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Announcements
1:00PM Nick Broughall | Look around your home: does the same drab colour stare back at you? Does the lack of interesting, engaging artwork drive you to depression and anxiety? Well, as we showed you last week, it doesn’t have to be that way. Australian company Vinyl Designs is partnering with Giz to give away 10 of their retro wall stickers so you guys can create art on your very walls! More »
Win One Of 10 Vinyl Design Wall Stickers
1:00PM Nick Broughall | Look around your home: does the same drab colour stare back at you? Does the lack of interesting, engaging artwork drive you to depression and anxiety? Well, as we showed you last week, it doesn’t have to be that way. Australian company Vinyl Designs is partnering with Giz to give away 10 of their retro wall stickers so you guys can create art on your very walls! More » 
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12:00PM Nick Broughall | This may well be the perfect idea: take one part geek, one part sticker and two parts classic design, blend them all up in the form of two expat Italian architects, and then sell the end result. They’re called vinyl designs, and are essentially just geeky stickers that you can stick on your wall instead of wallpaper or stencils. They will last for up to five years and won’t leave any marks on the wall when you remove them, making them ideal for renters. More »
Decorate Your Walls With Geeky Retro Stickers
12:00PM Nick Broughall | This may well be the perfect idea: take one part geek, one part sticker and two parts classic design, blend them all up in the form of two expat Italian architects, and then sell the end result. They’re called vinyl designs, and are essentially just geeky stickers that you can stick on your wall instead of wallpaper or stencils. They will last for up to five years and won’t leave any marks on the wall when you remove them, making them ideal for renters. More »
Games
Straight-Up Wall Chess Makes Knocking-Over Your King More Dramatic
4:40AM Kit Eaton | Sure, these chess sets aren’t quite as neat as the vertical Tri-D chess in Star Trek, but by turning the game through 90 degrees and hanging it on the wall they do turn it into a sort of art masterpiece. That’d be assuming you play well—with my playing style it’d be more like a kid’s painting disaster. Still, toppling your king from the board in resignation does get an extra kind of fatal symbolism. The choice of wood is customisable, and they cost upwards of $US100. [Straightupchess via Neatorama] More »
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