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We love us some obscure, super-sugary cereals, but since we sort of overdosed on them as kids we have become very selective with what we allow ourselves to eat for breakfast once a week. In essence, we’re cereal snobs. Every Saturday morning we organize tastings of mint condition collector loops and flakes, and otherwise specialize [...]

We’ve been listening to a lot of chiptune lately – you know, that genre of music created using video game audio technologies from the 80s that are capable of something like 60 different notes. We’ve especially been blasting delightful 8-bit versions of some of our favorite pop songs, and one of the most chiptuned artists, [...]

Prepare to lose the rest of your day to a flood of obscure 80s hits and ensuing searches for the various bands’ virtually non-existent other songs with Gunaxin’s listicle of 35 One-Hit Wonders from the 80s. For instance, our favorite from the listicle, Italian New Wave group Baltimora’s “Tarzan Boy” (below) was just the best [...]

Call us huge video game snobs/product design nerds, but every time a new gaming system came out one of the things we were always most excited about was the controller design. After all, it tends to be the most iconic and creative-looking part of the system, and there’s something so seductive in the tactile object, [...]

Remember the way-back-when days when airlines and their employees were the coolest members of society? Pilots were like rich playboys and flight attendants their herem of sexily uniformed sky-babes, and they all partied high above our heads in floating discotheques. Let’s revisit those days before shoe-bomb scares, liquids in ziplocked bags, nutty fees and taxes [...]

We used to dream of taking a summer off, buying an old Volkswagen van, giving it a totally rad paint job and cruising around the continent for a few months. As you might imagine, that particular dream never came to pass – the closest we ever got to driving a VW van was when a [...]

The second place winner in the recent VisionWorks competition, which sought new ideas and technologies to help create and sustain better living conditions, was an unusual proposal by Philipp Hermes that involves using track-mounted containers to ship objects, documents and goods around the city. Though the project, dubbed Urban Mole (pictured), sounds expensive, the beauty [...]

Do you think that maybe, now that collective dreams are possible again, we’ll start seeing the return of slick, stylized, retro-futurist projects, ambitions and advertisements? After all, in the age of everything being possible (in a CG movie if not in real life), and with the dreamy and slick iPhone aesthetic that gets stamped on [...]

Did you know that in Australia “fanny” means “vagina”? It’s true, and it means that whenever an American discusses their fanny or fanny pack within earshot of an Australian, the latter can’t help but laugh. Following that logic, we imagine our Australian readers will get a huge kick out of BuzzFeed’s listicle of 42 Awkward [...]

We’re always pleased when some graphic designer takes it upon themselves to spruce up the look of an oldie but goodie music album, videogame or film. Today’s re-looking project comes courtesy of designer Huw Gwilliam (aka Littlepixel), whose re-imagined 39 Classic Album Covers as Vintage Penguin Books. Our favorite would have to be this version [...]