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Iakov Chernikhov

Kate Pasterfield

Happy Birthday to the Internet (depending on how you look at it)! Have a look at this great timeline at the Guardian web site to learn more.

I can't tell you how glad I am to hear this: the ITU has approved a specification for a universal mobile phone charger. Less cost, less waste, more convenience—you might ask why it's taken this long, ...

Being a big fan of Moleskine notebooks, I spent a good hour looking through the exhibits in the Moleskine Detour Gallery. More details on the Detour project here.

Stephen Powers: A Love Letter For You

The Figure / Ground Relationship

The Elements Of Humanity

Some nice crisp print design work, from London design consultancy MARC&ANNA.

Foreign Affairs

Images of London, 1970

Oliver Tilbury: Burst Chair

Joseph Holmes: Workspace

Harald Hauswald

Making Stuff and Doing Things is the brilliantly titled portfolio of Portland State graphic design student Nicole Lavelle. Lots of quirky pieces for your viewing pleasure.

Slanted Magazine

At The Morning News: The Frightening Beauty of Bunkers, a series of images of abandoned wartime bunkers by French urbanist and cultural theorist Paul Virillo.

Photography: Vintage Chicago

Bold and colourful acrylic paintings from Japanese artist Kenji Hirata.

Gregory Euclide

Back from New York

Tom Hillier: The Emperor’s Castle

An interesting article at SEED Magazine, about the growth of literacy and near-universal authorship.

Philip Roadley-Battin

Martin Ander: Fever Ray Artwork

Trunk Animation: Tom Fun Orchestra Music Video

An interesting experimental Flickr set from Corey Holms: backlit images of various food dyes.

As a follow-up to posting some of Kate's photos earlier in the week: here's her new blog documenting her first months in New York.

One in Eight Million: a beautiful multimedia feature on some of New York's characters, from the NY Times.

New York: Greenpoint, Brooklyn

My tribute to our friend Matt Barwick, who sadly left us a year ago today. Miss you, mate.

Francis Wolff: Blue Note

Krijn de Koning

Two interesting pieces from Design Observer: an essay on suburban community planning entitled 'Community: The American Way of Living' and Curating the Open City, an interview with Dutch architect Kees...

KMA: Great Street Games

Kurt Vonnegut: Rules For Writing A Short Story

Things Our Friends Have Written on the Internet

JetPac Magazine is a free PDF magazine which features photography, illustration, design and poetry; sounds (and looks) good.

Chromeography: a site paying tribute to “those unsung metal emblems and badges that are overlooked, forgotten, damaged, lost to time or the dump.”

Françoise Nielly

Marchand Meffre Photography: The Ruins Of Detroit

Photos of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles at A Time To Get. These pictures were all taken with an iPhone, which just reinforces the fact that it's not the camera that makes a great image, but rather the...

Rupert Nightingale

Michael Nichols: Redwoods for National Geographic

Domingos Totora: Agua Table

Magic Dots: a fun, simple flash toy that creates surprisingly complex pop-art images.

This is pretty incredible: Google have made every issue of LIFE Magazine available on Google Books (1,860 issues, from 1936 to 1972).