Underwater ballet, photographed by Nadia Moro.

I defy anyone not to find this series of films from the American Museum of Natural History inspiring. This film is basically the top half of Powers of Ten complete with a few decades more learnings.

There’s something perverse about saying something, sticking it on the wall, and expecting a predefined response from it.

I’m working on a project at the moment to create a communal sense of accumulated achievement over time. A way of changing behaviors in regard to energy usage.

The observed environment causes physical chemical reactions which in turn cause emotions that stimulate subjective self expression. I want to create a system that will convert subjective self expression into an objective form that can be universally comprehended by everyone, with no language or cultural barriers.

Everyday communication is conducted in discrete zones, Facebook, Twitter, email, IM, Skype, SMS. Abstracted and mapped onto functions like upload, send, attach, comment, tag. These functions often overlap and don’t facilitate intimate interaction with other people.

Fantastic Google Maps mash up, travel the full length of the Trans Siberian Railway, the pride of Russia, whilst listening to Gogol’s Dead Souls. Amazing.

Evident Utensil music video, interesting datamoshing texture, digital psychedelic. Right click and watch it big.

Sync/Lost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music.

Class voyeurism, catchy music and lots of wrong things, all made right. Right click to watch big.

Useful installation by Sidekick Studios.

Article from Andy Beckett about the ‘deepweb’.

FPM’s (Musicians) new site teaser, created by THA. Minimal branding, letting the audio dictate and transform the site, look forward to the full site launch.

The CSS awards and Site Inspire both ran pieces on the site I built for Young recently.

Patrick Burgoyne, Editor of CR, was nice enough to get in touch and do a piece

Imagine seeing these in the 70’s. Reminds me of Conrad Shawcross’s work.

This is unnerving. The same way I find all voluminous airborne objects unnerving.

New projection technology allows precise mapping of images to buildings

SWEATSHOPPE SWEATSHOPPE’s video painting technology.

The photography agent Webber came in to the office the other day, for me Greg White’s portfolio stood out.

These have been around for a while but the concept for these TV idents is nice.

Work related set in Flickr.

I strongly recommend watching the full 54 minutes of Adam Curtis’s film It Felt Like a Kiss.

I’ve been thinking about first impressions, and how despite our constant efforts, we never really know how we seem to others.

I’ve found the pursuit of photorealistic painting

Photography of Hong Kong’s dense urbanism.

That which can be built, (Rough Translation).

NASA has mad available to download spectacular images of the Apollo missions to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Moon landings.

The Green Cloud. Lasers projected onto smoke from a power station,

“This sculpture is a machine that advances two full sized automobiles slowly into one another over a period of 6 days

I like these paintings of Léopold Rabus.

Chinese artist Zhou Fan’s Jellyfish series.

Canadian Illustrator Jon Klassen’s lovely work.

Polished photography by Miles Aldridge

I went back to Bath last weekend and popped into The Bell where I once worked. Saw my old pal Lawrie Duckworth

A film by Lernert Engelberts & Sander Plug. This is a really well treated idea that came about by accident. It’s quite relaxing to listen to. Like that track from OK Computer. It’s also sad. Episodes are here.

Flickr set of technical drawings from American delineator Hugh Ferriss

These paintings are good. They drip with character and life.

I like the abstract landscapes. He uses dots and his name is Dotson.

The wonderful world of Han Hoogerbrugge is worth one of your hours. I’d say it’s a steal. The animation especially. This is mostly all I looked at during my foundation course.

Just shipped 3 DATASHUFFLE prints to Sweden for an exhibition of glitch art and music at Karlshamns gallery, showing alongside work from Beflix. Pop along if you’re in the area.

Good and evocative design by Alexander Girard presented by House Industries.

A growing collection of typography snapshots in the ffffound vein linked to my hairy ginge.

Now I have to have an opinion. Fuck it, make your own mind up, his work made me smile and I feel bad today.

Fine Tokyo design blog Hitspaper have featured DATASHUFFLE. I think they like it.

