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The Offices of Honey & Bloom

It's so awesome to see people you used to work with go out on their own and launch their own company. Becky Hui Chan is one of those people. She and I worked together at Wired Magazine, where she was...

DIY Project: A Projector Screen that Plays Art Piece During Down Time

Projectors are great substitutes for televisions because they're a bit less invasive than say a 50-inch flat screen. You can easily hide a projector amongst books on a shelf, but that screen... Unles...

Flickr Finds: Homemade Macintosh Paperweight

Our first computer was a Macintosh Classic, which had a similar build to the original Macintosh of '84. It was a hand-me-down from a family friend who realized that our luddite folks would never bring...

Wishlist: A Desktop Calendar with Style

When Google launched its Gmail themes we thought it was the start of something big. Well, at least we were hoping it was. Our dream was that it was going to start a customization trend for applicatio...

Hot or Not? iPod Speaker with Interchangeable Art Screens

There are tons of clever ways to hide your speakers. You can install them into your walls, build a fabric sound wall, buy furniture with speakers built-in. There's also the option to go Artcoustic. W...

Hot or Not? DNA Art

We have seen custom fingerprint artwork before, but you met it with 'overpriced' and 'an easy do it yourself project'. Now the same company is digging deeper with mini portraits that displays your DN...

Free Art for Your iPhone

We may be one of the few people who hasn't had a drink from the iPhone kool-aid. We're resisting, just barely, but we're still resisting. Our Blackberry 8330 has been working for us just fine, but on...

How To: Make Your Digital Photos Look Like Polaroids

Who said that Polaroid is dead? Ok, we did, but even though you can't get the film or the cameras anymore doesn't mean you can't replicate the unique polaroid look. If you are looking for another opti...

Etsy Finds: Vinyls Add Some Retro Arcade To Your Gaming Rooms

Memories of the good ol' Atari days came streaming in when we stumbled upon these great wall vinyls from creatively named "vinylwalldesigns'" Etsy shop. Especially a white wall - throw one of these on...

Use Your Printer to Publish Free Art

In our continuing push for home printers to be used to publish artwork we give you 30 Reasons. This site features a political poster a day until election day. The posters, while all very Democrat, va...

Hot Posts 10.18.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts

Have you ever played Dawn of the Dead on Xbox? It's pretty scary. Yup, that's what we're doing this Saturday afternoon, and then we're going to continue the fright fest by checking out Quarantine. ...

Look! Anatomy of a Lego Man

File this under lurve! We've gotten into anatomy posters ever since we saw the amazing posters in Jeff and Jennifer's Chicago house tour. They have a great human skeleton poster that's been split up ...

Unplggd Reader Makes Propaganda Poster

Last week we showed you how to make your own Keep Calm and Carry On propaganda posters. Unplggd reader Amanda Roberts used our tips to make her own and sent us photos of her Mario Bros inspired slogan...

Final Frame: Fonts on the Beach

Photo by Xavier Encinas...

How To...Make Your Own Propaganda Poster

You may have noticed a few people in your life and on this site who own some version of the British World War II era "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster. Whether it be reprints, originals, or cheeky reim...

Making Music With Your Coffee Maker

First we found someone who takes photos of autopsied home appliances. Then we found someone who designs robots out of obsolete home gadgets. Now we've found a mid-90s album techno record made entirel...

Obsession of the Moment: New York Public Library Digital Library

Did you know that the New York Public Library has a digital archive of 600,000 illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, and printed e...

Final Frame: Short Message Stitch

Embroidered Text Messages, received 02/06-04/07 by Ginger Anyhow...

Recycled Art: Batteries Blossom a Piece for Your Mantle

The Dead Star. An art piece by Michel de Broin and currently on display at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York. While this glued mass of recycled batteries does look like it's about ...

Exploded Toner Cartridge: Pretty Enough For a Picture

A little bit of art for your Monday afternoon from an expected source. At first glance you could mistake this for some sort of abstract expressionist painting. The source however is not a skilled arti...

Final Frame: Fred Flinston's PC

The Paul Smith Floral Street store in Covent Garden, London hosts an exhibition of objects by Japanese woodsmith Mr. Matsumoto (Boku)....

AV T-Shirt: Attire Only a Techie Could Love

While the shirt itself has nothing to do with the home, we are betting that the graphic on the shirt is a very familiar one to readers of unplggd. The rear view of that stack of components sitting und...

Final Frame: Hasbro Toy Turned Work of Art

Last June, this graffiti laden Hasbro Star Wars toy sold at Christie's for $1,250... ...

Look! Kid's Room Turned Mushroom Kingdom

Retro goodness. If you already have the duck hunt lamp, the old school Nintendo theme can continue with the Super Mario Bros or Donkey Kong wall graphics....assuming a retro Nintendo themed room woul...

Loud Acoustic Tile

Loud as in Hawaiian shirt loud. I don't have a sound studio at home, nor do I think I will be needing acoustic tile in the near future, but I do agree that if you do need to have it, it never looks go...