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April 28, 2006
Grandpeople
Fashionable and stylish graphic design work from Norway - Grandpeople - via
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Frankfurt light + building
Pol Oxygen have a good selection of images from this years Frankfurt light + building 2006
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JÄRVI & RUOHO
Some stylish designs from Finnish duo JÄRVI & RUOHO
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RSA lectures
The Royal Society for the Arts have an interesting selection of MP3s to listen to. Topics range from 'Is the internets golden age over?' to 'Transhumanism: the next stage in human evolution?'
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Color Blender
A great little tool for finding colour blends and pallets for various apllications and projects - color blender.
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April 26, 2006
Spiralight
Robin Carpenter's 'Spiralight' - made from 216 LEDs - via
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Moleskine up for sale
Sales of the cult notebook 'Moleskine' (once used by Ernest Hemingway) have been so big over the last few years (4.5m worldwide) that the small company behind it (Modo & Modo) has decided that it's time to sell up.
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Channeling on the Net
With advertising struggling to make headway in a fragmented media landscape corporations are now focusing on producing their own content - some are even setting up their own online channels
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April 24, 2006
Tracey Snelling
Some enjoyable collage and photography from Tracey Snelling, The Little Art Factory - via
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In the Pit
Removing all visual elements this free to download Windows computer game - 'In the Pit' places the player in the role of a monster living in a pitch black pit. Using audio and sensory feedback from the controller, you hunt down the poor people that are thrown into your lair.
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April 21, 2006
The Grammar of Ornament
Owen Jones' 19th Century manuscript 'The Grammar of Ornament' documenting the many styles of ornament, digitally scanned in and presented for your perusal. via
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Jonathon Barnbrook
Typographer Jonathon Barnbrook is interviewed by Icograda. They discuss his new font family 'Bourgeois', his recent trip to Korea and the role politics plays in his work - via
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Fare Chase
Yahoo have developed a new online search application for finding the cheapest/most convenient airfares - Farechase
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April 20, 2006
Google Finance
Google Finance - an interesting finance application from Google
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Art as myth
The use of 'narrative performance' as a tool to reconfigure the everyday social discourse may not be a 'new' art movement, but in it's current incarnation some artists are "anticipate(ing) how history will be told, not by leaving traces but by effecting changes in the future" - Nancy Spector, frieze.com
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Advertising as content
With more people avoiding marketing messages companies have begun to sponsor, script and produce television programming, film and various other media. One of their outlets has become YouTube
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Infolust
So much information so little time, but where do you go when you need your fix? Infolust, new ways to extract content from packaging, magazines and the internet all via your mobile phone and it's inbuilt camera.
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April 19, 2006
dform
New York design studio dform specialise in the manipulation of flat sheet materials into 3d forms
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Crossing cultural space
What happens when innovators step outside of the confines of a genre and start blending/fusing or cutting new ground? Hayagreeva Rao from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, looks at the how chefs in Europe were welcomed/rejected by their peers once they started to blend the old with the new.
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On the Rocks
Irregular, geometric and fashionable what more could you ask for in an ice cube via popgadget
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April 18, 2006
Death of the Critic
Design critic Rick Poynor takes a look at the role of the 'design critic'
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The Prada Armada
NYMetro interview Miuccia Prada about her new Rem Koolhaas designed $40 million store and what it means to be a brand.
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Milan 2006 - Core77 gallery
Industrial design site Core77 have just posted their images from Milan design week 2006
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April 17, 2006
Easter snacks
Why do we eat hot cross buns and chocolate eggs at Easter?
