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• 500 posts, get an original A.K. 500 T-shirt!

  

  Woohoo! We have posted 500 articles. That deserves a redesign we thought. Nifty thing in the new design is the extra thumbnail viewmode and the scramble button above. Go check it out!

  Because we hit the big 500 we give away 50 original AK 500 T-shirts! To get one, you only have to do one simple thing: tell a friend about Archibald! Make him or her to follow us on Twitter, facebook, Soundcloud or RSS. If you think this is an OK deal, just mail us and we will send the Tshirt to you, wherever you live.

  Thank you for the support!

  11.03.2010 »

  Archibald Kobayashi

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• Dog Stache

  

  Genius.

  (Via)

  10.03.2010 »

  Mickey Tilburg

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  Design, Nice to haves

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• DixonBaxi Retrospective

  

  One of the greater British design studios, DixonBaxi, is coming with a retrospective, hopefully this year. These are some drafts for the design of the book.

  (Found on Grafikcache)

  20.02.2010 »

  Sea Captain Plonk E

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  Books, Graphic design, Nice to haves

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• I never read, I just look at pictures

  

  I bought 2 posters for my poster collection this weekend in Stockholm. The first is an image of Cornelis Vreeswijk, a fantastic dutch singer turned Swedish (Listen to Veronica in Dutch or Veronica in Swedish). Vreeswijk is as popular to the Swedes as Sven Kramer is to the Dutch. And since I’m married to a Svensk tjej and Sweden is my second home country after Holland, I feel we have at least some things in common!

  The other one I bought at Moderna Museet. It’s an affiche for a Warhol exhibition there long time ago, saying: “I never read, I just look at pictures”. Which definately puts a smile on the face of an ADD‘er like me.

  15.02.2010 »

  Archibald Kobayashi

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  Images, Nice to haves

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• Dexter pillow?

  

  Buy it here.

  08.02.2010 »

  Mickey Tilburg

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  Design, Nice to haves

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• Living underground with a view

  

  I wouldn’t mind having a house like this. Too bad we don’t have views like this in old Holland.

  (Found on Trendir)

  28.12.2009 »

  Sea Captain Plonk E

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  Architecture, Nice to haves

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• 3d cube storage furniture

  

  Made by Bjørn Jørund Blikstad, obviously Scandinavian.

  (Found on Swissmiss)

  20.12.2009 »

  Sea Captain Plonk E

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  Design, Nice to haves

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• A wormhole in your backgarden

  

  And your trees will dissapear…

  (Found on Today and Tomorrow)

  26.11.2009 »

  Archibald Kobayashi

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  Architecture, Design, Nice to haves

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• Underground signs

  

  Fan of the NYC underground signing? Make your own.

  (Found on Swissmiss)

  24.11.2009 »

  Sea Captain Plonk E

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  Design, Internet, Nice to haves

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• Stereofound

  

  Check out this blog called Stereofound created by fellow Tilburgian LouLou: “A collection of ‘non-music’ and ‘oddities’ on vinyl, found at thrift stores and flea markets. Think of stereo-test records, jingles, sound effects, instructions, spoken word, language courses and, well, basically everything recorded out of the ordinary.”

  08.11.2009 »

  Mickey Tilburg

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  Music, Nice to haves, Tilburgs pride

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• Raving 89

  A book with photos by Gavin and Neville Watson of the early days of acid house in London an Manchester where the subculture found its origin:

  “Raving 89 takes you through a year of suburban raves, with 200 fantastic images collected together as if a single dramatic night grimy warehouses, phones the size of bricks, smiles, hugs, lasers and dungarees, lives changed, faces lost in music, casualties, friends and general mayhem; with rogues and wronguns lurking in the corners, and more than a few crimes against fashion.”

  Order it here.

  03.10.2009 »

  Katarie

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  Books, Nice to haves

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• Moustache cups

  

  (Thanks Evert!)

  29.09.2009 »

  Mickey Tilburg

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  Nice to haves

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• Quite nice: Clock

  

  Buy it here.

  31.08.2009 »

  Sea Captain Plonk E

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  Design, Nice to haves

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• 30 dumb inventions

  

  TV-glasses, a rainy-day-cigartette-holder, an anti-bandit-bag, and, yes, even a phone-answering-robot. Just too hilarious.

  (found on What Alice Found)

  26.08.2009 »

  Archibald Kobayashi

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  Design, Nice to haves

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• Mini houses on tiny islands

  

  It sounds like a lot like Tim Burton, but these exist for real!

  (Found on Dornob)

  18.08.2009 »

  Archibald Kobayashi

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  Architecture, Nice to haves

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• The Søkkømb, a guillotine by Ikea

  

  More here.

  13.08.2009 »

  Archibald Kobayashi

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  Design, Nice to haves

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• A mirror made of wood

  

  Artist Daniël Rozin makes mirrors out of unreflective material.

  (Thanks Hellyeah!)

  10.08.2009 »

  Sea Captain Plonk E

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  Art, Nice to haves

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• Zombie Tshirt

  

  Booooooooooo! We like this idea for a promo shirt for the latest episode of Resident Evil, The Darkside Chronicles.

  01.08.2009 »

  Archibald Kobayashi

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  Games, Marketing, Nice to haves

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• Quite nice: Swiss army cutlery knife holder

  

  (Found on Core 77)

  11.06.2009 »

  Archibald Kobayashi

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  Design, Nice to haves

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• A transparent head

  Look at that fish. How queer. Thought a long time about in which category I would place this post.

  (Thanks Fina!)

  10.06.2009 »

  Archibald Kobayashi

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• Have you ever heard about a beardfolio?

  

  Me neither. Until now. Photographer Matt Rainwaters created one of the photos he shot during the Beard and Mustache Championships in Anchorage Alaska. Truely great beards and photos! Makes me even prouder wearing mine.

  09.06.2009 »

  Archibald Kobayashi

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  Internet, Nice to haves, Photography

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