Chris Scarborough specialises in reinterpreting Japanese pop culture in a kind of manic way that echoes Shintaro Kago (minus some of the porn). He alternates between photography and illustration, creating realistic characters with freakish bugged eyes, or chaotic balls of debris in place of heads.
Via Don’t Panic.
Adrian Frutiger is the third person to be inducted in the European Design Hall of Fame.
This is a distinction voted for, not by a panel of judges, but by the european creative community.
Unfortunately, due to health issues he wasn’t able to attend himself the ED-Awards ceremony to pick up his prize. Instead, Thierry Hausermann, publisher of the swiss magazine idPure paid him a visit and recorded his message to the community. Here you can see parts of this „interview”.
Along with Opera’s new acid test 3 beating browser Opera 10 (beta) and Opera Unitewebserver on a browser, there’s some other nifty features too. While 'another beta browser’ is not all that exciting, Opera are further developing their gesture based input options, enhancing their mouse gestures and now adding webcam 'facial gesture’ as a browser control method.