This project is called MTV Hats (Header Art Treatments), and MTV.com design team plan to wear many of them. The works of art above are MTV Hats currently in rotation on mtv.com. Calling all artists MTV.com design team want YOUR MTV. Join them here.

Jimbo, a 27 year old malaysian living in Sydney, an art director in an ad agency and a wannabe illustrator. The website OKAYBOSS showcase his skills & humor in his artwork.

Date: 19 Dec 2008 (FRIDAY)
Venue: Ole Cafe, Changkat Bukit Bintang, KL. (directions -map on www.kakireka.com)
Time: 7pm – 10pm with tea break & snacks

Topic: Implications of current financial crisis on Brands
by: Liza Low, Identity Matters
Time: 7:30 pm

Topic: The Bukit Antarabangsa landslide aftermath from a designer/victim’s point of view
by: Asri Ahmad, wREGA member
Time: 8:30 pm
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kakireka smalltalks are generally FREE & open to the public approx.20-50pax. Mostly designers, young & old, from design students to seasoned design professionals. All are welcome but limited seats so come early to mingle & chat.
kakireka.com is a project fully endorsed by wREGA(wakaf Reka Grafik Malaysia), the only registered Association of Malaysian Graphic Designers. If you wish to enquire about joining, a wREGA rep. will be present at the event.

UPCOMING KAKIREKA SMALLTALK EVENTS 2009
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JAN – Design & Cultural Heritage
FEB -  Design& the Built-Environment
MAR – Design & Photography
APR – Design & Event Management
MAY – Design& Character Animation
JUN – Design& Print Publishing

This new interactive toy from japan involves sticking your finger in a hole on the side of the box to interact with a virtual environment. Bandai’s new Tuttuki Bako handheld interactive plaything requires you to twiddle your finger around inside the orifice to play with a variety of virtual characters on an LCD screen on the front of the device.



There are six play modes ranging from pushing around a tiny little person, to ticking someone’s nose, to petting a pint-size panda bear. Feel like trying it? via technabob.

“The idea was to create as unique a calendar so that the process of its presenting would become an outstanding event. Alongside with this, it was important to expose the idea of “energy”, as it is predetermined by the name and logo of the company. Each page is a month and it looks like a comb made of matches that correspond to the days. The matches are real and the construction of the calendar is absolutely safe.” Designed by Yurko Gutsulyak.
It somehow represents a day passed just like burning a match each day to me.
via TheDieline.com

Click on each part of the Little Fella you will get different reactions from it. via TokyoPlastic

The Flashforward Film Festival honors the best FlashTM work. Flash work is nominated by the public in a variety of categories, then evaluated by a panel of expert judges. The finalists in every category are also eligible for the People’s Choice award, determined by public online vote.
During each Flashforward Conference there is a live Film Festival Awards Ceremony. Every finalist is showcased with a short video trailer highlighting the best aspects of the work. The winners in each category, along with the People’s Choice winner, are announced and awarded with the famous Big Rubber Arrow.

Have a closer look at the inner beauty of each fruit and vegetable through photo collection of Anjens. via Double Takes

Lovely photos from SKYplay. Skyplay depicts a composition dominated by use of the sky & real clouds at that moment with another object. Enjoy.

Cool interaction that plays around with the elements of kanji. Try it out here.

EUROPE BY DESIGNERS is an international artistic project whose aim is to unveil a multitude of images of Europe from the inside and from the outside. Design as the expression of a cultural vision, a political vision or a simple and unposed feeling… Design and its diversity as a new way to catch Europe.

THEME: Designers, illustrators, photographers, design studios, collectives/crews, agencies… you are all welcome to submit an innovative, creative, exciting, personal and experimental work around the theme: “Europe : what does Europe mean to you?”. We are expecting diversity and freestyle : all styles of outstanding visual media are welcome. Selected works will be featured online and, hopefully, through future exhibitions and book.

NO ENTRY FEE IS REQUIRED.
DEADLINE: 31ST DECEMBER, 2008.