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June 30, 2006
IDEA 2006
108 top designs as picked by BusinessWeek in their 2006 IDEA Awards
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Ted Talks
Some interesting podcasts from TED - TED Talks
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Flickr tag browser
An easy to use flash browser for Flickr
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June 29, 2006
GlowSMLXL
Recently voted 'Best of the Best' at the 100% Design Rotterdam, Marc de Groot's GlowSMLXL
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Quikmaps
A handy new Google maps mash-up. With Quikmaps you can draw on the map and post it onto your website. Handy for giving directions or pointing to areas of interest - Quikmaps
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One Word Equity
Lord Saatchi of Saatchi & Saatchi and now M&C Saatchi fame has come up with his new management fad - 'One Word Equity' - John from Brand Tarot takes a look at this pointless attempt to revitalise the advertising industry.
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June 28, 2006
Test your web design
If you design web pages and want to see what your creation looks like in many different browsers on different operating systems try browsershots
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Nakamura Motomichi
New York animator/vj/artist Nakamura Motomichi is interviewed over at Submarine channel
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Arkitip
Original designer prints, magazines and accessories - Arkitip
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NY Graffiti history
A look at some of the early graffiti practitioners from New York and how their work changed over the 1970's and 80's
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June 26, 2006
Clanhouse
Recently set-up by Singapore based über designer Cheah Wei Chun, Fashion & Design consultancy Clanhouse are providing refined elegance and sophistication for fashion and design houses throughout the South East Asia region.
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Ecospace
Pre-fabricated, architecturally designed contemporary garden studios - ecospace
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The Urban Etiquette Handbook
A thorough guide to etiquette within a built up urban environment from the The New York Metro. Topics vary from cell phone & iPod etiquette to being polite but firm while dining.
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June 21, 2006
Verlag
"From out of the six typefaces originally created for the Guggenheim Museum comes Verlag, a family of 30 sans serifs that brings a welcome eloquence to the can-do sensibility of pre-war Modernism." - Verlag from Hoefler and Frere-Jones
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National Forest
Some nice illustration/photo montage work from National Forest
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Damien Hirst Profile
Charlotte Higgins from the Guardian, profiles British Artist Damien Hirst as he hits 41, ponders life and Death (again) and renovates his monument to himself (a $3m castle that he hopes to turn into a museum of his work).
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100 awesome music videos
Pitchfork media have utilised youtube to bring you 100 awesome music videos
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June 20, 2006
Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, a prominent Vienna salon hostess and wife of a Jewish sugar industrialist, has eclipsed the $US104 million paid for Picasso's Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice) by recently selling for a record$US135 million.
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Paper flight
How to build the world's best paper aeroplane
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TypeNavigator
An interesting application to help track down the font you need for your latest project - TypeNavigator
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Phil Toledano
Surreal photography from New York photographer Phil Toledano
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Old book scans
Engravings, woodcuts and pictures from old books - scanned and prepared by Liam Quin
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June 19, 2006
Synaesthesia
One of synaesthesia's most well known proponents, Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky is exhibiting at Tate Modern, Kandinsky: Path to Abstraction. The Telegraph looks at Kandinsky's abilities to hear colour and see sound.
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What would you do differently?
Some retrospective thoughts from David Carson, Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut and others - 'What would you do differently?'
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World Cup logo design
Erik Spiekermann (founder of MetaDesign), disects the design behind the Soccer World Cup logo and mascot - and he doesn't like what he sees.
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June 16, 2006
Emigre re-designs
Type house and ex design magazine Emigre have recently updated/redesigned their website
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Flock
If you are interested in trying out a new web browser, Flock may be what you are looking for. It is built with the same code as Firefox but has better blog and Flickr integration.
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T1 World Cup
24 designers from around the world are taking part in the T-Shirt world cup. For one month only designs from Stefan Sagmeister, Erik Spiekermann and others are available to view and buy - T1 World Cup
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June 15, 2006
Park(ing)
By feeding a parking meter you can lease a small piece of urban space in increments of 1-2 hours. Blaine Merker and Gregory Kellett decided to use their time and space for providing some greenery in the city.
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Amnesty International
A sophisticated billboard campaign from Amnesty International blending what is behind the street signage with images that project the suffering brought about by conflict and torture.
