Sony HD experiment done by Pleix via Fallon. Poodles, suds, dissected cars, fluorescent bulbs, maiden, foil balloons, non-sequiturs. All in a days work..
If anyone has a link to the full RES HD version, post it in the comments.

Go deep. (Thanks, Birch!)

Plays like a tourism film for Iceland.  Now I want to move there and wander the land. There is no place like home. Via Antville post

Existing to encourage the heroic experiments of the gracefully over-ambitious, Machine Project presents workshops, events, installations and performances on a semi-regular basis. For more information check out the mission statement. (taken from http://www.machineproject.com) Call in sick for work and take some workshops.

Willem Henri Lucas

How often do you see a storefront with that type of signage?

The very talented Justin Thomas Kay updates his site with some great new type work.

Feel Good Anyway Portland's best motion firm.

Shout out to BDalt. 

In the rad category, the Zaha Hadid retrospective in London's Design Museum is breathtaking!

In the unrad category, Korean designers SSBA have taken Margaret Kilgallen's corpse for a more-than-stylistic piggyback ride. Reminds me of other swipes that have been copped lately. That "talent borrows, genius steals" line needs a "..and does it smartly enough to get away with it" caveat added. Neither SSBA nor Nagi Noda win in that department, much in the same vein of Paula Scher mining Herbert Matter back in the day.

Skating in the next dimension. The best way of explaining it is seeing it.

When designing, most folks don't think of the ideas behind the look, hoping only to evoke a comforting/ classic/ evocative/ insert-adjective-here sense of the past. Everyone's favorite maverick cultural critic du jour, David Marx makes some insightful comments about faux nostalgia in the Japanese marketing scene at the moment.

LOGAN is the directorial pseudonym for the designers Alexei Tylevich and Ben Conrad. It also is the name for the design and production company they established in Los Angeles in 2000.

McGinley, recently anointed as Young Photographer of the Year by the International Centre of Photography in New York after shows at the Whitney and P.S.I/Moma, produced a video featuring the Urban Mobility Edition Bag, the 8-speed Puma Urban Mobility Bike and nothing much else but a couple of lithe young nudies.

I haven't been so excited about a kids show since Fraggle Rock. Yo Gabba Gabba! is a new Nickolodeon show that has Mark Mothersbaugh as a host, features a "beat of the day" from Biz Markie and animation segments from Paperrad, Unibros, HomestarRunner and others. Read more here. Clip here