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Follow Friday

A few designers/architects/creative professionals/darn cool people to add to your follow list.

http://twitter.com/bldgblog

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/

Bio: Author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, Contributing Editor at Wired UK and Dwell magazine.

http://twitter.com/lifesansbldgs

http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/

Bio: Life Without Buildings. Architecture out of context. And Pie.

http://twitter.com/GuyKawasaki

http://alltop.com/

Bio: RSSurai and ghosts

http://twitter.com/archdaily

http://archdaily.com

Bio: Architecure Daily

http://twitter.com/Archispeak

http://www.hughpearman.com/

Bio: Writer on architecture, lover of dereliction, spotter of urban oddness.

http://twitter.com/mlane

http://www.mlane.net

Bio: Senior UX Designer near Minneapolis, MN with 14 years experience in creative Web and Graphic Design.

Filed under: general

Design Your own WordPress Blog

I have been playing with the idea of mocking up a few of my own wordpress themes lately and couldn’t resist sharing this find with you..
The cool cats (yeah, im bringing it back) over at Pro Blog Design have recently put collated a number of WordPress Design Tutorials a whole 26 in fact!

It’s an awesome collection of unique tutorials from a number of different sources and designers, with a number of different techniques and processes!

Here is a small sample and my favourites:

Designing for WordPress: Complete Series & Downloads

How I Learned To Build WordPress Themes

GreenPress WordPress Theme Design

For the original fknawesome post head here.

Filed under: design, web design

Good Bye Google Reader – you were good for a fling, but I’ve found something better.

Good Bye Google Reader

– you were good for a fling, but I’ve found something better…

…and it’s

Described as the ‘online magazine rack’ of the web, Alltop lets you know whats going on in hundreds of different topics.
Their clever system will grab the 5 latest headlines from a number of sites and blogs on a particular subject via a feed and bring them straight to you on a very easy to use interface!

“Ultimately, our goal is to enhance your online reading by displaying stories from sources that you’re already visiting plus helping you discover sources that you didn’t know existed.”

Here is the visual interpretation by Dan Roam

Here are some examples of the sort of pages you can expect

http://photography.alltop.com/
http://fashion.alltop.com/
http://shoes.alltop.com/
http://typography.alltop.com/
http://design.alltop.com/
http://interior-design.alltop.com/

The best Thing about AllTop is that you can create your own customised ‘magazine rack’ simply sign up for an account and add the particular feeds you enjoy!

You can then share your magazine rack with friends and family.

Here’s a little insight into my personal tastes!
http://my.alltop.com/designtavern

Make sure to share your own alltop page with us!

Filed under: web design

Villa Dall’ava, Paris, France.

Villa Dall’ava by Rem Koolhaas and The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) was completed way back in 1991. It was designed for a family of three with seperate ‘apartments’ one for the parents and one for their daughter. The client who wished for a swimming pool on their roof alse specifically requested full panoramic views (from their pool) of the surrounding landscape and city of Paris where the Villa is located.

The site is like a big room, with a boundary made of greenery, garden walls and slopes. It is composed of three parts: a sloping garden, the main volume of the villa, the street level garage with access in a cavity.
The house is conceived as a glass pavilion containing living and dining areas, with two hovering, perpendicular apartments shifted in opposite directions to exploit the view. They are joined by the swimming pool which rests on the concrete structure encased by the glass pavilion.

Filed under: design

The Best Norwegian Electro group I have ever seen live…

Last Thursday I went to one of the best gigs I’ve been to in a long while, It was Datarock supported by Australian group Art Vs. Science.
In order for me to gloat about attending such an amazing gig ,on what is usally an art and design blog, I dug up some work by Norwegian photographer, Bent René Synnevåg who took these amazing shots of the band. (nice link, huh?)

Long story short, both Datarock and Art Vs. Science put on an amazing show, definitely worth seeing ! (Or checking out if you haven’t heard them yet!)

Filed under: design