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  TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends

• Captivating Concept Cars – The Gillette Guide to Rad Rides (THTV)

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:07 pm

  (TrendHunter.com) Wall-Climbing Rides, Single Seater Off-Roaders and Minimalist Eco-Mobiles. Today we hunt: CAPTIVATING CONCEPT CARS. 10. This video was made for the Peugout BB1. Sure, it’s a scooter-car with a solar…

• Top 20 Trends of the Day (Mar 9) - From Gender-Switching Designers to Architectural Jackets (COUNTDOWN)

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:10 pm

  (TrendHunter.com) For the day of March 9th, these are the Top 20 trends, which include Gender-Switching Designers, Bad Girltography and Sun-Soaked Beachtography. The rankings are based on hundreds of thousands of views…

• Military Cloak Fashions - The Andrew Gn Fall 2010 Collection is Strictly Delightful (GALLERY)

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:30 pm

  (TrendHunter.com) The Andrew Gn fall 2010 collection explores the world of severe military style. The models of the runway almost marched down the catwalk with their ensembles that had crisp lines that were made with precision.…

• Lacy Veil Photography - The Sylvie Malfray Photoshoot is Cloaked in Seductive Mystery (GALLERY)

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:10 pm

  (TrendHunter.com) The Sylvie Malfray photoshoot has the photographer capturing pictures of the young French model, Morgane Dubled. The model poses seductively in front of the camera lens with long lacy veils and provocative…

• 25 Modern Pompadour Hairstyles - From Updated Greaser Hair to the 'Jersey Shore' Quiff (CLUSTER)

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:20 pm

  (TrendHunter.com) Pompadour hairstyles were popularized during the 50s, but modern fashionistas have updated this poufy phenomenon in a number of avant-garde ways. There's the pouf that Snooki of 'Jersey Shore' has made…

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• Chanel A/W 2010 show

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:07 am

  Though calling anything �cool� nowadays is something of a death knell in the style stakes, there aren�t any other adjectives that fully do justice to Chanel�s A/W 2010 show. See more of Chanel's icescape The spectacle, which took place at the Grand Palais this morning, was housed in a hermetically sealed �glacier� box in subzero temperatures, constructed to resemble…

• New Fornasetti vases by Bitossi Ceramiche

  8 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm

  Fresh characters have been added to the family of Fornasetti vases by Bitossi Ceramiche this month. As always, the designs give a witty twist to Piero Fornasetti's iconic prints, such as the face of his muse Lina Cavilieri. Each of the designs is produced in limited edition and once sold out, will be replaced by a new personality. See more pictures of the collection All…

• Paris Fashion Week

  8 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm

  It's show time again. From New York to London, Milan to Paris, the women's A/W 2010 collections are being unveiled and from top to toe we've got them covered in all their glory. Photographer: Jason Lloyd-Evans Profile: Jason Lloyd Evans Paris News Chanel A/W 2010 show Read the article London Bloggers The Wallpaper* fashion team Read the blog London…

• Apartment building in Carabanchel, Madrid

  8 Mar 2010 | 2:04 am

  It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to pull off a truly colourful building. One of the sorry legacies of modernism's largely sterile palette was the post-modernists' sudden lurch into jarring colour, splashed superficially over fa�ades with little sense of creative composition. Colour application is also the foremost strategy of regeneration - witness HawkinsBrown's scheme…

• Tesla Roadster

  4 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm

  A lot has been written about the Tesla Roadster. Now in its 2.0 iteration (yes, in the future, cars will get upgraded just like software), the Roadster recently started rolling silently off the production line in right hand drive format, giving British - and Japanese - enthusiasts no excuse not to add one to their fleet. See more of the Tesla Roadster Since last Summer,…

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  Cool Hunting

• Gentemstick Boards

  Tim Yu

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:18 pm

  Japanese designer and inveterate snowboarder Taro Tamai has been hand-shaping his eye-catching Gentemstick boards for over a decade. An answer to the homogenization of board shapes that happened as snowboarding gained mainstream appeal, Tamai's goal is no less than to "perfectly blend into the terrain miraculously made of snow and wind, just as if birds flying in the sky or fish flowing in the stream." The upshot of his philosophical approach to the sport (he calls it snow-surfing) is a line of boards renowned for their flexible fins, oversized sized fish tails and rideability in almost any…

• Kora-Krit Clothing

  Karen Day

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:27 pm

  Bangkok-born artist Korakrit Arunanondchai originally created his wildly-colorful, limited-edition clothing label Kora-Krit as an extension of his digitally-influenced art. Working chiefly with silkscreen printing, Arunanondchai intended for visitors to his gallery shows to wear the pieces for a fully immersive and visually seamless experience. The RISD grad (now based in Brooklyn, NY) takes up various themes in his work, but considers them all to have a shared feeling. He sees his layered compositions as a fortunate glimpse of a fleeting moment, like "a bunch of kids playing basketball" who…

• Tomás Saraceno: 14 Billions

  Richard Prime

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:51 pm

  In a triumph of art, science and architecture, Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno's site-specific exhibit "14 Billion" scales a Black Widow's web up to magnificent proportions. Currently on display at Stockholm's Bonniers Konsthall, 14 Billion is an extension of the work he showed at the 2009 Venice Biennale called "Galaxy Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider's Web." The Frankfurt-based artist worked in collaboration with astrophysicists, architects, engineers and spider researchers to create a stimulating series of installations with 14 Billions as the focal…

• Le Book NYC 2010

  Karen Day

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:09 am

  Adding to Le Book's already impressive roster of artistic superstars, this year the New York edition of the influential publication tapped the work of late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe to "dress" their covers. For a resource widely serving as the media maker's yellow pages, the inspirational choice draws on the instrumental role that the native New Yorker's highly technical images of nudes played in elevating photography to a major art form. Embarking on its 28th year, Le Book isn't just a definitive reference, but compelling covers featuring works by the likes of Stephen Sprouse, YSL,…

• Cool Hunting Video Presents: How to Make Kim Chee

  Cool Hunting Video

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:50 am

  by Gregory MitnickFor this video we visited our friend Tim's grandma, Yu Um Chon, at her home in New York where she showed us how she makes Kim Chee. As one of dwindling numbers of Koreans who still make the spicy pickled staple themselves, she explained that everyone has their own recipe and walked us through hers (including the addition of artificial sweetener to cut down on sliminess). Yu Um Chon's Kim Chee* 1 Napa cabbage 1 Korean (or daikon) radish, cut into matchsticks 1/2 C ground Korean hot pepper 1/4 C Korean salted shrimp 1 bulb of garlic, finely minced) 1 (three-inch) piece of…

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• Motorcycle Inspired Rocking Horse

  Toxel.com

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:24 pm

  Modern rocking horse built from old motorcycle parts by Felix Götze. Inspired by classic German motorcycles, this rocking horse comes with a two stroke engine, a sprung saddle and a stylish headlamp. [via, 2]

• Creative and Unusual Cutlery Designs

  Toxel.com

  8 Mar 2010 | 6:49 pm

  Modern cutlery and creative silverware designs that will spice up your dinner table and impress your guests. Bite Silverware Mark Reigelman has designed a set of “bitten” silverware to help raise awareness of worldwide epidemics such as starvation and obesity. [link] Wrenchware Wrench-handled knife, crescent-wrench spoon and ratchet fork. [link] Shape/Form Cutlery Beautiful cutlery set designer by Lukas Peet from Canada. [...]

• Electric Folding Bicycle Concept

  Toxel.com

  7 Mar 2010 | 4:24 pm

  YikeBike is the world’s lightest electric folding bicycle that is small enough to fit inside a backpack when not in use. Powered by 1.2 kW electric motor, this bike has a top speed of 20 km/h, weighs less than 10 kg (22 lb), folds in less than 15 seconds, and can travel a distance of 10 [...]

• Cool Homemade Flying Hovercraft

  Toxel.com

  6 Mar 2010 | 4:24 pm

  Rudy Heeman, a talented mechanic from New Zealand, has built and designed a flying hovercraft that becomes airborne once it reaches 70km an hour. The hovercraft can reach top speeds of over 100km/hr, has a range of over 225km and cruises at 90km/hr when flying. [more info, via]

• Using Body as an Input Surface

  Toxel.com

  5 Mar 2010 | 7:24 pm

  Skinput is an innovative technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, allowing the skin to be used as a finger input surface. An armband projects the interface onto the skin, enabling users to input data using a larger touchscreen than is offered by current mobile devices. The location of finger taps on the arm and [...]

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• Visvim Skagway Spring Summer 2010

  Josh Spear

  8 Mar 2010 | 1:28 pm

  Yes please, in all colors. From the Visvim 2010 Spring Summer Collection.

• Karim Rashid’s Bobble

  Josh Spear

  8 Mar 2010 | 1:23 pm

  Karim Rashid’s bottle that filter tap water as you drink it. Smart and beautiful. Via Dezeen

• Lunchbox Paintings

  Josh Spear

  3 Mar 2010 | 12:51 pm

  This is pure and simple genius. Sandwich paintings. Lunchbox!

• Simon Page’s Colour Shambles

  Josh Spear

  2 Mar 2010 | 6:24 am

  Colour Shambles v3: Printed on museum-quality, 100% cottot rag paper. Very nice, check out more of Simon’s work here.

• Osprey Hydraulics

  David Vo

  2 Mar 2010 | 5:35 am

  I own a number of packs for a variety of pursuits and they all have hydration support. What this usually means is a compartment for a bladder and on the higher end packs, elastic bands for tube routing. That’s really the extent of the “advanced” features when it comes to hydration packs – until now. Osprey, a name synonymous with high-end technical packs, has recently introduced their Hydraulics line and their engineers have come up with some really unique features that make so much sense, it makes you wonder why nobody thought of them earlier. The Raptor is geared…

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  ZURBlog

• Attention Nonprofits: Get in in Gear, Open Submissions Have Begun

  5 Mar 2010 | 4:39 am

  The ZURBwired plans are in full swing now, and we're happy to announce that open submissions for nonprofits are running now through March 18th! All nonprofits interested in participating in ZURBwired have from today until March 18th at midnight to submit their interest to the team at wired@zurb.com. What is ZURBwired? Siming Wong and Brice McGowen work on the menu template. ZURBwired is a 24-hour design collaboration, hosted annually by ZURB, where we complete a marketing effort for one lucky nonprofit. It's 24 straight hours of doing what we do best, all to benefit one special nonprofit…

• How was Firefox designed? What's next for Firefox?

  4 Mar 2010 | 11:55 am

  The ZURBsoapbox with Alex Faaborg of Mozilla was absolutely hopping! We had so many folks show up that we had trouble piling into the brainstorm room this time around. Alex started off sharing how design works in a large open source community as well as the challenges which Mozilla has faced as a company. He went on to talk about the future of Firefox as he showed us mockups of FF3.5, FF4 and FF5. A long line of questions followed from the audience at the event, as well as the Twitter stream and blog comments. Feel free to view Alex’s slides as you listen to the entire podcast below. You…

• Build Your Grid, ZURB Style

  2 Mar 2010 | 11:53 pm

  At ZURB we're fans of what we call the ZURB framework — really just a lightweight global CSS file containing a global reset, some basic typography styles, structural elements like a body container, and the grid. The way we say the grid is no accident — it's an evolving entity that we use frequently and that generally makes prototype and site construction quite a bit faster and easier on us. However: there's a catch. The grid is a 940/960 grid; 940 pixels of usable space with 10px padding on both sides, broken up into 16 columns. Each columns is 40px wide with 20px of gutter space,…

• Image Uploads with 100% Less Suck. Guaranteed.

  2 Mar 2010 | 12:00 pm

  Go Directly to the Demo and Code → We've all seen the basic file upload form for uploading avatars, images, memes, etc. The problem with these is that once you upload your image it's hidden from you. It's the same issue with masked passwords, you enter some data and then poof, it's gone. And not gone like sexy was gone, this is the kind of gone that not even Justin Timberlake can fix. The file input is going to look something like this: Did I upload a new picture of my face? Or maybe something less professional. It's like buying food at the grocery store, except you can't see what you…

• Justin.tv: One camera broadcast to a website with 35 million users

  24 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  Our last ZURBsoapbox with Justin Kan of Justin.tv was rocking! Justin shared his story of how he came up with the idea of a 24/7 live broadcast, how he became an international celebrity, and the sharp turn Justin.tv had to make to shape the company into the successfully operating business it is today. You can listen to the entire podcast below or download it on iTunes. Below is a quick summary and highlights from the event. Listen to Justin Kan's Podcast Subscribe: iTunes RSS Google Calendar & the birth of Justin.tv Back in 2005 Justin Kan and Emmet Shear built Kiko, the first AJAX web…

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  Yanko Design

• The Whole Childhood Made of Wood

  Chris Burns

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:13 am

  What’s a good plate with nothing on it? No, what’s a bunch of good food without a plate? What’s a good baby without a single bed to sleep upon? How about when that baby gets a bit older, what happens then? Buy more furniture for them? Heck no! You take that crib you’ve got there and you transform it into a whole bunch of little person friendly bits of fun! Complete with another bed for that ever-elongating person. In this furniture amalgamation, the “Smart Kid,” parents will find themselves loving the lack of store-going activities they’ll have to do,…

• Organic Lampstick

  Chris Burns

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:10 am

  This is a lamp with a dimmer. Does it look like a dimmer lamp you’ve ever seen before? It reminds me of a lamp I saw in an abandoned house once; it moved up and down smoothly from the ceiling based on how much you pulled down or touched up. Well what do you know, the lamp we’re talking about right now does something very similar! Instead of the lamp moving, this, the “Etirement” lamp, has easily adjustable intensities of light. Based on an orgaic skin-and-bones body, the Etirement has both: a skin and a skeleton. Pulling the rod you see in the center there adjusts the…

• These Are Not Animal Balls

  Chris Burns

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:03 am

  They are called “Aniballs.” There is a relatively large difference between these golf ball creatures and the testicles of a cow. You can hit them all with a golf club, but only about 6 out of 8 will result in anything more than a kickback to the face. Aniballs! They come in cow, sheep, donkey, pig, goat, and dog. With four feet, a face, and a flight plan. All you need is a club, gravity, and a place to put the ball. It’s always refreshing to do a 2 ton overground travel truck one day, paragraphs and paragraphs of description, and golfballs with legs the next. The genius of…

• Call for Entries!

  Yanko Design

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:10 am

  Your assignment: imagine the future of mobile communication. Have you ever been frustrated with your mobile phone and wondered why it can’t do this or that? Well, you finally have a chance to let your voice be heard! LG Mobile Phones is partnering with crowdSPRING and Autodesk® to announce a new competition to define the next generation of mobile communication. If you are a U.S. resident age 18 and older, you can have a chance to design your vision of the next revolutionary LG mobile phone and compete for more than $80,000 in awards. The competition will begin soon, so why not get a head…

• For The Love Of Coffee

  Radhika Seth

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:34 am

  I think I’ve confessed one too many times that tho I’m a coffee addict, I just can’t spend too much time nurturing it. There are actually freaks like me who LOVE instant coffee and don’t want to do the grinding-percolating routine. Which is why I simply adore this ceramic-glass fusion called Coffee Set. It’s a cup with a slotted bottom that holds in just right amount of coffee powder and water, for you to stir the mixture with the handle. Yup no spoons required! The design gets even more interesting with the saucer, which has a missing bottom! This empty space is…

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  Design Mom

• Book of the Week: Mathilda and the Orange Balloon

  Design Mom

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:47 am

  Jen Corace's illustrations make me happy. And they go so nicely with this sweet story by Randall de Seve called Mathilda and the Orange Balloon. Little lamb Mathilda can imagine herself in a million wonderful ways — it's all about the power of possibilities.

• Interchangeable Rings

  Design Mom

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:35 am

  I saw these rings a few weeks ago and keep coming back to stare at them. Uncut diamonds in the rough. I think they're striking and completely wonderful. What do you think? Would you wear something like this? How about for an engagement ring?via seesaw

• American Furnishings

  Design Mom

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:33 am

  I'm craving pieces from the Vintage Industrial section of American Furnishings. I wish I had a good place to put this. It could be an elaborate laundry sorter. : )via 300 and Sixty Degrees

• Genealogy

  Design Mom

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:16 pm

  Did you guys see the new NBC series, Who Do You Think You Are? It's really well done. Basically, it takes celebrities through an (emotional) search for their ancestors. I watched the launch episode featuring Sarah Jessica Parker over the weekend and was super into it. They were studying one line of her family tree and found gold rush connections, Salem Witch Trial connections — all sorts of stuff.Do you know anything about your ancestry? Are you a genealogy buff? I think I may be extra-fascinated with this topic because Mormons grow up talking about and studying our family trees, but if you…

• Panini Maker

  Design Mom

  8 Mar 2010 | 11:22 am

  Yesterday we celebrated Ben Blair's birthday. We ate paninis — made on his very own, brand new panini press. Can you believe this was his birthday request? Ben Blair is the very best. Are you a panini fan too?

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  Articles Feed - Dwell

• Essay » The Prefab Decade

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:47 pm

  Founding Dwell editor-in-chief Karrie Jacobs visited MoMA's Home Delivery exhibition and finds that prefab might not change our homes, but it could change our architects.

• What We Saw » New MIT Media Lab Opens Doors

  Tiffany Chu

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:00 pm

  by Tiffany ChuThe Media Lab at MIT is an unmatched incubator of unlikely partnerships -- where academia and industry hold hands, and where art and technology are inseparable. Designed by Prtizker Prize-winning Fumihiko Maki, the Media Lab extension officially opened its doors last Friday, welcoming artists, engineers, and design enthusiasts through its beautiful translucent walls.

• Event Spotlight » Imagining Home

  Miyoko Ohtake

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:00 pm

  by Miyoko OhtakeWhat is a home? There's the obvious answer of a place of residence or--at an even more elementary level--a structure that provides shelter. But "home" carries a bigger meaning than just the building in which we rest our heads; "home" is a retreat, refuge, or personal santuary. A new exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Imagining Home: Selections for the Heinz Architectural Center, showcases more than 125 drawings, models, books, and items from the museum's archives that tell the tales of how "home" as been envisioned over the past…

• Bookshelf » Ramayana by Sanjay Patel

  Aaron Britt

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:00 am

  by Aaron BrittMy favorite book as a kid was unquestionably D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths. I took it out of every branch of the Sacramento library, renewed it a hundred times and basically absorbed every story, hero, and diety. Though that's certainly set the bar Helios-high for illustrated takes on ancient tales, I could easily see illustrator and Pixar animator Sanjay Patel's new Ramayana: Divine Loophole entering the pantheon. As a retelling of the epic Hindu tale of Prince Rama (the seventh avatar of Vishnu), his bride Sita, the monkey god Hanuman, and the devliish Ravana, Patel scales…

• Three Buildings » atelier KS

  Miyoko Ohtake

  8 Mar 2010 | 3:08 pm

  by Miyoko OhtakeOn dwell.com, we recently featured atelier KS's Sunset District Renovation--a disaster turned modern-design beauty that we loved. Now, we asked the designers behind the renovation, Kelli Franz and Seth Pare-Mayer, what constructions they most adore for the latest in our Three Buildings series.

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  Graphic Design Blog

• Magical Street Graffiti – 35 Breathtaking Illusions!!

  Charlie B. Johnson

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:21 am

    Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can’t create it if you don’t have one. Brad Bird   Graffiti, by nature, is a very controversial subject as it represents a type of art which is mostly unauthorized and one that is in contrast to traditional forms of artwork. The ever growing street culture and graffiti are mostly provocative, appealing, bold and audacious. A concept that was originally used by gangsters to stamp their authority on a specific urban area, graffiti is now also used by graphic designers and creative artists to showcase…

• Are graphic designers valued and paid?? The bitter truths!!

  Charlie B. Johnson

  4 Mar 2010 | 4:48 am

  After spending some years in graphic design industry, couple of questions bewildered me the most… How much a graphic designer should be paid? On what criteria should he be paid? Although I confess that I joined the design field for the sheer pleasure and obsession, but then again, a person has to make ends meet as well. Right from my first ever project, I have continuously pondered on the subject of wages for graphic designers and as to how they should be paid. After having heard numerous common statements which clients say to graphic designers in my career, it is now that I am able to…

• Selecting A Graphic Designer – Choose or Lose!

  Charlie B. Johnson

  28 Feb 2010 | 10:03 pm

    Selecting the right man for the right job at the right time is an extremely difficult task. Clients, who are looking for graphic designers to do their work, often do not know how to select the appropriate graphic designer. Since the selection of a graphic designer is a very daunting and tiring process, clients tend to get frustrated and select the graphic designer they can easily locate. There are several ways that clients go about searching for a graphic designer. Some of these include: Checking design companies and freelance graphic designers. Contacting established companies and…

• 35 Amazing “Single Letter Logos” – Power of One!

  Charlie B. Johnson

  23 Feb 2010 | 5:16 am

    Which brand comes to your mind first when you see the letter “M”? I bet “McDonalds” is what strikes your mind. Undeniably, some of the biggest brands have built their entire reputation on a single letter. That is precisely the case with top brands like McDonalds, Honda, Unilever and QuickTime. Sometimes " simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" when it comes to logo designing. Here are some examples of famous brands dominating the world with their “single-letter” logos.   Famous “Single Letter” logos      …

• 6 Common Statements which clients say to Graphic Designers

  Charlie B. Johnson

  16 Feb 2010 | 5:44 am

    In your graphic designing career, you will have to deal with a variety of potential clients. For that reason, you need to be versatile enough to handle each and every type of client accordingly. Different and, at times, bizarre queries may come from clients that hire you. It is seldom that you will come across a client who is mature enough not to come up with silly questions. So in order to be prepared beforehand, I have listed some of the most frequent things that you might hear as a graphic designer from you clients and how you should tackle them.   1) “I want the best…

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• 4th Biennial of Slovene Visual Communications

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am

  Corporate identity of BVSS4

• Flying Mouse 365 Tee Design - Week 17

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm

• MiniDesignAward08

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:00 pm

  Waterwheelgate - sustainable and multifunctional platform

• ADMM - Seat finder

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm

• Adidas Originals: Celebrate Originality

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:00 pm

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• Star Trek: The Next Generation of Fandom

  Marc

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am

  [ By Marc in Architecture & Design, Furniture & Interiors, Gadgets & Geek Art. ] Star Trek has been an ongoing phenomenon since its debut in 1966. Star Trek consists of 2 series on the USS Enterprise, 3 spin offs, an animated series, and 11 feature films. A franchise this long lasting and successful creates a loyal following that is interested in anything related to the series. Whether it’s Star Trek clothing, home decor, or tattoos, there are a plethora of awesome examples of the fierceness of Star Trek fans. From the fantastic to the ridiculous, here are 10 of the most…

• Holgas, Polaroids & Pinholes: Lush Low-Tech Photography

  Steph

  8 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am

  [ By Steph in Architecture & Design, Graffiti & Drawing, Urban Images. ] 10 years into the 21st century, film photography has been almost completely written off as obsolete, with even amateur photographers ditching traditional cameras for the crispness and convenience of digital. But there’s something missing from today’s almost-too-perfect pictures: that indescribable magic that film can have. All the Photoshop filters and iPhone apps in the world can’t quite approximate the effects of low-tech photography taken with pinhole, Polaroid and Holga cameras. Pinhole Photography…

• Suspending Belief: 10 Span-tastic Bridges

  Steve

  7 Mar 2010 | 10:48 am

  [ By Steve in Architecture & Design, Travel & Places, Urbanism. ] Bridges might not get the respect the world’s tallest skyscrapers get but these horizontal architectural wonders push the engineering envelope just as hard. From “Galloping Gertie” to the Golden Gate, these 10 span-tastic bridges prove the journey is often more interesting than the destination. Brooklyn Bridge, New York, USA (images via: Momeld, NY Daily News and Wallpaper HD) No worthy discussion of amazing bridges can ignore the grand-daddy of them all, New York’s Brooklyn Bridge. The 5,989 ft…

• ‘Clean City’: São Paulo Scrubbed of Outdoor Ads

  Steph

  6 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am

  [ By Steph in Architecture & Design, Travel & Places, Urban Images. ] (images via: tony demarco) Outdoor advertising is so ubiquitous in almost every urban setting around the world, it’s difficult to walk down a street, take an escalator or sit on a bench without getting slapped in the face with one product or another. But the city of São Paulo, Brazil is like an advertising ghost town: all of its billboards stand oddly blank and empty. In September of 2007, the world’s fourth-largest metropolis was scrubbed of almost every type of outdoor advertising – even pamphlets. It’s…

• Advertising Misinformation: How to Fake a Business District

  Delana

  5 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am

  [ By Delana in Abandoned Places, Subvertising & Counter-Ads, Urban & Street Art. ] When a city’s economy begins to fail, those in charge have some choices to make. Should they pump money into local businesses? Should they let the public see just how bad it’s getting? One town in England is taking a novel approach to the scores of closed-up shops on its main street: they’re putting up fake business fronts to make the shopping areas seem less deserted. (image via: Daily Mail) In North Tyneside, more than 140 businesses have closed up shop, leaving the High Streets…

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• A Side of Worms? Futuristic Auto-Composting Eco-Kitchen

  d0rn0b

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:00 pm

  [ Filed under Kitchens or in the Interiors category ] Worms composting food right in your kitchen sounds kind of scary, right? In this strange but compelling all-in-one kitchen concept, drained water is reused, other waste is a recycled and energy consumption is reduced. The idea is that the flow of cooking becomes fundamentally integrated with the natural cycles of the environment – herb garden meets trash compactor meets space-age style. EcoKook (from Faltazi) is less a conventional kitchen design and more a micro-ecosystem and/or modern science experiment answering the question: how…

• Skinny Little Mini-Home Has an Even-Smaller House Inside!

  d0rn0b

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:00 am

  [ Filed under Contemporary or in the Architecture category ] There are small homes, then there are smaller homes … then there are super-skinny, ultra-mini houses inside of homes. The strange starts on the outside but quickly works its way to the interior. For starters, the whole (larger) home is sandwiched between thick and solid concrete slabs that rise straight up on either side of an extremely narrow building site. But step inside, please, and see an even smaller surprise. Within the thick exterior walls, a wood cabin-shaped box serves as a suspended loft bedroom space. The wooden…

• Recycled Glass House: 6 Million Bottles of Beer in the Walls

  d0rn0b

  8 Mar 2010 | 2:00 pm

  [ Filed under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] You would have to multiple the “ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall” from the old tune by six hundred thousand to make this whole glass home. It took one artistic builder nearly two decades to complete this eclectic project, constructing it piece by piece – as much a never-ending work of sculpture or do-it-yourself scrap-pile as a house. Some of the wall work is structural but much is decorative . There is no clean line between function and decor, as a sturdy and solid glass, mud and cement surface gives way to…

• See the Future: Real 3D Digital Building Holograms (Wow!)

  d0rn0b

  8 Mar 2010 | 8:00 am

  [ Filed under More or in the Gadgets & Tech category ] Imagine someone rolling out what looks like a blueprint … only the buildings begin to literally pop off the page, showing you like never before what the structure will look like before it is even built. There is no way to describe how amazing this architectural innovation is – you have to see it to believe it (video below)! Forget the physical: you can now generate high-speed, life-like, visually three-dimensional and fully-automated holographic models of buildings cheaper, faster and more accurately than its ‘real…

• OOoorly?! How to Build a Wood Chair Using No Materials

  d0rn0b

  7 Mar 2010 | 2:00 pm

  [ Filed under More or in the Do-It-Yourself category ] Talk about cutting back on waste, this may be the ultimate eco chair concept: it actually ‘uses’ no new materials – heck, it does not even need recycled materials to work. How do you make one? Simply cut a hole in an existing wood floor or surface and take a seat! For safety (to avoid splinters) you may want to use just a little bit of extra material, though: perhaps some plastic to line the hole before you drop a leg in. Dubbed the OOoo chair for a reason, this is some seriously minimalist design work from Decker +…

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• Quickie Post Housekeeping

  admin

  28 Feb 2010 | 8:38 pm

  Don’t Post So Quickly That You Forget to…. What is the biggest problem with the “quickie post”?  It is the few little things that the author might forget to do from a housekeeping standpoint that hinder the SEO of a site or embarrass you later.  So you decided to do a really quick post on the run (or by mobile).  You enter the text and add an image perhaps, and think you are good to go. Wrong! Did you check your permlink (especially if you fiddled with your title)?  Add a category?  Add your tags?  Check your spelling (come on – that one is easy, and we all…

• Favorite Tools for Web Design

  admin

  7 Feb 2010 | 6:25 pm

  I am frequently asked what tools I use for web design.  Many of the add-ons and plugins that I use are free and you might want to investigate for your own use if you don’t already use them. Hardware, etc.: Macbook Pro 3.06  8GB RAM(upgrading the RAM to 8GB makes all the difference in the world!), Dell 24″ LCD, Apple wireless keyboard and magic mouse Rain Design M stand – raises the MB Pro to right height to use  as 2nd monitor with the Dell,  cools the Mac, and gives me a little space underneath for stuff Harmon Kardon Speakers – you gotta have good sounds when…

• Free Income Blogging Guide

  admin

  18 Jan 2010 | 8:32 pm

  Well, my pal Joel, is at it again.  He has recently unveiled his new income blogging guide and you can get it for free here. If you want to discover: - The 2-step process you need to choose a proven money-making niche…get it wrong and you’ll never make any money - The 3 golden rules of keyword analysis…get one rule wrong and ALL your future efforts are wasted. - The exact step-by-step methods to find the best domain name for your blog …99% of bloggers miss this crucial “Search Engine Optimization” step - How to install WordPress in under 1 minute (as long…

• Grit and Glimmer

  admin

  3 Jan 2010 | 12:37 pm

  Heidi Swift’s new site.  Quite a transformation from her white site of last year.

• 7 Must Have Gadgets for Techies

  admin

  20 Dec 2009 | 9:37 pm

  Want to know 7 gift ideas for the Techie on your list? The Amazon Kindle allows you to get and read the latest book without leaving your chair. The Chill Pill RapCap is a tiny microphone for your iPod and comes in colors to suit every taste. Want a new digital camera with 12x zoom, and super fast shutter that also records movies in HD?  Check out the Panasonic Lumix ZS3. Livescribe makes a smartpen that is a great idea for designers or anyone who wants to record thoughts or information. Any size 3rd Generation  iPod Touch holds lots of music, videos (including TV and movies), your email,…

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• Christie’s Wins Bid to Auction $150 Million Brody Collection

  By CAROL VOGEL

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:07 pm

  The art collection of the Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody will be sold at Christie’s in New York in May.

• Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World

  By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:30 pm

  There’s something both touching and disturbing at the heart of “Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works.”

• Street Art Is Landing at New Addresses, in Galleries

  By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:22 pm

  Pop Pluralism is the skateboarding, graffiti-tagging, sometimes bratty and rebellious younger sibling of the art shown in most Chelsea galleries.

• Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero’s Time to Shine

  By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:18 pm

  By one new metric, Michelangelo has been bumped from his perch atop the Italian art charts by Caravaggio, a hyperrealist whose art is instantly accessible.

• Arts, Briefly: Architectural Records Saved at Last Minute

  Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:19 am

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• Wood Sculptures by Gehard Demetz

  phogph

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:57 pm

  Gehard Demetz was born in 1972, in Bolzano, Italy. Currently he lives and works in Val Gardena on these amazing woodcarvings.2 Vote(s)

• Sexy natural bathroom

  inrichtinghuis

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:33 am

  Super sexy natural bathroom from a house in East Hamptions in New York. Murdock Young was responsible for this great project!2 Vote(s)

• House of Corine

  inrichtinghuis

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:33 am

  Check out this lovely home of Corine from Holland with beautiful details!2 Vote(s)

• Great hotel in the Alps

  inrichtinghuis

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:32 am

  Check out great pics of the Moormannberge hotel in the Alps designed by Nils Holger Moorman!2 Vote(s)

• The Making Of A Chanel Necklace

  laurasweet

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:56 am

  Check out how CHANEL created this stunning Venetian Bib Necklace, an emblematic piece of their 2009/2010 Cruise Collection.2 Vote(s)

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• Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton

  VeraCiria

  10 Mar 2010 | 2:22 am

  Alice in Wonderland mania has officially taken over the world! London was awash with numerous Alice offerings, submerged in a veritable wonderland. From food to clothing, books to window displays, the British capital was more than prepared for the premiere of Tim Burton’s long-awaited movie.1 Vote(s)

• Mirror Balls on a Stand

  erina

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:26 pm

  A new addition to the Mirror Ball collection, the Mirror Ball stand shows a new configuration featuring an array of various sized balls on a robust stainless steel stand. Tightly held in place with industrial strength clamps the stand creates an extraordinary sculptural interior lighting "tree"1 Vote(s)

• Buzzy Blue Easter Bunny Robot Sculpture

  HerArtSheLoves

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:48 pm

  That's right. This is a blue bunny bot. Buzzy Blue who is light pastel shades of tan and blue feels Easter needed more geekyness and decided to dress up just for you.1 Vote(s)

• These Machines Kill Fascists

  pitaandpizza

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:16 pm

  The pen is mightier than the sword, sure. So then a pencil is like way mightier than the sword, because it has an eraser, which means you can refine your mightierness. The other thing that makes these pencils so wicked mighty is that they each say "this machines kills fascists", which is kind of meta, what with the mightiness and all. Oh, and it's a shout out to Woody.1 Vote(s)

• Pomperipossa

  Stylinrooms

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:46 am

  Jonas Wagell took his inspiration for the new tea set Pomperipossa from fairytales. And we think the design would be nice for Alice in Wonderland. The Tea set will be available at muuto shop in spring 2010.1 Vote(s)

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• Wood Sculptures by Gehard Demetz

  phogph

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:57 pm

  Gehard Demetz was born in 1972, in Bolzano, Italy. Currently he lives and works in Val Gardena on these amazing woodcarvings.2 Vote(s)

• Sexy natural bathroom

  inrichtinghuis

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:33 am

  Super sexy natural bathroom from a house in East Hamptions in New York. Murdock Young was responsible for this great project!2 Vote(s)

• House of Corine

  inrichtinghuis

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:33 am

  Check out this lovely home of Corine from Holland with beautiful details!2 Vote(s)

• Great hotel in the Alps

  inrichtinghuis

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:32 am

  Check out great pics of the Moormannberge hotel in the Alps designed by Nils Holger Moorman!2 Vote(s)

• The Making Of A Chanel Necklace

  laurasweet

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:56 am

  Check out how CHANEL created this stunning Venetian Bib Necklace, an emblematic piece of their 2009/2010 Cruise Collection.2 Vote(s)

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• 8 Ways to Promote Your Work Through Internet Collaboration

  Jacob Gube

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am

  Promoting our products and services can be a time consuming and daunting task. A lot of us get tangled up in online self promotion without realising the value in collaboration more often with other people through the web. It can be a wise way to expand your network, pool resources and save time, money and work. The internet has opened up a range of exciting possibilities for gaining value through mutually beneficial arrangements or simply interacting with others in promoting your work effectively and ultimately landing more clients. Here are eight ways you can do this: 1. Joint Blogs/Sites…

• How to Increase Conversions on any Website in 45 Minutes

  Jacob Gube

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:00 am

  If you’re anything like me, it’s easy to "finish and forget" when it comes to web development. Once a website is live and the boss or client is happy, we close the project, kick off our shoes and crack a beer. Part of the problem with this approach is the ever changing landscape online. Something that converts visitors today, might not be working two months from now (in some cases, it may not be working in the first place, but no one took the time to test it). Redesigning a website, or even a single page, can be a tedious and time-consuming process. Re-opening a project…

• A Look into Color Theory in Web Design

  Jacob Gube

  8 Mar 2010 | 3:48 am

  Unarguably one of the most important aspects of any design is its colors. Designers create the style of a site, as well as the movement it makes, the emotion it creates, and its purpose based largely upon the color choices they make. Colors are powerful tools and an important thing all designers should understand when creating websites. Color Terminologies Many of you may have learned some color basics in school, but let’s quickly review some terminology in order to get a better grasp on colors and how to use them. Color Wheel Main Groups Colors are traditionally shown in a color wheel,…

• The Winners of MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide Books

  Jacob Gube

  7 Mar 2010 | 7:36 pm

  Last month, Packt Publishing set out to give away five copies of my book, MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide. Over 200 Six Revisions readers participated to win a copy of the book by leaving a comment on why they would like a copy. Today, I’d like to announce the readers that will be receiving a copy (in either paperback or eBook format) from Packt Publishing. The Winners Nejo – (ebook) Trevor – (paperback) priyadarshi kunal – (ebook) Jennifer – (paperback) Dave – (ebook) Congratulations to the winners! You should have already received an email about your…

• The Ingredients of a Successful Website

  Jacob Gube

  6 Mar 2010 | 5:02 pm

  The first published article on Six Revisions was about the things you need for a web project to succeed. Two years later, the site has reached a point that I would consider "successful". The definition of "success" is different to everyone. To me, I define success as having a large audience that consists of readers from all over the globe that love and enjoy your work as much as you do. In this article, I would like to reflect and share with you the things I consider to be the ingredients of our recipe for success and growth. This article is part of Design Instruct Week, a…

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  Better Living Through Design

• Splay Bench

  katie

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:23 am

  Whoa. Check out this bench by Frank Cresencia. The form focuses on the space “between the bench and the floor of its environment, not the surfaces of the piece alone.” Inked Walnut, Stainless Steel 20″h x 53″w x 24″d

• JDR: Best Interior Design Blog

  katie

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:05 am

  BLTD has been nominated in the best interior design blog category for the 2010 JDR Industry Blogger Awards. Will you vote for us pretty please? Go to JDR to vote. If we win, we’ll either donate the cash prize to a reputable charity or give it to back to you in the form of a giveaway prize (or prizes?). Which would you prefer? A kick ass giveaway prize or donation? It’s up to you all.

• Ooma Bowl

  katie

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:02 am

  Yeah, how much do you want this? Because this is the sort of thing that once you have, you’ll wonder how you managed without it, unless you always-always-always sit at a table to eat, of course (in which case, this might change your life). The double chambers allow two types of food to be balanced ‘ergonomically’ while eating without a table. What part of that isn’t great? Less mess fumbling around with your food is always a good thing, no doubt about it. Designed by Thomas Both 3.2″h x 9.3″w x 4.8″d $25.00 at SFMOMA MuseumStore $25.00 at…

• Joyce Candle Holders

  Simon

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:29 am

  Brooklyn designer Jean Pelle handcrafts these gorgeous candle holders from cross sectioned wood and then fills the cracks with a super bright white filling. They are one of four unique designs available, check out the rest at Jean Pelle’s website. Designer: Jean Pelle. Tall: 3.5″ ht x 2.75″ width x 2″ depth Short: 2.75″ ht x 3.5″ width x 2″ depth

• Picnic Set by Carina Ahlburg

  katie

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:57 am

  Has spring officially sprung? I’d say so, and it’s got me daydreaming of afternoons at the park. I’m not a huge person for picnics, but this set by Swedish designer Carina Ahlburg has me reconsidering. Check it: plates, cups, tableware, with one big bowl for storage and/or serving, for four people. Designer: Carina Ahlburg Tableware is in stainless steel. Material: Melamine. Height 4.3″ (11 cm), 9.4″ dia. (24 cm)

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• Organized Shoe Storage Options

  ErinDoland

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:54 am

  To get the longest life out of your shoes, it's important to regularly alternate the pairs you wear, clean them up a little and allow them to air out after a day on your feet, and store them in a way that protects them from scuffs, pests, and pets. How you store your shoes will be determined by what kinds of shoes you typically wear and your storage availability. The following are all storage options that might work for you: Over-the-door storage pockets: Shoe cubbies: Clothes rod hanging shoe organizer: Shoe rack: Clear plastic shoe boxes (what I use): Drop front shoe boxes: How do you store…

• The Time Is Now

  HollyBecker

  8 Mar 2010 | 5:48 am

  It's exciting to know just how many beautiful Etsy shops exist out there like The Time Is Now -- a store I've talked about before on decor8 that I must share with you today. The Time Is Now features the illustrations, paintings, cross stitch work and intricate papercuts of artist Naomi Shiek in Israel who has a background in fashion and is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem. Here is a glimpse of her work... Naomi has a beautiful blog and images of her work and process on Flickr, too. I think her cross stitch hoops would be a fun addition to a sewing…

• Add Some Oomph!

  HollyBecker

  5 Mar 2010 | 7:45 am

  I found some tables, pillows and chairs today on the Oomph website, are you familiar with them? If not, today is your lucky day because this online shop is fantastic and full of gorgeous things for the home. I have a crush on their many gorgeous tables available in some fantastic colors that you can select from for a more personalized piece for your home. I find it helpful that they show some of their things in situ because it really helps if one has a hard time visualizing how something will look in their own space. Sites showing how products look in the home or office tend to attract a…

• Five Tips for Ending Frustrations About Chores

  ErinDoland

  4 Mar 2010 | 12:36 pm

  The newsletter Marketing to Women reported in September that "more than four in 10 moms (44%), and 54% of moms with kids over age two, get annoyed that their husbands seem oblivious to attending to the childrens' needs or to chores." If this research is accurate, it means that about half of the married women in the U.S. are walking around feeling resentment and frustration with their spouses over housework. Unfortunately, I found this data in a publication specifically targeted toward women, so I don't know how many men are walking around with similar feelings toward their significant other.

• Sweet Bella: BTC Lighting

  HollyBecker

  3 Mar 2010 | 3:59 am

  I'm always on the prowl for unique finds online -- things that I just can't find at my local big box shop. I recently came across Sweet Bella, an online shop based in Brooklyn operated on the top floor of an old factory building in Williamsburg. In addition to carrying some of their own designs, they are the exclusive U.S. distributor for all of the collections found on their site from companies based in Europe, Korea, and Japan. I particularly am fond of their lighting by BTC. These lights are made by the BTC lighting company in England and the ceramic ones are slip cast bone china and the…

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• Magical Street Graffiti – 35 Breathtaking Illusions!!

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:10 am

  Graffiti, by nature, is a very controversial subject as it represents a type of art which is mostly unauthorized and one that is in contrast to traditional forms of artwork. The ever growing street culture and graffiti are mostly provocative, appealing, bold and audacious.

• 40 Outstanding Photo Manipulation Tutorials

  8 Mar 2010 | 4:40 pm

  Photo manipulation is an art that requires lots of patience along with the expertise in Photoshop and other photo editing tools. With your creativity and imagination, you can manipulate any photograph the way you want! Now it’s all about your imagination and using Photoshop’s effects and other tools cleverly.

• The IE6 Resistance Must Be Stopped!

  6 Mar 2010 | 11:30 pm

  *****

• Finger Fail: Why Most Touchscreens Miss the Point

  5 Mar 2010 | 6:38 am

  You're not crazy, and neither are we: The touchscreen on the Apple iPhone really is more responsive than the screens on the BlackBerry Storm, the Motorola Droid, the Nexus One..

• New Design Inspiration: 17 Creative Bicycle Designs[pics]

  3 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Here we have a most spectacular collection of creative bicycle designs, for you to enjoy & gain inspiration from.................

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• Bakon Vodka

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:13 pm

  No, that's not a typo. Bakon Vodka ($30) is a new premium-quality potato vodka infused with a savory bacon flavor. Distilled from Idaho potatoes and possessing a perfect hint of...Visit Uncrate for the full post.

• Plastic Beach by Gorillaz

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:00 pm

  After a five year hiatus, 2D, Murdoc, Russel, and Noodle — better known as the cartoon band the Gorillaz — are back with a new album. Plastic Beach by Gorillaz...Visit Uncrate for the full post.

• St. Patrick's Day Killarney Green Khakis

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:06 am

  Green beer day is coming up quick, so make sure you're prepared with the proper attire. St. Patrick's Day Killarney Green Khakis ($100) from Bonobos are a good choice, with...Visit Uncrate for the full post.

