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    Moleskine     Star Wars     notebooks     paper     pop culture     video     origami    

    Moleskine® Star Wars™ : the origami battle

    Moleskine has been branching out with paperless products in the past year, but they haven’t left out their notebooks in their attempts to draw in a new audience. To promote the new line of Moleskine + Star Wars branded limited edition notebooks, Moleskine creates a promo video of a galaxy battle with folded paper.

    “The Classic Saga has furnished us with fantastic material to commemorate both sides of the Force. The Rebel Alliance and the Dark Side are portrayed in two dramatic designs, with the concept consisting of 4 notebooks divided between the Rebel Alliance and the Dark Side: 2 formats (Pocket & Large, both ruled pages) with the Rebel Alliance design, and 2 formats (Pocket & Large, both plain pages) with the Dark Side design. The striking covers have special metallic text, while the opening pages include quotes and space-scapes. Plus, a free full color poster is tucked inside the back pocket!”—Moleskine

    illustration     nostalgia     pop culture     humor     fashion    
    Star Wars     Muppets     toys     Disney     pop culture    
    The Beatles     prints     illustration     fashion     history     music     pop culture    
    Google     characters     nostalgia     pop culture     tv     video     vintage     animation    

    In honor of the 50th anniversary of The Flinstones, here is a vintage cigarette commercial featuring Fred and Barney. Google also commemorates the occasion with a new Google doodle.



    (via The Washington Post and The Guardian)

    Sesame Street     cute     pop culture     video     tv    
    1960s     Barbie     Mad Men     design     fashion     pop culture     tv     weird     vintage    
    Mad Men characters get the Barbie and Ken doll treatment.
“…The characters to become dolls are Don Draper, the show’s leading man; his wife, Betty; his colleague at the Sterling Cooper agency, Roger Sterling; and Joan Holloway, the agency’s office manager who was Roger’s mistress.  That two dolls represent a relationship outside wedlock, and Don Draper’s propensity for adultery, may be firsts for the Barbie world since the brand’s introduction five decades ago. But for the sake of the Barbie image, her immersion in the “Mad Men” era will go only so far: The dolls come with period accessories like hats, overcoats, pearls and padded undergarments, but no cigarettes, ashtrays, martini glasses or cocktail shakers…
— via The New York Times

    Mad Men characters get the Barbie and Ken doll treatment.

    “…The characters to become dolls are Don Draper, the show’s leading man; his wife, Betty; his colleague at the Sterling Cooper agency, Roger Sterling; and Joan Holloway, the agency’s office manager who was Roger’s mistress. That two dolls represent a relationship outside wedlock, and Don Draper’s propensity for adultery, may be firsts for the Barbie world since the brand’s introduction five decades ago. But for the sake of the Barbie image, her immersion in the “Mad Men” era will go only so far: The dolls come with period accessories like hats, overcoats, pearls and padded undergarments, but no cigarettes, ashtrays, martini glasses or cocktail shakers…

    — via The New York Times

    Hello Kitty     Italy     entertainment     music     pop culture     weird     characters    
    “Hello Kitty The Show”
“The first theatrical performance to immortalize the Japanese icon, Hello Kitty The Show is a collaboration between Italian school of performing arts Mas and Hello Kitty creator Sanrio, currently on view at the Teatro Nuovo in Milan…” —Paolo Ferrarini for Cool Hunting
(discovered via Cool Hunting, more info to follow on Hello Kitty The Show official site)

    “Hello Kitty The Show”

    “The first theatrical performance to immortalize the Japanese icon, Hello Kitty The Show is a collaboration between Italian school of performing arts Mas and Hello Kitty creator Sanrio, currently on view at the Teatro Nuovo in Milan…”
    —Paolo Ferrarini for Cool Hunting

    (discovered via Cool Hunting, more info to follow on Hello Kitty The Show official site)

    video     The Simpsons     tv     documentary     humor     pop culture    
    Morgan Spurlock’s documentary for The Simpsons
“From Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, Oregon, to unauthorized Duff Beer in Argentina, Morgan Spurlock delivers an entertaining documentary on the world’s favorite dysfunctional (and loving) family…” (via design:related)

    Morgan Spurlock’s documentary for The Simpsons

    “From Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, Oregon, to unauthorized Duff Beer in Argentina, Morgan Spurlock delivers an entertaining documentary on the world’s favorite dysfunctional (and loving) family…” (via design:related)

    design     food     pop culture     nostalgia     flickr    
    film     characters     pop culture     animation     1950s     nostalgia    
    humor     infographics     geek     humor     pop culture    
    tv     google     design     pop culture     logos     Sesame Street    
    exhibits     design     Hello Kitty     art     cute     Los Angeles     pop culture    
    photos from the Hello Kitty Three Apples exhibition at Royal/T(via Food Librarian)

    photos from the Hello Kitty Three Apples exhibition at Royal/T
    (via Food Librarian)

    Hello Kitty     art     design     exhibits     illustration     pop culture     kawaii    
    more Hello Kitty birthday wishes
a few images from Three Apples: A Hello Kitty Group Show in Los Angeles, including contemporary artists Gary Baseman, Buff Monster…
(via Art MoCo, above painting by Ron English)

    more Hello Kitty birthday wishes

    a few images from Three Apples: A Hello Kitty Group Show in Los Angeles, including contemporary artists Gary Baseman, Buff Monster…

    (via Art MoCo, above painting by Ron English)