a very special desk for those who love style AND work

http://www.milk.dk/

*thanks florian*

an interesting ressource for logotypes and business cards

http://www.faveup.com/

a huge collection of very different types of maps

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

wallpaper magazine voted the best young architects from all over the world, the site has an very interesting navigation too

http://www.wallpaper.com/101/architects-directory.html

ted is a site dedicated to speeches, based on sopnsoring

“Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers”

Here is one by stefan sagmeister:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/50

and here a very interesting one from jonathan harris:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/144

if you ´re into css, you might find this site useful

http://www.styleignite.com

a very complete list of internet web 2.0 startups with a short description for each one

http://www.killerstartups.com

billing and invoice stuff, its now possible to handle this stuff online; i wonder if there is something similar in german, too

https://www.freshbooks.com

a very dynamic list of quite different, but useful photoshop brushes

http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/
2007/10/25/100-awesome-high-resolution-photoshop-brushes/

a very interesting platform to present your portfolio, and share thoughts, as well as join groups and group projects

http://www.behance.net

in the same direction goes humblevoice:

http://www.humblevoice.com

for sure you already know cpluv

http://www.cpluv.com/

lots of impressive sites listed here

http://muse.drewwilson.com

a very stunning study of motion, videos are transferred into still images

http://www.moframes.net

a very neat design weblog, if you like notcot, you will like this one too:

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/

cycle is the motiondesign work of packrick lindsay, which is, well, strange, yet very interesting to watch

http://cycle.free.fr/

although i am no programmer, perheps those who are can do something pretty with this one:

http://code.google.com/p/independence/

starting from 1 to z, every word is represented by an image

http://thevisualdictionary.net/

slideshare lets you create, host and share presentations

http://www.slideshare.net/designeducation

create feeds from different websites that support rss (or atom)

http://www.dapper.net

a group of designers was asked 5 questions, read the answeres here:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
2007/04/20/35-designers-x-5-questions/

news for the netkids

http://dailybuzz.mobuzz.tv/

a film on type, typography and the most stylish font of all

http://www.helveticafilm.com/

wim crouwel vs. bureaudestuct

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMCdmoJ8Ab4

what is typography is nicely shown in this movie from the vancouver film school

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14NY21zJcGo

an interesting idea from david fiedman, he had the idea to hide images within the histogram, josh millard took the idea even further!

http://www.ironicsans.com/2007/10/reader_takes_histogram_idea_ev.html

http://www.joshmillard.com/2007/10/04/retro-histo-making-an-image-fit-your-histogram/

*thanks manuel*

a book, focused on how to build the most stunning portfolios

http://www.amazon.de/100%25-Design-Portfolio-Pedro-Guitton
/dp/8496309568/ref=sr_11_1/02-5890090-7246433?ie=
UTF8&qid=1193145885&sr=11-1

this service allows you to convert your (print) pdf-catalogues into a special flash-webplayer. with it, it is possible to flip pages and zoom in and out.

http://www.salescatalog.de/

a project using indesign as a scripting tool

http://www.looksgood.de/log/2007/07/27/
diploma-posters-indesign-scripting/

a huge ressource for collage works, a huge ressource of scanned vinage medical and anatomic drawings and engravings

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/

new design process: generate random images and let the people decide which of them look like a face or an animal. the voting process is working against the randomness of the algorithm – wicked

http://mutatingpictures.com

http://community.livejournal.com/vintagephoto/

a very interesting way of creating vector portraits here

http://www.vanillusaft.com/works/zootwoman/01zootwoman.html

http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

very nice portfolio here

http://www.workingempire.com/

via cpluv

your desktop is blown away according to the current wind speeds in your city:

http://scr.sc/products/kazetodesktop/

an interesting exhibition on the topic of death in art projects, located in the künstlerhaus in vienna

http://www.k-haus.at/programm/
hh/hh_2007_exitus.html

*thanks david*

interesting which stuff makes 3.5 million people watch, originally, the video was made from an media artist, then it was subtitled and put on youtube, art and pop culture, so close, still

http://www.break.com/knockedupdvd/
all-hail-technoviking.html

the original version here:

http://www.hfg-karlsruhe.de/~mfritsch/works/dsl/kneecam.mov

the subtitled youtube version here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwsntHcWiy4

the website of the artist here:

http://subrealic.net/

*nice one puchi;)*

a very interesting series of pictograms from a chinese designer named Yang Liu. She was born in china and studied design in germany. the pictograms compare the german and chinese way of life with each other

http://hellishhumor.com/hellish-pictures/
german-vs-chinesse-culture.php

here is the website of the lady:

http://www.yangliudesign.com

via ffffound.com

Definition of Beauty

interesting videos like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K_NQe57C-k

to find on the website of nico di mattia

http://www.speed-painting.com/

*thanks roman*

summarizing famous hollywood movies in 30 seconds, cartoon style

http://www.angryalien.com/0704/alienbunnies.html

*thanks david*

a very nice street art blog

http://www.streetsy.com/

another blog on visually interesting stuff from the net

http://www.itsnicethat.com/

very nice digital collages here

http://electricheat.org/

i think in combination with ableton live a tool that comes in very handy

http://www.djwiij.com/page.php?14

*thanks raphael*

a nice vid giving an introduction into optical illusion

http://www.maurovecchi.com/
popup/video/music/wba.htm

via notcot

edit: be sure to check out this one too

http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?p=27 

a neat introduction to (web) design

http://www.alistapart.com/topics/design

*thanks thomas*

a nice box, that plays around with slitcam-technique, max/msp and tangibility

http://www.kenichiokada.com/video/pixelfactory.mov

via vvork

a short animated clip on what web 2.0 could be

http://stage6.divx.com/Refuse-Life/video/
1114339/Web-2-0—–The-Machine-is-Us/ing-Us

a very interesting video showing an intersection between streetart and motiondesign, a stop-motion animation drawn over a wall over and over again; stunning!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jfcpa_x4Lg

*thanks christian*

a huge ressource for CI and logo-design

http://brandsoftheworld.com

CI:

http://www.ci-portal.de/

intersting approach, never thougth about this one

http://www.newsdesigner.com/blog/