Although it’s still [WTF] Wednesday, I have to big-up a great idea from the folks at HP. Like most brilliant ideas, it seems painfully obvious now: Sell a laptop in it’s own bag.

Not only does this save customers the hassle of shopping for an aftermarket bag that fits your computer just right, but it saves [...]

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In the same perverse vein as advertising on taxis, escalator handrails, and pizza boxes, comes the latest in blatant and gratuitous advertising on everyday objects. My seemingly ordinary Chinese food boxes are now 3-dimensional ads for … Spanish-language news on a local cable channel?
Chinese food box plastered on every surface with ads for Noticias on [...]

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Design geeks have plenty to choose from in terms of around-the-house brickerbrack. Just take a quick browse at Swissmiss’s blog and you’ll see plenty. But this caught my eye — Pantone Mugs.

Practicing designers, and keen students, will know that the Pantone matching system is the colour system by which shades and hues are standardised. Keeping [...]

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