Monday, February 21, 2011

Jelly Belly Gel Cell Phone Cases

Jelly Belly makes scented gel cases for certain phones (iPhones and BlackBerrys mostly). They come in a bunch of flavors and they are guaranteed to keep their scent for at least a year. You get a warranty and everything.
From Foreground to Background the flavors are: Very Cherry, Strawberry Cheesecake, Blueberry, Berry Blue, and Licorice

One of my friends has one of these and I'm amazed it has kept its scent so far. I'm thinking of getting one too now.

SuperStudio's Faceted Icon

This is the major inspiration I am using for my project in Design Studio this semester.




It is called Faceted Icon and I found it on a blog called SuperStudio.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

The Hammer is Really Coming Down on Cigarette Companies

But at least the designers at Build did it with style :P


This is one response to BBC News' Article on the Governments plans to ban the current cigarette packaging in favor of a plain unified package for all brands. I love my smokes, so obviously I would hate this, but somehow, this design is appealing too :P Maybe it won't be so bad :)

Social Networking

The 2010 Social Networking Map

I think this speaks for itself.

Full Image HERE.

DIY Life Calendar from Etsy




The 365 days are represented by an emoticon that you have to draw as the day has gone (very good, good, regular, bad, very bad).

Notice: This calendar is not for any specific year. You can start it when you want! When starting a new year, an anniversary, an important date or the day that you prefer :)


So I'm buying this! RIGHT NOW.
Its fairly cheap ( the shipping is almost the same as the price of the poster) And it would be interesting to look back on significant days like anniversaries, birthdays etc. and figure out how I felt like in the moment and not how I've colored the day to be in my memory.

New Starbucks Logo

So I'm a big starbucks fan. It was just always the place to go for coffee and now I'm hooked. There has been a lot of hipe aorund about the new logo. Personally I haven't seen one around yet, but by March I know they will make it up here too :P From What I've seen online, they seem pretty cool and are supposed to save shit loads of ink in printing since there is only green ink now. Overall not a bad change.
 Lets just hope this doesn't happen to it.

Ewha Womans University Campus Center Project

Ewha Womans University Campus Center Project.  Seoul, Korea 2004-08

By Dominique Perrault, a fairly young french architect. Check out the website HERE.





This is one of the more exciting and innovative designs out there now that ACTUALLY got build. Usually things like this are a bit too radical to be realized.