When I think of things precious, I think of a ring, I think of something breakable, something special. When I think of a breakable, special item, I think of Bleeding Gums Murphy of the Simpsons, who lost all of his riches spending it on Fabergé eggs, then breaking them in the alleyway. But that’s not this! Nay! This is the works of a Chinese magician artist by the name of Ma Jun. It is his trade to recreate objects of little worth in Porcelain, painting them with fine colors, creating in them a value far beyond the dreams of the original.

Below you’ll find a sampling of his newer and older works.
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Hot dogs! Oh my goodness hotdogs! Coney Island Dogs. That’s what’s up. We’ve got a place around here (Minneapolis, Minnesota) called Uncle Frankey’s. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. They make amazing Coney Island Dogs. Supposedly they’re better on the REAL island, but who knows! These people do. And when I say these people, I mean all the people who took the photos included in the super insanely huge World Famous Design Junkies Coney Island Sign Explorer Collection. Oh wow the signs. Look at them all!
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Dear Swedish artist who has made the collection of dead fly artworks you’ll see in this post right here. I would love to hear from you. I would like to give you credit for the greatest dead fly artworks that I have ever seen. I would like to compliment your use of bee and moth carcasses also. Let me know who you are! And let the internet have more of your utterly wondrous grotesque brilliance. Thank you!
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Oh man I HATE IT when people are passive aggressive supreme. So much. So much do I hate such a thing. But I’ll tell you what I like. Green White and Black. As together as they should be, all day and night. Up in this project. It’s a ton of materials, like stickers, sticky-notes, and badges that allow YOU to make the most of your passive aggressive nature in just the most fantastic sticky-designish way possible!

Blame designer Ben Bours.
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Cold sentiments from mid-west USA.
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This is the first day of the rest of your life! It is you, future person, who has the future in your futuristic, super dirty hands! This is a poster from a brilliant bloke from Brooklyn named Roland Tiangco. He, Tiangco, and a kind hand model, Yoshie Hozumi, present this fabulous interactive poster. And I don’t mean interactive computer simulation. I mean getting your hands dirty with real ink and dirt! Physical interactivity! The nerve!
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Though we’ve had some mighty fine pencils and pencil work before, these are just cake-eating tops. Found at a positively lovely estate sale with many graphically inspired objects, these pencils just sang a fine tune to the eyes of yours truly. Behold this colorful pack of pencils from your old friends at Mongol.
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So there I am, just minding my own business up on the top chunk of Wisconsin, looking around at some stuff at an estate sale. And bam. I find out that this is the estate of the late great painting and illustration artist James O. Burnley. He’d lived in this area of Wisconsin (Hudson, to be exact) for many years, having painted up until his last (I saw his final work; it was incomplete!) Amongst the regular estate sale treasures were several sketchbooks, drawings, and paintings. And there, there it was. My treasure. My nun. She sat upon the shelf unassumingly, just praying for me to pick her up.
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A rather friendly message from an anonymous writer in Southern(?) Minneapolis, Minnesota. This photo by fellow Junkie Jake Money. Also another friendly reminder of your GUILT bonus posted below if you care to take a look.
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It’s that time. It’s time to roll on through Royalton, Minnesota, and make the only stop that ever really mattered: Treasure City. We’re talkin didn’t even need to be mentioned on the greatest places to visit lists. Hot stuff. When this post is made, there’s not much coverage of this miracle here at World Famous Design Junkies, but stop on by often, there’s sure to be more as the days happen on past. For now, butts only. Take a look at that beauty.
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Welcome to the Loring Park neighborhood on the South West corner of downtown Minneapolis. I’m about to live in this area! Very exciting. While exploring the streets, I peeped upon this lovely sign. Thinking it might have been a nice happening, a silly mistake of doing the numbers first and thinking of the letters second, I looked upon the other side, then the other sign, and LO! They were all basically made with the same method!

Squishy!
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