shine
beautiful promotional material for shine advertising. the craftsmanship on this 6 color, intricate design is just mind-blowing. there’s clearly nothing these letterpress masters can’t do.

jim devevan
beautiful tranquil photography of jim denevan's sand art.

volkswagen : the fast lane

umbro’s teamwear rebranded

roman cieslewicz
i hoping to pop back to the uk in time to get to see the new collection of roman cieślewicz’ work at rca from 16 july–7 august, featuring more than 150 items by the polish poster legend. vertigo (below) dates from 1963, the year cieślewicz (1930-96) moved to paris.

tennis inspired fashion
the world seems to be going a little tennis mad, which makes for some light relief from the footie after eventually the historical match between isner and mahut has ended, the longest tennis match in wimbledon history! i can't imagine playing 182 games lasting 11 hours and five minutes? wow. it did bring up some rather comical reaches for the ball though. it seems even jean paul gaultier has got a keen eye on the game at the moment after seeing his collection for hermes,spring 2010.

andy murray tennis street challenge

pilot hand writing
write by hand on your computer! go to www.pilothandwriting.com, turn your handwriting into a digital font and send handwritten e-mails to your friends.

italian space saving furniture
ron barth, president of resource furniture, demonstrates and explains their amazing line of italian-designed space-savers.

rude britannia : british comic art
this new exhibition at the tate looks really cool, i need to try to get back to london to see this. put together with some the country’s best-known cartoonists and comedy writers, this exhibition explores british comic art from the 1600s to the present day. bringing together a wide array of paintings, sculptures, film and photography, as well as graphic art and comic books, the exhibition celebrates a rich history of cartooning and visual jokes.
june 9th - 5th sept 2010.

praça cantão, favela painting
it is not only dulux who has created these vibrant street scenes, dutch artists jeroen koolhaas and dre urhahn created their first ‘favela painting‘ back in 2006 and yielded two murals which were painted in vila cruzeiro, rio’s most notorious slum. this time their back on a monumental scale – unveiling a 7,000sqm art intervention that sees 34 houses, on the giant hillside favela of praça cantão, given a beautifully vivid overhaul…

durex : lets colour
“grey is out. gloom is gone” is the mantra that dulux’s ‘let’s colour‘ team have been taking around the world for the last few weeks. the community focused project have seen car parks, schools, streets and squares transformed from dull, oppressive, grey spaces into areas of eye-poppingly vivid colour… enlightening the locals with the team’s passion as they go.

maison margiela
the exhibition maison margiela is now on at somerset house, celebrating the last 20 years of one of the most influential designers in fashion, running until the 5th september 2010.

guillaume nery base jumping / free diving at dean's blue hole, bahamas, filmed by fellow free diver julie gautier
wow this is incredible.

christopher bucklow
stunning, bright and colourful shots by chritopher bucklow, more to be seen on his website here.

dj earworm ; 2010 summertime mash-up

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hyperlinks in printed books
not the most beautifully made piece of design and software, but the ideas behind it, developing a community feeling is interesting.

walk on water (liquid mountaineering)

the portrait machine project
the portrait machine project is a series of pho­tos by carlo van de roer that are made with a polaroid aura cam­era. the cam­era was made in the 1970s by a sci­en­tist in an attempt to record what a psy­chic might see. the results are absolutely beautiful.