Welcome to this week's selection of links. Enjoy. Doodling is Good Plymouth University researchers carried out memory tests on 40 volunteers, asking them to listen to a phone call and recall names and places. They discovered that the doodlers performed 29% better than non-doodlers. Apparently, doodl...

In the London home of designer Lisa Whatmough, the dining room's white walls and floors and minimal table and benches allow Lisa's work — the fringed hanging lamp, the teapot covered in a Liberty pattern, and the chairs — to shine. In the corner, more colour is introduced with an Italian lamp co...

Welcome to this week's buffet — enjoy. Domino to Close It's likely that you've heard the sad news by now — yesterday it was announced that Domino magazine will be folding, due to the recession. In the press release issued yesterday, Condé Nast CEO Chuck Townsend said, “Although readership and...

Rachael of Number 8 will be showing this special Alphabet Soup archival print in the Art House Co-op's Scavenger Project, which opens in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 23rd. Digitally rendered from an original drawing, it's been printed with archival Ultrachrome pigment inks on archival quality matte ...

Happy browsing! Wes Anderson Interview The A.V. Club interviews Wes Anderson about his career in film up to the present, on the occasion of the Criterion release of his debut film Bottle Rocket on Blue-ray. Via Kottke. Disposable Fashion Ever wonder what happens to all those bargain-priced clothes t...

Stylist Charlotte de La Grandière offers an interesting alternative to the Christmas tree — silvery branches, artificial orchids, delicate tiny silver balls and glass pendants are loosely gathered together and spontaneously stapled directly to the wall. A tiny red bird flutters gently above. Scan...

Albert EinsteinPhysicist Einstein’s blackboard, used in a lecture in Oxford on 16 May 1931, deals with some of the most fundamental questions in cosmology . Brian EnoMusician ‘This is the depiction of a theory that Arabic singing bounced around the world in several directions creating what we ca...

This week's link finds, for a happy afternoon browse. Make yourself a cup of tea and enjoy. My Marrakesh Maryam's beautiful blog of her Morocco experiences is now about to become a book, which she describes as "part memoir, part Moroccan design treatise." It's due to be published in 2009, and I for ...

The very first issue of the Design for Mankind magazine is out! Available in print as well as online, it evolved from the lovely Erin's Inspiration online magazine, and all her hard work has resulted in a stunning read. Dash over to the Design for Mankind blog for info on ordering the print edition,...

This week's gathering of links for you to sample. Enjoy. The Worst Table in New York Eater ran a fun contest in April asking for candidates for the very worst restaurant table in New York City, and now it's the final showdown. There's four finalists you can vote on -- my pick is the antisocial singl...