These nifty +d Animal Rubber Bands came from the gift shop of the National Building Museum. They come in a boxed set of 24 in the colorfull shapes of little giraffes, rhinos, kangaroos, elephants, ostriches and hippos. Though obviously a fanciful and fun product for the pleasure of the purchaser, I had hoped that the unique rubber bands would also give a moment of delight to anyone pulling the band off a roll of papers. Alas not, because as you can see in the last photo, the rubber band pops off into an undelightful knot. The designer's cleverness goes unnoticed in the end.

The rubber bands got mentioned in BoingBoing and they can be ordered on Amazon for less than what I paid for them.

- mike lee - washington, dc