This thing seems so obvious, yet doesn’t already exist; brilliant.

Simple, Clear, Fun

Pocket and puzzle-piece analogy at entry-point evokes a sense of usage clarity, and poetic naivete.

Intuitive Ease

With Renew, you just drop an empty one in, and press thetab to take a fully charged one out.

Inviting Dispenser Notion

‘Pez’-inspired retrieval system gives notion of ‘fresh battery!’ everytime you dispense one.

-Via Behance

A frew scenes from a practicing ballet troupe at the Tate Modern in London.

-Via Maxwangerblog

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International advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy transformed an abandoned warehouse into their new world headquarters. The office holds several hundred employees and multiple organizations. The building was redesigned by Allied Works, a Portland architecture firm.

Allied Works renovated the building with a new concrete interior and multiple new storys. The existing timber-frame structure was also renovated and helped push the accenting of wood structures throughout the interior of the building. If you ever get a chance to tour the office do it. Make sure to wander around and check out the unique parts of the office including “The Nest”.

-Via Iso50 Blog

-Via Mike Matas’ Facebook

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1000 Memories sent me this fantastic poster they printed to celebrate Ernest Hemingway’s life. It’s a lot of fun to read. View their [entire blog post] or even better, go learn more and share things about the man himself on their (pretty gorgeous) website.

-Via 1000memories

This series of floating boats in cork and plastic for Portuguese Company Materia are gorgeous. Sure beats the rubber ducky I grew up with.

Composed by a cork hull and a plastic add-on piece (a sail, a row of engine chimneys or a cabin) Bote is your ticket to plenty of imaginative seafaring.

-Via Joshspear

From chairs and benches to chests and tables, these modestly elegant objects are crafted with a subtle secondary purpose – each one can be tapped, slapped, pounded or hit to create a series of carefully-planned sounds.

Tom Clausen makes his interactive musical furniture out of his warehouse studio in Portland, Oregon.

He shapes everything from simple instruments to complex objects that have appeared in childhood learning centers, science museums, parks and homes around the country since he started adding acoustics to his craft two decades ago.

Each is distinguishable via different woods used and sounds made, including low, medium and high bong, shaker, chimes, bells, drums and cymbals created using combinations of carved wood and shaped metal.

-Via Dornob