The Candela light is a great little invention for home decor and lighting fanatics. Providing a brilliant warm light source comparable to the intensity of 1.5 candles, the Candela uses long-life warm LED light sources, running for 8 hours on a rechargeable ni-cd battery. Though a bit pricey, designer Richard Lawson has come up with another brilliant innovation, the 9vo(l)tive LED candle. By combining the idea of the Candela light with a simple battery-driven LED mod, they’ve created the ultimate low-cost candle-light replacement for nerds. Though, we can’t stress enough how important it would be to use rechargeable 9 volts for these little projects. Interested? Contact the designer at richi(at)forpeople.co.uk.

Read more: Richard Lawson’s 9Vo(l)tive LED candles

I’ve always loved wind-up toys and being the spaceage bachelor that I am (ok, not really), I’ve always wanted to start a small collection of all the strange wind-up toys I’ve come across. From politician’s heads, to food, to space aliens and cartoons, the variety is crazy. Now I’ve found the Knockman Family, from designer Maywa Denki. Each character makes their own absurd movements, making some sort of ‘musical’ noise while capturing dada-esque design perfectly. Only a matter of time before some electronica artist in Japan (or Canada) is using this group to create live noise.

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Perfect for offices that have a problems with wallspace, these giant monster sticky notes are almost as large as one’s head, meaning, you’ll always be able to cover up your coworkers notes, getting you one-step closer to that promotion you’ve been dreaming of. Called the Genius Pad, these giant sticky note pads measure 30cm x 30cm and come in Classic Yellow (just like the ‘real’ sticky notes). Unfortunately the 100 and 150 sheets package are sold out, but, there are plenty of 300 sheet packs left!

Read more: Arash and Kelly’s Giant Sticky Notes

Tic-Tac-Toe finally gets an upgrade (Tic-Tac-Toe 2.0?) with the release of Triball, a three player, 3D version of every child’s favorite pen and paper game. The game consists of a transparent box of plastic, partitioned into 9 columns, where three players take turns dropping colored balls into the row, with the ultimate goal being to get three of your colors in any direction, including diagonally . A cool little toy to sit on any connected worker’s office shelf.

Read more: Triball – 3D tic-tac-toe

Typetester is an online application used by web-designers to compare different fonts on-screen during the planning stages of a project. Extremely useful for those who don’t like to implement, then change, Typetester is a an extremely slick example of fine CSS and xHTML implementation and includes examples of almost every font bundled into the most popular operating systems for comparison.

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The North American Vexillological Association (Vexillology is the study of flags) are hardcore in their love of flags of all sorts. NAVA analyzes flags from around the world and around the US, discussing well-designed and not-so-well-designed flags and what you can do to make design a better one. Most importantly, NAVA provides and in-depth how-to for creating your own flag to fly when you decide to invade your neighbor or form a new guild in World of Warcraft. For those about to design their own flag, remember the 5 basic principles of good flag design:

1. Keep It Simple
The flag should be so simple that a child can draw it from memory…

2. Use Meaningful Symbolism
The flag’s images, colors, or patterns should relate to what it
symbolizes…

3. Use 2–3 Basic Colors
Limit the number of colors on the flag to three, which contrast well and
come from the standard color set…

4. No Lettering or Seals
Never use writing of any kind or an organization’s seal…

5. Be Distinctive or Be Related
Avoid duplicating other flags, but use similarities to show connections…

Read more: How to design a great flag (Via Plastic Bag)

The designavists over at Yay Hooray have started a huge thread of traditionally mainstream or “famous” logos being re-designed to be more web 2.0. There are quite some gems and a hell of a lot of aqua and gradients going on, but man, the ABC, Citi, and Nike logo re-imagines are good stuff. Thanks to a Digg of the thread, we’re getting a lot of interesting gripes on what web 2.0 is and isn’t, which is almost as entertaining as the actual redesigns themselves!

Read more: [Famous logos redesigned for web2.0]

Tetris lovers of the world listen up, next time you’re redectorating your flat, skip Ikea (though we love our Expedit here in the HQ) and go straight for the Tetris-inspired bookshelves from Brave Space. The Tetris unit is lightweight and modular, allowing owners to mount the blocks on the wall, leave them free-floating for life-size gameplay, or stack the blocks on top of one another. There are also colored backshapes available to match your interior color choices.

[Brave Space Tetris shelves] (Via Netdiver)

Artist, musician and all-around crafty lady Susie Ghahremani, creates lovely nature-inspired crafts and artwork which she graciously hand-makes and offers for sale through her website. Highly recommended are the ink-squirting octopus to-do pad (Get Things Done folks!), the finch stationary and the starry owl canvas tote bag to carry them all around with.

[boygirlparty | boygirlparty shop]

Straight from the northern wonderland of Sweden, the Pee and Poo characters took the internet by storm late last year. Well, those wishing they could cuddle up to a little pee and poo in bed, your prayers have been answered! The designer of the cute pair have launched their online store, complete with keychains, children’s underwear and yes, stuffed Pee and Poo dolls. Oh joy!

[Kiss & Bajs' online shop]