The candle "flame" is blind-embossed for you to color in the appropriate number of candles for your birthday friend, unless your birthday friend is over 100 years of age.

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Design: http://www.jjaakk.com

"Identity and packaging for a line of gourmet frozen vegetable entrées. Editorial-style photography accompanied by a structured, modern design allows these savory dishes to take center stage."

I always find it is difficult to make food look appetizing via photography, but this doesn't have that problem.

Designed by Song Teaho & Hyejin Lee

The cell phone battery is recharged by simply placing it on your finger and twirling -- twirling the battery 130 times will generate enough power to provide you 2 more minutes of talk time or 25 minutes of standby power.

Cayo Espanto in Belize

To commemorated his friend's death, Frederick McSwain decided that he needed to do something special. You see, his friend was Canadian artist and designer Tobias Wong, who died at the age of 13,138 days (35 years-old).

McSwain used 13,138 dice to create an immense portrait of Wong called Die. It was part of the BrokenOff BrokenOff exhibition at Gallery R’Pure in New York City, which was a memoriam to the artist during New York Design Week.

“The idea of a die itself was appropriate—the randomness of life,” says McSwain. “It felt like [a medium] he would use. Because [Tobias] was a very street-level force, I thought it was appropriate [to install] the portrait on the floor. It's not something I wanted to suspend on the wall; I wanted it to be right there on the floor where you almost interact with it.

“The idea of every decision you make and everything you’ve done in your life, defines who you are. All of those days symbolically makes up the image of Tobi.” With such creativity as this, there is no doubt in our minds that Tobi would have been proud.

GreenBox, the pizza box that breaks down into 4 plates and a smaller box for leftovers. You can find it at Whole Foods Market.

Thanks to May (@mforker) for the photo.

Guest Post: Erin Norton // @ErinNorton

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Stilettos are little architectural masterpieces. Designed to serve a very distinct function, but some are ever so elegant that it seems a shame to stomp them on the ground. Created to make you stand taller, walk a little bit more confidently and add one last punch of style. They can blend, they can pop but they always say something.

Stilettos are a constant reminder that something that must serve a tedious function can do so beautifully. 

Located in Northeast Oregon, this small house is conceived as a contemporary glass box that floats atop the surrounding wheat fields. Facing south towards the distant mountains, the house adapts well to the cold, snowy winters and hot, dry summers. In the winter, the orientation takes advantage of passive solar heat gain from the low-angled winter sun, while in the summer, roof overhangs and a light shelf block the high hot summer sun from entering. Large, operable windows provide cross-ventilation cooling, lessening the house’s need for air-conditioning. In addition to its sustainability, the design responds to the traditional architecture of barns and farmhouses in the Pacific Northwest.

Olson Kundig Architects

Designed by Fatimah Kabba 

The Pitch is a game of graphic design for all, creatives and non-creatives alike.

Objective: Communicate the premise of graphic design and make it accessible to everyone,especially non-creatives. Create a product that helps form a community, collaborate, and invent.

Solution: Create the game of graphic design. A game that allows everyone, not just designers or creatives, but your younger brother, your grandma who can’t click a computer mouse or your best friend who’s an economics major, to better understand and engage in the creative process.

Design: Christy Srisanan and Erick Barrios

"There’s nothing purer than a child and Milla knows it. That’s why they built their brand upon this truth. This packaging shows childhood confessions and makes us go back in time. Milla brings back the pureness by encouraging people to go to millaconfessions.com and share their innocent memories."