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Sprout World has made a pencil that you can plant after use, combating disposable culture. It is the world’s first fully sustainable pencil, and it’s made possible by replacing the usual eraser on the top of the pencil with a seed capsule. The pencils were a concept by MIT students, in partnership with Michael Stausholm, […]

The Swedish Number is an unusual campaign from the Swedish Tourist Association. From now on you can call the number in the video and get connected up to a random Swedish resident (who will have to sign up through an app to ‘volunteer to chat’ for Sweden). Via ABC News: The phone number was set […]

The greatest Star Wars lightsabers are often built by fans. Here are some lightsaber construction processes – and their makers’ dedication. In Sacramento, California, 43 year old Michael Murphy makes a living by building high end custom lightsabers. Money quote from the Verge: “I guess somewhere deep down I always wanted to be a toymaker,” […]

The Berlin office of Ogilvy & Mather fights back against the republishing of Mein Kampf by publishing their own book, Mein Kampf gegen Rechts. After the Bavarian government’s copyright expired, Hitler’s notoriously fascist book Mein Kampf was republished in Germany this year, and Ogilvy & Mather decided to respond with Mein Kampf gegen Rechts (My […]

In a powerful ad, skincare brand SK-II stands up for China’s so-called ‘leftover women’ (unmarried after 25) with an ad that takes over the marriage market. The ‘marriage market’ are a reality of life in China, where parents go to post ads about their single children. In a society where getting married is seen as […]

“Wrapped” is a post-apocalyptic film about plants retaking urban spaces, and is a graduation short film from Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. Created at the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction, the film has run in over 100 film festivals so far, and is an incredible effort for a graduation film. Directed by Roman Kälin, Falko […]

The Old New World is a photo-based animation project by photographer and animator Alexey Zakharov of Moscow, Russia was made using 1900s photos of US cities New York, Boston, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. Zakharov got the images from Shorpy, a site with over 6,000 fine art prints available for framing. The main part of […]

Dutch filmmakers Lernert & Sander created a beautifully slick, creative film for Lensvelt’s ‘The Boring Collection’ of grey office furniture. The collection is, according to the filmmakers: “a comment on the ‘ugly’ appearance of affordable contract furniture and the distracting designs being added to some workplaces,” says Lernert & Sander. The film, called 16:59, echoes […]

Memories of Paintings is an experimental video by French motion graphics and creative director Thomas Blanchard, that blends a soothing technicolour mix of paints, oil, milk and liquid soap, all shot in high definition with a Canon 24-105L macro lens , set to music by Bronix. Blanchard’s often surreal, highly colourful works often explore this […]

Michelle Obama 360 is an exclusive VR interview with the First Lady by Verge, a first-ever of the kind with FLOTUS that took place in the White House. Shooting in 360 means being able to check out the production in progress as it was filming. It was part of Verge’s longform article about the Obamas […]