Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category
Snapple Tri Club
Are you a triathlete? Have you ever wanted to participate in a triathlon? No matter your level of experience, if you are interested in triathlons, check out the new Snapple Triathlon Club.
For $125 membership dues for the 2011 year you get: clinics with elite athletes, some awesome discounts, and Snapple Triathlon shorts and top (with a lovely logo by none other than Skytemple Design)!
The regional clubs are based in Boulder, Hartford, Philadelphia, Tallahassee, and Washington DC. If you have any questions about the club, shoot an email to Snappletriteam@gmail.com.
Cool Covers
Penguin and Pelican books, we all know them as the inexpensive paperback books that we used for our high school and college English courses.
Some people in the design world have been drawing attention to those paperbacks that most of us didn’t think much about. As a start, a good website to take a look at a collection of Penguin covers spanning several years is designer Joe Kral’s flickr page. If you like what you see and want to know more, there are a few books devoted to the subject.
Russian Artist Exhibits “Extraordinary Objects”
Rejoice in the utilitarian! On November 4, 2010, Russian artist Vlad Korneev opened his new museum, ‘Designpanoptikum, Museum For Extraordinary Objects,’ in Berlin, Germany. The items on display emphasize form stemming from function, an often ignored concept in our culture that is largely obsessed with things that are sleek and shiny. Not that there is anything wrong with all those iPhones out there, but strange and clunky can be beautiful, too!
Ever Wonder Where the Name “Turkey” Came From?
During your Thanksgiving meal, did you stop to think about the word “turkey?” Turkey seems to be a weird name for a North American bird, right? Here’s an explanation of how the name came about.
Turkeys were introduced to England around 1526. The birds were brought to the country by merchants who traded in the Turkish-controlled Mediterranean, “Turkey merchants.” Information not being as readily available then as it is today, most English assumed that the large birds came from the East, unaware that they were brought to Europe by the Spanish. And thus the name “turkey.”
So all of those mental images you have of Henry VIII chowing down on a turkey leg are totally plausible.
Happy Thanksgiving!
We here at Skytemple want to wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving! May your holiday be full of things to be thankful for!
