Comme des Garcons & North Face

The trend for collaboration and cross pollination of brands continues with this interesting project between North Face and Comme des Garcons. It's a great opportunity for Comme de Garcons to educate those who would have had little exposure to the brand in the past and for North Face it provides a bit of couture cred. The jackets themselves are pretty cool football casual style jackets. via

Into the Storm with BMW

BMW have created an online publication around aspirations which they want their customers and brand to identify with. Produced in association with BMW, edited by Johnny Davis, Into the Stormasks "Who's your hero? And what does it mean to be noble and good in the 21st Century?"Beautifully produced in flash, Into the storm is a really nice lifestyle magazine with some great photography and

Micro Persuasion's 10 Trends

Blogging and PR guru, Steve Rubel, has posted a great little feature on the top 10 trends for the next ten years. Basically Steve wanted to work out what was next now that blogging and podcasting has hit the mainstream. Steve picks up on 'the long tail' , basically big companies will increasingly make their money not from the 'bestsellers' but from the product variety. In addition Steve

Sony PSP London Promotion

Today's Urban Junkies newsletter covers the latest efforts of the Sony PSP marketing team. They have asked a group of talented designers and artists to come up with their own designs for guitar shaped cut outs which are to be distributed around London and are yours to keep should you find one. The rest of the cut outs will be on display in the awesome Oki-ni store, Saville Row. Tags: Marketing

BBC Collective

The good old BBC has launched an excellent new online magazine called Collective which contains some great features with the likes of Chris Cunningham, Chuck Palahniuk and Bloc Party. There are also tracks to listen to and film clips to watch. There are also forums to have your say on the latest and greatest books, films and albums. CollectiveTags: Magazines

LE GUN

The second edition of LE GUN is now available in London for just £8!"Following the huge success of LE GUN, the magazine that brought budding artists work together in an extraordinary display of illustrative and narrative talent, a second edition (LE GUN 2)is now due to be released. This edition comprises of not only new artists work, but also pieces by established artists such as Sir Peter Blake

Silence on the streets of London

I have just witnessed one of the most amazing events of my life. To express sympathy at the atrocities of 7 July 2005 the whole of the Kings Road stopped work, travel and shopping to line the famous London thoroughfare and stand together in silence. It was a truly stunning moment and a tribute to all those who died in the attacks last week. For possibly the first time in my life I felt genuinely

Collaboration & Co-Creation

Influx Insights have published an email containing interviews with leading innovators from various industries. John Thackara, author of Into the Bubble, argued that 'Nearly all the most important design projects nowadays are collaborative' whilst Jody Turner, CEO of Culture of Future, believes that 'We are currently in a co-creation culture, meaning the lifestyle need of the consumer strongly

Sávio Palmerston

Hailing from Brasil, Sávio creates gorgeous lomographic shots and the results are stunning. I came across his work whilst doing a 'lomography' tag search on flickr. For more of these gorgeous compositions check out Sávio's page.

Landmark Houses

Entrepreneur Jeremy Paxton has commissioned an ambitious architectural project built in the Cotswolds at the Lower Mill Estate near Cirencester. 'The 'Landmark Houses' programme is envisioned specifically for the site at Lower Mill Estate, in the Cotswold Water Park, where we have invited a number of architects, such as Will Alsop, Eva Jiricna, Sutherland Hussey, Richard Meier and Partners, Roger

Cars of the Future

The World Automotive Design Competition took place in March of this year and threw up some great ideas. The premise of the competition is that young designers from all over the world create a concept for a mass production car that is in line with today's budgets for their own country but could be sold throughout the world. 'The vehicle had to be easily recognized as coming from a particular

Exploding Dog

Send Sam at Exploding Dog your phrase and s/he draws something inspired by it. A really nice and interactive idea. Not only can you have a t-shirt printed and sent to you, Sam has also produced a couple of books of he/r work. Thanks Alexawww.explodingdog.comTags: Design