One Plus One Equals Three

Recent Highlights 98

+ The stunning x-ray photography of Nick Veasey
+ Sydney designer Mark Gowing wins gold at the 21st Warsaw International Poster Biennale
+ Melbourne: globally we're number nine or number seventeen ... and second-city syndrome
+ Mass-produced plastic lawn chairs... created in fine chinese porcelain
+ Inside Charlton Heston's basement (ulp!)
+ A building of bricks (but made to look like one of timber, sort of...)
+ Eight of the world's most unusual postage stamps
+ A mesmerising set of liquid droplet photographs
+ The internet is rewiring our brains
+ The evolution of the New York subway map: a slideshow
+ Comic epitaphs with beaut illustrations

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+ MTV Australia goes... Australian
+ Aerial photography: night-time and day-time
+ Kris Sowersby thoughtfully reviews Evert Bloemsma's typeface FF Balance: a terrific post
+ Leon van Schaik on 'weak-force architecture' and 'strong-force architecture'
+ The (beautiful, yet somewhat enigmatic) Marshalite
+ Want me to move my car?... call me (if in South Korea)
+ 'Where the bloody hell are you?'... obviously not in Australia
+ Developments in shipping container architecture
+ The world's cheapest car, India's Tata Nano
+ UK pub signs, a Flickr photo pool
+ Ghost bikes: eerie memorials

Recent Highlights 96

+ Oded Ezer's imaginary landscape of Hebrew letters

+ The Lion of Belgium (and The Netherlands): Leo Belgicus

+ Another great info-graphic at the New York Times: Mapping the Human 'Diseaseome'

+ The Gruen Transfer: a TV show at the ABC about the nuts'n bolts of advertising {see continuation}

+ Nokia designer and 'people-observer' Jan Chipchase (of Future Perfect) on By Design

+ Luigi Colani: industrial designer of extravagant, futurist, speedy, pointy, swoopy things

+1950s Spanish sci-fi pulp novel cover designs {via}

+ Grainy old films not going to (high definition) Blu-ray?

+ A Flickr photoset of Japanese highway fly-overs {via}

+ Found and distressed typography: Lettermade

+ A cute good-night from Aunty

Recent Highlights 95

+ Australia: the movie for your nanna (great type though)
+ Why Japan didn't create the iPod
+ An interview with James Victore at Facing Sideways
+ Foster replaces Hadid in Collins Street Melbourne
+ For the truly self-obsessed: get your DNA portrait and "frame your inner beauty"
+ No graphic design gold and silver awards at the UK D&AD awards: wassup?
+ The world's largest LED display in China (it's self-sustaining too)
+ Voice recognition software that can detect 'sickies'
+ People stuck in elevators in NYC: an infographic
+ Ikea to offer virtual furniture
+ GoGet CarShare

Recent Highlights 94

+ 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

Recent Highlights 92

+ 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

Recent Highlights 90

+ 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