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These Custom Spray Cans from Behance member Karoly Kiralyfalvi are pretty damn fresh.

Sick of being told what’s hot by major global advertising agencies. Then ThisNext is definitely for you. Listing great design and fashion objects ThisNext shows what your peers think is the next big thing by utilising a social network, enabling you to find products based on recommendation. It’s also a great resource to see what trends are hot in other major cities around the world.

French industrial designer John Nouanesing has some great concepts in his portfolio.

Games, games, games, we’re on somewhat of a roll at the moment. Love is another independent game that encourages group exploration through a brilliantly aesthetic world. Using procedural algorithms to create content as you play Love has no story other than the one you create whilst playing.

Eve Duhamel is a French Canadian illustrator who is doing some nice things with marker pens.

Space Collective, is the future of everything. Well the discussion of the future of everything anyway. A rich forum for the discussion of the overlap between the worlds of science fiction and our own world, Space Collective provides interesting opinions and visual ideas for the future.

Lorenzo Oggiano is a man of many mediums, working in photography, video, new media, installations and assemblages since 1964. His more recent work (specifically Quasi-Objects shown above) feature objects generated in 3D that appear to mimic the natural elements of the outside world.

While we’re on the topic of video games, Fez is another that I’ve been keeping tabs on for a while. Developed by indie games developer Kokomori, Fez takes the gap between 2D and 3D graphics to a new level. The game is played in 2D however you need to solve puzzles by rotating the environment in three dimensions. Here’s a video of Fez in action.

Days with My Father is a beautiful if somewhat sad site depicting photographer Phillip Toledano’s life with his father, who has no short term memory. The narrative is moving and the photography, touching.

It’s not often that we mention commercial video games here on Hip.Young.Thing. but there’s something special about Geometry Wars that deserves attention. The graphics in this game are simply amazing and definitely not traditional fare for most games. The screen seems overwhelmed with colour and vibrancy making a beautiful collage from chaos. For those of you without an Xbox (I don’t have one myself) you can download Grid Wars, which is free for PC.