LEFT: YACHT / RIGHT: TABU

A few posts I enjoyed writing this week — in places other than here:

The Design of Creativity
Slits for Brains
A Fresh Alternative to the Coatrack
Make Your Wall a Focal Point
MADDeck

Enjoy your weekend!
p.s. No weekend mash-up today; I’m on a killer deadline. See you Monday!
p.p.s. Apologies for recent server issues; we’re working on getting DFM back up to speed asap!

LEFT: MAXPEAKE / RIGHT: OLIVIAMALONE

Ebony Patterson’s work is bizarre, but I’m really loving this new departure from traditional silhouettes.

Stereotype Packaging explores what would happen if packaging was made to look like that of many harmful substances from cigarettes to fried foods and drugs.

Would we psychologically curb the habit by getting our fix from the package itself? Brilliant.

I’ve spotted a serious trend this week where unexpected objects are marrying to form an entirely different concept. Here are a few of my favorites, inspired by this table and stool experiencing a great deal of separation anxiety (as created by Adi Zaffran):

Sink+Lavatory
Spoon+Chopsticks
Table+Lamp
Rain Barrel+Watering Can
Salt Shaker+Bowl

p.s. Another bathroom set I spotted this morning!: W+W at Dezeen.

LEFT: SHAWNISABELLE / RIGHT: TYANCEYIV

It’s official; the Internet is up for this year’s Nobel peace prize.

“More often than not, [ideas are formed in] the tiniest everyday things: black poppy seeds floating in a washing-up bowl, a wet strand of hair curvaceously sitting on ceramic sink.”

-Matt Pyke