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It’s been a while, here’s a quick list of some good stuff from the past weeks. Things are super busy right now with Finestimaginary things, so unfortunately haven’t been able to compile weekly lists. Hopefully that’ll ease off soon and I can start posting more good stuff.

• Scary, scary hail stones in the USA. Via boingboing.
• Smashing mag round up the 50 most powerful time savers for web designers/developers.
• Barbecuing? You need some unicorn corn holders.
• Lego style macbook keyboard vinyl decal. Available on etsy!
• Enjoyed reading this ‘day in the life of’ on Design for mankind, Kristyna Litten an illustrator from Edinburgh.
• Vintage posters discovered in an abandoned London Underground station. Via grainedit.
• Creative review lists the UK degree shows. Some of these have probably been and gone by now!
• Lovecraftian art exhibition in Brooklyn, runs until July 23rd.
• Threadless t-shirts are on sale again, so if you missed out last time take a look now!

Great new exhibition ‘Threadbare‘ at the Manchester craft and design centre, Debbie Smyth makes drawings out of thread. Amazing work!

Knitted nikes on CR blog.

Best video in ages, adorable sloth orphanage. Major squees all ’round!

Interesting new iPhone app from the Museum of London that overlays old street views on top of current day ones, creates some very interesting imagery. Via creative review.

Amazing crochet birds by Louise Weaver, via design for mankind.

Annie’s Chocolate Oatmeal Almost-Candy Bars. How good do these look???!

Poppytalk rounds up lego artwork from around the world.

Gorgeous circus shoot with Karen Elson (Jack White’s missus) shot by Steven Meisel. Via ru_glamour

Smashing mag lists web design trends for 2010.

Seeing as missed last weeks for one reason or another, I’ve got quite a backlog of fun things that I bookmarked this week…

Gigantic plush creatures and vinyl figures, I WANT TO WORK HERE!

I also wouldn’t mind working in a studio like this, via boingboing

Nice printed maps by ‘These are things‘, via design*sponge

Amazing bird decorations/lampshades by Mathieu Challiere, found via Oh Joy!

This story made me squee the other day, two trekkers going through the USA and down through South America picked up a companion in Louisiana. Adorable. Via cuteoverload

Gorgeous work of Istvan Vasil, found on poppytalk this week. My kinda colours!

London’s flagship Mulberry store transformed into a colourful Glastonbury, more images on the CR blog.

Illustrations by Alyssa Nassner, found on pikaland

Here is a possum baby in a saucer of milk.

The forever blanket, featured on design for mankind.

Where the wild things are mobile, via rare bird finds.

Smashing Mag round-up of minimalist web design
Also from Smashing mag this week, 20 fresh high quality free fonts
Soupa provided a great list of illustration agencies for those wanting to get their work on agency books.

A day late! But I was at Iron Man 2 last night (which is most excellent) so didn’t get a chance to post this. Just a few things this week..!

Lovely work by artist Ben Heine, see more on his flickr.

Great seller on etsy who upcycles vintage crockery into pieces of wonderfulness. Ranging from dinosaurs to star wars, check them out here.

Love this photo post on Oh Joy! this week, nothing better than super colourful houses. I’m really loving mixing tonnes of different colours right now, we have this mix going on on our landing walls.

Octopus chandeliers posted on Craftzine this weekend, nice nice.

Living paintings by Alex Meade, you have to see these! amazing.

UK band get $300,000 to change their name because of Banksy’s new film, Exit Through The Gift Shop Door.
Time line graph of time travel in science fiction shows.

Hey, how’s it going? I’m eating a cookie and it’s gooooooood.

The world shouted GoodBye to Malcome McLaren yesterday, the photos from his funeral make my heart skip. That guy knew how to live, and it seems he knew how to die. Such a fitting send off for the king of punk.

This swing necklace is epic cute, you like? Via designformankind

It’s spprrrrrinnnngg. Which means flowers! Via Craftzine

Katie posted this AMAZING link to photos of Navy Cats. Adorable!

CMYK sewing machine concept, great idea! Not sure how it’d be in practice, though…

Anatomy of a tribble, via Geekologie. We watched Amok Time the other night… du du DURDURDURDURDUR du du DER, du du DURDURDURDURDUR du du DERDER!

Process shots of Grace Jones’ famous album cover. Via boingboing

New collection from Ban.do, I just love these product shots. The colours are amazing. Via oh joy

Lovely cookies, I really want some party rings now! NOM. Via design*sponge

Ohh take a sneak peak inside the Jimmy Choo factory, courtesy of his son, Danny Choo.

And finally check of this article about the history of western type on web designer wall.