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Link love for August 17th

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We Are The Friction (above) is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators

Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs

A short manifesto on the future of attention.

The mystery of Times New Roma.

Finalists for the 2009 James Dyson Award.

Lessons from slime mold: how to survive and thrive in ever-changing organizational environments.

Top twenty finalists of ReBurbia, a suburban design competition.

Growing ideas in the garden of innovation.

Photos of the last suppers of inmates on death row in the USA.

The Font-as-Service.

Bruce Handy on Mad Men.

Archaeologists are slowly unearthing the ghastly secrets of Cahokia, an ancient city under the American heartland.

Link love 2009-04-24

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Babushka (above) is a modern, lit version of the classic Russian Doll. Turn Babushka on and off by pushing down on the top of the light, and watch it faze through its cycle revealing varied colors as it goes.

Field is an open source framework that combines code and visual views for creating dynamic media arts.

NYT food writer Mark Bitman maintains a vegan diet during the day, but says anything goes after 6 p.m.

One of our favorite sketch comedy shows, The State, is finally coming to DVD.

This Belkin surge protector is a great idea for turning off your electronics when they’re inactive.

Check out this Flickr set of vintage beer cans.

Amazing concept artwork from Andree Wallin (despite the huge, annoying site header).

The Teenage Engineering OP-1 is so cool we want one even though we don’t know what it does.

Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek have spent the last 15 years studying the dress codes of social groups and published a book and website featuring their photographs and findings, called Exactitudes.

’241543903′ is the tag for photos of people putting their head in a freezer.

MTV Cherry Girl is an impulsive character, who finds that her actions, which are seemingly self-indulgent, can have a positive effect on the people and environment around her.

Broadcast at Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents a selection of works, dating from the 1960s to the present, that interrupt broadcasting systems in order to examine or challenge the structure, influence, and power of mainstream television and radio.

Cut-up and pasted-together photos of locations in New York depict unseen herds.

J.G. Ballard proves you should live a bit before writing.

Link love 2009-04-13

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Design Business Review (above) is a print-on-demand publication that will help you learn more about the business of creativity.

Dork Yearbook features pictures from yesteryear of geeks and the computers they love.

The Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) is a global community of people working at the intersection of communication design and the built environment.

Frog Design envisions a smart, multi-function ID card.

We know more about outer space than the planet beneath our feet, but an ambitious plan to scan deep beneath the US will change all that.

Communicate the benefit of the benefit, ie. the emotional well-being the product or service provides.