"i think this might be my proudest professional achievement to date. please please please keep drawing more smoking bears."

"In the game you are rewarded for keeping your tracks together while navigating through the surreal world of an "architectural" diagram. The camera moves in continuous motion and the object is to finish the course with as many points as possible." Watch the trailer; it's astoundingly pretty. Can't wait for this one!

Matt's talk (in English) from Lift 09 is on this page , on scientific fiction, stories, and the design process. Good stuff - not too long - and wonderfully filmed: the cameraman focuses on his hands as much as his face, which is just perfect. Unfortunately, you can't link directly to videos which is, frankly, rubbish.

I can't really quote from it, but you need to read this; it's the most deliciously bonkers concept, and if they pull it off - which seems like it might just be possible, given the level of detail they talk about the game at - it could be properly magical. Lovely preview, too.

Just like magic. Lovely.

Pokemon illustrated next to humanised representations of themselves. Cute, silly.

"Colors! is a simplistic digital painting application for Nintendo DS based on modern
painting-techniques developed for drawing tablets in programs like Photoshop."

People draw maps and more from memory. The results are interesting to say the least, and, at times, beautiful.

Interesting looking cheap drawing package for the Mac.

"Sketching is not only practical but essential. It is the quickest, most accessible way to find out if a space, a vista, a progression can work and also to communicate it to others."

"In 1947 Life Magazine asked some famous comic strip artists to to draw their famous characters while wearing a blindfold." The results are, in equal parts, strange and wonderful.

This is me, I think.

Ugh! Google release a cross-platform, free version of the awesome, awesome Sktechup. So cool. Want to gome and play with this NOW.

Skeletal analysis of cartoon characters across the 20th century