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The Occasional, A Digital Comedy Magazine by Funny or Die
The Occasional is a new digital comedy magazine for iPads from comedy site, Funny or Die. The app is available on iTunes and issues are…
Business Card Animation by Messy Design
“One neat little package” by Australian design studio Messy Design is a clever animation created with the studio’s business cards. via Quipsologies
The Institute, A Documentary About the Games of Nonchalance
The Institute is a feature-length documentary directed by Spencer McCall about the Games of Nonchalance, the San Francisco-based alternate reality game (known familiarly as The…
Mother Whale Lifting Her Baby to See Humans on Boat
In this amazing video posted by One World One Ocean, a mother whale lifts her calf to see humans on a boat. The entire story…
Retro TV Ads by Mad Magazine Cartoonist Jack Davis
These animated TV ads from the late 60s and early 70s were created by cartoonist and regular Mad magazine contributor Jack Davis. Comics Alliance…
Hankie Pocket Notebook
The Hankie Pocketbook by Animi Causa is designed to look like a folded pocket square when it is tucked in the front pocket of a…
Brilliant Interactive Website Art by Andrey Yazev
Three Hundred Eighty Ten is a brilliant site in which the building blocks of web pages—scroll bars, checkboxes, pop-up windows, etc.—are turned into interactive art…
Handbags That Cleverly Look Like 2D Cartoons
Taiwanese designers Chay Su and Rika Lin of JumpFromPaper created a line of clever handbags that look like 2D cartoon illustrations. JumpFromPaper is a playful…
The World’s First All-Diamond Ring Is Made Entirely Out of a Diamond
Geneva-based luxury jeweler Shawish has cut a large diamond to make the World’s First All-Diamond Ring. They recently presented the roughly 150 carat ring at…
Mameshiba, Japanese Bean Characters That Tell Unsettling Trivia
Mameshiba are Japanese bean-dog characters that tell unsettling and often unwelcome trivia. Mameshiba were created by Japanese ad agency Dentsu. They premiered as a series…