• Adams Idea Hybrid Golf Clubs

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:55 am

  Find yourself spending a lot of time in the tall stuff? Be sure you're equipped with a proper ball-removal tool (sounds horrific) like these Adams Idea Hybrid Golf Clubs ($120-$200)....Visit Uncrate for the full post.

• Garb: California Dreamin'

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:31 am

  Get some California casual comfort with this outfit composed of items from only Cali-based designers. Instant awesomeness. Sunglasses ($180) by Mosley Tribes. Hat ($44) by Brixton. Watch ($325) by Tsovet....Visit Uncrate for the full post.

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• Special Guest Post by Snarkaholic: Baby's Bliss Gripe Water for Lindsay Lohan

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:30 pm

  Everyone say a warm "Welcome back!" to today's guest poster, Janet at Snarkaholic! She blogs, often irreverently, about life in Los Angeles from the point of a non-native, non-celebrity-chaser. Oh,...Visit Outblush for the full post.

• North Face Bubblecomb Hoodie

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:30 pm

  Performance gear that's... fashionable? Who knew!? The North Face, that's who. As we move from winter to spring, we rely on pieces like this stylish purple North Face Women's Bubblecomb...Visit Outblush for the full post.

• EasyBloom Plant Sensor

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:20 pm

  We need high tech gadgets to give us a green thumb, and the EasyBloom Plant Sensor ($40) is a welcome savior figure in our dusty barren garden. The USB drive...Visit Outblush for the full post.

• Bittersweets NY Sword Earrings

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:07 pm

  You need these Sword Earrings ($725) because you are a total bad ass, but in a delicate way. Also, you have too much money and don't know what to do...Visit Outblush for the full post.

• Doubtblush: Vajazzle for shizzle

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:53 am

  You may have noticed that we're hardly perpetual rays of sunshine around here, but even so, we seem to spend a lot of our time enthusing about one gewgaw or...Visit Outblush for the full post.

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• 2 (or 3 ...) Questions for Propellor Design

  sabine7

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:36 am

  Toby Baratt, Pamela Goddard and Nik Rust are the three talents that make up Vancouver's Propellor Design. Trained as artists, the trio takes on multi-disciplinary work, but we know them best for their lighting. Exploring the Propellor website, we learn that they like the smell of horses, tidal pols, downpours, tundra birds of all kinds (especially pelicans), among a host of other delights. Barratt is the Instigator, Goddard is the Researcher, Department of Inquisitiveness and Rust is Rebel, or the signal turning green ...

• Otake House by Suppose Design Office

  Mike

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:43 am

• Champignon Carbone Capture Furniture by Alexandre Moronnoz

  Mike

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:55 am

• Apothecary House by Arca

  Mike

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:50 am

• Red Plastic Plates by Ann Toebbe

  sabine7

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am

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• The Butterfly People

  Design Observer

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:48 pm

• Critical Beats

  Design Observer

  8 Mar 2010 | 11:58 am

  On Places, Nancy Levinson argues that the fundamental dilemma of architecture criticism is the rise of the global beat — dateline: placeless.

• Death’s Bloom

  Design Observer

  8 Mar 2010 | 6:34 am

  From 1913 to 1971 five thousand one hundred and twenty one mentally ill patients were cremated. Their remains were sealed in copper canisters. In 2000 David Masiel photographed them.

• Today, 03.06.10

  Design Observer

  6 Mar 2010 | 5:55 am

  Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's TODAY.

• The Architect as Urbanist: Part 2

  Design Observer

  5 Mar 2010 | 11:30 am

  On Places, architectural historian Robert Bruegmann continues his analysis of Paul Rudolph's late work, with a focus on several extraordinary projects in southeast Asia.

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• Execution really matters

  Diego Rodriguez

  8 Mar 2010 | 7:03 pm

  Yes, anyone can say that they value a nicely pressed shirt, that their employees are 100% aligned behind delivering a world-class pressed shirt experience, that their shirts are the mostly likely to be properly ironed, etc...But can you actually do it?  Over and over and over?  Until it feels as natural as breathing, when it becomes the thing you just do?Thus are reputations made.  And reputation is the stuff really great brands and careers are made of.

• A conversation with Michael Mauer

  Diego Rodriguez

  4 Mar 2010 | 4:02 pm

  Earlier this year I was very fortunate to have a conversation with Michael Mauer, Porsche's head of design.  You can read the complete interview here at Aol Autos.I thought this thought from Mauer about creative leadership was particularly interesting vis a vis Innovation Principle 12, Instead of Managing, try Cultivating:... at the end of the day, I do not tell them to move a line exactly 50 mils lower or higher or more to the left or more to the right, because if the boundaries are too narrow you really kill all the creativity. I try to motivate people to think for themselves about…

• Principle 10: Baby Steps vs. Too Many Questions

  Diego Rodriguez

  2 Mar 2010 | 7:37 am

  Scott Anthony has a great post over at HBR called How to Kill Innovation: Keep Asking QuestionsIn it, he says:It's just hard to have robust answers about an unknown future state. Too frequently, taking the time to answer "What about..." questions doesn't bring you any closer to achieving the goal of creating booming growth businesses.I like his essay because it is a nice way to frame the importance of Principle 10: Baby steps often lead to big leaps.  By asking too many questions, Scott says, firms avoid taking the kinds of small actions which would actually yield…

• Bill Gates, nuclear Yule logs, and the equation of all equations

  Diego Rodriguez

  18 Feb 2010 | 10:10 am

  This talk by Bill Gates was by far the most important one of TED last week.  The equation he presents is extremely powerful in the way it structures the conversation around energy and society.  Simply put, something has to go to zero, but only one thing can realistically go to zero. I also found fascinating his discussion of a nuclear power plant which burns depleted uranium as a fuel.  Audacious and of a level of complexity which is hard to fathom, this "nuclear Yule log" could offer the kind of radical step-function we need to meet the needs of the equation he presents. This…

• metacool Thought of the Day

  Diego Rodriguez

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:34 am

  "Ship early, ship often, iterate and listen to all of the feedback. I think that if you have the courage to listen and the ability to take the feedback and iterate on your product, you will better off than waiting and trying to deliver something perfect. Imagining your product or project as a way of communicating with people and thinking of product development as a conversation might be one way to think about it."- Joi Ito

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  Jeremy Scheller

• Foodie Week: Books, Movies, Links, Resources…

  jeremyscheller

  2 Mar 2010 | 10:51 pm

  As part of my personal, family and social food revolution, these are the resources that have changed the way relate to food. THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA Out of everything I’ve watched, read or listened to, this is by far the number 1 item on my list. I would recommend this book to everybody as a starting point to think about where our food comes from and the relationship we have with it. After this book, I became a Pollanaut. Nearly totally buying in to what Pollan says about the way in which we purchase and consume food. You also can’t beat listening to this book rather than…

• Thoughts: Who Killed the Electric Car

  jeremyscheller

  1 Mar 2010 | 8:03 pm

  So, I just got done watching “Who Killed the Electric Car?” and here’s my main thought… All things being equal, I think most logical, coherent and breathing people can agree on 1 thing: No pollution is better than some pollution. End of argument. Smog=bad. Clean air=good. It’s only slightly above neanderthal in its comprehension quota. I have little doubt, before or after watching this film that big business is self-intererested in serving the needs of its share price far beyond it’s responsibility to further the health and well-being of humanity. I have…

• Foodie Week. – No, for real this time.

  jeremyscheller

  1 Mar 2010 | 1:33 pm

  So, last week I was going to have a foodie week. Turns out, I hit a wall with my workload and couldn’t muster up the energy to do any writing. This week will be foodie week. Here’s how I’m going to break it down. Tuesday: Books, Movies, Links, Resources that have changed the way I think about food Wednesday: Living off the land this summer Thursday: Cookbooks that I use for inspiration (I rarely follow recipes, so they need to be inspiring…) Friday: Two of my personal recipes that always get a warm welcome

• The Paradox of More.

  jeremyscheller

  25 Feb 2010 | 10:41 pm

  More sounds better. More resources. More stuff. More beautiful. More productive. More is the standard I have set for myself. More outputs. More accomplishments. More pats on the back. More results. More is what I want and more is what I’m getting. In order to get more, I’m putting in More time. More stress. More money. More of my life. In order to get more, my family is getting Less daddy. Less husband. Less patience. Less love. I’m ready for Less perfect. Less outputs. Less pride. Less friction.

• Another Recent Identity Package from Redwire Creative.

  jeremyscheller

  18 Feb 2010 | 11:21 pm

  My company Redwire Creative recently helped give a visual identity to the EnterChange, a consultancy that helps organizations learn about themselves and navigate into seasons of change. Here’s the Visuals:

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• living in: alice in wonderland

  grace

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am

  I think I’m lacking the certain extra whimsicality that causes some girls to devote their lives to Alice in Wonderland. I like Alice, a lot, but I am no Alice fiend. But since she is on the tip of everyone’s tongues this week I thought I’d pay a little homage to the heroine of the moment. I haven’t seen the new movie and I have to admit, I don’t have plans to see it. The publicity stills have sort of turned me off of it for awhile. “My” Alice is the 1972 musical version Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a VHS which my mom would relentlessly rent…

• past & present: ironstone + cleaning & care

  amya

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:00 am

  illustration by julia rothman (a very limited edition of prints are available in the julia rotham shop) Spring is in the air (this week, at least!), which means one thing – flea market season!  Here on the East Coast, most flea markets pack up for the winter and dealers go off to restock, but then resume with force in the spring.  The d*s team will be heading up to Brimfield in May and I’m already making my wish list and saving my pennies. White ironstone makes my list each and every flea market trip – I just can’t get enough! collection of stoneware from 1840-1870…

• biz ladies: biz parents-balance & time management

  Stephanie

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:00 am

  i am excited to welcome designer michelle smith to the biz ladies series.  although not new to design*sponge by any means, michelle has graciously offered some very helpful tips on how to balance parenthood with biz lady-hood. thanks michelle for some great pointers on time management and helping us become jackies-of-all-trades!-stephanie *we hope that all of you talented working moms and dads will share your tips and advice for balancing life/work in the comment section as well. it’s definitely a subject that many people will relate to and identify with… CLICK HERE for the full…

• jersey city guide

  grace

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:00 am

  photo by brian morrison today i am beyond thrilled to post a city guide to an area that’s just across the water from me: jersey city, new jersey. written by jersey city local kristen scalia of kannibal home, today’s guide is dedicated to celebrating all of the great places to eat, shop, stay, and have fun. kristen explained, “from the shore’s fist-pumpers to the north’s supposed organized crime families, new jersey has its fair of mixed publicity. but i was born and bred here and am happy to point out that new jersey is filled with historical charm, fantastic…

• the (inspiring) world of playing cards

  grace

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:00 am

  if you want to know how i spent, oh, 4 solid hours of my life last night, let me introduce you to the wealth of inspiration that is the world of playing cards. playing cards, grace? really? yes, really. i don’t know how i ended up on this site, but i had to physically pull myself away from it after i’d covered every inch of my desktop with images i wanted to save and work with at some point. i’ve always had a major soft spot for anything queen of hearts related (wait until you see amy’s “alice in wonderland” themed living in post today!), so i’ve…

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  Design Sojourn

• Why are there so few truly remarkable products?

  DT

  4 Mar 2010 | 7:30 am

  It’s quite simple really. Our industrialized economy, founded on mass manufacturing and economies of scale spurred by consumerism, is the greatest enemy of remarkable products. Of course many products will come close, in fact many will be hailed as fantastic or even great, but the truly remarkable will be few and far between. People striving to create awesomely remarkable products can do so because it is actually quite straightforward. Unfortunately it rarely happens, as making remarkable products is a constant uphill battle against the basic machinery that makes it all happens. Lets…

• Frustrated Consumer Designs a Dead Simple Headphone Wire Management Solution

  DT

  22 Feb 2010 | 6:49 am

  A Lifehacker reader, frustrated with every headphone wire management solution in the market, decided to design his own dead simple solution that I dare say rivals any professionally designed consumer solution! I do wonder why designers can’t seem to get away from reinterpreting the dog bone, fish bone or donut? Charles Kim found that by reusing a vinyl badge clip, (found on those old conference badge tags) he could keep his headphone wires cleanly wrapped up, knot and tangle free. Furthermore, this metal clip also allows the device to be attached to objects like a shirt or bag, so that…

• Product Hack found in the Back Streets of Hong Kong

  DT

  21 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am

  A colleague recently shared with me an interesting product proposition he purchased. It’s not really a product proposition as such, but an interesting mix of different electronic components slapped together in a “why did I not think of that” manner. It was purchased for under USD $50 from the back streets of Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po electronics district. This sound system, has a simple pair of unadorned speakers, shocking neon colored LCD display, volume dial, and a radio antenna. What is interesting is the built in MP3 player that plays media from a ubiquitous SD Card…

• Spaces for Ideas: The Final Prototype!

  DT

  17 Feb 2010 | 8:32 am

  Edit: If you have not already, do check out the earlier posts first as they will give you a greater insight on how this design came to be. 1) Spaces for Ideas: The Beginning 2) Spaces for Ideas: The First Prototype 3) Spaces for Ideas: The Brand iPhone and 15cm Ruler for sizing! So here it is, the final prototype for my Spaces for Ideas expandable sketchbook. Actually this prototype has been in my care for the last 2-3 weeks, however I had delayed releasing it to all of you as I wanted to finalize the brand and get the design protection registration going. As both are finally in place, I like…

• Happy Lunar New Year!

  DT

  13 Feb 2010 | 8:01 am

  Tiger Dolls by Choo Yut Shing I would like to wish all Design Sojourn readers a prosperous, healthy and happy Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Chai and may the year of the Tiger bring you and your family bountiful blessings.

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  A(nother) renovation blog

• A taxing situation

  kaybar007

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:29 am

  Last week I got a letter from Parcel Force telling me I had received a package from New Zealand. They were holding it until I paid £28.64 VAT and a £13.50 clearance fee. I had no idea who had sent his package or what was in it so was loathe to hand over £42.14 for what could be something I didn't want. Heck, £40 buys an hour long massage, a hair cut or a week's worth of lunches.Rob found out that

• Re-mortgage fun

  kaybar007

  2 Mar 2010 | 1:36 pm

  Hello spring, about freakin' time. London seems to have been suffering from the mother of all deluges for what feels like weeks and now we've had two consecutive days of blue skies. The park is popping with flowering bulbs and it's nice to cycle without having to wear horrid waterproof tent trousers.Spring is about the nicest thing to happen this week. I am suffering from a comedown - Depeche

• Mirror, mirror on the wall

  kaybar007

  16 Feb 2010 | 1:12 pm

  This may come as no surprise to those who see me every day, but we're lacking well-placed mirrors in this house. Our last flat had a wall of windows in the bathroom so everything from flossing to makeup application was usually done with strong daylight. Here though, all three spaces designated for personal grooming are in badly lit, internal spaces. I decided to remedy this on the back of my

• Clearing out clutter

  kaybar007

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:58 pm

  This past weekend was the first time - in about two years? - that we had absolutely nothing social pencilled in. A completely free Saturday *and* Sunday is pretty much a rarity since having kids. The goal was to spend both days unpacking the stacks of boxes that have been bugging me for the last year so that the bank valuer could see the space without being distracted. Somehow on Saturday we

• Downstairs wall update

  kaybar007

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:43 pm

  This is a white expanse of wall. And it may look like the most boring thing you've seen in a while but if you scroll back through these posts, you'll see that this used to be home to a rusty, ancient boiler. The Polish builder managed to get it looking pretty good, though it will need proper plastering at some point to make it super smooth. In the meantime, the only reminder that the boiler was

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  DesignM.ag

• Win 1,000 Business Cards from Next Day Flyers

  Steven Snell

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:59 pm

  Next Day Flyers has offered to give 1,000 business cards and $25 of printing credit to a lucky reader of Designm.ag. If you’re not familiar with Next Day Flyers they provide offset printing services and specialize in quick printing, mailing and finishing marketing materials. They are available to print business cards, print greeting cards, print door hangers and more. They also offer 24-hour turnaround on all custom printed promotional materials. The company has been around for 8 years (located in Rancho Dominguez, CA) and has served almost 90,000 customers. The winner of this…

• 25 of the Best Non-Profit Websites

  Steven Snell

  8 Mar 2010 | 8:49 am

  In recent years the quality of non-profit websites has improved dramatically. Fortunately, a growing number of organizations are recognizing the need for a quality website and the opportunities that it presents. In this post we’ll showcase 25 well-designed sites of non-profit organizations. If you enjoy this collection please see the one we did back in December or 2008, 40+ Inspirational Non-Profit Website Designs. This post is supported by SnobbySlice. SnobbySlice provides PSD to HTML/CSS services created by coders for coders. With our money back guarantee, we’re confident in our…

• Freebie: High Res Spray Paint Textures

  Steven Snell

  5 Mar 2010 | 12:56 pm

  Today we have a high-quality set of 8 spray paint textures to release to DesignM.ag readers. The textures are from Sebastiano Guerriero of WeGraphics. This is a follow up to the first set of spray paint textures released at WeGraphics. The textures are free for personal or commercial purposes (which includes use for creating templates or themes to distribute or sell). All 8 textures are shown below. Click on any of them to go to the Flickr page where the image can be downloaded. Or you can download the whole set at the end of the post. Download all 8 textures in a zip file (52 MB) About the…

• 9 Ways Freelancers Disrespect Their Own Time

  Steven Snell

  4 Mar 2010 | 11:47 am

  As a freelancer or independent designer, the most valuable asset you have is your own time. Your ability to earn a living relies upon your own time management, which will allow you to perform income-generating services for clients. With effective time management you may be able to earn more and work less, and with poor time management you may find yourself working very long hours just to get by. In this article we will look at 9 different things that freelancers often do that is disrespectful to their own time. If you find that your own time management skills are sometimes lacking, evaluate…

• 25 Mega Menus for Your Design Inspiration

  Steven Snell

  3 Mar 2010 | 9:47 am

  Navigation is a critical element to any website. Mega menus are a current trend that take drop down menus a step further in attempt to make it easier for visitors to navigate through a large site. In this post we’ll showcase 25 examples of mega menus in use. For more, see this post from our archives: 25 Examples of Mega Menus in Web Design. Converse Nine Fashion Callaway Toys R Us Estee Lauder Columbia Sportswear Portero Luxury The White House Pure Grips Staples American Eagle Outfitters DC Shoes Duchy of Cornwall Nursery Lowe’s Seattle Sounders TheOutNet.com Puma Zumiez Sunglass…

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  The Best Part

• Alice Gabb

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:43 pm

  Nice stationery and such by UK artist Alice Gabb.

• Garmonique

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:38 pm

  Incredibly beautiful Flickr set by photographer Garmonique.

• Poster of the Day

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:37 pm

• Happycentro

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:21 pm

  Check out Italian design studio Happycentro.

• Dennis Lin

  8 Mar 2010 | 6:17 pm

  An installation consisting of a massive section of maple tree Dennis Lin has debarked , sectioned into cookies, sanded, oiled, and waxed. The 60, three-inch wide slabs are sequentially hung on purpose-built hooks, numbered and tagged, essentially documenting and cataloging the tree.

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  ValleyZen.com

• The Zen of Arianna Huffington: Arianna says “Unplug and Recharge!”

  Bill Fenwick & Drue Kataoka

  2 Mar 2010 | 1:13 pm

  Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington is digitally connected in every way possible. But at her recent appearance at the Churchill Club, she challenged the audience to “Unplug and Recharge.” Here are some photos from the event. Arianna was most gracious in person. Before the event, she told ValleyZen that Huffington Post is beginning a new arts section and invited Drue to be a contributor. During the event, ValleyZen asked her about her book “Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend.” Arianna wrote this book when she was just 30 years old and interviewed nearly…

• TEDx Silicon Valley: Over 100,000 watch in 45 countries

  Bill Fenwick & Drue Kataoka

  16 Dec 2009 | 2:24 pm

  On Dec 12th, TEDx Silicon Valley brought together several hundred leading thinkers and doers to talk about Innovations for Social Change. A great lineup included Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Peter Thiel (Clarium Capital/Founders Fund), Thomas Goetz (Wired Magazine), Dr. Clayborne Carson (Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University) and many more. I was fortunate to be a speaker as well, and my talk included a musical performance and slides of my art. More on this coming soon in another post. Some cool facts about our TEDx: More than 100,000 individuals watched…

• Moonalice Band, Twitter & the art of Subtraction

  Bill Fenwick & Drue Kataoka

  29 Nov 2009 | 8:32 pm

  “We used to have a manager and we got rid of them. We use to have a PR person and we got rid of them. We used to have a [inaudible] and we got rid of them,” Moonalice guitarist Roger McNamee (aka Chubby Wombat) said on stage to the enthusiastic crowd below at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. Sound serious? Sure — the art of subtraction is not an easy one. McNamee continued “So we turned it all over to Facebook and Twitter and have shared thousands of downloads with you. Thank you for supporting us as we give away this music — and — we…

• How to Get a Lucky Domain: ZEN, Numerology and IDN

  Bill Fenwick & Drue Kataoka

  14 Oct 2009 | 3:14 am

  As a child, I was enthralled with the works of James Burke. Like the enso, the tales he told had no beginning or end. His work simply explored the “connectedness” of things, both past and present. I was reminded of James Burke while attending the recent ICANN gTLD & IDN Outreach event in Hong Kong (videos of all of the sessions and materials are available here online). What reminded me of James Burke while attending the event was the combination of ICANN’s new gTLD initiative with the IDN initiative. One of the few restrictions on new gTLDs is that the gTLD cannot consist solely of…

• Fashion Week: Catherine Malandrino, Mary J Blige, Tyson Beckford, Kim Kardashian

  Bill Fenwick & Drue Kataoka

  19 Sep 2009 | 1:46 pm

  Catherine Malandrino and Bernard Aidan invited us to Catherine Malandrino’s Spring/Summer 2010 Collection at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in NYC. Staged at the Chelsea Art Museum on the West Side of Manhattan, Malandrino placed her models on pedestals instead of walking them down a runway. We arrived early to slip backstage and capture the pre-show mayhem and excitement. Recording star and hip hop diva Mary J Blige, Grammy Award-winning British R&B singer Estelle, Ralph Lauren supermodel and Host of Bravo’s “Make Me a Supermodel” Tyson Beckford, E! Star Kim…

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  Arkitip Intel

• Comeback Train

  Chinatown Soccer Club

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:16 pm

  New York (Chinatown Newswire) — The Chinatown Soccer Club benefited from the successive comebacks of several veteran players over the past few days, the Newswire has learned. “I’m delighted to have all these guys [see below] available again and they should help keep us going during the busy spring season,” Coach Stochl said. Meanwhile, midfielder Dan Morales signed a rolling one-year contract extension in keeping with the club’s policies for players over the age of 40. CSC legend and West Coast transplant Charlie Becker joined the club for two training sessions while…

• Save McLaren Park

  MASH-SF

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:55 am

  Turn this dump into bike jumps! Back in the 1970s, San Francisco’s McLaren Park was the raddest place to BMX in NorCal. Today, sections of the park are a decaying asphalt wasteland, used only for dumping garbage and broken furniture. A new petition proposes to take out the trash, remove the asphalt, and bring back the dirt bikes. The park restoration would feature beginner to advanced level bike features such as flowing trails, berms, progressive table top jumps, dirt jumps, wooden ladders, wall rides, a pump track, picnic areas and much more radness! If it’s completed, McLaren Bike Park…

• Skitsch by Apartamento

  Marco Velardi

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:53 am

  Spent the last two months working tightly with the amazing Andy Rementer on a special editorial project for Milanese brand SKITSCH. A small publication which will be released on March 25 in London, during their new UK store opening, and Apartamento European readers will find inside their copy from late April. Just got this pic from our AD Omar Sosa at the printer and it’s looking really good!

• Postcard

  Wood Wood

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:14 am

  Our old friend Klaus Hansen sent us this to tell us he had a great trip down to Hamburg last week. Karl.

• Experiment No. 1: Rocket Launch

  Damon Way

  8 Mar 2010 | 2:06 pm

  One of three video shorts created by Incase and film collective Ghost Robot. Visit entry to view embedded video.

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  KN | Kitsune Noir

• Brand New Tron Legacy Trailer

  Bobby

  8 Mar 2010 | 11:14 pm

  There are a lot of really stellar looking movies coming out this year and Tron Legacy is high on that list. I honestly don’t even remember the original very well, just vague snippets of fat guys in glowing suits. Obviously this looks like something out of this world, like The Matrix for the two thousand teens era. Based on this trailer alone I think this movie is going to be huge. It’s such a visual treat, and kind of unlike anything else out there. I think the original really did a great job to try and embody that early computer buzz but in this current incarnation it’s…

• One Color New York Subway Map

  Bobby

  8 Mar 2010 | 10:57 pm

  Being a west coast native I’m not very familiar with Massimo Vignelli’s subway map, though I’ve definitely seen it before. Brooklyn based designers Triboro have taken this timeless design and reprinted in nothing but fluorescent red, and I have to say it looks pretty awesome. Triboro is made up of a husband and wife team David Heasty and Stefanie Weigler, who have a great portfolio of work including designing for William Rast (love that flag-esque logo), Knopf, GQ and more. Going back to the poster, clearly it loses a lot of it’s context without it’s color coded…

• Alberto Seveso

  Bobby

  8 Mar 2010 | 10:30 pm

  I spotted these amazing images by Alberto Seveso about a month ago but I never got around to posting them. Th effect is simple, he’s poured varnish into a fishbowl, but the end result is simply stunning. The images almost look like they were computer generated but he clearly states that they aren’t. The details in how the varnish mixes with the water is really powerful, and the colors in both of these are absolutely beautiful. These images are actually from two different sets. The red one is titled Medicina Rossa and the blue one is called Sequence verdastra/bluastra/bastarda.

• Redesign Superman #1

  Bobby

  8 Mar 2010 | 10:03 pm

  At the end of February comic book writer and all around lunatic Warren Ellis asked the readers of his blog to redesign Superman as if it was being released today: You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for a comic called SUPERMAN. It is issue 1 of this book. You have been told that Superman is a man who dresses predominantly in a shade of blue, and wears a red S symbol. You know nothing else about the character. The cover must include a logo and the text THE COMPLETE STORY OF THE DARING EXPLOITS OF THE ONE AND ONLY SUPERMAN. And that’s it. It’s up to you what kind…

• #musicmonday

  Bobby

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:20 pm

  Sorry all of today’s posts are so late today, things at work were kind of crazy. As you can see I was definitely crazy over the new Gorillaz album, and I still stand my previous review. It’s an amazingly fun album that shouldn’t be missed. Here’s are some suggestions for some good tunes. 1) Yo La Tengo – I’ve been listening to YLT as I’ve been going to bed lately, specifically The Sounds of the Sounds of Science. It was created as a score for Jean Painlevé’s eight short documentary-style films that were all about sea critters. There’s no…

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  Core77

• Core-Toon: The StyroPhone

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:27 am

  Artist: lunchbreath More: View all cartoons(more...)

• Confetti System designs parties

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:09 am

  More fun for spring: Sight Unseen has published their visit to Confetti System's studios in New York CIty, where Julie Ho and Nicholas Andersen design, yes, party decorations. It doesn't get much more fun than this: shimmering, geometric piñatas stuffed with their own special mixes of confetti, giant swaths of crepe garlands with lushly oversized tassels, gold-fringed birthday hats, and handmade leis. (more...)

• Florence Design Academy's free lighting tutorial

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:05 am

  Nothing beats a good design school education, but for the cash-strapped there is also an impressive amount of free educational materials online. A good case in point: Instructor Mario Malagrino of the Florence Design Academy has posted a free Studio Max illumination tutorial, intended for his students but available to all, on how to simulate photo studio lighting techniques for product design renders. (We discovered it while rooting around on their site in search of more of Sekhar Roy's work.) Even cooler, FDA's got several galleries up showing the tutorial's results in actual student…

• Sekhar Roy's seating pods concept

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:49 am

  I'm lovvving these Terrace Bar Seating pods by Sekhar Roy, a student at the Florence Design Academy. The swooping arm holds interchangeable light fixtures, and while there's a chance someone sitting near the center might bump their head on the arm, I'd be willing to watch my guests do that time and again just so I could have this thing in my house. (more...)

• Learning innovative product design via...stand-up comedy?

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:25 am

  [image credit: John Sherman] We've seen creatives generate inspiration from all manner of strangeness over the years, but this has to be a first: Professor Peter Robbie's Design Thinking class at Dartmouth incorporates improv sessions. According to an article in Dartmouth Engineer, "I've always thought that the quickest and smartest folks at the brainstorming phase of design have been those who do standup and improv," says the professor. "They never say no. They never miss a beat. Improv requires players to accept what they are given, build on the ideas of others, and encourage wild ideas."…

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  Presentation Zen

• Jamie Oliver calls for all-out assault on our ignorance of food

  Garr

  11 Feb 2010 | 9:33 pm

  This brand new talk by Jamie Oliver ("The Naked Chef") at TED 2010 is one I highly recommend you watch. This topic is very dear to my own heart as chronic poor eating habits were a strong contributing factor in my father's premature death when I was a child. You may have noticed that a few slides I have used in my books and seminars feature OECD data on obesity rates across the globe. In developed countries, the increasing rates in obesity has been dramatic. Japan has a relatively low obesity rate compared to the USA, but it is unfortunately growing as younger generations have developed a…

• Presentation Zen Design (the book)

  Garr

  11 Feb 2010 | 2:26 am

  The Presentation Zen Design book has been available from online retailers for about 5-6 weeks now, and the book is just now starting to show up on the shelves of book stores. A big note of gratitude and appreciation to those of you who purchased the book, especially those of you who took the time to write a review or write me a personal note. Thank you. It's been lovely to hear from so many people around the world. I realize money is tight these days, so the fact that you would spend cash on a book that I wrote and designed is quite humbling indeed. 本当にありがとうございます!

• Presentation: 9 ways to live better, longer, happier

  Garr

  10 Jan 2010 | 8:59 pm

  Happy New Year, everyone. I hope 2010 is a healthy and meaningful one for you all. The new year is a time of new beginnings and promises to ourselves to be better in our personal and professional lives (It's also a time to visit the local shrine here in Japan). So the first presentation I point to this year is one that has a message that is important no matter who you are or what kind of work you're engaged in. In this TEDx talk below, National Geographic writer and explorer Dan Buettner shares what the world's longest-lived peoples have in common. Buettner condensed the findings into nine…

• 10 non-PowerPoint books that can help you create better presentations

  Garr

  22 Dec 2009 | 7:28 am

  To learn how to design and deliver better presentations, we need to pull from many educational sources. Books are good, but which ones? I don't usually suggest PowerPoint or Keynote "how-to" books, but instead recommend reading books from various design and communication fields to stretch your knowledge and perspective. Slide:ology by Nancy Duarte is great, of course, and there are many others that I've suggested over the years. Below are ten additional books I can highly recommend; three of them I have recommended before. PRESENTATIONS & SPEAKINGThe Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs:…

• Presentation at Apple Store Ginza (Tokyo) Dec 15, 7:00 pm

  Garr

  12 Dec 2009 | 8:51 am

  On Tuesday (December 15), I will be presenting (in English) in the theatre at the Apple Store Ginza beginning at 7:00 pm. I'll be sharing some simple visual principles and design lessons from the world around us that can be applied to presentation design and beyond. I'll talk a bit about the contents of the new book presentation zen designwhich went to press last week and we'll have some copies of the first book in English and Japanese to give away (PZD will not be available until about Dec 27). If you are in Tokyo this Tuesday, it would be great to meet you at the Apple Store. If you can't…

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  Decor8 Daily Updates

• Etsy Take Five Tuesday

  decor8

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:06 pm

  I need to be brief, I’m on the fly and it’s getting late… but I could not miss Etsy Take Five Tuesday this week because there are some real gems to share. No detailed descriptions this time around boys and girls… just pure sticky sweet eye candy glowing from the screen. Here you go — my five picks for the week. I do hope that you enjoy them. The first find is a riot.. I want the lemon print AND the pink heart ‘cos Home is where the heART is! Dear Colleen has bright and cheery stationery for spring. Gotta love the wisdom in this print, “When life hands…

• Who’s That Girl? J.Crew

  decor8

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:53 pm

  Inspired by J.Crew Who’s That Girl? © Decor8. For personal, non-commercial use only. Feed ID: cdaa5590db8fca9e92d06113ccfa4e5e

• Jeremy Harwell Photography + A Vintage Party

  decor8

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:22 am

  It’s party time! Don’t you love to hear those words? I do because who doesn’t love a good party? Photography Jeremy Harwell in Atlanta (the brother of the talented artist Anne Harwell) wrote in recently to give decor8 first dibs on sharing a party he recently shot. But not just any party, but a vintage themed puppy party for his beautiful daughter planned and styled by his creative wife Karrie. I was excited to hear about and share this vintage party because Karrie went beyond the basics and had each girl in attendance make a pillow out of recycled fabric and vintage…

• Meri Meri

  decor8

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:49 am

  It must be all of the sunshine and blue skies here this week because I’m definitely feeling ready for spring and have been thinking a lot about what spring brings… flowers, parties, pretty dresses and ice cream cones! I have a really sweet party to share with you in a moment so watch for my post that will follow this one but I think you’ll really enjoy how well Meri Meri products (shown below) tie in to the upcoming party peek. I adore all of details when event planning, in fact the details and finding ways to be extra creative in new ways is the most exciting part for me.

• Forever Is Today: Blog of the Week

  decor8

  8 Mar 2010 | 7:15 am

  One goal I’ve had is to be more diligent about posting a new blog of the week each and every week — I did really well with this for the first three years but when I relocated last summer I started to get behind and my blog of the week has been more of a blog of the month and this needs to change! I’m resolved to get it back on track weekly and so today begins a new week so let’s focus on a new blog. Forever Is Today (reminds me of a James Bond film!) is authored by 22-year-old Hilda Grahnat who is a graphic designer living in Sweden with a great eye for vintage finds…

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  TheDieline.com: Package Design

• This Week's Hot Packaging Jobs from The Dieline

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:12 pm

  Art Director - PackagingEnesco LLC , Itasca, ILDesignerAdam&Co., Boston, MACLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

• Chiquita Banana Brand Refresh

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:05 pm

    Great article on Design Related discussing Chiquita's latest brand refresh...CLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

• Budgens

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:52 am

  New work from Pentagram:"New brand packaging for the Budgens gin, vodka and whisky...CLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

• Green Marker

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:44 am

  Love these page markers and simple packaging, design and sold by Yuruliku Design.CLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

• Student Spotlight: Pasta Salina

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:37 am

     New work from one of Sylvain Allard's packaging students:"Here is a...CLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

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  information aesthetics

• Obama Loves Infographic Movies (and Edward Tufte)

  8 Mar 2010 | 7:03 pm

  Yesterday, I tweeted the quite surprising news that information graphics guru Edward Tufte will be joining the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel [edwardtufte.com], which aims to track and explain $787 billion in recovery stimulus funds in the US. I was convinced this news event had been given sufficient attention. Little did I know. I just discovered the Obama campaign actually loves infographics so much, they recently have featured an infographic-style movie on their official website [barackobama.com]. While not being shockingly original, except of maybe the dramaturgical twist around the…

• Tim Berners-Lee: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide (TED Talk)

  8 Mar 2010 | 3:06 pm

  The very short TED talk by internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee shows a few of the interesting results where open data gets mashed up in various compelling data visualizations. The talk includes many examples the avid infosthetics reader should already know, including Where Does my Money Go?, California Stimulus Map, data.gov.uk Newspaper and OpenStreetMap Edits. Other projects, not blogged about before on this site, include Making Water a Matter of Race [time.com], Afghanistan Election Data [afghanistanelectiondata.org] and Haiti OpenStreetMap Edits [itoworld.blogspot.com]. Watch the movie…

• Accusing Google's Business Practice through (another) Infographic Movie

  8 Mar 2010 | 3:10 am

  It seems the now classic infographic movie "Google Master Plan" from early 2007 is now finally outdated, as the main allegations have been recently updated by another infographically-style film, aptly titled The Beast File: Google [abc.net.au] (movie not viewable outside Australia, but watch a YouTube version below). The new movie, which itself seems to be inspired by the visual zooming effects from the presentation software Prezi, defines Google as an advertising giant whose main goal is to track users and deliver targeted ads. For the appropiate counter argumentation, you can read the…

• Clavilux 2000: Generative Music Visualization Composition

  4 Mar 2010 | 10:26 pm

  Clavilux 2000 [jonasheuer.de] is a subtle music visualization installation that represents the playing of sounds by way of a simultaneous animation that can be interpreted. For every note played on the keyboard, a stripe appears of which the dimensions, position and color correspond to the way the particular key was stroke. The length and vertical position of stripe is mapped unto the velocity, while the stripe's width reflects the length of each note. By mapping the color wheel on the circle of 5ths, the colors give the viewer (and listener) an impression of the harmonic relations. Notes…

• Live Labs Pivot: A Massive Interactive Zoom on Data (TED Talk)

  4 Mar 2010 | 10:08 pm

  "Viewing information and data in this way, is a lot like swimming in a living information infographic." During his very impressive TED talk, Gary Flake, Technical Fellow at Microsoft, demos the novel and still experimental Pivot [getpivot.com] technology. Pivot is a completely new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on the Seadragon zooming technology, it enables spectacular zooming in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing. "Right now, in this world, we think about data as being this curse,…

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  The Groundswell Blog

• Out Now!: Groundswell Journal on Crisis Folklore

  James David Morgan

  2 Mar 2010 | 9:25 am

  Groundswell’s journal is hot off the presses, and available in our online store.  Copies are available in select book stores (see below) and are coming soon to the rest of the country and the UK!  If you’re interested in helping to distribute copies, please contact us. This first edition focuses on crisis folklore, and includes contributions [...] Related posts:Call for Submissions: Groundswell Seeks Crisis Folklore Last Day for Proposal Submissions to Groundswell’s Journal Out Now! The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Issue #7

• Design Studio for Social Intervention Open House with SmartMeme

  James David Morgan

  1 Mar 2010 | 10:41 am

  In celebration of their new space, the Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI) will host an open house this Friday, March 5th, from 3-8PM. SmartMeme’s Doyle Canning, DS4SI’s current Activist-in-Residence will be cohosting, and DJs Paul Nickerson and Francis Englehardt will be spinning. DS4SI is on the second floor of 1946 Washington Street, in Roxbury, [...] Related posts:The Little Dig, And Things of That Nature: Gardening Urban Intervention The Social Contexts of Light, a sprout spaghetti dinner Close Encounters 2: Acts of Social Imagination

• Mel Chin’s Fundred Project Launches in Boston

  James David Morgan

  19 Feb 2010 | 4:53 am

  The Urbano Project and Artists in Context lend a hand to Mel Chin’s collaborative art piece, Fundred, this weekend, as the project celebrates its Boston kick-off. Fundred is an advocacy strategy to garner $300m in federal funding for lead decontamination efforts in New Orleans. Participants draw interpretations of U.S. $100 bills, and after [...] Related posts:Anti-Consumerist, Conscious Caroling in Boston Yael Bartana’s “Wild Seeds” at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art Bread and Puppet bring Tear Open The Door Of Heaven, and the Dirt Cheap Money Circus to…

• Now Online: Tim Devin’s “The History of Somerville, 2010-2100″

  James David Morgan

  18 Feb 2010 | 2:48 pm

  Somerville’s speculative history/community art project by artist Tim Devin (previously seen on Groundswell here) has launched, offering a rich vision of the next 90 years, from fleets of mobile libraries to population influx due to the flooded streets of neighboring Boston.  Grab a free PDF of the book,  or browse the full timeline here. Tweet This! Share [...] Related posts:The History of Somerville, 2010-2100 The Center for PostNatural History’s Permitted Habitats, Transgenic Organisms, and Genetic Copy Prevention HONK! No Noise Is Illegal, Now Online

• Define “Urban Wilderness” at ElectroSmog with the Urban Wilderness Action Center

  James David Morgan

  17 Feb 2010 | 11:11 am

  We’re frequently involved in conversations about what comprises an intervention, and what makes interventions effective. The Urban Wilderness Action Center (UWAC) is expanding that line of inquiry further, asking: “What is it in which we’re intervening?” UWAC is an Eyebeam family project, initiated by alum Jon Cohrs and in collaboration with Eyebeam Student Residents and [...] Related posts:A Bus Tour of the Urban Oilscape of Los Angeles with the Center for Land Use Interpretation Functional Utopian Manicures for the Urban Survivalist The Center for PostNatural…

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  PagePlane.com

• THE big list of public domain image sources

  chuck

  8 Mar 2010 | 11:56 am

  As every graphic designer knows, you are not free to simply add an illustration or photograph to a brochure or web site without first knowing who owns it and what rights they have to it. Some images are copyrighted—which means the owner dictates how it can be used. Others are copyright-free or their copyrights have expired (generally referred to as being in the public domain)—which means (in most cases) you are free to use it without permission. The good news is there are millions of public domain images available for use&mdashthe bad news is it isn't always easy to distinguish…

• The future of graphic design is in the provision of access

  chuck

  5 Mar 2010 | 6:58 am

  Anyone who thinks graphic design is merely about style doesn't understand consumption. You can bake a pretty cake, but the true test of its quality is in the eating. To me, the future of graphic design is clearly in the development of intelligent user interface. On paper or the screen, the most highly prized skill will be a designer's ability to recast information in ways that make it most interesting and useful. The recently redesigned blog of designer Simon Collison is a good example of that type of user-centric thinking. He generously gives as an in depth insight into his inspiration,…

• Get an amazing return on a three dollar investment

  chuck

  3 Mar 2010 | 7:29 am

  If I hear one more commercial about investing in gold I think my head will explode. I know you don't look here for financial advice but I'm going to give you some anyway—here it is: If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, buy the new This American Life App. For three bucks you get on-demand, FREE access to every episode of this intelligent, funny, heartbreaking, beautiful, bizarre radio program, ever produced—literally hundreds of hours of listening. Is it possible you are not yet familiar with This American Life—wow, are you in for a treat. Three dollars. What the heck are you…

• Mechanical drawings by Headcase Design

  chuck

  1 Mar 2010 | 10:34 am

  I really like these blueprint-like illustrations created by Paul Kepple and Scotty Reifsnyder at Headcase Design. You may have seen them in books published by, among others, Quirk Books. Example 1... Example 2... Example 3... Headcase front door... The weird world of Quirk Books... Visit the Ideabook.com Store  |  Subscribe to the newsletter

• If you like cool stuff

  chuck

  26 Feb 2010 | 8:46 am

  Occasionally I contribute a review over at Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools--just a little something to add to his wonderful list of tools, machines, books, software, gadgets, websites, maps, and ideas housed there. I think of it as a kind of "Consumer Reports" for interesting stuff. I've pointed you to it before but I wrote a review that they posted today--which gives me cause to point you to it again. Me and my chair--okay, not a spellbinding subject... Cool Tools is now being edited by Elon Schoenholz... Spend the afternoon... Visit the Ideabook.com Store  |  Subscribe to the…

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  DesignBoston

• .handmadeMonday: Albertine Press*

  Gradon

  8 Mar 2010 | 2:51 pm

  From a consortium of handmade designers, to a single designer — handmade Monday has a dramatic range of scale. Albertine Press is a Somerville-based, letterpress print shop run by Shelley Barande, “a sometime-architect who just loved paper more.” Albertine Press’s first specialty is as a custom design and print studio. Shelley designs and creates custom save the date, wedding, baby, and other special and social events stationery.  But since the shop’s inception in 2007, her work has spread to a collection of greeting cards, note cards, and coasters. I…

