SOME TYPE OF WONDERFUL
Those clever buggers over at Lifelounge are putting together what is set to be an awesome typography project called Some Type of Wonderful.

They have brought together 12 hot designers from around the globe, and asked each of them to respond to a brief which relates to one of the months of the year. The resulting designs will be available for sale through lifelounge.com as signed, limited edition A1 Giclee prints.

There’ll be an exhibition of the works at Melbourne's McCulloch Gallery, and if that’s not enough, all of the designs will be collated into a 2009 calendar, so you can enjoy them all year long.


CRUMPLER
Speaking of typography, yet another Melbourne-based crew have been having a bit of fun with all things textual. While trawling through the Crumpler website and drooling over their most excellent messenger bags, we discovered the Crumpler ABC site.

Basically, the clever kids have developed some super-cool typography of their own, and they let you utilise it to make your own signs and download them for print. Tap into your creativity and watch the hours melt away.


FRAGILE CANDY
A good friend of mine once joked about how funny (and wildly inappropriate) it would be to make lollies in the shape of things kids aren't supposed to eat. Something like a Lego-shaped gobstopper or a gummy razor blade. We were joking around though. It’s funny because it’s so ridiculous, right?

It would seem we have been beaten to market, old friend.

Designer Wooteik Lim has made a lollipop that looks like a piece of broken glass. You can check out some pictures in the image gallery above.

Apparently it’s supposed to remind you that while lollies are delicious, they are bad for your health.

Unconfirmed rumours suggest that Lim is also working on a child’s toothbrush in that shape of a handgun. Fail.


HARD-ON FOR HADRON
If you haven't heard about the Large Hadron Collider you really should get on board. Basically it's a massive science experiment in Switzerland that eggheads from all around the world have been working on for years.

The LHC is a 27km circular tunnel inside which they smash particles into each other at the speed of light. It's like an atomic demolition derby I suppose. The idea is to create a mini big bang and observe what things were like seconds after the birth of the universe. It's the biggest most expensive machine ever made. Ever. How cool is that?

Here's a video of rock star particle-physicist Brian Cox talking about it. This guy is pretty much the opposite of an emo kid. Sit back relax, and let the learning begin.




- By Sam Allan