I’ve seen a lot of staged, cinematic photography recently, where the scene is composed of artificially combined elements. Jeff Wall has been composing these kind of photographs since the late 70’s.

The blog Manystuff included me in their end of year thing for 2008. I was involved in an exhibition in Berlin earlier in the year curated by Charlotte. Which was nice.

The DATA SHUFFLE range of prints are now for sale. Silver-based A2 digital C-type prints, printed by a Chromira RA-4 printer on Kodak Endura Metallic stock.

A photo a day keeps the doldrums away. Nikola Tamindzic’s daily photography.

Massive wood.

Oh, yeah, I get it now. Marloes ten Bhömer.

Tree house.

Courtesy of gb_r. These are hip.

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Alright, alright, alright.

There’s beauty in that decay.

I’d never seen this before. I like the feeling of soft light he creates with shadow and gradients.

Studioklink’s Moodwall reacts to passers-by.

I saw an image of Big Bambu by Mike and Doug Starn and was drawn to its scale.

David OReilly
This is lovely and heartwarming. Watch big.

Richard Galpin makes these compositions by cutting and peeling sections from photographs.

I was at the private view of Designing Seeds at the SIAD galley in Sheffield, which was great. Another lovely thing

Jason Salavon is a man of abstraction and code with some good ideas for creating images.

My favorite product of theirs is the jealous picture frame.

(via We Make Money Not Art) This looks fun.

I saw Charles Avery’s The Islanders: An Introduction at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

I found No Rules Just Architecture after seeing their House of Ruins, but I’m more impressed by their website.

I like some of Jeremy Geddes’s work.

Nice composite pieces by Patrick Winfield, although Hockney was doing these ‘Joiners‘ in the early eighties, he also

Explanations of the concept of psychogeography here. With a great map buy Guy Debord here.

Conceptual artist Michel de Broin creates intelligent and funny sculptures and installations. See them here. The web is just one big gallery.

The works of Roel Wouters.

(via dezeen) “Israeli designer Itay Ohaly has proposed a series of chairs called Fracture, made of benches of various materials which are torn or smashed into individual chairs.”

mas0809’s photostream “Final project for the Master of Advanced Studies program in Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD)

(via artdaily) E-Cyclorama by Sanford Wurmfeld at Edinburgh College of Art. “The E-Cyclorama is

Job Wouters, Illustrator, typographer, doer of some pretty work(er).

Build
Well edited introduction to Build.

Fashion and nightlife photography at the now defunct Ambrel site.

I like the drawings and studies of Patrick Rocha’s son, Patrick Rocha.

The nice people at Spin and their lovely work.

Say more by saying less, Carlos Tarrats for American Apparel. Classic and clean.

Identity guidelines that look as good as the brand, for the Barbican, here.

I love UVA, especially for the work they did/do with Massive Attack.

Wonderful illustrations here be found.

Swiss artist takes designer down art school memory lane! This is where it happened.

Peter Bjorn and John’s Nothing To Worry About.

Strangely attractive images of heavy industry from around the world by Edward Burtynsky.

Fine pencil drawings by Cath Riley.

Contemporary American portrait artist LUCONG.

Interesting article about American Apparel here. I love how American Apparel walks the line between clean-cut, ethical and wholesome (Helvetica, breezy west coast optimism, ethical production) to grungy Vice-like photography, and nudity. The brand has

Nice live music visuals, projected onto translucent window.

Nice anime quality to these AS3 generated patterns.

I saw Conrad Shawcross at the Walker Art Gallery and the Saachi Gallery in London. The creaking, wurring machines are impressive and physical

Industrial horror in the Art of Jonathan Schipper. Some great videos of the installations, especially Raining Blood, a twitching sculpture grinding itself to dust on the floor, in time to the music.

Leah Tinari’s paintings are Luscious and absurd at the same time.

From Buenos Aires (via blog.FABRICA.) REGIA, from the hip fashion photography with a grungy aesthetic.

A nice interview with Ian Anderson about the fall of TDR. On the CR Blog.