• .oneThing Le Corbusier Overlooked*

  Gradon

  7 Mar 2010 | 6:18 pm

  Le Corbusier was a pioneer in modern architecture, urban planning, and, of course furniture design. He thought about every aspect of how design — from the chair you sit in to how bulldozing Paris could help the underprivileged — can affect human existence. He’s largely credited with starting this crazy design thing called modern architecture. But there’s one thing that, through all of his research, writing, and belief in “a machine for living in” that Le Corbusier overlooked: Children. Children don’t prescribe to any set belief in how to behave, how…

• .weeklyDesign Sales: 3/5/10*

  Gradon

  5 Mar 2010 | 2:58 pm

  From spring cleaning sales at a local studio to semi-annual sales at a national retailer, this is a good week for deals. Know of a sale coming up that we should mention? Let us know! JHill Design & Jill Rosenwald Spring Studio Sale – pieces as low as $5. Through 3/6. Vessel – 40% off Roomies and Fusionware. Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams – 20% off all tables and storage, through 3/14. DWR Semi-Annual Sale – Save 15% on most items throughout the store. Free upgrade to white-glove delivery on orders over $2,000. Though 3/16

• .today:Design for the Environment 2010*

  Gradon

  4 Mar 2010 | 8:56 am

  Karianne, a DesignBoston reader that works at Suffolk University’s New England School of Design, just tipped me off to a great, green design event happening today! Design for the Environment 2010 is NESAD’s 4th annual green design trade show, featuring 26 local, national and international design companies, with an aim at showcasing their best, most environmentally-friendly designs. The design community, along with society as a whole, has become aware that a new, more “bio-friendly” approach design must be taken if we are to stop polluting our earth, wasting energy and…

• .aModern Brownstone in Charlestown??*

  Gradon

  3 Mar 2010 | 8:05 am

  Yesterday afternoon, I took a walk around Charlestown with my camera. I walked along the Mystic, from the Charlestown High School playing fields down to the Navy Yard, taking photos of everything and anything that caught my attention (which is a lot). After a couple hours of walking and shooting, my camera warned that battery exhaustion was imminent, so I started making my way home. Instead of back-tracking, I decided to walk by the Bunker Hill Monument — an omnipresent structure in the neighborhood. As I’m approaching Monument Square, I look a side street, and spot this: I was…

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  Ponoko - Blog

• Crafty Knitting Supplies from Karrie

  yana

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:04 pm

  Karrie from Girl on the Rocks discovered Ponoko somewhere in the recesses of the internet and was intrigued enough to instantly sign up. What type of products do you make with Ponoko? Primarily, I design supplies and tools to sell to crafters and knitters. I make knitting needle gauges and yarn gauges for knitters and spinners. I also make several styles of yarn and embroidery floss organizers for needleworkers. Though these aren’t completely new tools, with my designs I try to improve the functionality and also use shapes that are fun to look at. Recently, I have started designing…

• And for the Birds

  Duann

  8 Mar 2010 | 7:16 pm

  Chind?gu bird feeder. Ok this one may not be practical, laser cut or even ‘designed’ but it is DIY and kinda cute. Perhaps if the crumbs were spirited away via the tube to a bird feeder outside it would be a little more, hygienic. via There I fixed it

• KITTY KLIMBER by Catter Wallin’

  Duann

  8 Mar 2010 | 2:03 pm

  Flat Pack for the Feline…… The Kitty Klimber shelf provides a purrfect feline transition point and is an excellent limited floor space solution. The Kitty Klimber is simple to assemble, easily mounts on walls and is made from eco-friendly materials. Companion Kitty Kozy shelves (larger platform) are available in the Catter Wallin’ Showroom. And the Kitty Korner shelf (corner retreat) is currently in the prototype/design phase and will soon appear in the Catter Wallin’s Ponoko Showroom. Kitty Klimber Features: - Cat friendly space with zero floor footprint - Made of 100%…

• Game Changers: Social Design Competition

  Duann

  8 Mar 2010 | 3:05 am

  Design21, the social design network, is holding the competition ‘Game Changers‘ that challenges designers to design a game that aims to create change by improving lives or inspiring new behaviors. A crisis can bring about change. It forces us to rethink our lives and our relationships and lead us to adopt new outlooks or rethink the way we do things. While the world has been rocked by a deep recession, many have seen the flip-side of this crisis as one of opportunity; the chance to start over, or reset priorities, to take initiative to create some positive and meaningful change in…

• Love Lace? Design Competition

  Duann

  6 Mar 2010 | 2:47 pm

  Rethink Lace and win $20k The International Lace Award seeks to encourage contemporary design and challenge conventional notions of lace and its application in the areas of fashion, the built environment and digital multimedia. Professional and amateur artists, designers and practitioners around the world are invited to enter for the chance to be exhibited at the Powerhouse Museum and win a share of $40,000 (Australian dollars) in prize money. The Award defines lace as an openwork structure whose pattern of spaces is as important as the solid areas. Sounds perfect for some Ponoko laser cut…

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  Designers who Blog

• Design Week Vancouver: Call for Nominations

  Cat

  16 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Design Week Vancouver Call for nominations for a “next generation” speaker Hi all. Design Week Vancouver would like your help. They have a fabulous list of speakers arranged, but would like your opinion on just one more: Let us know a person you’d like to nominate who is under 30 and would do a great job at representing the ‘next generation voice’. We can’t promise anything, but we’ll do our best to bring them to our stage in Vancouver. Enjoy… NEED MORE? Then get over to Designers who Blog to discover hundreds of blogs posting about graphic and web design,…

• ‘Tis the Season for Giving: The SET Foundation

  Cat

  21 Dec 2009 | 2:06 pm

  The SET Foundation Giving back… Once upon a time there was a British guy who became a rare farang (non Asian) monk in Thailand. His name was Peter Robinson, but he became known as Phra Farang. After he left the order, Peter continued to give back to Thailand. And he did this by creating the SET Foundation (more about this later). When I moved to Thailand, I too expected to do a lot of giving back. And I have. But it was the SET Foundation that really caught my western fancy. And as I mentioned on my Thai blog, Women Learn Thai (please don’t forget the ‘wink’), the SET…

• Faces of Design Awards 2010

  Cat

  1 Oct 2009 | 6:26 pm

  Faces of Design Awards 2010 Launch of a new design competition This is fantastic news all. The Faces of Design Awards is a design competition that does not ask for spec work! We are proud to announce a new interdisciplinary design competition, the Faces of Design Awards 2010. Our goal is to create career opportunities for talented designers worldwide, by increasing their international visibility. The Faces of Design Awards are based on candidates’ existing portfolios, and culminate in the publication of a printed volume, showcasing the 25 most promising design talents, by design discipline…

• Design Altruism Project: Arguing With Success

  Cat

  14 Sep 2009 | 10:37 pm

  Design Altruism Project Arguing With Success When I moved away from paying work and into probono full-time, I didn’t realise that it would eat at my every available moment. But it has. And that’s my excuse for not keeping up with DWB. This morning I woke up to an email from David Stairs of the Design Altruism Project. I scanned through, then got stuck into my day job. Several hours later, Google Alerts jostled me to take another look at what David had cared enough to send. And it was this look that brought me here. To DWB. To share with you… Arguing With Success: My concern…

• Creative Opera

  Cat

  25 Jun 2009 | 8:23 pm

  Creative Opera Manda Szewczyk There is nothing quite like opening an email from a talented blogger. Especially when they sharing a blog of the quality of Creative Opera. Creative Opera features creative advice and inspiration for graphic designers and web designers. Creative Opera is a blog for new designers, future designers, and anyone who loves design. Creative Opera posts are full of useful information, creative inspiration, and professional advice. Because Manda spent years teaching design, many of her posts are targeted toward students and new designers. It is fantastic, however, when…

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  Wise Elephant: Design and Influence

• Make Remote Team Collaboration Work

  Make Remote Team Collaboration Work: http://sixrevisions.com/project-management/how-to-make-remote-team-collaboration-work/

• Web Design Criticism: A How-To

  Web Design Criticism: A How-To: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/02/web-design-criticism-a-how-to/

• The Hidden Art of Achieving Creative Flow

  The Hidden Art of Achieving Creative Flow: http://zenhabits.net/2010/02/creative-flow/

• For Foodie/Photo Types: “Foodspotting”

  If you’re active in social networks, you know this type of person. The one who tweets pictures of food and posts about their meals on Facebook. For us foodie/photo types (I’m including myself here because I’m very guilty) there’s a website built specifically with us in mind. Welcome to the ...

• Hospitality in Web Industry: Good Service is Good Business

  Hospitality in Web Industry: Good Service is Good Business: http://www.onextrapixel.com/2010/03/02/hospitality-in-web-industry-good-service-is-good-business/

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  uselog.com | the product usability weblog

• Do not put a salutation in an automatic signature

  Jasper (uselog.com)

  8 Mar 2010 | 6:05 am

• First principles of interaction design, by Bruce Tognazzini

  Jasper (uselog.com)

  5 Mar 2010 | 1:27 am

  NN/Group's Bruce Tognazzini compiled an excellent and exhaustive overview of principles for interaction design, that he considers fundamental for the design and implementation of user interfaces. Fundamental, so regardless of the application area, so I guess they apply to electronic consumer products as well. The overview covers (alphabetized) subjects such as: autonomy, consistency, defaults, latency reduction, learnability, and track state. I especially like what he has to say on explorable interfaces: Give users well-marked roads and landmarks, then let them shift into four-wheel drive…

• Recession made consumers prefer basic products, claims McKinsey

  Jasper (uselog.com)

  1 Mar 2010 | 5:31 am

  McKinsey recently announced the results of a study entitled How the recession changed consumer behavior, in which they claim that the recession has caused a lasting preference shift of consumers towards more basic products in a sector they call consumer packaged goods (e.g., beer and allergy medicine). Maybe I should be pleased, because basic products tend to be more usable, an effect that people at Nokia called the usability knee. But I am not so happy, because McKinsey's conclusion seems to be stretching it a bit. A fundamental change in consumer preference? First, let's take a look at…

• RFID card + E-paper = information on your card

  Jasper (uselog.com)

  26 Feb 2010 | 6:44 am

  Bob van Vliet's frustration about the new Dutch public transport RFID card (OV Chipkaart) led to an appealing concept: equipping RFID cards with an e-paper displays so they can give status messages or warnings. As it turns out, passive RFID can provide enough energy for a simple e-paper display. And that gives you all kinds of cool options. Displaying your credit of course, but the card could also display friendly messages like “have a good trip” while you’re checked in.I could have used the 'have a good trip' message that indicates that you are checked in last week, when the PDA of the…

• Forgot to check out your OV-chipcard? Here's how to get a refund

  Jasper (uselog.com)

  18 Feb 2010 | 2:32 am

  Previously I described pitfalls of the new Dutch public transport RFID-chipcard system, the OV-chipkaart. One of the major annoyances is the financial penalty when you forget to check out, which is rather easy to forget because unlike the systems in Hong Kong and London, the Dutch system is being phased in and thus the train stations are not yet equipped with turnstiles. Now, there are options to get your money back, but each of the Dutch transport organizations has a different procedures and conditions for that. The makers of vergetenuittechecken.nl saw an opportunity and provide an overview…

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  ABCD Design | Art . Design . Style | by ABC Dragoo

• Spring H O U S E K E E P I N G

  ABCD

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:54 am

  Good morning ABCD blog reading friends! Spring has sprung in New York City and it is time to do a little blog housekeeping. Guess what? I’d love your feedback. You see, I recently learned that ABCD Design isn’t as pretty in a google reader as it could be. I hear that the images with my handwriting text are often cut off and not completely viewable in the reader. I contacted my html guru Ryan (16 Ninjas) and we’ve tweaked the blog a bit. We’ve been working together on a few other projects too ~ more to come on that later! I have never gotten into the whole reader thing,…

• Bespoke Personal Stationery {Digital Sketches}

  ABCD

  8 Mar 2010 | 8:45 am

  Jen strikes me as more of a bold, graphic pattern kind of person. She works in fashion design and is always impeccably dressed. When we were discussing her personal stationery she expressed interest in the vintage French swashes and swirls that have made appearances in my previous designs. I figured I would give her a sampling of both graphic pattern and vintage French ~ we’ll let her decide which suits their personal style. Do you recall the vintage postcard I got for Christmas from Mr. D’s Auntie? That inspiration led to this design:

• decor progress report: The City Apartment

  ABCD

  5 Mar 2010 | 12:52 pm

  Snowman image from a new to me blog called Kris’s Color Stripes – it’s worth a peek… she does absolutely breathtaking things with color! All the rest of the pics are mine. (They’re taken by my crappy and nearly dead Fiji digital snap-shot.) Next on my list: figuring out my Nikon DSLR. Gawd, I am so intimidated. Oh, by the way… I posted my banana bread recipe over at EAD Living this week. It’s so totally tasty and a complete breeze to whip together. Click here to be redirected.

• ABCD {inspired by} The Douglas House

  ABCD

  4 Mar 2010 | 7:00 am

  Since I don’t have a lot of time to write today, I thought I’d simply share tidbit of design history that has inspired me since a young age. When I was a girl, we rented a little cabin a half a mile up the road from what we called “The White House.” Little did we know that it was The Douglas House, designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects, LLP. The Douglas House was built in 1973, and to me, it looks just as relevant and modern as the day it was built. I am incredibly drawn to architecture and interiors that you can’t pin-point in history. I have…

• happiness manifesto update {March 3rd}

  ABCD

  3 Mar 2010 | 5:12 am

  I realize I don’t normally do this to you, my dear ABCD readers, but I have some matters to attend to over the next few days. I promise you this: if there was ever a good reason for me to pop away, this is a very good reason, indeed! I usually write my morning blog post in an incredibly relaxed and organic way. Sometime I consult my folder titled “sketch book” and other times I tool around the internet investigating interesting ideas – all while sipping my morning espresso. I spend an hour or so waking up and getting inspired. I then delve into emails, printing…

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  Un Cool Hunting

• Psychic Wedding Reminders - These Ouija Board Save-the-Date Cards Make Me Want to Get Married

  Wow, sometimes I see something that is so spectacular, it makes me get over my hate for people and want to get married. These Ouija Board Save-the-Date cards do just that. Created by Groom-to-be Derek…

• Naughtyfied Fairytales - With the Release of Burton’s Hit, Naughty Clones Pop Up

  I'm sure this coming Halloween there will tons of little and not-so-little girls dressing up as Alice from Alice in Wonderland. There seems to be a lot of ladies who are getting in on donning the trademark…

• Crappy Critter Creations - Sue Bell Makes Useful Art Out Of Animal Waste

  Okay lets get the corny puns out of the way. This story stinks, Sue Bell's art is crap. Well yes, Sue Bell does make crappy critter creations and she is proud of it. This sculptor does not work with clay,…

• Full Service Abductions - Extreme Thrill-Seekers are Paying to Be Kidnapped

  Extreme sports are one thing, but now more serious thrill-seekers are actually paying to be kidnapped without warning. The French company Ultime Réalité provides three main services: 'Kidnapping,' 'Manhunt'…

• Prisoner Photography - Matthew Rainwaters Captures Jail Time in the ‘Offender’ Series

  From the photographer who brought the world of beards to your attention, Matthew Rainwaters takes on a more serious subject with his 'Offender' series. Capturing current prisoners and lawyers, he takes…

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  freshvintage

• sneak peek: freshvintage @ brandywine view antiques

  freshvintage

  3 Mar 2010 | 2:05 pm

  Here's an old-timey video peek into our space at Brandywine View Antiques. Hope you like it! If you live in the area, stop by on the weekend of March 13 & 14 for Deal Days & Dogs. (As in hot dogs. Don't bring your schnauzer to the antiques store). There will be lots of deals to be had. I'll be at the store on Saturday, March 13 from 10am to 11am if you want to stop by and say hi! You can watch a bigger version of freshvintage @ Brandywine View Antiques from colleen allison on Vimeo. P.S. Did you see this giveaway over at Le Trip? It is a vintage French school poster. With apples on…

• freshfind: sandwich markers

  freshvintage

  25 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm

  Set of wooden painted sandwich markers with stand:lobster, ham, egg, chicken, fish & veggie

• Typewriters, Racks and Rods

  freshvintage

  19 Feb 2010 | 7:53 am

  If you are a freshvintage fan on Facebook, you may have seen these photos when I posted them a few weeks ago:These were taken at an estate sale in a nice neighborhood in Wilmington, Delaware. And I use the word "estate" the same way you would refer to a hooker as a "lady of the evening".I don't think anyone had lived there for at least 20 years. It was a sad story. Something about the elderly owner not being able to keep up with the housework (textbook definition of "understatement"). There was a 15-foot-long hole in the roof, for god's sake!I somehow managed to find a few things that weren't…

• freshvintage at Brandywine View Antiques

  freshvintage

  11 Feb 2010 | 1:50 pm

  Guess what? You now find freshvintage at Brandywine View Antiques in Chadds Ford, PA! We are upstairs in this little room right here: Do you remember when my sister, Erin, and I sold our fine junk at the Fall Fling at Brandywine View in September? Well, now we have our own space on the second floor of this big, beautiful antiques store. Here's my silly little sister showing off our empty space BEFORE: And here it is AFTER: We just moved in last week, and I already had to restock once. Yay! That's just our corner of the store...there is so much more to see. You'll find three floors packed to…

• Yellowware Bowls, Jelly Jars and Egg Baskets

  freshvintage

  2 Feb 2010 | 4:41 pm

  Thanks to everyone for helping me figure out what the hell my wooden-beaded-counting-thingy is! In case you didn't read the comments, it is a score keeper for pool/billiards. Can you tell that I don't spend nearly enough time in pool halls? I'll have to make that a priority in 2010.Anyway, on to a few finds from last week: two yellowware bowls and five jelly jars. The bowls are a little beat up, but they have a nice look. And they were priced right.Each jelly jar is different - I think that's why I like them so much. A couple of them have "Presto" on the lid, and some have stripes around the…

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  DesignNotes by Michael Surtees

• EVENT: PSFK Conference New York 2010

  michael

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:32 am

  Piers and PSFK have been pretty good supporters of the blog and helpful to me, so when he asked if I’d mention PSFK Conference New York 2010 on Friday, April 09, 2010 I said sure. Below are all the speakers—I’ve seen and heard a couple of them before and can attest to their smarts. Colin Beavan - Green pioneer and journalist aka No Impact Man John Dimatos - Lecturer concepting tech solutions for Unicef at NYU Nick Felton - Designer and creator of the annual infographic Feltron Report Zach Lieberman - Creative technologist whose work bridges the real world with the digital Andrew…

• How do you write a post?

  michael

  8 Mar 2010 | 6:15 am

  Typically when I start writing a blog post I’ll open up Word Press to get things started. I’ll just use their editing window pushing my ideas out. I thought that was how most people published until I talked recently to another writer who mentioned that she uses text edit. She also mentioned that there’s other blogging tools like MarsEdit. Apparently it plugs into WordPress though I couldn’t get it to work with my old version of version. In any case I’ve been using OmmWriter for a couple projects which has an elegant canvas to write with. So as I continue evolving…

• Link Drop from 02.26.10 to 03.05.10

  michael

  5 Mar 2010 | 4:39 am

  The big news this week for me is that I did a quick announcement that I’m going to be leaving Daylife in a couple weeks. I’ve been given an awesome opportunity at Behavior that I’m pretty excited about. As that was being finalized below are the sites and posts that made me think this week for Link Drop. Books in the Age of the iPad While I recognize that it is still too soon to talk about the influence of the iPad when it has yet to come out, the post Books in the Age of the iPad is worth spending a lot more time with than the conspiracy theories of whether the iPad will…

• Link Drop Today Video Festival 005

  michael

  4 Mar 2010 | 11:42 am

  These are the latest videos posted from Link Drop Today…

• REVIEW COPY: Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work By Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit

  michael

  3 Mar 2010 | 6:44 am

  When Armin emailed me asking if I would be interested in reading the PDF version of Flaunt for review I said sure. I’ve only read a couple pdf books before but I was curious about the experience of something visual and how it would translate on screen. I did eventually print the whole thing out but in hindsight I probably didn’t need to, though I did accidentally delete my only PDF copy and had to get a second download sent to me. With all that said I think the book is incredibly valuable for people in design school, whether as a first year or someone about to graduate. As I was…

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  House Enthusiast

• Design snapshot: Board-and-batten gable-end

  Katie Hutchison

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:09 pm

  I’m always looking for inspiring exterior gable-end treatments. It’s the board-and-batten siding that initially drew me to this one. Board-and-batten siding harks back to Norway and Sweden and is often spotted in New England on agricultural and Stick-and-Shingle style buildings. Subtle moves, like increasing the spacing of the upper gable battens from the batten spacing below the demising horizontal trim, add interest to the pattern and differentiate the tippy-top from the middle-top. Both batten  arrangements are centered on the ridge and set up their own…

• Web tour: House museums on Squidoo

  Katie Hutchison

  1 Mar 2010 | 6:31 am

  Hancock Shaker Village Laundry and Machine ShopYou may recall my recent web neighbor post about Fivecat Studio and their blog Living Well in Westchester. In my post I referenced their Squidoo lens "Your Complete Guide to Residential Architecture", which is an extensive compilation of links. I suggested they include a section devoted to house museums, and now they have. Scroll down through their updated guide to link to house museums from around the country. I've written here about several notable New England house museums, like Hancock Shaker…

• Building 173 in the 2010 Salem Film Fest

  Katie Hutchison

  23 Feb 2010 | 7:56 am

  This weekend catch Building 173 at the Peabody Essex Museum as part of the third annual Salem Film Fest. According to the festival and film websites, Building 173 explores three generations of life in downtown Shanghai via seven families who lived in apartment Building 173 at some point since the 1930's.  The intersection of architecture and the lives of those who inhabit it fascinates me. This is why I'm a fan of house museums. Merge your Film Fest visit to the Peabody Essex Museum with a tour of Yin Yu Tang, the Museum's…

• Design snapshot: interior color

  Katie Hutchison

  17 Feb 2010 | 7:25 am

  Click on this photo to see it in the KHS photo note cards/prints gallery.A rich color palette can transform an interior. I selected this "Mineral" wall color by C2 Paint to play off muted green tones in mosaic glass tile we chose for an adjacent new bathroom in this island home. The "Milk mustache" C2 Paint we used for the trim also brightened the old bureau shown here and an antique mirror frame above it.  I don't often mention specific products in these posts, but if you're not familiar with C2 Paint, it's worth a look. The C2 color…

• Design snapshot: Snow-dusted cedar roof

  Katie Hutchison

  11 Feb 2010 | 6:38 am

  There are a lot of reasons to like a cedar shingle roof. Here's one more. A light dusting of snow reveals the texture and hardy character of a weather-worn material. For more shots of the recent snowstorm that battered the East Coast, be sure to check out The New York Times reader-submitted photos "Picturing the Blizzard."

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• disney world

  erin wilson

  2 Mar 2010 | 9:50 am

  I'm going for a QUICK trip to Disney World soon and I need help with where to stay!  I have ZERO clue about the best places that won't break the bank.  All we want to do is just go to the parks.  Let me know if you have some insight.

• i love apps

  erin wilson

  2 Mar 2010 | 8:27 am

  One thing I learned in 2009: I LOVE my iphone.  It is much easier to tour with this baby, more than anything else especially considering I happen upon a new "home" every 3-4 weeks.Here are the apps I love and can't live without:myWireless - AT&T's app that let's me know my phone usage so I don't have a ginormous phone bill.Facebook - Obviously.TweetDeck - For all of my Twitter needs.AroundMe - When I get to a new city I need to know where the grocery store is, etc.ManGo - Similar to AroundMe with slightly different info.  I like to use both!Fandango - What's playing, where is…

• sticky note tivo

  erin wilson

  2 Mar 2010 | 7:46 am

  I live on the road {this is not new news}.  I don't travel with a Tivo because I've found some hotel TV's are just not reliable and frankly I don't have room in my trunk.  I've been keeping a list of the TV shows I currently watch {I try to keep it up to date} on my google homepage.  This feature on BuzzSugar helps me to know daily what's new.  It may be archaic, but without a home to call my own this will suffice for now :)

• this girl can sing

  erin wilson

  2 Mar 2010 | 7:22 am

  If you missed dear friend Natalie Weiss' show at Birdland perfectly titled "Offline" you can ironically catch the entire thing on YouTube.  She.Can.SING. PS I love her rendition of Alanis Morrisette's Ironic.{if you are reading this in reader click over to the blog to see the video}

• formspring.me

  erin wilson

  27 Feb 2010 | 8:48 am

  What is your favorite thing about touring and what do you hate about touring? I love seeing the country. It's pretty remarkable to see the differences and similarities in different cities around the country. I will say this, there is a Target and a Wal-Mart EVERYWHERE we go. I dislike living out of a suitcase lots of days. Packing days are the worst for me, although I pretty much have it down to a science. It does help with shopping decisions as the first thing I always ask myself is can fit this in my suitcase? Ask me anything

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• GHOST PROJECT 2010: „BALKAN GHOSTS“

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm

  Mikser invites all interested parties in the South East Europe to apply to the competition and participation in the exhibition GHOST PROJECT 2010: „BALKAN GHOSTS“ THE COMPETITION THEME After four years of our continuous work to revive the industrial design in Serbia, GHOST PROJECT has become the regional platform for the promotion of [...]

• Water By Numbers: Fund Raising Tshirt for welldone.org

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:44 am

  The ChopShop has teamed up with WellDone to provide clean water to those throughout the developing world who need it most — one awesome t-shirt at a time. Please make a purchase as this is a 100% non-profit venture.

• President Obama appoints Edward Tufte for Recovery Independent Panel

  8 Mar 2010 | 6:47 pm

  "...I'm doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in public service. And it is the complete opposite of everything else I do. Maybe I'll learn something. The practical consequence is that I will probably go to Washington several days each month, in addition to whatever homework and phone meetings are necessary." —Edward Tufte, March 7th, 2010

• Dzmitry Samal for Louis Vuitton

  8 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm

  Belorussian designer Dzmitry Samal based in Paris designed concept of a bag for Louis Vuitton. Paris fashion house is most famous for its bags. In recent years Louis Vuitton realized some experiment projects in this field, for example with architect Zaha Hadid. The last one is the concept of a Trip Structural bag by Dzmitry Samal. [...]

• Frank Eidlitz Posters for Shell

  8 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm

  Awesome collection of posters for Shell Oil Company dating back to 1964. The series was created by Australian designer Frank Eidlitz. (via The Silver Lining via Re:collection) —– Also worth checking: Vintage Porsche Posters Not signed up for the Grain Edit RSS Feed yet? Give it a try. Its free and yummy. —– No TagsShare This [...]

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• Crafty Knitting Supplies from Karrie

  yana

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:04 pm

  Karrie from Girl on the Rocks discovered Ponoko somewhere in the recesses of the internet and was intrigued enough to instantly sign up. What type of products do you make with Ponoko? Primarily, I design supplies and tools to sell to crafters and knitters. I make knitting needle gauges and yarn gauges for knitters and spinners. I also make several styles of yarn and embroidery floss organizers for needleworkers. Though these aren’t completely new tools, with my designs I try to improve the functionality and also use shapes that are fun to look at. Recently, I have started designing…

• And for the Birds

  Duann

  8 Mar 2010 | 7:16 pm

  Chind?gu bird feeder. Ok this one may not be practical, laser cut or even ‘designed’ but it is DIY and kinda cute. Perhaps if the crumbs were spirited away via the tube to a bird feeder outside it would be a little more, hygienic. via There I fixed it

• KITTY KLIMBER by Catter Wallin’

  Duann

  8 Mar 2010 | 2:03 pm

  Flat Pack for the Feline…… The Kitty Klimber shelf provides a purrfect feline transition point and is an excellent limited floor space solution. The Kitty Klimber is simple to assemble, easily mounts on walls and is made from eco-friendly materials. Companion Kitty Kozy shelves (larger platform) are available in the Catter Wallin’ Showroom. And the Kitty Korner shelf (corner retreat) is currently in the prototype/design phase and will soon appear in the Catter Wallin’s Ponoko Showroom. Kitty Klimber Features: - Cat friendly space with zero floor footprint - Made of 100%…

• Game Changers: Social Design Competition

  Duann

  8 Mar 2010 | 3:05 am

  Design21, the social design network, is holding the competition ‘Game Changers‘ that challenges designers to design a game that aims to create change by improving lives or inspiring new behaviors. A crisis can bring about change. It forces us to rethink our lives and our relationships and lead us to adopt new outlooks or rethink the way we do things. While the world has been rocked by a deep recession, many have seen the flip-side of this crisis as one of opportunity; the chance to start over, or reset priorities, to take initiative to create some positive and meaningful change in…

• Love Lace? Design Competition

  Duann

  6 Mar 2010 | 2:47 pm

  Rethink Lace and win $20k The International Lace Award seeks to encourage contemporary design and challenge conventional notions of lace and its application in the areas of fashion, the built environment and digital multimedia. Professional and amateur artists, designers and practitioners around the world are invited to enter for the chance to be exhibited at the Powerhouse Museum and win a share of $40,000 (Australian dollars) in prize money. The Award defines lace as an openwork structure whose pattern of spaces is as important as the solid areas. Sounds perfect for some Ponoko laser cut…

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• Competition: exhibition space in Milan to be won

  Marcus Fairs

  10 Mar 2010 | 2:25 am

  We’ve teamed up with Organisation in Design to give away a 25 sq m exhibition space in the heart of the new Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan during the Salone del Mobile next month. (more…)

• Nomu by Lee West for Eno

  Rose Etherington

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:09 am

  Paris designer Lee West has designed an extra-tall teapot that has no handle but instead has a removable cork sleeve to stop you burning your hands. (more…)

• Pedestrian bridge for La Roche-sur-Yon by Bernard Tschumi and Hugh Dutton

  Marcus Fairs

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:48 pm

  A pedestrian bridge designed by American New York-based architect Bernard Tschumi and French firm Hugh Dutton Associés has opened in La Roche-sur-Yon in France. (more…)

• “Alexander McQueen’s last collection” - The Guardian

  Marcus Fairs

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:51 pm

  Dezeenwire: The Guardian presents a slideshow of the last collection by fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who committed suicide last month aged 40. The collection was presented posthumously by his studio at Paris fashion week – The Guardian. Related story: Alexander McQueen 1969-2010

• Stitch lamp by TAF

  Antonia Anastasiadi

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:08 am

  Designers TAF of Sweden have designed a lamp for Swedish lighting brand Zero, similar in appearance and construction to an embroidery frame. (more…)

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• eBook: 10 Steps to Powerful Online Self Promotion for Creatives

  Jacob Cass

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:30 pm

  Alex Mather’s new ebook ‘10 Steps to Powerful Online Self Promotion for Creatives‘ has just been released and it’s definitely worth checking out. I’m not here to ‘sell’ the book to you but seeing though it’s one of the most common question areas that I get asked about, I thought it was worth sharing. Click here to check out the book & judge for yourself* An overview of what’s included in the book: How to establish a unique selling point, and become an outstanding, credible brand. How to build, promote and maintain the perfect online…

• “Make Beautiful Things” – Tips from Saul Bass

  Jacob Cass

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:13 am

  I recently came across this series of short video clips taken from Saul Bass‘ documentary and this one really stood out for me: Making Money VS Quality Work. I highly recommend watching this short video. The fact of the matter is, I want everything we do, that I do personally, that our office does, to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody…

• Upcoming eBook: Online Self Promotion for Creatives

  Jacob Cass

  4 Mar 2010 | 2:24 pm

  I recently got hold of Alex Mather’s new eBook ‘10 Steps to Powerful Online Self Promotion for Creatives*’ (review copy) and although I didn’t have time to read it front to back, I thoroughly enjoyed looking through each of the chapters and from what I saw, it was definitely worth sharing. Update March 9th: Now on sale! Click here to check it out* Alex describes his book as “an in depth guide to effective marketing, winning regular clients and making sales using the Internet” and it has already received some great reviews from notable figures in the…

• “PR Advanced: Brand Yourself” PRSSA 2010 Conference Wrap-Up

  Jacob Cass

  1 Mar 2010 | 7:54 am

  This post was written for the Carrot Creative blog and has been edited for display on Just Creative Design. The New York Snowpocalypse couldn’t stop me getting to Boston to talk at the PRSSA “PR Advanced: Brand Yourself” conference at Boston University this weekend… a canceled bus just meant I had to get the train, a minor inconvenience for what was to turn out to be a great event. Speakers at the PR Advanced event included representatives from JetBlue, Boston Red Sox, Dunkin’ Brands, Wholefoods and then myself representing Carrot Creative and Just Creative…

• Public Speaking Tips That Will Improve Your Next Presentation

  Jacob Cass

  24 Feb 2010 | 8:33 am

  Public speaking is a daunting thought for the vast majority of us, so in the light of my upcoming presentations (more info at end of post) I thought I’d brush up on my public speaking skills, especially considering the talent of the other speakers. Below I’ve gathered some public speaking / presentation tips from some of today’s most experienced talkers. In Cameron Moll’s article 20 tips for better public speaking, he states that: “The art of speaking is roughly 51% entertainment, 49% meaty content.” Your primary responsibility is to entertain a room full…

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• Our 2010 illustrative calendar has been awarded!

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:03 pm

  The valérydesignwrks 2010 illustrative calendar has been awarded twice by the Applied Arts Illustration awards! Yay!

• TimeOutNY feature!

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:06 pm

  I am pleased to be included in this woodgrain trend watch article: http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/shopping/83528/trend-watch-woodgrain image 2 sterling silver PLANK woodgrain ring cheers! Katrina Ball and Chain Jewelry

• Link-love: Mustardy-goodness

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:26 am

  Sam of Inklore, inspired by a field of mustard in California, seeks out mustardy-goodness at Supermarket and is not disappointed.

• Say Hello to Neawear

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:28 am

  Neawear is Janick in Montreal. She’s making awesome stuff, and taking pretty great photos to boot.

• Say Hello to KRASZNAI Ceramics

  8 Mar 2010 | 1:52 pm

  Loving the Arms & Crafts collection from Barcelona-based KRASZNAI Ceramics.

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  NewWork

• Harmony Drawing Tool

  Bart

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:59 am

  A pretty impressive html5 drawing tool, called Harmony. You'll be surprised what you can do with only ten brush styles!

• Drawdio

  nyls

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:33 am

  We see them more and more, mashups between the digital and the psychical world. Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil and then play them with your finger. The Drawdio circuit-craft lets you do that, very inspiring and looks like a lot of fun.

• Live Sports

  Harald

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:25 am

  Some of you know this for some time already. Some of you don't. This post is for the latter. In most countries around Europe you can't see all the Champions League games live on tv. In Holland you can't see any of the CL games tonight. Thanks to good old internet you can see them easily at ATDHE.net for niks (warning: no HD).

• MTV Rocks

  Bob Mayata

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:54 am

  MTV re-branded their six specialist music channels'. This, of course, means great new leaders by some of the best motion- and audio studios. For MTV Rocks (formerly MTV2) Dutch studio Post Panic worked five months on creating five surreal idents that rock indeed. Directed by Mischa Rozema, audio by Massive Music, Amsterdam.

• Beauty In Engineering

  arjan

  8 Mar 2010 | 6:49 am

  Spec spot designed and directed by Aladino Debert. The project was funded by Radium/ReelFX and is 100% CG.

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  Design You Trust

• Vasili Zorin

  diskursdisko

  10 Mar 2010 | 2:06 am

  via Diskursdisko. Our Sponsors: 2wowu - Buy or Sell PSD's & Get Free $5.00 With Code: FREEFIVE Advertise with Design You Trust! - DYT on Twitter - Facebook

• Rankin “Eat Me Naked”

  Yoland

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:23 am

  Learn more about the Rankin’s exhibition on Le Blog de Yoland. Our Sponsors: 2wowu - Buy or Sell PSD's & Get Free $5.00 With Code: FREEFIVE Advertise with Design You Trust! - DYT on Twitter - Facebook

• T-shirts by Ethcs Clothing

  FlyingKiwi

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:42 pm

  A couple of tees from Ethcs Clothing. Designed by New Zealand native Shane G. The Ethcs label has been around for a couple of years but has been pretty exclusive to New Zealand until recently. Our Sponsors: 2wowu - Buy or Sell PSD's & Get Free $5.00 With Code: FREEFIVE Advertise with Design You Trust! - DYT on Twitter - Facebook

• design walk 2010 by Indyvisuals & Charis Tsevis

  til01

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:22 pm

  Indyvisuals had to deal with the digital vs analog contradiction and the truth is that we were delighted as almost everything we do combines both technologies and creative processes. So what we finally ended up to, was to invite a really good friend of ours, famous for his work making digital mosaics and invert the whole process. Charis Tsevis was given the symbols as well as the final photo we wanted to use, did his magic and gave us the final piece which consisted of 3 different sized square pieces and 58 varieties of color and size combinations. All this on a 6×2,5m canvas made of 120…

• Anton Rhoden

  ardt

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:54 pm

  You are looking at some pretty delectable work from Bronx native, Anton Rhoden. Our personal favorite is the sultry geisha, with sakura flowers and a Torii (traditional Japanese gate) added in makes for a much coveted T-shirt. Another interesting piece of a boy, perched on top of a Tetris-like structure. Keep those blocks coming, I say. Via Ardentees blog Our Sponsors: 2wowu - Buy or Sell PSD's & Get Free $5.00 With Code: FREEFIVE Advertise with Design You Trust! - DYT on Twitter - Facebook

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  Cherryflava

• This has suitably freaked us out

  Jonathan Cherry

  10 Mar 2010 | 2:22 am

  Wys jou muis Heard of something called Chat Roulette? It’s similar to the Russian version of the same name, but far more dangerous. Chat Roulette is a random generator of video chat that connects you to a world of sweaty geeks, slurping of Big Gulps in small mid-western town in the US. It’s a pretty scary place. French Connection UK [FCUK] however have a challenge for you. They’re offering $250 worth of clothing to anyone who can successfully seduce a woman on the Chat Roulette platform and provide proof that you’ve done so. Considering that just finding a real woman…

• So you’re a BTL agency and your client is Viagra…

  Jonathan Cherry

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:28 am

  I'll huff and I'll puff... …having been previously employed as a fluffer – your mind naturally quickly races to a paper blower branded with little pills. The internal sales staff [all of whom are most probably addicted to Viagra and are only conscience for a few hours a day] groan unusually loudly and force a warm shaft of breath into the small plastic mouthpiece in a mass display of unbridled excitement. Yay – Viagra is 11 years old. Pffffweeeeeeeep. Agency: TAXI Canada. via

• The new look Bafana Bafana side according to Pepsi

  Jonathan Cherry

  8 Mar 2010 | 3:18 am

  The world loves meerkats. Pepsi [not an official World Cup sponsor] even reckon that a team of the small, ratlike rodents can take on World Footballer of the Year – Messi. So seriously now – they don’t look too bad on the ball. We could at least see what they do with a Zimbabwean side and go from there. Check out the rest of Pepsi’s World Cup 2010 ads here. [thanks Mike]

• The Cove wins best documentary feature Oscar

  Jonathan Cherry

  8 Mar 2010 | 12:25 am

  Using a host of innovative filming techniques, The Cove is a documentary feature that tells the story of ecological genocide in Japan. As the promo copy promises, it looks like the combination of Flipper and The Bourne Identity. It’s one we’ll be looking out for.

• Apple debuts iPad ad during Oscars

  Jonathan Cherry

  8 Mar 2010 | 12:04 am

  And here’s the iPad acting like a giant iPhone…

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• Visual Response

  Andrew

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:21 pm

  Australian Infront, after many years in hiatus, have brought back their Visual Response submissions based project. Check it out and start creating.

• James Jean

  Ravi

  8 Mar 2010 | 7:48 pm

  James Jean released his new site along with a handful of new work. Enjoy feasting on his amazing creations.

• SP Book Sale

  Andrew

  6 Mar 2010 | 8:45 pm

  With a new Semi-Permanent book coming out in a couple weeks, we have decided to have a sale of the older books that we have in stock. All books are half price, A$20 + postage. Great deal for 220 page books! Grab them while they are still in stock.

• Semi-Permanent FINAL ticket deadline

  Andrew

  4 Mar 2010 | 1:24 pm

  The FINAL (yes, we mean final!) deadline for the early priced tickets to the Sydney Semi-Permanent event is today (Friday 5 March). Grab your tickets now before the prices go up.

• Mr Toledano

  Nick

  3 Mar 2010 | 5:21 pm

  Nice photography by Phillip Toledano. Be sure to check out the commissions section.

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• waikiki.

  aaron

  8 Mar 2010 | 11:00 am

  hey i haven’t made a wallpaper image available in a while, so… i give you an HDR image of waikiki, near the ihilani. 17-40mm f/4L lens, canon 5dmkII, 9 bracketed images in 2/3 EV stops, and HDR processing. you should see how sharp this is at native res. mean. enjoy the wallpaper! -a [ right click + save to grab the full 1920 x 1200 px image file ]

• souls.

  aaron

  4 Mar 2010 | 11:00 am

  souls of mischief at fresh cafe. i haven’t shot a good hip hop show in some time now and it was fun revisiting that old routine.  i saw a lot of people that i haven’t seen in a minute and it was a great show, a great venue, and a fun night! -a [ click here to jump off to the full image gallery! ]

• mayer.

  aaron

  2 Mar 2010 | 11:00 am

  mayer hawthorne.  contrast party. pipeline. available light photography thanks to a nifty new 35mm f/1.4L lens.  mean. -a [ click here to jump off to the full image gallery! ]

• painted highways.

  aaron

  28 Feb 2010 | 2:56 pm

  this week i was hired to shoot another series of press photos for another amazing local band.  painted highways wanted a set of images that were definitively “hawaii” in localization, but not cheesy at the beach at sunset with a coconut tree kinds of images.  so i took a set of strobes, umbrellas, stands, and radio triggers and set out to take those images.  night photography with an evenly balanced background is tricky because properly exposing the background requires a long exposure.  that meant the band had to hold their poses as still as possible for a while, not an easy…

• herc.

  aaron

  15 Feb 2010 | 2:17 pm

  way back in 1995 when i started taking pictures of my friends skateboarding with my first camera, i could never have guessed how things would have turned out today.  it’s been a long, strange trip but along the way i’ve met some truly amazing people. back in high school, i listened to the best radio station i’ve ever heard, and i was turned on to a lot of great music.  i remember making mixtapes, digging the crates at jelly’s, and learning about the DJ, emcee, and hip hop culture.  in that culture, which has impacted my life so profoundly, there were a few legends…

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• #28946 - Gizmodo has a nice review of the new wireless...

  NOTCOT

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:39 pm

  Gizmodo has a nice review of the new wireless Wacom Intuos 4 tablet! (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)

• #28945 - Tom Dixon does it again with this crazy...

  thedesignfiles

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:29 pm

  Tom Dixon does it again with this crazy mirrored ball lamp. Definitely an eye-catching statement piece! (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)

• #28944 - An amazing chandelier meticulously constructed...

  catrina

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:18 pm

  An amazing chandelier meticulously constructed using fishing floats and nylon fishing gut. 'Beautiful' is the last thing on my mind when I think of fishing gear. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)

• #28943 - EARSHELL is a simple, efficient and elegant...

  Daniel

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:06 pm

  EARSHELL is a simple, efficient and elegant sound enhancing device. It can be used to improve our listening of music or opera. Refined, sleek profile, functions as piece of jewelry. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)

• #28942 - Sharon Pazner's paper cutting work is enhancing...

