Soft Service Tees

Inspired t-shirts by Michael Sy. Michael creates gorgeous customised t-shirts by creating variations on his own designs using hand painting and embroidery. The results are lovely t-shirts that will make you stand out. www.servicestudio.comTags: Fashion

Human Clock

This lovely website tells the time. What's so special about that? Well it tells the time using photos submitted by real live people. So, 11:31 was spelled out by some orange peel in Somerset and 11:32 was a shot of a shot of shot of someone holding a CD with the time on it on their computer screen, if you follow. www.humanclock.comTags: Ideas

Marc Newson

This Australian designer first came to my attention late last year when he collaborated with Nike on the Zvezdochka shoe. Since then I've taken a closer look at his work and want to share it with the world! Thanks to his recent exhibition at London's Design Museum I was given the chance to see many of his designs up-close and personal. These included: his 1986 Lockheed Lounge, his 1999/2000

Odeo

These guys believe that podcasting is the future. Odeo are a company who believe that podcasting will be the next blogging and plan to make money from its growing popularity. They aim to 'enable this new distribution channel and medium by creating the best one-source solution for finding, subscribing to, and publishing audio content.' It will be interesting to see how a non-visual medium takes

Asia the new cool?

Will the 2000s be to Asian culture what the 80s and 90s were to black culture? Already this decade we've had the bollywood trend, the increasing influence of asian sounds is impacting the mainstream with asian tinged tunes by Missy Elliot and Talvin Singh (Winner of the Mercury Music Prize 1999). In addition, we have the impending release of Harold And Kumar Get The Munchies - not a cultural high

Flat-pack everything

According to Design Boom IKEA will soon be releasing flat-pack housing. This could be a major major bonus in the UK, especially in the south east. However, I hope they make them a lot prettier than the one in the example. For some interesting houseboat designs (kind of relevant) look at this on Gizmondowww.ikea.comTags: Design

Great idea

Josh Rubin has a great post on his site today, K adorable. The premise of K adorable is that you pay an annual subscription and as a result are sent five t-shirts with exclusive designs over a period of time. I love the idea of getting the freshest designs almost every other month delivered to me - think of the possibilities for other mediums!www.kadorable.comTags: Ideas

Wonderland Magazine

For those of you lucky enough to receive BBC2 they've had a pretty cool programme called Dragons' Den on. The basic premise of the show is that budding entrepreneurs pitched their ideas to secure investment finance from the Dragons... elite business experts. The business experts are all successful entrepreneurs who will stump up cash for ideas they truly believe in. Any way in the last show one

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'The magazine has your typical fashion, art, photography, and articles but in a different form. These topics aren't treated as mere topics. They are each embraced in their own unique way. Everything in the magazine is raw and real. It's contributors are both famous and unknown. Everyone is someone to / and the pages show that. Homeless people become contributing photographers, friends become

Power Unit Studio

Once you delve inside this website there are some lovely, simple house designs from Power Unit. All gorgeous to look at and presumably not too expensive to build. I want one!www.pus.jpTags: Design

Bleach

A cool London design agency with some lovely illustration in their portfolio. Not only that but they also have an excellent online magazine - this issue is titled 'Dirty'. Definitely worth checking out. My favourite? Why, page 17 of course.www.drinkbleach.co.ukTags: Design

Grime

The latest sound to emerge from East London the UK's creative hotspot for sometime. Mashing up UK Garage, Dub and Hip-Hop it's already had mainstream recognition in the form of a Mercury Music Award for Dizzee Rascal in 2003. Could 2005 be the year that it makes it?www.beinghunted.comwww.dirteestank.comTags: Music

Personal transportation

Recumbant bicycle pods and motopods - people want their own personal space when they travel - I keep on seeing recumbant bikes in London and followed a velomobile for 5miles on my way home the other night. Not only that but check out Josh Rubin for the latest and greatest recumant bicycle.Velomobiles - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VelomobileMicrocars - www.gizmag.co.uk/go/3647/Segway - segway.comTags:

Get fit and stop the fat

Increasingly people are becoming more aware of the dangers of modern life - be it processed foods, too much salt, Dasani, obesity etc. People are trying to become more healthy; from medicine (natural herbal remedies & homeopathic) to going down the gym (although not to come out looking like Brad Pitt, just staying healthy). This has led to a rapid increase in the number of gyms that aren't a

Interactive habitat

Grafedia turns New York into a potential webpageGrafedia , created by John Geraci, is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to images, video, sound files, etc. It can be written on walls, in the streets, or in postcards, on the body as tattoos, or anywhere you feel like putting it.Viewers "click" on the grafedia hyperlinks with their phones by sending a message

Recycled clothing

Not only is everyone making there own media now they want to make their own clothes. From screen printing your latest Photoshop creation on to a t-shirt to customising those jeans that you'd never wear otherwise, people are doing their own thing. Next up recycled clothing. And also an increase in the number of trendy thrift stores and second hand boutiques. Noted in Covent Garden, Brick Lane,

Portable video

Everybody else - Creative and Archos, has brought out a portable video device to complement their MP3 players - why haven't Apple? Presumably they are going to once they have sorted out all the legal stuff to support an iMovie store. Why else would they have brought out the nice but pretty pointless ipod photo?However, the Sony PSP could blow ipod, Archos and Creative out of the water. Amazing

Wirelessly wired

Do anything anywhere with the spread of Wi-fi and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). You may have heard of Skype, far and away the market leaders, quite simply Skype allows you to actually talk to your buddies over the internet using VOIP. This is either free, if calling another internet device, or very cheap if you are calling a mobile/landline.The proliferation of wi-fi is leading to a

Do-it-yourself-cos-the-media-isn't-good-enough trend

Blogs continue to dominate and proliferate - this will be assisted by the wide adoption of RSS.A direct result of RSS has been the invention of Podcasting which is set to become a huge phenomenon. - bored of your radio station? do it yourself and let everybody else listen in. Not only that but using Apple's iLife you can create your own music, radio shows and even movies.www.apple.com/