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Art & Design
100+ Old Coca Cola Ads And Posters
This is a wonderful collection of Coke ads dating back to the early 1900′s. Coke’s logo has not changed from it’s inception in the 1890′s, giving it a strong continuity throughout the last 100+ years. From a marketing and advertising viewpoint, it’s fascinating to see how the designs, layouts and focal points of ads have evolved  throughout this time frame. I love how Coke has been described as a “The Ideal Brain Tonic” and “Delicious with Food”. There’s a great triangular bottle carry case design as well. This is well worth the look.

The Ideal Brain Tonic

It’s interesting to see how the trends in current swimwear is returning to older styles, ok, not exactly like Miss Bo-Peep in blue, but more styles of returning to fuller fabric coverups, both for modesty as well as protection from the sun.

Trianglular bottle carry case

Delicious with Food - direct and to the point

Seen this interview? “Getting Personal with Richard Darell (@minervity)

Do you know who Richard Darell is?

Richard Darell

Maybe you recognized him better as:

@Minervity

Kriselle Laran of Bullfrog Media has the word on Richard and his work. Get the full interview here

The Most Creative And Skillful Corporate Web Designs Of All Times

10 Common Mistakes In Logo Design

30 Best Photoshop Abstract Effect Tutorials

60 Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Touch-Ups | Vandelay Design Blog

10 Eye-Catching Professional Free Fonts

24 Modern Mugs and Creative Mug Designs

Soap Not Spray Can: Reverse Graffiti Art.

Society at Large
I’m a big fan of lists, and the weirder the better. Murder? Mayhem? Famous Filth? Bring it on!

20 Most Prolific Serial Killers of All Time

Famous Things Invented by Accident

15 Famously Filthy People From the Pages of History

Comics

X-Men Universe Relationship map
If you have ever read stories from the X-Men Universe, you’ll find a tangled web of relationships, flirtations, obsessions and unrequited yearnings among the plots, intrigues and efforts at world domination. Wolverine has had enough romantic exploits for 2 lifetimes, oh right – he is over 100 years old. This is a detailed  chart with all the relationships spelled out on the dotted line. Who thought comics were simple?

10 Alan Moore Comics You Must Read! (Besides Watchmen)

Alan Moore is a titan in the comic world. This article lists as must reads: The Ballad Of Halo Jones, Captain Britain, The Saga Of Swamp Thing, V For Vendetta, Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow?, 1963, From Hell (Jack The Ripper), The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Promethea, Top 10. Definitely a list to refer to if you need to fill in the gaps in your collection.

Environment

Living Root Bridges in India
The people in this part of India have trained the trees to grow into living bridges. The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they’re extraordinarily strong. Some of the ancient root bridges used daily by the people of the villages around Cherrapunji may be well over five hundred years old.

Eco Gadgets: Solar coffee maker

Solar Coffee Machine

The machine’s battery is charged by solar energy, then used to brew the coffee. I assume you’d have to have a sunny spot on your counter in order for this to work.

Neat, recycle wine bottles into Outdoor Torches

Bottle lights or Molotov Cocktails?

With the blue glass and copper hardware these look very pretty – but one of the comments in the article reads: “…if you fill it with gasoline and throw it it’s a MC. If you fill it with tiki oil, it’s lovely ambient lighting.” I guess it depends on your neighbourhood.

Very Cool: Air traffic in 24 hours Every yellow dot is a plane.

Twitter

11 Simple Twitter Secrets Revealed

Twitter Talkback: What Makes a Quality Tweet?

This week shows some great inspiration in the design and packaging categories. I’m all for the re-invention of Barbie parts as jewelry. It flows with the enviro links on the trash island in the middle of the Pacific, and the 16 year old who isolated a microbe that breaks down plastics.

Send me some comments and let me know what you think.

Design, Illustration and Web
85 Free High Quality Silhouette Sets

Unusual fonts
This blog lists some good looking themes and shapes – too bad they are not typable fonts.

Enviro-friendly & Sustainable

I need pills

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Graffiti | Inspiration

40 beautiful and creative typography designs to inspire

26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog - via Mashable

Product Packaging & Design
Duvets to the Bedroom Decor

Product design award 2009: Non-Braille books made accessible to the blind

Reader converts non-braille text

Designed by researchers at Handong Global University and Keimyung University, both in South Korea. When placed on a page, the reader scans typed letters and converts them to their Braille equivalent on the device’s upper surface. The text can also be converted to speech.

Using Barbie parts as jewelry – via www.thisblogrules.com

Earrings

Bracelet

Designer Margaux Lange has made a collection of accessories that contains pieces of the plastic princess, everything from breasts to hands. The designer says that she is “fascinated with who the Barbie is as a cultural icon, her distinguished celebrity status and the enormous impact she has had on our society”.
Environment
Nat’l Geographic: Pacific trash vortex draws crowd

The Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, situated in remote waters between California and Hawaii, is created by ocean currents that pick up millions of tons of the world’s discarded plastic.

Documentary of Japanese Dolphin Hunting: The Cove

Boy discovers microbe that eats plastic

Battle for Europe’s last ancient forest

Food:
Recipe of the day: Cook your own Hairy Russian Sausage

Interest:
He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died – by Chris Higgins of Mental Floss
a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997. In 1979 the photos start casually, with pictures of friends, picnics, dinners, and so on.

April 23, 1979

Boxes of Photos

Near the end as his health fails

Find the whole story here