"Forget selfies." With his Thumbprint carpets (from $3,500), New York rug designer Joseph Carini "has found a new way to satisfy the demand for self-immortalization," said Carson Griffith at The New York Times. A digital image of the customer's actual fingerprint is first blown up to room size, then sent to traditional weavers in Nepal who produce an exact replica in an all-natural rug made in the customer's choice of colors and materials. Though humility might prompt some potential customers to consider Carini's other carpets instead, there's "something magnetic about the undeniably personal nature of the Thumbprint rugs — and the digital-meets-analog precision with which they're made."
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