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Brand Band
Saatchi & Saatchi, have created a new girl group, ready to go. Anyone with the right amount of money can purchase this currently unnamed group and sponsor their tours, names, song styles and lyrics. It's an off-the shelf group - for the right price
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April 16, 2006
Lessons from the Browser Wars
Harvard Business School article on what can be learnt from the browser wars at the turn of the 21st century
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Organic LEDs
They do not heat up like today's light bulbs and are far more energy efficient. They can be printed in wafer thin sheets that could transform walls, ceilings or even furniture into lights, they are OLEDs
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April 13, 2006
Plastic TV
Ambient movies designed to look great on your plasma or LCD screen all for download in multiple formats - Plastic TV
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Putting the web on a hard drive
Startup company Webaroo are about to release a new product where they can put the 'internet' on a hard drive so you can search through the internets when you are offline.
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April 12, 2006
The MySpace Economy
Rachel Rosmarin from Forbes writes about the smaller businesses that exist around the internet phenomenon MySpace
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Propensity for Density
Jessica Helfand at Design Observer looks at the current trend of visually dense, organic, “thornament" that is currently rife within the design community - The Propensity for Density
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Ron Mueck
photo: Lucian Perkins, Washington Post
The Washington post has some good photographs of work by London based Australian sculptor Ron Mueck.
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Salone2006 - Pol Oxygen
Carrying on their great coverage of international design events, Pol Oxygen provide a good overview from Milan Design Week 2006
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April 11, 2006
Salone2006
Régine Debatty from We make money not art has been visiting the Milan design week 2006. Her photos are available as a Flickr set
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The History of Colour Systems
An interesting chronological look at the diagrams that have been used to explain/describe colour.
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Passage of time
On the 17th of June of every year for the last 30 years, the Golberg family from Argentina have photographed themselves and their new offspring as they grow older. These images are the results.
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April 10, 2006
Speech accent archive
A speech accent archive made up from samples of people from all over the world reading the same paragraph.
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Design Resources
A good list of online design resources
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Ten video sharing sites compared
Digital Video Guru compares ten of the top video sharing sites on the Internet. UPDATE: Tech crunch looks at the video sharing phenomenon and the new entrant Jumpcut
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April 07, 2006
Diesel jewellery
Some fresh designs from Diesel in their new jewellery range
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Everystockphoto
Search through multiple stock photography libraries with this new online photography search engine
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Surrounding.com
Some great looking lighting and furniture designs available for purchase at surrounding.com
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New trends in online traffic
What's going on in the world of online mega-brands? The Washington Post looks at the growth of some of the worlds top internet sites
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Modernism
"The modernists were the neocons of 20th-century art" Simon Jenkins at the Guardian takes a look at the latest exhibition at the V&A.
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April 06, 2006
IMM Cologne 2006
Mocoloco have a good set of images from this years Cologne International Furniture Fair
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April 05, 2006
How to feel miserable as an artist
Or what not to do - from the Wish Jar
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How I work: Bill Gates
A day in the work life of Bill Gates
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April 04, 2006
LEICA C-LUX 1
The LEICA C-LUX 1 has an extended focal length range equivalent to a 28-102 mm takes images at 6.1mp and looks really good (the camera that is not sure about the photos). If the brand and camera styling isn't that important you could always try the panasonic version
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The economics of open content
The lectures from the Economics of Open Content symposium at MIT have been made available for download in mp3 format.
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Scoot
A nicely designed, cheap to run electric scooter - Scoot
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Flash Tutorials
Some very handy flash tutorials such as combining Flash with a MYSQL database, Flash video and preloaders.
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50 Greatest Independent Films
Empire magazine 's list of the 50 greatest independent films
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How to write a thank you note
If you are having trouble writing a note to thank someone for something they have given or done for you then Leslie Harpold from The Morning News has some great tips on writing the perfect thank you note
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April 03, 2006
Good design = More money
Richard Henderson from Melbourne design company R-Co looks at how important brand building is for business.
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Audiri
Interesting internet mp3 site.
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Flash experimentation
Andy Foulds has some interesting experiments using Flash.
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The "Lessig Method" for presentations
Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig is well known for his unique presentation techniques such as using one colour backgrounds and single words to convey his message. Presentation Zen, talk about his method here. Presenter, Aigars Mahinovs discusses his technique at creating these unique types of presentations.
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