The holidays are coming, and with them loads of family, gifts, food, and, most of all, microbes. They are on the lips of the aunt who insists on kissing you (luckily, without tongue). They are on the presents (on every layer from wrapping to the gift itself), thriving. They make some of your favorite foods have such delicious tastes. And most of all, they are on your holiday plant of choice. At least, they will be once you pick up a
Plush Microbe Holiday Ornament Set!

The “Scared Dictators” campaign developed by Ogilvy Frankfurt for the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR). Are they really scared by the Internet?

[via wewastetime]

“With spine-shuddering pleasure we hereby announce the grand reopening of Hoxton Street Monster Supplies. After extensive refurbishment, we now stock a pharmacopoeia of different types of fear, a complete range of edible human preserves and everyday household essentials like Fang Floss and Zombie Mints. So we invite clients old and new, living and dead to come and discover why we’ve been the store of choice for discerning monsters for over two hundred years, and will be the same forevermore.”

More info here.

Zadok Ben-David, Horse Power, 1999, bronze, steel plinth, H 260 cm:

“The form of the horse is taken from an eighteenth or nineteenth-century volume of anatomical illustrations, but is shown, ironically, as a monument to power and glory. The form of the horse, being made as flat fretwork is a shadow rather that a full three-dimensional body, emphasising Ben-David’s concept of the ultimate immaterial nature of grandeur.”

[via iheartmyart]

Leon Ryan‘s illustrations…

“Where Do tea bags go to die?. Usually squashed on the side of the saucer next to the cup, or if you have a little less decorum the table will probably be just fine. Jonas Trampedach has been observing the behaviour of tea drinkers and has evidently been learning a lot. Consequently he has developed a solution to the bag dilemma that is as simple as it is ingenious. With the ‘Tea bag Coffin’, the drinker can tidily bury the bag under the cup and out of the way. RIP.”

Tea Bag Coffin, by Designer Jonas Trampedach for Yankodesign…