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Top 33 World’s Strangest Buildings (sorted by 4.520 visitors votes) If you are bored panda like me, you know that the best way to fight boredom is finding all kind of weird stuff.

Top 33 World’s Strangest Buildings (sorted by 4.520 visitors votes)

22 Unusual and Creative Aquariums. Is your life full of stress and worry?

22 Unusual and Creative Aquariums

Do you have high blood pressure or insomnia? Getting an aquarium may be a great way to relax! Many studies have shown that watching fish going about their daily business can reduce your stress levels, lower your blood pressure and make you feel more relaxed. Besides all the health benefits, aquarium can be a beautiful addition to your home that attracts a lot of attention. 33 Perfectly Timed Photos. You may be the best photographer in the world, but sometimes all it takes to take the best shot is being in the right place at the right moment.

33 Perfectly Timed Photos

It doesn’t even matter if you take it with your cell or high-end DSLR. Often, you won’t even notice you made an incredible picture until you come home and transfer your photos to a computer. Show Full Text. 36 More Perfectly Timed Photos. Last time we asked you to send in the best “perfectly timed photos” you’ve taken during your photography career or seen on the Internet.

36 More Perfectly Timed Photos

Thank you to all the pandas who have emailed and posted all these funny pictures in our comment section! As we talked before, you may be the best photographer in the world, but sometimes all it takes to take the best shot is being in the right place at the right moment. 35 Extremely Funny Graphs and Charts. Who could have ever thought that charts and graphs might have anything to do with fun?

35 Extremely Funny Graphs and Charts

At least not until creative Cheezburger guys launched a project called GraphJam few years ago. GraphJam.com explains daily life, music, songs and pop culture in charts and graphs. Readers can even submit their own graphs based on their own experiences and observations. According to its founders, GraphJam is the unholy love child of bored office workers, music and pop culture. Another 35 Funny Graphs And Charts. Do you remember 35 extremely funny graphs and charts we posted last year?

Another 35 Funny Graphs And Charts

They were so popular that you left us no choice but to do this again! We kept following this cool project, called Graphjam, and manually handpicked another 35 funniest graphs and charts based on social stats and a bit of our personal taste. For those who didn’t know, GraphJam.com explains daily life, music, songs and pop culture in charts and graphs. Readers can even submit their own graphs based on their own experiences and observations. According to its founders, GraphJam is the unholy love child of bored office workers, music and pop culture. 20 More Creative Business Card Designs. Continuing our previous collections of creative business cards (see Part I and Part II) we handpicked another wonderful list of 20 cool business card designs.

As we talked before, even the best business card design cannot guarantee your business success, however it is one of those very first things that make a very long lasting impression. So, you shouldn’t miss an opportunity to show your best qualities, and communicate your company’s values and character. Never limit your imagination to a plain rectangle! Don’t forget to include some interactivity – people love solving puzzles.

21 More Creative Business Card Designs. Continuing our previous collection of Most Unusual and Interactive Business Cards we handpicked another 21 creative business card designs for your inspiration.

21 More Creative Business Card Designs

As we talked before, even the most creative business card design cannot guarantee your business success, however it is one of those very first things that make a very long lasting impression. So, you shouldn’t miss an opportunity to show your best qualities, and communicate your company’s values and character. 41 Places To See Before You Die (Part II) No matter how advanced our cities and technology is, eventually we get tired of all the noise, stress and crowd of the city and want to be in the nature.

41 Places To See Before You Die (Part II)

Humans have transformed Earth beyond recovery, but luckily not everything is lost yet. 35 Funniest Someecards Ever. Unless you are living in a cave (and no offense if you are), you’ve probably already seen some incredibly funny electronic greeting cards with “someecards” watermark floating around internet.

35 Funniest Someecards Ever

Someecards.com is a free online e-cards service created by Brook Lundy and Duncan Mitchell to parody the sentiments found in the traditional Hallmark greeting card. Their website is full of humorous e-cards for just about any occasion, be it birthdays, weddings or even breakup. Creative Dad Takes Crazy Photos Of Daughters. If you are tired of posed, stiff and cheesy family portraits, then take a look at these incredibly creative pictures taken by Jason Lee.

Creative Dad Takes Crazy Photos Of Daughters

Jason who is a wedding photographer started taking photos of his two little daughters back in 2006 when his mom was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The girls were constantly sick, with colds and coughs so he couldn’t always bring them to visit their grandmother. Jason wanted her to be able to see her granddaughters without catching their kid germs so he started a blog where his mom could see what was going on in their lives. 33 More Creative Logos With Hidden Symbolism. 21 Funny Dear Blank, Please Blank Letters. Dear blank, please blank is an ironic and super funny project by Jared Wunsch and Hans Johnson that challenges users to write letters in the simple format: Dear… Please… Sincerely… “We had this idea for a website, mostly because Hans had a bad experience, “ – say the authors of the project.

