Immersive Branding: Comedian Moves Into IKEA

Who hasn’t thought it would be fun to live in IKEA, the doll house for adults? Well Mark Malkoff managed to convince the IKEA in Paramus, NJ to let him move in for six days while his New York City apartment is fumigated (or so he says). You can watch the sometimes funny, sometimes forced, sometimes awkward videos at Mark Lives In IKEA, where the product placement is the plot.

Geek Meditation Session

Mr. Zero Punctuation

I was a little late in catching onto Mr. Zero Punctuation [Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw], an English video game reviewer for The Escapist magazine. A few scant months back, a co-worker of mine played Croshaw’s review of The Orange Box for me (knowing that I was a huge fan of the game) – and I found myself really not only bowled over by the quality of the review itself, but in the funny and unique presentation. Obviously, the guy gets his moniker from his verbal delivery… he snarkilytalksreallyfastandgetsinalotinaveryshortamountoftime – but the accompanying minimalist / information graphics-style animations are so simple, subversive, and friggin’ fast that you NEED to be paying very close attention to be getting all the jokes, cross-references, jabs, and barbs.

Hell, I’m even not the world’s biggest gamer (in fact, I remain blissfully unaware of most of the games he reviews), but whatever… I could watch this guy review breakfast cereal.

Check him out either via The Escapist or his blog.

TED: Philippe Starck – Why design?

Legendary designer Philippe Starck — with no pretty slides behind him — spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question “Why design?” Along the way he drops brilliant insights into the human condition; listen carefully for one perfectly crystallized mantra for all of us, genius or not. Yet all this deep thought, he cheerfully admits, is to aid in the design of a better toothbrush.

The Superest Super-Something Ever

“The Superest is a continually running game of My Team, Your Team. The rules are simple: Player 1 draws a character with a power. Player 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous character. Repeat.”

Silliness abounds from Kevin Cornell & Matthew Sutter.

The Superest

(via Drawn!)

SAW WAS

Stephen Doyle is a graphic designer who sculpts words that mess with meaning. Design Observer have a fantastic write up about him with some beautiful examples of his work. His hand-built words toy with your brain in only the most fun and profound ways. He’ll have you looking for your exacto knife.

Design Observer

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

This is one of the finest book titles I’ve ever seen.

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$300 Lobotomys in Toronto

This might explain why Toronto had Mayer Mel Lastman for so many years…

Make the logo bigger!

Hello WISCONSIN!
Let’s rock it out with Burn Back singing “Make the logo bigger”

Coke Zero : Booby Trap

Check out the video here.