A beautiful informatics poster created by David McCandless and Andy Perkins.

According to informationisbeautiful.net, this visualization generates itself from this Google Doc. So when new research comes out, they can quickly update the data and regenerate the image. Check out the interactive version.

Check out the rest of the amazing box art at boxdoodle.com.

A car that runs on air?

Where the hell has this technology been hiding? Surprisingly enough, the post date on this Youtube video is October, 2008.

Learn more at Motor Development International (MDI)

Attention geeks everywhere!

Check the new Adidas Star Wars Collection. Now you can dress up that Darth Vader costume with the real deal – official Adidas Star Wars shoes. You will be the envy of the neighborhood. Imagine the possibilites … Dressing up like Chewbacca and donning a pair of Stormtrooper specials. Pretty slick, indeed.

When I first saw this collection, I almost thought I had been punked. I checked the URL and sure enough it was Adidas.com. Growing up watching the first Star Wars movies, I imagined that in 2010 we would be zooming around in flying machines circling monstrous buildings. Although that didn’t happen, the Official Adidas Star Wars collection did. My questions is, “Why did it take 33 years?”

Loo-roll holder / magazine rack

Give your bathroom a cool accent with “Loo Read”. Its wire frame holds magazines, newspapers and of course loo rolls… two of them, just in case one runs out! [I wonder if Lou Reed is aware of this special honor!]

Loose change bowl

A sculptural polished aluminium bowl for all your loose change, keys, bits and bobs. Drop everything in and then easily pour it out into your hand again.

Keyring - bottle opener

…will magnetically climb your fridge door to store your keys and also opens bottles while holding onto the top afterwards.

Salad servers and dressing mixing bowl

These leafy salad servers stand upright in their own pot and will give life to any table setting. The pot can also be used for mixing (and serving) your salad dressing. They are also the ultimate salad decoration when stuck into the salad upright!

Wine Rack

Inspired by the flow of liquid, this sculptural wine rack is finished in brushed stainless steel. Flow is wall mounted and will hold up to eight bottles using a minimum of space.

Bookend

After many requests, we have finally adapted the award winning doorstop design into a bookend! The stainless steel plate that is fixed to his foot, ensures that any number of books can be leant against James’ outstretched arm without him slipping over. He can be used individually or as a pair.

See more creative products at black + blum

01 – Mar 02, 2009
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Courtesy of Dr. Seuss Enterprises

02 – Feb 10, 2009
Israeli Election Day – (Israel)

03 – May 22, 2009
Mary Cassatt’s Birthday – (Global)

04 – May 07, 2009
Alexander Popov’s Invention of the Radio – (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus)

05 – Apr 27, 2009
Samuel Morse’s Birthday – (Global)

06 – Sep 21, 2009
H.G. Wells’ Birthday – (Selected Countries)

07 – Sep 15, 2009
Crop Circles – (Selected Countries)

08 – Jul 23, 2009
Comic-Con® 2009 – Design and pencil Jim Lee, ink by Scott Williams, and color by Alex Sinclair, © DC Comics – (US)

09 – Dec 17, 2009
Discovery of the Aztec Sun Stone – (Mexico)

10 – Nov 17, 2009
Isamu Noguchi’s Birthday – (Japan)

11 – Nov 09, 2009
20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – (Germany)

12 – Nov 04, 2009
20th Anniversary of the Wallace and Gromit Characters – (Selected Global)

13 – Nov 02, 2009
Loy Krathong – (Thailand)

14 – Dec 18, 2009
Jan Evangelista Purkyne’s Birthday – (Czech Republic)

I tossed a few bonus logos in there because it was tough picking only 10! See all the Google logos from 2009 here.

The first periodic table was published in 1869. One hundred and forty years later, the Periodic Table Printmaking Project was born. The idea is to promote both science and the arts by creating 118 prints in any medium; woodcut, linocut, monotype, etching, lithograph, silkscreen, or any combination. Each of the participating artists retain the rights to their images.

Periodic Table Printmaking ProjectBasic Rules & Guidelines
Contributing Artists
Project Blog
Official Flickr Group

Banksy is a anonymous graffiti artist from the UK. His work is quite extraordinary and has a social commentary angle. According to Wikipedia:

He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol^[2] and to have been born in 1974,^[5] but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details.^[6] According to Tristan Manco, Banksy “was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s.”^[7] His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His art has appeared in cities around the world.^[8] Banksy’s work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.

One of the most impressive things about Banksy is that he doesn’t sell photos or merchandising of his work. Instead, he posts high resolution images on his Web site and encourages people to make their own stuff. He only asks that it is for non-commercial use. Very generous and true to the intention of the art work.

I attended the National Association of Realtors show this past weekend in San Diego, California. I was shocked when I first saw the billboard at this booth and noticed what appeared to say “You Suck.” I was anxious to find out who would display such an audacious message. After approaching the billboard from a different angle, I noticed that it really said “YOUR SUCCESS.” I was curious if this was intentional or completely accidental.  Unfortunately, the message didn’t turn out to be the insult I had first perceived. Either way, because of the position, it mostly looked like “YOU SUCK.”

Acceptable losses
Mixed media
16 x 13.5 inches diameter
2008

The above piece entitled “Acceptable losses” is the amazing miniature work of Thomas Doyle. He creates beautiful little worlds sculpted in 1:43 scale and smaller. From the statement on his site:

The pieces’ radically reduced scales evoke feelings of omnipotence—as well as the visceral sensation of unbidden memory recall. Hovering above the glass, the viewer approaches these worlds as an all-seeing eye, looking down upon landscapes that dwarf and threaten the figures within.

Conversely, the private intensity of moments rendered in such a small scale draws the viewer in, allowing for the intimacy one might feel peering into a museum display case or dollhouse. Though surrounded by chaos, hazard, and longing, the figures’ faces betray little emotion, inviting viewers to lose themselves in these crucibles—and in the jumble of feelings and memories they elicit.

The glass itself contains and compresses the world within it, seeming to suspend time itself—with all its accompanying anguish, fear, and bliss. By sealing the works in this fashion, I hope to distill the debris of human experience down to single, fragile moments. Like blackboxes bobbing in the flotsam, these works wait for discovery, each an indelible record of human memory.