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A mad man with mad time on his hands, Mark Simonson, had some extra time and a DVR so he thought he’d analyze the props in Mad Men, specifically the typography. Pretty in-depth reporting. Take a look at his analysis here.

And if you haven’t seen the show, go watch it. Visually it’s quite the eye candy. Mentally it maintains the candy-gloss on the outside, deep and moody on the inside duality that keeps your curiousity piqued. 

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Danny Kuo thought up an excellent space/time saving design for a bookshelf. The bottom three shelves pull out to create steps so that you can reach those rarely needed topshelf books. You know the ones you never need but once a decade, but you can’t get rid of them because.. well just because.

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We come across so much stuff these days, too much to keep up with infact, I mean we do have to work right, right? Well at the co-op blog we’ve dedicated a series of posts called “Interesting But…” It’s for all those aesthetically pleasing objects that might have a cool concept behind them but ultimately even if we had one we wouldn’t know what to do with it after the initial reaction.

The first of our series is from artist Su-Mei Tse of Luxembourg. The headphones, the concept (plus the little Sony turned Sumy branding is a kick), it’s interesting but…

It runs a little long, but very well executed.

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I was a little worried over the first post with any content, but then I figured, hey let’s just get this thing rolling. The purpose of this blog is to aggregate all the interesting stuff we find all over the web into one place to share and to have as an archive. So here’s the first interesting thing I’ve come across today:

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