  Sylvain Allard

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:54 pm

  Sharon Pazner's paper cutting work is enhancing both the positive and negative shapes. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)

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• richard hutten book-stamp

  10 Mar 2010 | 2:35 am

  'book-stamp' by richard hutten for TNT post in 2008, TNT post asked dutch designer richard hutten to come up with an new concept for a stamp. then half a year ago TNT got the request to bring out a stamp on the occasion of the 75th book-week, in the netherlands. this was the occasion in which TNT combined forces with hutten. the result is a stamp in the form of a book, with the concept, design and photography of the stamp having been executed by hutten. the 3 x 4 cm book has 8 pages. 'on the stamp, you can see the suggestion of the third dimension,' hutten explains. 'you can see a 3D…

• otto neurath: gypsy urbanism

  10 Mar 2010 | 2:20 am

  'wirtschaftsformen der erde', in gesellschaft und wirtschaft. bildstatistisches elementarwerk, leipzig 1930 image © MAK the exhibition 'otto neurath. gypsy urbanism' is dedicated to the work of the viennese philosopher and economist otto neurath (1882–1945). this scientist, housing activist and museum director, who constantly worked for the advancement of participative forms of democratic exchange, collaborated with architects, designers and artists of his day – including franz schuster, josef frank, and margarete schütte- lihotzky – and with protagonists of the so-called vienna circle,…

• 51 - 1 arquitectos: museum of modern art, colombia

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:50 am

  the museum of modern art, medellin, colombia by 51 - 1 arquitectos all images courtesy  51 - 1 arquitectos peruvian firm 51 - 1 arquitectos won the competition to design the museum of modern art in the city of medellin, colombia. the reasons given by the jury read's 'this proposal is relevant to the requirements of the urban context and future development of the lots adjacent to the museum, and is consistent with the need for a model of intervention and consolidation of land adjacent to the museum ... ' the building consists of approximately 6 levels, each stacked on top of of one another,…

• naoto fukasawa small chair hiroshima

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:49 am

  japanese furniture company maruni wood industry has added new pieces to their hiroshima series for their 2010 collection. 'hiroshima chair' all images by yoneo kawabe one of the new pieces is the 'hiroshima chair', a small chair which follows the same look as the 'hiroshima arm chair'. the design keeps in mind the texture of the wood used to finish the legs, back frame and top rail of the seat which look as if they are seamlessly one piece. the thin upholstered seat can be removed for easy maintenance. up close side view front view back view 'hiroshima ottoman' with 'hiroshima lounge chair' a…

• marks barfield architects: factory, birmingham

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:30 am

  'myplace' by mark barfield architects all images courtesy mark barfield architects longbridge in birmingham, once the site of the largest manufacturing plant in the world, could be transformed into a new place for young people through the myplace initiative, a multi-million pound government programme. the aim of myplace is to design, in partnership with the young people who will use them, world class facilities to help them make the most of their free time and to deliver them throughout the UK. the factory design concept was developed by steven chilton of marks barfield architects (MBA),…

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• Black Diamond 'Mistress Ring' To Be Given To Howard Stern Pageant Winner

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:01 pm

  Howard Stern's beauty pageant for Tiger Woods' alleged mistresses takes place Wednesday and the winner gets not only a prize of $100,000 from the AshleyMadison.com website but also a 'mistress' ring. Jeweler Steven Singer, infamous for his "I Hate Steven Singer" ad campaigns, created a 3.5-carat total weight black diamond ring for the winner of pageant which will be held live on air during Stern's Sirius XM radio show. A few of the women involved in the Tiger Woods scandal will participate in several categories like "bikini" and "talent" to win the prize. The jeweler says the piece is the…

• Donald Trump Sued In New Lawsuit Over Failed Project

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:01 pm

  Looks like the saga of the failed Trump Ocean Resort Baja is far from over. Radar Online has documents that show a new lawsuits has recently been filed by seven investors in the project. The individuals sued not just Donald Trump but his children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump and others saying they were " duped into buying hotel-condominium units that were never built." The plaintiffs have asked for punitive damages of no less than $10 million dollars. The lawsuit details the many ways that the plaintiffs feel like they were swindled by Trump. They were led to believe that Trump was…

• Lagerfeld Receives The Légion D'honneur

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:01 pm

  Ostentatious designer Karl Lagerfeld has has just been tapped to receive the Légion d'honneur, the highest decoration in France, on the eve of the latest Chanel fashion show in Paris. The honor, the full title of which is the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur ("National Order of the Legion of Honour") was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802. Lagerfeld was notified of the honor prior to the fashion show by by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Vogue UK reports. A date for the official ceremony has yet to be set. Meanwhile, Lagerfeld has been chosen to photograph the next…

• Seattle Four Seasons Project Faces Massive Liens

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:01 pm

  More woes for the Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences in downtown Seattle. The Seattle Times reports that the project is now facing a total of $34 million in liens filed by contractors. The $120 million Four Seasons opened in Fall 2008 but as we mentioned last summer the project, which houses some of Seattle's most expensive condo units, has been a bit of a slow seller. There are 36 condos spread out over 11 stories above the 10-story Four Seasons Hotel. A lien for $23.7 million, was filed in August by Lease Crutcher Lewis, the project's general contractor. Other liens have been filed…

• Annie Leibovitz Gets New Debt Deal

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:02 pm

  There's an update in the Annie Leibovitz debt saga. For the last year Leibovitz has been struggling with a heavy debt load. She borrowed $24 million from Art Capital Group and as collateral the company took not only her two homes and all her negatives and the copyright to her photographs but also an agreement to sell her archives to repay the loan and the rights to arrange the sale. Now Businessweek reports that Colony Capital LLC has agreed to take over her debt after she bought back control of her works and real estate from Art Capital Group. The situation got ugly last year when Art…

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• Do You Doo-Nanny?

  Becky

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:06 am

  So Drew told me about this outsider art festival in Alabama called Do0-Nanny. Has anyone ever been? It sounds like a blast. It also says it’s 2.5 hours from Atlanta, but barring any sort of NASCAR related traffic or something horrible like that, I betcha I can make it in two. Anyway, I don’t understand exactly what it is, and I’m not a huge fan of camping, but it sounds fun and I collect outsider art. It’s March 27-28, and here’s the description from their website: A truly unique experience!….a casserole of southern folk art, home cookin, homemade movies,…

• Organization Tuesday: Keepin’ it Pretty

  Becky

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:21 am

  Being organized and being pretty don’t have to go hand-in-hand, but it really helps. I recently treated myself to a fun class, and one of the first things our teacher told us was to get a pretty notebook. Cynic that I am, I kind of snorted at that, but two days later I found myself at Papersource plopping down twenty-five bucks for a KOLO linen three-ring binder.* Let me tell you why it was worth it. I put all of my assignments in it and left it out on the coffee table. I wasn’t constantly trying to stash some ugly vinyl binder somewhere out of eyesight and losing track of where…

• Inspiration Monday: Designer Q&A with Jodie Fried of Bholu

  ali

  8 Mar 2010 | 11:10 am

  Today I have a super special designer interview to share: Jodie Fried of Bholu. The women who make the Bholu pillows and toys are not just manufacturers, they are true artisans and Jodie has given them the platform and opportunity to make a living in majorly underprivileged areas of India. The products are inspired from children’s drawings AND Jodie has worked to provide these underprivileged and malnourished kids schools, food and incredible care. All of this while following strict Fair Trade practices. Inspiring? Yes, I do think so. Where does the word Bholu come from? Bholu was born…

• Flickr Faves on Fridays: Fresh New Television Rooms

  Becky

  5 Mar 2010 | 8:32 am

  This week’s Flickr Fave from tiffanycsteinke is just such a nice balance of color and white and of modern and retro. Plus I love pets in shots: As I went back to the Fresh New Spaces Group to retrieve a link to Tiffany’s photostream, I accidentally clicked on another thumbnail, thinking it was the same room. Tiffany, meet fellow flickr member and Fresh New Spaces contributor Romero Castellano! I think your living rooms should be dating each other

• D.I.Y. Disasters: IKEA Sconce Lampshades

  Becky

  3 Mar 2010 | 7:04 pm

  What’s wrong with this picture? It’s another Becky D.I.Y. Disaster! I’ve decided to reveal my complete lack of skills when it comes to Do-It-Yourself to you, because at least a few of you seem to find it funny. I read ReadyMade, I come up with all kinds of overambitious ideas, and when I go to execute, the results are laughable. I finally bought some new sconce/chandelier lampshades at RE-Store the other day (that place is AWESOME!) for $2.95 each, new in package (I also picked up some earplugs for my neighbor’s weekly two hour leaf blowing extravaganzas, for ten cents…

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• Kid Cudi - Pursuit Of Happiness

  Fubiz

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:30 pm

  Voici la version alternative du dernier clip de l’artiste Kid Cudi, en featuring avec le groupe MGMT et Ratatat. Sur le titre “Pursuit Of Happiness”, ce clip très réussi a été dirigé par le collectif français Megaforce. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article. Previously on Fubiz Isenseven - Times Booba - Salade Tomates Oignons Michel Gondry for Mia Doi Todd

• L’Arc Paris Design

  Fubiz

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:00 am

  Coup de cœur pour la décoration de l’Arc Paris, situé à Etoile face au monument de l’arc de Triomphe. Un changement radical et spectaculaire du lieu, après 4 mois de travaux. A noter les nombreuses audaces en matière de design et un style contemporain conçu par Samy Chams. Previously on Fubiz Nike Design Identity Marc Da Cunha Lopes Piu by Pleix

• Sébastien Tellier - Look

  Fubiz

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:55 am

  Après Philippe Katerine et le groupe Air, voici la nouvelle réalisation du duo de dessinateurs Mrzyk & Moriceau pour ce vidéo-clip de Sébastien Tellier. Sur le titre Look, les illustrations et les tracés s’animent au fur et à mesure des pas de la jeune fille. Produit par Record Makers. Previously on Fubiz Air - So Light is her Footfall Nike Design Identity Open Air Pool Eybesfeld

• Tron Legacy Trailer

  Fubiz

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:55 am

  Après le premier trailer en juillet dernier, voici une nouvelle bande-annonce officielle du film très attendu Tron Legacy. Une bande son du groupe Daft Punk et une réalisation de Joseph Kosinski. Toujours prévue pour une sortie en salles le 15 décembre 2010. Previously on Fubiz Adidas x Star Wars Video Daft Punk : Dj Hero Daft Punk by Mitch Feinberg

• Reynolds Campaign

  Fubiz

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:10 am

  Une direction artistique percutante avec ces lignes et le jeu autour d’un double mot. Une campagne sobre de JWT Dubai, afin de montrer la finesse d’écriture des “stylos à billes” de la marque Reynolds. Une illustration de Tarek Samaan démontrant la baseline : For fine lines. Previously on Fubiz Better Together Campaign Lacoste 2010 Campaign Hermès Spring 2010 Campaign

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• avantgarde

  Mr K (boss)

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:21 pm

  Création du jeune graphic designer belge de 22 ans Maxime Quoilin, un petit focus sur avantgarde, un très beau projet graphique à la fois propre, rigoureux et créatif qui révèle le talent créatif de ce jeune artiste plutôt prometteur. Le projet complet dans la suite ! Découverte en images dans la galerie Credits & copyright Maxime Quoilin Dans la même thématique Effing Typeface Kervin Brisseaux Pablo Jeffer Da Silva aka Rockfield Michal Sycz aka Noeeko Wesley Eggebrecht

• Cognitive Balloon

  Mr K (boss)

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:06 pm

  Imaginé par les designers Min Ji Hong et Kim Dong Eon pour trouver une solutions de détection fiable des risques de noyades sur les plages publiques et récompensé d’un red dot award « design concept 2009″, le Cognitive Balloon est un concept de bracelet à partir duquel un ballon peut être libéré par simple pression d’un bouton pour aider à capter l’attention des sauveteurs. Grâce à un mécanisme permettant de remplir le ballon d’hélium pour lui permettre de s’envoler, tout en le gardant attaché par un fil, la personne peut ainsi…

• Light Birds Installation

  Mr K (boss)

  8 Mar 2010 | 8:11 pm

  Réalisée par le designer espagnol Josean Vilar pour le patio de l’hôtel Neptuno de Valence, un petit coup de projecteur sur cette splendide installation permanente réalisée à partir d’éléments tri-dimensionnels brillants suspendus qui projettent des ombres et des reflets faisant penser à des oiseaux de lumière. Découverte en images dans la suite ! Plus de détails en images dans la galerie Credits & copyright Josean Vilar / Hotel Neptuno Valencia – via Luxury Issues Dans la même thématique Maison Hermès window display Lamborghini Ankonian Concept Octium…

• Audi – Beauty In Engineering

  Mr K (boss)

  8 Mar 2010 | 6:16 pm

  Réalisé par le directeur créatif américain Aladino Debert basé en Californie, un petit retour sur le superbe spot imaginé pour le constructeur automobile allemand Audi. Véritable mise en avant de l’esthétique des modèles et de l’innovation de la marque, découvrez la vidéo intégrale en HD dans la suite ! Découverte de la vidéo intégrale en HD Cliquer ici pour voir la vidéo. More informations Spec spot I designed and directed. Radium/ReelFX funded the project as a showcase of our work. 100% CG. Full credits list at the end. Copyright Aladino Debert Dans la même…

• Futurist Bicycle Concept

  Mr K (boss)

  8 Mar 2010 | 6:48 am

  Imaginé par le designer américain John Villarreal basé dans le Wisconsin, le Futurist Bicycle Concept est une étude de style purement prospective autour d’un concept de vélo du futur qui intégrerait une transmission d’un nouveau type, un cadre très léger au système de fixation des roues innovant et des roues totalement dépourvues de rayons. Découverte en images dans la suite ! Plus de détails en images dans la galerie Description originale A design that shows a peek into the future as materials and manufacturing advance. Our ability to manufacture lighter frames with…

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• SpoolCast: Design Lessons from Facebook’s 350 Million with Julie Zhuo

  Brian Christiansen

  2 Mar 2010 | 11:07 am

  Duration: 34m | 18 MB Recorded: February, 2010 Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer [ Subscribe to our podcast via ←This link will launch the iTunes application.] [ Subscribe with other podcast applications.] [ Transcript Available ] Julie Zhuo When Facebook tweaks anything, it gets coverage across the IT and design realms, and sometimes the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. If the users don’t like the changes, they form protest groups… how can a team operate under such a public microscope? Julie Zhuo knows. She is the Product Design Manager at Facebook. As the principal…

• UIEtips: Social Tagging and the Enterprise – Does Tagging Work at Work?

  Jared Spool

  1 Mar 2010 | 12:29 pm

  Tagging has been around for more than 8 years. The technique, also called folksonomy, is simple: users apply their own words or phrases to content they uncover, leaving a trail back for themselves and for future content seekers. Each tag conveys meaning, giving a path to discovering new content that traditional navigation can’t. Since their inception, we’ve seen some excellent implementations and some disastrous ones. The excellent implementations quickly lead users to the content they seek, and help discover items they didn’t know existed or wouldn’t have found…

• The Promise of Folksonomies, Real or hype?

  Adam Churchill

  25 Feb 2010 | 8:17 am

  When folksonomies showed up almost 10 years ago, they promised to make information on our sites easier to use. After all, if users apply their own tags to every piece of content, everything will be easier to find, right? Maybe yes, maybe no. Our favorite taxonomy and category expert, Stephanie Lemieux, has spent the last few years integrating folksonomies into several large-scale web sites. In our next UIE Virtual Seminar—Tagging with Folksonomies in a Taxonomy World—she’ll share her experiences, showing us what works and what to avoid, when you integrate folksonomies into your…

• SpoolCast: Interesting Moments with Bill Scott

  Brian Christiansen

  23 Feb 2010 | 12:01 pm

  Duration: 36m | 17 MB Recorded: January, 2010 Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer [ Subscribe to our podcast via ←This link will launch the iTunes application.] [ Subscribe with other podcast applications.] [ Transcript Available ] Bill Scott If you’re using advanced, or “rich” interactions in your web applications, then it’s likely you have Bill Scott and Theresa Neil’s Designing Web Interfaces on your desk, if not your bedstand. Published in 2009, it is perhaps the definitive tome on rich interactive design patterns for the web. Bill has dedicated a…

• UIEtips: Browse vs. Search in Application Navigation

  Jared Spool

  22 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pm

  When our applications grow large and complex, how do we help users find the right commands and functions? If we were talking about large data sets, we’d build in a search capability. Would search also work for finding commands? Our good friend, Hagan Rivers, explores that question in this issue of UIEtips. Inspired by our recent UIE Virtual Seminar on Search & Discovery Patterns with Peter Morville and Mark Burrell, Hagan started thinking about her own area of expertise: making complex navigation simple. That’s when her article, Browse vs. Search in Application Navigation,…

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• Help Jamie Oliver Change Our Children’s Eating Habits

  Robert

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:32 pm

  Ahead of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, premiering on ABC this Friday, it’s worth watching his powerful 18-minute TED Prize presentation where he outlines the threat of unhealthy eating habits of America’s children.  For his work against childhood obesity, the TED Prize awarded him $100,000 towards his “One Wish to Save the World”. “I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.” Sign Jamie’s petition to show how…

• It’s Time to Start Your Patio Garden

  Robert

  5 Mar 2010 | 12:44 am

  Easier than going to Home Depot on the weekends, Patio Garden sets from Los Angeles-based design studio, Scout Regalia, will get your backyard garden set up quickly.  The kits are available in a fully assembled version ($185) or a DIY Patio Garden kit ($95) that includes all the brackets, drainage pad, and fasteners where you only need to provide the lumber. For us, there’s no better teaching activity than growing an outdoor family garden with your kids, so with spring around the corner, it’s time to get started. Visit our sponsors: Orbit Baby – a modern baby transportation…

• Miller Goodman’s Playshapes

  Robert

  2 Mar 2010 | 6:18 pm

  Unleash the creativity in your child with the unlimited possibilities with the 74 shapes included in Miller Goodman’s Playshapes set.  See just some of the creative possibilities of these wooden blocks at their Flickr page. Playshapes |  £75 at Miller Goodman

• Animal Painting Puzzle Toys from Barcelona

  Robert

  24 Feb 2010 | 1:38 pm

  Zoomaderita Animal Puzzles are cut from Finnish birch, and their clean wooden shapes are designed to invite kids to paint and decorate to their heart’s content.  A quick search found only the Snakes puzzle available online via Kinuma – and be ready to pay in Euros.  Otherwise, inquiries can be made to MedioDesign, the creators of Zoomaderita. via KidsModern Order Your Holiday Cards Now from Tiny Prints Visit our sponsors: Orbit Baby – a modern baby transportation system Boodalee – modern kids bedding Boon – hip baby products and toddler gear Card Store –…

• Is Ketchup Making Your Kids Fat?

  Robert

  16 Feb 2010 | 10:12 pm

  Kids love their sauces, don’t they?  From ketchup to syrups to peanut butter to mayonnaise, these foods’ high calories add up fast.  After Allie Firestone sums up her day’s consumption of condiments, just imagine how these sugary sauces threaten your efforts to helping your family eat healthy. The Truth is in the Calories Not all savory and sweet additions are a bad choice, but the truth is that most of our average condiments pack huge amounts of high-fructose corn syrup, sugar, sodium, and oil. Think barbecued chicken is a healthy choice? Not exactly. Because the sauce is…

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  Brand New

• Oscarama for Logorama

  Armin

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:54 am

  In dozens of years of watching the Oscars I had never cared about the outcome of the Best Animated Short Film, but this year it was different as in the running was a 16-minute film done almost entirely out of, literally, thousands of logos. Created by the French collective H5, and winner of the 2009 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, Logorama is not only a clever idea that brings to life some of the most ubiquitous marks of our time, but one that manages to exploit the meaning and conceptions we have of those marks and the brands behind them — whether it's the villain of the…

• This Just in: History is Coming Back… Sort of

  Brand New

  8 Mar 2010 | 4:10 am

  Before it closed down for renovations in 2009, to reopen in 2011, the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia suffered from lack of exposure. A quick look at the original website reveals all you need to know about the old brand. The brutish colors and default appearance reveal a small organization without much concern for engaging the audience. Compared to the other kid-friendly museums in Philadelphia like the Franklin Institute (whose original home was actually the Atwater Kent building), the Atwater Kent Museum is about as exciting as a textbook. Having visited the museum once in my elementary…

• En Garde, Bad Logos

  Brand New

  5 Mar 2010 | 3:50 am

  Les Mousquetaires (The Musketeers), is a leading French super and hypermarket chain founded in 1969, employing 130,000 people across Europe in over 4,000 stores, with a turnover of €35 million (US$47 million) in 2008. The name is, of course, a direct reference to Alexandre Dumas' 19th century novel about the adventures and escapades of a group of sword fighting, good living, soldier friends in the reign of Louis 13th of France. The Musketeers are synonymous of friendship, adventures and the good life in France and are part of popular culture, an association this supermarket has happily…

• Melbourne, One Heart Too Many?

  Brand New

  4 Mar 2010 | 3:54 am

  Melbourne Heart FC is a soccer team that will begin competing in the A-League during the upcoming 2010/11 season, and, until recently, lacked a concrete name and identity. Soccer has a strange place within Australian sporting culture. In spite of the relative success of our national team at the last World Cup, and the increase in popularity with the introduction of the A-League in 2004, the world game has always been the bridesmaid to the brides of the other (more successful) Australian football codes. Melbourne, in particular, is a hard place for new team to succeed — with 9 out of 16…

• Facing Another Smile

  Brand New

  3 Mar 2010 | 3:56 am

  Argos is the largest general merchandise and home retailer in the UK with a network of 750 stores throughout Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Known mostly for a catalogue-based selling system, Argos is a multi-channel retailer that lays claim to a 30-year heritage and defined by a unique retail experience. Argos is a high volume, fast-paced and highly effective commercial goods delivery mechanism, servicing more than 130 million customers per year and boasting an annual turnover over £4 billion (US$6 billion). A lightweight brand, Argos is most certainly not. The front of a typical…

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  EPIC FU (HD)

• Punk Rock Legend Patti Smith

  10 Feb 2010 | 2:59 pm

  We're finally set up in our spanking new studio in downtown LA! We recently had an awesome conversation with rock music legend Patti Smith to talk about the documentary shot about her life over 11 years. Plus, we have a free Patti Smith book giveaway! Patti Smith: Dream of Life - Official site, PBS POV site about the film, Our full PBS interview with Patti Smith, Dream of Life trailer in HD, Our PBS interview with director Steven Sebring Music Video Spotlight: Because the Night (cover) - by Slanelle from France Giveaway: Twitter @epicfu with your testimonial or a link to a video or a blog…

• 3D In 3 Minutes

  28 Jan 2010 | 10:22 pm

  In case you've been under a rock, it's a 3D world. In this edition of Epic Fu Film, we talk about people who prefer 3D movies to reality, look at YouTube's foray into 3D, and see an amazing 3D video projection project! Film Fu of the Week: UrbanScreen's 555 Kubik Facade Projection Short Film Spotlight: Re-entry by Tim Maupin - a 3D short thesis film Discussion: 3D: Better Than the Real Thing? Show Links: Avatar, Clash of the Titans, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Gremlins 3, Ghostbusters 3, House of Wax 3D clip, Dial M for Murder clip, The Three Stooges in Spooks, Althouse on…

• Can Music Save the World?

  25 Jan 2010 | 10:36 pm

  It's the first Epic Fu Music, and just in time! We take a look at the efforts musicians are making to help Haiti, a project pairing street musicians with pop songs, and hear about the songs and albums that changed your life. Music Fu of the Week: The Sixty One - their new visual music discovery site is amazing Music Video Spotlight: Jam Session 2.0 - 8 people with 5 instruments from 4 continents speaking 3 languages for 1 song Discussion: What song or album changed your life? Show Links: Hope for Haiti Now, Wyclef's video for Haiti, Wilco's free concert music, Music for Relief, Playing for…

• Conan's Balls of Steel!

  21 Jan 2010 | 4:48 pm

  We're back with a new season! Today it's our first Epic Fu Film and we are urging Conan O'Brien to take his orange coiffure to the web! Plus we look at film fights, recreated memories, the shortest of shorts, and a one man film studio! It's Epic Fu Film! Film Fu of the Week: Alex Roman and his film The Third & The Seventh Short Film Spotlight: Zombie Zombie (France), Directed by Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann Show Links: I'm With CoCo Facebook group, LA Conan rally video, NYC Conan Rally video, Crazy CGI version of the late night battle out of Taiwan, Conan's statement refusing to move…

• Epic Fu Returns Jan 21!

  12 Jan 2010 | 12:54 am

  It's been ages but we're coming back better than ever!!! We'll be posting behind-the-scenes videos leading up to the Jan 21 relaunch for Season 6. If you're in LA, come party with us on Jan 21st -- free drinks all night! Click the "links" tab for all the links! Big thanks to HP and Intel for sponsoring the relaunch!!! Come to our relaunch party with the good folks from Tubefilter! Free drinks all night! http://epicfu.com/party. If you can't make it don't worry -- pour a drink and tune in to http://epicfu.com/live. Big thanks to HP and Intel for sponsoring the relaunch. They will be giving…

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• What burger chain reigns supreme?

  Nathan

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:23 am

  In a follow up to his McDonald's map, Stephen Von Worley of Weather Sealed maps the dominating burger chains across the United States. McDonald's obviously has a stronghold in a lot of areas but not all of them. Most noticeable is Sonic Drive-in with over 900 restaurants in Texas alone. Personally, I'm rooting for Carl's Jr. and In-n-Out. [via We Love Datavis]

• Canada: the country that pees together stays together

  Nathan

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:50 pm

  EPCOR, the water utility company that runs the fountains up in Edmonton, Canada released this graph yesterday. It's water consumption during the Olympic gold medal hockey game, overlaying consumption of the previous day. How much do Canadians love their hockey? A lot. The first period ends. Time to pee. The second period ends. Time to pee. The third period ends. Time to pee. Consumption goes way down when Canada wins and during the medal ceremony. Finally, when it's all said and done, the rest of the country can relieve itself, figuratively and literally. [via contrarian | thanks,…

• Looking Inside a Bus Routing Algorithm

  Nathan

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:58 am

  In an effort to put transit data from the Toronto Transit Committee to better use, MyTTC provides a trip planner to help you find the best route from point A to point B. This video, compete with smart arses sitting on a couch, provides a peek into how the underlying algorithm works. [Thanks, Canna]

• Edward Tufte will serve on Recovery Independent Advisory Panel

  Nathan

  8 Mar 2010 | 8:53 pm

  Big news for all you Edward Tufte fanboys and girls. He will be joining the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel who will advise The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. The Board's purpose is to track and explain how the $787 billion in stimulus funds is being put to use. I'm doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in public service. And it is the complete opposite of everything else I do. Maybe I'll learn something. The practical consequence is that I will probably go to Washington several days each month, in addition to whatever homework and phone…

• Data Underload #12 – Famous Movie Quotes

  Nathan

  7 Mar 2010 | 9:33 pm

  Here's looking at you, data point.

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  Design Observer: Main Posts

• The Butterfly People

  Design Observer

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:48 pm

• Critical Beats

  Design Observer

  8 Mar 2010 | 11:58 am

  On Places, Nancy Levinson argues that the fundamental dilemma of architecture criticism is the rise of the global beat — dateline: placeless.

• Death’s Bloom

  Design Observer

  8 Mar 2010 | 6:34 am

  From 1913 to 1971 five thousand one hundred and twenty one mentally ill patients were cremated. Their remains were sealed in copper canisters. In 2000 David Masiel photographed them.

• Today, 03.06.10

  Design Observer

  6 Mar 2010 | 5:55 am

  Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's TODAY.

• The Architect as Urbanist: Part 2

  Design Observer

  5 Mar 2010 | 11:30 am

  On Places, architectural historian Robert Bruegmann continues his analysis of Paul Rudolph's late work, with a focus on several extraordinary projects in southeast Asia.

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  GUERRILLA INNOVATION

• Nano Supermarket: Call for Speculative Products

  4 Mar 2010 | 12:30 pm

  The Next Nature foundation calls upon designers, technologists and artists to submit speculative nanotech products for the upcoming NANO SUPERMARKET in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The supermarket will be feature debate–provoking visions on possible products expected to hit the shelves between today and 2020. Submission deadline: May 12, 2010. • www.nextnature.net/events/nano-supermarket

• Fuck Google - Build your own Google Street View car

  28 Feb 2010 | 12:26 pm

  For Transmediale 2010 members of the R&D network F.A.T. met in Berlin and produced a series of projects dedicated to the topic of the week: FUCK GOOGLE. In addition to on-site workshops, F.A.T. Lab built a fake Google Street View car and took it out for a ride in the city of Berlin. Watch the hilarious video, in which the fake Google car gets lost (the driver has to ask for directions), jams the traffic and in other ways attracts negative attention. For information on how to make your own Google Street View car go to: fffff.at/google-street-view-car • Video on Vimeo via PopUp City

• ShadyUrl

  28 Feb 2010 | 10:51 am

  Shady URL is an online tool, that can turn an innocent looking URL into a suspicious and frightening one. For instance, the ShadyUrl engine turns www.twitter.com into http://5z8.info/illegal-guns-for-sale_f5v7f_launchexe and CNN.com into http://5z8.info/guns_u1t5v_murdervids. You can also opt for shorter URL's, albeit making them a little less shady. • www.shadyurl.com

• Reconfigured Typewriter

  28 Feb 2010 | 10:36 am

  Ambo Dextro is a typewriter in which the keys have been rearranged so there is no correspondence between what you think you type and what you get on the paper. Characters, words and sentences are simply turned into abstract visual text as you type. Ambo Dextro is on display in Copenhagen at the new gallery IMO projects until March 20. The piece is made by New York based artist Tauba Auerbach. Visit her website for other fabulous pieces - her website is basically a piece in itself. • Ambo Dextro

• 'Sent Things'. An exhibition of objects sent to Paul Smith

  28 Feb 2010 | 10:25 am

  For the past 10-15 years, an anonymous admirer have been sending different items to fashion designer Paul Smith by post. Items include a a surfboard, a coffee-pot, a skateboard and lots of other things. These objects were never send in a box, they simply had post stamps on them. Quite amazingly, they still arrived at Paul Smith's store in Covent Garden, London. The objects were recently exhibited at Stockholm Furniture Fair and Designboom has put together a great post with pictures from the exhibition, including some comments from Sir Paul himself. • www.designboom.com

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  InspirationKing

• Blogsolid

  Not an entirely new concept, but beautiful nonetheless.

• Emeril's

  A great website with a very pleasing design.

• Trale

  Something is very soothing about this website. Good design and usability at it’s best!

• Web Designer Wall

  Amazing eye for detail and colour. A must see!

• Portfolio

  Boring? Perfect? Either way it’s drop dead gorgeus.

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• Crowdsourcing the creative

  Tim Leberecht

  6 Mar 2010 | 10:47 am

  For Wired UK's "Work Smarter" issue (just released), I had the pleasure to speak with John Winsor, co-founder and CEO of Victors & Spoils (V&S), the world's first creative (ad) agency built on crowdsourcing principles.

• Penguin book innovates in publishing...again

  Adam Richardson

  5 Mar 2010 | 11:12 am

  Penguin's new foray into iPad "books" is not the first time in its 75 year history where it has embraced radical innovation. In fact the company was founded on it.

• It's time to rethink the C-suite

  Adam Richardson

  3 Mar 2010 | 10:38 pm

  Today's complex world has made the traditional set of C-level roles out-moded. We need to embrace a new set of roles that better match to the challenges companies are facing.

• The Pitfalls of Customer-Led Innovation

  Adam Richardson

  18 Feb 2010 | 6:21 pm

  Relying on customer input to guide innovation is not all it's cracked up to be.

• The hardware hogs all the glory

  Adam Richardson

  4 Feb 2010 | 5:27 pm

  Why do we get so attracted to shiny new hardware, when it's actually the software and services that make the hardware worthwhile?

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  O Danny Boy

• Thoughts on my 40 Before 40 List

  Dan

  17 Feb 2010 | 4:19 pm

  A year ago, on my 39th birthday, I published a list of 40 things I wanted to do before I turned 40. By the end of yesterday, I had finished 25.5 of them. Am I disappointed I didn't finish all 40? A little, but the list was always aspirational, and in the last year, I've done at least 40 great things that weren't on the list, some of them silly (jumping naked into the icy Baltic Sea), some of them life-changing. To say this last year was challenging is an understatement; my marriage and my business almost both dissolved, and I've been on the brink of financial and emotional ruin several times.

• Designing Devices

  Dan

  9 Jan 2010 | 1:27 pm

  <p>I've started a new blog for long articles about the design of products called <a href="http://www.designingdevices.com">Designing Devices. I'd like to turn them into a book one day, but for now they're just a free blog for your enjoyment, so happy reading!

• Albums of the Year 2009

  Dan

  20 Dec 2009 | 4:16 pm

  10. Passion Pit, Manners 9. Rhett Miller, Rhett Miller 8. Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson, Break Up 7. Metric, Fantasies 6. Eels, Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire 5. Bishop Allen, Grrr... 4. Harlem Shakes, Technicolor Health 3. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Pains of Being Pure at Heart 2. XX, XX 1. The Thermals, Now We Can See Songs of the Year: Phoenix, "1901," Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Zero," The Sounds, "No One Sleeps When I'm Awake," Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard, "One Fast Move or I'm Gone," Cracker, "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out with Me," Lady GaGa, "Pokerface." Previous years' lists: 2008,…

• Top 25 Albums of The Decade 2000-2009

  Dan

  20 Dec 2009 | 3:05 pm

  Some of the best lists are idiosyncratic, as is this one. My two pieces of criteria were: 1. Are most, if not all, of the songs on the album very good (non-skippable); and 2. how often I went back to listen to the album, months or years after I first heard it. In all of these cases, these albums met those criteria. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. 25. Blind Pilot, 3 Rounds and a Sound (2008) 24. The Ting Tings, We Started Nothing (2008) 23. Shout Out Louds, Howl Howl Gaff Gaff (2005) 22. Bishop Allen, Charm School (2003) 21. Ben Folds, Rockin' the Suburbs (2001) 20. Vampire Weekend,…

• Designing for Interaction 2

  Dan

  14 Oct 2009 | 10:19 am

  I realized I neglected to post here that the second edition of my book Designing for Interaction came out in August! It's available now from Amazon and other fine booksellers. Some excerpts you might enjoy:Table of Contents and Chapter 1: What is Interaction Design? (2.6mb pdf)Chapter 4: Design Research (on the New Riders site) Chapter 6: Ideation and Design Principles (on Johnny Holland) New chapter! Other new chapters include Design Strategy (Chapter 3); Design Research Analysis (Chapter 5); and Prototyping and Development (Chapter 8). Most of the rest of the book has been substantially…

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• Zappos Breaks New Campaign

  Paloma Vazquez

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:10 am

  Zappos has launched an interesting new campaign centered around the notion of "delivering happiness."

• Know Where Your Milk Comes From

  Naresh Kumar

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:01 am

  Whereismymilkfrom.com helps people to know the exact location of the dairy products they consume.

• TabbedOut: Pay For Your Bar Tab Using An iPhone

  Naresh Kumar

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:04 pm

  TabbedOut is an iPhone application which allows users to order and pay for their tabs at local bars.

• New Breakthrough In Extracting Hydrogen From Water

  Naresh Kumar

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:02 pm

  In a new experiment, British scientists reported 60% efficiency in the process to produce hydrogen from water.

• Reinvention At Digital Shops: From Online Advertisers To Tech Innovators

  Paloma Vazquez

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:01 pm

  Razorfish and R/GA are delivering on the original vision of dot-com era digital shops, acting as management consultants and innovation experts.

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• Paul Made This

  Jack

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:11 pm

  Well presented body of work from multidisciplinary designer, Paul Gledhill.

• Michael Bojkowski

  Gil

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:58 am

  Michael Bojkowski is one of those guys who must be able to bend time. The amount and quality of content he produces is envy inducing. Involved in lot sof different projects and studios on a freelance basis I’m sure this certainly helps. His freelance studio ok interrupt showcases a strong folio of editorial design and publishing boast clients such as Esquire UK and YCN. LineFeed/Press Publish another side project, is a chance for him to discuss his indulgent love of magazines and dable in independent publishing which I’m sure has helped land him lots of work and guest…

• Ideas you forgot

  Jack

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:11 am

  Ideas You Forgot is the impressive portfolio of graduate German designer, Regina Rebele. She works out of Augsburg, Germany.

• 2014 Commonwealth Games Identity Launch

  Jack

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:52 am

  2014 Glasgow 20th Commonwealth Games from Rob Chiu on Vimeo. Following yesterdays post of the new 2014 Commonwealth Games Identity, created Marque Creative. Here is the new launch video, Directed, Edited, Animated, Composited and Graded by Rob Chiu. Additional Logo animation by Hoss Gifford. DoP Paul O’Callaghan. Location + Talent Producer Iain Hopkins for 1759, Gaffer Dave Hutton Spark Simon Hutton. Sound Design and Score by Hecq.

• Pleks

  Jack

  8 Mar 2010 | 6:07 am

  Stunning portfolio from the Danish purveyors of ‘visual futures’, Pleks.

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• This Week's Hot Packaging Jobs from The Dieline

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:12 pm

  Art Director - PackagingEnesco LLC , Itasca, ILDesignerAdam&Co., Boston, MACLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

• Chiquita Banana Brand Refresh

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:05 pm

    Great article on Design Related discussing Chiquita's latest brand refresh...CLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

• Budgens

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:52 am

  New work from Pentagram:"New brand packaging for the Budgens gin, vodka and whisky...CLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

• Green Marker

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:44 am

  Love these page markers and simple packaging, design and sold by Yuruliku Design.CLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

• Student Spotlight: Pasta Salina

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:37 am

     New work from one of Sylvain Allard's packaging students:"Here is a...CLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

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• March 2010 | 6 TREND VIDEOS

  28 Feb 2010 | 5:01 pm

  This month, we bring you a light-hearted yet insight-heavy video edition, featuring consumers from all over the world, speaking their mind on a variety of trend topics. Read 6 TREND VIDEOS »

• February 2010 | FUNCTIONALL

  24 Jan 2010 | 5:01 pm

  FUNCTIONALL highlights a new breed of products that are simple / small / cheap (with a dash of sustainability), giving them global appeal, from India to Sweden. Now, if that doesn't warrant a brainstorming session... Read FUNCTIONALL »

• December 2009 | 10 CRUCIAL CONSUMER TRENDS FOR 2010

  16 Nov 2009 | 5:01 pm

  All yours: ten consumer trends that will inspire you to introduce new products and services over the next 12 months. Remember, you can't shrink your way to greatness ;-) Read 10 CRUCIAL CONSUMER TRENDS FOR 2010 »

• October 2009 | NOWISM

  12 Oct 2009 | 6:01 pm

  As the future is uncertain, and the past is, well, the past, instant-gratification seeking consumers are embracing anything that is 'real-time' with more passion than ever before. And despite this trend's seemingly ephemeral character, it is rich in solid, applicable trend examples... Read NOWISM »

• September 2009 | TRANSPARENCY TRIUMPH

  30 Aug 2009 | 6:01 pm

  Think 'transparency' is an established, maturing theme? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Here’s a fresh look at the latest and greatest in the transparency arena, where savvy consumers (as well as on-trend brands) can score triumph after triumph. Read TRANSPARENCY TRIUMPH »

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• Sync Lost

  The popularization of electronic instruments and computers, allied to the broad and easy reachable information through the internet, enabled the appearance of countless rhythmic structures, giving rise to new styles and sub styles within contemporary electronic music.Created in Processing, SyncLost is a multi-user immersive installation on the history of electronic music. The project's objective is to create an interface where users can view all the connections between the main styles of electronic music through visual and audible feedback.When you click on a particular node, all connections…

• SolidSX

  Software Explorer (SolidSX) is a standalone Windows application that provides insight into large software systems. SolidSX creates visualizations that simultaneously show the structure, dependencies, metrics on all types of source code elements (files, classes, methods, fields, etc.). By using hardware-accelerated graphics, SolidSX is able to display large amounts of information in a concise manner, providing easy exploration through large source codes.SolidSX comes as a generic structure/dependencies/metrics visualization tool, and can be adapted to any given programing language via importer…

• Plasma

  Comissioned by ArtAids, for the exhibition FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN, Plasma is an interactive network of links and tags that belongs to a ongoing research on the topic of AIDS, from an integral and holistic point of view. Created by Santiago Ortiz and L�a Legrand, the project is still under way and welcoming further collaboration.

• NetFlix Similarity Map

  This visualization depicts the similarities between 5,000 movies as found by an algorithm used for the Netflix Prize. Movies are represented by dots with adjacent titles. Similar movies, as determined by customer rating patterns, are connected by a line. Colors closer to red indicate a weaker similarity, and colors closer to yellow indicate a stronger similarity. Many similarly-rated movies tend to cluster around topics, themes, directors, or actors. You can see a previous version of the project here.

• PostModernNews

  PostModernNews deconstructs a collection of Twitter messages into a bag-of-words, replacing syntax with a graphic re-arrangement of terms that the reader must re-associate to assert meaning. Users can either enter particular search terms or select one of the expandable categories, e.g., Trends, Celebrities, Editorial, to get started. The interaction with the generated territory allows different behaviors. While some relationships are drawn, others are implied with boundaries, solid or porous, and others only appear when queried with the cursor.

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  Viewers Like You

• Mrzyk & Moriceau for Sebastien Tellier

  VLU | Max

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:03 pm

  Exclusive Sebastien Tellier video for the 10th anniversary of Record Makers.  

• Ok Go | Cog

  VLU | Max

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:30 am

• Liminal 2.0

  VLU | Tokyo | Ian

  5 Mar 2010 | 3:45 am

  Second printing of Liminal, a zine I wrote about Tokyo graffiti is now available. Screenprinted covers and inserts, one-color interior. Available for a cool $8 postpaid (shipping included) via Paypal to ian (at) ianlynam.com. Includes photos of work by QP, Ekys, Secto, Want, and SF writers Adek and Twist.

• Books in the Age of the iPad

  VLU | Tokyo | Ian

  4 Mar 2010 | 8:14 pm

  Craig Mod comes correct with this engaging treatise on the art of the book as we move forward, most prominently with the advent of the iPad, into the era of the digital book. Not a quick read, per se. Get a cup of coffee and mull this one over. It is worth the time.

• Tilt shift film | The Sandpit

  VLU | Max

  4 Mar 2010 | 7:06 pm

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• Rose Wylie

  wrongdistance

  21 Feb 2010 | 8:15 pm

  76 year old Rose Wylie outta London… Link

• Aaron Bagley

  wrongdistance

  21 Feb 2010 | 7:48 pm

  Link (via another bouncing ball)

• Sabine Finkenauer

  wrongdistance

  21 Feb 2010 | 7:42 pm

  Great work by Barcelona based Sabine Finkenauer who I found via the wonderful Stopping Off Place run by no less than michael dumontier. not surprisingly it’s great.

• Christopher lg hill

  wrongdistance

  7 Feb 2010 | 7:21 pm

  found here.

• Ansen Seale

  wrongdistance

  7 Feb 2010 | 7:17 pm

  This work, while a bit gimmicky, is well executed. I wonder if it would hold up well in a gallery / in first person. Link (via hysysk)

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• Afskaf tværfaglige innovationsteams!

  Morten Hejlesen

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:23 am

  Når nye vækstmuligheder skal identificeres, er det sund fornuft at sige farvel til tværfaglige teams og velkommen til fremtidens multidisciplinære medarbejdere. Et tværfagligt team kan være som at køre bil med én der trykker på speederen, mens en anden drejer på rattet. En ubehagelige og ubehjælpsom affære. Sats hellere på multidisciplinære medarbejdere, der forener modsætninger og krydser perspektiver. læs mere

• To fyraftensmøder om Kina og MidtEXPO-netværket

  Innovation Lab

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:29 am

  CBMI samt Innovation Lab og Dansk Innovationscenter i Shanghai inviterer til 2 fyraftensmøder med fokus på Kina, det kinesiske marked, Shanghai og Expo. Signalet er klart: Kina vil i fremtiden ikke være verdens fabrik - men snarere verdens innovationsmaskine, der både løser egne og andres fremtidige problemer. Region Midtjylland, Innovation Lab og Innovation Center Denmark søger derfor aktører, der kan præsentere midtjysk viden inden for sundhedssektoren, bæredygtig energi og miljøteknologi – og med et fokus på…

• Nye billeder fra laboratoriet

  Jonas Juhler Hansen

  25 Feb 2010 | 5:50 am

  Vi har opdateret vores billedsamling, så der nu er friske billeder fra Innovation Labs halvårlige fællesdag, CareWare-udstillingen i Ridehuset, samt en for nyligt afholdt Demolab-rundvisning. Se mange flere billeder fra Innovation Lab på flickr eller Facebook. Innovation Labs fællesdag. læs mere

• Mangler du en industriel designer til en praktikplads?

