Sock It To Me’s 2016 Global Design-A-Sock Contest received some 5,300 entries from more than 75 countries–including Russia, Spain, the Czech Republic, Singapore, Croatia, Botswana, and Rwanda–by designers aged 4 to 70!
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Take a “Chance” on Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.
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Portland’s Sock It To Me just kicked off their annual Design-A-Sock Contest.
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The Ancient Astronaut Mission Patches are embroidered patches that combine the style of NASA mission patches with the legends of the ancient astronauts.
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My 6-year-old’s first grade teacher gave all the parents a flier during orientation: “This year we will continue to identify shapes and polygons, such as a parallelogram and trapezoid, as well as some of the more common 3D shapes.” My 3D printer and I could definitely crank up the geek factor for this one!
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Alex Thomas, Creative Director for ‘The Banner Saga’, is aiming to steal your time in his new game ‘Killers and Thieves.’
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Learn about decades of gorgeous design from Finnish company Marimekko.
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Chrysler is holding an automotive design contest for high school students with a $60K scholarship up for grabs.
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The evolution and design of company logos is important business.
Continue ReadingWee Rockets is a spaceship design app for the toddler set.
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Star Wars freaks and typography nerds should really check out this excellent post over on the Tenth Letter of the Alphabet blog, all about the evolution of the Star Wars logo, from the very beginning to one we see today, complete with loads of hi-rez scans of many of the different versions.
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As Rod Stewart used to sing, every picture tells a story, don’t it? Graphic artist Murea took this to heart when creating infographics to tell a tale that spans six major motion pictures, an animated movie, and two novels.
Continue ReadingGerman entrepreneur Rob Rebholz notes that dressing young kids can be a difficult proposition for parents. Premium clothing is expensive, especially considering how few uses a shirt may get before the child grows out of it. Enter KinderStuff.
Continue ReadingAt last the wait is over; tonight Gravity Falls returns to Disney Channel at 9:00 PM EST with a brand new episode entitled “Boss Mabel.”
Continue ReadingExcerpt and pointer to a fascinating piece at Adafruit by an engineer working on the 2nd generation of Sifteo cubes. If you do any kind of hacking, you’ll want to read this piece!
Continue ReadingHave a look at what the iconic Lego minifigures could look like like if they were hand carved from solid oak, by French designer Malet Thibaut.
Continue ReadingEarning a world record allows paper-plane designers to own football teams and marry Russian oil heiresses. And according to aerospace engineer and record holder Ken Blackburn, you need master only three things in your quest for paper-plane glory: good folds, …
Continue ReadingHere’s a fun board book about colors for kids of design geeks: Pantone Colors. Published last month by Abrams Appleseed, the oversized board book has eight colors plus shades of grey, and each spread has twenty shades of the color …
Continue ReadingStar Wars fans have had a lot to talk about over the last few months, some of it good and some of it bad. We’ve seen the proper release of the crowd sourced Star Wars Uncut and the takedown of …
Continue ReadingYesterday, Bleeding Cool reported that DC Comics and DC Entertainment had applied for trademark on new logos. If your company is growing or needs to head in a new direction, changing your brand — most noticeably by changing your logo …
Continue ReadingA Swedish hotel is helping its guests get closer to nature — by sleeping in trees. The Treehotel, located near the Lule river in Sweden, offers a handful of custom suites built above ground in the middle of the woods. …
Continue ReadingEver need to explain the life and death of Darth Vader to a friend, but didn’t have time to sit through the 13 hours and 23 minutes of the Star Wars saga with them? Fortunately, some Italian designers have solved …
Continue ReadingAfter a hike in the Catskill Mountains last winter, 13-year-old Aidan Dwyer noticed the patterns in the branches of trees. Investigation led him to an important insight about how the shape of the branches can be used by the tree …
Continue ReadingA week ago I posted a review of The Steampunk Bible, a nice compendium that tries (and succeeds, I believe) to answer the question, What is Steampunk? While that book chooses to answer the question with a mixture of essays …
Continue ReadingVast amounts of time and skill are invested in video game design annually. Everything you see and hear, and every move you make in a game was first drawn, composed and spelled-out in code by someone else for our enjoyment. …
Continue ReadingSouth By South West (SXSW) is now a week over. Imagine, 20000 people at a 5 day party in a two mile radius around the Austin Convention Center. Oh, and there are a few hundred panels, discussions and speaker sessions …
Continue ReadingTo celebrate their 100th anniversary, The Company Store, known to me and many others as a good place to buy sheets, is holding a design contest for kids to create a brand new comforter design. The winning design will be …
Continue ReadingWell the big day has finally come and gone, TRON: Legacy is now out there in a theatre near you. Have you seen it yet? We’ve had a great week here on GeekDad, bringing you lots of lovely Tron-themed posts …
Continue ReadingI love children’s picture books. I love reading them aloud and poring over the illustrations (though I will admit to rushing through a book after reading it to my kids for the umpteenth time in a row). For some reason …
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