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The Pantone Wallstore Is A Magnetic Wall Organizer In 6 Fun Pantone Colors.

The Pantone® Wallstore is a simple magnetic notice board and storage solution in one. The large surface area on top allows good space for the user to store notes, photos, keys and keepsakes etc… while the folded section creates space for magazines and letters. The wallstore is provided with 6 mini magnets and all the fittings needed to fix it to the wall.

Pantone colored wall organizers designed by John Greene for Seletti (who doesn't ship outside of Europe), but is available here in the US and the UK:

Made of bent steel, each measures H.60cm x W.28cm x D.4cm and comes with 6 magnets

buy them here in the US
and here in the UK

Move Over Silly Bands, Here's Some Sexy Bands For Grown-Ups.

If you haven't heard of silly bandz, you've either not come in contact with anyone under the age 20 in the past month or you live under a rock. As a matter of fact, the trend is so large that today The Daily What via joystiq has a post about the upcoming Silly Bandz Nintendo DS game from Zoo Games.

I have already shared with you the fabulous carved crayola crayons by Diem Chau. Now, here's another artist/designer who has crafted human-shaped colored crayons.

COLOURS by designer Heli Kristina Hietala are crayons shaped as the human figure. The intent was to show the results of involvement between characters and how communication can range from soft, stimulating, balancing or dirtying (the designers words), depending upon the character which is chosen.

For the 2005 project, she created about 100 crayons, packed in 10 boxes which contain 10 pieces each.

Heli uses the human form, head and facial characteristics in several of her other unusual works as well. Her 2009 "Spirits of Medicine" consist of 30 plaster cast heads, each placed in medical prescription bottles.