Design studio/authors Post Typography just released their new calendar "2010 By The Numbers" featuring 12 unique lettering and typographic approaches to the number 2010.

dataMorphose is a spatial information visualization created by Christiane Keller. Three beautiful data sculptures represent information by the shape and motion of sail-like tensile structures.

Hanged for the iPhone and iPod Touch merges art, narrative, and classic gameplay to create a haunting classic hangman game experience. Featuring artist Patrick Dorian's signature style in captivating stop-motion animations.

Sailing club in Versilia, Italy. Design by progettospore.

No doubt, nature paints the most impressive pictures. Here's a set of amazing photographs of giant icebergs from Antarctica and Greenland by master nature photographer David Burdeny.

To celebrate their centenary, Morgan put the wheels in motion with their new-model Aero SuperSports; a typically lightweight and "luxuriously flamboyant" sports car

The Road Less Traveled is a video exploring type in motion. Created by designer Matt Owens in collaboration with musician Fletcher C. Johnson.

Bavaria-based designer Nils Holger Moormann has carved out a niche all his own with his mountain-top hotel with very minimalist handmade furniture.

Inspiring interview with fashion illustrator Nicole Jarecz, student in Miami at College for Creative Studies, fashion design section, on how to find your ideal fashion Internship while you're a student.

VIDEOTo kick off the first day of McDonald's Free Coffee promotion (running November 16- 29, 2009), McDonald's created a unique Stop Motion video showcasing an artist's troupe building a mural made entirely out of McDonald's coffee.

These WWI-era anti-aircraft hearing aids have such provocative designs!

Short and interesting interview with Maxim Zhestkov a 23-year-old director, video artist, industrial, motion and graphics designer, that bases much of his work on his dreams and fantasies.

Photographer Brett Arthur took his own vision of the H1N1 virus, better known as swine flu and applied it during a personal photo shoot of his to hopefully use as an awareness tool for the serious effects of the virus.

CHANEL brings into the open "The making of a couture outfit"

Karl Lagerfeld drawing A Quick Sketch. Awesome!

Ryoji Ikeda's "Datamatics [ver. 2.0]" premiered in the US at Harvard last night. The beauty of lots of data!

Inspiring Interview with Leigh Viner on how to create successful fashion illustrations

This CCTV (China Central TV) Commercial is just amazing; the smoky motion design is based entirely on ink and its shows the history of China from ancient to modern times

Screw Me is a lighting concept by recent Art Center graduate, Jonathan Rowell. A simple twist of the threaded post allows the lamp body to adjust up and down.

"The clock I can't see" is a colorblind wall clock. If you look carefully you can see the numbers, or is that your brain playing tricks on you?

Last week, artist Karen O'Leary's NYC Map Cuts (#25841) were all the rage. Now she's back with another intriguing project: Paris In Pen and Paper. Check out an exclusive interview with her as well!

Forest Milk (or Shinrin no Gyunyu) is coming from a Japanese farm where cows are walking freely in a natural forest. Delicious, natural milk in a perfect designed bottle. I want some, please...

Dongyun Lee's exhibit 'Eternal Flow' is a compilation of ink & watercolor illustrations that look like a wild trip into the subconscious.

the Kurt Vonnegut backlist gets fresh new cover designs, incorporating an illustration by the author on the front of each book...

Beautiful poster designed by Cristiana Couceiro for the long waited documentary 'The Visual Language of Herbert Matter'.

Fabio Viale has crafted some amazingly technical pieces out of marble. I could have sworn these were Styrofoam. blissful. (he's also featured in #25774, but on a much grander scale)

Here is a 'closer' look at the Mini S customized by artist KR for his upcoming Hamburg exhibition (previously seen in #25854)

VIDEO404 Beach is a collaborative stop-motion animation piece of a wall mural done by Mike Nowland of Company Policy, Carson Ting of Chairman Ting Industries and Tom Pettapiece.

The entire music track was composed and recorded specifically for 404 Beach by Tom Pettapiece.

