Monocle is the beautifully designed quintessential magazine for the modern man (or woman). Covering international affairs, business, culture and design Monocle let’s you know what counts. The website is great as well and is kept constantly up to date.
The Barbarian Group, fronted by Robert Hodgin (of Flight404) have some brilliant interactive work.
So it seems like there are a lot of people doing the whole papercraft thing these days, following the success of Fwis’ ReadyMech. Cubeecraft have an astounding range of pretty cool looking paper thing templates, ready to download and play.
We love zines! Soy Friends has a collection of the most amazing zines we’ve seen in a long time.
Artists? Designers? Weird? Insane? Idiots seems to fit the bill, from their title bar which balatantly states ‘This must be designed by Idiots’ to their work which is both creepy, insightful and just plain odd.
Maia Urstad is an audio/visual artist from Norway. Using CD and cassette players as both sound transmission devices and sculptural elements she creates unque soundscapes as well accompanied by aesthetic visuals. Shown above is the Sound Barrier, a literal wall of sound and playing devices.
German artist Carsten Nicolai has some great artworks and installation pieces. Many of the works seem generative, creating beauty from chaos.
VaryWell write software, build hardware and generally create brilliant interactive apps and interfaces.
I stumbled upon Read at Work the other day and was really impressed by the whole deviousness of the scheme! The basic premise allows you to read classic novels whilst posing as doing that important powerpoint presentation that was due yesterday. The interface is really nifty (at emulating windows) and the whole thing kind of reminds me of the boss key that was prevalent in early video games.
