July 30, 2004
1 million free and legal MP3s
A wiki has been set up with links to websites that allow downloading of legal, free mp3s.
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Estée Lauder, Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden
The story of three hyper-ambitious self-invented women who drove the beauty ointment industries - via aldaily
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Is it 'Arab Art' or simply 'Art'?
Is the Art world trying to claim ownership over visual culture in another cultural context or is this just the growth of a global cultural product?
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July 29, 2004
Game Designer Shigeru Miyamoto
Considered the worlds greatest game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto is interviewed on the Sydney Morning Herald
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July 28, 2004
DRM magic
With the technology companies coding in Digital Rights Management into their hardware the content companies are starting to find themselves between a rock and a hard place
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Melbourne Design Festival
The State of Design festival starts in Melbourne today.
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Art world squabbles
Aboriginal artist Rover Thomas' painting 'Uluru' was passed in at Auction for only $675,000. The painting didn't reach it's million dollar reserve price as buyers at Sotherby's weren't too sure that the painting was really of Uluru. When Rover Thomas was alive he made very little from his paintings.
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July 27, 2004
The Program
A new initiative from the Australian Council - looks good
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Build me a castle
Thinking of having your own castle? This company builds them for you.
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July 26, 2004
Airport Express
Ars Technica review the new wireless tool from Apple
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Happy Birthday Walkman
The Sony Walkman has now been selling in America for 25 years. The changes that this new personal audio device has brought to public/private space was unthought of back at it's conception.
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July 24, 2004
The creative misuse and abuse of musical tools
The name says it all
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July 23, 2004
Evostruct
A Paris based design agency - via newstoday
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Fuel4Arts
Sauce has some good information on selling and promoting within the visual arts
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Music file sharing not hurting CD sales
New Research suggests that online file sharing is actually not hurting CD sales
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Do you love your Mobile?
City dwellers in London, Paris and Madrid all 'love' their mobile phones but they all use them in slightly different ways
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July 22, 2004
Illustration and Poster work
Some nice illustration and poster work from Karen Oxman and Orthographic (via k10k) Misprinted Type and Shail Shah (via DiK)
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Is the iPod threatening radio?
An article on the New York Post is suggesting that radio is losing it's listeners to the growth of this portable mp3 player.
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Prodigal Art
Most of the 9 billion dollars a year that make up the art industry does not find it's way back to the producers (unlike many other cultural industries) a new, more radical attempt to find ways to sell art works can be found over at prodigal art On a similar note art critic Robert Hughes calls the art market a cultural obscenity
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July 21, 2004
The History of Graphic Design
The History of Graphic Design - 1945 to Present
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Corporate Identity Documentation
A new site dedicated to the documentation of Corporate Identity Systems, style guides and corporate design manuals - Corporate Identity Documentation
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Rem Koolhaas' new Prada 'shop'
A brief article on the new Prada concept store on Rodeo Drive designed by Dutch designer/architect Rem Koolhaas
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Preserving modernist buidings in the UK
A website listing modernist buildings that are under threat and need to be preserved.
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A cigarette machine dispensing art
An old cigarette machine in Sapporo, Japan is now being used to dispense small works of art
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Bottle cap Tripod
A handy small tripod attachment that attaches to your drink bottle. Now make your own! - via boingboing
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IDEA
The 2004 IDEA awards for Industrial Design have just been announced
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Mindball
A new game that you can use your mind to move the ball on the table
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44 percent of large companies read outgoing email
An interesting article at Ars Technica that might encourage you to use your personal webmail for personal emails while at work
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DJ Spooky tackles D.W Griffith
DJ Spooky remixes 'Birth of a Nation' providing a historical mirror through re-appropriation of sound and image.
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Horst Kiechle exhibition in Melbourne
Until August 21 Horst Kiechle is exhibiting at the Gertrude Contemporary Art Space in Melbourne
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July 20, 2004
TypoGenerator
Instant typographic madness
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Computer Key stool
A quirky idea for a stool from Mixko - the FUNkey
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Pee Tree
Eric Morel's 'Pee Tree' is an interesting take on the urinal.
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The quality of the phonecam image
Henry Reichhold has developed a way of using a new medium (phone cam images) to produce large panoramas of events and music festivals.
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July 19, 2004
NZ struggles with the old 'art' question
Over at the Venice Biennale Merilyn Tweedie's new work 'Rapture 2004' has caused a stir in NZ as it cost Creative New Zealand $500,000 to send over and it's physical value (an old out-house that makes donkey noises) doesn't really add up. The old question 'is this art?' - 'worth this much?' is once again being asked in NZ.
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Saul Bass exhibition opens in London
The Design Museum, London opens a retrospective of the great film typographer Saul Bass
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July 16, 2004
Photoshop plugin
If you need to clean up your digital photographs then this new Photoshop plugin from Reindeer Graphics may be just what you are looking for
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Origami double CD case
If you're ever in need of storing cds but you only have an A4 piece of paper around - try this
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July 15, 2004
New Canon XL2 DV cam
This one has all the right features!
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Package design
A nice application for designing packaging protoypes - FoldUP!3D
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Don't blame the food Pyramid
With the frenzy surrounding the 'Obesity epidemic' many people are questioning the dietary advice of the food pyramid. But it looks like most people don't follow the pyramid's advice anyway and if they did we would all be much healthier.
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Is hay fever transmissible?
A German study has found that partners have twice as much chance as developing Hay fever if their partner already has it.
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Artificial Intelligence
The tool for measuring intelligence in machines is called the Turing test. After 50 years maybe it is time to look for a new way to measure A.I?
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Metronaps
If you are in New York and looking to catch up on a few zzz's then you might need a metronap
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Fashionable colour
Looking for some ideas on what the latest colours are for the coming season? Look no further - an interesting article/gripe about the use of colour as a marketing tool.
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Optical illusions
Some great optical tricks to make you feel dizzy
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iPod resources
If you're after some links to enhance your iPod then here is quite a concise list of what's out there
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July 14, 2004
New Alexander McQueen site
Catch up on his latest collections
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Space Invader wall decal
A little something to brighten up a dull wall
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Radiator Design
A beautiful ornate design for a radiator by Joris Laarman
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So a guy walks up to an ATM...
An 'experimental' flash music 'video' from they might be giants - So a guy walks up to an ATM...
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July 13, 2004
Delicato
A fashionable, yet classical serif font - Delicato
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Alternative Interfaces
Some nice experimental interface concepts over at Sony
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Laurie Anderson - the new artist in residence at NASA
Multimedia artist and musician Laurie Anderson has just been named NASA's first artist in residence.
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Body movement to create music
Scientists are developing ways of capturing human movement to make music by simple gestures.
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July 12, 2004
It's not what you eat it is how you eat it.
Giuliano Hazan a cooking instructor and author of "Every Night Italian." believes the frenzy against carbs is giving the wrong message. But then of course he would.
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Look at Me!
An edited extract Graham Morrison gave at the Architects' Journal/Bovis Awards for Architecture dinner. Are 'landmark' buildings ruining our cities?
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