A podcast for those who design, develop or run websites.

Creating tagclouds based on your own input. Here I created a tagcloud based on our current frontpage.

A book about the hard core of graffiti writers, by Henny Overbeek and HOTEL. 14 writers show one photo each and tell the story behind it. The book presentation is May 29th from 20:30 at W139 in Amsterdam. Besides videos, music and drinks there are lectures from writers and artists NOV (NYC) and NUG (Stockholm). Order the book here.

Looking for the perfect domain name which is short and is still available as a dotcom? Try the Dot-o-mator tool! For all the 2.0 startups out there.

Cool little tool from some ad agency in Brasil. They let people translate swear words on cam so you can learn what to say when you’re overseas.

Book Review: The Back of the Napkin, by Dan Roam. Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

“We Think” is the great new book by Charles Leadbeater on mass creativity and innovation. Check out the video about the book. Publishers information on the book.

By Dieter Rams, the famous german product designer. This must be well over 20 years old. How does it apply to us now media design show off’s, is it still relevant or have some things changed? (via Andre Brocatus)

The 21 Steps is a novel published in Google Maps. It’s the first novel from a series of online digital fiction called We Tell Stories by Penguin Books. Other forms that will be used are a novel published in the form of a blog, an interactive fairytale and live written story.

I’ve known this blog for a while but never got around to posting it. It’s funny, well written and sometimes very true. Also check the older posts.

Check out this nice idea that popped up at a workshop
in Ramallah, Palestine, where Dutch advertising pro’s worked with creative, young Palestinians.

Issuu is a ‘living library’ where you can upload a magazine in pdf. They convert it in to an easy to read online magazine. I really like the way you can read and navigate through the magazine. Good stuff! Via: Bright.

Exclusive Scion & Vice interview with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo of Daft Punk.

Keep on reading, keep on creating, keep on working, keep on posting. Rock 2008 !!!

Mail from Alex from Belgium. He’s one of the guys working on the release of an international magazine called KillYourDarlings. Kydmag will be focusing on new forms of photography, illustrations, painting, typography, street-art, etc. If you want to contribute to the magazine as a journalist or artist, go check the site for more info.

Check out these 23 (!) rules for webdesign based on eyetracking research.

Parody of those annoying Simcity advisors.

is a book by Alan Weisman about what will happen when there are no human beings anymore. It’s partly based on research done at 2 places in the world where all people have left: chernobyl and the North/South Korean border.

Most of you probably already know this one. But I want to share it with you anyway. I think this is one of the best commercials I’ve ever seen. Only copy and really beautiful.

They’ve launched a new area of their website featuring different ways you can interact with Twitter. Stamen Design created a particularly engaging application called Blocks-an interactive way to discover people on Twitter.

Slogans are reflections of a company. But what if it’s translated one-on-one?
Some words have different meanings in other languages. For example: “Nothing Sucks like an Electrolux.”

~ kloek [clook] adj., (f:~e) (org. Dutch); nice, very nice, even nicer, spiffy, classic, of great proportions, jeeij, hell yeaaah; ~ sjizzl this stuff is dope ass; ~ it is it’s biggy and me like it; superlativus: nice, nicer, ~.

The Word Of the Week has been MIA. This is because I have to do it all by myself! Anyway, we are now back!

~ Snotbox
Pronunciation: ’snot-box / Function: noun
Meaning: Nose
- I’ll punch you in the … / - Keep your … out of my bussiness! / - Blow your …, dude.

Advertising Now. Online. I got it for my birthday. It’s a must have for people working in advertising. Published by the renowned publishing house Taschen. FREE DVD INSIDE! :)

I Love New Work: now also available in French, Portuguese, Russian… An extended version of Google Translator is now available, where you can translate whole sites in seconds - and it works pretty well!

~ Yeaaaahhhhh!!!
Pronunciation: �JEEE-IIIJJ-A / Function: adjective
Used by the man who calles himself Jonathan Smith (Atlanta, 1970), famous under the name Lil’ Jon, he’s a American hiphopartist and producer. This is probably not the words original meaning, but he uses it for Meaning of yes, okey, that’s allright, no problem, etcetera. Other words he often speaks out loud - Whaaaatttt???/ - Okaaayy!!!

~ Spiffy
Pronunciation: ’spi-fE / Function: adjective
This is probably not the words original meaning, but we use it for ’slick’, ‘clean’, ‘tight’ and ‘fine looking’ designs, animations, clothing, etcetera.
- spiff�·i�·ness / - spiffed out / - to spiff up

This 13 year old girl named Severn Suzuki has something to tell at the United Nations Conference on Environment en Development back in 1992.

Written by one of his roadies, this is an eighteen-page document describing Iggy’s requirements when on tour.

Oldie but goodie, an article about graffiti writers (many of them became designers) and hip hop. Is graffiti really an element of hip hop culture like many claim or did it just come from the same place? The article is in dutch, sorry..