Hasta La Ideas

All Unitasker Wednesday posts are jokes — we don’t want you to buy these items, we want you to laugh at their ridiculousness. Enjoy!

There are folks out there who don’t like picking up potato chips with their hands. Chips are greasy! Your hands could be dirty! And if you have a cut, the salt can sting! Avoid the pain of eating potato chips with the Potato Chip Finger!

It’s also fully automatic, and so realistic looking that your mouth won’t know you didn’t use your real fingers! And, if I’m to believe the man in the commercial, after using it you want to give everyone a big thumbs up! (You should know it works well, too, because I keep using exclamation points!!!)

I was having difficulty imagining how people who don’t like using the hands attached to their bodies might possibly eat potato chips without the Potato Chip Finger, but thankfully the commercial also showed me a multi-tasking alternative:

(Thanks to reader Emi for introducing us to this week’s unitasker.)

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pOnce you land in JFK, you know you’re in New York. Sadly this is not because the terminal is filled with expressive designs celebrating Gotham; rather, you know because it’s filthy, illegal cabdrivers are beckoning to you from across the street, and the legal hacks are occasionally getting out of the stopped cars to scream at each other face to face./p

pIndian design firm A HREF=”http://www.incubis.net/html/aboutus/aboutushtml.htm” Incubis Consultants/A, tasked with designing the interior of Indira Gandhi International Airport, came up with a much more pleasant installation that would remind you where you were. Called “Expressive India,” the design is comprised of enormous cast-resin hands performing Imudras/I, the hand gestures from classical Indian dance forms./p

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blockquoteAll airports have very similar design vocabulary. They are actually machines. They tend to evolve in a similar glass and metallic fashion. Very early on they were keen to give the terminal an Indian context and infuse it with Indian values. The basic positioning we created for the terminal was “Expressive India.” All classical Indian dance forms use mudras [hand gestures]. It’s a common vocabulary./blockquote

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Scottish independent beermaker BrewDog has taken unconventional packaging to a whole new level for its 55% proof The End of History. As well as claiming it to be the most alcoholic beer in the world, BrewDog co-founder James Watt also believes it to be the most expensive. A nattily-attired bottle of the Belgian blond ale will set you back a princely £500.

Suggested serving is in a whisky tumbler, as opposed to necking straight from the furry bottle

12 bespoke bottles have been produced. According to your preference you could opt for one of seven dead stoats, four grey squirrels or, for those wanting something a little less common, there’s the single hare.

Watt suggests the beer is, “An audacious blend of eccentricity, artistry and rebellion.”

For ale connoisseurs and the flush of cash, purchases can be made from the BrewDog website.

Thanks to Ann-Marie on the Creative Review LinkedIn group for pointing us in the direction of this story.

A back-to-basics debut of ethically-made tanks, Bajas and dresses

From the founders of LaRok clothing, Brooklyn-based label Ace & Jig refine casual basics in medium-weight fabrics for every season—Baja hoodies, tanks, raglan blouses and smock dresses—in understated neutrals. Slouchy cuffed sleeves and keyhole details keep the recently-aunched look sweetly feminine, while stripes of shades like sky blue, lemon yellow and orange add a vibrant touch.

Stripes, Ace & Jig’s signature, “have the long-lasting qualities of a classic and iconic medium”—a design approach that goes hand in hand with their ethos of tradition and responsibility. Working directly with fair practice weavers in India, designers Cary Vaughan and Jenna Wilson based their entire debut collection on yarn-dyed wovens fabricated on ancient looms.

The material-focused debut speaks to their shared passion for antique fabrics, which Vaughan and Wilson collect avidly. Friends for nearly a decade, the two spent three years together on LaRok, reuniting after a break to raise their own families.

Visit Ace & Jig’s website for stockists and more views of their Fall/Winter 2010 collection.

We just had a play with our very own Dress Up Designer set, included with CR’s current Summer Bumper Book O’ Fun issue. Created by Peepshow’s Elliot Thoburn there’s a whole host of achingly hip looks to give your creative duo…

So, to start off, here are our two budding creatives on the page, in their smalls (the firm grip the chap is sporting is for his cut-out iPhone of course). You can also download the templates for him and her from the website address included within the issue, should you not want to deface your new CR.

A good few weeks’ growth on the ‘creative beard’ and our chap also gains some nice skinny jeans:

Hello! That’s a handsome shirt sir! Not to mention a tasty timepiece. Meanwhile, our creative lady has found a pretty cool T-shirt (Ocean Pacific no less) and is now rocking a nice pair of shorts too. Must be summer.

Now he gets shoes, while she receives a belt, a pendant, a hoodie and – very important this – a nice bag to carry ones knitting in:

All the clothes come with folding tabs so you can alter the look of your creatives as you wish (see top image for the full free-standing look complete with shades, bangle and bags).

The more adventurous among you many even have added your own additions to the wardrobe and, if so, we’d love to see them.

Thanks to Jasmin for her sterling efforts with the scalpel in the CR office! Dress Up Designer appears in our current August issue, out now.