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Boutique Cycles – Nice looking user submitted gallery dedicated to ‘custom and boutique bikes’.

Contrail, a device for cyclists that leaves coloured chalk contrails. I’d love to see this in production as it would be a great way of teaching the kid to cycle.

• Liking these Bike culture inspired photos from photographer Matt Lingo via ViaComIT.
• Skimmer – Nice looking social networking aggregation app from Fallon.
• FourTrack – Four track recording for the iPhone.

• The Girard Objects. The Alexander Girard Collection from House Industries has been updated with a limited edition signed and numbered book. Free when you purchase a set of Girard fonts or available to purchase separately. Looks stunning!
• Map Bloopers – Collection of map and infographic accidents from Matthew Bloch.
• Boombox Bikes – Mad bike/soundsystem mash-ups via oobject.

• Love these bicycle paintings from Taliah Lempert.
• Design Radar – Vintage and contemporary limited edition furniture now available through Design Addict.
• Yummy illustration from Jean Jullien. Particularly like his cut-out style pieces.

• Light Lane – Great concept from Altitude Inc. Create a clear boundary for motorists to avoid by project a virtual bike lane using a laser.
• Sweetcron – Life stream blog software that aggregates all your online information and publishes it in one place.
• The Black House – Sustainable architecture in Cambridgeshire by Mole Architects.

• Guardian photo gallery of the work of free-form architect Jan Kaplický who died this week. He’s probably best known in the UK for the Selfridges store in Birmingham.
• Moof – Nice looking single-speed from Dutch designer ‘Ties Carlier’ which features built-in solar powered lights.
• Pretty Loaded – US agency Big Spaceship curated gallery of flash preloaders.

• Want! Ben Wilson’s Mini V – Inspired by Japanese mini velo’s.
• Been playing round with Spotify. The application works a treat and the availability of music is pretty good. So far I’ve only found a couple of bands that aren’t listed but I did manage to find some Chrome which more than makes up for it.
• Architect Zaha Hadid as guest editor for Radio 4′s ‘Today’ programme looks at the work of 60′s avant-garde architect group ‘Archigram‘ who’s ideas have been realised in Graz’s Kunsthaus.

• Vintage footage made by the Eames Office for Herman Miller on the manufacturing process behind the Eames Shell Chair via Core77
• Designing Social Patterns – Great companion resource to the forthcoming book Designing Social Interfaces:
  Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone.
• Stokemonkey – Electric hybrid drive for longtails and cargo bikes from Cleverchimp

• Compfight. Excellent Flickr search tool that allows for searches based on tags, text and creative commons settings.
• From the makers of Desktop Tower Defence and Flash Element TD comes ‘The Casual Collective‘, a social gaming site with a mix of online multi-player games including the highly addictive Desktop TD.
• Love the simplicity of the Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve’s winning entry in the City Racks Design Competition.