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Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf demos what its paper would look like on the iPad. Not as exciting as BERG’s ‘Bonnier MAG+‘ demo but probably more realistic.

Luscious – abstract colour images created by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg using the algorithm used for their Flickr Flow and Wired visualisations.

Christoph Niemann’s map art, looks at the funny side of getting from A to B using elements from Google Maps.

Love the retro ‘Russian Avant-Garde/Dan Dare’ style of Tavis Coburn illustration work, particularly his cycling posters and his recent Bafta 2010 work.

Honda 3R-C concept designed by Honda’s Milan studio and shown at this years Geneva International Motor Show is a single person vehicle powered by a lithium ion battery.

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Flyfire from SENSEable City Laboratory and ARES Lab uses self-organizing micro helicopters with LEDs to act as smart pixels creating immersive and interactive displays. Slightly mindblowing!

Grain Edit interviews Pixar animator and illustrator Sanjay Patel about his latest work ‘Ramayana: Divine Loophole’. Love his style of illustration.

Details from ‘The New Spencerian Compendium Of Penmanship, 1879‘. Available online with some other fantastic resource material from IAMPETH – The International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting.

Explore the new VitraHaus in 3D.

Unit: Design/Research 01 is a new publication from Tony Brook’s and Adrian Shaughnessy’s ‘Unit Editions’. Designed as a 64 page newspaper and ‘devoted to the neglected, hidden and unexpected corners of graphic design and visual culture’, the first issue features an anthology of Folkways album cover art featuring the work of Ronald Clyne.