  Peder Burgaard

  24 Feb 2010 | 1:50 am

  Innovation Lab søger virksomheder, der ønsker at modtage en Belgisk erhvervspraktikant med baggrund indenfor industriel design / produktudvikling. Praktikperioden er 6 måneder og skal finde sted mellem 01.09.10 – 31.05.11. Modtagervirksomheden skal kunne tilbyde opgaver indenfor ”Sustainable Design” eller noget tilsvarende. Det ligger en virksomhed frit for at lønne erhvervspraktikanten. Erhvervspraktikanterne der bliver udsendt har mellem 0-2 års erfaring. Deadline 12. marts 2010. Praktikanterne har enten en Kandidat eller Bachelorgrad i…

• Spot din nye medarbejder på netværket

  Morten Hejlesen

  18 Feb 2010 | 11:23 pm

  Kreative medarbejdere er ofte kompetente netværkere. Undersøgelser foretaget af Sandy Pentland, MIT, viser, at vidtforgrenede og stjerneformede netværk er essentielle, når det gælder opdagelse af ny viden og nye idéer. På den anden side er tæt sammenknyttede netværk med hyppig dialog bedst egnede, når det gælder integration og anvendelse af den nye viden. Kreativitet fodrer rige netværk, mens implementering kræver tæt integration. Innovation bygger på begge dele. læs mere

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  the johnson banks thought for the week

• Decision time

  7 Mar 2010 | 10:49 am

  This week is a pretty important one for the future of graphic design in the UK. This is the week that the Royal College of Art, the world’s only post graduate art and design school, interviews a shortlist of candidates to run its Communication Art and Design course. This course emerged over a decade ago when its now retiring head, Dan Fern, combined the illustration and graphics courses. On the surface, Fern’s legacy is a series of world-famous alumni who have pushed the boundaries of their chosen specialisms, and there’s no denying that every 2 or 3 years the course…

• More whisky please

  3 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am

  Quiet music, comfort eating and plentiful Nurofen are the order of the day at johnson banks today, after last night’s Design Week awards. Whilst our new logo for the Pew Center was shortlisted and sadly got no further... ...our unusual scheme of barrel art for single malt whisky Glenfiddich won the temporary exhibitions category. We’ll admit to being a little surprised, since the five typographic wood and steel pieces certainly stretch the definition of what an ‘exhibition’ is, but we’re happy with that.Our congratulations to the only double winners of the…

• Thanks Vynsie

  25 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am

  We find ourselves strangely inundated with fresh enquiries about our tree poster.It seems that it’s featured on the achingly hip home and product website*, Design Sponge, featured in the apartment of a Ms Vynsie Law. Her rather nice pad in Hollywood Heights, East Dallas, features the poster as you can see. What great taste, Vynsie. Here’s a few more snaps. Never realised East Dallas was so groovy. Go here for more interiors. Go here to find out more about the poster.Want to buy one? Email lizzie [at] johnsonbanks [dot] co [dot] uk *Not a sentence we anticipated writing

• Flaunt it

  22 Feb 2010 | 12:00 pm

  The latest offering from Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit’s Under Consideration franchise is their portfolio book, Flaunt. It mixes questions and answers with established designers about what they expect from a portfolio, with images and examples of how a collection of younger designers present their work.Scattered within are carefully designed information pages that help prospective job-seekers decide how many examples of work to include in their book, how long the interview might last, and so on. Given that portfolio advice is the one thing that students value the most, this could…

• Post-it philosophy and graphic design

  17 Feb 2010 | 8:31 am

  Regular visitors to this web address will know that we’re interested in why people become graphic designers, given that it’s a fairly unusual career path (and no-one seems to give the same answer twice). We’ve been asking friends and tutors this question for some time, and Rebecca Wright, course director of Kingston’s Graphics + Photography course has just asked her 3rd year students. Here are some of their answers, filled in anonymously on small pieces of yellow paper. Good stuff. But who is Kimm Stevens?

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• 5 video paling popular di Ideabuzz.net

  Syed Syahrul Zarizi

  3 Mar 2010 | 9:27 pm

  Ideabuzz.net ialah web TV yang bertemakan IT dan teknologi terkini, kini kembali dengan format baru yang lebih interaktif dan segar. Kandungannya meliputi tutorial, ulasan dan liputan acara. Berikut ialah 5 video paling pupular di ideabuzz.net. 1. Wolfram | Alpha 2. Mengemaskini blog dan laman web sosial dengan mudah dan pantas. 3. Magento 4. Membaca beberapa laman web serentak dengan cepat dan mudah 5. PIKOM PC Fair, Johor Bahru Similar Posts: 8 laman web yang menawarkan E-kad Hari Raya Aidilfitri. You Call the Shots oleh Cameron Johnson. Nuraina A. Samad. Penulis. FPX.

• 20 most popular Malaysians on Facebook

  Syed Syahrul Zarizi

  1 Mar 2010 | 3:25 pm

  Here is the list of 20 most popular Malaysians on Facebook. Data was compiled on 2nd March 2010 and there may be some changes by the time you are reading this. Mahathir bin Mohamad | 292,272 fans Scha Alyahya | 169,065 fans Fahrin Ahmad | 133,434 fans Yuna | 132,818 fans Najib Razak | 114,591 fans Fara Fauzana | 110,864 fans Aznil Hj. Nawawi | 98,355 fans Afdlin Shauki | 91,077 fans Faizal Tahir | 90,913 fans Nabil Raja Lawak | 85,184 fans Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat | 84,460 fans Siti Nurhaliza | 70,366 fans Anwar Ibrahim | 59,015 fans Diana Danielle | 54,347 fans Nora Danish | 49,980 fans Rozita…

• Masaki. Member of lagendary Japanese punk band Power Of Idea, activist and film maker.

  Syed Syahrul Zarizi

  23 Feb 2010 | 10:01 am

  (This interview was originally published on Dec 8, 2008) Masaki, or better known as Mike among his friends is a fun loving movie buff, activist and film maker from Japan. But that’s not all. When he is not too busy cleaning and taking care of graveyards in his hometown (yes, that’s his day job), he also plays in a lagendary Japanese band, Power Of Idea and runs Tribal War Asia records. Masaki was in town last month with some friends to perform in Singapore and Johor Bahru as part of his ABC Partisan gig series that have been around for a long time. While here, he managed to…

• Andreas Krapf. Illustrator & graphic designer.

  Syed Syahrul Zarizi

  16 Feb 2010 | 7:25 pm

  Our featured designer for this week is Andreas Krapf, Illustrator and graphic designer from Germany. Q. Tell us a little bit about your background and formal education. A. My name is Andreas Krapf, I’m 28 years old and live in a small town in Germany. I graduated from a German design-university in 2009. Since then i work as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. my focus has always been on illustration, nevertheless i enjoyed the education in typography and graphic design. Q. How do you describe your style? A. I love to draw and sculpt characters, monsters and stuff because…

• Saiful Nang. CEO / Principal Photographer, Candid Syndrom.

  Syed Syahrul Zarizi

  10 Feb 2010 | 2:29 pm

  (Nota: Tarikh asal temubual ini ialah pada December 10, 2008) Saiful Nang bukanlah nama yang asing di kalangan peminat fotografi di Malaysia. Terkenal sebagai juru gambar majlis perkahwinan, pelangan beliau terdiri dari selebriti, orang kenamaan, sehinggalah ke kerabat diraja. Terima kasih kepada Saiful kerana sudi menjawab soalan-soalan berikut. Q. Saya difahamkan saudara mula berjinak dengan fotografi semasa belajar di MMU. Adakah minat itu lahir semasa belajar atau lebih awal dari itu? A. Minat dalam seni sejak saya berumur 4 tahun. Lukisan pertama saya jual masa umur 7 tahun. Di MMU…

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  Tcritic by Karl Long - The Daily T-Shirt Blog Covering Indie Fashion and Design

• Polyamory Is Wrong

  karl

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:16 pm

  Very funny T-Shirt that I found via Unreasonablefaith’s awesome blog about religion, science and skepticism – good combo. Advertisement: Busted Tees: Funniest T-Shirts AnywhereMore Cowbell, Jesus Hates the Yankees, Great Gifts!

• Mario Bros series from SplitReason

  rangga

  1 Mar 2010 | 4:10 pm

  Mario Bros, who don’t recognize these series? Ups, maybe there’s a chance for you not recognizing him if you weren’t grown up in the 90s. Mario and Luigi the plumbers are the team who should save the princess from the Dragon castle, and so on and so on. Mario once (and still) one of the most famous character in video games. Well, Mario Kart is still hype in Nintendo Wii until now. Hail to Nintendo and the gangs! SplitReason, specialized in gears for geeks and gamers, brings you the nostalgic moment with Mario (not with Luigi this time), by presenting The Plumbers Wardrobe…

• Here’s Dr. Sheldon friendship flowchart, what is yours?

  rangga

  23 Feb 2010 | 5:11 pm

  I gotta be honest that I don’t watch The Big Bang Theory religiously, maybe one or two episodes of season 1. Yet, I can figure out that the series is telling about nerds (not only geeks) and their daily social life. One character that catch my attention is Sheldon Cooper, PhD, a theoretical physicist. For him, everything can be theorized, even can be drawn as a flowchart. Take this one as an example. Who would guess the idea of becoming friends can be drawn as principal in a flowchart? This friendship flowchart may describe the exact method used by Sheldon from meeting new person until…

• New T-Shirt Company Bruised Bear

  karl

  23 Feb 2010 | 8:48 am

  Bruised Bear is a new T-shirt company with a really whimsical and fun aesthetic. Reminds me a bit of Loyal Army, and that can’t be a bad thing. Thankfully the simple design has translated to their web site, I wish more t-shirt companies would make as good a use as these guys have of their front page. Much easier to see what they have for sale. Anyway, check them out, they look like fun stuff and the guys that run it sound very passionate about it. BTW I think the Moist shirt is probably my favorite. Oh and thank you guys for the kind words, appreciate it. “Before anything else, I…

• Modern Warfare T-Shirts

  karl

  23 Feb 2010 | 7:32 am

  These are as niche t-shirts as you’re going to find. Only a Modern Warfare player would understand the Akimbo 1887’s (which BTW only f’ing newbs would use I prefer the Barrett 50 Caliber and Akimbo Rangers Especially since the 1887’s have been nerfed with the latest update. Anyway, check them out on RedBubble. Advertisement: Lucky Threadz – Original & Very FunnyGreat T-Shirts Endorsed By Tcritic

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• Crafty Knitting Supplies from Karrie

  yana

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:04 pm

  Karrie from Girl on the Rocks discovered Ponoko somewhere in the recesses of the internet and was intrigued enough to instantly sign up. What type of products do you make with Ponoko? Primarily, I design supplies and tools to sell to crafters and knitters. I make knitting needle gauges and yarn gauges for knitters and spinners. I also make several styles of yarn and embroidery floss organizers for needleworkers. Though these aren’t completely new tools, with my designs I try to improve the functionality and also use shapes that are fun to look at. Recently, I have started designing…

• And for the Birds

  Duann

  8 Mar 2010 | 7:16 pm

  Chind?gu bird feeder. Ok this one may not be practical, laser cut or even ‘designed’ but it is DIY and kinda cute. Perhaps if the crumbs were spirited away via the tube to a bird feeder outside it would be a little more, hygienic. via There I fixed it

• KITTY KLIMBER by Catter Wallin’

  Duann

  8 Mar 2010 | 2:03 pm

  Flat Pack for the Feline…… The Kitty Klimber shelf provides a purrfect feline transition point and is an excellent limited floor space solution. The Kitty Klimber is simple to assemble, easily mounts on walls and is made from eco-friendly materials. Companion Kitty Kozy shelves (larger platform) are available in the Catter Wallin’ Showroom. And the Kitty Korner shelf (corner retreat) is currently in the prototype/design phase and will soon appear in the Catter Wallin’s Ponoko Showroom. Kitty Klimber Features: - Cat friendly space with zero floor footprint - Made of 100%…

• Game Changers: Social Design Competition

  Duann

  8 Mar 2010 | 3:05 am

  Design21, the social design network, is holding the competition ‘Game Changers‘ that challenges designers to design a game that aims to create change by improving lives or inspiring new behaviors. A crisis can bring about change. It forces us to rethink our lives and our relationships and lead us to adopt new outlooks or rethink the way we do things. While the world has been rocked by a deep recession, many have seen the flip-side of this crisis as one of opportunity; the chance to start over, or reset priorities, to take initiative to create some positive and meaningful change in…

• Love Lace? Design Competition

  Duann

  6 Mar 2010 | 2:47 pm

  Rethink Lace and win $20k The International Lace Award seeks to encourage contemporary design and challenge conventional notions of lace and its application in the areas of fashion, the built environment and digital multimedia. Professional and amateur artists, designers and practitioners around the world are invited to enter for the chance to be exhibited at the Powerhouse Museum and win a share of $40,000 (Australian dollars) in prize money. The Award defines lace as an openwork structure whose pattern of spaces is as important as the solid areas. Sounds perfect for some Ponoko laser cut…

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• New Designers and The Moral Imperative

  Eric Karjaluoto

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:10 am

  The following is in response to an interview with Paula Scher on the blog Pr*tty Sh*tty. In it Josh Berta asked Paula questions about her work and design in general. A few of her remarks, surrounding socially-concentrated design, felt troublesome. Read the interview here and (if you’re so inclined) look over my response: I am [...]

• Go World?

  Eric Karjaluoto

  3 Mar 2010 | 1:49 pm

  I begin this post with some misgivings. In writing it, I stand to alienate some, and potentially paint myself as short-sighted, unpatriotic, and even curmudgeonly. What I can’t quite shake is the sense that it needs to be said, even if many (perhaps even my mom) think less of me. “We all squeezed the stick…” I watched [...]

• My Year of Failure

  Eric Karjaluoto

  21 Jan 2010 | 9:05 am

  That’s right… I’m going to fail this year. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t really want to fail. Truth be told, it’s the kind of thing that completely messes with my head. Even contemplating doing so makes my uneasy, but I worry about the consequences of doing otherwise. Wait a second… I’m getting ahead of myself. [...]

• Random Observations – Part 9

  Eric Karjaluoto

  14 Jan 2010 | 4:11 pm

  I probably haven’t ever noted this, but these Random Observations are a running project for me. In ways, they prove a respite of sorts from my otherwise lengthy posts. As I observe some kind of a rule or occurrence, I make note of it as succinctly as I can. (Some I admit, are contradictory—as is [...]

• The Licensed Designer

  Eric Karjaluoto

  2 Jan 2010 | 10:01 am

  Engineers need to complete a certain amount of schooling, coupled with applied practice, before earning their “ticket.” After doing so, they gain increased responsibility as they’ve worked through a structured and rigorous training process. I want to make the case for similar training and accreditation for designers. Professionals Many professionals run through a comparable set of steps [...]

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• Great Art for $20

  Topsy Turvy

  4 Mar 2010 | 5:02 am

  Click to enlarge image.Every Tuesday and Wednesday there is new art up for sale, in limited quantities, over at Jen Bekman's 20x200 website. There is always a $20 size available, and word on the street is that everything is selling like hotcakes.Tuesday's offering is this William Powhida print.(I have to say, his #17 reason to buy art might be my own #1.)Participating artists have included William Wegman and the Starn Twins.Check it out!

• Magalog or Catazine?

  Topsy Turvy

  3 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am

  Anthropologie has always produced wonderful catalogs with exceptional photography, art direction and styling – in exotic locales. The most recent find in my mailbox, I think, brings catalog design to a new level.In the "Soft White Light" section, a model wears all white on every page, and her wispy tousled hairstyle is interwoven with a wildly luxurious crown of white flowers.The Art + Life section shows floral patterns and hot colors in front of painted backdrops of gorgeous wall-sized tropical leaves and blooms."Carried Away" features cut-out paper flora and fauna ingeniously arranged…

• Art and All That Jazz

  Topsy Turvy

  2 Mar 2010 | 11:55 am

  Blue Jazz Fountain, by Serena Bocchino.Soul Shower, by Serena Bocchino.Duet, by Serena Bocchino.In case you've been paying attention to Topsy Turvy (I hope there are still a few of you out there), surely you've noticed a lack of posts lately. I do plan to get back into a more frequent schedule, so please don't desert me! I've been working on a couple of all-consuming projects, and hopefully will have some big news to announce in the next few months. (Sorry, but I don't want to jinx it with too much info.) So, thank you for coming!I thought I would share the work of artist, Serena Bocchino,…

• Design & Book Lovers Unite ...

  Topsy Turvy

  31 Jan 2010 | 5:17 am

  Let's all converge over at Stylebeat! The talented and charming Marisa is offering a Great Design Book 5 Day Giveaway, with 5 different books going to a lucky few.David Hicks, A Life of Design by Ashley Hicks, from our friends at Rizzoli, is just one. Head on over to see the rest.See you at Stylebeat ...

• Some Thoughts for the New Year

  Topsy Turvy

  4 Jan 2010 | 1:22 am

  While perusing a couple of my Christmas books (ok, I confess, they were self-gifted – but I know you understand!), I was taken with a wonderful minimalist Paris apartment. The appeal of the bedroom (shown above) depends mostly on one fabulous sofa, a simple low bed frame and a wall of built-ins – all in all, an affordable way to design a room. I know it takes a lot of restraint for shoppers and collectors (like me), but using most of your budget on one outstanding piece can result in a simplicity that approaches the sublime.Of course, there are a couple of other very high-end items in the…

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• You Can Build Your Credit With The Help Of No Credit Auto Loans

  10 Mar 2010 | 2:22 am

  “The internet has become a treasure trove of unlimited information, for various lenders and methods ...

• Visual Kontakt

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:52 am

  Visual Kontakt is a blog based site. Our aim is to deliver high standards of creativity, inspiration...

• Anèe Internationale du Rapprochement des Cultures

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:21 pm

  Tous sommes connectés dans cet espace pluriel et vital, qui nous englobe comme des individus et une ...

• 2010 - international year for the rapprochement of cultures

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  The concept of my outdoor is simple and minimalist. It’s inspired on the constitution of the circula...

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  9 Mar 2010 | 3:32 pm

  Rapprochement of Cultures, this shows a man without an identity, who is influenced by the world arou...

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• Penguin Offers a Glimpse of The Future of Ebooks

  Thomas Baekdal

  3 Mar 2010 | 7:30 pm

  Earlier this week Penguin presented their vision for how they could translate their book into the ebook format. Or rather, how they can really make us of digital publishing to create much better books.Here is the video:It's really fascinating stuff. Great ideas and great innovation. Some people are of course, questioning if this is really a book or just some fancy doohickey. But, people who asked that question need to rethink how they see the world. You are not selling books; you are selling stories. You don't define your product by the packaging it's in. It's the other way around. You define…

• Microsoft Mobile Surface

  Thomas Baekdal

  1 Mar 2010 | 3:30 pm

  Remember Microsoft Surface? You know, the big multi-touch coffee table? Now Microsoft is working on a much smaller version with Mobile Surface.Mobile Surface is a research project from Microsoft that attempt to combine the power of smart phones and flexibility of a huge coffee table interaction into on. And the trick right now is to use a small projector to display the image from the phone unto any surface. But it gets better, because you can then interact with you phone interface directly via the projected image. Not just in a 2D flat way that we are used to, but in 3D. notice: Update -…

• Prevent People From Losing Control of Their Profiles

  Thomas Baekdal

  1 Mar 2010 | 3:07 am

  We hear about it all the time, people's social profiles are taking over by hackers. It is fairly simply done. Find a way to get people's username and password, login, change their login credentials, and voila. The attacker now has complete control over peoples profiles, and there is nothing they can do about it.Just a few days ago, the musician Jason Mraz's Twitter account was taken over, and because the attacker changed his password, he could not do anything to stop them - apart from trying to contact Twitter and persuade them that this really was his account, and that someone else was in…

• It's a Shitty Job Market

  Thomas Baekdal

  27 Feb 2010 | 9:37 pm

  Many people are facing a very difficult job market, but I thinks this toilet paper and CV is taking things a bit to far :) Capture people's attention! On the average, people go to the bathroom 6 times a day. Public restrooms are used very often. Why not place your CV in front of thousands of people who use restrooms every day! WC/CV is a great chance to show an employer that you have the skills and experience required, and that you're the right person for the job. WC/CV's special roll looks just like regular toilet paper and the paper is good for writing. Each Cv has 3 sheets with titles;…

• Disorder Type

  Thomas Baekdal

  27 Feb 2010 | 6:06 am

  Sig Vicious has designed a interesting font called Disorder Font. While there are tons of fonts with a rough edge look, what makes this interesting is the extremely high level of detail.If you are working on something big (like a huge poster), then this would look rather good. (via YouWorkForThem - price $24.99) - Read Comments

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• Mociun

  Toshi Jones

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:35 am

  Inspired by her travels Caitlin Mociun’s line, aptly self titled, is an eclectic bricolage of pattern and concept. The collection named in astrological terminology, revives a cut from the 1980’s and splashes in contemporary patterns to reveal a relaxed and modish look. Available online here.

• Andrew Kuo

  Toshi Jones

  5 Mar 2010 | 1:00 pm

  Andrew Kuo’s New York influence in evident in many aspects of his public life, not so much in his art. One might imagine a vast landscape or elaborately patterned decor in his work but it seems much too serene of be inspired by the city. A frequent contributor to the New York times Arts Beat blog, Kuo is perhaps best known for his charts on all aspects of music (below). It is rumored to be working on a show opening in April. We’ll be anxiously awaiting updates.

• This is your land- Nationalparks.org

  Neu Black

  4 Mar 2010 | 12:21 pm

  Every time we fly into Los Angeles we’re struck by how the city seems to go on forever. If you live in the middle of LA it’s easy to forget we’re surrounded by natural wonders on every side. We we’re reminded of this by a beautifully designed new site from the National Park Foundation that makes it easy to find all the national parks in your area. There’s so much beautiful nature photography here that we were quickly reminded of how spring is fast approaching. This is a great way to plan your first hike or road trip of 2010.

• 826LA “Chickens in Love” benefit

  Jennifer Murse

  3 Mar 2010 | 1:44 pm

  826LA presents CHICKENS IN LOVE, an online pledge-a-thon fundraiser, full-length album, and one-day music festival. For those of you who don’t know, 826LA is a non-profit that started in San Francisco at 826 Valencia. There are 8 chapters around the country in SF, LA, NYC, chicago, etc. The goal of 826 is to help kids with writing and tutoring. They hold workshops and after school programs to help kids with their writing skills. You may have seen the echo park time travel mart. This coming Saturday (3/6/2010) they are holding an event to support “chickens in love” which is a…

• Billy Kirk Utility Bags

  Toshi Jones

  2 Mar 2010 | 4:06 am

  Inspired by the traditional Klein tool bag, the Billy Kirk carryall and the padded flight bag are hand crafted oiled leather and canvas construction. New adjustments to their original design add leather bound aluminum frame and edged leather removable strap. Two interior canvas pockets allow for small item storage. These bags sell out so fast we could hardly get our hands on them. Pick yours up here.

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• Close to Nature – Amazing Houses in the Woods. | Design Float Blog

  10 Mar 2010 | 2:38 am

  Your house is your castle, the cool intimate place where you can have a rest and escape the fuss of the day. It protects you from the outer world and gives the1 Vote(s)

• A Guide To Typography On The Web

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:24 am

  The web is alive and growing more active with each new day. The increasing number of sites that crop up on the daily shows no signs of slowing, and as the7 Vote(s)

• Creative Mixed Media Digital Art and Designs

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:32 am

  Creative Mixed Media Digital Art and Designs 12 Vote(s)

• Architecture Photography: Beauty of Interior and Exterior Designs

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:39 am

  You probably haven't seen all the architecture in the entire globe, so we shall bring you bits of the world. Here is a collection of architecture photography that will keep you bedazzled. If you are amazed at these images, your jaws will drop in awe when you get to see the real McCoy.9 Vote(s)

• webdevmania - Working with cookies using jQuery and JavaScript

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:55 am

  This article goes over the important aspects of cookies and how to use them via jQuery or plain JavaScript15 Vote(s)

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• Logorama wins best animated short

  7 Mar 2010 | 6:38 pm

  Logorama wins best animated short: at the Motion Picture Academy awards

• New iPad TV ad

  7 Mar 2010 | 6:27 pm

  New iPad TV ad

• All about folds

  6 Mar 2010 | 5:44 pm

  All about folds: foldfactory.com

• Business card sizes

  6 Mar 2010 | 5:26 pm

  Australia, New Zealand (1.636 aspect ratio): 90mm x 55mm / 3.54 inches x 2.165 inches China (1.667...

• Flickr: The Old Railway Posters Pool

  6 Mar 2010 | 6:16 am

  Flickr: The Old Railway Posters Pool

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• Vasili Zorin

  diskursdisko

  10 Mar 2010 | 2:06 am

  via Diskursdisko. Our Sponsors: 2wowu - Buy or Sell PSD's & Get Free $5.00 With Code: FREEFIVE Advertise with Design You Trust! - DYT on Twitter - Facebook

• Rankin “Eat Me Naked”

  Yoland

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:23 am

  Learn more about the Rankin’s exhibition on Le Blog de Yoland. Our Sponsors: 2wowu - Buy or Sell PSD's & Get Free $5.00 With Code: FREEFIVE Advertise with Design You Trust! - DYT on Twitter - Facebook

• T-shirts by Ethcs Clothing

  FlyingKiwi

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:42 pm

  A couple of tees from Ethcs Clothing. Designed by New Zealand native Shane G. The Ethcs label has been around for a couple of years but has been pretty exclusive to New Zealand until recently. Our Sponsors: 2wowu - Buy or Sell PSD's & Get Free $5.00 With Code: FREEFIVE Advertise with Design You Trust! - DYT on Twitter - Facebook

• design walk 2010 by Indyvisuals & Charis Tsevis

  til01

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:22 pm

  Indyvisuals had to deal with the digital vs analog contradiction and the truth is that we were delighted as almost everything we do combines both technologies and creative processes. So what we finally ended up to, was to invite a really good friend of ours, famous for his work making digital mosaics and invert the whole process. Charis Tsevis was given the symbols as well as the final photo we wanted to use, did his magic and gave us the final piece which consisted of 3 different sized square pieces and 58 varieties of color and size combinations. All this on a 6×2,5m canvas made of 120…

• Anton Rhoden

  ardt

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:54 pm

  You are looking at some pretty delectable work from Bronx native, Anton Rhoden. Our personal favorite is the sultry geisha, with sakura flowers and a Torii (traditional Japanese gate) added in makes for a much coveted T-shirt. Another interesting piece of a boy, perched on top of a Tetris-like structure. Keep those blocks coming, I say. Via Ardentees blog Our Sponsors: 2wowu - Buy or Sell PSD's & Get Free $5.00 With Code: FREEFIVE Advertise with Design You Trust! - DYT on Twitter - Facebook

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• Green Trip

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:03 am

  by Peter Maciocha (abstract, people, misc, shapes)

• My Little Friend

  8 Mar 2010 | 3:51 am

  by Anthony G (surreal, balloon, digital, painting, airbrush)

• Rock It

  4 Mar 2010 | 2:49 am

  by Adam Woodhouse (abstract, 3d, diigtal, geometric)

• Team Chow

  3 Mar 2010 | 2:43 am

  by Johannes Vob (fantasy, airbrush, digital, sci fi)

• Punk Shoot

  2 Mar 2010 | 2:42 am

  by drfranken (drfranken, punk, nastplas, trash)

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• 30+ Corporate WordPress Themes

  Jennifer

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:00 am

  We’ve compiled 30+ excellent corporate WordPress themes from ThemeForest for your next corporate client. Either download the themes and customize them to your client’s needs or use these designs as inspiration to create a unique WordPress template from scratch. Corporate WordPress Themes Dark n’ Clean Agivee idea Business Shop Creative.Biz Universal Business Spacio WP WPA Parade Theme Vanilla Business Theme Business Planet Vision Business Gold Design Agency Twicet Business Portfolio Advantage RT-Theme 7 Loarse Good Start Whiteyclean BOSSPRESS Teknium Innova Ambition Picco…

• 30 Various Artworks of Astro Boy

  ronald

  8 Mar 2010 | 2:44 am

  The Japanese Manga is a widely known series that consists of comics and print cartoons in the Japanese language. This type of artwork has created a phenomenal influence over the publishing industry. One of its most influential series is The Adventures of Astro Boy, claimed to be the first ever Anime on Japanese television.  Astro Boy became Japan’s envoy for overseas safety and has greatly influenced our current Anime shows. Astro Boy’s character has made it’s mark in the publishing history and as a tribute to it’s worldwide popularity, we bring you 30 Various…

• 50 Freebies: Download Free Grunge Fonts

  ronald

  3 Mar 2010 | 7:15 am

  A dirty, distressed and grungy font is what tops off a superb grunge design. On the contrary, using the wrong font can really kill the grunge theme you were aiming for. Don’t get stuck without the resources your creativity needs. Download all 50 of these dead sexy grunge fonts for your collection. All these grungy fonts can be downloaded for FREE, so stock up and enjoy!!! Masterplan Download Source Birth of a Hero Download Source 28 Days Later Download Source Beton Download Source 321 Impact Download Source Dead Secretary Download Source Action of the Time Download Source Alpaca…

• 40 New and Trendy Free Social Media Bookmark Icon Sets

  ronald

  25 Feb 2010 | 5:31 am

  Social Media Bookmark Icons serve as significant design touches in websites and blogs. They help visitors bookmark their favorite posts and articles in any social media platform such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and others, ensuring that they can get back to your site directly for future reference. Using these resources, bloggers are given the chance to promote their posts. Furthermore, they add beauty, artistry and uniqueness in websites-which is, of course, expected in web 2.0. Various social media icons have emerged in the web for promotional purposes. To cater to the ever-growing…

• 40 Absolutely Free Vector Pack Collections

  ronald

  23 Feb 2010 | 8:22 am

  As designers, we are all familiar with various resources that we use in our usual designs, images and creations. Resources such as brushes and textures are just a few examples of these resources that help improve the quality and artistry of every image. More and more websites are into providing high quality resources for the design community. These items are often offered as freebies that can be used for both commercial and personal purposes… By now, most of you may have numerous downloaded resources available in your computers. Nevertheless, allow us to give you an addition to your…

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• Beautiful Pictures of Churches

  PauloGabriel

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:29 pm

  I really love those old, classic churches. It might be a tiny one in a village, or it might be a gigantic one that took many, many years to be completed. No matter what kind it is, I just know that some of these are so beautiful that they deserve to be appreciated by everyone. <!--break--> So I went looking for some great pictures of beautiful churches... both in and outside, and got to see amazing shots of these beauties. Here's my selection... I hope you all enjoy these. To check out the location of each, simply click at the picture to go the author's flickrstream. Don't forget to check…

• Daily Inspiration #452

  abduzeedo

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:58 pm

  This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use "Daily Inspiration" in the subject, and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If possible use the HTML code: <p class="imgC"><a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image"…

• Stunning Illustrations by Jessica Oyhenart

  PauloGabriel

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:07 am

  I was trying to figure out what to post today... so I started to check some old bookmarks I have, and my attention was caught by some awesome illustrations that I couldn't believe I haven't posted yet. These are stunning. <!--break--> The girl behind these is Jessica Oyhenart, an awesome artist from Dallas, Texas... she's got amazing pieces in her portfolio, which I just had to share with you guys, because this girl deserves some attention. So, I've made a little selection of her work... to check it fullsize, or to check more of it, go to her DeviantART page. She'll appreciate it. Cheers!

• Tuesday Total Textures #9

  paul0v2

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:02 am

  Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I'll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week's textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection. <!--break--> This week's Textures are provided by Mayang's Textures Bubbling Rusty Metal Chipboard Wood Close Up of Sweater Driftwood Pock Marks Gravel Metal Grille Metal Impact Damage Nut Husks Patterned Metal Splatters Thin Sacking Material About the authorHi! I'm Paulo Canabarro and I'm here to post some really…

• Architect Day: Octavio Mestre

  MarceloSeferin

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:57 am

  Professor of architecture in Barcelona, Octavio Mestre, who has provided numerous services to the Catalan city, now has major projects in Spain and is already present in other European countries with homes and housing of high quality. <!--break--> Photos from site octaviomestre.com. Octavio Mestre graduated with honors from the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Barcelona, Spain. After going through numerous schools in several European countries, he was a professor in the Department of Theory and Composition and municipal architect of Barcelona in the Planning Services between 1987…

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• Episode 21 - The Importance of Interface Design

  Danny Outlaw

  3 Mar 2010 | 6:44 am

  We all know that slick interface designs are pretty to look at. Personally, I ogle over them like the centerfold in a mens magazine. Is that weird? The more sleek and intuitive the design, the more I am drawn to it. Obviously, one of the results of good interface design is usability. Give me an app that looks pretty and works the way I expect it to and I am sold. Where do I pay? I’m sure none of you will argue with the general statements above. Well, maybe the one about the mens magazines, but you know what I mean. So we all enjoy applications that work intuitively and and look pretty,…

• Episode 20 - Staying Organized as a Freelancer

  Danny Outlaw

  24 Feb 2010 | 7:12 am

  I try so hard to stay organized on a daily basis. Keeping all my ducks in a row is what allows me to juggle way more projects than the typical freelancer. Despite all my efforts to keep my inbox clean, schedule calls ahead of time, run everything through my project management app, and other organizational methods; it seems like it can go to shit in a heart beat. For me, this is usually the result of a client who refuses to use Basecamp once the project has been started. What happens next is like a monsoon in my inbox. Emails containing comments, feedback, files, copy, and other related…

• A Preview of Things to Come

  Danny Outlaw

  17 Feb 2010 | 6:58 am

  As many of you may have noticed, I haven’t had a chance to update Outlaw Design Blog in some time and it has really been bothering me. I would like to apologize for this lack of work on my part. As some of you regulars may know, I recently got married, am buying a house, and having a baby soon. On top of all that, my Wordpress Designers business has been really taking off. Not that any of this is an excuse to leave you guys high and dry, but it is a reason. Apologize aside, I have been trying to find a new way to bring Outlaw Design Blog back to life. It seems that there are 1,001…

• What I Have Learned About the 80/20 Rule

  Danny Outlaw

  5 Feb 2010 | 8:03 am

  Any good freelancer has surely hear the saying that 80% of your work will come from 20% of your clients. As a young freelancer, I found this saying to be far from true. In the beginning, it was more like 80% of my work came low paying clients I found on job boards and 20% of the time I wanted to shoot them in the face. At the time, I couldn’t understand how this saying could be true. I rarely ever had repeat clients, let alone ones who would come back time and time again. Looking back, I’m sure it to do with two things: 1. The quality of my work. 2. The quality of my clients.

• Episode 18 - Practice Writing Proposals

  Danny Outlaw

  7 Dec 2009 | 3:25 pm

  This is one of my shorter vidcasts, but an important one none the less. As your business grows and you start working with bigger companies, they are going to expect more from you than just a few emails and a contract. One essential element bigger clients expect is a formal proposal. If you have never written one of these, it can be a bit intimidating. Waiting until you have a big name client ask for a proposal is a bad time write your first proposal. Do yourself a favor and write a few practice ones first. Writing these practice proposals is a great way to learn what is expected in a…

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• Create a Fun Print-Ready Doodled Business Card Design

  Chris Spooner

  8 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am

  There’s nothing more unique to your creative talent than a series of your own doodles and sketches. Let’s use the good old doodle to represent our design services by combining quick and fun doodles with a print ready business card design. We’ll be drawing our doodles directly in Illustrator, and using the application’s print abilities to set up our business card document with the correct margins and bleed to build a complete print-ready PDF document. The design we’ll be building calls upon some random ideas for the topic of your doodles. How about a stick-man…

• This Week’s Favourites – March 5th 2010

  Chris Spooner

  5 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am

  In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have a unique Illustrator tutorial covering the creation of watercolor effects; a CSS tutorial on the popular sprites technique; a fantastic introduction and overview of CSS attribute selectors; another brilliant Illustrator tutorial, this time creating a bright and crisp illustration; and a well presented bunch of typography tips. Design Instruct This unique tutorial from the freshly launched Design Instruct covers some great tips on how to recreate a great looking watercolour and hand-drawn marker effect from a base photo. Definitely worth…

• How To Build a Vector Clock Graphic in Illustrator

  Chris Spooner

  1 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am

  If you’re looking to develop your Illustrator skills, here’s a tutorial for you! Follow this walkthrough to see the how adding layer after layer of vector shapes, along with a range of gradients and a spot of texture can quickly create a great looking icon-style clock graphic. The main ingredient we’ll be adding to this design, other than a bunch of circles to build up the overall shape, is a range of gradient fills. These gradients are what really adds that extra touch of depth, and combined with an extra shadow or two, results in a fairly realistic looking graphic. Open up…

• Sticky – A Wordpress Theme for Premium Members

  Chris Spooner

  26 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  Last week I posted a tutorial covering the process of building a custom Wordpress theme, and promised that the theme used for the post would be available to download for Access All Areas members. Well, here it is! Sticky is a simple theme that boasts a sticky sidebar (hence the ... Log in to your Access All Areas account to read the rest of this post. Not a member? Becoming an Access All Areas member gives you the ability to view exclusive members-only content just like this. The premium category is already packed full of discount codes and useful design resources, and there's plenty more to…

• A Guide to Creating Professional Quality Logo Designs

  Chris Spooner

  22 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  Logo design is often seen as a quick and easy job; you create a small graphic, stick it next to some text and the job is done! In reality there’s a lot more to it, which makes the whole process of creating a logo or identity a challenging task. Let’s take a look at some of the general rules of logo design, see what guidelines we should stick to in order to build high quality logos, and see how they can all be put into practice to create a logo design that works in the real world. It’s easy listing out a bunch of logo design rules, but to make this post a little more useful…

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• Inspiration Smorgasbord

  Chad Engle

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:50 pm

  Ok Go – This Too Shall Pass And Then There Was Salsa Saul Bass: On Making Money vs Quality Work Kaleidoscope Made from Typography by Katerina Orlikova avantgarde by Max Quolin Larent Nivalle Photography Crush+Lovely Hipstamatic iPhone App Haäfe & Haph Simon Collison Sponsored by Advertise on Fuel Brand Network. Fuel Brand Network 2010 cc (creative commons license) Inspiration Smorgasbord

• Tales of an Ex-designer

  marshallrake

  2 Mar 2010 | 10:54 pm

  Tired of clients? Sick of toeing the line between artist and “mad man” (without the added bonus of the martini lunches)? Want to get paid? Want to get paid on time? Me too. photo by yushimoto I was sitting on the plane from New York to Los Angeles racing to finish a project for a client. My battery life was rapidly dwindling and the pressures of design and technology restrictions put me over the edge. I closed my laptop in frustration and took a look at my surroundings. Why haven’t I noticed this before?  The plane.  The passengers. The many small problems that were being solved by…

• Stellar Branding Across Various Mediums

  Chad Engle

  28 Feb 2010 | 9:43 pm

  Branding & Identity can make or break a company. If you have worked on large scale client with billboards, brochures, letterhead, envelopes, TV, web etc. you know how many details there are to work out over a various amount of mediums. You also know how consistency plays a big role in how well a campaign or branding is executed on those multiple platforms. We as consumers are flooded with many of these daily. Brands like Pepsi, Coke, Budweiser, BMW, Nike, Apple are just a select few that you see ads from or branding in your life. Here is a set of stellar designs that are carried out…

• 36 Minutes of Creative Genius

  Chad Engle

  24 Feb 2010 | 9:28 pm

  We all need a small spark to get going sometimes… What makes it easier to get going than some creative videography, editing & animation? Not much. Here are some creative videos some with mind blowing CG landscapes or an amazing look at what goes into a Macworld cover and some just have a great soundtrack to bop your head to. Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns Kingdom of the unreal but also a higher state of being, ultimately free of the limitations of the material world through the agency of science, technology, and imagination. HP – invent from Tom and Matt…

• Sleek & Sexy Faucet Designs

  Chad Engle

  21 Feb 2010 | 9:51 pm

  Faucets are used in your house very frequently and are not always regarded as “highly designed objects”. Unless you’ve looked outside the box or know someone with an interesting faucet you may have not ventured outside the “standard faucte” box and you’re missing out on a plethora of wonderful designs. Here are some sleek, sexy, cutting edge and most of all beautiful faucets that you might see in your house one day. Water Symphony Opening the tap we touch and leave the dirt and bacteria on it, having washed our hands we take them back again.“The Water…

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• Paul Made This

  Jack

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:11 pm

  Well presented body of work from multidisciplinary designer, Paul Gledhill.

• Michael Bojkowski

  Gil

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:58 am

  Michael Bojkowski is one of those guys who must be able to bend time. The amount and quality of content he produces is envy inducing. Involved in lot sof different projects and studios on a freelance basis I’m sure this certainly helps. His freelance studio ok interrupt showcases a strong folio of editorial design and publishing boast clients such as Esquire UK and YCN. LineFeed/Press Publish another side project, is a chance for him to discuss his indulgent love of magazines and dable in independent publishing which I’m sure has helped land him lots of work and guest…

• Ideas you forgot

  Jack

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:11 am

  Ideas You Forgot is the impressive portfolio of graduate German designer, Regina Rebele. She works out of Augsburg, Germany.

• 2014 Commonwealth Games Identity Launch

  Jack

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:52 am

  2014 Glasgow 20th Commonwealth Games from Rob Chiu on Vimeo. Following yesterdays post of the new 2014 Commonwealth Games Identity, created Marque Creative. Here is the new launch video, Directed, Edited, Animated, Composited and Graded by Rob Chiu. Additional Logo animation by Hoss Gifford. DoP Paul O’Callaghan. Location + Talent Producer Iain Hopkins for 1759, Gaffer Dave Hutton Spark Simon Hutton. Sound Design and Score by Hecq.

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  8 Mar 2010 | 6:07 am

  Stunning portfolio from the Danish purveyors of ‘visual futures’, Pleks.

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• Dan Reisinger

  Antonio Carusone

  8 Mar 2010 | 11:39 am

  Dan Reisinger is an Israeli graphic designer who’s work includes posters, calendars, logos, corporate and environmental day. He’s probably most known for his work for EL AL Airlines, which includes a beautiful series of destination posters that were designed from 1968–72. I love his style and his work is probably the only example I’ve ever seen of good design that uses Hebrew letters. Reisinger also designed this lovely perpetual calendar for MoMA in 1987.

• Shepley Bulfinch Poster by Experimental Jetset

  Antonio Carusone

  5 Mar 2010 | 6:51 am

  I’ve been meaning to post about this for a month now and finally got around to doing it. Experimental Jetset recently designed this lovely poster, for architecture firm Shepley Bulfinch, announcing their 2010 fellowship. The design is based on the Roman numerals ‘MMX’ represented with geometric forms that relate back architecture. A brilliant piece. You can read more about the design process on Shepley Bulfinch’s blog and get a peak at an early sketch EJ did for the poster. It’s always interesting to see how a design evolves from a sketch to the final piece.

