"This product made us laugh when we first saw it! At plain sight it is a standard black mug as they come a dime a dozen and in big white letters it say OFF. Nothing fancy, but once you add the hot beverage of your choice, the mug changes color and is turning white and in big black letters it states: ON

Nifty eh? Do we need to explain more? Nah, we didn’t think so, we’ll just leave it to the wonders of heat sensitive pigment… Dishwasher safe of course!" [store]

The ± "worker / parasite’ manifesto was derived from appropriated statements and graphics remixed using an author-mediated subjective process. The references all relate in some form to notions of originality, authorship and rules in graphic design. Though the manifesto is an exercise resulting in an anti-dogmatic position that asserts itself in a definitive manner, the primary message that comes through is contradictory to the original source and is as such, a paradox.
http://www.plusminus.ca/

According to modern definition of tabula rasa, the idea that the individual can be changed remains, but the power to effect that change is now ascribed to society, not the self - and that power extends to the whole of human nature. Under this view, one can shape the individual with few, if any, restrictions by changing the individual’s environment, and thus sensory experiences. As the Lockean idea of "natural rights" no longer holds any meaning under such a view (because "natural" now means whatever society chooses to define), all such schemes end up moving towards one form or another of totalitarianism.

http://www.hotelfox.dk

http://www.zipdesign.co.uk