Campaign for local food

It's a common trend to campaign for local food produce. Eat British is pretty ubiquitous. The recent Blood, Sweat and Takeaways on BBC shed a different light, one where the value of our imports to low-cost producers in countries like Thailand and Indonesia is all too real. It's a topic far more complex than jingoistic slogans may appear to present. This video from Crush is such an example, but done convincingly. For me, the endorsement by Unilever and Hellmann's packs a sharp needly punch right at the end.

Hellmann’s - It’s Time for Real from CRUSH on Vimeo.

Cargo Collective

Cargo is a web publishing (CMS) and community-building platform currently in development. It powers a variety of creative communities in the fields of Education, Design, Research, and Conceptual Art.

Snappy little typeface

iQ font - When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.

Ben Fry – All Streets

Fry has mapped all of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population.

Copenhagen Bicycling Culture

www.copenhagenize.com

Study of Heathrow - Ian Carr

This study is focused on uncovering the noise created by the vast network hub that is Heathrow Airport, specifically looking at the sources which create that noise, by breaking down the noises into visual format. www.iancarr.net

Forum for ideas and social enterpreneurship

The Ideas Project

Jan Chipchase

Researching for Nokia, Jan Chipchase has the enviable job of travelling the world to discover how people live, and how technology is used and accommodated internationally. The future perfect blog... a collection of insights, thoughts and snapshots from those trips.

New York Murders

New York Times interactive graphs via Infothestics

Lesser Spotted Cards

I came across this range of greeting cards in Paperchase: all the signs are real places and located on a map of England on the reverse. I sent my Dad "crackpot: 3/4 mile" for Father's Day. The photographer is Dominic Greyer.

All the Time in the World

An Electroluminescent Art Wall for British Airways Heathrow Terminal 5
Troika was commissioned by Artwise Curators to create 'All the Time in the World'; a 22m long electroluminescent wall that marks the entrance to the First and Concorde Galleries lounges in the new Heathrow Terminal 5.

It's Bauhaus Bicycle!

I'm looking for a bike right now and this takes my fancy. Might just park it outside the Ritzy Cinema on a friday night..www.baubike.dk Via Ceilidh. .

Studio Verbarius

Their website looks like a default 'fake' site, but swallowing the doubts, there are some nifty bits of design here. Let me know if this is a spoof!

Post-it Action

Obsession to Recession

This is a great spoof...

Recession for Men from Adrian Beiting on Vimeo.
And the inspiration...

I Lego NY

Christoph Niemann's "Abstract City' is a series of illustrations that appear in the NY Times. They're very witty and you can just feel his joy creating variations using materials like coffee stains on napkins and mosaic tiles in his bathroom.

Ghosts of the faithful departed - David Creedon

These are so beautiful and haunting. Check out the book

Between 2005 and 2007 David Creedon photographed many of the abandoned, derelict houses to be found throughout Ireland, whose owners had fled, mainly due to dire poverty during the 1950s, leaving an unmarried family member behind to maintain the property’s upkeep or run the farm. When in turn they passed away, ownership was usually passed to far-flung relatives. Now, in a new millennium, these houses lie deserted, awaiting the return of owners whose dreams of coming home may never be realised.

Your own social network

Ning seems to have a lot going for it: a merge of facebook, flickr, blogspot, online chat and events calendar ... As a private version of facebook, this is clearly the future for social networks: we are many people and many worlds at once.

What is Information?

Maya Design are interesting in that they use a large variety of design research methods for many commercial applications. www.maya.com "A fundamental understanding of the user in context is key to good design. It is dangerous to assume that you know what users want. The argument, “I’m an expert user, so if the system is designed for me it will work for everyone” is a telltale sign that you have introduced unnecessary risk into your design process. Design research is a way of understanding the users’ behaviors, goals, and expectations beyond simple demographics or statistics. Studying your users closely helps you identify customer needs and expectations in order to satisfy them in your design and translate them into competitive advantage."

Beautiful Hannah

It's tricky to find handwritten style typefaces that don't seem twee. Hannah is available in three different width proportions from youworkforthem