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The Father Bob Maguire Foundation needs help to feed St Kilda’s homeless, so we thought we’d do our bit by creating this eye–catching poster.  If you’d like to make a donation please visit fatherbob.org.au.

This desk is made of recycled books. Though the pictures don’t do justice to how lovely it looks, it’s very tactile and appealing.

A great piece of lateral thinking applied to design and practicality, the books were salvaged from the library after a fire started in a coffee machine on the sixth floor of the school of architecture at the Delft University of Technology. Now the school has risen from the ashes, and built its front desk out of books.

Library information desk | Recyclart

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“Creativity is the capability or act  of conceiving something original  or unusual. Innovation is the implementation of something new. Invention is the creation of something that has never been made before and is recognized as the product of some unique insight.”

Read more at ‘What is the Difference Between Innovation and Creativity?’

Social Media platform Foursquare, turns life into a virtual game that encourages you to explore what’s in your vicinty and hook up with friends.

Dennis Crowley was jogging across a New York bridge when he spotted something exciting: a cartoon mushroom, spray-painted on the sidewalk.

It looked like something out of Nintendo’s “Super Mario Bros.,” which Crowley grew up playing. He stomped on the mushroom as he ran by and had a sort of nerdy realization.

“I was like, s—-!” he recalled. ” ‘I should get a power-up for that!’ “

Since that moment several years ago, Crowley — a 33-year-old who’s always in a sweatshirt and wears an eyebrow-length mop of Justin Bieber-like hair — has sought to turn adult life into a whimsical game. In his world, people should earn points and prizes for making random discoveries like that one. MORE…