Title: 404 beach
Artists: Mike Nowland & Carson Ting
Music: Tom Pettapiece
Cameo appearance: Leanna Wilson
Location: 404 Beach, Vancouver, Canada.
October 2009.

companypolicy.tv
chairmanting.com

Renowned photographer Rankin talks about his new charity project and the art of being destroyed by the likes of Beck, U2, Damien Hirst, Marianne Faithfull, Jarvis Cocker, Ian Brown and more.

Inspiring Interview with Kathryn Elyse Rodgers on how to succeed in the fashion illustration industry.

Nice infographic looking at average internet speeds and costs around the world

This small goopy photographic series was developed during designer Paul Fuog's 2009 post at Stefan Sagmeister's Experimental Outcamp in Ubud, Indonesia. It goes by the name "Sea Creatures."

Mondrianum is a Mac plugin that allows users to access Adobe Kuler (#2214) for all applications and works like a system-wide color picker.

Through The Ages is a piece of time travel with Mini Cooper. An advertisement campaign by Am I Collective for Blackriver FC agency. Perfect visuals completed with perfect music.

The world's most famous female street artist, Swoon, talks about creating giant art rafts down the Mississippi River and the like.

Tviga Vasilyeva puts the sound of the forest back where the trees have been cut down.

Color.NOISE is an experimental animation project by motion graphics designer Andrew Morev.

CMYK broadens their audience and appeal with a fresh overhaul of the magazine (due out in November). Here's a preview of a redesigned cover...

Laser cut, RFID tagged paper radios by Matt Brown

Lovely layered wax builds up this work by Keetra Dean Dixon in collaboration with JK Keller called 'I've been thinking of you for a while.'

Two cousins (characters) from the video game Katamari Damacy, walking the Jacob Javits Center on September 26, 2009. Costumes made by Janeille Pita.

The CueLight uses a conventional pool table as it’s canvas and the paint brush is an overhead projector equipped with sensors and motion detectors. The projector creates images on the pool table based on how the game is played

VIDEOA stop motion video made using yarn! made by http://thisisforreels.com./

VIDEOBison create a glitch-ridden, live performance video for Jon Hopkins using arm mounted cameras. All analogue post production; just an old TV, some VHS tapes and an industrial strength magnet.

Adorable animated "I Exist" Diet Dr. Pepper advert - "Bent Image Labs' Ken Lidster recently directed another brilliantly hilarious stop-motion spot, this time in conjunction with Deutsch/LA to promote the Diet Dr Pepper brand."

Icelandic artist Katrin Olina whittled her chops early on working at the design studios of Philippe Starck and Ross Lovegrove. Now she shows off her luscious, liquid design for Hong Kong's Cristal Bar.

At her 5oth anniversary, Barbie is opening in Barcelona her second shop, the first one in Europe. An exhibition will take place at the end of November. In the picture, Barbie, exhausted and post-party, with Carlota's selected work.

BumpTop is a graphical overlay for Windows-based operating systems. Check out some of the exciting new multi-touch gestures Bump Top is unveiling. Finally here after #15092

Coarsetoys vinyl toys have colorful, well-detailed packaging.

Yesterday Sony Ericsson unveiled the world’s first ever motion activated headphones that sense the user. To describe how it works they've released a cute film by renowned Swedish animator Kristofer Ström. Sony Ericsson have also redesigned their website.

FEATUREDIn 2019 when you sip the Veuve Clicquot La Grand Dame ~ think of this post, and my hard work picking grapes to help make that batch possible... see everything from the picking to the pressing...

World Famous Design Junkies do an aesthetically informative photo shoot of an eyepatch packaging on top of a kittie scratching post. The patch is discussed, the post is not mentioned.

FEATUREDInside the Rickenbacker... MUSEUM! Final part of this post series ~ you know i couldn't resist showing you the first electric guitar, and the design details of vintage guitars as well as concepts that may never be...

