Sleepypod Pet Carrier

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The Sleepypod is a new pet carrier that creates a more enjoyable and safe experience for your pet when on the road. A great alternative to the pet-in-your-purse method, it also doubles as a bed by removing the top.

Currently there are no safety standards for pets, making the Sleepypod, built to withstand a 24 mph impact while strapped in with a seatbelt, the first of its kind. And while it may not be ideal for people who use public transportation or walk, it’s perfect for longer-distance hauls, whether stowed under an airplane seat or strapped into cars.

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Adding more function, the pod has a pocket for an optional warming pad that can be plugged into car for the cold winter months and removing the plush inside makes it more comfy in summer. Available in two sizes from the Sleepypod site,
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, for pets under seven pounds, is $150 and the standard, for pets under 15 pounds, is $165.

And The WInner Of The Well Dressed Home Giveaway Is…

WellDressedHome.com is one of those websites that you wish you had discovered well before you did. Why? For starters, their assortment of gifts and decor is completely random, meaning you don’t have to choose between traditional, vintage, or modern when it comes to adding a personal touch to your home. Then, there’s the range of trinkets related to wine and cheese, two of my great loves in life (I’ve decided I get more than one). Plus, everything’s affordable, so choosing between a Jonathan Adler puffer fish and the foot in the door doorstop is basically a non-issue. Last week we offered you the chance to win a $250 gift certificate to WellDressedHome.com– click READ MORE to find out if you won!

Coffin Made From Bookshelf: Going to the li-bury

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Do you like that bookshelf up above? You do? Well, how would you like to be buried in it?

Designer William Warren’s clever Shelves for Life project from 2006

…is a self-initiated project to further explore ideas of built-in sentimentality within our possessions. The aim is to make stronger emotional relationships with our belongings and encourage life-long use.

The shelves are CNC cut in oak veneered plywood to the customers measurements. They are intended to be used throughout life as storage for personal belongings. On death, the shelves are dismantled and rebuilt as a coffin.

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Scott Amron’s new product: Selling new soap in old bottles

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We’re obviously big fans of Scott Amron: His award-winning toothbrush/waterfountain, offswitch/coathook, magnet/moneyclip, and our favorite so far, disappearing trash/trashcan. Now the King of the Hybrids brings us New Soap/Old Bottle, a product/service that buys brandname liquid soap and packages it up in reused bottles. Kinda smart. Here’s the backstory:

We sell brand name liquid soap packaged in old plastic soda bottles, plastic water bottles and glass beer bottles to help clean up our environments. Each bottle is cleaned, sanitized and processed for reuse as packaging for your favorite brand of liquid soap. Big companies aren’t going to do this on their own. So we’ll do it for them. We buy name brand liquid soap by the barrel and package it in old bottles here in America.

Pretty great idea. ‘Til he gets shut down, of course. (Maybe that disappearing trash can will come in handy then!)

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As Polaroid Remains in Limbo, an Elegy for Instant Photography

dead polaroid.jpgBeleaguered Polaroid, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last December, is finding that selling its assets is anything but instant. Its latest proposed sale—for $56.3 million to two liquidation firms—was nixed in bankruptcy court yesterday after a rival bidder filed papers requesting that the auction be reopened—again. Private equity firm Patriarch Partners, which was previously chosen to buy Polaroid before a snafu derailed the deal last month, requested the chance to up its offer, which it argues is better because it’s not a brand-devaluing liquidation scheme that would fire Polaroid employees and halt innovation at the 72-year-old company. Another auction is set for Thursday.

Meanwhile, longtime Polaroid fans such as artist Chuck Close and photographer Elsa Dorfman are still coming to grips with last year’s announcement that Polaroid was discontinuing almost all of its instant film products. In creating the giant, soulful painted portraits for which he is best known, Close often works from photographs taken by the 20×24 Polaroid camera that he began using in the ’70s. “There’s so much more information embedded in it than can be seen with the naked eye—unbelievable detail and a real physicality,” he told Art & Antiques recently. “It is a unique product.” And a tricky one. Artist and photographer John Reuter describes instant photography as “part-miracle and part-voodoo, besides science. A lot can influence it and make it go wrong.”

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Hot Spring Accessories For Under $50!

Confession: I love costume jewelry. Love it, always have. As my good friend Reese would tell you, a day without sparkles is hardly a day at all. So naturally, I love to look all around town and score a good deal on pieces I will cycle frequently in my wardrobe. Enter this sparkly jewel encrusted layered bracelet from Forever 21 for just $8.80. The mixture of blues and stones will look great with anything from a white t-shirt and jeans to a little black dress for the night on the town. Or for a more ladylike look, check out the small floral ring from J.Crew for $50. I’d bet that you’d wear that gorgeous gold ring any day you could! Check out my slideshow for some gorgeous spring finds under $50!

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Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2009

Particularly in times of crisis a coherent brand presence becomes a survival strategy and successful communication design one of the most important differentiating tools in order to survive in the market.

However, good achievement always requires international comparison. With the “red dot award: communication design” we offer you the opportunity to have your work, along with entries from all over the world, evaluated by our expert jury, which awards the “red dot” quality seal to the best achievements. Face the competition and show the potential of good design with your work.

In order to take into account the increasing significance of design in the multimedia sector we have extended the categories this year and adapted them to current developments in the industry. Furthermore, this year the “red dot: junior prize”, which goes to the best work of a design student and comes with a prize money of 10,000 euros, will again be awarded. The honorary title “red dot: design agency of the year” will, from this year onwards, be awarded annually to an agency or a design office for its particularly continuous and innovative design achievements in the field of communication design.

Play your part and confirm the positive economic benefit of good design with your work!

T-Shirt Sketchbook

Après le Status Calendar, voici le nouveau projet de Burak Kaynak. Un cahier de note en forme de tee-shirt afin d’avoir le meilleur aperçu avant impression. Exprimer au mieux les concepts et visualiser le produit final. Disponible en pages recto et verso. Plus d’images dans la suite.



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Dans le même esprit : Web Design Sketchbook

Photographer Scott Pommier

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We asked Vancouver-based Scott Pommier which photographers or eras he looks to for inspiration.
I feel like I’ve picked up little lessons, or perhaps truisms is closer to the mark, from a lot of photographers. I’ve never studied the history of photography. I only really know what I’ve tripped across.

A few years ago, I was at a friend’s place and he had a beautiful book of photographs by Deirdre O’Callaghan called “Hide That Can,” about a hostel in London. Looking through it, I realized that although I had a pretty good understanding of the mechanics of photography, I wasn’t really attuned to the subtleties. Looking back, that was a turning point in a couple of different ways.

For a start, I decided I wanted to get a lot more comfortable shooting available light photographs. And also, I don’t think I’d really thought about journalism as art until that point. I was already a senior photographer for an international skateboarding magazine before I started to figure out how I wanted to shoot pictures and even before my pictures began to mean anything to me. It wasn’t until then that I actually felt like a photographer. This is all actually pretty recent. I wanted so badly to be a child prodigy, but I think I’m a late-bloomer.

There’s a full interview with Scott Pommier on the Feature Shoot website.

See another photo after the jump.

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