• 10x10 Series by Method

  Antonio Carusone

  1 Mar 2010 | 8:10 am

  In celebration of their 10th anniversary, Method has released the 10x10 series, which will focus on game changing topics that will fundamentally impact today’s brands and their search for new revenue streams. The series includes essays, salons, and speaking engagements by industry leaders. The first issue of the series, “Cable’s Lost Generation”, takes a look at the future of television and digital communications. A downloadable PDF of this issue is available on the site. When my boss dropped a copy of the first issue on my desk a few weeks ago and I was immediately impressed by the…

• An Interview with Grafik Magazine

  Antonio Carusone

  25 Feb 2010 | 11:18 am

  The fine folks at Grafik Magazine asked if I we’re interested in doing an interview for their blog about my blog. Since I’m so fond of their little magazine, I couldn’t say no. You can read the full interview on their site. Enjoy.

• Thinking for a Living Relaunches

  Antonio Carusone

  23 Feb 2010 | 9:53 am

  A new and improved site for Thinking for a Living has launched! The site, in my opinion, is at the forefront of interactive design. It’s a great example of why Flash isn’t the only means of creating a dynamic interactive experience. The site was designed by BBDK and Frank Chimero and built by Jedi Knight Ian Coyle. It features keyboard navigation, a fine grid, and a ton of original and inspirational content. I’m super excited and proud to be a part of this fine network of people and sites. TFAL is a must read for any creative type.

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• Family House in Obama

  Sylvia

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am

  Suppose Design Office recently finished a family house in the city of Obama, in the Fukui prefecture on the sea of Japan. The client – the director of a clinic opposite the house – wished to combine openness on the ground floor to allow for parking spaces for this clients with a more protected first floor living spaces. Kitchen space, bathrooms, study corners and storage are strategically placed at the perimeter of the site to form a buffer around the living areas and bedrooms. Light and air are allowed in through the insertion of courtyards with glass-framed walls between the…

• Jackie Su Restaurant

  Sylvia

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am

  German design studio RAUMINRAUM designed the interior of the Jackie Su Restaurant located in Bremen, Germany. The asian street kitchen character with a contemporary and clear interior is used for this small restaurant in Bremen’s city center. Concrete walls with an artwork presenting a smiling Jackie Su, bring red Asian characters while the large suspended acoustic ceiling and unclad air-conditioning ducts emphasize the urban ambience. Photos by Nikolai Wolff Via Contemporist

• Architizer Los Angeles Launch Party

  Sylvia

  8 Mar 2010 | 4:00 am

  Architizer is happy to announce that on March 18th they will be hosting a parti in Los Angeles at the new A+D Museum space to celebrate Los Angeles architecture culture. More info here.

• New Camper Store in Sevilla

  Sylvia

  8 Mar 2010 | 1:00 am

  EMBT designed the new store for Camper in the spanish city of Sevilla. Here is the concept of the project: Camper has much to do with “el campo”, that is the countryside, the fields… to walk in the fields… and so we imagined shoes stepping on irregular surfaces, like when we walk on earth. Later, we visited Camper’s factory to see how shoes are made. There we understood we wanted to build our new store the same way Camper shoes are built in Mallorca. We cut different shoe forms, with hills, without hills, tall, short, for men, for women… we put those flat profiles one…

• Weekend Links March 05

  Sylvia

  5 Mar 2010 | 7:38 am

  Cartoon by arch.Maaik Greening an Icon: The Empire State Building. Photos of the exhibition Ron Arad: Restless. Riego van Wersch’s unique universe. The Franzen Lecture on architecture and the environment. Frank Gehry quits Museum of Tolerance Project. Fast Food Kiosque on the seafront at Saint-Nazaire, France. Smart and stylish Vertically Moving Floor that turns the surface of the pool into a usable floor. A video about the Design and Production of Lzf Lamps. Winners of the Brit Insurance Design of 2010.

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• Logorama wins an Oscar

  Mirko

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:18 pm

  Logorama, a short action-movie taking place in the world of brands, recently won the Oscar of the best short animated film. It is the creation of the french studio H5, often awarded in the past. It took them 5 years to complete this 17 minutes animated movie so this Oscar is probably more than welcome. The movie can be seen at the end of this post or by clicking this link, also check out some images taken from it. Klik hier om het video filmpje te bekijken Download animals vectors --- Post from: Graphic design blogLogorama wins an Oscar

• UPrinting Business cards giveaway

  Mirko

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:58 pm

  Once again, UPrinting is being nice to Designer Daily’s readers, this time they will be offering 3 Sets of 500 Die Cut Business Cards. How to enter the giveaway? To enter the giveaway, just tweet the following sentence: Get a chance to win 500 die cut business cards http://bit.ly/d9VUqm (via @mirkohumbert) Make sure that you don’t change anything to that phrase to be included in the contest. Send it only once, duplicate entries will be removed. How are winners chosen? The winner will be picked randomly on monday March 15, at 12:00 am chinese time, using TweetAways. What can you win?

• 14 Visually Stunning Animated Infographics

  Mirko

  3 Mar 2010 | 1:30 pm

  Infographics are visual illustrations communicating information by means of signs, symbols, icons, maps and diagrams. When these graphics are animated they can be used to represent complex situations and tell stories, or they can address social comment, satire and subversion. At their best, infographics in motion can be informative, involving, funny and at times surprisingly touching. This post brings together fourteen examples of these stunning animations. 1. Grand Tour of the Known Universe This is a truly awesome infographic animation revealing the scale of the known universe in relation…

• 20 cool & creative business cards for your inspiration

  Mirko

  25 Feb 2010 | 7:14 am

  Handing out your business card is a more crucial moment than it appears, it’s the perfect time for you to make a good first impression on your prospects. For your inspiration, take a look at these cool and creative business cards. 1. Apalacorp 2. DJ Mohit 3. Felix Auer 4. ABH International packers 5. Conrad Lim 6. Scott Boswell 7. Steven Whiteley 8. Ben Hunter photography 9. Bolt Barbers 10. Yaeri Song 11. AWP Express 12. James A.W. Mahon, divorce lawyer 13. Many Fold Farm 14. Stefan Sagmeister 15. Reddy or Knot 16. Med Traveler Club 17. Cut & Paste 18. Bow Tie 19. Nikolas…

• 7 free grunge fonts that rock

  Mirko

  15 Feb 2010 | 1:30 pm

  Originally appeared as the subgenre of alternative rock music, grunge had turned into a whole culture or, to be more exact, into a subculture during the 80th-90th of the previous century. Grunge had a great influence on people’s minds and creative design trends, and though the glorious times of grunge have already faded away, its traces can still be found in many aspects of modern life and culture. Inspired by grunge music with its denial of social standards and clichés, apathy, and the strong desire for freedom at the same time, many font designers did their best to transpose grunge…

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  Open Source Ecology "Open Source Ecology is a movement dedicated to the collaborative development of tools for replicable, open source, modern off-grid 'resilient communities.' By using permaculture and digital fabrication together to provide for basic needs and open source methodology to allow low cost replication of the entire operation, we hope to empower anyone who desires to move beyond the struggle for survival and 'evolve to freedom.'" Come Out & Play "Each year the Come Out & Play settles in a different neighborhood and explores the limits of…

• Site Specific

  Alexander Trevi

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:03 pm

  (A house anxiously awaiting its erasure. Photo by Kane Cunningham.)UK landscape artist Kane Cunningham is planning to rig his new home with cameras not to film the stunning views of the North Yorkshire coast but to document its imminent destruction. Sitting precipitously close to the edge of a cliff, the house could fall off at any moment. Coastal erosion has already eaten away most of the garden.Some nearby houses were similarly threatened but were condemned and demolished in advance of the migrating cliff edge. Cunningham, however, wants the climate-changed sea itself to devour his…

• Of quarantine pieds-à-terre, nuclear-waste landfills, Ebola tours, illegal orchids, and the Zoo of Infectious Species

  Alexander Trevi

  8 Mar 2010 | 5:49 am

  (After being diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, Robert Daniels was incarcerated in the jail unit of an Arizona hospital, locked up in a murky legal terrain where the bounds of individual civil rights and public health are tenuously demarcated. For a little over a year starting in July 2006, he lived under what could be described as inhumane conditions: 24-hour surveillance, lights always on, no TV, no way of contacting the outside world except a pay-phone and one tiny window looking out to some dull hallway. Other doctors then determined that he didn't have…

• “This is Botanydome. Death is listening, and will take the first plant that screams.”

  Alexander Trevi

  7 Mar 2010 | 11:54 pm

  (Illustration by Tim Simpson.)Natural Selection by Tim Simpson, now of Studio Lithero, is “an instrument that competes plants against each other. The device empowers plants to control the fate of others using sensors and mechanised shears in a Darwinian race for survival. The sensors set above the plants detect the first to grow to a specified height, at which point it is saved, and the others fatally chopped.”One wishes this was marketed for the home decorating market, perhaps through a partnership with Martha Stewart Living Omnipedia or Home Depot; a mass produced kinetic sculpture that…

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  Alexander Trevi

  7 Mar 2010 | 12:47 pm

  (Nicolas Moulin, Panclimn A, 2006. More images of Moulin's work here [pdf]. Via Vulgare.)1) The Guardian on the 21st century African land grab. In 20 or more African countries “land is being bought or leased for intensive agriculture on an immense scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era.An Observer investigation estimates that up to 50m hectares of land — an area more than double the size of the UK — has been acquired in the last few years or is in the process of being negotiated by governments and wealthy investors working with state…

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• Oops, I Mean Hoops Contest!

  SEI Design Group

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:31 pm

  Have you signed up for our March Madness fun?  Be ready so you can get your brackets done when the announcement of teams is made on Sunday.  Mike is our hoops guru, so contact him if you have any questions.  Time for a Hoops related Contest.  You can win this exciting prize, BASKET CASE.  The winner of this prize can select a friend to wear the basket so others can take their shots.  Looks like fun to us!  A little cash to treat the participants to a snack comes with the game.  Just leave a basketball related comment below to enter.  A random entry will be selected, so no skill…

• These Kids Are Incredible!

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• SEI Staff Members Settling In

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  8 Mar 2010 | 9:29 am

  Bradley Moreland, Assoc. AIA Sr. Architectural Designer Kurt A. Vater, CSI, CDT, AAIA Sr. Architectural Designer

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• Schuylerville Field Trip

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  17 Feb 2010 | 9:42 pm

  Some of the Albany SEI crew took a recent field trip to the Schuylerville CSD site.

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• Tooshie Tuesday

  Pony

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:16 am

  Their are some better tooshies in this post, but I just loved the girl on the right….so tooshtastic!

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  9 Mar 2010 | 6:58 am

  I love Pringles!  Wait what flavor are those????

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  9 Mar 2010 | 6:55 am

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  Pony

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:47 am

  Anyone can take a picture of what is in front of them, but how many of you go to new heights to get that shot?

• Cintia Dicker is a sexy ginger

  Pony

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:45 am

  Cintia Dicker is a 23 year old Brazilian model who has done work from main stream fashion to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue the last two years.  Not bed for a red head?

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• Zero Stitch by Mattias Ståhlbom

  David Carlson

  8 Mar 2010 | 5:24 am

  Stitch is a new wall and ceiling lamp by Swedish designer Mattias Ståhlbom for Zero. The construction and the appearance of the lamp are inspired by the same principle as an embroidery frame. When attached on the wall or in the ceiling it is possible to adjust the frame in different angles to direct the light and gain the most effect out from the light source and the lamp. Stitch is made of roller milled aluminium with a diffuser of matt acrylic. It exists in two sizes and in various colors.

• Lush luxury from Lomo

  David Carlson

  3 Mar 2010 | 11:38 pm

  Probably you saw our yesterday update with Lomo and their new analogue system. Today we report about a brand new 24 karat gold plated camera body wrapped in finest leather called Lomo LC-A Gold. It is a crispy collectible with only 130 piece limited edition with engraved serial number and certificate of authenticity. It is a celebration  of25 golden years with Lomo. The camera comes with the legendary Russian Lomo LC-A+ lens for vignetted and super saturated photos. It’s specially designed to keep this bling safe, it holds two Lomography 800 ASA films in gold-coloured anniversary…

• The future is analogue

  David Carlson

  3 Mar 2010 | 8:26 am

  Celebrating its 25th birthday with a big bang last year, the Lomo LC-A was the first member of an ever-growing circle of Lomographic cameras built for creative infinity and spontaneous joy. In 1991, a group of Viennese students re discovered this little fellow and the Lomographic bug began to spread fast around the globe. For 25 years, the Lomo LC-A has been a reliable and robust travel companion and its resurfacing reaffirmed for thousands of Lomographers that the perfect tool for artistic, everyday life photography was here to stay. It was only a matter of natural evolution until the Lomo…

• The VitraHaus has opened

  David Carlson

  1 Mar 2010 | 11:08 am

  The Vitra Home Collection has got a new home – the VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron. The VitraHaus is a place where you can explore your sense of design. The products in the Vitra Home Collection are arranged according to a variety of living and working situations – classics by designers Charles & Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Jean Prouvé and Verner Panton along with contemporary designs by Maarten Van Severen, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Antonio Citterio, Hella Jongerius, Jasper Morrison and others. Here you can find inspiration for your own home furnishings and…

• Conceptual womenswear from Giuliano Fujiwara

  David Carlson

  26 Feb 2010 | 8:17 am

  Precise and conceptual, the first womenswear collection designed by Masataka Matsumura for Giuliano Fujiwara leaves no space for casualness: it looks deeply rooted in  the ancient Japanese tradition of origami, whose key elements are interpreted through a contemporary and personal vision. Expert cross contaminations between eastern sensitivity and western culture turn this first ladies collection into the full and coherent expression of the brand’s evolution, as well as of the young creative director’s personal training. The collection is extremely focused: it includes 20 ready to wear…

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• Circus Restaurant by Tom Dixon’s Design Research Studio

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  8 Mar 2010 | 3:00 pm

  Circus is a restaurant that is also a venue for cabaret style acts, where the staff become the performers with the diners. The main dining table brings theatrical presence to the restaurant, as it doubles as a stage, with stairs at either end. The building once housed the animals which performed at the Royal Opera House. Circus, London, by Tom Dixon, Design Research Studio

• Dunder by Stefan Borselius for Blå Station

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  8 Mar 2010 | 2:55 pm

  A section sofa and easy chair range born from an idea that all we need are pillows! One big to sit on, or perhaps two. One pillow to lean your back against. Perhaps a pillow to rest your arm. It would be nice if that was all, because pillows have nice shapes, squared but still rounded. Dunder are pillows. Pillows to provide comfort in every environment. All you need to add, is yourself, and perhaps even more pillows. Dunder, Sofa, Corner Sofa, Easy Chair, by Stefan Borselius, for Blå Station

• East Windsor Residence by Alterstudio Architects

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  7 Mar 2010 | 3:00 pm

  Extraordinary views in the heart of the city and a small buildable footprint limited by restrictive easements prompted a thin, three-story home with the main living spaces and master suite on the top floor–essentially a one-bedroom loft with 270° views. The visitor enters through a pivoting glass door, where the natural stone gives way to its dressed counterpart, and is immediately greeted by a stair of massive ebonized oak treads floating above twin steel channels, and hanging in a three-story vertical space.  Beyond, an etched glass wall captures the projected shadows of a stand of…

• Collect Makeup Table from Schönbuch

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  7 Mar 2010 | 2:55 pm

  The Collect Chest of Drawers and Makeup Table has a distinguished patchwork look, to hold important or avaliable items of various sizes or shapes. The drawer fronts are in different matt-painted woods and is available in two sizes. As an alternative to the wood fronts, paint finishes in various colours are available. The body is always in a cool white, which is used for the legs as well. Collect is a decor highlight for the entrance area, but equally for a living room or bedroom. Collect Makeup Table, Chest of Drawers, by Wis Design, for Schönbuch

• Stars by Bartoli Design for Laurameroni

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  4 Mar 2010 | 3:00 pm

  Purist volumes made from metal, function as low tables, end tables, and storage units with a natural walnut interior. Available in polished steel, natural brass, burnished copper and natural copper. Stars Collection, by Bartoli Design, for Laurameroni

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• Typography Tip #3: Use A Smaller Point Size

  Christine

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:44 am

  Back when you were typing papers in high school you were told to write in double spaced 12 pt. Times New Roman type. Yuck. Okay, the double spacing make some sense in school since it gives the teacher ample space to write notes, but you never see it in the real world. Luckily, most people leave double spacing when they leave school, but unfortunately the same cannot be said for point size when setting type. 12 point type is not the average type size you see day to day. To be honest, it varies a bit since each font. For example, san serif fonts, like Arial, tend to be larger than serif fonts,…

• Eat A Chiquita

  Christine

  15 Feb 2010 | 12:51 pm

  Chiquita bananas are playing up their branded and recognizable blue and yellow stickers in a fun new campaign. instead of just blue Chiquita stickers, the new campaign has a whole slew of fun little blue and yellow faces. One their Eat a Chiquita website, you can design your own sitcker face, watch videos and play games—oh and learn about bananas. It's a fun little site and a great campaign, all based off of those blue and yellow banana stickers that hold so much brand equity all by themselves. Brilliant. (via Be Inspired Daily)

• SuperBowl Ad Controversy

  Christine

  3 Feb 2010 | 3:26 pm

  There's a big controversy brewing over a SuperBowl ad to be aired this Sunday, and no, it's not the latest censored ad from GoDaddy. This ad is controversial not just because of it's controversial subject matter, but because it's breaking a long standing SuperBowl rule. I never knew this before, but apparently CBS had long standing rule that advocacy ads were not accepted as advertising during the SuperBowl. The reason being that the SuperBowl is a fun, family friendly event and let's not spoil it by bringing up sensitive, heated issues. Honestly, I think that's a great stance. I don't want…

• Typography Tip #2: Properly Using Dashes

  Christine

  18 Jan 2010 | 7:17 am

  There are three types of dashes used in type. Yep, three. Most people, unless you are a writer or work in a publishing industry, are unaware of anything beyond the standard hyphen and unfortunately I frequently see hyphens placed where they shouldn't be. It's a big enough problem that our agency proofreader has a Word document he sends to people when he gets enough of their writing that doesn't use dashes properly. Since he spelled things out to nicely, I'm plagerizing a bit of it in this post. Here's the rundown on the different kind of dashes and how to use them: There are three categories…

• The Taco Bell Diet?

  Christine

  15 Jan 2010 | 8:25 am

  While it seems a bit like an oxymoron to me, it is, in fact Taco Bell's new ad campaign. I remember seeing one of the ads a few weeks ago and thinking the fast food company was almost making fun of itself and by parading a woman, Christine Dougherty, around as this Subway's Jared-like success case in losing weight on the Taco Bell diet. There's nothing wrong with this, it's awesome that Christine lost the weight, and I can understand why Taco Bell would want to showcase her the way Subway showcased Jared, but it doesn't quite fit. Initially your intuition and the years of learning that fast…

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• Topman’s Pleasure Beach Lookbook

  Meieli Detoni

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:19 pm

  Topman’s Pleasure Beach Collection looks like a series of smart snapshots from a forgotten corner of the beach along the east coast– surely not Nantucket, but somewhere a little rougher around the edges. Wearing ironic anchor tees and lots of nautical-themed gear, Topman’s model brings summer a lot closer for those of us stuck in the melting snow drifts. You might not be able to taste salty spray, but you can shop for similar pieces online– and plan that summer vacation to the shore. [via modeman] Related PostsTopman Design A/W 2010 Collection (0)MOSCOT Second Edition…

• The Pulsonic By Hamilton

  Jeffrey Hyatt

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:30 am

  At 12:01 New York time, on May 6, 1970, the world’s first digital watch started measuring time – made by Hamilton. To help celebrate the 40th birthday of this important, digital event, Hamilton is presenting the Pulsonic, a sleek, digital timepiece that marries Swiss automatic movement with a digital face that keeps the Pulsonic powered for 82 days straight.Truly a well-designed, eye-catching timepiece, the Pulsonic’s case in stainless steel, and the black PVD or gold-plate PVD measures 39mm x 49mm. The watch features a sapphire crystal and is water resistant to 50 meters. Available…

• Buffalo by Beauty & Youth × museum neu T-Shirts

  Meieli Detoni

  8 Mar 2010 | 4:52 pm

  This capsule collection salutes seminal figureheads with a cool twist in a collaboration between Beauty & Youth and museum neu. These tees explore the world of b&w bad boys examined by Buffalo since the ’80s, and they’re absolutely current in their grittiness. A series of the most iconic shots will be offered shortly on tees at both museum neu and Beauty & Youth. Now what will you be looking for: a tee emblazoned with classic Native American imagery, something with island flavor, or a Billy the Kid-style portrait? [via hypebeast]Related PostsTopman’s Pleasure…

• Natasha Poly In Numero Tokyo

  Jeffrey Hyatt

  8 Mar 2010 | 2:08 pm

  Drop-dead gorgeous Russian model Natasha Poly jumps in front of Alex Cayley’s lens for the April edition of fashion magazine Numero Tokyo. With a low-key, but highly effective styling job by Mika Mizutani, Poly is truly ravishing in the photos – with just enough breast action to keep you happy for the rest of the week (or perhaps month); that’s correct, a photo or two shall be considered NSFW. And that’s a damn shame!The beautiful Poly is the epitome of seduction in these photographs; she’s also firing off a few amorous stares that could burn a hole in your…

• MOSCOT Second Edition Titanium Frames S/S 2010

  Meieli Detoni

  8 Mar 2010 | 1:50 pm

  These eyeglass frames from MOSCOT aren’t visually cutting-edge, but the materials used in the frames are. If you’re in the market for quality glasses, then you know the importance of a great pair. These super-light metal frames from MOSCOT are in their second edition run, and they are nickel-free and hypoallergenic. The frame temples are made of beta-titanium, and the fronts are of pure titanium. The former can be adjusted for a perfect fit, and there are a variety of frame colors and shapes available, including a classic rounded version. [via selectism] Related…

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• Sonny Lim Designer Q&A

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  8 Mar 2010 | 12:30 pm

  Sonny Lim, Senior Designer at BMW Group DesignworksUSA Singapore, shares his thoughts and advice on the role of a senior designer, working in-house versus working for a consultancy, working across multiple offices, the state of design in Singapore and much more. 1. Sonny, Welcome to Design Droplets. Thank you for taking the time to chat, could you please give a quick introduction on yourself. (about a paragraph). My heritage is probably the most interesting thing about me. My parents are originally from Singapore & Malaysia but moved to The Netherlands a long time ago. I was born and…

• State of the Internet

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  4 Mar 2010 | 6:36 pm

  JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo. Awesome data visualisation. Via Blankanvas & Fubiz These might also interest you.Link Love July 20 2009Designer Q&A with David & Matt from Mothers Art ProductionsTransmaterial: Book ReviewDesigner Q&A with Colin Redmond of Interphase DesignTosika Maluma – Graduate Profile

• Charles Wilson Designer Q&A

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  2 Mar 2010 | 12:30 pm

  In this great to the point interview, Charles Wilson a freelance designer based in Sydney shares his thoughts on how designers should support each other, being a designer in Australia, the current state of Australian design and more. Enjoy. 1. Charles, Welcome to Design Droplets. Thank you for taking the time to chat, could you please give a quick introduction on yourself. (about a paragraph). Thanks Raph. I am a freelance designer based in Sydney. Most of my work has been in furniture – particularly with the Australian manufacturer, Woodmark, though I have also designed homewares…

• Analog Dreams – Sketches of Michael DiTullo

  info@designdroplets.com (Design Droplets)

  28 Feb 2010 | 12:30 pm

  A sketch is something we are all “hard wired to receive” and if there is one person in the design space that knows this better than most it’s Michael DiTullo. Known to many through idsketching or Core77 as a sketching machine, Michael is the Design Director at Converse and is a regular contributor to the development of the design sketching practice of designers from across the globe. After a decade of practicing Industrial Design and  years of giving designers sketching advice in various forms Michael has finally given designers everywhere an opportunity to not only…

• Soul of Seoul: World Design Capital 2010

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  28 Feb 2010 | 12:00 pm

  Arriving in Korea instantly impresses anyone in-tune with architecture and design. As you walk through the impressive Inchon airport for the first time and into the subway system, the flow is as natural as routine. However, as you arrive in Seoul your first impressions may not last. Like many over-developed cities, it’s abundant with selfish development. Don’t get me wrong, Seoul definitely has soul in the youth savvy and traditional areas, but these small pockets are few and far between. Whilst spending a week in Seoul, I felt it’s a city in desperate need of an injection of creativity…

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• Zen Rock Garden/Tatooine Playset

  Tricia

  28 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm

  I’m sorry for the lack of updates.  I’M ALIVE-I MOVED-I DON’T HAVE INTERNET!  Here’s a little something to appease your worried little souls. My coworker, Patrick, gave the above creation to his girlfriend for Christmas.  His official title for it is “Zen Rock Garden/Tatooine Playset.”  I had heard about his plans to make the playset, but last week was the first time I saw it with my own over-sized eyes.  The basin for his playset is a tray (like the type of tray that someone would bring you breakfast in bed with).  Ingeniously, he cut a roll of tape…

• My Tracy Reese Day

  Tricia

  21 Feb 2010 | 10:21 pm

  Due to various circumstances (like an overpowering desire to discuss aspects of the perfect Johnny Weir party), this post is incredibly delayed.  And for that, I APOLOGIZE.  While I sit here, arrested in my mundane office life, exactly a week ago, I was at Bryant Park enjoying the Tracy Reese Fall 2010 show.  My friend, Tiffany Rogers, Assistant Designer to Tracy Reese, invited me to the show.  Past Tracy Reese collections have proven that Tracy Reese likes cute and feminine.  AND has a certain obsession with florals.  Going into the show, I did not know what to expect.  I knew that…

• How to Throw a Johnny Weir Party: A Stickers and Donuts Tutorial

  Tricia

  18 Feb 2010 | 12:36 am

  Although he may be ranked sixth after Tuesday’s Olympics men’s short, Johnny Weir is easily the most entertaining competitor in men’s skating.  For those of you unfamiliar with him, Johnny is like the product of what would happen if Lady Gaga and Patrick Wolf had a baby that flew out of the womb with ice skates.  If my visual is unsatisfactory, please watch the video of his short here.  Yes, those are pink tassels. In honor of this innovative luminary with unbridled creativity and glitter (literally), I decided to cover quintessential components to the perfect Johnny Weir…

• Road Trip!

  Maria

  14 Feb 2010 | 9:35 pm

  This is kind of a currently obsessed post in disguise… but since I’ve got road trips on the brain, I thought I’d unite under a single theme. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano. I loved this book, and I think it’s the perfect road trip novel for several reasons: it’s long enough to last you, it is told in smaller snippets (diary entries and short-story-like “interviews”) so picking it up and putting it down is not a problem, and it’s about really road-trippy people. (Check out James Wood’s NY Times Review.) Pack This! I love Knock…

• Cute Things for Valentine’s Day

  Ookah

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm

  Hey everybody ! As you may have seen in shops and tv ads, valentine’s day is coming up. To be honest, I’ve never really celebrated it, even when I have a boyfriend. All this cuty-lovey-dovey aspect is a bit too much for much. And anyway, no-one has ever given me a valentine’s day gift or card (and I survived !). But this year, I thought it could be a nice occasion to be creative,  give to others and  have fun. Whether you are in a relationship, wished you were in one or don’t even want to hear about it, Valentine’s Day 2010 IS going to be fun, with this…

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• Pooh Sticks

  jeffhamada

  10 Mar 2010 | 2:20 am

  Pooh Sticks by Lenny.

• Russell Shoemaker

  jeffhamada

  10 Mar 2010 | 2:04 am

  Paintings by Russell Shoemaker.

• David Wilson

  jeffhamada

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:49 am

  David Wilson sent over a handmade accordion bound edition of 9 to 5, a photo series about becoming a slave to your job.

• James Jean

  jeffhamada

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:52 am

  Some recent work from James Jean.

• Till Gerhard

  jeffhamada

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:38 am

  Paintings by Till Gerhard. Hamburg, Germany.

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• 40 Extraordinary Photoshop Text Effects

  Narendra.s.v

  8 Mar 2010 | 8:00 am

  The trouble with Photoshop Tutorials is that there are a lot of them out there, but you only want the very best, most creative ones.In this post, we’ve collected 40 of the very best and most extravagant tutorials for working with type. After working through a few of the most appealing looking ones to you, you should have more than a few ideas for creating your own, unique effects!Tutorials: How to Create a Stereoscopic Image for Crossed Eye Image Viewing This tutorial will teach you how to create a stereoscopic image for cross eye viewing and you will be able to view the final image in…

• Get More From Your Site’s Visual Acreage

  Joseph Alessio

  1 Mar 2010 | 8:00 am

  One of the most important, and sometimes most difficult, parts of web design is deciding what to do with the space that is given you.Usually, you have around 960 pixels in width and an indefinite height to work with, and it often feels like too much or too little. It’s very valuable when used correctly, but when used incorrectly it can destroy a website’s potential.There are similarities in real estate. Each piece of property has a different value, some high and some low. Using a beautiful piece of property in the wrong way can diminish its value. By comparing page area in a…

• 7 Essential Elements of Blog Design

  Angie Bowen

  25 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  The blogosphere continues to expand almost on a daily basis, and as a web designer we often inform clients of the numerous benefits of attaching a blog to their site. It is always a great way to continuously update your readers as to what new developments are being made in your business and what to look for as they stick with you on this journey.This in turn, keeps your site well trafficked by the online masses as new content is added on a regular basis. And while there are a plethora of points and elements that are vital when designing a blog, some take precedence over the others.No matter…

• 40 Creative Navigation Menus

  Tehseen

  22 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  One of the first things to do when planning out a new website is to work out all of the content that will be in the site. You then divide that up into sections and then into various levels of navigation.The result is a boring list of links.That list of links is one of the most important part of your website though, it goes without saying that every visitor to the site will be using them to get around.In this post we’ve pulled together some of the best designed navigation bars (both horizontal and vertical) to help give you ideas to enhance your own.Horizontal Menus1. Fabric LondonA…

• Fundamentals of A/B and Multivariate Testing

  Mark Thompson

  18 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  Many companies worry so much about how much traffic they can drive to their website.  The real focus should be how can you convert more website visitors? Effective website testing can help increase site performance, usability and conversions.By using A/B and multivariate testing techniques, you can experiment with different design elements to find a winning combination.Lets take a look at the fundamentals of both A/B and multivariate testing.A/B TestingBy definition A/B testing or split testing is testing the effectiveness of one landing page over another. Normally the current landing page…

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  Inhabitat

• BREEAM Awards Showcase the Most Outstanding Green Buildings in Europe

  Jorge Chapa

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:00 pm

  Read the rest of BREEAM Awards Showcase the Most Outstanding Green Buildings in Europe Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", breeam awards, BREEAM excellent, Green Building, green building certification, green design, sustainable design

• Tower City is an Ecotopia Stacked Up on Stilts

  Bridgette Meinhold

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:30 pm

  Tower City, another concept from the 2010 eVolo Skyscraper Competition, re-envisions the city of Marseilles as a stacked skyscraper that sits on stilts above the water. Rather than letting cities spread out as population increases, a the design calls for a new city to be created out on the water, complete with work, housing, transportation and amenities. The futuristic development is based on a stacked framework built using recycled building materials from the old city.Read the rest of Tower City is an Ecotopia Stacked Up on Stilts Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "eVolo",…

• READER TIP: Birdhouses Upcycled from Discarded Shipping Pallets

  Alexa Parmisano

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:45 pm

  Olson Lewis Dioli & Doktor Architects recently shared their appreciation of upcycling with youngsters at the Brookwood School Sustainability Fair by teaching them how to turn trash into treasure. The firm taught children at the elementary school how to save simple wooden pallets from the incinerator and craft their very own bird abodes! The children were provided with a premade kit made from the wooden pallets, and had help from architects on the scene to piece the parts together. The result of their efforts was a batch of adorable, hand made birdhouses perfect for encouraging…

• OPOWER Encourages Efficiency With Energy Report Cards

  Cameron Scott

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:00 pm

  Most Americans would have a fit if their credit card or cell phone company sent a dollar amount at the end of the month with no itemized description to match. But we tolerate it from our utility companies with little complaint. If we’re going to change our energy habits, we’re going to need more information to do it. What kinds of information motivate consumers and what kinds irritate them? OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company, is betting that a new version of an old classic — the report card — will strike the right balance. Read the rest of OPOWER Encourages…

• Chef Daniel Angerer Defends Cheese Made From Wife’s Breast Milk

  Yuka Yoneda

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:13 pm

  Last week, we brought you news about Chef Daniel Angerer’s special cheese made from his wife’s breast milk, and boy did that open a can of worms! While we expected knee-jerk ‘EEEWWW‘ reactions from people, we didn’t really imagine the extent to which people would get up in arms about breast milk cheese – something which in our minds is totally natural, organic, and not gross in the slightest. People got so concerned about the breastmilk cheese issue that apparently the New York Department of Health came to pay Angerer a visit over the weekend.Well you can…

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  Motion Works

• The Digieffects Challenge

  John Dickinson

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:47 am

  Showcase your skills and win cool tools Are you ready for a new challenge? Well Motionworks is teaming up with Digieffects, and this time your mission is to create an eye-popping animation using Digieffects plug-ins. All entries will be showcased on Motionworks, with the top three entries receiving an entire set of Digieffects plug-ins worth over $1,000. Read below for the details. All entries must use the music track written especially for the challenge by Selcuk Van Guven. Download music All entries must include the Digieffects logo (3D is okay) Download logo. All entries must feature at…

• Cinema 4D: Easy Scripting

  John Dickinson

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:50 pm

  In this handy tip, guest host Tim Clapham demonstrates a must-know and surprisingly simple technique for creating custom scripts in Cinema 4D. The example Tim shows where he zeros all coordinates will save you a bunch of time! Watch Tip

• After Effects: Inglourious Basterds Blood Splatter

  John Dickinson

  7 Mar 2010 | 3:24 pm

  In this tutorial learn how Digital Juice’s Motion Designer’s Toolkit and some free grunge textures helped me to recreate the blood splatter style used in the Inglourious Basterds trailer.  Watch Tutorial

• The dangerous trap of overworking

  John Dickinson

  7 Mar 2010 | 2:30 pm

  Do you ever find yourself suffering the effects of overwork – even doing what you love? This episode takes a frank and honest look at the damage working crazy hours can do to your business – and your life – and how to handle it. Get the Flash Player to see this player. For free 1-minute business tips with Robin Dickinson, watch BLACK CHAIR Business Mentoring TV

• Top 4 things for Cinema 4D renders

  John Dickinson

  3 Mar 2010 | 8:14 pm

  A handy checklist of the top 4 things users do wrong when rendering in Cinema 4D.

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  Artlog

• The Armory Show Arts Week - Favorite Booth Results

  8 Mar 2010 | 11:23 am

  The conversation on Artlog Live was tremendous with thousands of posts across all the fairs of The Armory Show Arts Week. 52 galleries from across the globe were nominated by the community (see the full list). Below find the most popular gallery booths at the fairs selected by you! The Armory Show 1) Jack Shainman Gallery (NYC) 2) Nicole Klagsbrun (NYC) 3-tie) Victoria Miro (London) 3-tie) Kavi Gupta (Chicago) PULSE New York 1) Mark Moore Gallery (Los Angeles) 2) perugi artecontemporanea (Padua) 3) Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles) IMPULSE People’s Choice Awards Winner: Roberto Mollá…

• Our Presentation at SMartCAMP

  8 Mar 2010 | 7:30 am

  After a week of running around between the Artlog office and myriad Armory Arts Week events, Nish and I took a break to present at SMartCAMP yesterday. We greatly enjoyed the conference, received good feedback from attendees and dug the other presentations/panels we caught while we were there. Here’s a video of the presentation we gave: And if you are having trouble watching the embedded video above, you can stream it here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5263120

• Pernod Absinthe announces Creator Of winners!

  8 Mar 2010 | 6:58 am

  Pernod Absinthe (“Creator of Absinthe In 1805”) concludes its Creator Of art contest today with the winner’s announcement. The contest solicited paintings, illustrations, photographs, digital/animation and video entries since last fall. The winners, their works, and prizes are: 1st Place – $1805 and Creator Of video profile Dan Sabau, painting, “1805 Absinthe Massquerade”

• Weekly Roundup

  7 Mar 2010 | 1:39 pm

  There’s nothing more significant this week than the bounty of art fairs that have taken over New York City’s piers, hotels, and art spaces. The Armory, the ADAA’s Art Show, Dutch Art Now, Fountain New York, Independent, the Korean Art Show, PooL, Pulse, Red Dot, Scope New York, Verge New York and Volta New York—an overwhelming amount of art and a dizzying array of events have been scattered over the past four to five days. The Art Newspaper reports that given 5 minutes per booth, it would take 64 hours and 25 minutes to see it all, a record 483 galleries. And that doesn’t even…

• Pernod Absinthe’s new video on Artlog’s “Creators”

  6 Mar 2010 | 6:42 am

  Pernod Absinthe (“Creator of Absinthe In 1805”) debuts here its video spotlight on Manish Vora and Dylan Fareed – the Co-Creators Of Artlog. The clip shadows the Artlog Founders at Art Basel Miami and at the Chelsea Art Museum in NY. Interviews include Pulse Art Fair’s Helen Toomer and art fans, all sharing their enthusiasm for Artlog’s live/social media platform. Manish Vora & Dylan Fareed, “Co-Creator’s Of Artlog:" The video is released in tandem with the close of Pernod Absinthe’s Creator Of art contest during Armory Arts Week. The multi-disciplinary contest is a…

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  Faint Voice

• 3R-C Concept

  Soumitri Varadarajan

  4 Mar 2010 | 2:56 am

  Honda to Unveil the Electric 3R-C Concept in Geneva : TreeHugger Next week ushers in the Geneva auto show, and based on last year’s momentum and the previews thus far, it’s going to be bubbling with alternative vehicles. Honda has released a teaser of its 3R-C, an all-electric single-seater urban mobility concept. With two wheels in the front and one in the back, it conjures images of the Aptera, but even more compact.

• global maternal mortality campaign

  Soumitri Varadarajan

  24 Jan 2010 | 7:34 pm

  The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood During 2008, significant steps were taken towards reducing maternal mortality and towards achieving the necessary improvements in provision of health services in developing countries. However, overall progress on maternal mortality has lagged severely behind Millennium Development Goal targets. 2009 presents important opportunities and the White Ribbon Alliance is involved in several strategies at different levels – global, national and community – to maintain momentum and maximize delivery. The White Ribbon Alliance’s Global…

• Maternal Mortality

  Soumitri Varadarajan

  24 Jan 2010 | 7:32 pm

  The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood Every minute of every day, a woman dies of pregnancy related complications, totaling more than one half million women each year. MHTF MISSION The Maternal Health Task Force contributes to shaping collective efforts to improve maternal health worldwide. Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the MHTFt serves as a catalyst to address one of the most neglected areas in global health. Million Mums – The White Ribbon Alliance

• Rudd warns of massive hikes in health costs

  Soumitri Varadarajan

  24 Jan 2010 | 3:43 pm

  Rudd warns of massive hikes in health costs – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) New Treasury figures predict health spending on Australians over 65 will be seven times higher than current levels in 40 years’ time.

• Global Warming Studio – Key Aspects

  Soumitri Varadarajan

  19 Jan 2010 | 9:21 pm

  The “global warming studio” requires you to develop your design of a ‘car’ over the course of a year. Listed here are the 10 key aspects of the ‘Global Warming Studio’. On Content1. This studio is part of the Sustainable Pathway in the Industrial Design Program. 2. The studio will emphasize exploration of aesthetics – particularly Japanese aesthetics.3. The studio is a Campaign Project – to make a difference  and to engage in a major challenge facing humanity. Exposure and capability development1. The studio has three key manufacturing…

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  aNEW designs

• Random Photo #20 - Play Ball

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:15 pm

  Spring training is in progress. Soon, this stadium, San Diego Padres Petco Stadium, will be full of fans watching the sport of summer, baseball.

• Random Photo #19 - Recession

  8 Mar 2010 | 10:05 pm

  A sign that the recession is still with us. A car dealership that closed with the land now for sale.

• PhotoShop Photo Effects

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:55 pm

  I have been a lover of PhotoShop since the early days and am always looking for a few good tutorials to help push my images. I found this great collection and links over at hongkiat.com with 41 PhotoShop Photo Effects. So if you are looking for a few new ways of teaching an old dog new tricks, go check out these tutorials.

• Random Photo #18 - Red Carpet

  7 Mar 2010 | 5:58 pm

  My Red Carpet in Los Angeles the evening of the Academy Awards.

• Random Photo #17 - Dig It

  6 Mar 2010 | 11:45 pm

  Digging a hole.

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  Kyle Steed

• silent noise

  kylesteed

  3 Mar 2010 | 9:53 am

  I write because I want to. I don’t have to tell you anything. But the term “transparent” is becoming more and more popular these days. Gary Vaynerchuk, Jason Fried and Aaron Irizarry come to mind when I think of being transparent. But what we call the internet is really nothing more than a glorified mask that we wear to hide our true personalities. Meaning I can’t convey to you a certain emotion or feeling without using a stupid emoticon. Sure a picture is worth a thousand words, and I respect the art form of photography. But what I’m saying is that we…

• Project 365 Week 07

  kylesteed

  22 Feb 2010 | 12:02 pm

  The project continues to be a challenge for me. Some have said congrats on making it this far, and thank you, but I still can’t imagine what it will feel like on something like day 229. I was thinking about this the other night. With my dedication to this project, as well as my 52 Profiles project, plus working full-time and taking 7 hours of school, not to mention having a life outside of all this to spend time with my wife and friends, am I crazy? How can I possibly feel like I’m not accomplishing anything? Where is this leading me? What do I hope to gain from this? In pursuing…

• Project 365 Week 06

  kylesteed

  15 Feb 2010 | 8:51 am

  I was bored with color this past week. When I first started taking photographs all I shot was black and white film. I think it’s a good way to learn about light and composition, but I think it can also become a crutch. There is always a challenge with color. So I was happy to take a break from color this week and just focus on the composition and lighting. I also did a little more post processing this week. After I saw a friend of mines work where he really pushed the greyscale in his photos I wanted to try the same effect. I’m not sure how to technically describe it, but to me it…

• Project 365 Week 05

  kylesteed

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:27 am

  I’m working my way backwards this morning. Starting at the end and going back to the beginning. Sometimes that’s the way I feel I’m living my life. We’re already in to the middle of February and it feels like I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be but something big is about to happen. I’ve seen so many changes, good changes, happening all around me that I can’t help but remain hopeful for something amazing about to unfold. And some things have already begun to unfold themselves. Only time will tell. Weekly Roundup Here are my 3 favorite photos…

• social mysteria

  kylesteed

  7 Feb 2010 | 12:33 pm

  I wonder if we really understand the true meaning of social networking or if we are getting lost in the numbers. Inspired by this Friday Vidcast from Aaron Irizarry. Special thanks to Andy Rutledge for his brutally honest opinions.

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  Culturepush

• THE KARL MAKA PROJECT

  Michele Adriaens

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:39 pm

  The Karl Maka for Mosaic Music Festival 2010!  3 sets of electro pop retro goodness with special guest vocalists Saiful from The Great Spy Experiment, and Biddy from Breakbeat Theory. Special guest instrumentalists Dexter and Govin. Pop by for their sets on 18 March at 7, 8 and 9pm. The event is FREE at the Esplanade Concourse.

• Ceriph, A Local Journal

  Michele Adriaens

  8 Mar 2010 | 8:01 am

  Ceriph began as a non-profit project between three undergraduates, who noticed friends and acquaintances creating poetry, prose, and photography that deserved to be shared. They began a search for a space in print that was accessible to non-professional local writers, that was neither too formal nor flippant. The inaugural issue of Ceriph is a compilation of poems, short fiction, pictures and non-fiction, telling quiet stories across busy cities, a thread that binds these tales into a book. The independently published Issue Zero features the works of Laremy Lee, Desirée Lim, Sudev S., Mark…

• I AM TAKING CONROL: FIN.

