Cool Advertisement

A Faber Castell advertisement for their artist pens, displays Singapore based art director and designer, Chan Hwee Chong's amazing talent in spiral drawings. Three masterpieces were created for the advertisement - The Mona Lisa, Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait, and The Girl with the Pearl Earring. If these pieces by themselves aren't amazing enough to impress you, watching the actual process to create them is sure to blow your mind!

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The world of design constantly grows and expands with technological advancements, providing designers with fresh, new and exciting mediums to adapt to. Designing for print, grew into designing for screen, which split into design for animation, web, and mobile devices, and now includes tablets. Quickly gaining popularity among iPad users is 'The Daily', a news app so intricately designed it can't be boxed into one category. Stephanie Orma calls it "a magazine-meets-newspaper-meets-the-most-wow-worthy technology", in her article "Designer Spotlight: The Daily Taps into the Future of Design".

Kern Type

Awesome fun for budding typographers! How well do you kern?

Scanners Beware!

Sketch quality, digitally, with ease. 'How?' you ask. With Inkling - a new product from Wacom that captures a digital likeness of a sketch being made on a piece of paper. The product will be on the market in just a few weeks, so watch for it.

Is it time?

Super excited about an upcoming event and want your family and friends to know of it's impending arrival? itsAlmo.st, a beautifully designed countdown timer by Type/Code is a fun way to share your excitement. Just enter your event, the date and the time, start the countdown and share the url.

Bespoken Art

This is not an advertisement, but Bespoken Art is super cool!

Are You An Artist?

Austin Kleon shares his opinion on what it means to be an artist in his captivating blog post, "How to Steal Like An Artist (and 9 other things nobody told me)". It's a poignant and fun read!

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It's cool stuff week, and what could be cooler than a rockin' desktop? Check out the cool desktops of other creative minds and upload yours!

Cool Stuff for Designers

Who doesn't like cool stuff? - especially if it's well designed. Designs based on design are even cooler than cool, and while these Photoshop salt and pepper shakers aren't real, these other cool little numbers by Veer are, and they're totally hot!

How Cool Would It Be If He Were Your Son?

King of Infographics, Nicolas Felton, well known for his annual Feltron Reports, honored his Father's life in his 2010 Annual Report. Using various artifacts, 4,348 to be exact, Felton worked his design magic to create a stunningly beautiful and fascinating homage.

Internet Trivia

If you're an avid web surfer then this one's for you…20 things that happened on the Internet in 2010: a puzzle. Enjoy!

Phonography

We are very rarely without our cell phones, which usually means we're very rarely without the ability to digitally capture any random moment at any time. Josh Higgins, graphic designer and silkscreen artist, organized a phone-based photography exhibit to display the phone-photos of some well-known creative individuals. The article "Phonography: Phone-Based Photography Exhibition Features Renowned Creatives" gives a sneak peak of some of the images in the exhibit.

Cadavre Exquis

Tim Burton is depending on you to create Stainboy's latest adventure, which began "Stainboy, using his obvious expertise, was called in to investigate mysterious glowing goo on the gallery floor...". Read the story thus far, then tweet your contribution using #BurtonStory.

Wear a Book

Out of Print is helping book lovers everywhere celebrate the world's greatest books by wearing them...their cover design that is, on a t-shirt or sweatshirt that's specially treated to feel soft and worn like a well-read book. With 30 great designs to choose from, and an opportunity to donate a book to a community in need, why not wear a book?

Bigger is Better

Share your iPhone on a larger scale with tableconnect...when it gets here. A prototype is available for viewing, and its pretty nifty

Bye Bye Lorem ipsum

Goodbye Lorem ipsum, hello Fillerati! A brain-pleasing alternative to meaningless filler text, Fillerati is a site that allows designers to pick an author, and a selected piece of work, then create paragraphs, headers, lists, or just a few words to use as placeholders in works in the making.

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog

Here's a fun game for the hard core typographer...or anyone who wants to be a hard core typographer - The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog (a Typeface Memory Game designed by ps.2 arquitetura + design) tests your recognition of different font types and teaches you a little about the typeface. Game night anyone?

Nerd Merit Badges

From one of the collaborators on Meatcards, John Young offers Nerd Merit Badges. Show off your geek street cred by collecting all of these on a nifty sash for your laptop.

Suite Dreams

For the ultimate Adobe junkie, pillows featuring the Adobe Suite logos. And even if you don't get to use them much for sleep, they work great as backrests while you pound away the night on your laptop. JORDAN WITT :: CONTRIBUTOR. 

When Bad is not Good

Please step away from the Mac with your hands up! This link leads you directly to the Design Police where you can download your own Visual Enforcement Kit to place fellow designers under citizen's arrest if necessary. With commands such as "Kern this!", "this type has been bastardized", and "WIDOW" placed in label sized cutouts, anyone can become an officer of design law. JORDAN WITT :: CONTRIBUTOR.