We love everything about the artwork of Pulitzer-winning artist Rube Goldberg and his ‘invention’ cartoons.
It is manna to anyone with a creative bent and a sense of curiosity and invention – of looking at things differently.

Who would have thought ducks are so popular. According to our googlemanialytics thingamebob, the internet readship kinda dug the duck post by Greg (see it here if you missed it… good times good times). Perhaps we will see a 2010 run on duck themed and duck populated events… standby.

Okay. Sure. It’s a little dated now but it still resonates and that’s a sign of an effective marketing campaign. This 200 second ad, commissioned by Samsung to promote their LED product sees woolly creatures ‘manicured’ into position to create a living billboard. All good fun.

The George Costanza character from ‘Seinfeld’ fame often declared that he worked for imaginary Vandelay Industries. To keep sparking the imagination, another namesake Vandelay Designs declared the FACTOR168 website as a top 40 inspiring design. ‘Not that there is anything wrong with that!’ Thank you Vandelay. Thanks Marina.

There’s somethign about the word ‘Albertan’ that just cracks me up. It’s just such a strange sounding name that makes me think of 1950′s SCi-Fi writers, Monaco Royalty, and icecream biscuit sandwiches. Chomp!