On the 12th September the first live performance of Longplayer began at The Roundhouse, London. The full performance lasted 1000 minutes... this is merely a fraction of that, and an inconceivably small part of the full 1000 year long composition.

Thalys Metamorphosis - beautiful motion & campaign to introduce the new sets of Thalys.

Video teaser for Gestalten’s upcoming book, "Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper." From playful and whimsical to downright painstaking, paper is resurging among young artists as an experimental material for design.

FEATUREDNightLife at the California Academy of Sciences ~ so i showed you the creatures in #24705 ~ but here is a look at the interiors and the night life scene!

This Pavilion is inspired by termites, and is modeled after the inside of a termite mound.

VIDEOAnimated version of the events of Hiroshima in 1945. Incredible execution, a touching stop motion written, animated, & directed by Dan Blank.

James May and volunteers are building a life-size house from Legos in the UK, which May plans to live in after its completion [for a few days].

Sil van der Woerd just wrapped up the second music video for Lolly Jane Blue titled White Swan. For this project, Sil collaborated with a group of Gnomon students to complete the post production.

Diana Al-Hadid, Tower of Infinite Problems

The Swedish Post is releasing a series of stamps to celebrate the Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesangs second trip into space that is starting this weekend.

Hoot Nanny! its like a retro spirograph ~ with very fun pics and packaging!

VIDEONew motion work from Seth Akkerman. SCAD Broadcast Design project depicting an interpretation of a "Where the Wild Things Are" title sequence.

Cool - Makedo is a building kit that lets you make things from whatever "found" materials you may have lying around.

VIDEOStop Motion drawing by Ay Natanagara and Zindy Amalia.

Philip Bell, a recent MICA graduate portrays The Bill of Rights in complex radial patterns. Be sure to check out the motion video of the piece.

The iconic post modernism housing complex Cube Houses in Rotterdam has been converted into an affordable hostel.

This clever set of chopsticks uses a small magnet to give you that satisfying feeling of pulling apart wooden chopsticks without the waste of trees. The woodpecker motif makes it even sweeter. Available from Tokyomade.

Portfolio of Nikhil Bora. Melbourne Graphic Designer / Motion Graphics. Impressive portfolio.

Italian pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai. Design by Iodice architects.

In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built - they're grown. See some amazing shots here!

Crafters.org cleverly rifted wry humor into their logo designs. I love how they pair brilliant copy with vintage-styled graphics.

MyPressi Portable Espresso....designed by the guys @ Elemental 8 in San Jose, Ca! Well done E8, great design and product characteristics! [see also #21118]

Woodblock post it note "log"?

Ferrari Factory Store, Serravalle, Italy.
Design by Massimo Iosa Ghini.

A brand new World Famous Design Junkies collection: Rally Cars from the early 1950s to the present; Get your speedy on!

The Claytable by Erwin Zwiers is designed so that users can leave their traces, as they play and mould the table's inviting clay surface.

VIDEOThis is the new animated video for my song “Goodbye London”. It combines 2-D animation with stop-motion photographs of walls, buildings and various favorite parts of London.

Beautiful short film in stop-motion called "Pigeon Pilfer", by Michael Stevenson.

A 26000 fine-stone encrusted collection of everyday objects in the mouth of a mushroom-tripping-cartoon called "Simple Things" - made by Artist Takashi Murakami and musician Pharrell Williams. [see also #22334]

The cutest stop motion Save the Date in all the land.

MOS summer installation at the PS1 (seen in #23544 and #22870) finally opened to the public. Hut-like structures act like chimneys to cool down the area with air flow generated by the heat from the faux fur.

Blow-your-mind architectural concept from Magnus Larsson: use bacteria to create a 6,000km long wall to prevent the Sahara Desert from spreading further. Wow.

Coldplay new music video "Strawberry Swing". Incredible stop motion made with photos and drawings. Watch the full video, sure you will love it.

