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Brilliant animation x 2

tvoff — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:34:05 +0000

Ever wondered what would happen in a battle between Pac-Man and Mario? These Russian animated ads are just awesome in every possible way!

Pac-man vs. Mario

Tetris vs. Contra

Favorite things top 5

tvoff — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:18:51 +0000

We love love love! a lot of things, and wanted to share our top things and brands with you. We could not get by without these pretty things :)

Sara’s favorites :)

Fiona Timantti - hats – wear them often at our shows and just for fun <3

Minna Parikka – shoes – fun and pretty.

TIGI – hair and make-up, they smell sooo good :)

Vivienne Westwood – accessories- super cute and easy to wear!

Christian Louboutin – shoes, need I say more?

Markku’s favorites :)

Comme des Garçons – shirts and sweaters from Japan, fun fun fun

Romain Laurent – hilarious and absolutely talented photography

Acne jeans – great jeans and everything you need

Yamaha Tenori-On – like playing a game of music, lots of fun

Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair – shirts yeah

The coolest pillows ever

markku — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:56:25 +0000

These have to be the coolest pillows ever, at least if you dig old 80’s synths like we do:

And you can also order an unique piece from the seller if you have a favorite piece of instrument that isn’t available on PUL(SEW)IDTH’s Etsy shop.

Super cute!

Album cover art day 1

tvoff — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:04:42 +0000

The deadline for the album cover art is closing so we better start working. While we’re at it we thought it would be cool to document the process and give some sneak previews of what is going to be the TV OFF album cover.

Here we go, day 1, photoshoots.

Minor problem: the heat wave hit Helsinki so the bananas are close to dead.

Take me to your leader – vending robots running around Tokyo

markku — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:57:55 +0000

You can get almost anything from vending machines in Tokyo, they are in every street corner. It seems some of the machines have reached a level of intelligence far beyond the human mind and now seek to conquer the world.

Coca-Cola made these robotic vending machines for a campaign and released them on the streets of Tokyo. Just wondering if they actually worked and you could buy a can of Coke from them – probably did.

There’s a Flickr photo group for Japanese vending machines, they are cool and oh so handy.

Fruit Juice!

markku — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:52:34 +0000

We love fruit juices, they’re yummy! The packaging design by the Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa makes them look even more yummy:

That’s both hilarious and delicious looking.

Really waiting for our trip to Japan!

More cassette madness

markku — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:38:49 +0000

To continue on my earlier post about cassette culture, I just got a tip about the coolest retro design ever. It’s a prototype concept but I really really hope someone goes ahead and makes it available.

It’s a portable digital music player, also known as an mp3 player! There’s nothing revolutionary about the concept but it simply looks stunning. The really imaginative idea here is that you would be able to rewind/forward a song by rotating the spools by your finger, just like you used to do in the age of the real cassette tape. That’s funny.

See more of it on the Yanko Design site.

Cassette culture

markku — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:10:40 +0000

Cassette tapes, we love them! There’s something so magical about them although probably lots of it is just pure nostalgia. In the digital age when no one actually uses cassettes, they are reappearing as design thingies all around us. And for people like us who happen to have a lot of old cassettes around just gathering dust (how could you throw such beautiful things with music on them away?), there’s now alternative uses for the D.I.Y minded:

Read how to make yourself a cassette tape wallet!

If you are a cassette tape freak check out these also: Rewind – cool blog about the cassette culture, design, art, whatever related to cassettes, tapedeck.org – pictures of cassette tape designs from the 60’s to the 90’s