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Howlt represents an originally branded product line and art project brought to you by LOWROKS INC and is expected to launch in January 2011. Meanwhile for other yummy products visit their store.

Gift a stranger in the world using Google Maps. Spread a little bit of happiness in the world: Send a gift to a complete stranger. An awesome idea developed by Happiness Brussels.

View the video to see how it works!

Excellent creative assignment that Lehel Kovacs enterprised. An ABC illustration project using Google street view to sketch and draw different cities in the world.

Sixty Watts (Series 004) is a new series of prints (aimed at guitar lovers) by Gianmarco Magnani aka Silence Television who has a near perfect (pitch) drawing and illustration gift.

Simple, elegant, eloquent!

Variations on Pi is a limited edition of 50 unique light paintings. Each one of these paintings is based on a different range of consecutive decimal places of the number pi (3,14159… the mathematical constant which is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter) by Nils Völker

From this to this! Don’t miss the making of.

CHRISTMAS VACATION

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PEACE AND LOVE

When LOVE reigns there are no limits.
When you choose to LOVE nothing is insurmountable.
You can expect the unexpected.
No dreams are impossible.

DIY has made a huge come back in the past couple of years – and probably one of the most difficult tasks to undertake is making paper typography and other paper or wood sculptures.

Check out what Lo Siento does! Amazing!

Digging these two cd covers concepts by Hvass&Hannibal a multi-disciplinary arts and design studio based in Copenhagen.

Turboweekend Ghost of a Chance

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Clogs – Veil Waltz

Let it grow came up with this idea of making a unique and exclusive design over 100 wine bottles that would otherwise gone to waste. View the movie and all models.

Smart gift! Cool project!

From waste to toy! Y Water is a natural organic drink that encourage kids to both drink healthy, increase awareness of recycling material and save after to build interesting shapes.

Genial idea by Fuseproject.

Fantastic animation, intriguing stories and visual entertainment brought to you by Salesman Buck! Enjoy!

Salesman Pete and the amazing stone from outer space.

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Meet Buck an ordinary guy. Well, if you accept the deer head thing.

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via: I Love New Work

AKQA San Francisco asked PostPanic to help create a unique 10th anniversary thank you film to more than 1 million Google AdWords clients worldwide. The agency’s idea was to individually address each of the clients by incorporating their company name.

Google Adwords – Thank You – couldn’t be naughtier!

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via: Bert Hagendoorn

What really counts at the end of life? What is materialism worth? These questions were answered by senior citizens up to 98 years of age photographed with the most important object of their life.

There are some really touching stories in there. Take some time. Sobering, since we will be in their shoes one day too.

Fascinating what augmented reality is capable of! Check the Levelo #2 project by Jean-Christophe Naour of Innoiz Interactive.

MTV – Bloom ident video is a stunning piece of motion graphics created by the Holograms. Must see!

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via: Visual Kontakt

Always had a fascination for reproducing miniature staging so when I found the TiltShift Generator – Fake Miniature app by Art & Mobile it instantly became one of my favs iPhone app.

Also available for iPad.

Hannah Lee aka San-Toki is a freelance art director / interactive designer living in San Francisco. She also excels in print design and luv the overall mood and presentation of her portfolio.

Jess3 has just launched a paper-craft stop motion commercial for Gmail web app for iPhone and Android and have released a behind the scene article. Pretty incredible how much time and energy goes into the making of a short 30-second spot. Stop-motion animation, takes hours and hours to produce a single second.

Have a look at how they did it.

Liz Lomax sculpts amazing characters and one of her dreams was to one day have her work featured at Barneys New York. Larger than life is the behind the scene video of that dream come true whereas she was asked to sculpt giant celebrity chef heads for their Holiday windows.

Here’s to following your dreams!

An old worn out suitcase takes on a new life as a comfy chair. Check out the Suitcase Chair – White Samsonite by Recreate, interior design and extraordinary recycled furniture started by Kathie Thompson in 2009.

Now that’s thinking outside the box – errr – suitcase!

Samsung Galaxy Tab – iPad contender?

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via: Peter Mogensen

You gotta see this series of 6 imaginative idents created for the Sci-Fi Channel’s relaunch by Nexus, a production company and animation studio behind award winning work including Oscar and Grammy nominated projects.

Syfy – Imagine Greater.

You absolutely need Safari 5 to view this video clip and digital experiment titled Sour Mirror. Hook up to your Facebook and Twitter account, fire on the webcam.. and just watch.

Aaaaamazing!

