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Syzygy AG brought a cool concept to a commercial purpose. First I saw it on Zhestkov’s experiments, but when Syzygy applied to the Mercedes-Benz Viano website, it brought a new view to the concept.

Celebrating the Spain victory on EuroCup (finally something!), let’s bring some Spanish flavor to RR. Tomás Peña, a very talented designer/director, just updated his portfolio. The young artist has hands on several different medias, he also worked at Buck LA. He’s now represented by Creative Syndicate and OINK Digital, and it’s back in Spain after a time in the US.

Entertainment Weekly made an interview with the acclaimed French director, Michel Gondry, talking about his 25 favorite music videos and with his comments on each one.

Anders Jandér’s cult Museum Paper imprint goes from strength to strength with release 005 (theme: Growth), featuring high profile contributors including, but not limited to, David Shrigley. For a Museum Paper stockist, or just all-purpose zine gape, try TTC

Ever amazing Tomer Hanuka updates.

Cool concept but I am not sure the site have the same quality. Check it out here.

Surfing through the web this night, i just went to Mario Hugo portfolio and got me by surprise, because his style fits exactly what I was looking for a long time. A bit mysterious and lots of talent. I’ve checked every single item there, be sure to do it too.

J.Puckey announces new intersite rebuild via Twitter. Expect hardcore design algorithms from this Holland based UK ex-pat, who exists 5-10 years in the future. Pictured: Tool assisted Delaunay image vectorization using Scriptographer. Currently under development.

Micke Thorsby AKA PMKFA opens his new electric shop, chinned to the K with cloth-based warez. From the press release: This is the way you can purchase our stuff straight from the source [...] We hope you will enjoy what you see on the site [...] we promise not to spam you [...]

A cursory inspection of the site HTML reveals it has been built using Wordpress and a shopping-cart plugin. WP cart plugins are presently thin on the ground; it seems It’s Our Thing have used a heavily customised version of eShop or something different entirely. WP e-commerce plugin is appalling and can destroy a WP install. The other two available don’t exactly blow the doors off. Please somebody write a decent one.

Happy Bday to our very own Andreas Pihlström.

Esther Stocker, born in Alto Adige, Italy, lives and works in Vienna.

- James West has put together a book of 50 designers favourite typefaces in aid of UNICEF. Yours for only £3 and well worth it.

Duane King from BBDK has (re)thought his living. Thinking for a Living™ is an ever-growing platform dedicated to the concept of open source design education that was created by BBDK in 2007. Recently they partnered up with Athletics to relaunch the site with a blog and the unique integration of content powered by the Del.icio.us web bookmarking service. Source: TypeNeu

Deleted Scenes Magazine just went online. Deleted Scenes is a quarterly magazine on graphics, fashion | photography, street culture. Don’t forget to buy yours.

Taschen has just put up an online version of mine and Julius Wiedemann’s book, Guidelines for Online Success. Go to page 73 to read WEFAIL’s crazy introduction for Marketing & Communication.

The Realistic Fantastic Art of Ryohei Hase

Loic Sattler updated his lysergid.com with several impressive new works.

A new version of Football Heroes is ready for all the football/design fans around the globe! In times where Eurocup is on its edge, it’s a very propitious time to get your hands on this kind of book. Several great artists collaborate to create a very inspiring red edition. The coolest, is that you can see the preview of the entire thing online.

New site and work up for director/designer Anthony Furlong.

- M O M O has just let me know you can now buy prints of his excellent street work online. Wish I had a few spare $$$.

Interesting behind-the-scenes look at the very talented HUSH crew.

- There’s something very odd and magical about the photography of Grégoire Alexandre. Highlights for me include the image above, steaming boots and the ski-ing images. I just can’t stop looking at them.

Rob Chiu of The Ronin fame recently directed and orchestrated a rather beautiful and dynamic clip for Digital Kitchen. For more info about the whole package done by Digital Kitchen please head over to Motionographer.

Universal Everything — Reel ‘08

With a little help of mine, Pete Golibersuch has just brought to public his brand new Dropclique with some nice work!

Modernista got 2.0! With a very innovative way of presenting their portfolio, Modernista is using all the famous web 2.0 sites (for real), inside their own. Genius!

Neubauberlin has released a NBGrotesk Video to promote the public release of the Neubau Grotesk typeset. The typeset will be avaialble for purchase at Neubauladen from July 1st.

A True Amphibian

I really like the new Moodstream from GettyImages. It let’s you set your mood and then shows fullscreen images and music that correlates to the mood. They call it a “powerful brainstorming tool designed to take you in inspiring, unexpected directions.” Take it for a spin!