Twice this week people have managed to excite me by doing mundane things with brilliant imagination. Which is a feeling i love. & so I’m sharing them.

I now have a favourite stationary company, D!rektrecycling. They make envelopes by recycling old maps.

[photo via notcot.com]

I can assure you it is far more fascinating to receive your invoices along with a snapshot of Schleswig-Flensburg than it is to get them in a plain envelope.

Then later that day, via FriendFeed I came across barcode revolution

Who are doing fantastic things to make barcodes more interesting. Which is a wonderful example of people putting great time & creativity into something that is normally just ignored and left as the standard “good enough”.

In fact both are things that can so easily be ignored, left at the default setting. But when you bother to think about even these things with a sense of vision & identity, well then now you’ve really got my  attention.

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