The Art of Shoe Lacing
This skill will sure help you to turn some heads around in the street.

Flash Okami
Okami is originally a game made for PS2 which is beautifully executed visually and technologically, you can say this adaptation lets you have a mild taste of how the game feels like. Kind of. via wiiwii.tv

Airifier
How do you wish to visit a site with a single click on the desktop? Airifier from arc90 enables you to have that option. Now it is slowly growing with momentum, AIR which would most likely to transition most of the web application into downloadable format for user to use on their desktop. via numtopia

Try Mango
Have you ever struggle to adapt into a foreign country because of their language and find it is impossible to learn without holding a book everywhere? Try this site. The good use of technology made me felt so good, just like how the fruit tastes like, sweet.

Weave Mirror

via engadget

24 London
It is a good sign to see a commercial adaptation of such technology into people’s lifestyle. 24 is bar operating in London which allows people to observe not only the people inside, but at the same time enjoying at the dynamically changing wall display. via gizmodo / How about handphone mooncakes? or a futuristic slim DVD concept player?

I Love Typography
An excellent resource centre for typophiles. What’s more that the writer itself is such a patience individual that takes a lot of intiative to explain the concept, idea behind each methodology in typography visually. Definitely worth of bookmark and daily visit. If you will check out its hottest post ever, 15 Excellent Example of Web Typography. Thank nec.

Pixelmator
Remember this black sheep of image editing back in a while that I talked about? They have officially release for public consumption! I’m going to give it a run on the demo and come back on its performance.

Vending Machine Love
I’m not often easily impressed by one subject itself but this individual took a rather drastic approach by photographing the same vending machine daily for over two years. Notice that there is a difference? I wonder how interesting it would be if the pictures are compiled into a timelapse. via gizmodo

Daft Hands - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Wait until you see the interesting part in the middle. Start from the beginning please. Tell me that you are impressed. Thanks Suu.

Thames Festival
Stunning photography. Captured most of the moment perfectly. Thanks pekyin.

Commercial - Peppermint Field
Lol. Brilliant.

Colours of the first class experience
I’m often grateful and impressed by the collection of Colour Lovers provided for study. Look, Malaysia Airlines is in it! Beautiful colours.

The Action Blog
How do you change the world now? You blog.

Maciek Duczynski
Magnificient photos.

Manhole Gallery
Huge gallery set of manholes compiled from all over the places. Great inspiration source.

While you might want to have some late afternoon reading, try to figure out if artists are born or taught? Or how do you manage an interview?

A very nice digital art gallery from Xtrabold.net. please do remind to click the particular artist’s link for more works.

Wang Qing Song was born in Heilongjiang Province, China and studied at the Sichuan Academy of Art. His photographs have been exhibited worldwide in Canada, China, France, Italy and the USA. For more information, see the artist’s website at www.wangqingsong.com and Interview at Grove Art.

Chinese Contemporary’s Beijing gallery is dedicated to showing the work of the Chinese avant garde post-1989. It has an exhibition programme which shows a complete spectrum of media from paintings to photos, performances, ink on paper and videos. The gallery specialises in artists living and working in mainland China because it believes these artists are closely in tune with the considerable changes their country is undergoing and which is reflected in their art. It is a world historical situation where a communist government reigns over a vibrant market economy, providing rich ground for artistic creation.

http://www.chinesecontemporary.com/artists.htm

World Map, constructed from 2000 layers of cloth cut into components, is installed as part of the Biennale of Sydney.

The work, by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, is designed to be extremely labour intensive to install, hinting at China’s status as a source of cheap workers for the fabric industry. Read it more from www.smh.com.au.

Rob Brearley is a graphic designer based in Leeds UK. Using texture, typography, image and composition, he aims to develop relevant and memorable graphic … check it out his amazing works!

