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    culture     england     humor     lego     legos     weddings     weird     Royal    
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    With meticulous attention to detail and approximately tens of thousands of bricks, Buckingham Palace is reimagined with LEGO. The Royal Wedding, LEGO-style, includes Kate Middleton, Prince William, the Queen Mother, guards, and A-list guests (including Sir Elton John with new baby, Victoria Beckham expecting a baby) with a careful eye for fashion and placement… “…The Royal Wedding scene including crowd, guests and balcony took model makers over 30 hours to build using 10,000 bricks. Each Miniland figure took one hour to build and contains 30 – 40 LEGO bricks. Buckingham Palace itself features 160,000 individual bricks and was built on a 1:50 scale and took 550 hours to build…” —press release from Legoland The display will be on view at Legoland Windsor themepark’s Miniland attraction. (detail image above from Getty/via Daily Mail)

    With meticulous attention to detail and approximately tens of thousands of bricks, Buckingham Palace is reimagined with LEGO. The Royal Wedding, LEGO-style, includes Kate Middleton, Prince William, the Queen Mother, guards, and A-list guests (including Sir Elton John with new baby, Victoria Beckham expecting a baby) with a careful eye for fashion and placement…

    “…The Royal Wedding scene including crowd, guests and balcony took model makers over 30 hours to build using 10,000 bricks. Each Miniland figure took one hour to build and contains 30 – 40 LEGO bricks. Buckingham Palace itself features 160,000 individual bricks and was built on a 1:50 scale and took 550 hours to build…”
    —press release from Legoland

    The display will be on view at Legoland Windsor themepark’s Miniland attraction.

    (detail image above from Getty/via Daily Mail)

    culture     design     food     packaging     humor    
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    redesignrelated: Crispin Porter + Bogusky gives baby carrots the junk food treatment. “…Just in time for the battle over what’s gonna be in millions of back-to-school lunches, Bolthouse Farms and nearly 50 other carrot growers today will unveil plans for the industry’s first-ever marketing campaign. The $25 million effort sets its sights on a giant, big-spending rival: junk food…” —via USA Today

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    Crispin Porter + Bogusky gives baby carrots the junk food treatment.

    “…Just in time for the battle over what’s gonna be in millions of back-to-school lunches, Bolthouse Farms and nearly 50 other carrot growers today will unveil plans for the industry’s first-ever marketing campaign. The $25 million effort sets its sights on a giant, big-spending rival: junk food…”
    —via USA Today

    design     exhibits     education     AIGA     culture    
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    the opening for AIGA’s Design Journeys: You Are Here exhibition

    the opening for AIGA’s Design Journeys: You Are Here exhibition

    Apple     culture     iPad     photos     tech     gadgets    
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    more iPad madness: “Across the Country, the Devoted Gather for the iPad”(article and slideshow via The New York Times) 

    more iPad madness: “Across the Country, the Devoted Gather for the iPad”
    (article and slideshow via The New York Times) 

    books     covers     design     publishing     e-books     culture     article    
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    In E-Book Era, You Can’t Even Judge a Cover

    “…Among other changes heralded by the e-book era, digital editions are bumping book covers off the subway, the coffee table and the beach…

    A good jacket is unlikely to save a bad book, of course. But in a crowded market, a striking cover is one advantage all authors and publishers want. To get a sense of the odds, in a random analysis of 1,000 business books released last year, Codex Group, a publishing consultant, found that only 62 sold more than 5,000 copies.

    Even in the digital era, publishers believe that books need graphic representations —
    if only for the online marketing campaign. Regardless of the format, “they all seem to need what we know of as a cover to identify them,” said Chip Kidd…”

    —Motoko Rich for The New York Times,
    (worth reading the full article to also catch a quote from Mario J. Pulice)

    design     redesign     culture     package design     food     products    
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    redesignrelated: The Heinz ketchup condiment packet gets a redesign. “…A true packaging breakthrough, the Heinz Dip & Squeeze dual-function package gives ketchup lovers two ways to enjoy Heinz Ketchup: either peel back the lid for easy dipping, or tear off the tip to squeeze onto favorite foods…The new Heinz Dip & Squeeze product marks the first ketchup packet makeover for the foodservice industry in 42 years. In the past, on-the-go eaters have struggled to open multiple ketchup packets while worrying about making a mess…” —from Heinz Ketchup press release

    redesignrelated:

    The Heinz ketchup condiment packet gets a redesign.

