Open tomorrow, 4th September, until 7th September at Ada Street Gallery, East London, "Off Topic" is an exhibition of nine scholarship holders of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). More info at www.myspace.com/adastreet

A whole bunch of "inspirational design posters" from designer/illustrator Frank Chimero.

Flickr conversations, from Build.

Surreal sculptures from London designer/illustrator Jethro Haynes.

Due for world launch early 2009, Gary Hustwit's new film Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. "It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them."

Participants currently include: Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art, New York), Chris Bangle (BMW Group, Munich), Andrew Blauvelt (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis), IDEO (Palo Alto), Jonathan Ive (Apple, California), Dieter Rams (Kronberg, Germany), Karim Rashid (New York), Alice Rawsthorn (International Herald Tribune), Rob Walker (New York Times Magazine).

Telescopic Text - A great idea for splash page from Joe Davis

Website: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/

Quite simply, this made me giggle:
http://groy82.blogspot.com/2007/03/8-ways-to-drive-graphic-designer-mad.html

Bringing Graphic Design back to its roots and creativity, Princeton Architectural Press launch D.I.Y. Kids next month, a book by Ellen and Julia Lupton

Good 50x70; a poster design contest run this year. Focused toward five social issues: Aids, Environmental Damage, Human rights violation, Underdevelopment and War; Amnesty, Amref, Emergency, Greenpeace and Lila created briefs for the creative contestants to answer.

Interactive light displays found on Design Boom: 'Mes-Etoiles' (my stars), is a photo-sensitive, interactive wall that responds to the presence of people and displays feedback as a light pattern. the delay and persistence of the light response allows a user to 'paint' with light. See the video of the installation on Barrangan Studio.

Great video projection experiment using "Akzidenz Grotesk" by Tobias Battenberg, from Germany. Beautifully executed. Via Type For You.

What a wonderful example of reclaiming materials to create the perfect designer product! Built out of recycled billboard material and found hardware, these bird houses are made by Atelier Bomdesign.

French graphic design studio TRAFIK is featured on Apple. A must see!

This image found by Tina Roth Eisenberg, aka. SwissMiss. hit over 150,000 unique diggs yesterday. As everyone else, I'd go right.