Wrap it your way!

Gift Couture is a creative and innovative wrapping paper company. Soon they will offer high-quality wrapping paper sets that feature original photography and design. Their main goal is to produce unique papers that coordinate together into conceptualized themes and sets. The Cheeseburger set is Gift Couture's initial project and includes 5 different wrapping paper designs; a bun, hamburger, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes, all of the components of a Cheeseburger!  Gift Couture >>

“In two years time we won’t have a distinction between web design and print design.”

A universal logo for human rights

From over 15,000 submission from more than 190 countries, people have chosen a winner. The Human Rights logo will become an open source product, free to be used by everyone, everywhere, without restrictions - for the purpose of promoting Human Rights. Predrag Štakić from Serbia is the winner.

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Shocking Global Facts

The world is such a complex place with so much going on and much injustice.
"The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts" makes the big picture easier to see.

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This is what the world looks like, according to the Facebook social graph.

Facebook (Facebook) intern Paul Butler was interested in the locations of friendships, so he decided to create a visualization of Facebook connections around the globe. How local are our friends? Where are the highest concentration of friendships? How do political and geological boundaries affect them?

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A Whole New Mind

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. The era of “left brain” dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which “right brain” qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. That’s the argument at the center of this provocative and original book, which uses the two sides of our brains as a metaphor for understanding the contours of our times.

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2011 COLOR OF THE YEAR: Honeysuckle

“In times of stress, we need something to lift our spirits. Honeysuckle is a captivating, stimulating color that gets the adrenaline going – perfect to ward off the blues,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “Honeysuckle derives its positive qualities from a powerful bond to its mother color red, the most physical, viscerally alive hue in the spectrum.”

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