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Local Projects is an award-winning design studio that seeks to tell stories in public spaces, museums, and over the internet, often simultaneously. They design interfaces, information presentations, motion graphics, physical structures, and projection systems to tell unlikely stories in unlikely places.

Be amazed! Visit from top to bottom. Don't miss the videos!

To a NEW Designer by Carole Guevin

“You have talent; you know you have talent. You are fresh, you are out, you are entering the field, you are charged, you are ready to storm the industry and imprint your mark with your wits and talent! Great! I would like to share some thinking paths to munch over and pitfalls to avoid so you can successfully make it happen and avoid common mistakes befalling inexperienced designers.

Learning the trade is altogether another education.”

Efface by Chris Ro aka ADearFriend. The human face is infinitely complex and in some instances extraordinarily simple. Recognition of facial expressions and features occupies both the instinctual and the systematic. Physiognomy is the analysis of the face as a potential indicator of character.

Fourteen faces were constructed, de-constructed and fused in the hopes of assembling experiences that are simultaneously simple and yet very complex. The objective was to encounter the human face as one previously may not have encountered before.

Hot off the press: Geometric, a graphic art and pattern fonts book. The first ever book published by the talented gals at Kapitza it comes with a CD containing 100 pattern fonts which is probably the most extensive pattern collection available from any foundry.

Art Directors Club 88th Annual Awards Call for Entries is now opened. Winners will be announced at the Gala ceremony at ADC Gallery in New York in the spring of 2009. Winning work will go on a worldwide exhibition tour and be published in the Art Directors Annual 88, the longest-running archive of leading creative work in global advertising and design.

Deadline: January 16

Ryu Itadani lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. From his unique point of view, hand drawn lines and playful colors create his artworks. CITY series and THINGS series are his main themes for his exhibition. He has gained much attention across the world.

National Television is a motion graphic and live action producing powerhouse who have done outstanding projects. Don't miss their reel.

Jonathan Edwards mix of illustrations have a bulky features graffiti street cartoon like style and have published in numerous magazines.

F5 is a new festival exploring the intersection of art, design and entertainment. F5 unites the creative leaders who are breaking ground and shaping new standards in media and design, becoming the essential meeting point for future-minded individuals with the power to create lasting change.

Upcoming: April 16-17, New York City

Another hilarious crazy Ikea garderoben mini-site full of interactive prowness produced by FB.

Mats Ottdal is located in Oslo and is pretty good at anything he does, which is rare. Excellent graphic design, illustration and art direction.

Jason Jagel is an illustrator that creates chaotic and colorful illos as well as beautiful vignettes sculptures.

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Firefox Float drop resolved!!! by JF — yay!

This CSS rule on line 227 was causing the drop.

.clear {display: inline-table;}

It was added to defeat a bug in IE Mac but then was reset for other browsers at the end of document by:

.clear {display: block;}

This last line was dropped by mistake when all the IE special rules moved in separate files.

This particular method of clearing floats is called the clear:after method.

It doesn't talk about the IE7 and IE8 problem for which I've just learned this other tweak in Bulletproof Web Design (New Riders) by Dan Cederholm.

*:first-child+html .clear {min-height: 1px;}

This seems to work in IE8 Beta2 as well!

When IE7 launched the clearfix method did not work anymore so I reverted to a fall back using a clearing div which now I will be able to remove. Later...since I am not ready for another game of find and replace.

If you are proficient with CSS styling please contact JF — to discuss an issue we are encountering with Firefox 3. The right side column, which is a float, doesn't appear when the page is requested on the server. Upon refresh it is there?!?!?

JF has done intensive search on support groups, etc, and only found one mention, whereas the person stated having tried everything, without success to fix it.

Anybody else experienced this? Have a clue?

What is NUURO? Somwhere you can play around with all the objects and listen to music. Awesome!

Info.nl is a full service internet agency. Simple website with large backgrounds related to project and magenta linearts to highlight sections.

Natalia Pokrovskaya is a photographer that has a peculiar website - double-clicking images to view them for one - to display her portfolio that is lifestyle and portrait based and with a in your face kind of attitude.. like the tshirt she wears as example.

Stefan Weyer designed a new font (free to download) and produced some pretty cool boy and girl tees as well as a carry-all bag with it.

Kapitza introduces 100 GEOMETRIC fonts to design your own patterns becoming as easy as typing - but with much more exciting results!

Funkbuilders create anything they want? Almost. Maverick, artisan, enthusiast, dreamer, comedian, prankster, collector, friend, builder. Just ask anyone about Alan Leong, and these are some of the words you’ll hear to describe this award-winning art director.

Do you know your elements? Lenom poshbranding use the chemical elements abbreviations in an interactive way - their nav - which make for surprising section associations.

DesignByThem was created in 2006, when a duo team decided to follow their passion to create innovative and unique products for the Australian and international market.

Their extensive knowledge of materials and manufacturing allow to take on a variety of project types, ranging from product design, interior design and graphic design. 

They have just released the geolight suspension lamp.

Peter Machat being a Gaijin in Japan, tried to lift the curtain and shed some light on the areas of Japanese society that are often perceived as being mysterious and closed. He wanted to know the exact qualities of an Obatarian, a Narikin, an Otaku, a Bosozoku or an Ikeike Onna. He came across many interesting details that astonished many of my Japanese friends and made all of them laugh.

Availalble as a postcard collection. Visit 51 Japanese Characters.

Ultra talented designer Sara Haraigue updates her portfolio. Want to see original? Have a look at Look at me Design

Studio TRBDSGN is a collective acting as a research lab in permanent evolution, seizing even the smallest opportunities to work with new techniques and materials. Team work means everything to them.

Hyper Island on World Tour. World renowned Swedish digital media school Hyper Island will go on a global recruitment tour at the end of 2008 and early 2009. The English speaking education accepts students from all nationalities worldwide.

Together with HI students, some of the staff will tour world cities to meet up with creative people who are interested in becoming students in the fall of 2009.

Upcoming in ww cities: December 6 through January 31

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