New Blood

If you happen to be in London, make sure you visit the D&AD New Blood Exhibition. Why?

• FREE entry to the Exhibition
• More than 7,000 creative practitioners attending over three days
• Courses from countries as far flung as New Zealand, Russia and Italy exhibiting
• Over 100 courses exhibiting their best graduate talent
• View the D&AD Student Awards Nominations Exhibition
• Get hired or hire the best talent before your competitors
• Forge new partnerships with courses, new and practising creatives
• Learn from the Lifeblood Lectures, debates, workshops and Training & Advice Sessions

image from creative review.

Reversible House

Designed by architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins, this home's idea is to keep a person young but creating new challenges for the homeowners. A true adult playground, I am signing up for one of these!

hate or love?

ha.

can i get this printed with 'rm. 519' on the back?

Annalakshmi

Annalakshmi meaning the Hindu Goddess of Food, is also the name of a restaurant located in India, Malaysia, Singapore, and Perth, Australia. Their concept is to "eat as you like and pay as you feel." Thats right. You pay your own price and eat as much as you feel. Of course, if you tend to be a cheapskate (no offense) please, save yourselves the trip. More!

VoceLinda

Beautiful and interesting jewelry designs inspired by designer Lindsey Hudek's travels to Europe and the Americas. VocêLinda, meaning "you are beautiful" is the name of the jewelry brand, whose goal is to "reflect the beauty and femininity of each woman who wears it."

VoceLinda

Favorite Typefaces

Fifty Designers' Current Favorite Typefaces
What's yours?

How to eat a taco in less than a minute.

Travis and Nick will show you how.
Location: Taco Bell


Nick & Travis's Taco Eating Contest from yasmin marquez on Vimeo.

Dining in the Dark?

Dans Le Noir? is a restaurant with locations in Paris, London, and Moscow that offers its customers to dine in the dark.
According to Dans Le Noir?,

This restaurant allows you to completely re-evaluate the notion of taste.Without sight, other senses are offered a new sensation and emotions.
Darkness leads to truthfulness about taste, kills preconceptions and let you face the realities of ingredients and cuisine. Our chef elaborates a refined and sensorial cuisine with fresh ingredients to help our senses to enjoy the “truth” taste of food.

Read more about why eating in the dark benefits you!

Car that runs on water.

Whaaaa?

Ryan vs. Dorkman

Meet two of Star Wars biggest fans.

Celebrating the Beijing Olympic Games

Chinese man sticks 2008 needles in his head to mark Beijing Olympic Games. Talk about devotion!
Dr Wei Sheng pierced 2008 needles in his head to commemorate the Olympics Games this year. Read more here.

Denis Darzacq

MORE PHOTOS> http://denis.darzacq.revue.com/portfolios.shtml

Snake!

Some polish students recreate the snake game with their dormitory lights. wow.


SNAKE Game in the Student House - The best bloopers are a click away

Frank Chimero

Very cool inspirational design posters by Frank Chimero. Words that all designers would benefit to look upon from time to time.

Check out his portfolio for other cool G. Design and illustation work.

Andrew Ray

Very fun and wacky stuff from Andrew Ray. If you get a minute or two, make sure you pay HIS SITE a visit.

Juarez Murders

This is a collaboration done by Swoon and Tennessee Jane that is on exhibit at Honey Space in NYC. An attempt to help raise awareness about the Juarez Murders that has been a never ending problem in Juarez.


Thanks to my brother Daniel for giving me the heads up on this. Check out Fecal Face to read more about the story of Silvia Elena and while you're at it get lost on their site--tons of rad stuff!

The New Pornographers

An oldie but goodie! Daniel Bejar is the guy in the video. He is a guest musician on several of the The New Pornographers albums. Daniel Bejar also has his own music project called Destroyer which is a personal favorite of mine.

Enjoy!

((sounder))

Here's something for those who like artists that make music too. ((sounder)) is the musical project of Mike Aho (visual artist) and Steve Stratton (photographer). ((sounder)) is in the process of releasing 5 music videos to promote their newly released album entitled "Good Things Come and Go Like Bad Things." Here is one of the videos with illustration by Austin, TX own Michael Sieben.

Next Photoshop to tap GPUs for extra computing power

How exciting!

The latest installment of CS4 will tap into your GPU for the extra power needed for those multy layer designs you're working on. Sure Photoshop looks great on your mac but come October your basic gaming PC will smoke your Mac when it comes to manipulating images. A single GPU will be able to perform similar or outperform an 8 core skulltrail system, not to mention Mac's $6,000++ 8 Core Xeons.

Adobe was working on the project with NVIDIA so there aren't many details as to if there will be any sort of exclusivity with the chipset maker but its doubtfull any advancements would be tied to a specific card maker.

Seems like I now have an excuse to keep upgrading my desktop.


If only I could start getting a few design jobs and file my whole build as a business expense.