Bitter? I Hardly Knew Her. DesignUberBlogger Says 'Sorry, You Misunderstood.'

Note to self: if you've just cleared 500 B&W press kit photos of designers in way too serious poses from your gmail, take the kid to the park and clear your head before visiting any designblogs. Alissa at Unbeige felt...
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Tour De Form: Alfred Mahlau's 500-pc Wooden Hamburg Harbor Playset

Unglaublicht. If you haven't clicked through to the pictures in that 1964 Form Magazine article about toy design yet, get going. We'll wait. ... ... OK, So now you've seen that there is no more over-the-top wooden toy in the...
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Whoa. UglyQuilt

So David Horvath and Sun-Min are having a kid, and the folks running the Ugly Doll business figure they oughta get them something nice. Or maybe make something. Like, say, an Ugly Doll quilt??? Holy smokes, that is awesome....
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F Is For Fabulous: Vintage Wooden Sand Train By F. Linau, Hamburg

In 1964, Lieselotte Pee, the noted play and pedagogy expert and member of the Arbeitsausschusses Gutes Spielzeug [Good Toys Working Commitee], wrote an extensive article for Form Magazine about the state of toys and design. I have no idea what...
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Happy Shiny Vegans Having Fun Without Cupcakes

Before anyone else falls for that handmaiden of the Farmer's Market Industrial Complex, Nina Planck claptrap about how vegan is no way to have a baby or raise a kid, have a watch of this documentary from Current TV....
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Sweet Creative Playthings Playsets O'The World On eBay

Anal retentive parents of 1975 who made your kids keep track of all their toys and store them in the original boxes, we salute you. Three Creative Playthings People 'N Places playsets hit the eBay the other day; in...
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What Would Spoiler T-Shirts For Kids Look Like?

Oliver Moss's new t-shirt design, Spoilt, just debuted on Threadless, and it's awesome. It contains a whole slew of movie spoilers [which map pretty closely to the text-only Spoiler tees from Theater Hopper, but Moss adds some graphical touches,...
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