This Japanese ski resort toilet has everything: a vertiginous, trompe l'oeil mural, a pink toilet that washes your bum, AND an incomprehensible slogan for a brand of tinned coffee! Georgia Max Coffee chose to redesign the toilets of a number of key ski resorts in Japan. The cubicles were fully wrapp...

While Adobe Illustrator is the preferred tool by most designers for illustrating and drawing digitally, Photoshop can also be used for some types of illustration. This post includes a selection of tutorials that cover the process of drawing various objects in Photoshop. Creating a Cartoon Hot Air Ba...

As a photographer that photographs models, there’s two primary goals that any website that tries to connect models and photographers should aim for: 1. Assisting a photographer in finding the right model. 2. Assisting the client in finding the right photographer. All else is peripheral. The id...

Yes, it is that time of year again, time for SXSW Interactive and the 2009 Weblog Awards! The Bloggies are the web's longest-running non-profit, reader voted blog awards. The votes are in and the Weblog Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, March 16th at 12:30pm (Central Time, GMT-5) at the SXSW T...

As I was driving into the Lijit offices, I was thinking about this years SXSW conference, and how different it would be for me. I was thinking about the posts I had read from friends who were going and had gone before. The difference for me this year will be striking (speaking vs. not-speaking, know...

Because I am, I just scored this lovely for a cool 20 clams over at Jen Bekman's 20x200 gallery . There are only 200 printed for that price and they're selling like bunk acid at a Dead show so go on! Scram! (P.S. Second choice was "I told my therapist about you." Because I did. But he just laughed a...

The WordPress Design Award is divided into 5 separate categories: 1. Best Clean & Minimalist 2. Best Retro & Vintage 3. Best Grunge 4. Best Hand-Drawing Style 5. Best Modern & Elegant That being said, we are giving away $200 COLD HARD CASH (via PayPal) to the winner of each category. ...

From the Big Chief Tablet Project (Swear Jar Inc on Flickr). Big Chief, my ass!...

As much as the internet has fueled innovation through the free exchange of ideas and collaboration with anyone across the globe, are we also remaking a market economy that only benefits those on top who control the mass lines of distribution? Wired considers the pitfalls of crowdsourcing - a phenome...

This morning Apple unveiled a brand new, re-imagined iPod shuffle. The new shuffle hits you with 4GB of storage space, which equates to about a 1,000 song capacity, and is half the size of the previous generation iPod shuffle, which in and of itself was pretty freaking small. Another new feature is ...