Monthly Archives: November 2011

Tour of the old Essex Street Trolley Terminal (proposed Low Line park)

The proposed Low Line Park (adjacent to the Essex Street Subway station) now gets an official tour by MTA representative Peter Hine. Looks like a neat space, but I had no idea it was that close to an active Subway … Continue reading

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The Area Code Project

Here’s a very simple but lovely project from Mike McQuade called The Area Code Project where he attempts to catalog every single area code in the US with American Flag, iPhone socks, and poster prints. Each poster and flag comes … Continue reading

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New ‘Urban Umbrella’ scaffolding to debut at 100 Broadway in December

City Room is reporting that the Urban Umbrella scaffolding design made by Young-Hwan Choi which won the UrbanSHED competition last year will set to debut in NYC at 100 Broadway in Lower Manhattan. The Urban Umbrella uses melded recycled steel … Continue reading

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The Little Printer from Berg

This is kind of a useless gadget to me, but I still find myself wanting one for my desk. The Berg Little Printer is a tiny thermal printer that can connect to the web and print out anything from news … Continue reading

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Pepsi Cool Cans

Signalnoise has posted an ad and a couple of shots of some Pepsi Cool Cans which Pepsi marketed back in the 90s. I never grew up drinking much Pepsi but I can certainly appreciate their aesthetic contribution to the 90s … Continue reading

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John & John Potato Crisps packaging design

Look at this wonderful potato chip packaging made by The Peter Schmidt Group for John & John Potato Crisps! Bold type, solid and eye-popping colors, and some very unorthodox imagery (at least for potato chip bags) on just about every … Continue reading

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