Move over Scarlett Johansson. Carla Bruni, as in wife of the French President, is now inspiring Woody Allen’s film making.
She is a quintessential Minor Woody Allen Character: sexy, wealthy, European in that luxury-hotel sense that he adores, liberated in a pre-feminist sort of way, with creative aspirations that are preposterous but which powerful, besotted men [...]

The Packaging Design Archive, an extensive resource of “the best examples of innovative packaging objects”.
It is an instrument for research and teaching activities, project development and business. It’s a tool for the monitoring of innovation in packaging design and it is based on an on-line archive of packaging projects, which are catalogued and organized according [...]

Bob Dylan seems hell bent on visiting houses and buildings where iconic latter-day musicians have either previously lived, or recorded some of their greatest work, and even seems prepared to trespass to do so:
Finally, last month, homeowners in Long Branch, 30 miles south of New York, phoned the authorities when they noticed a scruffy [...]

Jeffrey Zeldman: the best time to write is when you feel inspired, as opposed to when you’re tired, racing to meet a deadline, etc.
Work is work, and we must do what we must do. But when quality matters most, the old saw about “good or fast – choose one,” holds true. Pushing through to the [...]

Typography poster design fix time, 30 posters mixing font and letterpress styles.

Fantastic, some simple words of inspiration from father to son, when Andy Chen was having difficulty being accepted into a design school:
If you think you can, you can.

Telling others about your goals is virtually tantamount to telling yourself you have achieved said goals.
Four different tests of 63 people found that those who kept their intentions private were more likely to achieve them than those who made them public and were acknowledged by others. Once you’ve told people of your intentions, if gives [...]

Jonathan Mann’s summation of the creative process… basically the idea is to focus on the 10 per cent of the process that is the actual icing on the cake.
I think that slide speaks for itself, but the point is you have to get comfortable with the fact that when creating things most are [...]

Lucy Vodden, who inspired the Beatles 1967 classic “Lucy in the sky with diamonds”, and was a childhood friend of Julian Lennon, is battling a number of illnesses including lupus.
Vodden admits she enjoys her association with the song, but doesn’t particularly care for it. Perhaps that’s not surprising. It was thought by many at the [...]

Say what you will about the eye candy web interfaces that graced (some parts of) the web ten years ago, if nothing else they were a sight to behold. Mike Smith has put together a collection of 25 of the best “fun & creative” web interfaces he could find on DeviantArt, that are somewhat [...]