FanMade

Alright nerds(not excluding myself), this is the best thing to ever happen to us:

Yeah, that’s all hand-stitched. Take that, haters.

That piece above is part of an art show happening right now, until the end of August 2009 called Stitch Wars.

(Spotted on BoingBoing)

Barcelona born, London schooled designer Christian Zuzunaga has further iconized the pixel with his graphic textile designs.  Over the last 4 years, he has collaborated with several other brilliant artists to create usable, functional, and wearable products.

Quadrat 2007 (Menswear collection created in collaboration with Peter Maxwell Smith)

Tate Gallery 100% Silk Scarf (Print designed by Christian Zuzunaga for Colour Chart Exhibition at Tate Liverpool)

Furniture Collection 2008 (Created in collaboration with Moroso UK and Kvadrat)

Of course! Why didn’t I think of this? It only makes sense that if you’re going to tile something, you may as well play everyone’s favorite ’tile’ game while you’re at it.

Created by Gustav Frykholm and Magnus Björn, it just solidifies in my mind the fact that all clever interior design ideas come from Sweden.

The set comes with 44 tiles consisting of:
3 x A E R S
2 x D G I L N O T
1 x B C F H J K M P Q U V W X Y Z Å Ä Ö
(apparently the cheaply made brown nylon bag with single snap closure is sold separately)

With those letters, right above the stove, I would write: BAT STOVE

Using only the letters above, what would you write on your kitchen or bathroom wall? Sound off in the comments.

Follow this link to order some yourself, but you may want to take a crash course in Swedish.

(via inredningsbloggen )

IAN ADDS: “Clever Girl.“

I use computer software all the time in my job, and often times it’s high-end production software made by Adobe.

How is a fan of high-end creative computer software going to celebrate their fandom? By laying down for a nap.

Created with no affiliation with Adobe, My Suite Stuff is offering the entire ‘Creative Suite Pillow Set’ for $80. You can buy individual pillows for $15 each, but we all know that After Effects works best when you’ve got Photoshop to go along with it. And how are you going to use InDesign without Illustrator? Flash and Dreamweaver are BFFs, so just get the whole set.

It’s just too bad there’s no educational discount.

(spotted on SwissMiss)

Some people have booble-heads on their desks others have pictures and then there’s this:

While I’m totally in love with this fan creation, upon first discovering it I was definitely let down to learn it wasn’t something I could purchase, like, yesterday. It took this Russian guy 18 days to build this WALL-E Case Mod from scratch out of solid metal sheets, paint and a whole lotta talent. Yup, dude’s entire computer is housed inside the robot, with the exception of the keyboard, mouse and monitor, of course. But the plugs, on/off switch, CD drive and everything else is all neatly tucked into the body of our cute, robotic friend.

The only problem with something like this is you’d probably want to keep it on your desk (as seen in the image above) so you can play around with it and show it off to your friends — but you’ll need a pretty solid desk since that puppy is all metal and most desktop computers are pretty heavy to begin with. Screw it, though, I’d find a way to make it work — there’s just something about this little toy that gives me an instant film-nerd-gasm . Check out a few of the “making of” images below, then head over here to witness every single little step that went into making this fantastic piece of gotta-have-it-right-now.

(Note to Disney: Please make one of these. Thanks.)

(via cinematical.com)