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