So they made this website where everyone could anonymously express all their frustrations and bad experiences. Now Dear blank, please blank has teamed up with the Sapling Press to make the best entries into prints which are available on Etsy. P.S.: only the first 10 letters are available on Etsy, others were made in Photoshop using Sapling Press photos as a template. 36 Strange and Funny Google Street View Photos. We wanted to post these awesome Google Street View photos a long time ago, but somehow they got lost along the way. Luckily, I found them while reading Twisted Sifter. We tried our best to find more cool examples of Google Street View images, however almost every source was pointing to Jon Rafman. Montreal based artist Jon Rafman isn’t the original photographer but instead he explores Google Street Views and takes screenshots of the most unusual and funny sights. The original images were taken by an army of Google’s hybrid electric automobiles, each one equipped with nine cameras on a single pole trying to photograph every highway and byway in the world.

“The world captured by Google appears to be more truthful and more transparent because of the weight accorded to external reality, the perception of a neutral, unbiased recording, and even the vastness of the project,” said Jon in his interview to Art Fag City. Website: 9-eyes.com. 30 Worst Book Covers and Titles. We post so many great design examples here on Bored Panda that, I’m afraid, it can sometimes make you feel bad about yourself. That’s why it’s good to look at some bad works from time to time, to be more specific, we want to show you 30 Worst Book Covers and Titles! The Best Place to Work: Google and their Office in Zurich. Well actually, not anymore – Google is now ranked “only” 4th by Fortune (it was 1st in 2008). Anyway,we still thinks it’s worth taking a little virtual tour through their office in Zurich. 23 Things to Bring Fun Back to Your Workplace. The average Western guy spends around 99,117 hours at work during his lifetime, according to recent statistics.

That”s the equivalent of 11 and a half years of solid slog. [1] Your office is like your second home, so it’s probably a good idea to make it fun and cozy. 21 Logo Evolutions of the World’s Well Known Logo Designs. The evolution of logo designing could be traced back to the Ancient Greece, when the rulers and their dynasties used to use cipher as a monogram in their coins. However, the modern logo designing dates back to the early days of the Renaissance, around the 13th Century. Goldsmiths, masons, paper makers, and potters, were among the first trades people to use marks-pressings into gold, chiseled symbols, watermarks on paper, and simple thumb-prints on pottery. Today there are many corporations, products, brands, services, agencies and other entities using an ideogram (sign, icon) or an emblem (symbol) or a combination of sign and emblem as a logo. However, only a few of the thousands of ideograms people see are recognized without a name.

Let’s look at the history and evolution of the well known logo designs. 70 Amazing Examples of Street Art. The attitude that art should be seen only in galleries is on its way out. This huge collection of creative street art will show you that city is probably the best canvas! Every wall, fence or column could be turned into an art piece. 15 Cool and Creative Tea Infusers. Now that we’ve looked at 15 Creative Coffee and Tea Cups it’s time to pick a tea infuser! The tea infuser (often called a teaball or tea maker, and sometimes a tea egg) gained popularity in the first half of the 19th century. Honest Logos by Viktor Hertz (Part I) We’ve already laughed at the Top 15 Worst Logo FAILS Ever, tried to find hidden objects in 30 Clever Logos With Hidden Symbolism and even learned some history from 21 Logo Evolutions of the World’s Well Known Logo Designs, but we’ve never looked at what would happen if companies created honest logos.

Viktor Hertz, a freelance Graphic Designer from Sweden, finally did it – he turned well known logos into “Honest Logos”. “An idea for a series with honest logos, revealing the actual content of the company, what they really should be called. 26 Cool And Unusual Bed Designs. We spend about 8 hours/day, 56 hours/week, 240 hours/month and 2,920 hours/year doing it…that’s right…SLEEPING[1].

In other words, we spend one third of our lives doing nothing, and if you live for 90 years, 30 years would be spent in this mysterious state. The Past and The Future Of Famous Logos. Apple. 20 Creative DIY Project Ideas. We all have many old and unused items lying around in our homes or garages waiting to be thrown away.

6 Alternative Uses for LEGO Bricks. The Lego Company is based out of Denmark, and the word Lego comes from the Danish word Leg Godt which means “play well”. 7 LEGO sets are being sold by retailers every second around the world, and more than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been already produced since 1949. Stacked on top of each other, this is enough to connect the Earth and the Moon ten times over! How Famous Companies Got Their Names? 50 Cool and Creative Products by Fred & Friends. 40 Funniest AutoCorrects Of 2011. 15 Cool and Geeky Gadgets For Your Kitchen. Creative Food Art by Brock Davis. Imagine: Minimalist Lego Cartoon Characters. 13 Popular Movie Poster Cliches. Realistic Body Art by Chooo-San.