How To Grow Fresh Air!

Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air.

The 5 Most Exciting Cameras Right Now.

neutralday.com writes of 5 cameras that have broken new ground, or are about to change the rules, or opened up whole new markets and possibilities.

Hulu Lab Doors Are Open

Headlining Hulu Labs release today is Hulu Desktop, a new downloadable application that allows you to find and enjoy your favorite Hulu videos in a rich, full-screen computer window that you can control with your mouse and keyboard or any six-button PC or Mac remote control.

Shellywan portrait

Check out this great portait by Shelly wankenobi, She also has an interesting post about some beautful art for sale from Heritage auction house

Astroboy-themovie

Astroboy-themovie is coming out Oct 2009.  Astroboy is a Japanese manga series and television program first broadcast in Japan from 1963 to 1966. The story follows the adventures of a fictional robot named Astro Boy.

Eirik Johnson

Eirik Johnson is a photographer currently based out of Boston, MA.

@Issue: Journal of Business and Design

Founded in 1995, @Issue: Journal of Business and Design is dedicated to communicating how quality design contributes to business success. @Issue was launched as an online blog under the url atissuejournal.com in April 2009.

Artist Chris Bennett

Artist  Chris Bennett was born in  London in 1957 and studied at the   Slade School  of Fine Art in the early ‘80s under Euan Euglow, Geoffrey Camp and Philip Sutton. He has exhibited regularly at the  Royal Academy and at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the Mall Galleries,  London.

The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009

The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009. From the Motorola DynaTAC, that power symbol that Michael Douglas wielded so forcefully in the movie “Wall Street”, to the iPhone 3G, which can take a picture, play a video, or run one of the thousands applications available from the Apple Store.

Intel rock star ad

Who’s your rock star? Very funny new ad for Intel.

Amazing Brazilian illustrations

"Brazil has become the perfect place to grow and nurture advertising art directors. Here is a collection of some of the recent best illustrative work done in advertising."

First Light Photo Project

Hello morguefile community!  My name is Nino Andonis and I will be administrating the morguefile classroom.  I have a fun little assignment for you all to start off with. Tomorrow morning, I would like you to take 1 picture of the first thing you see when you wake up.  What is your first glimpse of the world? Please click this link to upload to the appropriate folder:  First Light (don't forget keywords)

After, please rate your favorite shots in the folder and then we'll see which moments fascinated us the most.   Who's with me!?

Sleeping Giant | 11101 rezoned

Sleeping Giant | 11101 rezoned is LIC-themed photography exhibition showing at the Art Gallery at FXFOWLE Architects. I am a little bias in posting this as a resident of LIC. It is one of my favorite hoods in NYC. If you are interested in all things LIC check out the Liqcity.com blog

inspirational logo designs

Here are some examples of inspirational logo designs from dzineblog.com

Vote PX3 Prix de La Photographie Paris 2009 Competition

View and vote for the 2009 People's Choice award in each category of photography.  Vote for your favorite entries until June 1, 2009. Public Choice winners will be announced on July 1, 2009. http://px3.fr

42 amazing resources for inspirational typography

Speckboy.com has published a long list of amazing resources for inspirational typography. Here you will find everything you could possibly need related to typography.

David Carson

David Carson redefined design in the early 1990's. Hear him here on TED.

Clark Little

It all started in 2007 when Clark Little’s wife wanted a nice piece of art to decorate a wall. Voluntarily, Clark grabbed a camera, jumped in the water, and starting snapping away capturing the beauty and power of monstrous Hawaiian waves from the inside out.

The 5 minute get-up-and-get-dressed routine

The 5 minute get-up-and-get-dressed routine from a japanese game show, the best part has to be the guy tying a tie is 5 seconds. via haha.nu

creative business cards

A great post at webdesignerdepot.com about some very creative business cards.

INK'd Design Marketplace

Check out this small marketplace for design templates! It may be relevant to small business for finding a good design solution and at the same time provide designers with some extra income.

Moleskine

If you are a fan of the small moleskine portable notebooks, myMoleskine beta has launched with a small gallery of moleskine artwork from artist and designers. Check it out.

NFB competition

The National Film Board of Canada, in association with the Cannes Short Film Corner and partner YouTube, welcomes you to this NFB competition. Via Drawn!

This is a video response to David After Dentist

If you click this link, its 2:14 of your life you'll never get back, This is a video response to David After Dentist

adobeartists.com

Adobe just opened a new website to promote the fourth version of its Creative Suite showing how creative people actually use these tools to produce static and animated content. via Computerlove

Pizza box of the future

Amazing pizza box of the future. Environmentally Conscious Organization (e.c.o.), Incorporated is a design, licensing firm and manufacturing firm dedicated to improving outmoded, outdated and wasteful food packaging.

Edward Gorey

linesandcolors.com has posted a great blog post about Edward Gorey. My personal favorite of Edward Gorey has to be Gorey's alphabet.

Netdiver 10 years

Congratulations to Netdiver and Carole Guevin for 10 years of web excellence.

29 iPhone App & Website Development Resources

29 iPhone App & Website Development Resources And Tutorials Places

Miniature faking

Miniature faking is a post-processing technique, which involves selectively blurring a photo to simulate the narrow depth of field found in macro photography and some tilt-shift photography, making the image appear to be of a miniature model. (the video is all real)

Top 10 of Apps using Twitter API.

New Lists website D-Lists.co.uk has produced a Top 10 of Apps using Twitter API.

npr all tech considered

If you are looking for a great blog on technology to add to your morning reading consider NPRs all tech considered.

Inventive flash site

Very inventive and engaging user interface created with flash.

Goonies

Its the original cast from the goonies. Can you find chunk? Give up? Here's the video. By the way, missing from the photo is John Matuszak who played sloth.

Star Trek Flat

After his wife left him, JJ Abrams of Hinckley, Leicestershire spend his entire life's saving transforming his 500 sq ft flat into a Star Trek set. He started the project in 1999 and completed it in 2004, but then decided to give the flat a Star Trek: Voyager make-over.

40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads

psd.tutsplus.com published a list of 40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads

DesignArtWall 31 Mindblowing Flash Websites

DesignArtWall has published a list of 31 Mindblowing Flash Websites. In this post they showcase the best of flash in terms of website design and its originality creation of 31 different flash designers.

T-Mobile viral videos

If you haven't seen them, T-Mobile viral videos using a huge crowd of people and impromptu performances in public places. Very cool stuff.

The Biggest Ever List of Design Blogs

proofhq.com has posted the Biggest Ever List of Design Blogs. A list of over 160 blogs covering design, freelancing and Photoshop/Illustrator.

Top flash sites from pelfusion.com

For your morning flash inspiration, I found a couple top flash sites list here on pelfusion.com. 15 creative flash web sites of design studios and 25 beautiful and creative flash e-commerce sites

briar press

Briar Press is a community of 32,860 printers and artists dedicated to the preservation of letterpress. It also has a great collection of borders and ornaments with a creative commons license.