Super Bowl Party Etiquette

A few tips on how to attend the Super Bowl of parties without blowing it. Don’t be “that guy”.

Epic Advice from Grandma

Always listen to your Nana. She’s usually right.

‘Confessions Of A Designer’, What Goes On In A Designer’s Mind

London-based designer Anneke Short has come up a series of minimalist posters that are out to challenge the preconceptions that people have of designers. ‘Confessions of a Designer’, is a collection of quotes that Short has “either found [herself] thinking or that [she has] heard [her] designer friends say, often on more than one occasion”. (via Design Taxi)

 

Organ Transport Lunch Cooler

I guarantee that no one will ever steal your lunch again. Available at ThinkGeek.

PlaceKitten

Need placeholder images, but don’t have any spare kittehs? PlaceKitten to the rescue!

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The GMail Logo Was Designed the Night Before It Launched

According to a post on Quora from former Google designer Kevin Fox, Googler Dennis Hwang was up late the night before Gmail launched, working on the email service’s logo.

via The Atlantic

Forgotten Bookmarks

A used/rare bookseller shares the weird things he finds within his books.

Forgotten Bookmarks

Tae Kwon Do Finger Guy

Don’t mess with this dude.

 

Control+Alt+Delete Coffee Cups

A three finger salute to coffee breaks!

Available from ThinkGeek

Pizza + Beer = PizzaBeer

It all started with a surplus of tomatoes, a bag of garlic & an idea that started early in the spring when they planted their garden herbs. According to the site (which looks a GeoCities design from the early 90′s),  “Pizza Beer is a Debris-free product. The Margarita pizza is put into the mash & steeped like a tea bag. A whole wheat crust made with water, flour & yeast is topped with tomato, oregano, basil & garlic. The essence of the pizza spices is washed off with hot water and filtered into a brewpot, where it is boiled for a long, long time. During the process, we add hops & spices in a cheesecloth type bag & filter the cooled liquid into a fermentation vessel. (big glass 6 gallon water jug). After a week or two, the beer is good to go. Keg it or bottle it.”

Mamma Mia Pizza Beer

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The Friday Five is curated and written by John Suder, SUMO Heavy’s Head of User Experience and Minister of Propaganda. If you’ve got a story idea or see something feature-worthy for the Friday Five, contact John at john@sumoheavy.com. 

 

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Every Presentation Ever: Communication FAIL

 

The World in a Drop of Water

German Photographer Marcus Reugels captures mindblowing photos of water droplets refracting an image of a planet behind them, making them each appear to contain a teeny tiny world. (via Geekologie)

 

Movies Reimagined for a Different Time and Place

Graphic designer Peter Stults reimagines and remixes classic movies and movie stars.
(via Behance)

 

Hide Your Identity Specs

Wear these to hide your identity from the press and the paparazzi.
From Ideas Man Shed Simove.

 

Countdown to Apocalypse

…in case you were wondering.

 

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The Friday Five is curated and written by John Suder, SUMO Heavy’s Head of User Experience and Minister of Propaganda. If you’ve got a story idea or see something  feature-worthy for the Friday Five, contact John at john@sumoheavy.com. 

 

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The Restart Page

A collection of classic restart dialogue boxes (and they actually work!). A tribute to the most significant operating systems that have been a part of our geek lives.

The Restart Page

 

The Milhaus Shirt

Bauhuas design meets Milhouse geek.

The Milhaus Shirt by Patt Whelan/Immense Decay

Roommate Reminders

Designer Nathan Godding creates these typography-based posters as a reminder for his fellow roommate cable-watchers to contribute their share each month.

Roommate Reminders via Design.org 

 

NASA’s 1976 Identity Guidelines

Graphic designer Tim George was lucky to score a copy of the NASA’s 1976 identity guidelines when they rebranded to the famous ‘worm’ logo.

Tim George / Full set at flickr.

Bacon Ipsum

A Meatier Lorem Ipsum generator.

Bacon Ipsum (via Sean Kennedy)

Pork belly shank hamburger, beef pork ball tip pig cow pastrami. Drumstick bresaola pig, tail shankle ham hock tongue. Brisket meatball leberkase pork chop turkey. Pancetta drumstick pork loin, brisket short ribs bresaola t-bone ribeye beef ribs fatback rump ham venison ball tip meatloaf. Turkey ribeye shankle filet mignon meatloaf, flank drumstick jerky jowl pork loin andouille ball tip. Beef flank pig shankle frankfurter tail beef ribs ball tip fatback, t-bone short ribs jowl salami. Flank spare ribs pork loin ribeye.  

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The Friday Five is curated and written by John Suder, SUMO Heavy’s Head of User Experience and Minister of Propoganda. If you’ve got a story idea or see something  feature-worthy for the Friday Five, contact John at john@sumoheavy.com. 

