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“Winners from 20 countries took gold, silver, and bronze prizes for service innovation in banking, creating broad corporate and brand strategies, bolstering sustainability via electric cars, and remaking hammers and wrenches in new, better forms” - some nice eye candy

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Grant McCracken looks at how social networks work. An interesting heads-up to the ‘Ambient Intimacy’ of Twitter and the ‘Hi, remember me, I’m ok’ of Facebook - Phatic Communication, the puzzle of exhaust data.

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The new monument completed in time for the third anniversary of the March 11, 2004, attacks in Madrid. A luminous three-story monument built out of 150,000 curved glass blocks glued together with a liquid-acrylic material hardened by ultraviolet lamps - The Eternal Glow

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In the rush to define the next big thing, here is Web 3.0

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Information designer Edward Tufte looks at the exceptional information design graphics of Megan Jaegerman

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In Japan more and more people are using their phone cams to snap shots of outfits and haircuts from magazines while they browse in bookshops. This is now being seen by those in the publishing industry as “information theft” and feel they are being cheated out of valuable sales.

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A new study from the University of Oregon has found that local news broadcasts are being infiltrated by advertising at around the same rate that DVR users skip ads. They found that 90 percent of the newscasts contained at least one instance of stealth advertising, including product placement within stories.

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Previously mentioned on Miosite here, here and here. Front design have now been named Designer of the Future at Design Miami/Basel 2007

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Live Ink have developed an interesting take on typographic formatting using what they call Visual-syntactic formatting” or VSTF. Is this the new typographic era?

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Typographica lists 23 of their favourite fonts for 2006

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