New Book by Chris Maynard Explores the Symbolism and Art of Sculpting with Feathers 

Delicately wielding a scalpel, Chris Maynard (previously here and here) slices into feathers to create images of the very creatures that shed them, reproducing birds of flight within his tiny found canvases. Not only is Maynard concerned about the material aesthetically, but is also interested i

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Grab me a beer, too!

The Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery leads the Craft Beer Revolution in Ontario. Brewing radical Beers and creative Ales right on the waterfront in downtown Barrie since 2004, the Flying Monkeys was the first Ontario Craft Brewery to truly recognize the need to overthrow the conservative regime of macro-brews and timid small batch taste-a-likes and create a new Culture of Craft Brewing in our province.

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The Freelancer’s Health Insurance Guide

Screenshot at Dec 10 17-42-13Freelance life is pretty great, but there’s one employee-life perk we haven’t managed to get over: employer-sponsored health insurance. Bummer. This means you must purchase an individual health plan to protect against unexpected (and very expensive) medical bills, and to avoid paying a government fine ($695 in 2016 for individuals). Your health plan has to fit …

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OnHub Makers

Screenshot at Dec 30 10-20-16Your router works better when out in the open, so we asked artists and designers to think about how they could make home internet feel even more like their homes. Starting with the original OnHub from TP-LINK, they poured resin, blew glass, and cut paper to create one of a kind shells.

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A Singapore Airlines A380 Model Plane Crafted Entirely from Manila Folders by Designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart 

A traditional paper airplane takes one sheet of paper and approximately 90 seconds. A Luca Iaconi-Stewart-designed paper airplane? 1,000 hours, 100 manila folders, 50 X-Acto blades, and an entire bottle of glue. The San-Francisco based designer has previously built a 1:60 scale Boeing 777 mo

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Yule Log 2.015 – Happy Holidays

Your favorite digital holiday tradition is back! For the 3rd season in a row we’ve invited artists from around the world to re-imagine the traditional Yule log and bring one of the season’s greatest customs into the modern age. With Yule Log 2.015, enjoy burning brand new wildly-surprising, festive-inducing, merriment-making, cheer-bringing Yule Logs.

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Microcars

Microcars are both cheap and fuel-efficient. They were developed in the impoverished Europe of the postwar period and attracted the interest of people who couldn’t afford “real” automobiles.

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Byte

Byte lets your imagination go wild. Make awesomely rich collages out of photos, videos, GIFs, and more, then show off your creations. The world of Byte is weird, fun, and full of surprises.

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RESOLUTIONS

Starting from the first of december, every day until Xmas, we’re going to give you a new New Year’s resolution, visually and individually interpreted by Sehsucht Berlin’s artists as eye-popping animation loops.

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