A Skatable Home By Archivirus. Given the brief of creating a “skatable habitat”, architect Athanasia Psaraki launched into creating “a curved form interior which set the whole house as well as the inhabitant’s life into motion.”

VIDEONew motion design piece created by Seth Akkerman for the Non-Prophets song "Fresh." This project was completed as part of a SCAD Broadcast Design course.

The train station in Britomart, NZ had its platforms covered in grass for a milk TV commercial. Nice surprise for the morning commuters!

Melbourne's Recital Centre featured previously as #22565, but this gorgeous piece from Ashton Raggatt McDougal (ARM) architects deserves a second look.

Doublebutter, a modern furniture company in Denver, Colorado, and Horsehead Crating did some unusual product testing to their Armadillo table. Watch the stop motion video of the carnage.

The incredible 8 minute stop motion vid "Looking Thru The B-Sides", commissioned by Fuel TV and created by Saimon Chow and Golden Lucky, has finally been released after the trailer announced it last September. Ass kicking!

Fun post over at Core77 on Car Interior Design Tricks ~ all types of brilliant space savers/creators

It's the Summer of the SuperVillain! Name your nemesis and illustrator Len Peralta will draw his interpretation and even post a video of the process to YouTube.

Students of University Twente are also going to streak across the Australian outback for this year's World Solar Challenge. With their new tilting solar car the 21revolution. Direct competition for the students from Delft, see post 22897

Pretty cool video of fashion crew BKRW (Black Rainbow) in Paris, with stop motion with a funky soundtrack.

Start is a design collective specializing in Typography, Art Direction and Motion Graphics. Phil Robson and Mathieu Carlot have embarked on Loudmouth which is made by laser cutting, varnishing, gluing, layering and framing.

The Anonymous Hugging Wall in London as part of Keetra Dean Dixon ongoing series METHODS & APPARATI for Social Facilitation and Mood Elevation

An awesome animation short film called Red Rabbit. We live our life, hiding secrets from others not knowing that everybody has a secret.

Headquarter building in Milan, Italy.
Design by Park Associated and Zucchi & Partners.

VIDEOA little stop-motion with light painting. See what is inside the box...

It's 200 years since Louis Braille, the creator of braille was born and to celebrate that the Swedish Post has released a set of stamps. The stamps are designed by Elisabeth Björkbom and say "See with different eyes" in readable braille.

Laika- a fun stop-motion animation video by Guillaume Blanchet. Also a small 3 question interview included.

The World Famous Design Junkies post an expanding collection of photographs of the most important card in the deck: the Ace of Spades.

Design by Diplomat. Zilla is an experimental lounge chair made from a composite construction of materials that include glass, aluminium and epoxy.

The Lucky Monkey - First monkey on twitter? A real 'monkey' [chimpanzee] generating posts (every 140 typed letters generate a post). If you add him on twitter he's automatically challenged to try to type your name.

Stephen Colbert's shaved head graces this week's issue of Newsweek. Colbert was invited to be the magazine's first guest editor...

Angels, wine & cocktail bar in medieval Florence.
Design by Studiounodesign - Italy

Scenes from a Rooftop, a wonderful timelapse with tilt-shift effect.

An interview with Ebon Heath, creator of beautiful typographic sculptures. [Editor's note: Ebon Heath's work has been previously featured as #17782]

The Nike Sportswear Summer 09 collection told with stop motion video stories shot around Italy

'Knot Tied: A History of Gay Marriage Bans', stunningly clear timeline of changing laws by GOOD and Timko & Klick.

“Sorry I’m Late”. Really impressive stop-motion directed with patience and talent by Tomas Mankovsky.

Interview with Shigeru Ban. The Finnish manufacturer Artek presented the new '10-unit system' (#21751) by the Japanese arcitect. We had the pleasure to meet Shigeru Ban in Milan...

Ok ok ~ so the OUTSIDE of my new Seashell Eee PC is pretty cute #22009 ~ but check out the dissected insides! It's amazing how they cram it all into 1" of thickness...

