Optimus Amazon Prime Costume: Shipments in Disguise

Looking for a dirt cheap last minute Halloween costume? Just use those Amazon boxes that you have lying around and create a Transformer. Caron Arnold, a creative director of Fusion Marketing agency in St. Louis came up with this version of Optimus Prime made from cardboard Amazon Prime boxes.

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She used all of the Amazon boxes she had from her orders and had some help from her colleagues for the rest. Arnold says she has no affiliation with Amazon and that it was solely her idea, but she is in marketing so who knows. Either way, it’s a great costume.

Her inspiration came from the Optimus Prime Costume by Instructables user Danny Eurena. Obviously she won the Halloween costume contest in her office.

[via Huffington Post via Damn Geeky]

Clean design for your cleaning products

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Who’d have ever thought that there was scope for giving the Roomba a beautiful, clean character? The Evoo takes robotic vacuum cleaners and ups their style, with it simple design makeover. The product is still circular, but it looks nothing like a robot designed to vacuum your floors. Instead, the Evoo has a pristine white rim with a wooden top. On the upper surface lies a depression and within that, a tiny bonsai plant. I guess it’s just a beautiful metaphor that the plants cleanse the environment of dirt, and the Evoo does the same with your home!

Designer: QianJun Gao

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