Odopod launched, just for fun, an interactive sketch book, so you can play with it while you wait for a snail client feedback.

Umeric, from Sydney with love! A wonderful update and a new shop on their website.

OFFF just launched a new website and the list of the upcoming speakers for next year’s event. Kyle Cooper, Joshua Davis, UVA, Multitouch Barcelona, Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher, Renascent, Presstube, DK, Karsten Schmidt, Universal Everything, Aaron Koblin, Hillman Curtis … Special Raster-Noton Event at OFFF Lisbon’09. 
This is by far one of the most outstanding news we have for you: OFFF and the prestigious electronic music label http://www.raster-noton.de/ will join together for a very special version of http://www.offf.ws/Contents (the experimental music area at OFFF, check out contents section). It will be a unique http://www.raster-noton.de/ event with almost their whole artists rooster playing live in an exclusively customized venue for the occassion. BUT there is more: for such an special event we joined forces with http://www.raster-noton.de/ to release an exclusive CD compilation with tracks from all the artists playing in Lisbon. You will get this compilation for free with the http://www.offf.ws/ Tickets for OFFF Lisbon’09, so go for it, this will be the only way to get this exclusive item.

The magnifique French studio Hello Hikimori has updated with plenty of new stuff for your voyeurism.

For rolling paper company OCB’s clothing label Black Thinking, Cisma (Denis Kamioka) directed “The Fly and the Eye”, a comically surreal short that’s equal parts Hitchcock and Alice in Wonderland. As a web-only project, Cisma was able to play with the bounds of the video frame to his heart’s content, giving him ample room for some grin-worthy gags. The making of video gives you a glimpse into some of the trickery involved. Looks like it was a fun shoot. Sound Design by Combustion.

Savings Account is the debut of Blast Radius AD, Mauricio Pommella, on the graphic novel realm. Doing it by heart, Mauricio really arrives with style!

Right when NIN started its tour around the globe, I’ve following it thru videos on youtube, and when NIN announced that they would come to São Paulo, I bought the ticket in the same second. After you read about how the show is, I think you would buy it too if they come to your city. Trent Reznor is truly inspiring.

When it comes to Poland, the first studio that appears on my mind is Ars Thanea. Their creativity and originality is above the others. That can be verified with their recent update, with works for Redd’s, Martini and BenQ.

Nice experiment with Papervision. This 3D spider has a very good interaction and reaction.

Sean Dunne’s documentary about Paul Mawhinney, the largest vinyl collector on earth, is intriguing. The devotion of a man threw on garbage thanks to technology and lack of care of people about the medium that made music available for everyone. Probably the new wave of vinyl adorers will help this guy and his archive.

The idea of the project was born when Lorenzo Fonda realized that he was such a big fan of Blus art that he felt everyone should know about it. Being Lorenzo a film director, it was natural that the medium of choice to portray the artist work would have been the documentary form. After managing to convince crazy italian production company Mercurio that this was an even crazier but worthwhile project, they decided to hop on a plane and travel on the other side of the world, with the precise intent to explore how such different cultures and lifestyles would influence and inspire Blus art. They crossed Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Argentina with just the aid of some guides and a few contacts with friends and local artists here and there. What came out was un unscripted film about improvisation, inspiration (and perspiration), innovation, self-exploration and all the other good things in life that end with -ion. This film is now going to be shown on several places. Check out the screenings.

The young Brazilian studio, Estudio Mopa, has been featured in several places and already gave lots of speeches around the scene (They will be on TMGD in Buenos Aires this year too). For this occasion, they updated their portfolio.

The Brazilian artist/designer/font creator, Eduardo Recife, just released the 4th version of his amazing Misprinted Type. Since 1998 delivering inspiration and free goods.

Mountain Dew has joined the fever of customized bottles and hired top notch designers out there to create art for their bottles. Artists like PJ Richardson, Chuck Anderson and others.

The Bird Nest was pretty beautiful at night.

Sam Green has some nice illustration skills.

The Brazilian studio Animatório is a young studio, but already have some excellent works under its name. Brazil being a place with difficult access to grow with motion graphics (yes, even tho you guys know some Brazilian agencies, it’s a hard place), the people from Animatório has been doing a wonderful job and they are a name to be watched. They already received awards from Adobe and have been featured on STASH DVDs.

The amazing Brazilian director, Denis Kamioka, aka CISMA, just brought his portfolio up. Finally he was able to gather his body of work, which has being inspiring people since he was working a LOBO, long time ago.

Mother’s creative director, Gui Borchert, updates his online portfolio, filled with amazing works he has done all over the years.

Blast Radius’ Art Director, Sam Dallyn, just uptades his portfolio. Very tight, minimal and clean.

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.

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.

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

The Realistic Fantastic Art of Ryohei Hase

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.

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!

Nelson Balaban Jr aka XTRABOLD released on his birthday, a massive update on his portfolio, containing great works he developed for Tronic Studios and Lobo, among others. Must check this talented Brazilian prodigy (he’s 19!).

Hello Design just launched You Be The Driver, a full experience for F1 fans, specially for those who support BMW Sauber.