"Engadget Labs: The best mobile broadband carrier in America" ~ love this thorough post on Engagdet reviewing all the current options in mobile data sticks... now if only the overages and caps weren't so ridiculous...

Here's a quick little peek at our upcoming DJ Headphone project. The project is designed and developed in close collaboration between Kilo Design, Tartelet Records, MannHandle, B&K and a bunch of DJ's and will launch November 2009.

On the Design*Sponge guest blog ~ i love this post on how to make 3D sheep crackers to stand in your soup!

Google has changed its front-page to pay homage to the discovery of the missing link, as posted on [post:21801]#21801, happy 200th Darwin!

"Sorry I'm Late", a short film made in stop motion. Directed by Tomas Mankovsky.

Interiors for Luxury Hotel in Nizza, France. The concept, that gives life to the project, is a contemporary interpretation of the lines from the Belle Époque style. Designed by Iosa Ghini associated.

Comfortable and elegant, the chair Mail is suitable for all types of furniture. Mail by Domodinamica, Massimo Iosa Ghini design.

The new Do Bem's juice campaign is a breakfast themed stop motion with brazilian funk as it's soundtrack.

VIDEOJust Landed - A video by artist Jer Thorp showing tweets containing "just landed" and their location pre- and post-flight. Fascinating stuff. (As seen on Gizmodo)

Art Director and Writer team duo Jon & Adam post unproduced ideas daily for people to steal.

Last minute gift for your mom! By David Horvitz.

Audrey Kawasaki's solo show in tokyo! Arrested Motion has pics of the opening - “Watching Shadows” or “Kageboushi” @ Space Yui

TOCA ME - Bizarrely organic type in motion by Alex Trochut. This transcends pretty much all other motion graphics I can think of at the moment.

mog.com is a recently re-vamped music blog site that hopes to be the huffington post of music. The design balances visual ga-ga with neutrality, while eschewing the masculine in-yo-faceness of other music websites. Check out the little fuzzy guy at the bottom!

New motion and packaging by ChezLouis for the last Schweppes campaign - packaging by 20100, Aalto and Julien Pons..

Wonderful motion in this wall mounted piece by Robert Howard. Hand-carved in solid-block Honduras mahogany.

Celebrating the launch of the new Food2.com site, a party in Food Network's test kitchen at Chelsea Market. One of the highlights of the site is its original video content, including the new series, Kitchen Conspirators...

la mosca (previously featured as #14064) do some gorgeous infographics . their recent feature on designboom brought them back to mind and they merit another mention!

Charming stop motion animation created by UK design house Miller & Goodman using their ShapeMaker wood block set.

The Mypressi Twist is a portable espresso machine with a pneumatic engine! [Editor's Note: Remember #8130 the Handpresso?]

The Bacone: A bacon cone filled with scrambled eggs and country gravy topped with a biscuit.

Belvédère (2008) - This seat or rather perch is on the borders of urban areas where the view should be raised. Wink to the referee or lifeguard chair, to the observation post for hunting, it offers to the pedestrian a new viewpoint/

How To Make A BABY! Absolutely adorable stop motion video over the course of 9 months...

Primitive forms and natural rocks smoothed by water have inspired the design of the lamp Sasso. Design by Massimo Iosa Ghini.

The Coca-Cola Refresh Recycling Bin is a new twist on the traditional recycling container. Made entirely from post-consumer recycled PET soda and water bottles, it showcases the exceptional design potential of recycled plastic.

VIDEOStunning stop motion video to *breathe* as he travels through Morroco ~ from Davide Calafà

Spore gives a touch of originality and lightness to the location. Design by Massimo Iosa Ghini.

OKKO is as versatile as a birdfeeder can get coz it can either be hung from the ceiling in a balcony (if you have such luxury) or be placed on a post in the garden.

Happy Earth Day 2009! Check out "Hot and Cold," Repower America's short stop-motion animation tv spot to raise awareness on carbon pollution.