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The Big Cup is coming to South Africa. Dress for success. Dress to impress.

Now available from the very fine MySoti Store

(* Headline translates roughly as: Hurry guys! The Big Cup is coming)

Initially having studied architecture, Maxim Zhestkov is a 24 year old Russian designer with more than a solid handle of minimal graphic design.

http://www.zhestkov.com/

Beautiful station ID for Finnish TV by Jopsu Ramu and Tokyo artist and designer and Shun Kawakami.

Check out Shun Kawakami’s other great stuff on his personal site: www.shunkawakami.jp.

Kawakami’s work if very much based in electronic music. And reminds me to an extend of another artist I really admire and have been meaning to post for a while – Carsten Nicolai who is exploring similar themes to myself in his artwork – light, sound and minalism.

Nicolai is well known in Germany for his sound and light specific installations, and his giant dream machine – called Rota, which has recently been turned into an iPhone App. Nicolai is also part of the pioneering record labelRaster Noton. I was recently lucky enough to attend their label showcase night at the WMF in Berlin to witness the future sound of music – a hybrid of dancefloor friendly electro and electronica that made the room and your body vibrate.

Here is Aoyama Spaces, spaces illuminated through a play of sound and light:

http://www.carstennicolai.de
http://www.raster-noton.net/

Singapore based Concave Scream’s instrumental album. Nice packaging too.

http://www.concavescream.com/

Hoagy Houghton’s project where random musical compositions written through colour using a grid, were then was translated into musical notes using a colour scale.

http://www.hoagyhoughton.co.uk/aleatory_compositions.html

Now on at the second edition of CODED CULTURES – a selection of work by Ryota Kuwakoba (aka vector scan). Coded Cultures is a binational festival  between Austria and Japan and aims to explore new artistic practices within digital media related arts. The festival is part of the official Austria – Japan Year 2009.

http://codedcultures.com/ryota-kuwakubo-selected-works/

http://vector-scan.com/ 

King of Africa: King’s Car. By Heidi Chisholm (ex Daddy Buy Me a Pony).
Black and yellow print on white American Apparel, 100% pure cotton. Slick.
Available at http://www.kingofafrica.com.

Also check out the King of Africa blog.

Meshmerizer is an interactive, generative, audio-reactive visualization app for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

http://www.memo.tv/meshmerizer_for_iphone

Also check MSAFluid in the wild.

Yes please. http://www.thinkofthe.com/products/speak-er.php

Inspirational work from Nigel van Dennis and his more commercial work here.

Average commuting times on the F Train from 7th Ave, Brooklyn to 14th St, Manhattan, New York.