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Peter Crnokrak has some interesting print, object and digital design work in his tightly designed online showcase, The Luxury of Protest.

A great collection of images of Apple prototypes from the early 1980s. Shown above is the Snowwhite Mac from 1983.

The dating hand stamp from Afroditi. One shake of the hand and your target is branded in ink with your phone number!

Also useful for business encounters too I guess!

Via Monster Munch.

Dead Star, by Michel de Broin, is made from residual batteries at the end of their duty.

Via swissmiss.

The home of the new Saatchi Gallery would appear to be a great improvement over it’s previous location, where I felt the architecture of the site intruded too much into the artworks on show.

The gallery’s new location is The Duke of York’s Headquarters off the King’s Road where the former Drill Hall has been stripped back to its shell to provide fifteen interconnected galleries on three levels.

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Loving the Nerdbots - a collection of robots fabricated from pieced together parts found at antique and thrift stores.

Via swissmiss.

Destined to become another Rubik classic, the new Rubik’s Mirror Blocks puzzle makes things a bit more complicated than the original Rubik’s Cube, by making each and every one of it’s blocks a slightly different size and replacing the colors with a mirrored surface, making it just that much more difficult to figure out.

Set for release in Japan shortly, you can see an unboxing video here.

Nice work over at Vasava.

Pretty cool site too - simple html layout enhanced with some scripted trickery.

I like the way the ‘older projects archive’ eases in from the side - I know it sounds naff and could be considered gimmickry but it seems to work in the context of this site.

Back in the day, I used to shoot a lot of photography for some of the more mainstream fetish fashion collections, so when I see quality fetish fashion images such as those to be found on High Gloss Dolls, then I get to thinking I should maybe quit spending so much time with the propeller-heads and dust off the Nikon.

Love these advertisements for an Italian restaurant. Taken from a selection of 54 humourous ads to be found here.