One of the reasons I studied Graphic Design was DEXTRO.

Elegant and contemplative photography and some great projects here.

Saturation and set pieces. Shiny happy photographs by Jing Quek.

Hyper-realistic paintings from Italian painter Valerio Carrubba.

The new My Fonts site has a good feature that allows you to drag your sample text into photoshop as a transparent .gif to trial in your design. Unsure whether this is deliberate.

Hajime Sorayama was involved in designing Sony’s Aibo that sits in MOMA as well as these hyper–stylised airbrush illustrations.

Florian Kräutli’s product design. “A curtain which you can shape to any form. Through the incorporated structure and magnets, it stays in the shape you push and pull it to.”

Paintings from this man are interesting.

Varelsen-Animals. Colourful animation to make a rainy day a bit brighter.

Went to this retrospective 5 or 6 years ago (Jesus), elegant.

I first saw this man’s paintings a couple of years ago back. Better late than never. In his own words, “My field of action is architectural space and everything that constitutes such space.

MUTO’s original and astounding graffiti animation.

Massimo Vignelli has released an ebook of his approach to design and its fundamental principles.

Jean-Yves LeMoigne. Superb photography from this French photographer.

Whalehunt is a photo documentary of a whale hunt by Jonathan Harris. In his own words “The Whale Hunt is an experiment in human storytelling.”

Totem pole of illustration by Serge Seidlitz.

A beautiful one page site by Suprb for Audio Designer Hecq. Built with jQuery in Codeigniter.

Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn are Field. They create generative artworks with custom built software for installations and animation.

Belgian artist Stephan Balleux’s site contains his portfolio of hyperstylised oil paintings of amorphous human like forms. In his own words “Composed of paintings, 3D animated videos,

Patrick O’Dell is a contributor to Vice magazine. He photographs his friends and the skate culture that surrounds them.

Experimental Jetset. Danny, Marieke and Erwin update with a new site for 2009. If you don’t know who they are, in their own words, “We are Experimental Jetset, a small, independent graphic design studio based in Amsterdam,

yosoh.com – computers and clay. I sometimes want to combine Mac and Kiln.

Interesting hand made feel to this man’s digital animation.

Nice use of video on this Diesel site.

A nice resource for grid based design for print and web.

MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book examines how sequencing, a characteristic of time-based media, manifests itself in various ways within artists’ books.

Perspectives – Christian from BaseMOTION. Interesting experiments by BaseDesign.

Memory Cloud by minimaforms. Animating the built environment through conversation. Sponsored by Live and Media Arts at the ICA (London).

An insect vacuum from Plastic Bamboo.

A blog of stair design.

AntrepoShop. Movie posters with brand integration.

Lina Scheynius – intimate photography.

Light Blubs From Pieke Bergmans Pari. And intersting product design.

OpArt Paper Sculpture by Jen Stark.

If only, then the world wouldn’t be that bad.

Illustrations painted onto wood from this studio.

Birds, Pleix films.

Shorpy, high resolution historical photographs. Oct. 15, 1910. “Wellman airship seen from Trent.” Walter Wellman’s hydrogen dirigible America just before being abandoned by its crew near Bermuda, 

Scott King. My hero graphic designer.

PostlerFerguson. Project is a paper model kit of one of the most successful products of the 20th century, the AK47 (Awtomat Kalaschnikowa). The AK-47 is archetypal of the dark side of the product design world, fueling conflicts throughout the post-WWII globe.

Russian and/or Soviet propaganda & advertising [1917-1991]

FerroFluid forms. Electromagnetically controlled liquid.

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries .

From Linzie Hunter’s Spiners series of typographic sketches based on the subject lines of unsolicited emails. I’m collecting a series of Scam emails for a similar project with a different execution.

Burble London, open to the public to celebrate London Fashion Week, launched at 8.20pm on Sunday September 16, 2007 at Holland Park, London.

Writing and filmaking from Brooklyn.

Joshua Heineman creates images from archive photography. As well as other things.