    “…A true packaging breakthrough, the Heinz Dip & Squeeze dual-function package gives ketchup lovers two ways to enjoy Heinz Ketchup: either peel back the lid for easy dipping, or tear off the tip to squeeze onto favorite foods…The new Heinz Dip & Squeeze product marks the first ketchup packet makeover for the foodservice industry in 42 years. In the past, on-the-go eaters have struggled to open multiple ketchup packets while worrying about making a mess…” —from Heinz Ketchup press release

    Christmas     design     icons     Santa     AIGA     culture     illustration    
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    In ’Twas the Icon of Christmas, Steven Heller looks at the visual history of Santa Claus and illustrators of the past. (article via AIGA)

    In ’Twas the Icon of Christmas, Steven Heller looks at the visual history of Santa Claus and illustrators of the past. (article via AIGA)

    food     culture     TED     news    
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    Jaime Oliver wins TED Prize for 2010 

    Jaime Oliver wins TED Prize for 2010 

    decade     technology     media     article     nostalgia     culture     design    
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    “21 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade”(via nytimesbits on twitter, via the business insider, photograph of phonebook via Wallula Junction)

    “21 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade”
    (via nytimesbits on twitter, via the business insider,
    photograph of phonebook via Wallula Junction)

    design     culture     business    
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    R.I.P chalkboard “Writing’s on the Wall for the Chalkboard” (via Newser)

    R.I.P chalkboard

    “Writing’s on the Wall for the Chalkboard”
     (via Newser)

    Berlin     art     design     history     news     cool     culture    
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    “Berlin Builds a New Wall to See How the Dominoes Fall: 20 Years After the Original Was Destroyed, A Styrofoam Version Is Readied for Toppling” “…As dusk creeps across the German capital on Nov. 9, 20 years to the hour after East Germans first began hammering away at the original concrete Berlin Wall on their way to the West, the first section will be pushed over, and the rest will fall — like dominoes…” —Wall Street Journal (photo credit: Almut Schoenfeld/The Wall Street Journal)

    “Berlin Builds a New Wall to See How the Dominoes Fall: 20 Years After the Original Was Destroyed, A Styrofoam Version Is Readied for Toppling”

    “…As dusk creeps across the German capital on Nov. 9, 20 years to the hour after East Germans first began hammering away at the original concrete Berlin Wall on their way to the West, the first section will be pushed over, and the rest will fall — like dominoes…” —Wall Street Journal

    (photo credit: Almut Schoenfeld/The Wall Street Journal)

    Giant Robot     art     culture     design     illustration     nyc     packaging    
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    “Longtime curators and local artists Jordin Isip and Rodger Stevens know a lot of other local artists — they recruited 300 of them (many with day jobs: graphic designers, illustrators, lighting designers, etc.) for Dime Bag 3, closing at Giant Robot in the East Village on August 12…” See What 30 Local Artists Stuffed Into ‘Dime Bags’ (via Vulture, above “Dime Bag” illustrated by Ray Fenwick)

    “Longtime curators and local artists Jordin Isip and Rodger Stevens know a lot of other local artists — they recruited 300 of them (many with day jobs: graphic designers, illustrators, lighting designers, etc.) for Dime Bag 3, closing at Giant Robot in the East Village on August 12…”

    See What 30 Local Artists Stuffed Into ‘Dime Bags’
    (via Vulture, above “Dime Bag” illustrated by Ray Fenwick)

    comics     magazines     art     illustration     culture     design     politics    
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    “The Art of Rebellion,” Steven Heller reviews “New visual books on the comics artist Harvey Kurtzman, classic underground comics, political posters from the Lebanese civil war and mug shots” (via NYTimes.com)

    “The Art of Rebellion,” Steven Heller reviews “New visual books on the comics artist Harvey Kurtzman, classic underground comics, political posters from the Lebanese civil war and mug shots” (via NYTimes.com)