Colorsuckr

Create color schemes based on photos for use in your artwork & designs. Colorsuckr is a new feature-rich web based color app that extracts the 12 most common colours from any images and displays each color on a new page with the HEX, RGB and web safe color. A very quick and easy way [...]

Hiroshima, 64 Years Ago

Today marks 64 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States at the end of World War II. Today, Hiroshima houses a Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum near ground zero, promoting a hope to end the existence of all nuclear weapons. An insane collection of 34 photos of pre and post dropping [...]

Letterpress: Where, How and Inspiration!

A great collection of some online letterpress studios for you to get your next letterpress jobs printed, information about how to set up files for letterpress and 25+ images of beautiful letterpress inspiration via schteff.

Mr. Burglar Whiskey

Mr. Burglar, a gentleman whose style matches the essence of the brand. To further concept the designer used thermosensitive paper, so when the label is touched, your fingerprints become visible, creating a tactile connection with the product. Very, very solid.
Read the full article at dieline.com.

50 Stunning & Inspirational Stop Motion Videos

A very nice collection of 50 stop motion videos via Spyre Studios. Above is one of my favorites from the collection, be sure to check out all 50.

Water Conservation: Pee In The Bath Campaign

Peeing in the shower is shameful no more. In fact, it’s encouraged and even celebrated in this colorful, animated PSA from Saatchi & Saatchi in Brazil. The “Xixi no banho” (“Pee in the bath”) campaign is all about water conservation. Brazil hopes its multitasking citizens will save thousands of liters of water a year by [...]

Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned

I’m getting ready to read Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned. Should be a great read, I’m pretty excited about it!
From Amazon: The thrill of victory…the agony of defeat. Design Disasters captures the flip side of success, bringing insight, solace, and energy to the act of failure. Not just any failure. Design [...]

The Free Music Archive (beta)

I thought this was worth noting, nice site with a clean design and solid free music.
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to [...]

10 Mac Apps I love (Free Or On The Cheap)

Just a small collection of some of the applications that I find useful on a personal and professional level. I’m sure you’ve heard of and used some of them, if not I hope you find them as useful as I do.

Transmission (FREE)
A lightweight BitTorrent client. It features a simple, intuitive interface on top on an [...]

52 Superb Free Fonts

A gift for the weekend, a collection of 52 very nice free fonts…enjoy. Via 1st Web designer.