Hanker for a Hunk o' Cheese

Couldn't resist- this is just too awesome to not post.

orangeyouglad.com

OrangeYouGlad is small, multi-disciplinary design studio located in Brooklyn NY. The company was founded in 2001 by Mary DeMIchele, Monica Hsu and Tammy Duncan.

Photos: India's Republic Day 2011

Republic Day commemorates India's adoption of a democratic constitution 61 years ago

Photos that changed the world

Photographs do more than document history -- they make it. At TED University, Jonathan Klein of Getty Images shows some of the most iconic, and talks about what happens when a generation sees an image so powerful it can't look away -- or back.

World's Best Design Schools

A Bloomberg Businessweek article from December of World's Best Design Schools

logooftheday.com

Logo Of The Day is a high-profile logo design award scheme that rewards the best professional logos and trademarks designed throughout the world.

Smoke Photography made simple

In this video photography expert Gavin Hoey demonstrates a simple but effective set up using off camera flash (strobist technique). Via Darren Hester.

Tech news

Apple Plans Service That Lets IPhone Users Pay With Handsets and Google is reportedly launching Groupon clone. And A Comical Look at the State of the Internet.

General Assembly

General Assembly is an urban campus for entrepreneurs seeking to transform industry and culture through technology and design. We provide programming, space, and support services to foster collaborative practices and learning opportunities. And they are in NYC.

Phase One Announces New 80-Megapixel Medium-Format Camera Back

The world of medium-format digital photography crossed another milestone this morning with the announcement of a new 80-megapixel digital back from Phase One.

Reminder: you can use the idle time on your computer to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.

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ptable.com

Your last stop for the Periodic Table of Elements, there is also a forum to discuss chemistry with other web-savvy students and chemists.

10 Secrets To Successful Online Photo Portfolios

Grover Sanschagrin at photoshelter made a list of 10 important "secrets" to successful portfolios. Does your photography portfolio hit each of these points? If not, why not?

A Paintbrush For The iPad

Nomad Brush is created by Don Lee and will be available in February 2011. via thecreatorsproject

How To Give Your Photos a Vintage Polaroid Effect

Chris Spooner has a step by step guide to give your photos a cool vintage Polaroid style effect in Photoshop.

Photography of India

A photography collection from graphicmania.net includes photographs from different places in India that are full of Indian’s taste of Art and Culture.

Sign into Yahoo! with your Google and Facebook id

Yahoo! announced that users can now log into the Yahoo Network using third-party user authentication with Facebook and Google logins (via OpenID).

Brisbane floods: before and after

The aerial photos of the Brisbane floods were taken in flyovers on January 13 and January 14

30 stunning photos taken with an apple iphone

sevenbyfive asked their twitter followers to post the favourite iPhone photographs and the results are stunning.

John Byrne

John Byrne is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero.

World IPv6 day is June 8th, 2011

World IPv6 day is June 8th, 2011, BBC has an article that explains exactly what it is. In short, the internet is running out of IP addresses .

New York Sleeps

A new exhibition of photographs by Christopher Thomas, which opened at the Wapping Project Bankside in London, reveals that the city that supposedly never sleeps does in fact have the odd moment of repose..

Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising

Pretty funny stuff.

learn javascript

Want to learn javascript? This would be an excellent place to start.

How to Sell Commercial Photography

Bill Jones has a great article at photozz on How to Sell Commercial Photography

Droste effect

The Droste effect is a specific kind of recursive picture, one that in heraldry is termed mise en abyme. An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, and so on

Andrea Benedetti

Andrea Benedetti has lived all over the world and now lives in Italy and through photography likes to capture little moments that life offers us every day.

10MB disk for only $3,495 USD

What a deal!, have a look at some vintage computer ads. Anyone else remember the good old days when your work was saved to cassette tapes?

betali.st

Be the first to discover and get access to the latest internet startups at http://betali.st/

No pants subway

Its that time of year again- the no pants subway ride from improv everywhere.

8 useful sites for web developers

catswhocode has a great post about absolutely awesome websites and tools to make your web developer life easier.

30 Inspiring Design Agency Websites

webdesignledger has a roundup showcasing a collection of design agency websites to let you see how agencies and firms are presenting themselves to potential clients.

Vivian Maier update

An update to an earlier post about Vivian Maier, watch this great video segment about her and John Maloof.

C A R S O N

C A R S O N is published six times per year and is dedicated to quality in design, fine art, illustration, photography and writing. If you unfamiliar with David Carson, in the 1980s he challenged established design and changed all the rules with Ray Gun magazine.

11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks

Science comes up with a lot of awesome stuff, and you don't need a Ph.D, a secret lab, or government funding to get your hands on some of the coolest discoveries.

The King's Speech

Just watched The King's Speech last night and it was a tremendous film I recommend watching. Colin Firth, Geoffery Rush and Helena Bonham Carter knock it out of the park.

Google Demo Slam: Epic Docs Animation

Holy christmas, look at this animation made with google docs. Here is the original presentation.

What Does a Histogram Tell Us?

Photoshop Basix, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak includes 25 short video tutorials, around 5 – 10 minutes in length that will teach you all the fundamentals of working with Photoshop. On psdtuts check out part 5 on learning the histogram.

@messagehop

Please follow @messagehop, so we can get 1000 this week.

Top 10 vector patterns

Creative nerds design blog vector patterns top 10 vector patterns.

Vivian Maier

This blog created by John Maloof is in dedication to the photographer Vivian Maier, a street photographer from the 1950s - 1990s. Vivian's work was discovered at an auction in chicago where she resided most of her life. Her discovered work includes over 100,000 mostly medium format negatives, thousands of prints, and a ton of undeveloped rolls of film. John has approximately 90-95% of the work.

New cave found in Vietnam a skyscraper could fit

There’s a jungle inside Vietnam’s mammoth cavern. A skyscraper could fit too. And the end is out of sight.

2016 Olympic Games logo

Here's the official logo for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Minimalist Websites to Inspire You

Webdesignledger round up of clean and minimal websites to inspire you.