No. 6 numbers (and type) shirt

Numbers Tunic designed by No. 6 for Urban Outfitters. Grab it here.

It’s Gift Card Sunday, right?

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

The Rolling Stones’ You Can Always Get What You Want.

Many happy returns!

Merry merry!

Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Featuring Rill Rill’s Sleigh Bells.

Found via Felicia Day

The 1982 Tron Holiday Special

‘A recently unearthed Christmas classic from 1982, starring most of your favorite Tron characters and laser bikes.’

Finally saw the new Tron movie.

LOVE the production design by Darren Gilford and team, beautiful homage to 1980s design thinking – and the original work of Syd Mead, Moebius and Peter Lloyd.

Makes me wanna thumb thru my old Industrial Design textbook, Ungar’s Rendering In Mixed Media. Wear leg warmers. Rediscover Patrick Nagel.

AND Michael Sheen IS the lovechild of Martin Short (below) and David Bowie.

The first Tron seems so far away.

12 days, you hoser

‘On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me  . . .  a beer.’

I still find myself humming this this time of year.

Cause I can never remember the lyrics of the real Twelve Days of Christmas. The McKenzie Brothers’ version (above) I haven’t forgotten.

The audio is from this classic 1982 album. New animation by Animax, company co-founded by original McKenzie bother Dave Thomas. New tee vee series coming soon.

I actually used to draw a fake McKenzie Brothers comic strip for my high school newspaper, circa 1984. If I find copies buried somewhere, I’ll post em.

Or if they like, really suck, then I won’t post em, eh?

Andy Mangold’s free funky numbers

Andy Mangold’s Pompadour numeral set. Free download here.

Found via Ellen Lupton

Oded Ezer’s 1:3 1:5 1:7

‘for a charity exhibition in aid of the Center for Victims of Sexual Assault, using a pair of ladies’ white shoes’

The work of Oded Ezer.

Our Industrial Christmas

‘A collaborative EP from Adam of Savi0r and Davidara (David of Savi0r) featuring 5 industrial reconstructions of their favorite classic Christmas songs’

Tomorrow night starting at 8 pm (PST): Free digital download of Our Industrial Christmas. To get your copy, click ‘attend’ on this Facebook page. A link to the free EP will be posted Christmas Eve 2010.

The ‘event’ is the EP itself. If that makes sense. Facebook account required, of course.

Found via Lyndsie Ross

Kasheeda: ‘The world’s first 3D printed typeface’

‘The font is based on the concept of a thin and wide ribbon, bending freely through space’

A new take on the thick and thin strokes of letterforms. Type in your text and a final rendering is fabricated for a fee.

Details here and here. Test drive the Kasheeda font here.

Latin alphabet and Arabic script are both available.

Found via If It’s Hip, It’s Here.

‘Let it dough!’

Christoph Niemann’s Let It Dough! Read all of it here.

Found via Marian Bantjes

The Feast of Saturnalia

‘Saturnalia became one of the most popular Roman festivals. It was marked by drunken orgies, tomfoolery and reversal of social roles’ -Wiki

Saturnalia was the already-established Roman holiday which seemed to be the best choice for celebrating Christmas. Since no one knew exactly when Christ was born, Saturnalia fit the bill.

Article here. More here. Hippie pagan comic strip video here.

Illustration by Paul Bommer.

Found via Jeanne Mehallo


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