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Guns Carved into Wooden Desks

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Ben Turn­bull, a con­tro­ver­sial artist from Lon­don, cre­ates unusual works of art by carv­ing the shapes of toy weapons into wooden school desks. The artist, a pas­sion­ate critic of the Amer­i­can polit­i­cal sys­tem, explains why he uses toys in his work: “Force fed on vio­lence, abused by a con­trol­ling super­power and black­mailed through patri­o­tism, the public

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Design Lions at Cannes 2010

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The Design Lions at Cannes Inter­na­tional Adver­tis­ing Fes­ti­val rec­og­nize the cre­ative high­lights of design from the adver­tis­ing indus­try in the fields of cor­po­rate or brand iden­tity, envi­ron­men­tal design and pack­ag­ing design. This year’s Grand Prix was awarded to Hap­pi­ness Brus­sels for their work on Toyota’s iQ Font campaign

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Dubai Inspiration: Burj Al Arab Hotel

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The Burj Al Arab is a hotel located in Dubai, United Arab Emi­rates and is a self-proclaimed 7-star hotel. At 321 m (1,053 ft), it is the sec­ond tallest hotel in the world. The Burj Al Arab stands on an arti­fi­cial island 280 m (920 ft) out from Jumeirah beach, and is con­nected to the main­land by a pri­vate curv­ing bridge

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7 Apps to Keep You Fit

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This series is sup­ported by App­boy – the most pop­u­lar social out­let for mobile app lovers. Catch up with pre­vi­ous edi­tions here . When it comes to exer­cise, just get­ting around to doing it can be a chal­lenge, but once you over­come the dis­ci­pline hur­dle, doing it right can be just as tough.

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Toyota iQ Font

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Toyota’s iQ Font cam­paign from Bel­gium has won the Grand Prix for Design at Cannes Inter­na­tional Adver­tis­ing Fes­ti­val. The cam­paign pro­vided a down­load­able font that demon­strated the unique agility and per­fect con­trol of the iQ. Typog­ra­phers Pierre and Damien, from Please­letmedesign, and inter­ac­tive artist Zachary Lieber­man worked with pro racer Stef van Camp­en­houdt to design a font using the iQ.

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Bollywood Costumes Get an Andy Warhol Makeover

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By now, you’ve prob­a­bly heard about Bollywood’s con­tro­ver­sial, poten­tially ill-conceived Hitler biopic, which recently lost its lead actor . Here at Fla­vor­pill, we’re more excited about Once Upon a Time in Mum­baai , a forth­com­ing mafia film about the city’s seedy ’70s under­belly. And since we’re always up for some pretty, cross-cultural cos­tumes, we were intrigued to hear about what inspired the film’s wardrobe choices: “We have included the whole West side story in our styling, right from denim bell bot­toms to jump­suits to cowl neck­lines to croc­o­dile leather boots.

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Daily Inspiration #547

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This post is part of our daily series of posts show­ing the most inspir­ing images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writ­ers and users. If you want to par­tic­i­pate and share your graphic design inspi­ra­tion, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use “Daily Inspi­ra­tion” in the sub­ject, and don’t for­get to send your Abduzeedo user­name; or via Twit­ter send­ing to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If pos­si­ble use the HTML code: Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspi­ra­tions? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com 2D ako­moto Anand ARTCORE Best Book­marks daniz­con­cept eDsanca Edward McGowan Estú­dio Happy Eugene Kim ” Fabi­ano Moun­tain Dew “Green Label Art TV” :30 from Shilo on Vimeo .

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Inspiring Interface Designs

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Did you watch Harry Pot­ter, Lord of the Rings, Eragon, Pirates of the Caribbean, or brand-new Avatar or Prince of Per­sia? Did you play Doom and Mor­tal Com­bat? Or, maybe, you have an account for Tra­vian online game?

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Inspiration Monday: Yellow, White, and Touches of Grays

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This week Lind­sey and I were talk­ing about yel­low, gray and white as our color palette inspiration.

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Inspiration Monday: Yellow, White, and Touches of Gray

On June 28, 2010 By

This week Lind­sey and I were talk­ing about yel­low, gray and white as our color palette inspi­ra­tion. Yel­low, black and white has long been a favorite color com­bi­na­tion of mine, but lately I’ve been notic­ing a range of grays tak­ing over, from soft light grays to pewter to charcoal.

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