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Matter

 
In an increasingly virtual world, here's a way to get your hands on a box of real stuff.
    Sign up here (UK only for now), and you'll get a box full of stuff you can read, play with, or try at your leisure—delivered free to your door. The first box of Matter contained a new Cadbury candy bar flavor, a CD sampler of BBC audio books, a new brand of shower gel, samplers of two new Harper Collins books (first chapters plus covers), and more. The people behind Matter view the service as a type of magazine, delivering interesting content (not crap) to interested households.

Via Ad Lab.

Pencil Shavings

A delicious collaboration between renown patissier Tsujiguchi Hironobu and the Tokyo design studio Nendo. The chocolate pencils come in a number of cocoa blends varying in intensity, allowing you to customize your desert with the shavings from the sharpener.

Via Oh Joy!

Light Lane

LightLane, a safety concept from from the designers at Altitude, Inc., projects a virtual bike lane around your bicycle with lasers. What an ingenious idea.

Via Buzzfeed.

Toolbar Badges

The perfect gift for your designer friend. A set of ten high quality limited edition metallic hand pressed badges featuring the tools of the design trade. Purchase here.

Via Better Living Through Design.

Swiss Chocolate Knife

You know you have a strong brand when your product can be rendered as a delicious chocolate treat. Are you listening Harley-Davidson? Or, better yet, John Deere? Okay, I think I'm just hungry. Purchase your Swiss Chocolate Knife here.

Via Crib Candy.

Vote With Your Gum

More over at Gum Election 2008.

Via It's Nice That.

Seesaw Bench

An attempt to get strangers to converse in public spaces. The Seesaw Bench, by artist and designer Martin Nicolausson, requires cooperation to be functional. Any resemblance to the seesawing stock market is purely coincidental.

Via It's Nice That.

Making Mac-O-Lanterns

I posted about our studio's Mac-O-Lantern project just a few days before Halloween last year. We were overwhelmed with the response and heard from a lot of people who said they wanted to do the project themselves. Here's your reminder, folks, with enough time to actually finish the project before Halloween this year. Here are the step-by-step instructions. You can download the free slide show software right here. And, due to popular demand, we've recently made the faces available for download right here. All you need to do is get your hands on an old Mac.
    Happy Halloween from Fusebox!

Pen Play

Who needs expensive wallpaper or fancy paint? For his Lexington, Kentucky rec room, Charlie Kratzer used $10 worth of Sharpie pens. Read more about Kratzer's hands-on project, including the various sources of his artistic inspiration (from Star Wars to Sherlock Holmes), right here.

Via Drawn.

Lemonade

What do you do when you want to create a restaurant in a space with a low ceiling and a tangled maze of plumbing, sprinkler, and electrical pipes? Why, add more pipes, of course. Introducing Conduit, a new San Francisco restaurant designed by architects Stanley Saitowitz.

Via Dezeen.