Arts & Design

  This stainless steel bookmark is one of the cooler book and reading related gadgets we can ever remember seeing. But it’s so damn simple! It’s one of those “why the hell didn’t I think of that?” moments. The bookmark is shaped like an arrow and points to not only the page you left off on, but also the sentence. ...

Identity theft has become a major problem in today’s world. There are tons of hackers stealing credit card and social security numbers online, but some people still resort to good old mail snooping. The Keyless Locking Mailbox hopes to put your identity in your hands, where it should be. The mailbox has an angled slot which allows for the mailman ...

Something spectacular is happening on the Internet these days. People are understanding that it’s ok to laugh at the dark side of current events, no matter how discriminating it is. Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal is someone who understands this all to well. Bilal has locked himself into a room for a month, so people can shoot paintballs at him from ...

  When your method of death has gone down in history to solidify your name into the publics mind, you know you’ve made it. These Marie Antoinette inspired toys are proof that life doesn’t end after death. In fact, sometimes it’s only the beginning.

These Nike kicks might look just like any old pair of sneakers, but you’d be wrong in thinking so. In fact, each of these sneakers is actually a Transformer robot. The set only comes with one shoe at a time and every shoe is for the left foot, so don’t think you can just go walking around in a pair ...

If I were to live in the world of social communities, I would reside on the border of Last.fm and Flickr, with a summer home in WoW. This geographical depiction of the most popular of social networks is a fun and playful ode to Web 2.0. The “Map of Online Communities and Related Points of Interest”, as it is titled, ...

Haha, bad grades are so funny. As long as they aren’t our own bad grades. Let us all laugh at this kid’s D- paper. HA…HA. Giggling aside, these Comic Book Bubble Paper Clips are really friggen cool. The traditional paper clip gets a shakeup with its bubble design, like which is used for comic book dialog. Bad grades are funny ...

The on-going project by Howard Hallis, entitled The Picture of Everything, which is an attempt to draw, well, everything, in one large picture, has just gotten another addition added on to its massiveness. This time, Hallis opted to add a section for cartoon characters. This new add-on features, like, totally every major cartoon character ever created. Or at least thats ...

Those of you who live in urban areas will know exactly what we are talking about when we bring up those tree protector cages that cities put up to protect the tree’s precious trunk. Here’s an idea to make these protectors functional for us non-chlorophyll producing beings as well. This mutation on the original protector idea adds a nice little ...

This Cork Chair continues the trend of building furniture with unorthodox items. This chair is made of logs made of corks. There’s really only so much that can be said about something like this. So let’s just let the image do the talking, shall we? — Andrew Dobrow Link [via]