Great Stuff:

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• Brain pickings‘ Maria Popova presents “100 ideas that changed graphic design” 
• “Chroniques de Jérusalem” by Guy Delisle is awarded best Bande Dessinée at this year’s Festival d’Angoulème.
  
• Christoph Niemann’s NYT Blog “Abstract Sunday”  is one of my favorite, so this book is a must have.
  
• Velocity: The Seven New Laws for a World Gone Digital by Ajaz Ahmed and Stefan Olander 
• “Information overload is not the problem; you want all the information. It’s filter failure.” Dion Hinchcliffe answering FastCo’s questions on social workplaces 
• You should breathe while checking your emails: e-Mail Apnae 
• “The total number of game downloads reached 648 million by the end of year 2011” Rovio’s (Angry Bird) 2011 financial results. 

 

Great Tracks:

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• Amanda Rogers – Get Your Heart
• The Cribs – Come On, Be A No-One
• Best Coast – The Only Place
• Royal Headache – Never Again
• Beach House – Myth
• Freddie Cruger – Running from Love

Beastie Boys List by vision magazine: Beastie Boys – RIP Adam Yauch • 1964-2012

Great Videos

• The People’s Car Project: Chinese citizens access a Chinese-language VW website to upload ideas for transportation concepts they’d like to see, and by the 11-month mark, 33 million people had visited the site. <a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/transportation/volkswagens_crowdsourced_chinese_hovercraft_concept_22437.asp?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+core77%2Fblog+%28Core77.com%27s+design+blog%29): http://vimeo.com/weareflink/morphing“>Here’s the fun pitch video (via Core77) 

Great Stuff:

• Of course I’m a strong believer in Holstee’s manifesto, being lucky enough to have had the chance to work with those groovy folks. Holstee just launched an inspiring website, croudsourcing real stories from real people. http://mylife.holstee.com/
• Stop Working More than 40 Hours a Week (Time Magazine) 
• Rejected and controversial New Yorker cover art: exclusive Boing Boing preview gallery
  
• Good overview on what insights behavioral economics brings by Thomas Sulcer  
• Always something nice to discover on my friend Bjoern’s Blog UXSUX 

Great Tracks:

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• Johnny Hallyday – Wap-Dou-Wap
• Death Grips – Get Got
• Boots Electric – Complexity
• The xx – Intro
• Andre Williams – Dirt
• Gemma Hayes – There’s Only Love
• We Are Augustines – Juarez
• Kids These Days – Hard Times
• Django Django – Default
• Black Star – Fix Up
• Garbage – Blood For Poppies
• The Ting Tings – Guggenheim
• Squarepusher – Dark Steering
• The Memorials – West Coast Yes

Great Websites/Services:

• Track 8 is a metro-style music player for the iPad 
• Have you forgotten your algebra? Algebra Touch refreshes your skills on iOS device
  
• http://katachimag.com/ probably the best ipad magazine to date 

Great Videos

• Overcoming the prisoner’s dillema. the weirdest split or steal ever! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8&feature=youtu.be
• Mike Monteiro: What Clients Don’t Know (… And Why It’s Your Fault) 
• Slow Jam The News with Barack Obama: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
  

Great Stuff:

• 8 Bit Movie Poster
  
  
  

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• “If you don’t believe, you won’t make it in 2012” http://www.soleilnoir.net/believein/#/start (via hirnlego)
• Minimal Photography
  
  

• Photographs Captured Over Years with an Open Camera Shutter
  

• De Rigueur is a digital publication for Kindle, iOS, Android, Mac and more.
  
• I think this is very funny: http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/
• http://editsquarterly.com/ is a fantastic parallax scrolling online publication by photographer Ian Coyle (via http://www.bigspaceship.com/) 
• CQ’s Jayson Greene interviewing Willis Earl Beal 

Great Tracks:

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• Girls – Honey Bunny
• Perfume Genius – Hood 
• RJD2 – A Beautiful Mine 
• Alex Clare – Too Close
• Of Monsters And Men – Little Talks
• Tom Tom Club – Wordy Rappinghood
• Malcolm McLaren – Buffalo Gals
• Rufus Wainwright – Out Of The Game 
• Spiritualized – Hey Jane
• Jack White – Love Interruption 
• Tanlines – All Of Me 
• Kyla La Grange – Vampire Smile
• Bobby Womack – Please Forgive My Heart
• Florence + The Machine – Jackson – MTV Unplugged, 2012 

Great Websites/Services:

• Want to “Nyan-Cat” your website? http://nyanit.com/
• Minute your meetings. The easy way. https://www.minutes.io/
• Every week, duncan tries to post or to curate a new mixtape http://fridaymixtape.com/
• Slow Message for iOS allows you to send emails that arrive days, weeks, months, or even years in the future.

