Look at this event in Belgium: students trying to set a record for the largest Mentos + Coke explosion. I love the design of the event... they look like they're conducting some magical Harry Potter-like experiment. Read about it here (via Coudal).

Stefan Sagmeister: Everybody always thinks they are right:

Interesting video by Hillman Curtis here.

Joshua Allen Harris' Air Bear, streets of New York:

Inflatable churches

Architecture:

Via Coudal: in Russia

I'm over at Oh Joy's blog this morning...

A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art examines the standardized commercial colour chart as it informs the work of artists from the early 1900s to today.

Pieces of "the NYC landscape" are carefully sealed into clear plastic cubes. More than 700 of them have been sold. Via Moleskine City.

(Did you know that UPPERCASE now carries Moleskine notebooks?) 

Emil Norsic & Son are Long Island sanitation experts with an eye for treasures.

Every now and again we come across a discarded item which may have outlived its usefulness to its owner, but which we feel is possessed of a special beauty. Instead of just sending these things on to the oblivion of the recycling plant or the landfill, we decided to dedicate a page to celebrating that beauty. We call it, “Garbage as Art”.

Dimitris Karaiskos is a graphic design from Athens who collects interesting debris that washes ashore. He has recently published his collection in a book entitled "Flotsam & Jetsam".

"It's actually a small part (about 150 pieces) of my collection of around 1000 objects I found washed up mainly on beaches in Greece but also around the world (from Scotland to New Zealand and the Maldives).

Some of them are strange and unusual, some are common but photographed in such a way that you can't really tell what they are (or how big they are, since we decided to kill any sense of scale): Nautical maps and graphs found nearby cargo boat wrecks, pieces from lighthouses, an inflatable sex-doll head, a lifejacket from a US-Navy fighter jet, pieces of driftwood that look like creatures, deformed kids' toys and endless consumer products from around the world in their dilapitated by the sea, sun and oil packaging. We paired these objects together in funny or nice-looking combinations."

In the book's introduction, Ian Jeffreys writes, "Beachcombing is a way of consulting providence. You walk the shore and kick this or that piece of plastic debris and although it might turn out to be no more than an emptied tube of Polish toothpaste discharged by a freighter it might be altogether more intriguing. If we are lucky providence delivers something of value, something surprising and enlivening."

 

A design student is taking The Sartorialist street fashion photos and translating them in colour palettes via the Colour Lovers site. Via Hello You (an instant favourite!)

 

I'm sure you're all readers of Design*Sponge... make sure to read this week's Guest Bloggers, Julie and Kathryn from Perfectbound.