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Some beautiful, minimal, black and white videos and design by Maxim Zhestkov.

“Disturb Me” is an interactive installation by The Popcorn Makers. It is activated and modified by the sounds of it’s surroundings and participants.

Holy hell, this is the sexiest clock I’ve ever seen. Qlocktwo tells the time in a human readable format and looks mighty fine while it’s doing it.

Beautiful illustration from New York artist Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch. You can see more (along with other great illustration) at blow your horn hunter where Maxwell is a regular contributor.

Seriously great photo collages from Hubert Blanz.

Well, there I was the other day, minding my own business, wandering around Glebe Markets when I stumbled across Das Monk who have some of the freshest tee designs I’ve seen in a long time.

E15 is a research project by MIT which will attempt to allow you (as the user) to visualise web content in any way that you see fit...

Wooster Collective have uncovered a great project by Tel Aviv street artists who have been altering the public lighting in underground street tunnels. They say their source of inspiration was the Wizard of Oz although it feels to me a lot more like scenes from The Abyss or 2001: A Space Odyssey...

With the US dollar tanking, why not inject some interest into it by re-designing. The dollar rede$ign project intends to do just that by inviting users to submit their idea of what the dollar should look like. There are some silly ideas, but there are also some really well designed gems.

Subway posters in Berlin have been getting the photoshop treatment by some (unknown to me) German street artists. Brilliant idea to remind people of how much re-touching goes into these photos to make them into some sort of ‘human ideal’...

What an amazing use of technology! Pixelcase, an Australian company specialising in hi-definition virtual tours have put up this excellent aerial tour of New York.

BibliOdysseyis a great blog featuring an eclectic range of historical, science and art illustrations from old and rare books. The range and detail of the images is just astounding and is a great reference.

Aaron Koblin’sinfographics are amazing. Taking social and infrastructure data and examining it to find cultural and emergent patterns, his work has been shown Ars Electronica, OFFF, TED and more.

Some nice graphic work from German design studio Atelier 1A.

Knowbotic Researchare anart group based in Zurich, that experiment with urbanity, construction of knowledge and political representations in mediatised public spheres. (Above image from the KRCF project — Newborn - Undeliverable?)

Yes, that’s right. It’s a swimming pool floating over the entrance to Shaw House, an amazing piece of architecture by Vancouver based Patkau Architects. (via Design Crisis)

Design image bookmarking site Buamai (which translates to ‘Are you bored?’) have released an iPhone app which randomly selects images from the Buamai database to display on your iPhone, to try and kill your boredom. Nice idea. (via QBN)

See some amazing aerial photography from the BBC at Britain from Above.

Some nice illustration by the infamous Buff Monster. Really digging the laptop and iphone skins.

Kickstarter is an interesting new way to get your project funded. Using the power of the crowd (crowdsourcing) Kickstarter aims to help entrepreneurs, artists and others get funded by the people who enjoy their work. Good idea, although unfortunately it.s U.S. only.

Amazing paper craft by MadeByJulene!

The graveyard is a high-concept game by indie developers Tale of Talesin which you take control of an elderly lady and guide her through a graveyard. Once you have reached the chapel you may sit on the seat. The game ends when you leave the graveyard...

typo/graphic posters is (as the name suggests) a great resource for checking out all the fresh new posters from loads of different designers. Brilliant source of inspiration.

Via Grafik are a Germany based design studio and art-collective who are pumping out some fresh stuff!

FluidTunesis an amazing application for MacOS X which allows you to control your iTunes music via hand gestures and a camera. It really has to be seen to be believed, luckily you can check out a video of it in action on their site. Did I mention it’s free too?

Jeff Soto’s work is a wild mix of hip-hop, skateboarding, pop-culture and graff. Check it out!

Brick is an interesting multi-touch interface created by Jordan Hochenbaum and Owen Vallis.

Are you an executard? Need to take a faceabbatical? No idea what these words mean. Then Addictionaryis the place to go. Packed full of words only the internet could produce, you can look up anything and even add your own words. It’s pretty too!

Word Clockis a typographical way of telling time by Simon Heys. Nice concept and you can download it as a screensaver too!

Having finally made it back to the land of Oz, I’m up and running with a seemingly decent (albeit slightly slow) internet connection. Posting will resume shortly although might be a bit slower than last year whilst I get myself set up here in Australia...

It’s a sad day when decent design blogs die and Pingmag was one of the best of them. Brilliantly written stories covering the fields of art, design, architecture, fashion and many other categories all with a Japanese twist were what made Pingmag so special...

I Took Photos is a nice little photo blog depicting images of suburban and rural Australia.

Damn, this is pretty cool. Using the powers of Papervision the talented folk at Boffswana have produced an Augmented Reality. You can even play with it yourself if you print using a specialised symbol and your webcam.

So, it’s been a little while between posts recently, but I swear I’ve got a good excuse! I’m currently packing up all my worldy possessions in anticipation of moving from sunny London all the way to my original home town of Sydney, Australia...

Hand Made Font are an Estonian based type design company specialising in unique, un-traditional fonts.

Ringo (on Vimeo) is a really neat interface concept by Ivan Tihienko.

jpg a day is 7 designers (from San Francisco and Tokyo) taking it in turns to post a new image every day. There’s some interesting things happening here from some quite big names.

[deletia] is an artist-run collective that takes the view that art is, or should be, a communication between the artist and viewer.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog are doing some fresh things with typography. Check out their superfresh fonts Heldentica, Tomatica and Gelvetica (all available as free downloads from the site).

Sleeveface is a new blog dedicated to the art of holding an LP cover in front of your corresponding body part. Hilarity ensues.

Cuprocking is a collaborative project between Mooks and Andy Uprock, showcasing cuprocking, an innovative form of (non-destructive) street art.

Art Futura is a Spanish art festival exploring new media, interactive design, video games and digital animation. Unfortunately it’s over for this year, however you can still check out some of the amazing work displayed.