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via: Alex Beaudet

Váscolo is a design and animation studio that works from Buenos Aires towards different parts of the world. They have experience in the graphic development of print and audiovisual projects that is always full of eye candy.

Just released: their new reel. See what I mean?

The Barbarian Group created Tweet Wrap for Samsung. Pick a pattern, choose your ‘tweets’ such your very own – like I did @netdivermag and tada! You can actually download the sample or have rolls printed and shipped out to your door. Next thing you know you have a personalized gift wrap to hand out. Weee!

Oh what fun this is!

After the first ‘real’ storm of the year, Montreal is totally snowed in and how appropriate to showcase Sylvain Dumais ex-Toronto based photographer and motionographer essay titled: Toronto Winter. As he now lives here – hope he does a Montreal Winter one too.

He just updated his portfolio too. Check it out.

It’s the season to be merry? Cold!

C86 showcases the work of UK-based graphic artist Matt Lyon. His inspirations are varied, ranging from folk art, fine art and illustration. Current work explores line, colour, pattern and shape and loads of mumble jumble typography, forms and colours.

Really digging the new Gowalla 3.0 for the iPhone that was completely redesigned by Tim Van Damme after the boss and founder Josh Williams gave him free reign. Now that is a sharp app.

Wanna hook up? Join today.

Wanna see how it’s done? Check the Behind the lens projects by Cedric Houin aka Varial who is a top photo manipulation and advertising concept creative.

Behind the scene Urbania magazine.

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Behind the scene Igloofest.

Wendi Nordeck is an exceptional photographer. How vivid her compositions and staging. Luv the side-by-side presentation in which both pictures offset and complement one another giving more depth to each chosen.

Going through her portfolio feels like a personal experience, like a best friend (and much talented as that) showing you her latest snaps.

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20 things I learned about browsers and the web is for kids? Or? Book like presentation of what the web was and is becoming. The illustrations are cute but are they appropriate for professionals? What do you make of this approach? Works or not?

The People’s Supermarket by Ryan Tym

Talking about branding and packaging – you must see TPSLondon case study on how they opted for this really cool identity and punchy packaging.. and what the Euroslot hole-punch serves for.

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via: Identity Designed

Kaleidoscopic visual experiment gone hyper. Watch the Altovision trailer designed by Katsuki Tanaka.

Stockholm Design LAB aka SDL have designed over 50-60 different packaging for Askul a rapidly expanding Japanese mail-order company. Going minimalist is the new eye catching direction.

Simon C. Page says: Good design excites. Agreed! Check out some of the work available in his shop. Luv the palette and minimalist geometric based concepts. Nice posters!

They did it again. Wieden + Kennedy have launched a new website with a shorten url (wk) where all offices are now confined into a single location on the web. The realm of their influence is so great that they have an entertainment channel, a blog and an incubator section alongside their client works.

What do you think? Like or not?

Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2011 call for entries

Get recognised for your work on an international stage. The ADAA gives higher education students from around the world the shortcut to brilliance to propel their careers in the future. Enter in 18 categories in 4 media areas endorsed by the industry.

Finalists will be invited to attend the awards ceremony in Tapei, China and awarded software and cash prizes.

Deadline: June 24

We Are Boxhead and I guess their choice of piled up content boxes as a website goes along their name. If not, kind of a weird coincidence. So, do you like that kind of portfolio presentation?

Why I would say yes? You get a quick overview of style and scope of projects. If it fits what you’re looking for – you contact them – if not you move on to the next one.

Saves time. And that, is a good thing.

Two illustrators and one sociology major moved into a slowly crumbling two story private house in the nice part of Tel Aviv. During the next four months they will be painting, drawing and writing all over the walls while documenting the process.

Have a look at the Project Palazzo.

Airstream campaign by Len Lee Represents. She asked all of her photographers to shoot a story around the vintage airmstream in each of their own unique styles.

The results? Terrific concepts from as terrific photographers.

Klokkerent based in Oslo, Norway is a webstore that sells handpicked unique minimal designer watches. Gotta luv the Extra Normal Grande numbering.

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via: Hugo Ahlberg

Presenting two editorial projects by TwoPoints and published by Viction:ary. Every typeface has its own charisma. Not only does its presence in design lend an attribute to the identity of a product or project, but also reflect the taste, personality and attitude of the designer behind.

I Love Avant Garde

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I Love Futura

Designing (for) Women: Bridging the Gap Between Assumptions and Realities by Erica Eden from Smart Design.

Why is gender important? To create products and experiences that women love, designers must better understand their lives, as well as their clients’ objectives and perspectives.

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via: AIGAdesign