The VW's The Fun Theory is an effort built around the idea that you can use fun to change people's behaviors.  They try to prove this theory through a contest where people submit their social behavioral experiments in fun.  You would probably recognize some of the entries (such as the piano stairs). 

In enjoyed the latest winner, The Speed Camera Lottery, by Kevin Richardson.  This experiment tries to get drivers to obey the speed limit for fun, by turning a speed camera into a lottery machine.  The speed camera takes pictures of people who speed, in order fine them, and pictures of people who follow the speed limit, in order to give them some of the money collected from the speeders in the form of a lottery.  The results are pretty impressive.

This comically meta Infographic about Infographic, by designer Ivan Cash, is just adding to my infographic obsession.

One large billboard or movie poster becomes 100 lbs of plastic waste materials in a landfill after as little as a month on display.  ReMakes  trys to avoid this by upcylcing old billboards into one of a kind placemats. Each set of 4 placemats is made from the same billboard, to give them a matching color scheme. Scan the QR code in the bottom of each placemat to get a daily conservation fact.

Beautiful, unique placements, that do something good for the environment, and give you a topic of conversation for dinner - what more could you ask for.

Available in black or color for $15.99 through Abe's Market.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has a recent crowdsourced art project of their own. They asked their visitors to share their MoMA experiences through poems, drawings and messages. Responses range from "I love the coffee on the second floor" to "I want to save the world...". Explore the story collection yourself at I went to MOMA and...

Log & Squirrel is a super cute planter with training wheels. It is self watering (put the water into the bottom of the pot and it absorbs through an interior wall to the soil as needed). Plus, the squirrel disappears out of the hole to indicate that you need to add more water.

I am sitting alone in my office, literally laughing out loud at Help I Can't Sleep's Dream Recommender.  Just when I thought Help's marketing couldn't get any more brilliant.  Seriously, the balding, and the cow milking!  Too funny.  It makes me want to go to sleep immediately.

Another one to file under Damn-I-wish-I-had-thought-of-that.

If you are a fan of Learn Something Every Day (Dad!), you might want to add I Always Wondered to your bookmark list.  A beautifully illustrated site where you can learn things like how plants know it is time to bloom, or why goat eyes look so weird.

I don't know if I should look at these images as art, an observational experiment, a gesture study, or just a little comic relief. Any way I look at it, it is both enlightening and entertaining.

Images care of Design Language. 

Visual designer Kyle Tezak successfully summed up a series of blockbuster movies into four simple (and wonderfully executed) icons each. Not an easy task. Prints of The Four Icon Challenge are available for $16.

My favorite is The Big Lebowski.  The thumb icon just makes me smile.

PhD sculpture student Jessica Harrison has a grotesquely alluring series of artwork that features delicate women figurines... and their exposed insides. According to her Facebook Fanpage, "Each piece is made using one of the mass-produced ceramic figures so familiar as the ornamental clutter filling shelves and gathering dust around the world, revealed and reshaped to show a soft and fleshy interior behind the brittle and fragile skin."

It is hard not to be intrigued by this juxtaposed mix of guts and glamor.