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The Playground
A typographic letterplay
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DQ Books
An interesting collection of illustration work in a faux book interface - DQ BooksPosted by miosite at 02:47 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 14, 2006
The FLOWmarket
Based in Copenhagen and doing the rounds of Zurich and New York, the FLOWmarket - an installation that questions global consumption.
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Light Delight
A new series of taps from Equa, where the coloured light reflects the warmth of the water.
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The laughing swing
When you sit on it, it chuckles. As you swing, it laughs, and the higher you go, the harder it laughs. At the peak swinging it is laughing wildly - The Laughing Swing
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Castle shopping
If you are in the market for your very own castle - here is a list that may help you decide
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June 13, 2006
Camo football boots
Puma have released a new range of boots that camouflage your feet by using a grass style print so your feet blend into the field.
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Disney Fruit
Trying to distance themselves from the negative press of fast food company Mcdonalds, Disney have decided to start putting branded 'collectable' stickers over fruit in European supermarkets.
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Luxury in China
China's desire for fashionable luxury products is driving a resurgence in the handmade 'artisan'/craft industries within Italy.
"Hong Kong people enjoy looking for 'flaws' on handbags, clothes they see on others. 'Look, that's a fake. I can tell, the buttons are different,'" said Bobo Lee, a shopper in Hong Kong. "Chinese shoppers like me, I definitely would not buy any named brand products that are 'Made in China.' It's a real turn-off. I would immediately throw it back on the shelf."
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SAUMA - design as cultural interface
Sauma is a New York exhibition profiling Finnish design. Above is 'Take Out' by Klaus Aalto, resembling a traditional chest of drawers with the exception that the drawers have been replaced by portable briefcases.
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June 12, 2006
Photoshop stencil tutorial
A quick tutorial on how to make a black and white (graffiti) stencil from a colour photograph.
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June 09, 2006
If you love fonts
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Cleaning up the board
The scramble by media companies to get in on the social networking website boom (re: MySpace) is starting to drive their users/community/customers to leave for less sanitised/corporatised communities.
Finding a balance between a safe online space and a space designed and policed by 'parental figures' is the fine line that many media companies are finding they must tread.
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Launching products
According to Mintel's GNPD (Global New Products Database) in 2005 a new product was launched every 3.5 minutes
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Q&A with Peter Saville
Fact magazine talks to Peter Saville about his design work for the music industry
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Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0
How will web 2.0 effect online learning? An interesting article with good descriptions of the technology and ideas behind web 2.0
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June 08, 2006
The oldest drawing
Scientists have discovered the worlds oldest drawing - 27,000-year-old drawing of a face
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Fuego
Stylish outdoor cooking - Fuego
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Colour
If you are interested in colour theory or just what looks nice
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The future of book publishing
Is the digital future for books a "grisley scenario" of free downloads and cutting and pasting? The New York Times looks at the changing face of book publishing and the physical context that currently holds the key. (bug me not for logging in)
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June 07, 2006
css site design
If you are looking for stylish css website design then try css remix or css mania
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Five Fingers
Shoes with a hole for each toe, designed to give you that barefoot feeling - fivefingers
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The Press Photographer's year 2006
A wonderful collection of press photography for 2006
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Slideshow Pro
A flash photo gallery application for viewing your images online - Slideshow Pro
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Free Icons
If you are looking for icons to use in a website or application then here is a list for you to peruse
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June 05, 2006
Spec work
Michael Bierut (NY partner at Pentagram) has a look at the ugly nature of spec work
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Wall Design
Wall decals from Paris France - Wall design
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Lovely Lovely
Doilies, mugs, plates and glasses - Lovely Lovely from London
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End of privacy
Wil Harris from Bit-tech.net looks at 'web 2.0' and how it will bring about large 'mineable' databases that will keep marketing companies in data for years to come.
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Soya Sauce healthier than red wine
Scientists in SIngapore have discovered that dark soya sauce contains antioxidant properties about 10 times more effective than red wine.
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June 02, 2006
FWA
Lots of website goodies - FWA
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Dale Chihuly sues glass blowers
Dale Chihuly has taken legal action against two glass blowers claiming that they have infinged on his copyright. One of the glass blowers has counter sued - the countersuit alleging Chihuly is trying to claim "a monopoly on any and all glass art that is curved, nested or uses certain kinds of colors.
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June 01, 2006
Fonts galore
Choose between these pixel fonts or these 9800 free fonts
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Antenna
New York design studio - Antenna
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Pleix
A community of Paris based digital artists - Pleix
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