Great articles I most definitely will read one of these days 🙂 

• The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books : The New Yorker 
• How The Huffington Post ate the Internet: CJR 
• Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss? The Trichordist 
• It seems that everybody read this post, so I maybe should too. Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone. 
• The Great Tech War of 2012: Fast Company

Great Stuff:

• Minimalist Posters Of Disney Films
  
  
  

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• Great Article on the state of today’s top Forty: The Song machine 
• Interesting Slidedeck on the future of Mobile
  
• Wireframes and Prototypes with Keynote/ppt
• Graphic Designer mike joyce has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters– these are on saleat http://www.swisstedshop.com
  
  
  

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• Made me laugh a lot: http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/
• nice flip-book-like twitter campaign from Smart in Argentina
  
• @craigmod ‘s (beautifuly art directed) essay on designing flipboard for the iphone

Great Tracks:

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• The Men – Turn It Around 
• Zammuto – Yay 
• Mos Def – Six Days
• Oliver Koletzki – The Devil In Me
• Y’Akoto – Diamonds
• De La Soul’s First Plug 1 & 2 present First Serve – Must B The Music
• THEESatisfaction – Earthseed
• Esperanza Spalding – Radio Song
• Willis Earl Beal – Evening’s Kiss
• Jai Paul – jasmine
• Plan B – ill Manors
• Graham Coxon – Advice 
• AWOLNATION – Kill Your Heroes
• Alabama Shakes – Hold On

Great Websites/Services:

• http://clarify.io/ is in an early beta… you should check the feature list and roger’s stream , while waiting for an invite.
• TED.com recommands 100 Websites you should use: very good list of sources.
• Figure by Propellerhead is a simple, and beautiful music creation app.
• A handy guide: Startup – This ist how Design works.

Great Videos:

• Gemma Ray’s Rescue me: http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/03/29/149629447/gemma-rays-rescue-me-m…
• DubStep-Class http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBStbd2B8Jk&feature=youtu.be

Great Stuff:

• Scrabble for Design Geeks
  
  

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• 3 great articles, broadly on the future of webdesign: 
  1) Mobile First Design: Why It’s Great and Why It Sucks by Joshua Johnson
  2) The Best Browser is the One You Have with You by Stefanie Rieger
  3) For a Future-Friendly Web by Brad Frost 
• Very Funny: ‘Real user’ tries Windows 8
• Screenshot of Despair (via @khoi)
  
  

• The Angryman is an all in one iPhone stand, cable tidy and cable shortener.
  
  

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Great Tracks:

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• Santigold – Disparate Yout
• FM Belfast – American
• Hot Chip – Brothers 
• The Mars Volta – Zed And Two Naughts
• Nirvana – Heart Shaped Box (Live on Saturday Night Live, 25.09.1993) 
• J Mascis – Is It Done
• The Jezabels – Endless Summer 
• The Chap – Hands Free 
• WZRD – High Off Life 
• Ben Howard – The Wolves
• Wild Child – That’s What She Say
• DCarls – All In – Original Mix 
• Kishi Bashi – Bright Whites 

Great Websites/Services:

• Diagrammer Enlivens Crappy PowerPoint Presentations, With 4,000 Fresh Charts (via FastCo)
• http://comeworkinnewyork.com/
• http://www.nike.com/jumpman23/aj2012/ and the way its done by casey yee
  
  (also check this article “How Michael Jordan’s March Madness Shorts Changed the Apparel Business”)

Great Videos:

• Darth Vader recording for TomTom GPS – behind the scenes
  
• Bert and Ernie recording for TomTom GPS – behind the scenes
  
• Bruce Springsteen’s SXSW 2012 Keynote Speech, speaking about his life as a musician (~1h): on NPR 

Great Stuff:

• Funny Prints “Laundry Days” by Goenetix from Prague
• http://startmaking.com/ is an online program to learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship

• Piers Fawkes asks: Is Monocle the new Louis Vuitton
• Paul Graham on frighteningly startup ideas
• Elisabeth Hubert on the De-Evolution of UX-Design and why IA still matters
• Photography Blog (with stunning cinemagraphs): From me to You

Great Tracks:

The Playlist… over 100 tracks… subscribe – I’m Glad to hear your feedbacks here or over there at twitter:

• Macklemore – And We Danced (feat. Ziggy Stardust)
• Django 3000 – Zeit fia ois 
• The Blackout – Said and Done
• Bonobo – The Keeper – Banks Remix
• The Experimental Tropic Blues Band – The Best Burger
• Grimes – Genesis
• Deichkind – Leider geil
• Bodyrockers – I Like The Way
• Modest Mouse – Float On
• The Decemberists – Down By The Water
• Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma
• Freelance Whales – Generator ^ Second Floor
• The Bianca Story – Coming Home
• American Royalty – Matchstick
• Laura Gibson – La Grande
• Norah Jones – Happy Pills
• Noah And The Whale – 5 Years Time

Great Websites/Services:

Google Re-Brief: Can America’s most iconic advertising campaigns bere-imagined for the web?

Great Videos:

• Jean Paul Gaultier has been hired as the new creative director at Diet Coke. So he developed three awesome short films (seen on PSFK).

• I like the “From Sketch” Row on ARTE, showing Interviews and Sketches of creative people. See what Cory Doctorow says about dangerous copyright laws, Erik Spiekermann on the Office of the future or how Modeselektor produces a track.