Worryknott
Jon had his first 3d doodle sculpture, is now available from the shop. Look around for some metal badges if you like to. On the site you’ll find images of his first set of toys, the Burgermenos Egg Qees. A doodle wall from a show at the RCA. And pictures of a giant bean-bag bunny called Bunny Flop.

Dordles
Not sketches, barely a design. He called it Dordles. Funny, hilarious yet making sense at some times and not at all times though. But I’m liking his continuous effort in doing the same thing he believes in. Lot of inspiration to be heard from this guy.

Delicious 2.0
And if have not heard of it yet, del.icio.us is having their whole site revamped into Delicious.com. Of course, this isn’t going to make most of the tech-savvy user happy at all since they are taking out the innovative domain name, which would cause a lot of trouble for mainstream user. I mean, you wouldn’t skip mistyping the domain less than 1 time per day. But of course being such a great useful service, it’s time for this service to shed some public or more wide exposure. Good move.

Shoeaholics Anonymous
Came across this site by random browsing, not sure it would be any help for male browser but it does certainly would make our female friends happy.

AC Ryan Contest : The Cool Clip
How would you create a cool clip? Head on for the challenge.
Deadline : 25th November 2007 via iblog

NiceToMeetYou : OFFF New York 2007 Competition
The challenge is to get the official NTMY logo, and do whatever it takes to win a ticket to the conference in New York. Print it, stamp it or whatever you can think of, take a snapshot of it and mail it back to contest@ntmy.org.
Deadline : 18th October 2007

BD4D : Wellcome Collection
Using the power of Flash animation, create a piece of work that best would inspire people to involve in Medicine, Life, Art using the word soup provided on the brief. More details on the site. P.s. - And with the recent revamped version of BD4D, I went over to Mutado and impressed by their work power. Inspiring web application portfolio.
Deadline : 5th October 2007

Build - Friendly Integration
A rather impressive site that I’ve seen powered by a lot AJAX, jQuery and XHTML integration. Spotted this while browsing inside newstoday.

Map : How to get to Central Market Annexe
Credits: wikimapia

Written by : ManMeng
Photography : TuckLoong / ManMeng
Date : 15th September 2007

We are glad to announce that on last Saturday, 15th September 2007, pipit had its first anniversary at Central Market Annexe, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. It is an event which gathers designers and artists all around the web from Malaysia. We are happy to be there to witness the success of the event in conjunction of the launch for their second issue of the pipit magazine! Located right behind Central Market which is famous for its art and craft market, we got hold of several interesting spot of VOICES candidate to be interviewed soon, well back to the topic, let’s move on with sharing on what we had that day!

Read on for the full coverage of this great event! Happy birthday pipit!

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This guy is brilliant. According his profile from threadless.com, he is only 26 years old. More brilliant works from his personal website.

Ma Yansong (马岩松) is a young architect whose Beijing firm Mad recently won an international competion for the design of a landmark residential tower in Mississauga, Canda’s seventh largest city. Dubbed the ‘Marilyn Monroe Building’, it is a spectacular and sensuous skyscraper that was the favorite choice of the judges, the press and the public.

To see more of Mad’s work, take a look at their www.i-mad.com

Danwei TV recently caught up with Ma and asked him some questions about the Marilyn Monroe Building, and his views on architecture in China.

Threadless Chicago OPEN!
Congratulation to Threadless for their successive opening in Chicago.

What Makes Shanghai/Berlin addictive?
An interesting project which examines on designer vision on how they would perceive a place interesting and addictive. Participation is open and free. Blast your camera away! Impressive interactive site I would add.

Dotmov Festival 2007
Submitted work will be screened at Soso cafe. Worldwide exposure for your video work.
Deadline : 20th September 2007

Have you geared up towards the 3 million yen Grand Prix? What did the last year winner did?

11th Japan Media Arts Festival : Call For Entries
Highly competitive call for entry that accepts work from video, film, manga, animation, installation,new media, games and websites! A sum of 600k yen for the first prize. Get your idea and concept known to the world!
Deadline : 5th October 2007