The anatomy of gadgets

Awesome - by this guy

The Vinyl Cube

A simple design object from Tangible Interaction that allows artists the freedom to paint or draw on the smooth vinyl surface – the interior then lights up in various colours thanks to a built in rechargeable battery unit...

Title: Vinyl Cube by Chairman Ting + Tangible Interaction from Chairman Ting on Vimeo.

Lovely Kleenex Packing

To make the product more relevant in summer months...





By Hiroko Sanders

The Contagious Conversation

This is a visualisation of the debate that happened during Cannes at The Contagious Conversation... (click to enlarge)



More info on chat over at Contagious and the visual done by Scriberia

Steve Powers at PSFK

"Who he?" you say. Shame on you. He be the man behind Love Letter in Philidelphia as previously blogged and also featured in top film Beautiful Losers. Check it:

Foodballers

Frank Yampard:



Broccoli Sagna:



Pepper Reina:



Aaron Lemon:



Lots more over at Yep We Can

2 bits of Star Wars illustration

First off, Greg Smeltz does dapper Victorian portraits...





Secondly, John Woo puts the characters of Star Wars in couture and trendy street wear...

Thumb war

Lovely - by Christopher Lee - who's done some fantastic vector illustrations

Sugar Skull by Paul Alexander Thornton

Nice style

Matthew Lyons is a pretty smart illustrator...

Stussy documentary on James Jarvis

He's done some tees for them + he looks like Luke Purser...

Stussy - James Jarvis from Stussy on Vimeo.

Awesome book

Watch...

Awesome Book Tour from Dallas Clayton on Vimeo.

Check the site

Ghost in the machine

is a wicked set of portraits by Erika Iris Simmons...







View the full set here

Google maps

Funny little Google maps manipulations by Christoph Niemann - who has plenty of other top notch illustrations on his site - worth a look.









Loads more here

Repeat X Repeat Y

Repeat X Repeat Y is a collection of patterns from a plethora of designers, illustrator and artists:







View and submit here

TrustoCorp

NYC based TrustoCorp (an upstart street art conglomerate) are full of mischief and mayhem.

They've made fake products and put them on the shelves of real stores....







More on that over at Arrested Motion

They've done tons of guerrilla street signage as social commentary and culture jamming. Like:







Their Flickr stream is full of cool shit and is well worth a look; their minimal official site is here

Parra - in action

Parra from Arkitip, Inc. on Vimeo.

Drawn on towels

by Marc Johns - sweet little idea

Spot the tiger

Each week a new poll relating to a social issue is illustrated by a guest designer and put up for vote, there’s some great designs and interesting results. Get involved

This week's, illustrated by Zara Picken...



And some from the past

Amazing Parkour film

parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo.

how long before it gets ripped off in an ad campaign?