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Guerilla marketing is about using a small budget for big results. Some guerilla ad campaigns are completely waged on the social media front. Others are creatively brilliant, while still others are simply strange. Here are guerilla marketing campaigns, 22 ads from bizarre to brilliant.

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Assema Charitable Trust for Children struck up [...]

David Long from Practice of Everyday Design a new partnership founded in 2009 with a focus on installation art, product design, and architecture sent me this interesting coffee table. The Stalac coffee table is based on the idea of taking a rectangular section from a cave ceiling and using the Stalactites as the table legs. [...]

As his graduation project artist and designer Lex Pott created ‘Fragments of Nature.’ A collection of furniture that comes as close as possible to keeping the integrity of the original material. Lex Pott combined industrial, geometric forms with the original, organic structure of a tree in a series of items of furniture. Where the legs [...]

The weather outside may be frightful, but this Hopscotch Rug would certainly be a delightful home addition for your kids — and we bet most adults won’t be able to walk past it without putting a hop in their step. This classic sidewalk game that really gets kids jumping for joy can be enjoyed anywhere, [...]

Designed by Korean designer Hyung Suk Cho and called the Frame Sofa this piece of furniture consists of two cushions held in a metal frame. The seating is made of stainless steel tubes and fabric upholstery. This design is pretty basic, and I don’t even know what the designer actually designed, because he just took [...]

I’m pretty sure that all of you know that a Piggy bank is the traditional name of a coin accumulation and storage receptacle; it is most often, but not exclusively, used by children. Usually their shape is most often that of a little pig, but here is something different, the Bubble Bank. Designed by Leon [...]

A re-post.

Attached are some photos from a very, very brief visit to Rotterdam a few weeks ago to see OMA’s Kunsthal Rotterdam, “A museum for temporary exhibitions”.

From OMA’s website,

The Kunsthal combines 3300 square meters of exhibition space, an auditorium and restaurant into one compact design. Sloping floor planes and a series of tightly organized ramps provide seamless connection between the three large exhibition halls and two intimate galleries. Its position, wedged between a busy highway and the network of museums and green spaces known as the museum park, allows it to function as a gateway to Rotterdam’s most prized cultural amenities.

The “tightly organised ramps” spiral within a square volume expanding and contracting to accommodate the building’s programmatic requirements. The step in the site between the highway and the park offer opportunity for a dissecting ramp linking the two.

Beyond spatial organisation, and after also recently visiting OMA’s Casa da Musica in Porto, I’ve come to admire the collaged nature of OMA’s work. Large expanses of materials stand against the buildings context. A couple of Miesian collages come to mind.

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Google Inc. defied the Chinese government by saying it will end self-censorship of its search engine and may quit the world’s largest Internet market after attacks on e-mail accounts of human-rights activists.

 via Bloomberg

After a series of highly sophisticated attacks on a number of companies from China, Google has issued a statement on its blog stating that they, “should review the feasibility of our business operations in China” and no longer want to censor their search results on Google.cn.

What is amazing is that 330 million current Chinese users will be potentially cut off by this move as well as a significant chunk of the data map below being reduced or redistributed.

Caverhill Residence comes from SPF Architects, a company founded in 1988 with a very impressive experience and which houses award winning designers. Located in Los Angeles, California, this private residence is an eye-catching project due to its white and rather unusual exterior design. But as you stroll through the pictures you will notice elegant and [...]