Running the Numbers

Running the Numbers is a fantastic set of creative infographics which paint a stunning and disturbing portrait of American culture.

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Fray

Fray is one of the web’s oldest and best creative writing e-zines. Evolving over the years from a website, to a series of live storytelling events and now to it’s present form, a quarterly magazine available in print and online. This time they’ve got a bunch of fantastic illustrators on board to provide some graphic content for the stories, including artists Drout750, Ray Frenden and many more…

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Passage

Passage is a beautiful conceptual game created by Jason Rohrer. The game, which takes about five minutes to play, makes the player reflect on the passage of time and the passage of a lifetime. It’s a wonderful experience and a really creative use of video games as art.

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Semapedia

Semapedia’s goal is ‘to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space.’ This is an incredible idea, which in theory could provide you with information about where you are, wherever you are, whenever!

This is acheived by using mobile (cell) phone readable barcodes whcih then connect your phone to wikipedia and download the information. Whilst this is a great idea, what I think would be even cooler is if you were able to also get user recommendations for local bars, coffee houses restaurants etc.

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nmca: Magazine Cover Archive

The NMCA (National Magazine Cover Archive??) is a great resource for all you magazine design fetishists out there. Featuring Grafik, Tokion, Esquire and many others, it’s great to be able to look back on how cover design has evolved (or devolved) over the years.

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Little People

Little People is an art project of miniature proportions. As the name suggests, little people are left in different spots around London to fend for themselves! The photos are great and if you want you can buy a print from the website.

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Sleevage

Sleevage is a brilliant blog devoted to the art of music sleeve design over the years. Featuring albums from almost any era from the 60′s through to the 00′s this website is a great resource, or just fun to browse during your lunch hour.

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Current TV

I’ve just spent a lazy afternoon watching Current TV and I’ve got to say that I think it’s brilliant. The basic premise of Current TV is that it’s content is user generated. This gives a wide diversity of programming, most shows don’t run for much longer than 10 minutes, that’s basically perfect for my short attention span anyway. Don’t expect anything too polished, but do expect some interesting viewing. (As a side note I’d like to find out the ratio of user-generated:current tv generated content.)

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No One Belongs Here More Than You

No One Belongs Here More Than You is a book of short stories written by Miranda July. The website is brilliantly irreverant and reflects the style of the book to a tee.

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Covers

Covers is a nice little blog by the talented folk over at Fwis, which is all about the great book cover design. There’s also a few interesting articles written about the storage of books as well as interviews with the designers themselves.

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