  Michele Adriaens

  7 Mar 2010 | 3:25 am

  I AM TAKING CONTROL: fin. features artists from different disciplines to present a performance that brings the audience through a multi‐sensory aesthetic experience. This simultaneous display of sounds, spoken-words and images immerses the audience in an exploration of identity through the control of their senses. Music and Performance by Amateur Takes Control. Spoken Word Poetry by Bani Haykal. Multimedia Visuals by Fezz Hoo. 26 March, 20:10 – 22:10 at Dhoby Ghaut Green. Free admission.

• Spotted! Bel Ragay

  Michele Adriaens

  6 Mar 2010 | 8:01 am

  An Interactive designer by profession, Bel Ragay spent the last six years harnessing her skills in Interactive, Print, Web, and Graphic design. She has worked as Web Designer and Developer at First Academy of Computer Arts and GoVida Studios/Earth Council before she moved to Singapore in 2007. Imperial -pictured above-  was one of the winning pieces in the 2010 Noise Singapore Arts and Design competition. Bel about her work: “Women of all ages have often described their hair as their crowning glory. I have always been fascinated over the fact that hair plays a great factor on…

• Spoted! Renz Hu

  Michele Adriaens

  4 Mar 2010 | 8:01 am

  Renz Hu is a Photography and Digital Imaging undergraduate at Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media. Greatly influenced by cinematographic directions and his training as an architectural assistant, Renz’s work experiments with light and shadows, paying special attention to the interaction between lines, surfaces, form and details. About his work: “Inspired by the diminishing sale of exotic traditional Chinese medicine, this series is a sub-collection of works that stems from a larger series. Removed from their glass coffins, the subjects are given new…

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  TheDieline.com: Package Design

• This Week's Hot Packaging Jobs from The Dieline

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:12 pm

  Art Director - PackagingEnesco LLC , Itasca, ILDesignerAdam&Co., Boston, MACLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

• Chiquita Banana Brand Refresh

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:05 pm

    Great article on Design Related discussing Chiquita's latest brand refresh...CLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

• Budgens

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:52 am

  New work from Pentagram:"New brand packaging for the Budgens gin, vodka and whisky...CLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

• Green Marker

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:44 am

  Love these page markers and simple packaging, design and sold by Yuruliku Design.CLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

• Student Spotlight: Pasta Salina

  The Dieline

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:37 am

     New work from one of Sylvain Allard's packaging students:"Here is a...CLICK HERE to read the rest of the post... »(Want to see more packaging? Visit TheDieline.com!)

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  Yatzer | DesigntoShare

• Gulp by Tim Fishlock

  10 Mar 2010 | 10:40 am

  Tim Fishlock designs Gulp, a dense, spherical, suspension lamp which has been created out of three thousand interwoven straws in seven days!  50 limited edition pieces are only available, and best of all its recyclable!

• Carysfort Cottage extension in Dalkey

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:28 pm

  From the creators of Ballymahon, ODOSarchitects brings us a serene spacious extension with a limited palette but rich spatial connections. A seamless transition from courtyard through living space, Carysfort shows a play of work, play and rest.

• Ballymahon residence by ODOSarchitects

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:36 am

  There is an emerging young practice in the third largest European island of Ireland. The Dublin based practice of ODOS architects takes a humanistic approach to their work by prioritizing the users functional needs and their relationship to nature.

• Get in the mood to discover your SKIN MOOD

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:20 am

  The concept store welcomes us to a transparent and bright world full of refraction of light, sleek surfaces and the tranquility of confidence in science. A visit to SKIN MOOD can cheer you up, preparing you for the most unique experience of discovering the MOOD of YOUR SKIN.

• Veasyble by GAIA

  8 Mar 2010 | 7:19 pm

  Veasyble. unfold a beautiful intimacy is a set of objects ready to use to create intimacy any time, any place, on various levels. Yatzer sits down with the GAIA group to find out how this product relates to our social and personal space.

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  Cool Material

• To A Tee: Cassette Tape Edition

  BSacco

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:12 am

  For some, cassette tapes don't seem so vintage...or at least we don't want them to feel that way. We hold onto the days when making her a carefully selected mixtape scored us some major points. [...]Visit Cool Material for the full post.

• WTF Jeans

  JC

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:11 am

  The ultimate gadget accessory that offers extra protection for the stuff that's most precious to you. That's right, your junk. WTF Jeans have pockets especially for the iPhone or iPod Touch with microfiber protection as [...]Visit Cool Material for the full post.

• Vers Audio iPad Wood Case

  JC

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:10 am

  If you're counting down the minutes until you can get your hands on an iPad you can fill some of that time checking out cool iPad accessories like the Vers Audio iPad Wood Case. Hand-made [...]Visit Cool Material for the full post.

• Tuesday Link Roundup

  bdahl

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:59 am

  Finally! Denise Milani Busts Out New Pics - Moon Dog Sports Best Places in America to Brew Your Own Beer - Asylum Zack Galifianakis Shaves Beard on Saturday Night Live - Visit Cool Material for the full post.

• Diesel DZ1318 Watch

  bdahl

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:06 am

  The Diesel DZ1318 watch continues the ridiculously popular black on black trend by starting with something like the Fossil Analog Compass, and then giving it the Diesel treatment (who wants to turn their [...]Visit Cool Material for the full post.

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  The Magenta Links

• Die Schanze – Regina Rebele

  Konstnatinos

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:54 am

  Schanze is a district of Hamburg. It used to be a place for workmen, immigrants – later on for students and self-governed people. Induced by rehabilitation rents are increasing – old-established trades and residents capitulate and move away. The town scape is changing completely. The district is currently turning into a destination of new business start-ups, bars and clubs. Residents fear that Schanze is getting characterless and no longer different from other districts. The 3d-modell shows the discords within the district and clarifies the cleft between the old structures and the new…

• James Kirkup

  Konstnatinos

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:48 am

  James Kirkup is Raised in Brighton but works & lives in London. He also knows very well how to work with clean graphic elements creating very nice posters. James Kirkup Related posts:James Jirat Patradoon James McGregor’s sketchbook James Warfield – Updates White Noise – Kenneth Rothermich Janine Rewell

• Cesc Grané – Updates

  Konstnatinos

  10 Mar 2010 | 1:26 am

  Ceskills - Cesc Grané Related posts:Cesc Grané Eve Duhamel – Updates Richard Sarson – Updates Bejewelled by Claire Scully – Updates Joe Hales – Updates

• Thomas Le Bas Design

  Konstnatinos

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:25 am

  Thomas Le Bas is a digital artist and graphic designer studying at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Thomas Le Bas Design Related posts:Thomas Bernard COUSCOUS Kid – Mathew Thomas Trick Squared Type by Andrei Robu 23rd International Biennale of Graphic Design Brno 2008 Design Walk 2010

• Jack Richardson

  Konstnatinos

  8 Mar 2010 | 1:52 am

  A 22 year old Graphic Designer/Illustrator who graduated from Cambridge School of Art over summer 2009. Jack Richardson via bitique Related posts:Jack Butcher Matthew Barnes Dominik Schatz Janine Rewell Stefan Lucut for KDU In Colors We Trust

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  Big Head Design

• Video: How to Install Wordpress

  Justin Moore-Brown

  24 Feb 2010 | 9:17 am

  So you want to get into blogging and you are going to try your hand at this Wordpress that everybody is talking about. Where do you go? How do you begin? Is the installation process difficult? These are just a few of the questions that you may be asking as you begin to go down [...]

• 25 excellent website designs

  Justin Moore-Brown

  23 Feb 2010 | 1:48 am

  We’ve all seen those websites when trolling the internet. The ones that are so awesome that they practically force us to explore them. They draw us in with well-written copy, clean or dynamic design, and easy navigation. It’s the ones you bookmarked under the folder “inspiration” or “awesome design”. Some of these sites [...]

• Connect OC setting the bar high!

  Justin Moore-Brown

  21 Feb 2010 | 6:00 pm

  The Hilton Costa Mesa was a buzz with the energy of over 400 Orange County business people and social media fans mingling, connecting, sharing, and more for the first Connect OC event held this past Thursday. Organized by some of OC’s busiest Twitterers and savviest business owners such as @Paulttran, @nealschaffer, @smallwerks, @tanyasalcido, @travelcostamesa, [...]

• LA Street Food Fest 2010

  Justin Moore-Brown

  15 Feb 2010 | 4:20 pm

  Downtown Los Angeles was alive and PACKED with close to 30 street food vendors and (my best guess) over 5000 people from all over SoCal in attendance at the LA Center Studios for the first annual LA Street Food Fest. This event was the first of it’s kind, showcasing some of the most popular street [...]

• Connect OC is coming to town!

  Justin Moore-Brown

  10 Feb 2010 | 1:35 pm

  Attention all So Cal business owners and tweeps. Clear your schedules on February 18th for the first ConnectOC event being held at the Costa Mesa Hilton. This event is bringing together all of he Orange County professionals to meet, mix, mingle, and more. Founded by a few Orange County Professionals, ConnectOC was devised as a [...]

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  H. Peters Design

• New Site!

  Heather Peters

  1 Mar 2010 | 7:31 am

  I am so pleased to launch my new portfolio site on this first day of March.  It’s definitely been a long work in progress.  Originally, it was my goal to launch the site before the turn of the New Year, but a combination of allergies, holiday happenings, and some long ongoing design and personal projects kept pushing the deadline further back.  It was then I decided that rushing the design process for the site would only result in my being halfheartedly satisfied with what was created.  So I took the time I needed to create a portfolio that I was proud of not only my eyes to view,…

• SIM Feb/March Issue

  Heather Peters

  5 Feb 2010 | 7:33 pm

  The Feb/March issue of Southern Inspired Magazine. I started the new year designing the spring issue of Southern Inspired. I decided to incorporate sophisticated colors of reds, purples, and creams to play on the lovely Valentine’s Day content and photography.

• SIM Holiday Issue

  Heather Peters

  5 Feb 2010 | 7:27 pm

  The holiday (Nov-Jan) issue of Southern Inspired Magazine. The staff requested that I design a holiday issue spanning from November until past January in order to incorporate all the practical articles they had ready to share. Holiday decor, recipes, and gift-wrapping were only a small portion of the articles contained in this issue.

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  Davison Creators

• Incredible Invention

  Joseph Warren

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:04 pm

  No need for words, just watch this video.    Related posts:In A Zip: New Invention This earphone concept, Y I Sound Invention, features a... Innovative Invention: Bench Cookies     Marketed as a vice-free alternative to keeping your... Bloom Box – The Future of Fuel Cells?   Bloom Box claims to have designed a power generator...

• Under A Microscope

  Joseph Warren

  8 Mar 2010 | 8:59 am

  Aspex, a leading designer of tabletop scanners, has challenged its online viewers to submit sample items that they are curious to see magnified to extreme precision.  Have you ever wondered what things look like up close and personal?  Well, fill out a form and send them your sample to see whatever you have been curious to view magnified. Below are common items already submitted and on display for the world to see. A penny, sidewalk chalk, cat hair, a piece of hard candy.  Maybe you can see your sample on their list of items under the microscope. Related posts:DIY Design: Snap, Point and…

• Explorations in Paper

  Joseph Warren

  4 Mar 2010 | 9:19 am

  This set of images shows an exercise in packaging by Sylvain Allard, teacher at UQAM School of Design. Each one uses only a single piece of plain white paper, with no constraints of transportation or marketing of the 2D to 3D studies. I thought it was a clever approach to training students on limitations in the world of advertising; though many of the designs are not feasible, the students gained a knowledge of volume and practice at thinking fast on their feet. Related posts:Paper Art   Not since Kazimir Malevich have I seen such great... 11 Creative Advertising Designs Floor of an…

• A Goldmine of Package Designs

  Joseph Warren

  3 Mar 2010 | 4:02 am

  Every so often I find a really great website and have to do some catching up to get me up to speed with its past posts. PackagingUQAM is one of those sites. So here is a crash course in some of their best content to date.  (Just a warning for you non-French readers, be prepared to activate Google Translate.) Related posts:Package Design Dip & Squeeze Is Here To Please   After 42 years of using the famous ketchup packet... Package Design 1OO% Chocolate Have your cake and eat it too! The contents are... Package Design: Buckminster Snacker Geometric package designs for snacks are…

• Innovative Uses for Everyday Items

  Joseph Warren

  1 Mar 2010 | 4:16 am

  Click on these images to see inventive second uses for each one of these everyday objects. Who would have ever thought? Related posts:Innovative Kitchen Ideas                All of the above... Innovative Invention: Bench Cookies     Marketed as a vice-free alternative to keeping your... Smart Drinkware: Innovative Design This is a clever design. A tea cup with a...

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  dsgnwrld

• ‘coathanger.de family’ by Dirk Landauer

  admin

  8 Mar 2010 | 8:34 am

  On designspray designers, artists and creative people, who have something to sell, can register for free and sell their products via the shop. It is also possible to find a manufacturer for thought-through ideas. ‘coathanger.de family’ is a design by Dirk Landauer: ‘More coatrack would be to much! Chose 2 for your Little Black Dress next to your closet or 7 for the hall. If you chose different lengths, you’ll have a sculpture in your vestibule.’ Price: 38,00 EUR Cheaper by five! 160,00 EUR Related posts:‘Concrete Creations: Contemporary Buildings and…

• LEGO photo iPhone app

  admin

  2 Mar 2010 | 9:16 am

  LEGO has just released their own application for Apple’s iPhone, which allows users to turn their photos into LEGO bricks mosaics. The application is free through itunes and at the click of a button transforms any image into LEGO. The software uses the phone’s built-in camera and once snapped, the photo quickly builds brick by brick into a mosaic made from flat LEGO bricks. The mosaics come in a variety of color combinations and can be saved or shared through the phone. Related posts:‘LEGO Electronics’ featuring real LEGO bricks Life-size LEGO House in Dorking, UK Sonogram…

• ‘Chain Wine Bottle Holder’

  admin

  25 Feb 2010 | 8:53 am

  ‘The ‘Chain Wine Bottle Holder‘ is a gravity defying eye catcher, and a great way to show off your vino and get people going ‘Ooooh’ and ‘Ahhhh’ and very possibly ‘Huh?’… Made from welded chain links and cleverly designed so as to balance perfectly when you add your wine bottle of choice, it’s like having a piece of installation art on your dining table.’ Features * the perfect way to show off a good bottle in a funky holder * the holder is a simple chunky chain (or so it seems) into which you insert the neck of a…

• ‘BoA’ – a floating mega arcology for Boston’s Harbor

  admin

  19 Feb 2010 | 8:25 am

  The ‘BoA’, short for Boston Arcology, is a sustainable mega structure designed by Kevin Schopfer, who also designed the amazing New Orleans Arcology Habitat (NOAH). The ‘BoA’ will house 15,000 people in hotels, offices, retail spaces, museums, condominiums, and even a new city hall. Built to LEED standards with golden proportions, this amazing building would serve as an expansion of the city without impacting what is already currently built. Highlights of the ‘Boa’: * It will be capable of housing 15,000 people distributed in hotels, offices, retail,…

• ‘BirdWatchCam’

  admin

  14 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am

  ‘Millions of people love taking pictures. Millions of people love watching birds. Many millions of people love taking pictures of the birds they watch. The dilemma for most people is that there is never enough time to do either, let alone both! Now there is an EASY and fun way to do both even if you don’t have as much time as you would like.’ Birdwatchers have traditionally used trusty binoculars and expensive zoom lenses on their cameras to see and capture pictures of birds, the ‘BirdWatchCam‘ does all this and captures images of birds automatically. The device is a…

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  My Modern Metropolis

• Creative Ad: BMW S1000 RR. Dinner for RR.

  Eugene

  "From zero to 100km/h (62 mph) in just 2.9 seconds sounds very nice. But would that help in our XXXL-experiment? Don't try this at home with your dishes. Or your mom's ones."

• Photorealistic Flesh Drawings by Cath Riley (11 pics)

  alice

  After being completely blown away by the amount of time and detail that goes into creating Paul Lung's amazing pencil art, I went looking for others that could match his artistry. I immediately found Cath Riley, an artist who's drawings of skin is like nothing I've ever seen. The way Cath sketches pinched flesh and wrinkles and her masterful use of shading sets her apart from all the rest. It's no wonder that her clients includes Nike, The Economist, and The New York Times. Cath Riley

• Lost in the Sheets (6 photos)

  Eugene

  This beautiful set by photographer Patrycja Soltan makes me wish I never got out of bed. In Blink, stunning nude women look like they're lost at sea, as they're seen wrapped up in vibrantly colored, satin sheets. The lighting, colors, shadows, and textures all stand out in this set, and beautifully complement the elegant long lines of the models. Patrycja Soltan's website

• Pier Pressure (12 pics)

  alice

  Ibán Ramón's series of portraits are special because they each bring out a different emotion. Several factors come into play in creating a mood. These include the stance or disposition of the subject, the weather and its effect on lighting and the angle at which Ibán Ramón takes his photos. Looking out into the still or choppy water, the subjects are all lost in their own thought. And though we'll never know what they're thinking, we can appreciate the silent moment for what it is, a time to reflect on the pressures of this world. The photographer, himself: Ibán Ramón

• Creative Ad: What Makes an Athlete Great?

  Eugene

  Designed by Marque Creative, this short film dramatizes the most important skill athletes work on throughout their entire lives. The short films was created for the 2014 Glasgow 20th Commonwealth Games and "depicts the symmetry between the city and the games culminating in the final reveal of the new identity." Commissioned by Marque Creative. Directed, Edited, Animated, Composited and Graded by Rob Chiu. Additional Logo animation by Hoss Gifford. DoP Paul O'Callaghan. Location + Talent Producer Iain Hopkins for 1759, Gaffer Dave Hutton Spark Simon Hutton. Sound Design and Score by Hecq.

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  theaptBROADCAST

• GOOD MORNING

  what a night for hollywood it was last night. everybody's tits came out! one for all and all for one cause, that of agreeing to promote their industry by pretending to care what the other one thinks. while in fabulous attire. i wore american apparel, thank you for asking. now, ...

• ONE MORE THING (OK, TEN)

  and now, just because i can, and it's friday at 4pm, i bring you the lucky finalists of american apparel's completely necessary best bottom in the world competition. chose wisely. have a wonderful weekend. kiddies, kitties, shield your eyes...

• YES X 1000

• I WISH

  why can't sony sell its products anymore? well, part of the answer is that they don't have any products to sell sure. but they did at some point. have products, know how to sell them. look! it's so sad because whenever i need a new electronic gizmo, my first instinct ...

• STORIES

  i remember being a child and being held hostage by a rapist in his suburban light-less basement. assuredly, no laughing matter, but the fact that i was wearing a pale pink lacoste polo shirt, at a time when i was admittedly confused by my sexuality choices, did make the ordeal ...

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  DesignApplause

• 2010 evolo skyscraper winners.

  PRand

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:24 am

  evolo magazine’s winners of the 2010 skyscraper competition. since 2006, the annual skyscraper competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organization. the award seeks to discover young talents whose ideas will change the way we understand architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments. above: first place. a project for a vertical prison examines the possibility of creating a prison-city in the sky, where the inmates would live in a “free” and…

• Diet coke gets a heart.

  PRand

  8 Mar 2010 | 4:55 pm

  diet coke tapped illustrator Tom Gauld to bring heart to its cans, part of the brand’s collaboration with the heart truth, a national awareness campaign to educate women about heart disease. note: coke’s spots on the oscar’s voted the best by da.

• The 2010 creativity 50.

  PRand

  8 Mar 2010 | 4:32 pm

  welcome to the fifth annual creativity 50. those people and companies that made the biggest impact across all areas of creative culture. [RK]

• Green toys.

  PRand

  2 Mar 2010 | 12:46 pm

  they’re called green toys because they save energy. how much energy is saved ? on average(*), every pound of recycled milk jugs used in the making of green toys: saves energy equal to 3,000 aaa batteries. saves enough electricity to power a tv set for three weeks. saves enough electricity to keep a laptop computer running for a month. (*) compared to non-recycled plastic. green toys says it uses recycled milk containers as the main ingredient in creating their toys. when you finish your milk and toss the container in the recycling bin, the milk containers are collected at your curb by a…

• Chevy 789. Retro on steroids.

  PRand

  2 Mar 2010 | 10:05 am

  here is the car to take to your next 1957 class reunion. someone just sent us these photos. a 57, 58, and 59 chevy all rolled into one. a really amazing fit of those three models. regarding the 50s chevies, the 57 was the best followed by the 55. hated the 59. went to a car fair in south beach in january. was reminded, when it comes to retro cars, though i love the chevy, this 1960 shelby ac cobra would be my fave. n2a motors — no two alike !

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  DeTnk

• Exhibition of Contemporary Korean Design

  Collecting Design

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:40 am

  R 20th Century Gallery Franklin Street, New York City Now on view at the R 20th Century Gallery in New York City is an exhibition of contemporary Korean design. This show is presented in conjunction with Gallery Seomi in Seoul, Korea and it marks the Western debut for many of the included designers. read more

• New Work from Arik Levy

  Collecting Design

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:07 am

  Here is a quick peak at new work from renowned designer, Arik levy, which will premiere in Milan this April. At the 2010 Salone in Milan, Emu, the leading manufacture of Italian outdoor furnishing, will debut a new collection from Levy called ‘Pattern’. read more

• THE RESULTS ARE IN: Phillips de Pury’s NOW Sale

  News

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:25 am

  Phillips de Pury & CompanyNew York Phillips de Pury & Company’s latest themed sale, NOW: Art of the 21st Century, took place on the 6th of March in New York with interesting results. These themed sales from Phillips offer a varied alternative to traditional auctions that focus on one particular medium, and the results are proving to be as mixed as the lots up for grabs. read more

• An Exclusive Look at the Making of Joris Laarman's 'Bone Chair'

  Collecting Design

  5 Mar 2010 | 5:51 am

  Following on an earlier post about Joris Laarman’s first US solo show, here is an exclusive video from the FastCompany that will give you an inside look into the making of his ‘Bone Chair’. The young Dutch Designer recently unveiled his most recent collection of work at the Friedman Benda Gallery in New York City.   read more

• Exhibition: EcoTopia

  Collecting Design

  4 Mar 2010 | 7:51 am

    Nectar Design Studio Long Beach, California   Opening this month in Long Beach California is a juried exhibition called ‘EcoTopia’, which highlights new concepts in green product design.    The show was organized by the leading Southern California product design consultancy Nectar, to showcase innovative and trendsetting designs aimed at fostering a healthy ecosystem and more sustainable society. read more

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  Spot Cool Stuff: Design

• 9 Cool Home Aquariums

  Spot Cool Stuff

  28 Feb 2010 | 11:53 am

  Why does nearly every home aquarium have a simple round or rectangular design? As with chairs and lamps, aquariums are furnishings that can take on a variety of styles and shapes. Here are nine cool expamples: Silverfish Aquarium Perhaps no freestanding aquarium has as high a head-turning quotient as the Silverfish from the France-based Octopus Studios design company. The Silverfish’s most striking design feature is obvious from the photo to the right—multiple bulbous fish tanks interconnected by water-filled tubes allowing fish to swim freely around the entire system. Taken together…

• Shopping Cart Furniture

  Spot Cool Stuff

  2 Feb 2010 | 4:20 pm

  If architects can construct entire apartment buildings from used shipping containers and Thai monks can build a temple from discarded beer bottles then why can’t an artist create furniture from old shopping carts? That perhaps is what self-described cross-media visual designer Ramón Coronado asked when he spent 12 weeks at his Los Angeles home creating his Mercado Negro collection. Mercado Negro (Spanish for “black market”) began, as many artistic projects do, as a statement on society. In the words of Coronado: I took it upon myself to take a shopping cart and make a…

• Cool—and Functional—Kitchenware from Architec

  Spot Cool Stuff

  21 Jan 2010 | 9:50 am

  Durable, environmentally friendly and cool looking. Those are the first three adjectives that come to mind when we think of Architec Housewares, one of Spot Cool Stuff’s favorite designers of cookware. What Architec’s hot pads, cutting boards and mixing bowls are best known for, though, are their non-slip properties. For cooks who have suffered our share of burns, cuts and spills this is no small thing. A look at our three favorite Architec items: Silicone HotGrip Architec’s HotGrips are so flexible and squishy that they provide almost the same tactile experience as grabbing…

• The Frank Gehry Hotel

  Spot Cool Stuff

  17 Jan 2010 | 8:08 pm

  There’s a scene in The Simpsons in which a cartoon rendering of architect Frank Gehry casually tosses a piece of paper onto the ground, gives it a look and then says to himself “Frank, you genius! You did it again!” That joke is probably funnier seeing it than reading our recounting. And it’s certainly funnier if you are familiar with certain Gehry-designed buildings—like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in L.A., the Experience Music Project in Seattle and, especially, Bilbao Spain’s Guggenheim Museum—which really do bear some resemblance to crinkled paper (if…

• 7 Downside-Up Houses

  Spot Cool Stuff

  8 Jan 2010 | 1:46 pm

  ˙uʍop ǝpısdn plɹoʍ ǝɥʇ uɹnʇ ʇɐɥʇ—puɐloԀ puɐ ɐıɹʇsn∀ ‘˙∀˙S˙∩ ǝɥʇ ‘ʎuɐɯɹǝפ ‘ɐpɐuɐƆ ‘uıɐdS uı—sǝɹnʇɔnɹʇs uǝʌǝs ǝsǝɥʇ ɟo puoɟ ʎllɐıɔǝdsǝ sı ɟɟnʇS looƆ ʇodS ʎɥʍ sı ɥɔıɥM…

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  Netdiver Magazine

• Pablo Lobato

  Carole Guevin

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:07 am

  Deconstructed à la Picasso and busting with vivid colors of mostly celebreties illustrations by Pablo Lobato.

• Throwing a party?

  Carole Guevin

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:15 am

  Throwing a party? Check out Snap and Dine a single use three-course table setting that integrates disposable cutlery with traditional silverware. Designed by Demel Zahill.

• iBend stands

  Carole Guevin

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:21 am

  Another trend on the rise? Mobile gadgets adorned by talented (or well-known) designers. This one is a smarty little stand named iBend. “Need a little support?” That’s a smart tagline indeed. Landascape by Michael Bartelos * _______ Bloom by Joshua Davis * _______ Cute bites by Meomi *

• Creative Suitcase

  Carole Guevin

  8 Mar 2010 | 7:16 am

  Creative Suitcase is a custom web design and graphic design agency. Good nav idea of using semi-transparent clickable content bars to highlight the different sections. What do you think, works or not?

• Millennials?

  Carole Guevin

  8 Mar 2010 | 6:42 am

  A portrait of Generation Next: Millennials are 18-29 They are: Confident. Connected. Open to Change. _______ They embrace multiple modes of self-expression _______ They are more ethnically and racially diverse than older adults _______ Love tatoos and body piercing _______ Technology use is 24% _______ More upbeat than their elders about their own economic futures _______ Placed privacy boundaries on their social media profiles _______ 3rd life [...]

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  New Urbanism Blog

• Transit-Oriented Development Video

  admin

  23 Feb 2010 | 7:31 pm

  Nice video here at treehugger.com about Transit-Oriented Development or TOD. It’s a video borrowed from Fast Company magazine, and details a bit of how Portland has become such a landmark for TOD enthusiasts and planners.For my readers in Kansas City, I think it’s always interesting to think about Portland and compare it to our own city, or other cities in the Midwest of comparable size. In the 1970’s, Portland was a smaller and by all means less-important city than KC. Starting then, they made a conscious series of decisions to embrace walkability, transit, and away from…

• Rebuilding in Haiti

  admin

  16 Feb 2010 | 6:31 pm

  It shouldn’t be any surprise that many very thoughtful people are already working on ideas for how to rebuild amidst the destruction in Haiti. In fact, it’s an urgent need, as so many people are homeless.This video documents one of what I think is the more interesting approaches being proposed – by Andres Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. There’s obviously much I like about the approach he is suggesting, not the least of which is the careful use of design to solve social, urban design and architectural problems.  Too many people approach situations such as these…

• Let’s better manage our pavement space – for the fun of it

  admin

  11 Feb 2010 | 2:03 pm

  A recurring theme of this blog is that we miss so many opportunities to better utilize excess pavement space that so many of our cities and towns have.In some cases, that simply means we should reduce or remove travel lanes in favor of more on-street parking, wider sidewalks or better provisions for street trees. These are all simple things that can greatly increase our quality of life, and minimize the destruction that planning for high-speed, high-capacity traffic has done.In other cases, it means getting creative, and using our spaces more efficiently for more hours of the day. When we…

• An Open Letter to President Obama and Congress

  admin

  4 Feb 2010 | 1:42 pm

  While the country staggers towards economic stability, the design professions are feeling their worst economic times since the Great Depression. Depending on the region of the country, the unemployment and underemployment rate for design professionals is anywhere from 20% to 50%. I feel this daily as President of the Kansas City chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and as an owner of a small architecture / planning firm.What I hope to convey to you in this note is not just the seriousness of our situation, but how you can help at the Federal level while achieving your stated goals…

• Free Downtown transit

  admin

  22 Jan 2010 | 12:04 pm

  Over on the Switchboard blog written by Kaid Benfield, he writes today about a free downtown circulator that Baltimore has recently put in place. (pasted below) This is a great heads-up to those cities that are cutting back on transit in tough times. I’ve thought for a while that we need an entirely new service model for transit in most American cities, and will write about this more in future posts. The reality is the current system in most cities is so completely unsupported by fares that we might as well have completely free zones in order to encourage denser, walkable development.

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  Remodelista

• Storage: Moroccan Baskets from Medina

  sarah

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:00 pm

  I love the versatility of baskets; great for toting produce from the farmer's market, but equally useful for ad-hoc storage around the house. Medina, a small family business based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, is a good online resource for baskets and has been importing them since 1985. The baskets are hand woven in Morocco from sustainably grown palm leaf, water reed, and wild grasses. Above: Basket as planter in a house on Ibiza, via the Style Files. Above: A basket used as a planter via London-based Parma Lilac Interior. Above: A basket used for wood storage, via Jane…

• Design Sleuth: Ben Wolff Black Clay Pots

  julie

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:00 am

  Spotted (and admired) in yesterday's House Call: Herne Hill in London: succulents displayed in a black pottery pot. For a similar look, consider high-fire black stoneware garden containers from Connecticut potter Ben Wolff (son of well-known potter Guy Wolff), who creates simple, based pieces based on historical forms and styles. Above L: Waramaug Pot; prices start at $8 for a 3.75-inch-high pot at Ben Wolff Pottery. Above R: Woodville Garden Pot; $41 for an 8-inch-high pot at Goods for the Garden.

• Kitchen: Enormous Champion Tea Towels at Heath Ceramics

  julie

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:30 am

  New at Heath Ceramics: tea towels from Brooklyn-based Enormous Champion, a husband-wife team that uses environmentally friendly materials in their designs. Go to Heath Ceramics to see the full line. Above: Whales Dish Towel made of Belgian linen; $22.

• Palette & Paints: Farrow & Ball Gray

  sarah

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:30 am

  On a recent visit to Blackman Cruz in LA, we found ourselves admiring the gray-painted walls. Proprietor Adam Blackman was kind enough to clue us in to the exact provenance of the paint: Farrow & Ball's Down Pipe. While we love Farrow & Ball, we realize the products are not necessarily budget-priced, so we contacted our go-to resource for paint, Philip Reno of Philip's Perfect Colors in San Francisco. His recommendation? Pratt & Lambert Stone's Throw—a similar, and cheaper, alternative. See below for details. Above: Gray wall at Blackman Cruz Above: Farrow & Ball's Down…

• Steal This Look: Amsterdam Kitchen

  julie

  9 Mar 2010 | 3:15 am

  Located in a loft in Amsterdam, this urban kitchen is lit from above (skylights) and features a polished concrete floor, bleached steer skulls, an industrial clock; all the elements required for a hipster kitchen. Photos by the remarkable Hotze Eisma. Recreate the look with a few easy-to-source elements: Above: True Clock; $48 at Chiasso. Above: Tove Adman Concrete Candlesticks; $42.45 at Scandinavian Design Center. Above: Small Steer Horns, similar to the pair holding the cookbook, are $30 at Bum Steer. Full skulls (similar to the one suspended over the sink) also available. Above: The Lack…

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  design mind

• The Remembering Self Reflects on Happiness and Morality at TED

  Tim Leberecht

  7 Mar 2010 | 5:20 pm

  TED conferences, you might think, are happy affairs. You get up early, meet the most fascinating people, listen to jaw-dropping talks (each followed by a standing ovation), have deep conversations, and party until dawn – and all of that for four days in a row, safely remote from your usual daily routine. The reality, however, is more complicated. The event is a physical and mental stress test, an emotional rollercoaster ride that challenges you with constant over-stimulation, extreme cross-pollination, and tidal waves of acceptance and rejection as you navigate the social networks in…

• “It's Been Like Walking Into a Forest With a Match”

  Tim Leberecht

  6 Mar 2010 | 10:38 am

  For Wired UK’s “Work Smarter” issue (just released), I had the pleasure to speak with John Winsor, co-founder and CEO of Victors & Spoils (V&S), the world’s first creative (ad) agency built on crowdsourcing principles. You can find a shortened article in the Wired UK magazine. Here’s the interview in full length. Q: V&S launched a few months ago. How is it going so far? How many clients do you have, and can you share some of the work that you are doing? It's going really well. We're working with a half dozen clients and have done a dozen projects,…

• Penguin Books Innovates in Publishing...Again

  Adam Richardson

  4 Mar 2010 | 5:34 pm

  Penguin, the fabled English publisher, is plunging head first into the world of iPad content. Not iPad books, exactly, as these things are not recognizable as books in the normal sense - they are closer to games and full-fledged apps. Even in the case where they are adapting existing print books, there is enough new stuff going on where it diverges significantly from what we normally think of as "book". A Kindle ebook these are not. Check out the video above for an intriguing peep into what they have planned. Dan Nosowitz at Fast Company observes: [P]enguin doesn't even think these…

• Zipcar: The Apple of Car Sharing

  Adam Richardson

  4 Mar 2010 | 12:11 pm

  A story of innovation, ecosystems, and success from the author of Innovation X. Companies that transform their industries usually do so by creating nicely integrated combinations of products, software, online experiences, and services. Apple, Amazon, and Google are top examples. Let me suggest that we add Zipcar to that list. Zipcar was founded in 2000 with a pilot program in Boston by founders Robin Chase and Antje Danielson. The company has grown rapidly. In 2008, Chase and Antje bought their largest competitor, and they now operate in a dozen U.S. cities and over 100 university campuses.

• It's Time to Rethink the C-Suite

  Adam Richardson

  3 Mar 2010 | 10:23 pm

  We need to rethink the traditional combination of CEO, COO, CTO, CMO and CFO. Back when companies were about routinization and optimization for efficiency and profit in stable industries perhaps this combination made sense, but in today's complex world it is woefully inadequate. As Dan Pink writes in his new book Drive, most organizations today are less based on procedural algorithms and must run on ad hoc heuristics. The tidy C-suite club of old just doesn't cut it in today's messy, disruptive, complex world. There has been actually been quite a lot of action on this front: Chief Innovation…

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  Product Design Hub - Industrial Design Community & Resources

• Like-a-bike

  28 Feb 2010 | 4:29 am

  Having not studied design I cannot pretend to understand the significance of all Dieter Rams work, however his principle of good design being ‘as little design as possible’ is something I have witnessed firsthand in the evolution of products created to help youngsters learn to ride bicycles. Whilst going through this boyhood initiation I had stabilizers added to my bike so that I wouldn’t have to worry about balancing straightaway and could instead concentrate on getting to grips with the peddling, steering and braking. It can however be argued that balance is the skill most needed when…

• Present Time Design Contest

  27 Jan 2010 | 8:01 am

  Do you have a secretly scribbled design, a flash of inspiration or some untapped talent? Then enter the Present Time DESIGN CONTEST 2010, launched to give creativity the platform it deserves. The winning design will be produced as part of one of the brands of Present Time, with YOUR NAME listed on the packaging as the signature designer. Naturally, you will get an official contract and receive a royalty! Present Time is a producer of gifts and home decoration items, based in the Netherlands. Our mission is to use contemporary design to add fun and a personal touch to life. For over 30 years,…

• Tiffin Box

  18 Jan 2010 | 4:36 am

  Tiffin Box is a lunchbox. Possibly the best expression of a lunchbox I know. It’s made from stainless steel and is made of eighteen components (which seems like it could be less). It has roughly the circumference of a CD and stands about eight inches tall. It has some of the best proportions I’ve seen in a product and as a result it is a delightful thing to both use and look at. So why am I talking about a lunchbox? Why does such a mundane thing occupy my thoughts? And why do I believe it should occupy yours? Well I’ll start by mentioning the fact that the lunchbox is a design problem…

• Putting Innovation at the heart of your business

  18 Jan 2010 | 3:42 am

  ‘Nothing restricts our ability to innovate more than what we already know, and what we therefore believe not to be possible’(Geoff Mulgan, founder of think tank Demos) What is innovation? Innovation is all about doing things differently, exploiting new ideas and taking risks. It enables businesses to bring new and improved products or services to market, re-energise brands, refine processes and, most importantly, improve profitability. Innovation should be an on-going process that’s embedded in the company culture at all levels. It’s a team process that thrives when passionate people…

• Automotive Rendering Techniques Video

  14 Jan 2010 | 7:14 am

  cmiVFX | cmiStudios launches a brand new way of delivering videos for its fast growing user base. This new series of training videos is called cmiDirect. Why "direct"?  The videos are DIRECT to the point and focus on one topic at the time. This will enable artists all over the world to have access to the information they need immediately without sorting through longer feature length videos. These videos explain all the information you need in depth and direct to the topic.  Bundled video packages will be available in the near future for continuing education at affordable prices.  When it…

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  OutNext

• WEEKLY UPDATE / FEBRUARY 21, 2010

  Aleksandar Tomovic

  21 Feb 2010 | 11:01 am

  Dior Homme presents a new sneaker by Kris Van Assche for the summer 2010 collection. It simple and white pretty much everything I like. And if you wanna go a little fancier, check out those high top sneaker, pretty cool right!? This one comes in 4 color ways. With all the walking you are going to do with those cool sneakers, you may need some energy. And if you like to be on top of stylish energy drinks too, check out the Berry,En. Aktiv, Berry, Cal+ and Yumi. It's Tea-Fun-Time with this tea servive from freud UK. Wannaa impress your friends at your next tea-party, we have what you need.

• WEEKLY UPDATE / FEBRUARY 16, 2010

  Aleksandar Tomovic

  16 Feb 2010 | 7:13 pm

  Le Whif "as sweet as chocolate, as light as air" Ok, so it's not really like smoking chocolate but more breathing it ... For those craving chocolate all day long or even once in a while but do not want the guilt of eating it Le Whif may be what you need. David Edwards, a professor of biomedical engineering at Harvard University, came up with the idea of “eating by breathing” A lipstick-size inhaler filled with chocolate particles with (less than a single calorie). I an a big fan of waters, when we lived in Paris I was buying every Evian designer hors-series bottles ... Drink Wataah is not…

• ECLAIR BRIGITTE BARDOT BY FAUCHON

  Aleksandar Tomovic

  18 Dec 2009 | 3:02 pm

  After launching the famous éclair Mona Lisa, Fauchon introduces its latest gourmandise from its Tribute Collection featuring French actress Brigitte Bardot blending delicately sweet and sensual flavors of almonds and roses. In 2008 Fauchon created a new chocolate printing technique that enable to display images. And this is the first treat of their French classic collection. The "BB" éclair is available in Paris at that Fauchon store located 26 Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement. Price: 6 euros + BB Eclair by Fauchon

• CATCH THE WAVE ... IN STYLE

  Aleksandar Tomovic

  18 Dec 2009 | 2:41 pm

  The international design community has spoken and the winner of Interior Design Magazine’s Best of Year Award (BoYA) in the Outdoor Furniture Category is: Royal Botania’s “WAVE” hammock. Unlike any other piece of its kind, it is neither a hammock, nor a sun chair, nor a parasol. It is an artwork that combines functionality with beauty and elegance. Designed by Erik Nyberg & Gustav Ström, the WAVE consists of electro-polished stainless steel and mesh. The canopy and seat sling are made from batyline. The fabric is semi-transparent while at the same time offering protection by blocking…

• FALSE FRIENDS BY COARSE

  Aleksandar Tomovic

  9 Dec 2009 | 10:17 pm

  Want to send a special message to one of your special friends!? How about toys that hate each other!? False Friends contains the colossal paw! and a freshly hatched noop, robed in his heavenly soft paw! suit. The pair comes in glowing spring colors, put to sleep between two cotton pillows, every one embroidered with the individual running number. Safely packed in a hand crafted wooden box with a monkey rabbit nose handle and enclosed with an elastic band. Each set includes one coarse family and friends application card. Limited to 200 pieces. Each pack is sold around 350€. Available January…

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  the girl in the green dress

• imagination walks.

  Traci

  5 Mar 2010 | 4:00 am

  imagination walks by camper. this is nothing new but anyone who knows me knows how i feel about camper shoes. and this was one of my favorite campaigns. love ya camper, really do!

• fav4.org.

  Traci

  4 Mar 2010 | 7:30 am

  fav4.org lets you have a simple and minimal home page. now you know my fav 4, how many unread emails i have in my mailbox and that i need to empty my trash.

• ok go - this too shall pass.

  Traci

  4 Mar 2010 | 4:00 am

• usb 2.0 a to b flat cable, 4ft - blue.

  Traci

  3 Mar 2010 | 7:30 am

  usb 2.0 a to b flat cable, 4ft - blue by lacie. is it wrong that i love a cable?

• the field.

  Traci

  3 Mar 2010 | 4:00 am

  the field by farmtactics.

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  LogoInn

• LogoInn.Net Redesigned

  joey

  3 Mar 2010 | 11:58 pm

  We are in the process of upgrading and updating LogoInn. The plan is to apply a theme that suits our expansion plans. And our expansion plans end at the total world domination.

