The Lifestyle Collection from Diesel has me giddy this Friday morning. I was first attracted by the gorgeous use of photography and color, but after going to the site, I now have my eyes set on quite a few of their pieces. See more of their stunning photography after the jump and make sure to visit their lifestyle section on the site for textiles, lighting and furniture here.

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JESS3 designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at Stevenson University for AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010.

The State of the Internet is an infographic video which brings the shear size of the internet into focus. The numbers are staggering. 90 Trillion emails sent last year (90,000,000,000,000), 27 Million Tweets per day, Facebook’s 6 Million page views per minute.

A nice soundtrack and lovely animations make this boring info easy and interesting to digest.

Oh what a tangled web we weave.

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Hat-trick Design emailed us to share a new environmental design project:

We were commissioned by the RFU (Rugby Football Union, England) to design environmental graphics to improve a space behind the hotel at Twickenham Stadium.

Using the large scale of the space, we decided to showcase the giants of international rugby. A public vote was held on the most popular players from each of the 8 founding nations of rugby (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa).

Each chosen player’s image was then reproduced at a massive scale (11 metres high) from graphic rugby shirts to form a ‘Giants of Rugby’ display.

The colour icon graphics were then printed onto a shirt material and hung as massive banners.

Love the larger-than-life aspect and the abstraction with icons. Sweet.

See their newly redesigned website (and more of their work) at www.hat-trickdesign.co.uk.

Chirstoph Niemann’s opinion column on the New York Times was recently updated and they nearly knocked me out of my chair. His simple visuals that marry great ideas with something we are familiar with are a great recipe for success. Definitely check out his work.

Christoph Niemann
My Way on the NYT

This bench by Frank Cresencia is stunning:

Splay Bench explores the relationship between the interior and exterior spaces created by furniture. Here, slats are used as an opportunity to create an exterior surface, while exposing the interior space between them. The inverse barrel form is sliced so that the relationship is between the bench and the floor of its environment, not the surfaces of the piece alone.

You can purchase it at Voos Furniture, only $1,800.

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One of North America’s five largest film festivals, The Cleveland International Film Festival, begins next Thursday, March 18th at 7:00 pm at Tower City Center.

Founded in 1977, the Cleveland International Film Festival has been presented every spring for over three decades. Ohio’s premier film event features over 240 films originating from close to 60 countries. Visiting filmmakers, panel discussions, and student screenings are all CIFF highlights.

Tickets are on sale now. For more information, including a listing of films that will be playing, visit the CIFF site.

I don’t know about you, but hours of entertainment can be found in the “missed connections” section of Craigslist. Sophie Blackall, illustrator residing in Brooklyn, NY saw them as a never ending source of material. Brilliant.

Check out her blog with the illustrations, her etsy shop to purchase, and her website to see her other work. Happy hunting!

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These just speak for themselves…a selection of 25 photos that compare past snapshots of buildings, locations, structures, and people with the present day scene. There are hundreds of photos just like this in the Looking Into the Past Flickr group by Jason Powell.

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Wow wow wow wow. I was on Diana’s site for 15 minutes before I realized I had gone through her collection 3 times! Every time I changed pictures I found something I hadn’t seen the first time through. These stunning sculptures have me captivated! Her drawings are just as beautiful, eery and unique. See more of her scupture and drawings here.

Thanks to Stephanie Mote for the link!

When in doubt, WWJCD?

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Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight is coming to Cleveland! This Wednesday the Cleveland Museum of Art is screening the film at 5:30 and 7:15:

Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight
Wednesday, March 10, 5:30 & 7:15
Gartner Auditorium, $8
Directed by Wendy Keys. Now in his 80s, the legendary graphic designer who co-founded New York magazine and concocted the “I♥NY” logo, is profiled in this “heartening” (The New York Times) documentary. Cleveland premiere. USA, 2009, COLOR, DVD, 73 MIN.
http://www.clemusart.com/events/film.aspx

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On February 25th, Typodarium opened its 2011 Call for Entries. 160 font-labels and designers signed in and filled up all 365 days in 42 hours! You can still sign in here for a waiting list as some of the contributions may be rejected.

In case you missed it, here’s our post from this year’s Typodarium calendar.

I currently have the 2010 version on my desk, and love it! My favorite so far has been Surface Medium, the font for Tuesday, February 2nd. Why? Because the description on the back simply says “Carly Gilligan. Would you marry me?”

Purchase your 2011 Typodarium calendar here.

Check out the making of ‘This Too Shall Pass,’ the newest video by OK Go that we posted yesterday. This short four part series takes you through the conception and completion of the gigantic Rube Goldberg machine they constructed in partnership with Syyn Labs.

By now their video, which was released this week, has 3.5 Million views and is on its way to meme status, but the ‘making of’ has fewer than 100k. I think the process is as interesting (or even more so) than the final product.

In case you missed it, here’s the music video for OK Go’s ‘This Too Shall Pass’

I wanna be in a rock band :(

Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of “This Too Shall Pass” off of the album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”. The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The “machine” was designed and built by the band, along with members of Syyn Labs over the course of several months.

When the rock band OK Go, famous for their viral videos including the spectacular and award winning “treadmills video”, wanted to feature a 4-minute long Rube Goldberg Machine in an upcoming video, they tapped Syyn Labs to build it. The requirements were that it had to be interesting, not “overbuilt” or too technology-heavy, and easy to follow. The machine also had to be built on a shoestring budget, synchronize with beats and lyrics in the music and end on time over a 3.5 minute song, play a part of the song, and be filmed in one shot. To make things more challenging still, the space chosen was divided into two floors and the machine would use both.

When I was in engineering school, I had to build some Rube Goldberg machines, and they’re pretty neat. This has to be the most epic one I’ve ever seen. The fact that it was shot in one continuous take is amazing.

Really amazing 82×27″ prints from Density Design illustrating a Map of the Future. The five parts collectively make one poster, shown above, and development and data came from sources all over the globe.

The italian magazine WIRED asked us to draw a map based on the scenarios developed by the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto to help the reader in the net of ideas and hypothesis built by 7000 influencers from all over the world.

See more of the prints in detail, here.

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@BrianBuirge sent me these really cool User Interface stencils for the iPhone, iPad and Web. Made by UI Stencils, these stencils allow you to sketch accurate user interface details while laying out your applications/sites on paper.

UI Stencils also makes corresponding sketch pads to be used with or without their stencils. The sketch pads are totally cool in their own right.

Check out all the tasty photos:

Buy one or all of these at www.uistencils.com.

See more posters after the jump!

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Links for all you people who like to click on things:
Paul Sahre
Facebook Event
AIGA Kent on Twitter

Big ups to Jason Bacher for creating this poster for AIGA Kent. Check out his work too.

A very inspiring video from Ji Lee, Creative Director for Google Creative Lab, about personal projects and how they can transform your ideas and even your career. His idea to put word bubbles on advertising turned viral and became an interaction and unforgettable idea, called The Bubble Project. Enjoy!

You can also see more great videos and design information at the 99% site, here. Highly recommend a visit, especially when you’re feeling blue!

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Daily coffee drinker? Throw-away cups are already wasteful, but these super cute coffee sleeves from The Doe and the Mouse will save a little trash and dress up your cup. I would probably never remember to keep this in my purse, but then again, they are adorable…

Struggle Inc. is the chicago-based commercial art house of Cody Hudson. He describes his aesthetic as “part urban modernism and part organic visual deconstruction” and I think he hits the nail on the head. Be sure to check out his personal work too, it’s equally colorful and fascinating.

Update: Found a studio tour/interview with Cody here.

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