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Paint it Pink

Pink is the new pink, as L.A.'s new Paul Smith store beautifully illustrates. via.

Gun Bible

 We praised Tobias Wong back in November on his Citizen Citizen project which sold golden coke spoons and zinc box cutters. We're excited to report we've discovered his main site which features, in addition, this gun bible, a mirror puzzle and these unauthorized Burberry buttons which Burberry then starting using in their ads. via.

New Kodak Logo

I like the new D and the new A. Read more. Visual history.

Coke Got A Little Love

Nice work (from summer '05, I know, so shut the fuck up), for Coke from Airside, commissioned by Mother. "The ads show the traditional glass bottles with the logo replaced by the word Love, written Coke-style. Surrounding the bottles are beautiful bold coloured patterns emanating like flowers, reminiscent of the 70s Coke campaigns."

Portfolio Props

Check this collection of tight work by Jeremy Prasatik. Dreamy, street, baroque styles. via.

Tommy Gun Vodka

Inside a glass Tommy Gun, Alphonse Capone bottlers loaded top-shelf Polish vodka. Liquor Snob found the distilled grains, "cool to the touch when you first pick it up, but smoky hot when it goes to work." Perfect for a killer New Year's party.

Killer Flyers

Kewl flyer designs from Belgium designer Chris Vermiglio . However, feeling tired on the composite mashup design, it is feeling passed, starting now. What's next? Show us. via.

Crystal Bucket o' Nostalgia

In our continuing series of "What to get the Soulless Wonder in your Life who has Everything," The Spunker presents the sumptuous "Signature Bowl with Sterling Scribe" which, "recalls a Renaissance tradition in which a nobleman shared a goblet of wine with his guests. Each guest would sign their name on the goblet, and thereby record their presence for posterity. Sculptor and designer Michele Oka Doner gives new life to a rich tradition with this unique guestbook in crystal." The tagline continues, "A CRYSTAL BOWL of memories." Perfect for proving to others you're willing to buy your friends and your tastelessness. From the NYT Magazine, Sun, Dec. 11.

Drop Shadow Hell

"There's nothing worse than seeing an object with a drop shadow effect," soft-rants Kenny Bania, "It makes the entire piece of work look like a two-dimensional cardboard cut-out...All you have to do is look around you. Pick out an object in the room you are sitting in right now. Notice how it has two shadows (an umbra and a pen-umbra...). Notice how the shadows react to the positioning of the light source. Notice how they react to the surrounding surfaces. Now recreate it. It's not that hard." Anonymous replied, "I think the shadows in this shot are completely real. Obviously, the cow was tipped over onto white seamless."

Alessandro Pautasso Design

Tight work. Alessandro Pautasso, Illustrator. Baroque/Romantic but thoroughly modern graphic aesthetic. Student, but still cool. Shoot, throw in an appropriate headline and logo and this could be an for Italian telephony. What program do you think was used? Via.