Who lives here? Website with interactive map showing income/rent data by NYC neighborhoods. Every city should have this. (via swissmiss)
Wet Borders: Microslums and Meanders: A very interesting article on InfraNet Lab about Migingo Island, a microslum within Lake Victoria near Kenyan / Ugandan borders. Also Uganda’s shifting borders due to Semliki River shifting its course and the involuntary defection (of sorts) of its people.
Masterplan for Singapore 2050 as part of Singapore Design Week 09 by WOHA. Fascinating alternate-scapes. (via designboom)
Illustration by Studio Volk /via Changethethought™
Bridge School by Li Xiaodong Atelier (via ArchDaily)
Make Something Cool Every Day : November 09 (via Behance Network)
Illustration by David Fullarton. Made me laugh. Increasingly true. (via Behance Network)
Part of a series of illustrations commissioned by Razorfish to appear in their book FEED, which has just been published. It’s a report on the ways that consumers use new technology and the resulting impact on consumer relationships with brands and advertising. More at http://feed.razorfish.com/
Beim Chef (With the boss) by Roman Signer. Made me laugh. (via today and tomorrow)
Mary Had a Little Lamp by Cabracega. Most unsettling product shot for a design that’s creepy on so many levels. (via Design Milk)
Fish Tank in MAD Architects Studio. So much rigor in design even for a goldfish environment, which makes this Beijing-based firm exciting to watch. (via designboom)
“If academia is to be believed, then architecture is something in the drawings of Vitruvius or Le Corbusier; if today’s architecture critics are to be believed, architecture is just parametrics and Zaha Hadid. Either way, it’s claustrophobic.” — The BLDGBLOG Book
Stereoscopic Vintage Photography of the Meiji and Taisho Periods (1868-1926) by Japan’s forgotten master T. Enami, now in wiggly “3D” animations by Pink Tentacle. Stunning. More here and here. (via weburbanist)
Graphic Design and Branding by e-Types. Love the consistency, big to small. (via Looks like good design)
Branding and Design by Toormix (via Looks like good design)