China is a country with five thousand years of civilization. It is a multi-national entity extending over a large area of East Asia. China’s cultural influence extends across the continent, with customs and writing systems adopted by neighboring countries including Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

China has gone through numerous ups and downs and twists and turns, from wealthy and prosperous (as during the Tang Dynasty back in 618–907 AD) to powerless and colonized (as during the Qing Dynasty, just around 100 years ago). Now China is reopening its door to the world again, embracing the latest trends, concepts and technologies, the World Wide Web being one of them.

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Color is an important aspect of web design. Good web designers choose color carefully to serve a purpose. Sometimes that purpose is to be bold and get people’s attention, and yellow happens to be an excellent “attention getting” color. Yellow is a high energy color that can evoke mental activity and bring on cheerful thoughts.

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Watch concepts without traditional numerics and even analog hands? Minimalism to its extreme – or at least that’s what designer Robert Dabi is pitching. His ZERO watch has two discs  (one each for hours and minutes) that spin to tell time. My main problem with many numeric-less concepts is a delay in reading them. The ZERO looks like it may avoid that because I have no problems reading it. No word if it’ll hit the market but the flexible metal/rubber band will come in an array of colors if it does. Hit the jump for a video.

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“The new Skoda Octavia RS. Your left foot will envy your right.”

Advertising Agency: Leagas Delaney, Hamburg, Germany

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At the time of the exposure Passagen 2010, here this installation designed by the German company Lichtfront. Entitled “Augmented Sculpture”, it acts of a multi-projection of 4 sources mixing at the same time with the forms and textures. The graphs are carried out under After Effects.

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Maybe the whole cosmos isn’t in this pillow, but the LEDs hidden in a zippered compartment and causing these glowing, swirling patterns sure do give the illusion that it is. At about $37, the Moonlight cushion is pricier than let’s say a pillow with the Android mascot, but I think that it’s worth it—even if only as a pretty nightlight.

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HDRcreme is the first reference website for HDR photos that lets you share your works with other people, watch thousands of pictures and learn through tutorials about High dynamic range imaging.

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Adding visual elements to your website design can often make the difference between a good and a great site. While illustrations can often take a lot of time and talent to produce, the result is often a stunning website design that can really make an impact with your readers. The following showcase includes 40 examples of brilliantly illustrated web designs to help inspire you for your next project.

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Advertising Agemcy: TBWA\G1, TBWA\Paris, France

Sebastian’s Voodoo – A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death. Click here to see them all.

DRIFTLAB presents the re-launch of DRIFTLAB.com, the online hub of the ward-winning interactive agency.

Citroën Survolt - Motorshow Geneva 2010

LAIKA/ House director Aaron Sorenson and SurfRider Foundation deliver a sobering message in this magestic 2D/CG integrated PSA.

While our luxury carmakers are still building their first hybrids, Lexus already has four on the road today.

This is induction cooking at its finest. Designed to be functional and as a wonderful table top to serve from, the CookIn Table encourages family time by engaging everyone to join in ala hot pot style. The cooktop only heats up when a metallic surface touches it. Beneath the glass top are retractable shelves for additional service stations and beneath that is storage for utensils. Beautiful and accompanied by an extremely detailed exploded view. We like that.

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A Chinese artist named PixieTea both recorded this song and shot the accompanying video almost entirely on an iPhone 3GS. The surprise? It’s actually pretty decent! Through a slew of music generation apps, like DrumMeister, Bassist, iDrum, NlogSynthesizer, NESynth and iShred, plus photography software including a stop motion app and 5d2 (a remote for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR used for a few of the shots) and, of course, a laptop, PixieTea (and crew) created this 3:39 music video named “ABCD Said” from the ground up. For the skeptics in the house, apparently the story was confirmed by local media. And yes, the vocals were most probably recorded through a standalone mic.

[Source: GizModo]

Willian Hideki Murai, brazilian, born in Mogi das Cruzes-SP, raised in Arujá, illustrator, comic book colorist, skateboarder for fun, geek by nature.

Great trailer of GT5, found into God of War III disc. Amazing night racing, big cities, great landscape, god of car.

Winnie Lui jewellery designer created the White Light Fixture for Innermost. It is a chandelier that is made of waste. In this concept trash is made equal to treasure. The dramatic design is made from unique pieces sourced to create the elegant limited edition of 100 individual White and Black chandeliers (50 each).

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Raveonettes - “Heart of Stone” (animated music video), from the album “In and Out of Control”(2009). The music video has been directed by Chris Do at Blind, Inc.