New Yorker: Four cover pages for Thanksgiving edition

Every year the magazine New Yorker provides us with one of their excellent cover pages for Thanksgiving. This year they have decided to top that. Chris Ware drew four different covers plus a comic page…

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Design: Tim Parsons Half Pints

British designer Tim Parson has created a glass version of his well known Half Pint Mug design. The Half Pint Mug created as a Royal College of Art project, has two walls so the outside never gets very hot. The profile of the mugs and glasses is borrowed from the standard British pint glass, known as…

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Video: Rokkit online archive

If you like great animation clips, good advertisements or short films head over to
Rokkit. It is actually a well known agency in London but they have dozens of high quality videos online. Try out our suggestions below or go to their director page for a start.
There is one you absolutely must see - the video [...]

Dance of the Flight Attendant

For Californian Artist Jen Wang the pre-flight safety routine “performed” by cabin staff is the most exciting about flying. It reminds her of maiko dance routines. Have a look at the beautiful sequence of drawings she has created to depict this.
See the drawings and more information at her web site.

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Worldprocessor: Data as Globes

Ingo Guenther’s “Worldprocessor” project that started in 1988 has created some of the most outstanding globes. Currently there are more then 300 different designs visualizing world statistical data as globes.
This project has been going for quite some time but the online catalog with hundreds of globes is still worth a look. We have selected a [...]

Do not compute or watch TV!

Two gadgets no office warriors or couch potatoes should be without. Both objects are created by French designer Matali Crasset who worked for Philippe Starck before opening her own studio in Paris.
Available online from Made in Design for about EUR 33.

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Games: Dynamic Flow experiences

Two often overlooked but beautiful games are the Cloud game and flOw. Both are great examples of flow in games or visualizations. Watch the introduction video of Cloud online or play flOw just to let you calm down by the music.
Jenova Chen who worked on the creation of these games has some background information on [...]

Design: Doors delight - knobs with a touch

When we saw Susan Goldstick’s door knobs and other items on the Trendir web site we just could not resist passing on the information.
These door and cabinet knobs are hand-sculpted out of a resin-like material and are coated with durable varnish. They come in different shapes and sizes from 1″ to 2 1/2″ in [...]

Gadget: Silkscreened CDRs and DVDs

US company 5inch offers pre-designed silkscreened CDRs and DVDs together with equally unique cases.
Custom designs and sets are also available.
Packs of 10s are about USD 13. Have a look at their shop.

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Advertising: Honda Samurais

Advertising and arts not necessary exclude each other. Below there is another fine example of how the two go well together. The ads shown below are for Honda helmets. The style used is similar to ancient Japanese drawings from the age of Samurai.

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