 

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In Caffeine We Trust: An Infographic Poster to Track Your Consumption

Column Five has produced this beautiful limited-edition poster to help you track your addiction to the bean. You track your consumption by filling in the charts with (….wait for it) COFFEE.

Column Five. 

Infographic: The Amazing Things That Happen on the Internet Every 60 Seconds

600+ new YouTube videos added per minute. That’s a lot of cats. (Click on the images for larger versions)

via Business Insider. Compiled and Designed by Go-Globe.com.

The Creepy-Realstic Steve Jobs Action Figure

A super-realistic tribute to Steve. Comes complete with glasses, jeans, black mock-turtleneck, New Balance kicks. There’s even an Apple for “G.I. Steve” to hold. Fanboys should act fast: I’m sure the Jobs family might have a thing or two to say about this.

12″ Collectible Action from from InIcons.

The Social Shower Curtain

Facebook-obsessed? Too much money in your pocket? Then the Social Shower Curtain from Spinning Hat is just the thing for you!

£14.99 at Spinning Hat .

The Sanwa iPhone Projector

Finally – no more projectors to lug around while you show everyone your latest independent film project or Power Point presentation. The projector produces images with 640×360 resolution, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, and up to 65 inches in size. It also features internal speakers that can be used in addition to the speakers in your phone. For iPhone 4s.

Sanwa iPhone Projector (via TechCrunch). 

 

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The Friday Five is curated and written by John Suder, SUMO Heavy’s Head of User Experience and Minister of Propoganda. If you’ve got a story idea or see something  feature-worthy for the Friday Five, contact John at john@sumoheavy.com. 

 

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iBend: The Thinnest, Lightest iPhone Stand Ever

“Use your iBend™ on a plane, bus, or train – whilst lifting weights, eating breakfast, waiting at the sushi bar, getting your teeth cleaned, at a business meeting, sitting in traffic, serving on a jury or practicing yoga. The slenderness of the iBend™ allows you to easily store it in your wallet, pocket or purse so you’ll always have one (or two) handy.” iBend

The Comic Sans Project

Making the world Comic Sans.  Because Helvetica is so 2011. Comic Sans Project

Devastating Explosions

Who doesn’t like a good explosion? Push the button and be prepared to watch a good portion of your day evaporate with this collection of explosions. A viral site from the folks at Old Spice. Devastating Explosions at the Touch of a Button.

 

Knuckle Meat Pounder

Pound your meat into submission with this stylish brass-knuckle-style Meat Pounder from What on Earth. via Uncrate

 

HTTP Status Cats

Flickr user GirlieMac has compiled this totes adorbs set of HTTP status errors using cute kittehs. HTTP Status Cats

 

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The Friday Five is curated and written by John Suder, SUMO Heavy’s Head of User Experience and Minister of Propoganda. If you’ve got a story idea or see something  feature-worthy for the Friday Five, contact John at john@sumoheavy.com. 

 

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Tasty Cheeseburger Wrapping paper from Gift Couture

Looks good enough to eat.

What Kind of Fish are You?

A photo series by New York based photographer Ted Sabarese. via Scientific American

 

The Sketchbook of Susan Kare

Susan Kare, part of the original Mac development team, developed the first proportionally spaced digital font family for the Macintosh as well as the legendary screen icons. via PLOS Blogs

 

Google Maps Street View Of Famous Album Covers

via BuzzFeed

 

How to Lose $2400 in 24 Seconds

Filmmaker Kurtis Hough regrettably shows us how.
 

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The Friday Five is curated and written by John Suder, SUMO Heavy’s Head of User Experience and Minister of Propoganda. If you’ve got a story idea or see something  feature-worthy for the Friday Five, contact John at john@sumoheavy.com. 

 

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Little Printer

The beautifully designed Little Printer can be described as ‘analog meets smartphone’. It’s like your daily mini-newspaper. Fire it up to print your daily agenda, puzzles, notes or content from Little Printer content partners. This seems practical only for those ‘paper friendly’ types, as it’s sole purpose is to print what’s already on your phone. Available in 2012 from BERG

 

Star Wars Action Figures Doing What They Do Best

Vintage Star Wars action figures. In action! via Ratherchildish

 

The Evolution of the Herman Miller Logo

Graham Smith of imjustcreative brings us a visual history of the iconic Herman Miller logo.

 

Worst Album Covers Ever Created

You can find plenty of collections like these online, but Steve Carter has unearthed some gems. Worst Album Covers Ever Created

 

This Week’s Infographic: Surviving a Zombie Invasion

via DVICE

 

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The Friday Five is curated and written by John Suder, SUMO Heavy’s Head of User Experience and Minister of Propoganda. If you’ve got a story idea or see something  feature-worthy for the Friday Five, contact John at john@sumoheavy.com. 

 

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