Check out FourFace, a new iPhone app that is built on Foursquare, the location-based mobile platform that seems to be taking the world by storm (until everyone gets bored with it).

It’s Winter Olympic time again and even if you find it deadly boring you might appreciate this collection of official posters from 1924 to 2010.

Created out of a love for posters, modernism and television, designer Albert Exergian imagined his own brief to develop a series of posters to advertise famous TV shows. You can see them spread over several pages of his blog. The one above is for… (can you guess?)… Kojak.

This concept won first prize for the OPENbike concept in The City of Copenhagen open design competition. 127 entries from five continents participated in the competition. The OPENbike concept was developed by LOTS Design with Koucky & partners and Green Idea Factory. Check it out >

Jessica Hische. She started a project called the Daily Drop Cap, where she designs a drop cap every day and makes her Drop Cap designs available for free download.

Here in Holland (sorry, the Netherlands), apart from being very tall and liking cheese the Dutch have always been a creative nation. This collection of vintage stamps from 1969 celebrates some the famous Dutch architects and their buildings that influenced other architects around the world. via the DesignRelated blog.

There are load of amazing ways to use Google Maps – but here’s a new twist. Markus Dressen made his own design showcase using the Google Maps engine. Using an application, like CASA’s Image Cutter or the Automatic Tile Cutter, you can create your own map tiles for Google Maps. This means that you can replace image map tiles with any image you like. Or even replace them with portfolio images. via the Heavy Backpack blog.

Philippe Starck is probably best known for his designer orange press that squeezes more juice into your eye than into the glass (but looks amazing). Now he is launching “democratic ecology” with his wind turbine for the home. See the photos here >

Loving these Italian infographic posters from ANALISI GRAFICA. Via @loopdiloop

Check them out here >

If you’ve been in Norway this past year or so, you may have happened upon The Strømer, an interactive LED wall that turns shadows into light. Based on architect Stig Skjelvik’s Dobpler prototype, the display lights up as people move through Norway’s Sandnes Sentrum pedestrian tunnel, leaving illuminated trails in their wake. Constructed as part of the city’s European Capitol of Culture 2008 event.

A blast from the past: Originally posted 2008-10-15 09:48:13.