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Designer Logan Walters has come up with the Wu-Note Project. He has set himself out to redesign all the classic album cover artwork for the Wu-Tang Discography, which is notorious for some horribly aged artwork.

It’s NBA playoffs right now so a hoops junkie like me doesn’t really need any extra basketball related distractions in their life but the NBA Europa design concept managed to cut through the endless LeBron and Kobe highlight reels to pique my interest. Put together purely as a concept by a graduating senior at the [...]

Do you know tatebanko? Well I’m pretty clued up on Japanese culture, but I had no idea what it was until recently. Apparently it is an almost forgotten art of creating scenic dioramas using paper and clever use of perspective. It was popular in Japan during the 17th Century (Edo Period) till the 19th century [...]

Although this is a dusty example, the X-Ray table from Diesel actually looks really cool. Who would have thought that Diesel would actually release some nice furniture? Of course they have been designed as a collaboration with Italian design staples Foscarini, Moroso, and Zucchi – which explains the contemporary european style. The picture below shows [...]

One of our favourite contemporary artists, Audrey Kawasaki is having her first solo show in Japan. You’d think, as famous as she is and a name like Kawasaki – she’d already been having shows there. But alas, she is based in L.A. Her show is going to be at Space Yui in Aoyama, Tokyo. If [...]

I came across these images when having a browse through the Guardian website. It was a nice sight for bleak morning eyes. Clark little is a hawaii based surf photographer. Being a long time surfer, Clark Little gained recognition for his photography with appearances on Good Morning America, Inside edition and many other local shows [...]

Broken skateboards are a byproduct of our culture usually destined for the landfill. The deckstool recycles this waste into a unique and interesting bits of furniture. It seems you can turn skateboards into pretty much anything these days. There is a funny little bit on their site explaining, how you use the deckstool: The deckstool [...]

You must know what a Moleskine is. It’s the obligatory hipster, scenester and creative professionals notepad of choice. It already come in many different varieties and theres also custom editions as well as people using them as canvases for artwork. Which we have posted a gallery of before. They’ve taken it a notch up now [...]

Artist iri5 makes pretty cool mixed media artwork out of retro materials. This one is made out of some kind of crazy ancient technology known as “cassette tape”. Cool stuff. More artwork after the jump. From the profile: I am an artist who specializes in using non traditional media… old books, cassettes, playing cards, magazines, [...]

Get your animated infographics on! Graphic artist Jonathan Jarvis has produced a great little short animated film explaining in plain english -the causes of the current economic crisis.  There’s been a whole load of cartoons and youtube vids attempting this – but this is definately one of the best. If you are feeling like a [...]

Wow this is something pretty different. These are hand crafted motorcycles, each costing around a million us dollars. Artist and graphic designer Chicara Nagata spends about 7500hrs building them using just hand-tools and with only one assistants help. Although these are built with the pure intention of displaying them as works of art, apparently they [...]

The Places We Live features panoramic photos of slums by Jonas Bendiksen, and narrated by the people who live there (albeit through translators). It’s very moving, educational and thought provoking And most of all, it is brilliantly executed. Like, it’s really really well done. It’s good to know that people actually use, often misguided, web [...]

Political humourist Bill Maher and Borat director Larry Charles teamed up last year to make the doco Religulous. A very amusing look at the role religion plays in people’s lives and how they have come to and subsequently defended their religious stance, it’s satirical and very anti-religion but manages to be both highly amusing and [...]

If you head down Abercrombie Lane, off George St (next to the cinemas) you may be in danger of being hit by a falling tetris block. Installation art by Gaffa Gallery artists and project team: Kelly Robson, Ella Barclay, Hugh Rutherford, Adrianne Tasker, Ben Backhouse. They write: There are grand implications of error here that [...]

I love info graphics, and I’ve always had a soft spot for Korn – since it’s one of the bands I grew up with. This video features both, in a amusing way. The music video was directed by Dave Meyers, who filmed the band’s previous videos (“Did My Time” and “Twisted Transistor”). The video features [...]