One of our favorite favoritest events is coming soon! (Did we happen to
mention it’s our favorite?) If you live in LA or are visiting the LA area
Mother’s Day Weekend, make sure to put UNIQUE LA on your To-Do List!

This will be the 7th (Lucky Number 7!!!) Unique LA that Skullastic has participated in
and EACH one is bigger, better, more inspiring than the last. 325 independent designers
descend on the California Mart in downtown LA for a two day frenzy of cool art, clothes,
jewelry, posters, knick-knacks, gift items and some things impossible to describe!

For a $10 admission fee (kids 12 and under FREE!), you’ll receive an exclusive UNIQUE LA
tote bag featuring artwork by a local artist, enjoy free drinks from IZZE, Honest Tea,
BlackStar Beer and The Naked Grape Wine (to name a few), get to flex your own crafty
muscles at free DIY workshops and crafting stations AND get free photo booth portraits
at a print at the Oh Snap Studios Photo Booth. And all that is FREE!

SAVE THE DATE! In fact, make a date with your Mom to come and enjoy a carefree day of
shopping, eating, drinking and crafting at UNIQUE LA’s Spring Show. Click here for details!

If you’re one of those people who chew, nibble, gnaw away at the cap
of your pen (AND WE KNOW YOU ARE! Aren’t we all?!), this product
might be the solution your dentist has been looking for: DIN-INK

Developed by the Italian firm ZO-loft, DIN-INK is a set of pen caps that
double as a fork, a knife and a spoon. The set retails for $10 on amazon.com.

The pen caps/silverware are not only cleverly designed, but are made from
renewable resources that are non-toxin and 100% biodegradable! Yummy!

AGAIN…we have to admit it…we LOVE libraries. All our lives we’ve loved walking through
aisles and aisles and aisles and AISLES of library books. Flipping through card catalogs.
Hanging out with our friend, Mr. Dewey Decimal System. LIBRARIES ROCK! And as much
as libraries rock, most don’t rock like these PUBLIC libraries found around the world.

The Royal Danish Library (The Black Diamond) — Copenhagen, Denmark

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Stuttgart City Library — Stuttgart, Germany

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Angelica Library — Rome, Italy

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Library of Alexandria — Alexandria, Egypt

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Rijksmuseum Research Library — Amsterdam

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And our home away from home…
The Los Angeles Central Library — Los Angeles, CA

If you’re like us and CAN’T GET ENOUGH of awesome libraries, you can either
meet us at the LA Central Library this weekend OR click here to view more.

Come out and play with us this Sunday, April 23, at KIDFEST—a super amazing,
fun in the sun day for big, medium and little kids of all ages, shapes and sizes!

From 11am-4pm you can enjoy live music, interactive exercise classes, animal shows,
dance performances, a dog agility exhibition, self-defense/karate demonstrations,
a remote control airplane show, a reptile show, climb the rock wall, go nuts in a bounce
house, take a train ride, eat sweet stuff and just have tons o’ fun. Is that enough for ya?

KIDFEST is at Conego Creek North Park (1379 Janss Road) in Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
and is FREE ADMISSION! Skullastic will be there adding to the crazy fun. Hope to see you!

Is your bedroom, dorm room or office in desperate need of a home makeover
but you don’t have a ton of $$ to spend on something cool, modern and sleek?

Buy a couple rolls of painters tape and roll out some awesome wall graphics!

That’s exactly what Late Architects, a Polish studio, did to snazz things up.

Using just paint, wood and about 3,000 feet of tape (’tis true!)
they created some bold, black-white-and-red graphics and
geometric letters that look like a deconstructed Constructivist poster!

The graphics were designed to reflect the surroundings. About 1,400 photos
of abandoned factories and industrial areas were snapped, then converted into
an abstract mural turning ordinary blah walls into some dynamic AHA! walls.

Just so you know…a typical roll of masking tape is 60 yards or 180 feet long.
So 16+ ROLL OF TAPE (and a lot of patience) were used to create the designs.

Thanks to fastcodesign.com for rolling out this story!