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The Power of ‘Like’.

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Illustrator Pankaj Bhagat has teamed up with TBWA/India to create an ad campaign that addresses the presence of cyber and generally negative social behavior online. The ads specifically ask its audience to acknowledge that their Facebook “Likes” may have more power than they may realize. The ad urges us to use our “Likes” wisely. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks …

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Designer Waffles.

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Label whores unite! Artist Andrew Lewicki has ensured that you can now EAT, breathe and sleep Louis Vuitton; obvious emphasis on the eating part. Besides, what good are waffles if they don’t match your handbag? Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. …

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Reinventing the US Dollar.

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In an effort to ‘rebrand the US Dollar, rebuild financial confidence and revive our failing economy, New York designer Richard Smith has founded The Dollar ReDe$ign Project. We have seen most of the submissions to the project but the one that strikes us the most is the submission from Dowling Duncan. Simultaneously progressive and traditional, the redesign currency tells the history …

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Stripes Are In. (NSFW)

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Barcelona born illustrator Chamo San take an intimate perspective on stripe patterns. The works are both playful and sensual. San presents a duel between pattern and eroticism; almost daring you to choose between ogling the female form or becoming entranced by the stripes. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and …

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The Visualization of a Bad Bitch.

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Lupe Fiasco has finally dropped visually for his hard-hitting single “Bad Bitch”. Fiasco made a splash with the song about a month ago and caused plenty of fans to proudly exclaim ‘Lupe is back!’ The video is equally satirical as the song but we honestly did expect anything short of Bamboozled II. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication …

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A Century of Immigration.

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Although certain parties would like you to believe that rampant immigration is plaguing the United States, recent studies have found that immigration is around the same percentage as it was 100 years ago — in fact, it’s slightly lower. Read more → here ←. However, what has changed is the different types of immigrants that have been arriving to the country; and …

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Refueling.

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Art and the use of its tools are usually a process but what if it was a ritual of consumption. Created by graphic designer Christian Baranowicz, the Adobe Fuel series tackles that very same notion. “A University brief asked us to express what we thought reappropriation was and my personal interpretation was to take something current into an unknown world. Adobe …

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Losing Our Seats.

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Ivan Puig‘s 2008 chair installation has a strikingly eerie nature that is only eclipsed by its execution. Ivan explains the installation’s true purpose: “The piece outlines a comment on education, challenging the artificial induction of knowledge. More generally, check the power structures on which ‘feel’ the doctrine of education in the country and its system, strongly affected by conflicts of …