• Logo Design Trends in 2009

  joey

  21 Jan 2010 | 6:04 am

  The global economy in general and the US economy in particular started to recover from the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Web and graphic design industries were also affected. But the new start ups and a growing trend of home based small businesses emerging throughout North America and Europe helped many medium sized design firms to continue flourishing in these difficult times. Last year was a challenge to design artists as well. They had to deal with a new emerging clientele which had smaller budget and big expectations. Even then, these wonderful artists created amazing designs…

• Logo Design Review: Xerox Logo Revamped For The Future

  joey

  7 Jan 2010 | 3:22 am

  Xerox, the world’s leading document management enterprise has considered revamping its logo to meet the branding challenges (such as new media & intense competition) in the future. In diversified and dynamic markets, it has become critical to synchronize your brand with your innovations, upcoming products and marketing strategies that you have to introduce to your customers.  First, take a look at the previous logo. You will find it simple, classic red coloured typeface logo which mentions the name of the organization.  When it comes to classic Analogue photocopiers, Xerox has a…

• Book Review: “Marks of Excellence” by Per Mollerup

  joey

  24 Dec 2009 | 3:57 am

  Today, I have picked Per Mollerup’s “Marks of Excellence” for review. If you are a creative designer or a brand marketer, this book definitely deserves to be on your coffee table. With a deep insight into trademarks and its meanings, it has covered each and every aspect that deals with trademark’s history, its evolution and its relevance in today’s world. From the very beginning, the reader has a lot to explore about the origin of trademark with reference to heraldry, owner’s marks, monogram and certificates. These are specific terminologies you need to know to deeply explore this…

• Logo Design Review: Wikipedia

  joey

  14 Dec 2009 | 10:40 pm

  Everybody is quite familiar with Wikipedia, the world’s largest online resource for content about everything. On January 15, 2001 when it was officially launched, the founder Jimmy Wales used the American flag “Old Glory” as its logo; but it turned out to be a bad idea and attracted widespread criticism. People called it “Ethno centric” biased approach. Being the fastest growing and largest source of multilingual content with over 14 million articles, this logo seemed to be irrelevant to the Wikipedia concept. The icon of such a great global resource should suggest global…

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  Living Locurto

• Sweet Fairy Party

  Amy

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:14 am

  I’m excited to show you the first real party with my new Fairy Printables! This was my neighbor Lauren’s 4th birthday party and it was magical. The party started by entering the “Fairy Changing Room” (aka coat closet) where you would be turned into a real fairy! After a few magic words along with pixie dust sprinkled on your head, you got to pick out your very own fairy tutu to wear to the party! How cute was that? Then it was time to eat and sing happy birthday. What nice day to eat cupcakes outside! Next we made fairy wands. (This activity is also included in my…

• Week 20 – Free Printable Weekly Meal Plan

  Amy

  8 Mar 2010 | 9:44 am

  This week’s kid friendly, easy menu was planned by Cheryl at Tidy Mom.net. Please visit her blog for all kinds of wonderful recipes and DIY projects. Thanks again Cheryl for another terrific week of recipes! Pulled Chicken Sandwiches Cavatelli with Eggs and Bacon Mustard Chicken Jazzed up Mac & Cheese Slow Cooker BBQ Ribs (Weekend is leftovers) I have created a printable PDF file with all of the recipes, photos and grocery list. Just print the file and you’re ready to go shopping!! And best of all, it’s FREE! Click the image below to download and print this week’s…

• I Heart Faces – Jump for Joy

  Amy

  7 Mar 2010 | 10:09 am

  Our theme this week is “Jump for Joy” and Kelly Moore is our guest photographer judge. It’s REALLY hard to coordinate two jumpers at the same time!  I’m looking forward to seeing all the entries this week. It should be fun! I hope you’ll visit I Heart Faces and enter a photo this week! I’m one of the Co-Founders of I Heart Faces and just entering for fun. Click below to view more of my I Heart Faces entries. Hands •  Texture •  Family •   Kiss You might also enjoy these links: Weekly Meal Plans- Meals made easy with free printable grocery…

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  The Office Stylist

• Modern Accent Chairs

  The Office Stylist

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:45 pm

  Elizabeth Armless Accent Chair- $161.49 Dolce Chair- $200 Floral Swoop Arm Chair- $161.49 Indigo Slipper Chair- $325 Avington Slipper Chair- $135.99 Modern accent chairs can be used in a number of ways, all of which add just the right amount of what you may be looking for. If your space seems a little too “cookie cutter” like, then adding on of these modern accent chairs may be just what you need to mix things up. Where we would put them: As visitors chair in the office (2 matching chairs) In the lobby area as additional seating In the living room In the bedroom

• Ten Ways to Wear Green at Work

  The Office Stylist

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:09 pm

  Don’t get pinched at work because you forgot to wear green this upcoming St. Patty’s Day! Though St. Patrick’s Day may not be largely celebrated at your office, you still run the risk of bumping into someone who feels the need to pinch you for forgetting to wear the color Green. Kate Spade Green Hoop Earrings -$65 Banana Republic Men’s Green Crewneck Sweater- $59.50 Ladies… Paint your nails! Green is one of the hottest nail colors of the season so why not use it for the holiday too? “Jade is the New Black” OPI Nail Polish- $5.17 Dump that green dress…

• WorkPod: The Backyard Office

  The Office Stylist

  8 Mar 2010 | 12:47 pm

  Some people work from home from a closet, some from their own nook, and some create an Audrey Hepburn themed home office. And then there are those who create an office for their backyard: The Office Stylist Says: Okay I’ll admit, I have TOTAL Office Envy. I’ve seen backyard offices and office setups before, but none like this.  The Workpod is a design junkie’s dream or pretty much anyone who wants a modern, stylish office in their own backyard. Designed with both function, style, and the environment in mind, making this office one of my favorite offices I’ve seen so…

• Office Floor Lamp: The Space Saving Version

  The Office Stylist

  8 Mar 2010 | 11:59 am

  Having your own lighting in your office is a lot better than using the fluorescent lights in our opinion. It’s easier on your eyes, and it gives a nice excuse to add a modern and stylish office floor lamp. Office Floor Lamp- $228 If you haven’t noticed, this isn’t your run of the mill floor lamp, it’s a wall decal floor lamp making this lamp a great space saver. Small spaces will benefit the most from this lamp but that doesn’t mean others can’t make this lamp work. Use it in the home, office, home office or just about anywhere else.

• BLANKSPACES LA

  The Office Stylist

  5 Mar 2010 | 12:38 pm

  Co-working in LA is normally done at  your typical Starbucks or for the pickier worker, a boutique hotel.  However BLANKSPACES LA changes things up a bit with the way their offices are setup. Architect: Jerome Chang, Assistant Designer: Koren Nelson Quieter than working at Starbucks since no one is making mocha lattes right next to your table, and more comfortable than being hunched over on a hotel couch. The Office Stylist Says: I love the modern design, open space, and splashes of the color blue. I don’t think it’s an accident that they have blue in every part of this space,…

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  Creative Opera

• Web Design Trends: Predictions for 2010

  Manda

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:59 pm

  I recently posted a list of the 2009 design trends, and gave my opinion on whether or not those trends would be sticking around for 2010. But what new trends can we expect in 2010? Here are my predictions: Inventive Interaction Check out any of these sample sites, and you’ll be drawn in right away by the interactive relationship between you (the user) and the site. I think we’ll see more of this as web design becomes more sophisticated and as old browsers (IE6) die out. As time goes on, web design won’t just be about making the page look pretty and a user-friendly…

• All Ye Apple iPad Naysayers: Shuteth Upeth

  Manda

  8 Mar 2010 | 3:19 pm

  The Apple iPad is yet to be released. In fact, you can’t even preorder it until March 12. But, that hasn’t stopped hundreds of websites, blogs, and news writers from passing judgment. Just search for “iPad” in Google News, and you’ll see plenty of articles, most of them negative. Writers everywhere are feeling the need to create lists expressing their deep disappointment with iPad’s lack of this, or omission of that. Well, I’m just going to come right out and say it, “Shut Up!” How is it that we are so spoiled and pissy that we can just…

• 2009 Design Salaries: How much money should you be making?

  Manda

  3 Mar 2010 | 7:30 pm

  Last year I posted a short article, Design FAQ: How Much Money Do Graphic Designers Make? and I thought I should follow it up with the updated information for this year. The AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salariesis published every year and includes responses from more than 9,000 design professionals. In it, you’ll find everything from compensation to benefits for all different design professions — even freelancers. There are also some very nice descriptions to break down the different facets of design, and lots of helpful career advice as well. Download a copy of the 2009 Survey Use…

• 8 MORE Graphic Design Myths

  Manda

  28 Feb 2010 | 7:51 pm

  Almost a year ago, I shared some graphic design myths with you in: “8 Common Graphic Design Myths Revealed.” Since that time, I’ve come across another 8 myths that need to be uncovered. Myth #9: Graphic Designers Fix Computers I’m not sure what it is, but there is a mass confusion about the limitless knowledge of graphic designers. Apparently because I work on a computer all day, I also know how to take one apart and build it from scratch. I know how to set up networks, load memory, rid computers of viruses, and use any and all programs — no matter if they are…

• 2009 Web Design Trends: What’s Washed-Up & What Will Remain Hot in 2010

  Manda

  23 Feb 2010 | 6:57 am

  I found 2009 to be an inspiring year for web design. We seemed to break away a bit from that whole Web 2.0 thing and start thinking outside the overly glossy box. But, that doesn’t mean that we didn’t see some very strong trends this past year. What is a trend? I’m not going to quote the dictionary. I’m going to just tell you my interpretation. Once a design style starts to seep into usages beyond it’s original purpose, it has become a trend. For example, a wood background on a camping website makes sense. When the local bank is using a wood background on their…

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  OMC Design

• Bench : Dantelli

  9 Mar 2010 | 5:02 pm

  Bench Dantelli OpenThe Dantelli design takes its inspiration from the laceworks, the design is both decorative and functional, providing seating for at least five people.

• Bench : Tubes

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:56 pm

  Bench Tubes OpenThe tubes is an elegant bench design that was inspired by Roman architecture and aqueducts, it is quite an environment friendly design that also occupies minimal space while providing the most seating space and a joyful experience.

• Bench : Elegance

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:51 pm

  Bench Elegance OpenI feel this design is not only clever use of material, but it is also quite elegant and self explanatory. It was inspired by Roman Aqueducts and architecture.

• Bench : Sidekick

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:42 pm

  Bench Sidekick OpenThis design was inspired by children's toy circles where you make a tower; kind of the wooden tower stacks, I wanted to do a happy and efficient design with the use of already existing materials and finally came up with this version.

• Bench : Olympic

  9 Mar 2010 | 4:26 pm

  Bench Olympic OpenThe olymic bench takes its inspiration from the logo of olympic games, it has quite a minimalist and functional design and stylish look.

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  PSFK

• Zappos Breaks New Campaign

  Paloma Vazquez

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:10 am

  Zappos has launched an interesting new campaign centered around the notion of "delivering happiness."

• Know Where Your Milk Comes From

  Naresh Kumar

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:01 am

  Whereismymilkfrom.com helps people to know the exact location of the dairy products they consume.

• TabbedOut: Pay For Your Bar Tab Using An iPhone

  Naresh Kumar

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:04 pm

  TabbedOut is an iPhone application which allows users to order and pay for their tabs at local bars.

• New Breakthrough In Extracting Hydrogen From Water

  Naresh Kumar

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:02 pm

  In a new experiment, British scientists reported 60% efficiency in the process to produce hydrogen from water.

• Reinvention At Digital Shops: From Online Advertisers To Tech Innovators

  Paloma Vazquez

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:01 pm

  Razorfish and R/GA are delivering on the original vision of dot-com era digital shops, acting as management consultants and innovation experts.

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  Neoformix

• Inline Images for Twitter Clients

  3 Mar 2010 | 10:55 am

  Wouldn't it be cool if your twitter client could directly show tweets with small embedded images? Things like stock charts, graphical weather reports, server status, traffic reports, graphical emoticons expressing emotional state of your friends, mini-graphical movie ratings with thumbs up/down or stars, sports record summaries, or a million others that I haven't though of? Perhaps something like this? This shouldn't be very hard. In fact, I think all that's required is the following: Somebody create a new URL shortener that by convention is only for links to images of dimensions 234x60…

• Profile in Harvard Business Review

  27 Feb 2010 | 3:45 am

  About ten days ago I was contacted by Scott Berinato, an editor at the Harvard Business Review, who was interested in writing up some of my visualization work for the HBR Research blog. We had a nice chat and he subsequently published Four Ways of Looking at Twitter which profiled my four twitter visualization tools. He did a wonderful job and the article got lots of attention on Twitter. I've been tracking many of the tweets about the article and there have been at least 1500 tweets sent by various people telling their friends to read it. All the extra attention has made this the busiest…

• Apple Logo from Products

  1 Feb 2010 | 11:10 pm

  I was looking for pictures of the new Apple iPad and stumbled across this image of Apple Form Factor Evolution. It's got lots of images of Apple products on a nice simple white background and was perfect fodder to use with the Image Foam Technique so I made this version of the Apple logo from the product sub-images.

• SOTU 2010 Word Cloud Map

  28 Jan 2010 | 1:15 am

  Last night President Obama delivered the State of the Union Address. The Shaped Word Cloud below was created from the text.

• More Visualization Links on Twitter

  23 Jan 2010 | 1:55 am

  In a recent post I showed the Top 20 Individual Data Visualizations Mentioned on Twitter and remarked that many of the most frequently mentioned twitter links were to collections of visualizations. Shown below is a meta list of the top collection-type data visualization or infographic links. Top Collections of Data Visualization Links 50 Great Examples of Data Visualization - Webdesigner Depot Data Visualization and Infographics Resources - Smashing Magazine 15 Stunning Examples of Data Visualization - Web Design Ledger 20 Essential Infographics & Data Visualization Blogs - Inspired…

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  shape+colour

• caribou + video marsh: odessa.

  shape and colour

  19 Feb 2010 | 9:11 am

  There are very few things I’m as excited about this Spring as Caribou’s upcoming “Swim”, scheduled to drop April 20. Caribou (and now drummer Brad Weber’s amazing, percussion-crazy side project Pick A Piper) is one of my favourite musical entities ever. I hesitate to call them a “band”, because I feel that they’re more than that. An evolution of instrumentation and style that puts them one step ahead. The “Odessa” mp3 was released online a little while ago, but I’ve been waiting for the video before posting. Happy days are…

• 02.19.10: jump jump dance dance, why?, kid sam, under byen.

  shape and colour

  19 Feb 2010 | 6:53 am

  jump jump dance dance + claire carré: show me the night. why? + agustin carbonere: these hands. kid sam + sherwin akbarzadeh: we’re mostly made of water. Under Byen + Sidste Carsens: Alt Er Tabt.

• dmitry fyodorov + markus waltå: simcoe.

  shape and colour

  18 Feb 2010 | 1:02 pm

  There’s something unsettlingly intimate yet oddly fascinating about watching strangers eat. Not every bodily function becomes social, and as far as bodily functions go the range of experiences possible within the act of eating are pretty unlimited. There aren’t too many different ways to breathe and blink and heartbeat and cell divide; eating, however, is almost infinite. Infinite in its goodness, but also in its grotesqueness. In his video for Swedish electro-duo Dmitry Fyodorov’s “Simcoe”, the first track off their upcoming album “Shapeless”,…

• alan poon + zeus: marching through your head.

  shape and colour

  16 Feb 2010 | 8:24 am

  Canadian Alan Poon directed one of my favourite music videos of all time, 2008’s incredible macro-masterpiece for Bowerbirds’ “In Our Talons.” That track was a fiery lament against man’s destruction of the natural world, and Poon created a perfect visual to accompany it: a twisted, contorted microscopic look at our affect on the Earth and everything else that isn’t us. In his latest, for  Zeus’ “Marching Through Your Head”, he continues to examine stop-motion and hyper-realistic nature imagery to create a dreamy, sharp, saturated…

• barclaycard + the mill: rollercoaster.

  shape and colour

  2 Feb 2010 | 12:43 pm

  In 2008, BBH London created a refreshing and beautifully executed spot for Barclaycard called “Waterslide.” For 2010 they’re back at it, this time with a Nicolai Fuglsig-directed spot called “Rollercoaster.” If you’re wondering what it’s about, the title is pretty self-explanatory. Created by VFXperts (I just made that term up, I’m not sure I like it, but I’ll keep it for now…) The Mill, the spot is sharp, tight, fearless, and seamless. But despite the technical radness, the best part is that it really does capture the joy behind the…

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  CSS Globe | Web Standards Magazine

• CSS3-Only Tabbed Area

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:15 am

  A CSS3 only solution for what is a typical JavaScript thing. Clever use of :target pseudo class.

• A Guide To Typography On The Web

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:09 am

  An easy-to-read reminder of web typography with some rules and tips.

• Create a Simple News Scroller Using Dojo

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:55 am

  My journey into Dojo javascript has been exciting and I'm continuing to learn more as I port MooTools scripts to Dojo. My latest experiment is porting a simple new scroller from MooTools to Dojo.

• 25 Useful CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:39 am

  It is essential today for a web designer to know about CSS3 and there are many tutorials and resources for the CSS3. Below i've listed 25 Useful CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials to get you started with CSS3, hope you find this collection useful

• Best WordPress plugins - February 2010

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:21 am

  Today we presents collection of best Wordpress plugins for February 2010.

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  Naldz Graphics

• 30 Outstanding T Shirt Design Tutorials and Tips

  Ronald Bien

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:08 am

  As defined, a t-shirt is a garment that is used to cover most of a person's torso. It is considered to be a basic necessity that is vital to survival and everyday living. Notwithstanding it's importance to the society, unique t-shirt designs are widely accepted and acknowledged. Designers everywhere are looking for new techniques and styles to create the perfect and unique design. In this latest post, you will see a collection of 30 Outstanding T Shirt Design Tutorials and Tips for t-shirt designers out there who are finding ways and means to create the perfect t shirt design. Take a look at…

• 40+ Autodesk 3ds Max Tutorials for Beginners and Advance

  Ronald Bien

  8 Mar 2010 | 5:26 am

  Autodesk 3ds Max, (formerly known as 3D Studio MAX) is a software that models, animates and renders any design to look more realistic. At present, more and more designers are into mastering this software to widen their skills and explore the design possibilities especially nowadays that almost everything is 3D. To aid those designers who are aiming to master 3D designs, we bring you 40+ Autodesk 3ds Max Tutorials for Beginners and Advance . The list is composed of several techniques that you may need to use in creating 3D graphics with the help of other software like Photoshop, Zbrush and…

• 40+ Astounding Collection of Free Grunge Wallpapers

  Ronald Bien

  6 Mar 2010 | 5:35 am

  Presently, grunge designs are making its mark in the design community. With its unique style and concept, more designers are slowly adopting the grunge trend. From brushes to textures and wallpapers alike, this type of design is making its breakthrough in the world of creativity and artistry. Various websites are currently offering grunge resources and freebies. Admittedly, with its impact in the web world, demands are high and clamor for such a design is high. Most of you may now have an amazing collection of wallpapers in your desktop through the various freebies that were showcased in…

• Showcase of Excellent Underwater Photography

  Ronald Bien

  2 Mar 2010 | 4:23 am

  Photographers are venturing into new fields and different types of photography to create unique and astounding photos. In our previous posts, we have showcased several types of photography, mainly to inspire neophytes and professional photographers alike. To further extend our aim to provide quality posts for freebies, inspiration and tutorials, we have came up with another quality post for our inspiration collection... A Showcase of Excellent Underwater Photography is provided below to help you get inspired and make your next piece of artwork. The list is composed of 45 underwater photos…

• A Collection of Free Adobe Illustrator Floral Vector Files

  Ronald Bien

  28 Feb 2010 | 5:39 am

  Our previous posts on various resources tackles on several freebies such as brushes and textures. Today, we bring you another type of resources that you can add to your collection. A Free Adobe Illustrator Floral Vector Collections in .AI and EPS Files are given below to all designers who are looking for top quality floral vectors for their designs and creations... Check out this amazing collection brought to you by skilled and talented designers. You can download these items right into your desktop for free! Use them wisely to create your masterpieces and download as much as you like for…

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  Rames Studios

• Hangout with Alamanda(part7) | Pullman's Fitness Centre

  Rames

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:43 am

  Wahh!! Part 7 d lolol!!After done playing with bokehs, we were brought to Pullman's Fitness Centre. You can find a lots of state-of-the-art machines here to workout. Some of us even tried the machines + camwhoring with it loll. Hmmm...anyone been there?

• Secret India in Singapore (3 in 1 post)

  Rames

  7 Mar 2010 | 8:26 pm

  Hi all,Damn tired now but happy coz weekend was AWESOME! Spent good time with colleagues at Secret Recipe for lunch on my birthday, then later at night with LOL Gang at Passage Thru India! :) Thanks all for coming ya!In the morning, woke up early and rushed too Port Dickson for lunch then off to Singapore with Chandler Kwek, Jenifer and Grace. We drove to SG within 2-3 hours wtf! lol! *good job kwek wtf ahha*. Meet new friends there & watched PARAMORE concert too! Woot! Here are some of the summary photos from me! More after pending posts *as usual lol*

• Off to Singapore (6-7th March)

  Rames

  5 Mar 2010 | 6:00 am

  Hi all,No updates for 2 days coz will be heading to Singapore with friends. Will blog once I'm back ya! Million thanks for all the birthday wishes from all sort of social networks lololol! Feels great!See u all!

• It's My Birthday! + My Brand New Skin: My Crib Yo!

  Rames

  4 Mar 2010 | 6:00 pm

  OMG! I'm 30? Can you believe that? I cant lol!My brand new blog skin called "My Crib Yo!" . You've seen my studio, now time to check out how's my crib look like ahahh! Very messy isn't it!Here are some of the new added features on my blog!

• New Blog Skin Launch Time + Final Blog Teaser#4

  Rames

  4 Mar 2010 | 6:00 am

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  Design Tavern

• Retro Revival – A classic spin on the films of 2009

  Henry

  26 Feb 2010 | 11:37 pm

  Illustrator and designer Tavis Coburn has put together this amazing series for the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards. Up in the Air Avatar Hurt locker An Education Precious I found this via an awesome post by ‘Accordion Guy’

• Kitty Came Home vintage creations

  Elizabeth

  22 Feb 2010 | 2:35 am

  Henry here at Design Tavern has proven now that he has an eye for innovative design and all things inspiring. Knowing him personally, thus, has its perks. Especially when they come in the form of a gorgeous Kitty Came Home vintage fabric clutch. Kitty Came Home was founded by Katrina Weber in 2004. Based in Adelaide, Weber pieces together these delightfully lovely purses, wallets, journals and jewellery. According to her website - Kitty-ethos involves the creation of products that give back to our world. With her mere two hands, in comparison to Kitty’s four paws, Weber outsources work…

• Finger Food

  Amysawyer

  18 Feb 2010 | 4:18 am

  Today’s post comes from Amy Sawyer, a contributing blogger over at Rough Review.com. You can find more of Amy’s articles here! Most loved up girls will expect roses or chocolates or perhaps a big diamond ring? Me I’d rather treat myself (in my dreams of course) to some tasty finger bling. Danish jewellery designer Emquies Holstein’s gold chocolate wrapper ring would certainly be my new best friend. Cora Sheibani’s quaint dessert inspired finger candy are drool inducing. Coupled with delicious recipes, her intriguing book is definitely on the ‘treat myself’ list.

• #FollowFriday 10 talented people with an eye for design

  Henry

  12 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm

  Okay, so technically its Saturday in my little part of the world, but for many (most?) of my readers its still a Friday! If you’re not yet on thetwitterbandwagon you can register for free and see what all the fuss is about. @GuyKawasaki Alltop.com Recent Tweet: “Google Street View hits the Whistler slopes http://om.ly/fJPm” @LilyPenelope Lily Penelope’s blog Recent Tweet: “Looking for a Light” http://tinyurl.com/dnm8ry #photo @nicholaspatten Nicholas Patten’s blog Recent Tweet: Inspiration: Design Magazines and blogs from The Netherlands. http://bit.ly/dwd258…

• Small Living: Sliding Apartment

  Henry

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:43 am

  Architect Gary Chang has lived in the same 32 square meter apartment since he was 14 years old, over 30 years ago. “My whole family – my parents, my three younger sisters, and me – used to live here. To make ends meet, my parents also rented out one of the rooms to an outsider, a woman in her late twenties. Then the room was rented to her younger brother.” Chang has since renovated the space four times and calls the apartment his ‘domestic transformer.’ Now the soul occupier, the apartment can be easily changed to suit Chang’s desire through the use of…

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  Dexigner Design Portal

• Steve Sato: Mainstreaming Design: Faster and For Keeps

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:43 am

  They are all trends at the intersection of design and business. They have more hype than bite.

• Category Winners Announced for the 2010 Brit Insurance Design Awards

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:31 am

  The seven category winners of the Brit Insurance Design Awards 2010 are announced today.

• Loft Publications: Invitation for Authors on Architecture

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:24 am

  Architects, photographers and writers connected with architecture and design who are interested in publishing their work in books on the international publishing market can send their proposals to Loft Publications.

• 21st Annual DUSTYS Film and Animation Festival and Awards

  10 Mar 2010 | 12:19 am

  The 21st annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival and Awards will highlight over 100 films by students graduating from the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department at the School of Visual Arts (SVA).

• TEAK Leeds the Interactive Revolution

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:51 pm

  As part of an ongoing drive to enhance their interactive offerings, SF-based TEAK has hired Jeremy Leeds as their new senior interactive producer.

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  TreeHugger

• LED Street-Lights are Greenest Choice, Life-Cycle Study Shows

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:05 am

  Image: Knossos Induction Lights Are Close, But No Cigar Most people who have been following lighting tech seem to be convinced that light-emitting diode (LED) lights are the future, but it's always good to see new research being done on them. The more sure we are that they're the way to go, the better. It always sucks to invest a lot of time and money into something only to later realize that it's not nearly as good as we were first led to believe (*cough* corn ethanol *cough*). Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have conducted the first cradle-to-grave assessment of LED…

• FreeGreen Who's Next Competition A Goldmine of Great Ideas

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:26 am

  The guys who run FreeGreen, the free homeplan website, are so smart; they could have just hired architects to do plans, and would have had to go to the trouble of deciding which architect to hire; instead they write a brief and run a competition. Now they have the work of hundreds of architects to chose from; established firms with the works in the drawer, young designers hoping to be discovered. But they are not the only ones who benefit; everyone can look, vote and learn from over 400 submissions. The challenge was to "re-envision the typical suburban home in an ecologically conscious…

• Green Coffee Table Makes Energy Enough to Power Your Stuff

  9 Mar 2010 | 10:21 am

  Photo via Nectar For people who aren't satisfied with the fact that the greenest thing about their coffee table is the mug of organically grown joe resting on top of it, finally there's a truly appealing alternative in the Voltpot. Not only does its grassy surface bring a bit of oxygen producing plant-life to your living room--the metabolic process is captured and converted to energy to char... Read the full story on TreeHugger

• No More Downcycling? Breakthrough Organic Catalyst = More Effective PET Plastic Recycling

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:53 am

  Photo: Monica M. Davey/Feature Photo Service for IBM 13 Billion PET Plastic Bottles are Thrown Away Each Year Certain things are harder to recycle than others. While it's relatively easy to make a new aluminum can out of an old aluminum can, making a new plastic bottle out of an old one is a lot harder. Currently, most recycled plastic is not truly recycled, but rather downcycled to a lesser use. But thanks to a breakthrough in green chemistry by IBM and Stanford researchers, this might be about to change!... Read the full story on TreeHugger

• The Greenest Building is the One Already Standing

  9 Mar 2010 | 7:51 am

  Lloyd Alter Many small towns are experiencing a comeback these days; a combination of aging boomers and the green movement, combined with technology that lets people work just about anywhere make them a viable alternative to urban and suburban life. Sami has written extensively in TreeHugger about the Transition Town movement, where people are looking for resilient communities that can survive in a crisis. Smaller cities also have character, walkable main streets, apartments above shops that could be attractive to relocating urbanites. Then there are towns like Br... Read the full story on…

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  THE HOBBYSHOP HERO

• STREET HEADPHONES by Brian Garret Schuur (3D Printed Headphone Designs)

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:34 pm

  Street Headphones by Brian Garret Schuur Click Here!!!! Designed by Brian Garret Schuur, these headphones are called Street Headphones and are made from a laser-sintered nylon shell.Each person who purchases a pair is able to personalize the outer shell of the headset. The 3D graffiti-esque custom font/text is etched in and pops up out of the headphones. A pair of Street Headphones retails for a $1,140USD.The Street Headphones will be manufactured by Freedom of Creation CLICK HERE 2 PURCHASE 837.82 Because they are rapid manufactured, users can customize their headphone headband with their…

• Reflection Eternal - "In This World" (Video)

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:07 am

  DOWNLOAD: Reflection Eternal – In This World"Revolutions Per Minute" April 6th, 2010.BUY THIS ALBUM| THE DRUMLOVE EP + DOWNLOAD LINK >>>>> http://www.sendspace.com/file/995cds

• HSH VIDEO BLOCK - WATCH THESE

  9 Mar 2010 | 8:06 am

  WORDS FROM THE HEROYea, Videos.....HsH_____________________________________________J*DaVeY - Get Together_____________________________________________Nottz - Shine So Bright_____________________________________________Jay Electronica - Exhibit A_____________________________________________ Big Sean - A Million Dollars_____________________________________________ eLZhi - Deep_____________________________________________Peter Hadar - Full Time Lover_____________________________________________ Fel Sweetenberg - Save Ya Life (feat. Dave Ghetto and Baby…

• Laws – 4:57 (DOWN LOAD THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

  16 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

  Laws – 4:57 (Album) 1. Illumination [prod. Benjamin Plant]2. Number One (ft. Jay Rock) [prod. S-type]3. Murder [prod. TN2 Productions]4. This is Me [prod. L.A. The Craftzman & Feb 9]5. Wall to Wall [prod. Benjamin Plant]6. Vintage Futuristic 2 (ft. Funkghost) [prod. M-Phazes]7. Want It All [prod. Feb 9]8. Flashback [prod. J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League]9. Shining [prod. 9th Wonder]10. My Chick (ft. Dion Primo) [prod. Benjamin Plant]11. Hold You Down [prod. DJ Khalil]12. Hustle (ft. Mason Caine) [prod. L.A. The Craftzman & Feb 9]13. Colors (I Don’t Care) (ft. Calvin Harris) [prod. Calvin…

• THE GREAT DILLA POST [x] HsH IS BACK FROM HIATUS

  16 Feb 2010 | 9:45 am

  This picture was taken from Raph Rashid’s “Behind the Beat: Hip-Hop Home Studios” book.______________________________________Stussy J Dilla Documentary Part 1 (of 3)______________________________________________________WORDS FROM THE HEROPe@ce World, So 1st off I did get all of your emails and I apologize for not replying. There HAS BEEN a huge Gap between posts and my reason for Hiatus was pretty dumb. For the past 2 & A Half Months all of my Attention & Energy was focus on one thing or one person rather. I told you my reason wasnt a good one but i'm glad you all kept checkin…

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  The Design O'Blog

• How To Set Up Files For Printing

  Niki Brown

  8 Mar 2010 | 5:43 am

  One of the most important assets you can have as a designer doing print work, whether you are new or old is an understanding of how to correctly set your files up for printing. There are multiple ways to do this and I am not saying that my is the only way but, mine works and this will teach you fundamentals of how to correctly set up your file so your printer does not send them back to you and waste time in the printing process. There is however, some technical jargon in this article. I have included a glossary at the end that tells you what “the jargon” means. So veterans,…

• So You Call Yourself A Designer?

  Niki Brown

  4 Mar 2010 | 2:45 pm

  Computer – check. Photoshop – check. Lots of free time – check. It seems that this is all that is necessary to call yourself a ‘designer’ these days. I believe that there is far more to a designer than software, computers and free time. Designers should have critical thinking skills, understanding of design principals, knowledge of grid systems, typography and much more. Read the rest of my guest post over at Design Reviver and join the discussion in progress!

• How To Change Text To All Caps In Photoshop

  Niki Brown

  25 Feb 2010 | 2:44 pm

  In this quick tip I’ll show you how to change the case of existing text in photoshop. This can be super handy if you are working with lots of text in photoshop as I was today. If you are too lazy to watch the video the magic keyboard shortcut is shift+cmd+k with the text selected and BAM! ALL CAPS TEXT WOOO!!! Big thanks to my twitter friends for showing me this tip! (You should follow me on twitter if you aren’t already!)

• It All Started With Photoshop…

  Niki Brown

  20 Feb 2010 | 5:36 am

  So it looks like Photoshop just rang in another birthday! Photoshop just turned 20?!?!?!? Holy crap that’s a long time for software. I don’t know about you but Photoshop was my first ‘design’ program starting with version 6. I admit that I cheated a bit and also tinkered with Gimp for a bit. But I mainly have font memories of an online course with my less than legal version on my PC back in the day. I remember being so fascinated and intrigued by Photoshop and what it could do and I was SO EXCITED to learn. This tinkering that I did in high school is what pushed me to…

• Clients From Heaven, Clients From Hell – Design Chat With Liz Andrade

  Niki Brown

  18 Feb 2010 | 6:03 pm

  In the wake of the popularity of the Clients From Hell site I thought it would be appropriate to talk about good experiences with clients. I had a chance to have a chat with Liz Andrade from CmdShiftDesign and discuss the topic. What do you think? Have you had good (or bad) experiences with clients? What was it like? What did you do to foster the client/designer relationship? Leave a comment and join the discussion.

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  Creative Tempest

• Amelia Lyon

  creativetempest

  8 Mar 2010 | 4:00 am

  Amelia Lyon advertises that you can hire them for event photography, but they are really underwater nature photographers. Their work captures intimate couples up close, driven together by inevitable natural desire, in a world of watery luminescence: tropical kissing fish. The sun flares into their photography like light breaking the surface of a shallow tropical sea lapping a sandy shore, giving you the feeling that you and the people in the photo are completely immersed. This poetry in their work takes their wedding/ couples’ photography to a higher level, beyond the stuff the job…

• Noel Cruz

  creativetempest

  3 Jul 2009 | 3:32 pm

  (Weekly Story Theme: Horror) Noel Cruz is the host with the most, and there’s an always permanent smile on the faces of his party guests. That’s because they’ve all been slow dipped in molten lucite, cured, and mummified to live forever suspended in animation. You could say, Noel is less the mad scientist and more the mad artist on his quest to make more life-like pieces. Want to see more inspiring artwork? Subscribe Here Follow us on Twitter Become a fan on Facebook

• * Ben Tour

  creativetempest

  1 Jul 2009 | 7:25 pm

  (Weekly Story Theme: Horror) Ben Tour plucks a single hair from his head and drops it into the ooze he has bubbling on his electric stovetop. A sudden puff of smoke, and the smell of an impending storm in the air signals that his arcane enchantment has taken effect. Across town in Shady Acres cemetery the corpses of the long dead, all but those who have turned to dust arise from the earth, born again, but not living. Ben Tours’s gaunt figure drawings, spattered in cool water colors and the odd dash of blood red, stick out like zombies on his canvas. Want to see more inspiring artwork?

• Alex Forster

  creativetempest

  23 Jun 2009 | 12:09 pm

  (Weekly Story Theme: Deep Sea) It is difficult to always see the source of an artist’s inspiration, and with Alex Forster is no different, except that we know the source, its just hard to find. In the depths of the ocean lurks a creature mutable in both shape and color, a fantastic octopus that can transforms and mimic its surroundings. It is from this deep creature that Alex Forster must find inspiration for his changing, plastic images. Want to see more inspiring artwork? Subscribe Here Follow us on Twitter Become a fan on Facebook

• Guilherme Marconi

  creativetempest

  22 Jun 2009 | 8:39 am

  (Weekly Story Theme: Deep Sea) Most fish at the bottom of the ocean have lost all the bright vivid colors of their cousins, who dwell far above them. Except for one creature, Guilherme Marconi, a magnificent beast who has defied evolution to remain colored and patterned, even though it goes forever unnoticed in the blindness of the bottom of the ocean. Want to see more inspiring artwork? Subscribe Here Follow us on Twitter Become a fan on Facebook

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  Designophy RSS | All Entries

• KODAK Design2Launch Solutions Wins Award from Consumer Goods Technology - Newslog

  Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) awards Kodak Design2Launch Solutions with an Editors’ Pick Award in the Annual Readers’ Choice issue. Kodak’s Design2Launch Solutions are a comprehensive workflow for global marketing and creative teams. The solutions provide easy-to-use ...

• Parsons Launches Website that Provides Guidance for Artists and Designers on Copyright Issues - Newslog

  Parsons The New School for Design recently launched the website The Copyright Corner. Developed by Michelle Bogre, an associate professor in the photography program of the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons, it is intended as a place for debate and dialogue about copyright and other ...

• Design & Business - Calendar - Education

  DX Design and Business Forum about the importance of design in our lives. This forum includes the following speakers: $55 for Non-Members, $20 for Members Presentation of the State of Design: The Canadian Report 2010

• 2010 Genuine Design Scholarship Competition - Calendar - Competition

  Teaching Tomorrow’s Leaders the Importance of Design Integrity For the past twenty years furniture importer and distributor M2L has been dedicated to finding and sourcing truly iconic pieces that define the classic modern aesthetic. In addition to promoting ...

• PROTOtype: Symposium - Calendar - Conference

  "Prototype" will be co-convened by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee, and will explore the radical and multiple ways that creative people are experimenting with ideas. The symposium looks to excite the mind ...

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  Flavorwire

• What’s on at Flavorpill: Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

  Caroline Stanley

  9 Mar 2010 | 2:23 pm

  Today at Flavorpill, we were in awe of Alexander McQueen’s last collection. We were happy to hear that Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe already has a new acting gig on Showtime. (Suck on that, Howard Stern.) We played an intellectually stimulating game of I spy with William Powhida’s latest art world send up. We wondered if [...] Related posts:What’s on at Flavorpill: Links That Made the Rounds in our Office What’s on at Flavorpill: Links that made the rounds in our office. What’s on at Flavorpill: Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

• Pic of the Day: Prune Tree

  Caroline Stanley

  9 Mar 2010 | 1:24 pm

  Because we really, really want it to be spring in New York already. It’s 62 degrees today! Also: Who knew that prune trees were so beautiful? [bree lee's photostream via ShareSomeCandy] Related posts:Pic of the Day: An Angsty Tree Grows in Brooklyn Pic of the Day: Imagination vs. Reality Pic of the Day: Spike Lee’s King Of Pop [...] Related posts:Pic of the Day: An Angsty Tree Grows in Brooklyn Pic of the Day: Imagination vs. Reality Pic of the Day: Spike Lee’s King Of Pop Block Party

• The Polaroid Prince: New Work by Jeremy Kost

  Paul Laster

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:48 pm

  Documenting chic club-kids, stylish celebrities, and flamboyant drag queens with ready-in-an-instant Polaroid prints for the past five years, Jeremy Kost has formed an influential following in New York’s downtown art world, as well as on the international fashion scene. The subject of solo shows at Washington DC’s Conner Contemporary Art, titled Anyone Other Than Me [...] Related posts:Five Polaroid Photographers Who Should Get More Film Good Times in NYC: The Work of Photographer Joshua Wildman Prince Charles and the Royal Drama Over Chelsea Barracks

• Daily Dose Pick: Gorillaz

  Doug Levy

  9 Mar 2010 | 12:19 pm

  Three albums in, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s animated superstars are still going strong, roping in Mos Def, De La Soul, Lou Reed, and Snoop Dogg for a stay on their Plastic Beach. Other guests include Fall legend Mark E. Smith and Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys, plus the Clash’s Mick Jones and Paul Simenon. [...] Related posts:Advance Notice: Gorillaz “Plastic Beach” Daily Dose Pick: Jamie T Daily Dose Pick: Peter Gabriel

• Get Inside of David Foster Wallace’s Head

  Emily Temple

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:44 am

  Attention DFW fanboys and girls! We were recently alerted by our friends over at HTML Giant that David Foster Wallace’s archive has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin. They’ll house a plethora of DFW-related goodies: original manuscripts for Wallace’s books and stories, his research materials and college and graduate school writings, [...] Related posts:David Foster Wallace’s “The Pale King” Excerpt Published David Foster Wallacize Your Sentences Fiction Fix: A Snippet from David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King

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  The Roxor | Design blog for resources and inspiration

• Online Self Promotion For Creatives: The eBook

  Kvn

  9 Mar 2010 | 9:19 am

  Self promotion is one of the most important daily tasks of creatives. If no-one knows about your existence, how can they hire you? A lot of people think that online self promotion is time-consuming and complicated. But Alex Mathers shows us that this isn't the case. He explains the 10 steps to powerful online self promotion for creatives in his ebook that will be released on March 10th.

• Beautiful Examples Of Coral Photography

  Kvn

  8 Mar 2010 | 3:54 am

  Underwater-photography comes with its own challenges compared to classical photography. It's a completely different environment with certain limitations that the photographer has to keep in mind. But when the photographer can get everything right he can create beautiful photos. This time I've collected some amazing coral photographs. These photos really show the diversity in forms, colors and textures of coral reefs.

• Logo Of The Week: Undersea Productions

  Kvn

  6 Mar 2010 | 3:05 am

  It's weekend! After an entire week of hard work it's time to kick back and enjoy this beautiful logo of the week. This beauty was made by Josiah Jost, better known as Siah Design. He created this logo for Undersea Productions, an undersea imaging company from Australia. The company approached Josiah for a re-branding: the goal was to create a clean, creative and memorable logo.

• Photoshop Tutorials Perfect For Creating Abstract Wallpapers

  Kvn

  4 Mar 2010 | 3:30 am

  There are dozens of websites that offer quality wallpapers. But what if you just can't seem to find the perfect wallpaper? In this case you can try to create your own wallpaper. These tutorials will help you if you're looking for great abstract wallpapers. In a few simple steps you can create the wallpaper of your dreams!

• The Make-Or-Buy Dilemma For Designers

  Kvn

  1 Mar 2010 | 5:38 am

  The make or buy dilemma is the choice of creating something yourself or buying it from someone else. In business terms this buying behaviour is also referred to as outsourcing. I'm sure that you've had to make this choice at least once during your career and if you haven't I'm sure you will someday. This article discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing certain aspects of your design work. Don't forget to post a comment with your thoughts regarding this subject.

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  The Design Files

• Sydney Home - Renee Anne

  9 Mar 2010 | 6:00 pm

  Bedroom details from the Sydney home of illustrator Renee Anne.Love that polka-dot Castle bedlinen!Gorgeous girly details in the living area...Love Renee's heart-shaped polaroid collage!Oh my goodness TWO gorgeous home tours in ONE DAY?! How good am I? You guys are totally spoilt :) ha ha!This is the beautiful little pad of Sydney-based artist / illustrator / blogger Renee Anne! Renee lives in The Hills district of Sydney with her boy James, who runs his own t-shirt biz - Foreshore Dynamic. So in a 2 bedroom apartment, with James's work and all Renee's art and illustration supplies, they have…

• Sydney Home - Justine Fahd of Upon a Fold!

  9 Mar 2010 | 11:00 am

  Details from the delicious Sydney apartment of Upon a Fold's Justine Fahd! Oh my. I dream of such picture-perfect counter-top collections at my place! All these beautiful photos were taken by Justine's sister, Cherine Fahd.Details from Justine's living area - top right is Justine's fave photo - 'Africa' by her sister Cherine.Details from living area, including another of Cherine's photographs - 'Trafalgar Square, Pigeons'Bedroom details - including a paper lamp on the bedside... and more beautiful contemporary photography.Grandma's chair - re-vamped by Justine (they were previously gold!)I…

• Beattie

  8 Mar 2010 | 11:00 am

  Hand-crafted clothes by Sydney crafter Beattie - loving that little cropped grey singlet with the black / green binding... - only $45.00 and available here (...but not for long!)Market dayBeattie is the colourful hand-crafted clothing label of Sydney-based Beatrice Lanser. I love the brave colours, wacky patterns and imperfect hand-stitching. Beattie's prints are just so bright and cheerful... I am convinced that wearing one of her fabulous dresses or a pair of her wicked printed stockings would put you in a great mood all day!Beattie's great little blog documents new creations and market…

• Lott Llov lights

  7 Mar 2010 | 11:00 am

  Matt knitted pendant lamps by Berlin-based design studio Llot Llov... major swoon.Last week I got a super sweet email from a reader living in the Netherlands by the name of Tip. I replied to her lovely note and asked if she had a blog of her own... she said not just yet, but that she is actually working on a book, and has a Tumblr page full of inspiration.So to be totally honest I still don't quite have my head around Tumblr... but OMG - Tip's page is so chocka block of picture-perfect eclectic interior design gold you totally have to check it out. SO many beautifully decorated European…

• Interview - Aimee McCallum

  4 Mar 2010 | 11:00 am

  Aimee McCallum in her gorgeous North Fitzroy store, Tiger & Peacock.Love these canopies in the window of Tiger & Peacock - made of course by Aimee!Some of Tiger & Peacock's gorgeous wares, sourced internationally by Aimee and partner Mark.Windows at Husk by AimeeAnother Husk window by AimeeAlthough we only met last year, I've been admiring Aimee McCallum's incredible work for many years - and chances are, you probably have too! Aimee is responsible for the stunning window displays in Melbourne's Husk stores over the past 7 years... and let's face it - no one does a window quite…