I’m a big fan of sneakers and to my luck Retroman42o is selling 250 pairs of 100% original nikes… In my size! Let the drooling begin.

Oh yea, don’t get excited because current bid is $38,100 (update) $70,000.
Check out the entire collection on ebay

A stunning combination of cinematography, music & sport. This is truly a fantastic video, 120fps, High Definition Skateboarding… Simply Stunning!

This a great cross section of how design can be used to create transparent data. Taking a mass of complicated/boring data and turning it into something that can be interpreted easily.

I thought it better to provide a bit of text for each post to help give the visuals some context (hence the length), I have tried to provide link-backs for all the case studies but some of them I have lost so if I miss one feel free to fill me in! I also chucked in a few links to places that I drew inspiration from for this post.

Calender: Each month is assigned a colour according to its temperature. E.g. January = Freezing so it is assigned the colour light blue. Via Behance

Sentence Rhythms & Structures: This is one of my personal favorites the artists name is Stefanie Posavec and her maps capture regularities and patterns within the literary work ‘On the Road’ by Kerouac. Her maps visually represent the rhythm and structure of Kerouac’s literary space. For more info (and I strongly recommend the read) visit Stefanies website – its been real

One year in Iraq: An infographic that shows the loss of life in Iraq over a one year period. No lightbox for this image so that it is easier to read the details. Via NY Times

Hard Times: Less the visualisation of actual data, more the use of graphics to help people visualise information. Detailing the total amount of time innocent people have spent on death row. No lightbox for this image so that it is easier to read the details

Virtual Water: Based on the data gathered by Hoeckstra et al. in their study Water Footprint of Nations. German designer Timm Kekeritz visualizes the water footprint of selected nations, emphasizing the im- and export of virtual water. Via Traumkrieger

Obsessive Compulsive: This piece documents everything the designer owns, he has photographed, categorised and colour coded every item. Then quantified this information into charts.

A_B_ Peace & Terror: is a geopolitical survey of the 192 member states of the United Nations and their contribution to world peace/terror. It is a dual-sided poster where the A_ side displays measures of peace and the B_ side, measures of terror. For each of the A_B_ measures, the graph is divided into 3 rings (3 separate indexes for peace and 3 separate indexes for terror)… Via PlusMinus

I’ve stumbled on some really nice viral work lately, some of it has really inspired me to think outside the box more & it’s only fair to share.

Yesterday I attended Rise Festival 2008, an eco conscious, sustainable festival aimed at raising awareness of cultural & community diversity.

Rise has been a bit of a hot-topic this year in London. It was first pitched as London united against racism but Boris decided that the focus should be more on cultural diversity than anti-racism, implying that racism in London is the problem it once was (this view is wrong).

Boris has a shocking track record on racism and the promotors of Rise where very much involved in the Stop Borris campaign. I think it was poor show of Boris to change the name in an attempt to remove the political motive behind the festival, after all if you can’t have a political motive at a festival, when can you have one?!

All said and done though I thought the festival was a success, the weather was amazing there was a lot of good attitude (apart from the few bad eggs that make an appearance at every free event) and the music was fantastic. Jimmy Cliff was headlining and despite the fact that the festival was supposed to be non-political he didn’t seem to care, vocally putting down Blair & Bush and spurring on Rise for their sustainable policies.

Here are a few videos from the day event (the Jimmy Cliff one is great!)