Keith Davis Young will be launching a Skillshare class on Tattoo Illustration: Designing with Lines. I'm not really interested in becoming a tattoo artist but the concepts explained in that teaser video are solid insights for any designer. Plus, if it means I can get 20% closer to drawing / designing as he does, I'm in! Check it.

Almost any public transit system is an impressive feat - even a poorly done one. So, even though the transit system maps at Line Posters are incredibly simple, they still feel complex and engaging because it's mind boggling to imagine all these intersecting lines actually working at all.

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new album in October. First track sounds good!

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Nkymyura is responsible for the tumblog Glitch News - a repository of official news images that have, presumably, been found in the wild with some sort of intense digital artifacting. I dunno where these images are coming from as I rarely see such things myself but with thousands of pages of results, I assume it's got to be more common than I know.

The August Smart Lock is pretty much, conceptually, the same thing as Lockitron; an internet enabled bolt lock designed for just about any door. The difference being that the August is designed by Yves Behar - the designer responsible for the Jambox and the Ouya console. So, it looks real nice. It's still in preorder (and kind of expensive) but definitely looks promising.

TinyBop is a suite of iOS applications for children. Or, rather, it will be. For now, it's just a splash screen with a phenomenal collection of illustrations. Both the main tall image and the patterned background of random items are gorgeous. Love it! I believe Mr Robbs may be responsible for it.

The Great Discontent teamed up with Crush & Lovely to produce Two Minutes with TGD - a very short Q&A session with a variety of designers. This first video is taken from a session at the most recent Brooklyn Beta. The myriad of designers / makers featured in the video are answering the question Are you creatively satisfied? Not as easy to answer as you think.

My favorite responses are from Aaron Robbs and Mandy Blankenship, both for very different reasons.

If you were not aware, Dropbox just had their first ever developer conference - DBX. Yesterday they announced Platform Dropbox - a suite of tools that will enable apps, developers, etc to use Dropbox for file storage and data storage. This may not sound entirely revolutionary on the surface of things but it's a slow, natural, progression of their cloud service. This Wired article does a great job of covering the Who, What, Why and How of the whole affair. It seems like Dropbox is effectively inching their way into our digital lives so they become completely indispensable - I'm good with that.

This Jesus Prudencio series, Cars and Films is deceptively simple. Each vehicle depicted is actually incredibly well rendered but still has that twinge of handcrafted to it. I love the obvious selections - Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Pulp Fiction - but the odder vehicles like The Shining or Roman Holiday are possibly even better.

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The work of Signalstarr, aka Nick Stewart Hoyle, is steeped in the whole retro future aesthetic - in other words, most of the work stylistically feels like it's from the 70's or 80's looking towards the far future. Some of the aging of the pieces can get a bit heavy for my taste but it does push the idea that these are relics from the past, not from current times. I particularly enjoy when the subject matter is familiar but presented in an entirely unfamiliar way.

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Sam Smith has done it again! This limited edition Harryhausen tribute poster is off the charts awesome. I can't believe he only made 30, that's insanity!

Tackling the personal project of redesigning all the Wes Anderson movies into your own vision of a box set sounds like it would be over the line in terms of preciousness. However, that's exactly what Megumik Akumoto did and it's anything but overly precious. Mostly it's a great exercise in variety within consistency and remembering to pay respect to your subject matter through caring about the small details.

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