Have you had a nice day today? Well, maybe it’s because you’re totally suffocating The Environment! Yes, every day, 1 million animals die from eating plastic bags. Isn’t that crazy? Well designer / artist Aron Kullander-Östling is about to get all up into the print shop and do something wild about it. Yes, that’s right, he’s gonna screenprint his way outta this one. And he does! In a limited edition of 50, he’s changed the world, one bag at a time. Taking the graphics from this 100% classic plastic bag you could find anywhere in the world basically, he transfered and inked his way onto 50 hand-sewn canvass bags.

Sewed em himself even!
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Hello all you fun-loving satanists – keep your crappy rat-made tats. The following is a collection of images of upside-down crosses. This is not a collection of evil for satan’s sake. It is a collection of the tendency for images of inverted crosses to be wild and weird. It takes a special situation for a person to decide to flip a cross on its head because of the controversial reaction it might make. However, as you’ll be quick to see, many of these images are personal – images of flipped crosses written on hands, on desks in schools, and more, just for some sort of self-fulfilling need. But then again, they did photograph them.

Indulge in this weirdness, and stray not from the path of righteousness.
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My name is Chris Burns and I am a Design Junkie. It is not a thing that is all-consuming. No. I am not an addict in the sense that I would not be able to go swimming for lack of letterforms in the ocean. Nay. It is the job of the design addict not to be addicted (exclusively) to the forms created by his or her fellow designer, but to see beauty in all things, seeing potential at any time they want to take a lesson from the things they see in life, then applying them to potential design forms. That said, it’s time to take a ride in the car across town to the grocery store. Looking, and considering, as we go, at every little thing with a healthy appetite.
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So you know, if you grew up in say, the West, you came across a little thing at some point or another in your life called model cars. When the “modern” age of model cars came along, it continued through my childhood and survived pretty nicely to this day, even unto to the day this post is born. Anyone who’s made cars with kits in their childhood (or in their inner-childhood) knows, and will tell you, that the most amazing, technical, and stylistically important part of the whole process is also the most fun: the stickers.
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Oh joy, oh rapture! Oh hooray! Lego’s had their so-called “minifigs” in all sorts of costumes for years and years now, lovely, amazing, fabulous little guys. My favorites have been the Star Wars collection of course, but up until now, you’ve sort of gotten what you’d payed for. Why’s that bad? It’s not! It’s just not as HIP as buying a package with mystery contents! They’ve gotten hip though. They’ve gotten with it! This right here’s the LEGO Minifigures blind boxed series one! 2 B Reeleased early this summer. Woopie!
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What a wonderful display. Chew if you will upon this new collection of illustrations by design group Geliografic that goes by the name of “Art of Innovation.” Weapons, ammo, and items of war set in still life paintings stolen from antiquity. Fear now the trends of war, or perhaps feel glad that G’s making fun of them. I’m personally like to note how weapons like these have become as commonplace in artwork these recent years as the items they’re set next to in these pictures. Tastes kinda nice!
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Go Nigo Go Nigo Go! Go, go, go, go! Nigo, Nigo, rappala, Nigo, Nigo, hook fashion addict. Go! Go! Go! Go! — A Bathing Ape brand has the fishy smarts behind it. Those people know exactly what they’re doing when they bait this hook. What you see above (and below) is their new collaboration with Daiwa (fishing gear brand) – fishing lures with Bape camouflage graphics. Not just to further your total Bape lifestyle, but for the irony of the lure culture!
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Matchbooks matchbooks, here and there, matchbooks matchbooks everywhere! Hooray for these little magical fantasms that contain the elemental power which set the world on fire. Fire! Not for children to collect, that’s this collection. Ranging from the wildness (see pic above) of the matchbooks in my personal collection (yours truly, Chris Burns,) to wonderful design-conscious collectors like the folks at “Oh Joy!” – it’s the first annual big fat huge industrial sized World Famous Design Junkies matchbook collection!
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Welcome to the click-out world of Michael Johansson. The work you see above is his dingy. It’s called Toys’R'Us and it’s a 1:1 scale model of a boat with all the necessities for staying afloat along with it. This sort of model should remind you of 1-piece click-out toys packaged with action figures such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Michael Johansson specializes in parodying this particular moment in toydom by creating life-sized models with that molded-plastic “break-apart and play” action specifically in mind.
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Inside of this post you’re about to behold a set of nicely constructed Japanese magazine advertisements from the late 60’s and early 70’s in a lovely amount (50+). Simplicity abound. Although there really was a smaller amount of “Futura terror” in the years before Helvetica in Japan, the times certainly did change by the end of the 1960s. Modern minimalism permeated the whole world, even super crazy time Japanese magazines.

That’s what we’ve got here!
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This is the Golden Cart. It is gold. It is branded with the name Okko, which is totally gourmet. They have hard-to-find foods there. And what’s better to hold all your million-dollar foods and drinks than a freaking golden blinged-out cart? Nothing. Nothing is better. This cart sits nicely inside your local Instanbul Okko.
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