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Lunch Bag Art

There is a video game artist and dad over in San Diego who decorates brown paper lunch bags for his kids every workday on his lunch break. One can’t help but suspect that this makes the kid’s lunch taste even better somehow. This practice might even encourage the bags to get recycled or archived rather than disposed of so arguably this is even good for the environment. [Lunch Bag...

Disassembled household appliances

Brittny Badger completed her Thesis project from the Hartford Art School this May and it’s pretty nice. With a BFA in photography and a minor in visual communication design, this comes together nicely. She has taken some household appliances and disassembled them. Most of us have done that at one point, but Brittny has done us the favor of shematicly laying out out the resulting components and photographing...

When is a word not a word?

When it is in the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition: The supermarket tabloid of dictionaries. Thats right, Merriam-Webster has announced this year’s additions to their catalog of linguistic monstrosities.  ‘Ginormous‘ is among them which earns particular disdain from Ohmpage. They don’t list all the additions though as they prefer to just give you a...

Is facebook the new yearbook?

Lets keep talking about facebook, shall we? It would appear that the people creating the yearbook for some high school in the USA procrastinated and needed some photos for the yearbook in a pinch. They ended up snagging photos off of facebook to fill out their layouts and once they saw it in print, the students in said photos ended up somehow surprised that photos they post up on a social networking site could be...

MatriXX display

The world’s largest 3D display has been produced at the Delft University of Technology playing off the work of James Clarr. They used eight thousand LEDs and have even gotten 3D duckhunt working on it. It looks quite fun. Maybe they have instigated an arms race of fun and large information displays.
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