Scanwiches, it’s an interesting one.

19 year old Korean figure skater Kim Yu-Na wins Gold at 2010 Vancouver Olympics. A great commercial for Nike’s “Just Do It” advertising campaign and here’s another short clip of the ad in the making…

On a recent visit to Dublin, I came across a furniture design store which housed a fantastic collection of products. O’d design is a great establishment run by furniture designers Tadhg and Simon.

Graphic designer and digital artist Alexey Malina created the brand identity for a small design studio based in Moscow. He has a very bold and simple approach to design.

Melbourne based hziii customizations has recently released their latest design ‘Venom’. This will be a great addition to their existing collection as each shoe is designed and illustrated with simplicity combined with delicate details.

A producer from Uruguay who uploaded a short film to YouTube in November 2009 has been offered a $30m (£18.6m) contract to make a Hollywood film. This clip is 4 mins 48 seconds long and was made on a budget of $300 (£186). So far it has had more than 1.5 million views on YouTube. Fede Alvarez – “I uploaded (Panic Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios,”

The MIT Media Lab’s John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics.

Arne Jacobsen’s classic Cylinda bar set is getting a sleek makeover via British fashion icon, Paul Smith. The limited edition “Statement” line covers the steel pieces in a black titanium finish with engraved statements from Paul Smith himself which reveals the stainless steel layer. More at Stelton.

End Grain is a website dedicated to letterpress type and has a wonderful collection of wood type as well. Good examples and good tips for anyone learning about about letterpress.

I attended a long lunch talk this evening by Anthony Burrill and got inspiration from his simple approach to ideas. For example, he told us that this ‘work hard’ poster was simply taken from a conversation he had overheard when this cashier girl told the customer that the secret to happiness in life is to work hard and be nice to people. Burrill then paired this phrase with his love of screen printing and woodblock type to produce the posters.