Feeling bored at work? Nothing gives productivity a bigger boost than surfing the Net on company time. More t-shirts here.

Mini / Massive is now ‘live’.

Get them here.

DHL came-a-calling this morning and delivered this.

And in it was this from UK-based WOM World/Nokia.

First impressions? All I’m going to say now is that I wish I didn’t have to return it. Soon to follow, a review.

…is an Umbuster.

One of the 5 new posters for the new depression inspired by the old depression. See the rest here.

via quipsologies.

from the sleevage.

This is a 240-pencil set made from the carbon of cremated human remains. Each pencil is foil stamped with the name of the deceased.

Only one pencil can be removed at a time. You sharpen the pencil by putting it back in the box. The shavings then occupy the space of the used pencils. Over time the box fills with sharpenings — turning the box into a new urn (it’s filled with the shavings which are made from the cremation).

Not quite available at the undertaker/funeral director near you. Designed by Nadine Jarvis.

via signal vs. noise.

Is Graphic Design Art?

Trailer Park Festival

ObamaBats is a collection of 24 dingbats featuring U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama.It is free for download, upload, distribution, use and modification. By Jeff Domke.

via one+infinity.

Rubitone by Ignacio Pilotto.

via swissmiss.

Shaz Madani’s campaign to get bloggers to spend more time offline.

via quipsologies.

This is the new anti-dooring sticker, a campaign in Chicago sparked off by the death of Clinton Miceli. The 22 year old graphic designer was killed in June this year after he struck an SUV’s door, flew off his bike and was run over by a passing vehicle.

via hipster nascar.

This made me laugh. By Pentagram’s Michael Bierut. More about it here.

Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far on TED.

Design And Design is the initiative of French designer Marc Praquin.

In Marc’s own words: I realised that it is much easier for us designers to create things than to make a name for ourselves. So I decided to offer our community a simple yet powerful tool, completely free of charge, to free us from the monopoly of mainstream media and, at long last, let us speak for ourselves. This is how the Design and Design project got started.

Design And Design is a community-based platform for designers from around the world to showcase their work. Each day the site features the work of a graphic designer and product/packaging designer. All awarded works are published in the Design And Design.Com Book of the Year.

Featured above are Design And Design’s graphic and product designs of the day (Business card by FerrarioDesign and Baby Boom High Chair by Franco Cagnina/Cagnina Design).

Ridiculous Design Rules is a site of all the pretentious soundbites about design offered by colleagues, clients or anyone else who thinks they know a lot. Designers don’t need anybody else to make them laugh, when they do it so well themselves. Check it out here.

News of this was sitting in my inbox which I didn’t open for about a week. So this makes the post a little out of time but it’s still worth a mention.

Telemegaphone Dale is a 7m tall P.A. system that sits atop the Bergskletten mountain overlooking the idyllic Dalsfjord in Western Norway. It’s the brainchild of Unsworn Industries, an interaction design and innovation studio based in Malmö, Sweden.

What happens is that when you call the Telemegaphone number (+4790369389 - you’d be charged as if you had called a Norwegian registered mobile phone), your voice will be projected out across the fjord, the valley and to the village of Dale below. It is said that the sound is “quite magical” filling the whole valley “like a soft voice from above”. On a calm day you can be heard in the centre of Dale, some 3km away.

Now the bad news. Telemegaphone was open 24/7 until 6 September 2008. It’s now closed for the local deer hunt season which started on September 10. I emailed Erik of Unsworn to see if the Telemegaphone will be up again post hunting season. In his repy, Erik said they will be returning to Dale shortly to discuss with the residents and authorities about the possibility of making the Telemegaphone a permanent landmark. Watch this space for updates.