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Vintage Shelf

A traditional shape inside a contemporary form. Nice thinking from Jaren Goh Design.

Via Yatzer.

8-Bit Street Art

Found on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Wonderful.

Via Wooster Collective.

Articulating Faucet

Clever. The Karbon Articulating Kitchen Faucet from Kohler lets you extend the faucet to fill large pots, lower it into the sink for cleanup, or even fold it completely out of the way. Once you put the faucet in the position you want, it stays there for hands-free operation.

Via Trendir.

Richard Moon's Portraits

London-based artist Richard Moon offers up these disturbing portraits at the New London School show currently on exhibit at the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, California. The show, which includes many other London artists, goes through May 10.

Via Art MoCo.

Fontbots

Canadian designer Jonathon Yule created a series of robots out of his favorite sans serif typefaces. Fun stuff.

Via Boing Boing.

Noticeably Sharper

Lovely art direction by Austrian agency Demner, Merlicek & Bergmann.

Via Ads of the World.

Crushy

Crushy represented the Orange Crush soda brand for almost thirty years. The top ad shown here is from 1929. The bottom is from 1947. Not only did the Crushy mascot appear in ads, he appeared on glass bottles, and on tin signs wherever Orange Crush was served cold ("Thirst Aid" stations). I love his original design; a stylized figure (a C?) literally crushing the juice out of an orange. By the end, he had morphed into a rather typical soda jerk character.
   You can find a lot more vintage soda pop ads, organized by brand, over at Nostalgiaville.