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+ History of the colour wheel
+ Just in case you were wondering, outer space smells like...
+ "The female ideal ... has become as smooth and lifeless as an iPhone"
+ Two-thirds of Australian 3G mobile phone users don't use 3G
+ New magazines booming in India
+ The Hindu gods Flickr pool
+ DoCoMo promo is 'loco'
+ Tombstones with QR barcodes
+ The one room hotel
+ Filipinos SMS most

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+ Penguin's retro-styled Bond reissues
+ Sabadabada: Brazilian album covers
+ 'Paper bombs' of Korea's cold war
+ Danny Yount, title designer of Six Feet Under at By Design
+ SBS rebrands/relaunches and gets skewed
+ New Zealand type designer Kris Sowersby
+ Ancient mythical Japanese illness 'creatures'
+ The Traffic Cone Preservation Society
+ Large carbon footprint spotted in London
+ STOP HERE: Pedestrians crossing
+ Information Design Patterns

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+ An extra-virgin map of Australia
+ The Australian wilderness was populated by cannibalistic pinheads wearing kilts
+ Papua New Guinea's Mount Hagen Festival: a stunning photoset
+ Who was FT Wimble and what is Perth Engravers Gothic?
+ Award-winning Australian architecture on Google Maps
+ What the world really doesn't need... with sauce...
+ Developments in smoking tourism
+ The Indigo Design Network is launched
+ An endless field of garbage in the Pacific Ocean
+ Guerilla gardening.org

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+ Spacejunk: a visualisation
+ A creative resolution from 2020?
+ A clock with 150 analogue hands that spells the time
+ The buildings that taste forgot
+ An info/typographic story
+ The first page of the internet!

+ A break from the blogosphere

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+ Beautiful (visualisations of) computer viruses
+ Joge-e: Two-way, right-side-up, upside-down faces from Japan
+ The changing spaces of childhood (psst: kids, go play in the park!)
+ The design process behind the online Monocle
+ 'On the Beach': the home movie version
+ Telecom (now Telstra) introduces the concept of broadband in 1992
+ News for Young Gen-Y People
+ Douglas Coupland's Corporate Safety Blankets
+ Milestones of information design by The World as Flatland
+ The Australian Milk Bar Challenge (+ Orbit Oblique review)
+ The Canadian Design Resource

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+ Walter Burley Griffin at Bibliodyssey
+ Bashing Beijing
+ What will life be like in the year 2008? The view from 1968
+ 44 years of MAD Magazine fold-ins with Al Jaffee
+ We Tell Stories: interactive Google map-based narratives
+ New type-focussed blogs
+ Fontshop's Fonstruct launched (sort of)
+ What did Leonardo da Vinci look like?
+ Free web-based Photoshop launched
+ A bench... half a kilometre long
+ Mapping Zimbabwe atrocities
+ This blog's feed: update

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+ The Hokusai wave meme
+ The world in 2007 according to newspapers (and blogs)
+ Creative Review on Sydney's Glue Society
+ Aboriginal rock engravings of Sydney
+ 'The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes' (an oldie but a goodie)
+ MacHEADS: a documentary about Mac-lovers
+ Do I look good on this? Selca = self camera
+ New typeface (naked variety): Nudist
+ More new punctuation: the interrocolon

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+ 'Psychogeographic illustrations' of Rotterdam
+ Why is the web so irresistible?
+ Spanish Civil War posters
+ Hey, use the stairs! (now that they're nice and all)
+ It folds! it rides! it looks super-cool!: the urban bike
+ Bicycle superhighways for London
+ Aus TV: too much Anglocentric programming
+ Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
+ The world's worst intersections and traffic jams
+ Brambuk Late Summer
+ The 'Game On' game and 'Doof'

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+ The Neighborhood Alphabet
+ Typographica's favourite typefaces of 2007
+ The evolution of depictions of the Yeti (is more interesting than it sounds)
+ The quite astonishing new Swisscom identity
+ Balloon-based wireless networks for Google?
+ Shell-shaped Nautilus House in Mexico City
+ The most elegant proposed skyscrapers
+ Melbourne: a greenhouse emissions disaster?
+ Philip Cox on Australian identity and architecture
+ Bloggers 'feel more connected'

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Special Asia-Pacific Edition
+ The new Wellington NZ airport 'rock' terminal (or are they pumpkins?)
+ China's frolicking Tibetan antelope imbroglio
+ The architects and engineers of Beijing's water cube building interviewed
+ South Korea's proposed 500km canal (right through the middle of the country)
+ The 15th International Pondicherry Yoga Festival
+ The astonishing 'Second Life' based art of Cao Fei
+ Modern ruins in Japan
+ Hi-tech combat uniforms that can change camouflage patterns
+ Qantas ephemera

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