
These #20things happened on the internet in 2011. Can you name them all? To help you along, clues will be released over the coming days. Illustration made by Peter Jaworowski & Michal Lisowski @ SYZYGY Group.


Status codes are used to encode the overall outcome of a HTTP response message. Codes correspond to those defined in RFC 2616 and RFC 2518. And therefor are very well suited to be mixed with cats.

Not only is he one of the talented art directors at Black Magic Marker, and damn nice guy, he’s also a pretty awesome photographer! You can see some of his latest work on his newly updated portfolio site.

Here are some great grandmother tips for our generation by Chacho Puebla.

Miles Donovan is a London based illustrator and member of Peepshow Collective. I’m liking his collage style artwork that has been featured in various publications including Wired, Telegraph and The New York Times.

Mint Foundry made this tribute to Steve jobs, build up with the parts of an old MacBook Pro.

StockLogos.com started a fun little project in which they look at the evolution of some famous corporate logos, and predict for what they might look like in the future. It’s not too serious what makes it even more fun.

Photographer Stephen Wilkes spent at least ten hours taking hundreds of shots from the same perspective to create each one of his Day to Night photos. See the series at Clamp Art Gallery, September 8 through October 29th. You can also find a preview on Stephen Wilkes website.

The internet community is responding heavily on the recent riots in England. Most people spit their disbelieve on twitter, others collect pictures to identifiy the criminals, but click to see a real internet culture response.

SPBN is a book that introduces you to 75 young and upcoming raw, uncensored and non-compromising photographers like the Tilburg based Angga Pratama. Nudie snaps as art form. NSFW.

When I’m in a car I always love to watch other people driving by. Photographer Andrew Bush obviously likes the same thing so he made this great series of drive-by portraits. Now available as coffee table book at Amazon.

Mailchimp makes ‘reading the fucking manual’ fun again. Loving the designs of the manual covers and especially the colouring book. All made by the DesignLab at Mailchimp. Go chimps!


At the Atlantic Alan Taylor runs In Focus – the news photo blog. He’s the same guy that created Big Picture for the Boston Globe. In a new series of photo essays, every Sunday morning for 20 weeks (June 19 until October 30) the events of World War II will be explored and the effects it had on everyday lives.

The bar for graphic design is set pretty high in the Netherlands. A great way to see this is by looking at posters throughout Amsterdam. A great way to see these posters is by looking at this website by Jarr Geerligs. The site was founded in 2002, but for some reason i did not find out about it until today.

Here’s an interesting infographic from AllFacebook and Online Dating University on the subject of Facebook and how it affects you, your relationships, your health and personality. Depending how often you use Facebook it showcases positive or negative effects it can have on your personal life.

The Weather, City Edition is an elegant screensaver for the Mac by creative director Stefan Trifan. Many cities are available, email Stefan if you want a version for your city.

Beautiful work and a nice (minimal) site from French photographer Leo Caillard. I especially like the series depicting how digital technology is effecting the museum experience.


For a television show called ‘Rutte’s rapport‘ on the Dutch RTL network Resoluut had to illustrate all members of the Rutte cabinet. Maybe you recognize the illustration of mr. Rutte himself from before, but now there’s the whole cabinet.

Because it’s Friday Friday and everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend I won’t be sharing with you the most annoying song in the world but let you relax with plain and simple pictures of the most content and relaxed cat on earth. So you get some relaxing news from Japan as well. Here’s a video of him sleeping soundly.


London-based studio La Boca made a set of beautiful posters for Darren Aronofsky’s new film Black Swan. Think I’m gonna steal them when they are put up at the bus stop!

Instead of playing with model trains, Swiss photographer Florian Tremp creates a different kind of scenery. Based on No Country for Old Men and CSI, he has rebuild about 50 movie scenes. In detailed miniature, scale 1:87, called No Country for Small Men.

Ever stuck in Photoshop? Get CMYKilla! He teaches Photoshop and raps you through it, assisted by a nice lady and his posse. Ready in no time. All tutorials should be made like this.

Greek designer Charis Tsevis created mosaic portraits of Steve Jobs for Italian magazine Panorama. The creative director of the magazine requested a ‘white on white‘ portrait where Steve Jobs was to be illustrated with all of Apple’s white products. Charis also created a black version, which I like more.

I’m not really sure if this link is useful in any way but this is a nice, large infographic with a guide to housecat coat colors and patterns. If you’re expecting a sweet cat making an ass of himself you had better click this link. Alternatively, for a chubby cat who wants more food, click this one.

After their logo versions of 1971, 1987 and 1992, Starbucks will introduce an updated version of their logo this year. The introductory film hints at a wider scope, with the overall look and feel getting a tune-up.

I’m liking these six Christmas cards from six Rotterdam based illustrators; ckoe, nozzman, Robert van Raffe, Ingrid de Lugt, Jelle Pelle and Bart Aalbers.