Enjoy.
A capsule hotel is a Japanese concept with sleeping pods instead of rooms, and shared bathrooms. Usually, these capsule hotels are far from well-designed.
Managed by Tokyo-based Cubic Inc., and designed in a collaboration with designer Fumie Shibata of Design Studio S, Kyoto’s 9 Hours is nothing like that.
The incredibly minimalist concept behind it is indicated in its name — 9 Hours is what every hotel should provide in its most basic form: 1 hour to shower + 7 hours to sleep + 1 hour to rest.
Decorated in only 4 colours, being most of it in black & white, style meets functionality making the hotel’s concept stand out. It was designed in a way that the guests would go through the motions of checking-in to getting into their white plastic sleeping capsules in a smooth and natural manner. Everything is clearly identified in internationally recognisable visual icons.
They also provide all the necessary basics to a confortable stay. From sleepwear to fluffy white towels.
The video has been provided by a Monocle article on the hotel.
It has been quite a while since I’ve listened to this 2003 album from the excellent British band Stereophonics. Tune in.
