To promote this they made a street marketing campaign in Manchester Airport with infamous Dutch magician Ramana. Passengers passing by saw him sitting on an invisible seat, seemingly floating on air.

This is for all design professionals. X-Rite, global leader in color standards (they own Pantone), has a little color challenge for you. Can you get the perfect score?

The 21st Century Version of a Grade School Joke

Sarkissian Mason has helped the charity Pathways to Housing highlight the reality of homelessness with a life-size digital projection of a homeless man. A message appears asking people to move the virtual person via text message. Then a different video shows a door on the wall with the man moving into a new home. The person that sent the text receives a second message with a code allowing them to donate to the charity. Watch the video here >

via Creativity Online

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).

Dutch magician Ramana performs his famous levitation trick to advertise the benefits of KLM’s economy comfort product.

Perfectly Timed Photos is a great site where you can find shots taken at just the right moment. Submit yours…

A blast from the past: Originally posted 2009-06-23 10:23:01.

TypoFlat is a personal & experimental project of designer Branislav S. Cirkovic. It is a “free flow of creation where no clients or money are involved, just a pure passion for creation and form experimentation”. Check it out on the Behance network.

“All of the animations seen in David Wilson’s music video for Moray McLaren’s ‘We Got Time‘ were created in camera. Repeat: in camera. No CG, no compositing animation loops onto footage – just taking advantage of the way film and persistence of vision works.”

Also- check out the fantastic making-of video that gets deep into rpm and fps nerdiness, and the illustrated discs created by David Wilson.

A blast from the past: Originally posted 2009-04-27 08:49:43.

Paintbrushes help you to draw beautiful pictures and instruments assist you to create celestial music. But the pencil we’re to argue today, however, also creates sound as you paint with it. How? Well, the secret is the sensor built inside the tip, which could detect the movements and therefore produce various sounds.

Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening. Very very funny.

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.

A blast from the past: Originally posted 2008-12-02 11:56:35.

Today, you can create computer art just by doodling on your iPhone. There once was a time when making art with machines was a radical (and difficult) undertaking. Eyeblog reports on the V&A museum’s collection of computer art dating right back to 1952. Fascinating stuff >

Upload an image, and it will be made up of thousands of other images, dynamically created using the Flickr API.
It’s really nice to see it evolve into a detailed picture in a few minutes.

Love this new viral campaign for Chiquita Bananas. Special blue stickers give bananas their own personalities which also appear in an online game. Read the full story on the Design Boom blog >

Chinese artist Liu Bolin camouflages himself against different city locations, from China to the UK. Each of his photographic artworks takes up to 10 hours to complete. Amazing. Check out the photo gallery here >