An Urban Anomaly

The sum of some things in messaging, art, city, technology and storytelling.

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Photo competition by Peter Drew

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(fos) is a multidisciplinary team based in Madrid and Barcelona. They are working as independent architects, interior designers, art directors and graphic designers, decided to join as a multidisciplinary team to create design experiences ‘and, above all, have fun’. (fos) is also the name of the first ephemeral installation by the team. It means light in Greek and melted in Catalan.

In the project this has been represented by a skin that covers both vertical and horizontal surfaces. The protected facade of the vegan restaurant Rayen at Lope de Vega street in Madrid has been illuminated for 4 days and nights by more than 250ml of yellow tape, painted décor items, pineapples and… a lamp. A visual game between perspective and colored volumes that gained the looks.

via iGNANT.de

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LINEN LUX by Club Masters of Linen: an illuminated archway upholstered in European linen. In partnership with 29 ‘Editeurs’ and with Paris Deco Off.

via Linen and Hemp Community

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Fucking advertising: A fucking manifesto. 

Via Hello You Creatives

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"To encourage better subway etiquette on the Tube, Transport For London launched ‘Travel Better London’, an initiative where poetry will be used to promote good subway manners."

via Hello You Creatives

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Vertical indoor garden planters

via Flower Box Gallery

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via Our City Festival

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Peddler's Creamery produces high quality artisan bicycle- churned organic dairy and non-dairy ice cream and frozen desserts for Los Angeles.  Peddler's was started to be a different business that features local products, highlights where our food is grown, and promotes local causes. We strive for our customers to leave happy, satisfied, and  with a smile on their face and a smaller footprint on the earth. We believe that as a Benefit Corporation we can seek the true triple bottom line that profits the planet and people equally. 5% of profits will go to social and environmental causes. 

via Peddlers creamery

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A social enterprise created by Bourke Street Bakery. Artisan bakery, delivering traditionally crafted loaves across Sydney.

The Bread and Butter Project

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The Cell Phone Nullifier

Brazilian beer-makers Polar produce a beer holder that blocks mobile phone signal

Trend: The desire to experience the same deep connections with people IRL that we had pre-mobile internet. 

Other examples: - Kit Kat Break wifi blockers

- Circle

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" Enter Enfojer, a portable photographic enlarger and the latest in a long list of products and apps that fuse the new with the old. Aimed at hobbyists whose interest in photography stretches past the realms of point and click..."

via Protein

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Sidewalk psychiatry

Self-evaluation in transit 2006

Candy spends a lot of time walking and thinking. Walking has become a therapeutic time for her to simmer on her day and the things going on in her life. Pedestrians in the city often find themselves walking in deep thought. A routine trip can prompt reflections on everything from future goals to last night’s dinner conversation. Sidewalk Psychiatry encourages self-evaluation in transit by posing critical questions on the pavements of New York City with stencils and temporary spray chalk. Now your daily ponderings and emotional problems can be prodded and treated on the go – and, best of all, it’s free of charge!

2008, 25″ x 1″, Temporary spray chalk.

By Candy Chang

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That pint of ice cream you've been craving for hours is finally in your hands. You peel the lid off and stick your spoon in it only to find it its frozen solid. Doesn't that suck?

Don't despair. Someone out there has been thinking of the tortured ice cream eaters of the world. You no longer have to wait for your ice cream to soften with the newly designed 15.0% ice cream spoon by Lemnos. Designers at Lemnos have created a plump little spoon that fits in the palm of your hand and conducts your body heat to make it easier to dig through your rock hard ice cream.

The 15.0% spoon is made of solid aluminum, which has high thermal conductivity, so you no longer have to wait for your ice cream to soften. The spoon is sold in three different shapes to suit your mood or ice cream flavors. As per their website, Lemnos launched the new spoon design to ''make ice cream lovers fall even more in love with ice cream.'' Ice cream justice has been served. via Fine Dining lovers Trend: Finally addressing a pain point, to make a consumer's life better. 

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Each second has a story.

Trend: Creating and recording the mosaic of your life. 

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Techno-poetry in Amsterdam's Stedelijk museum with "Dune", an interactive landscape installation. Trend: Participating in the art, and customising it to have context in different environments. 

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David Mesguich creates large sculptures made of polypropylene sheets or recycled plastic. The often 3 to 4 meters measuring sculptures are placed in public space. With his latest sculpture ‘Pressure 1.0′, Mesguich tells a story of people who are on the fence, of people in-between worlds, ‘those who are both inside and outside’. With his work the Belgian based artist tries to overcome physical boundaries. By placing ‘Pressure’ in a public space without permission, the unauthorized aspect of placing a piece of work was given a whole new dimension. Passerbyes became more or less involved in the artwork, children would climb it and it aroused curiosity of viewers.

via Ignant

Trend: Taking the act of rebellion to new heights and proportions.