You know that terrible feeling you get when spring comes and everyone is all happy but you’re kinda bummed out because you can’t wear your big ugly boots anymore? That’s like kinda sorta the opposite feeling people who garage sale get. The garage sale people (and me, I’m one of them) get really pumped up. They go get their cup of quarters, their fanny packs, their walking shoes, visors, and maybe even their water bottle ready. They have all this stuff ready, and they get out there, and they buy stuff. They buy stuff they might never have ever thought about needing, and they pay 10 cents for it. The photo set you’re about to lay your eyeballs on is called “!GARAGE SALE!”, taken by Caroline Palla.
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Just when I need reminding the least, another reason why I love working on these internets comes up. This is a series of photos that goes by the name “Retail Careers” by Auckland, New Zealand resident Ill Domus. The following set is, yes! you guessed it, candid photos of people working in retail clothing sales environments. I’d like to mention that these photos were taken with great skill, but that when you take a set of photos with such a lovely command line as this, they could be half blurry and they’d still be super cool. Take em all!
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Behold, an aqueous set of photographs taken and produced by a really radically talented picture taker by the name of Mark Mawson. They’re so aqueous in fact, that they’re nearly all fully submerged. There’s several groups, some of them with a single photo, some of them with several. Discover the beautiful quality inherent in each captured bit of light floating in space, and the color, oh my goodness the color. What a masterful selection of elements.
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Not just my favorite kind of pizza, this multi-artist exhibition called “Barnstormers” is just about to blow your socks off with wildness and oddly-sensual curation. Take a peek first at the piece above. It’s a record player with giant speakers, all of it stashed and screwed into the base of a swanktastic seat. You look at that then you look at any of the pieces below, you tell me if you could’ve guessed they’d be in the same show. No way. But is that any deterrent for you? Naught! Discover the full spread.
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Oh joy! This skateboard company you may have heard of called “Real Skateboards” has a new set of boards and an entire experience ready to go set up around old classic video games. Real Gaming. They’ve even got their own interactive webpage set up around it. Play all the games! What we’ve got though is a close up look at all of the board graphics. Each of these is illustrated by the ultra-talented Alex Turan, graphic artist and designer.
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That’s right. One to one. A perfect replica of a chair that designer Anna Haenko chopped up and stuck together to show. What could a person do with a chair like this? Probably not sit on it. But like a printmaker who whips up 15 different color combinations for their 2 tone print project, it is important to test more than one option. If given the opportunity to test, test you must. Test you should, because it is exactly that, an opportunity, a gift from the experimentation gods.
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Inside these matchbooks is a fantasy. A fantasy in blue and white. Opened, stripped, and penned in by designer Madeleine Stahel from Zürich. In each one of these books you’ll find a new lovely vision of the future, the past, old friends long gone. Yoda’s not present though. Maybe in spirit. Devour their oddity, then keep your own books after you’ve fired up all your matches for furtherance of this super project.
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Hello all you adventurers in graphic design land! It’s that time again! It’s time for a 100% patented by World Famous Design Junkies best ever of all time way to look at a location in a short number of clicks MINI TOUR! Yay! Today we’ve got a collection of photos taken with the exploration of the graphic landscape in mind of the Grand Casino in Millacs, Minnesota, USA. Slot machines galore, great carpet design, and yes, one of the most home-grown all-Minnesotan brand designs of all time.
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Behold! From on high comes the clicker of a god. Or of GOD! Designer of unconventional things Michael Wong brings you this single campaign for international shipping company DHL. Can you guess what it’s promoting? It’s 24 hours a day tracking of course! As a direct result of this campaign which was centralized around Beijing’s business district, concerned calls about package location went down, and online click counters to the tracking webpage surged. How much exactly is a secret, but the true loveliness of this project is, of course, the giant mouse arrows traveling about the city on DHL yellow delivery vans.
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Just when you think all the good famous people were already turned into a poster, there he is, running at you with his squeegee and buckets of ink. Shepard Fairey creates a portrait of His Holiness The Dalai Lama. This portrait is done in celebration of both the 75th birthday of the Lama as well as March 10th being Tibetan Independence day. Proceeds from the print will go to a couple Tibet foundations, and all the posters I think should just go to me.
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Hooray! Minneapolis hero gigantic mural painter Isaac Arvold has a new project on his hands here, and he hands it right over to World Famous Design Junkies to put on blast! And so here it is, a relatively mega painting on canvas, 12 feet by 12 feet square, painted, drawn, then painted by Arvold, assisted in part by Paper Tiger*. The painting in question here features Hennepin Bridge & Grainbelt Beer sign from the north side of Minneapolis. They’ve sort of been overgrown by some vine-ridden growth and doughnuts. That’s what Minneapolis really is, so it’s very appropriate to show the truth here I think. To tune up the interactivity of this project, Arvold took a huge long video of the entire process, 10 days mashed into a little over 4 minutes of video.
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