David Stark is a celebrated designer who orchestrates glamorous galas for high wattage celebrities, corporations and not-for-profit charities. We’ve always admired David Stark’s unique ability to create witty, wonderful objects from humble materials like recycled cardboard and paper.

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Stormtroopers 365, one shot a day, for 1 year.

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If there were one wish, I would love to have seen this with stereo bluetooth…

Built to work with both PCs and Macs, the Bowers & Wilkins MM-1 Computer Speakers comes sans subwoofer thanks to the integrated 3″ woofer drive unit and also offers the same tweeter design found inside B&Ws respected Nautilus speakers, designed to reproduce the deep end effectively without the addition of a +1.

Expect these speakers to become available in February 2010 so you can start saving up now, as these will likely be priced at a premium in relation to the B&W brand.

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Its common knowledge that Scotch is best served ice cold.But this particular cache of vintage McKinlay is a little more chilled than originally planned.

A whisky company has asked a team to drill through the Antarctic ice cap to find a lost cache of vintage Scotch that was left there nearly a century ago.The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whisky that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition.

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Tucked between historic façades on a tree-lined road, the Condesa df hotel fuses the name and spirit of its bohemian surroundings with architect Javier Sánchez and interior design guru India Mahdavi’s inventive, playful simplicity.

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Might make you go a bit bonkers if you spend too long with it though

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Love this curling office space, the roof space is also pretty inspired.

Cocoon is located in Zurich’s Seefeld district on a beautiful hillside, which enjoys excellent lake and mountain views. The location’s distinctive flair stems from the exceptional park-like setting – a green oasis into which Cocoon snugly nestles.

The stainless steel mesh enveloping the building combines visual privacy with restrained elegance, while establishing a strong and unmistakable presence.

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Love this curling office space, the roof space is also pretty inspired.

Cocoon is located in Zurich’s Seefeld district on a beautiful hillside, which enjoys excellent lake and mountain views. The location’s distinctive flair stems from the exceptional park-like setting – a green oasis into which Cocoon snugly nestles.

The stainless steel mesh enveloping the building combines visual privacy with restrained elegance, while establishing a strong and unmistakable presence.

via CONTEMPORIST.

Fontshop is celebrating its 20th birthday and they invite us to celebrate with them. On this occasion they’ve created a delicate infographic documenting amusing and enlightening statistics. If you like what you see there’s more for you to celebrate: the infographic is growing over the coming weeks.

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I’m sure I saw this coming some how…

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