Hello all you portfolio havers. Designers and artists, photographers and crazy people. Let me show you a rather interesting development in modern-day internet collections of works: The Grab Bag. That’s what designer Mark Stuckert calls it. It’s a side-collection of works that the artist has done, oddities they’ve found that are exclusive to them, or just wonderful mistakes.
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Hoootah! Our hero and friend super-designer Erik Brandt is in Bolivia! And you know what that means – lots of typographically amazing photos! Typography is a specialty of the eyes for Herr Brandt, and his camera helps him help us to understand the lovliness of his environment. Explore with me, and him, if you will, a collection of 120+ photographs of graphic design and lettering lovliness from the city of La Paz, Bolivia!
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Hey make things so much easier in life with this! That’s what’s up! Getting contents up on Facebook before was just a hot mess with messed up thumbnails and broken links but not now! Now we’re going really smooth. Really really smooth. Do this! Go on to your facebook through the link right here: [KaPOW] and you’ll have all the World Famous Design Junkies you ever wanted, a lot easier on everyone!
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Brand flippin new works from the design / art collective FAILE. The works contained in this post are dubbed (by Faile) to be the Wood Paintings set and will be formally introduced next week at FIAC art fair in Paris with Perry Rubenstein Gallery. Faile’s going to be represented by Perry Rubenstein in the United States from now on, their first show to be some time mid-2010. This set of fine art pieces is the first bunch to be produced and shown in corroboration with PRG. And they’re HUGE.
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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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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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EDIT: CONTEST OVER. Winners will be chosen soon and sent messages over twitter or email. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Hello and welcome, design world, to the first ever World Famous Design Junkies sticker giveaway! You see those stickers in the photo there? The ones that say a little something about Obama on a certain Unicorn? Yes. That is what we are giving away. You, yes YOU! could be the lucky winner of a 12pack of World Famous Design Junkies “Obama Ona Unicorn” stickers courtesy of our new best friend in the world, Sticker Robot!
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So I went forward into the year 2000. Forward into the FUTURE. And I found this amazing bit of jewelry made only for the future. You will never see this kind of fashion again! Or you might see it again if we ever get to the year 2000. Maybe then. I’ll tell you how much I bought it for, too. I bought it for one Future dollar. From the future. Believe it.
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Design Museum London recently celebrated its 20th anniversary by sponsoring a bakeoff. Contestants, including Airside, karlsson/ullman, and Cupcakes To Go, were instructed to bake a cake inspired by design. Here are some of the fabulous entries (taken from Design Museum’s Facebook page).

I might also mention here that this is a bona-fide guest post! Aside from this short paragraph, this post is line-for-line submitted using our Submit Content feature. Get on top o dis! Also note that this particular submission was made anonymously, but if you’d like, you can get cred, too! Just note it!

LOVE, CHRIS
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How many times do we have to say East Meets West before we’re fully understanding of the fact, the FACT that we’re all in dis togetha? Well it isn’t true, is it? East continues to meet West, day in and out. Here we’ve got an example, no, a collection of examples of the most fantastically simple and lovely false connections made between Everywhere America and what appears to America to be a frightening, terrifying Iranian world. Made by designers “21-19″, these pictures are part of a campaign kit for American/Iranian filmmaker Bita Hairdarian’s brand new east/west documentary “Finding Bibi.”
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Oh holy crap Moustache Bandanas. Remember the early 90’s? You couldn’t wear a bandana, not any bandana at all, because you’d get shot. Red bandanas were for the Bloods, blue bandanas were for the Crips, and purple were for the Grimaces. You’d get so many burgers thrown at you. So many. But you will NOT get held up and stabbed when you’re sporting one of the bad boys you’ll see in this post. No sir.
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