TikTok & LunaTik Multi-Touch Watch Kits

This creation has been developed by TikTok and LunaTik which simply transforms the iPod Nano into the world's coolest multi-touch watches.

TikTok is a simple snap-in design. It allows the user to easily and securely snap the Nano into the wrist dock. It cleanly and simply integrates the Nano and transforms it into a modern multifunction timepiece.

LunaTik is designed and intended to be a premium conversion kit for someone that wants to dedicate their Nano to being a watch and the newest conversation piece with their friends. It is forged from Aerospace Grade Aluminum.

There is even a limited edition red version!

How Colours Affect Purchases

Pantone released there colour of the year for 2011 as Honeysuckle "a dynamic reddish pink." The colour described by Pantone is Courageous, Confident & Vital. A brave new colour, for a brave new world. Let the bold spirit of Honeysuckle infuse you, lift you and carry you through the year. It’s a colour for every day – with nothing “everyday” about it.

This leads to the question of how colours affect purchases?

An infographic designed by online analytics firm KISSmetrics details the impact colour has on purchasing decisions.

KISSmetrics found that each 93% of all consumers place visual appearance and colour above other factors, and that 85% of them place colour as the “primary reason” for why they buy a particular product.

Buyers are also swayed by individual colours. Where red could mean “energy” and “creates urgency”, purple is used to “soothe and calm”, the infographic states.

And for brands looking to home in on the impulse shoppers, KISSmetrics said red, orange, black and blue are the colours that appeal to that demographic.

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Vivid welcomes Seb

There's a new fresh face in town and it's the new member to the team. Vivid Brand welcomes Seb to join us as a junior designer.

A.P.C. + Aésop

An interesting collaboration between French fashion label A.P.C. and Australian skin-care brand Aesop. Together they have developed the 'Fine Fabric Care', an effective alternative to dry cleaning for delicates.

The analogue Facebook

In a promotion for French telecommunications company Bouyges Télécom, the 'continually changing' nature of online social networking has been challenged. There are so many strands to a site such as Facebook, with entries getting lost or forgotton. Bouygues Télécom created the option of turning your Facebook profile into an actual book.

Pharrell Williams and Domeau & Pérès

Taking inspiration from love between man and woman, musician and entrepreneur Pharrell Williams teamed up with furniture designer Domeau & Pérès to create the critically acclaimed “Perspective” chairs. They are now on display at the Gallerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris. The contemporary furniture pieces are featured in four colorways with leather, luxurious velour and veal skin wrapped seats.

Apple Destroyed Products

San Francisco graphic designer Michael Tompert and photographer Paul Fairchild are trying to make people think about their relationship with these universally beloved gadgets.

Having spent the last several months purchasing the newest in Apple consumer technology and then creatively destroying the pricey toys, the results, which they photographed, went on display at a gallery exhibition.

'it's not about destroying old products. it's about our relationship with the new.'

Carnovsky's RGB wallpaper

Carnovsky's has created wallpapers that react to different coloured lights. They are featured in an exhibition at the Johanssen Gallery in Berlin, alongside more work exploring the same theme.

The designs were created for the Milan shop of Janelli & Volpi, a noted Italian wallpaper brand. Each features overlapping illustrations, different elements of which are revealed depending on whether a blue, green or red light is shone upon them.

Vivienne Westwood and The Brits

This year's Brits mark a change in direction for the annual British Music Awards ceremony.

As well as changes to the voting academy and overall format, each year will see a different famous designer putting their stamp on the award.

2011 sees Vivienne Westwood designing the trophy. Initial sketches of Westwood's take on the 'Britannia' statue have caused quite the buzz.

Window Installations for Selfridges Shoe Galleries

Lernert & Sander's latest installations for London department store Selfridges. A humorous exploration into shoe design mixed with an obsession with high heels resulted in the creation of original installations transforming everyday household domestic appliances into fantastical representations of extreme shoe designs.

Moonstruck Chocolate Packaging

These beautiful chocolate bar wrappers are designed by typographer Kate Forrester for chocolate company Moonstruck. The detail in the illustrations and typography on the wrappers are a hand-cut paper style. Just amazing with their handcrafted quality, visual beauty, multi-sensory experience and imagination.

Scrabble Mugs

This year's best Christmas gift; Scrabble mugs. Brings a whole new meaning to drinking 'T'...

Bates Gentleman's Hatter

At the Hilditch & Key store in Paris, Bates Gentlemen's Hatters' artisan packaging takes on a nostalgic typographic approach.

Real Magick in Theory and Practise

Believed to be the most geometrically complex and aesthetically beautiful structure in mathematics and the most geometrically accurate visualisation to date, the 4_21 polytope is the algebraic form at the centre of a universal theory of everything. I thought this was a really intricately designed, a well thought through and laid out piece of design.

City of London Coordinates

Caroline Silfverling's City of London Coordinates print is infographics at it's best. The print also features a list of London Boroughs.

Fedrigoni Calendar 2011

Fedrigoni UK releases its exclusive 2011 desk calendar. This curious desk calendar draws its inspiration from the Matryoshka or Russian Doll and uses the vibrant colours from their range of Sirio Colour papers to make it eye catching. Diecut to reveal the colour beneath, each one is litho printed with metallic silver ink.

Jeeves & Wooster

Designer Jake Phipps reflects on classic British icons, the Bowler and Top hats, making pendant lights from authentic headwear.

Seb Lester's Stars

Seb Lester, type designer and illustrator has designed this new limited edition screen-print. When looking closely you can see how much time he has put into creating this beautifully hand crafted piece of typography which is made up of tiny stars and inspired by Vincent Van Gough's famous quote.

Boudicca Wode

Wode, the scent form UK fashion label Boudicca has been coined as 'Art Fragrance' because of it's fading properties. The 'Paint' version sprays on blue, before vanishing.

René Gruau at Somerset House

An exhibition of the work of renowned illustrator René Gruau opened at Somerset House last week.

Gruau created some of the most iconic fashion images of the 20th Century, most notably whilst working with the House of Dior.

Apple; Most Influential Brand in UK & US

The TLG annual index report has named Apple as the most influential brand in both the UK and US.

A far cry from Apple's now minimalist logo, this is how they were originally branded. Spot the apple in the tree? Any thoughts on a 'Heritage' collection of offerings from the superbrand?

Hembakat År Båst (Homemade is Best)

Raw ingredients have never looked so appetising... Ikea's recipe book literally puts the 'art' in the 'art of cooking.'

Emeco with Coke

U.S. Furniture manufacturer Emeco collaborate with Coca-Cola to produce the iconic '111 Navy Chair' made from 111 recycled plastic bottles.