All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘design’

globee night lights

Globee Night Lights: Worldly People Who Are Afraid Of The Dark

Either you have a small child and are trying to save them from their destiny of becoming an ethnocentric fool or you are afraid of the dark and have some money to blow.  With the Globee Night Lights, pronounced “Globe-eeee,” you can scare away the monsters that live under your bed and look at a map simultaneously. Firebox allows you to choose from a few different maps for your Globee: Edinburgh, London, and Paris.  If you’re affluent, fancy, or European, you know …

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Retro Video Game Box Art of the 80s and 90s

Video games have changed a lot since the 80s and, let’s face it; a lot of those changes have been for the better. Modern games immerse the player in huge, interactive worlds and feature arresting plots and breathtaking graphics. But, as a designer, I feel like there’s at least one way that modern video games can’t compete with their retro video game counterparts—box art. Older video games caused us to use our imaginations much more and get involved in those crude pixels. …

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geeky cologne

9 Geeky Perfumes and Colognes For Ladies and Gents

Geeky Perfumes . . . Whether male or female, Khajiit or Wood Elf, you’re going to need to smell good for your significant other.  And by good, I mean not like you have been sitting on the couch for three weeks and haven’t showered since you cleaned the Dorito dust out of your chest hair.  (Thought that would be an interesting fragrance.) These nine geeky perfumes and colognes are for ladies and gents respectively, unless you like a scent so much that you’re willing …

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house on wheels

10 Incredible Houses on Wheels

The overactive imaginations of designers have created amazing portable domiciles. Ideal for the nomadic homeowner, these great houses on wheels enable you to change location without sacrificing the comfort of your home. Why move house when you can simply move your house? Removal firms pack your bags; your days may be numbered. 1.  Derek’s Dinky Domicile via Placed on the market in 2009 for $34,000, this tiny house on wheels was built by dexterous Derek from salvaged Cedar, Douglas Fir and Redwood. …

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doctor who shoes

Eleven Doctor Who Shoes: Allons-y All Stars

The good thing about a fandom with a large fanbase is that there’s plenty of room for creativity, and the Doctor Who fan community may be one of the most creative ones out there!  They’ve mastered the art of cosplay (even pulling off tricky costumes like Daleks and the Tardis) as well as dominating fanart.  They’ve created Adipose earrings, stellar T-shirts, and adorable Doctor plushies.  Yes, Doctor Who fans are certainly creative!  There isn’t anything they simply cannot manage – or, rather, create. …

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comic book competition

5 Reasons Why You Should Enter the Print Express Comic Book Competition

  UPDATE: Extended to first week of September 2012 Do you see yourself as the next Hergé or Stan Lee? Do you spend hours locked away penning new comic storylines and devising superheros, heroines, damsels in distress and other unique characters? If you are now screaming, ‘This is me!’ then the new competition from Print Express could be for you. All you need to do is send off your comic in PDF form and if you win, you will receive five professionally …

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The Ten Greatest Comic-Con 2012 Cosplays

Comic-Con is over, and some of you may have already forgotten about it.  A portion of you are saying, “YES FINALLY A COMIC-CON LIST,” and the other portion of you are saying, “IF I SEE ANOTHER POST ABOUT COMIC-CON I’M GONNA THROW UP ON YOUR VEGGIES.”  Why did I wait so long to put this post together?  I’m lazy I wanted to be sure that all of the cosplay photos from Comic-Con had been uploaded so that I could make the best …

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rainbow generator

10 DeviantArt Delights [Week #2]

DeviantArt is one of the greatest places to find some upcoming artists and their awesome works of geeky art, and that’s why we have the 10 DeviantArt Delights series of posts.  This week we have another killer set of art, and I think you’ll like what you find.  You’ll also like what you find under my shirt, but that’s off limits for right now.  At least until I take a shower/ use duct tape to wax it. 1.  How To Train Your …

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