Shaw House

Shaw House

Yes, that’s right. It’s a swimming pool floating over the entrance to Shaw House, an amazing piece of architecture by Vancouver based Patkau Architects. (via Design Crisis)

Buamai & iPhone

Buamai

Design image bookmarking site Buamai (which translates to ‘Are you bored?’) have released an iPhone app which randomly selects images from the Buamai database to display on your iPhone, to try and kill your boredom. Nice idea. (via QBN)

Buff Monster

Buff Monster

Some nice illustration by the infamous Buff Monster. Really digging the laptop and iphone skins.

MadeByJulene

madebyjulene

Amazing paper craft by MadeByJulene!

Via Grafik

Via Grafik

Via Grafik are a Germany based design studio and art-collective who are pumping out some fresh stuff!

typo/graphic posters

typo/graphic posters

typo/graphic posters is (as the name suggests) a great resource for checking out all the fresh new posters from loads of different designers. Brilliant source of inspiration.

Brick

Brick is an interesting multi-touch interface created by Jordan Hochenbaum and Owen Vallis.

Addictionary

Are you an executard? Need to take a faceabbatical? No idea what these words mean. Then Addictionary is the place to go. Packed full of words only the internet could produce, you can look up anything and even add your own words. It’s pretty too!

Word Clock

Word Clock

Word Clock is a typographical way of telling time by Simon Heys. Nice concept and you can download it as a screensaver too!

Pingmag – No More

Pingmag

It’s a sad day when decent design blogs die and Pingmag was one of the best of them. Brilliantly written stories covering the fields of art, design, architecture, fashion and many other categories all with a Japanese twist were what made Pingmag so special. Hopefully the site stays up so you can browse the archives (which I highly suggest doing). Farewell Pingmag.