After the recent earthquake in Hengchung ,Taiwan measuring a magnitude of 7.1, the whole of Asia’s telecommunications was bought to an utter halt. I came to a realisation on the importance of being connected. I was even trying to use GPRS to check my emails, with absolutely no luck. Well, I ended up playing my guitar for hours which was actually sort of refreshing.

Anyway, sorry about the Daily Catches! Lets catch up in the New Years!
I hope you all had a great Christmas, and I look forward to 2007. It’s going to be fantastic.

Volume at the V&A by UVA
‘A luminous interactive installation of light and sound’. Wish I was there to experience this. Simply amazing!

Naomi Azuma
Graphic design and AD from Naomi Azuma. Some good stuff!

Designsoldier
Buried deep lies some good work from Designsoldier in Switzerland.

Vincent Gallo Merchandise
Interesting goods from Vincent Gallo…

Manipulator
New shots up at Manipulator, the studio of Jill Greenberg.

Digital Abstracts
A nice (new-ish?) photography/design studio. Liking the clarity of links!

Rami Niemi: Illustrator
Wicked style and illustrations from Rami Niemi, graphic designer for EGO.

OPENCODE
‘Web-based programming environment for creative development’. Basically, program some art online. Cool!

Edlo Kawa
Photography/design by Edward Loh, currently in Hong Kong. Nice new site from G94.

Crafty Christmas
Another fun crafty ecard site by Clicksuite of NZ.

Sony: Feel
Touchy-feely AI/robot spot from Fuel for Sony.

Mouse Party
Learn all about the nasty effects of drugs, in this almost cute interactive animation…

The Invasion of the Tinmen!
Pretty cool concept, print out robot parts to mix and match. Cute.

Spirituc: Boas Festas
Lovely, unique Christmas card portal from Spirituc of Lisboa, Portugal.

Stylegala
A nice online magazine about web design and standards.

Reynaldo Vásquez
Illustrator Reynaldo Vásquez and his cute distinct drawings and illustrations.

20 Strangest Gadgets of 2006
Ha. MP3 Vibrator anyone?…

Recycled Area
Photoblog of Alberto Seveso. Nice!

Igloo INCUBATOR
A nice sleek website for a new book from Igloo.

Mattmo Concept
Massive range of strong work from Mattmo Concept in the Netherlands.

Openhere
Some good work, and a clean smooth site from Openher in Belgium.

Krghettojuice
Nice diverse projects from Krghettojuice in Italy.

Amp
A fresh new site for Amp in Norway.

Kate Spade / Jack Spade
Where I shopped for a few of my Christmas gifts. Loving them!

Jane Stockdale
Some great spur of the moment shots by photographer Jane Stockdale.

Truth In Advertising
Woah, this is funny, and true.

Departures
Sexy, fresh, simple clean typography work from Departures.

50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006
Smashing Magazine reviews their picks of css based designs of 2006. I dunno…

12 Days of Christmas for the Brown Folk
Cute & witty clip. Anyone know who did this?…

SEO & Web Tools
A nice collection of SEO tools for your site.

Prada Parfums
A bit old, but am still loving the short film for Prada by Ridley Scott featuring lovely Daria Werbowy.

Institute without Boundaries
The world house project, to design a sustaining, universal and healthy human dwelling.

Intro Partnership, London
Good portfolio of work from Intro in London.

Super OS X Menubar Items
Oh, it’s like Christmas for your Macbook Pro. Some great free apps for your OS X menubar.

Perry Curties
Some interesting fashion/portrait shots by photographer Perry Curties.

Browsershots
Submit your URL, wait in the queue, and see your site screencapped in a multitude of different browsers.

Sean Sutherland
Great work from Sean Sutherland, especially the work for Madonna’s confession tour.

7 Tricks to Viral Marketing
Interesting little article with examples and opinions on viral marketing.

Luscious
Luscious is motion designer Felipe Posada. Wicked, stunning portfolio of work.

USSR Posters
A nice Flickr set of Russian and/or Soviet propaganda & advert posters.

Luganski
Some good photography, and graphic work at Studio Luganski in Helsinki.

Stickylou
Stickers gallore at Stickylou!

A-Linha
Wicked work from multi disciplined designer/artist Clarissa Tossin.

Daniel Korkhov
Some strong, upfront, ‘in you face’ photography from Daniel Korkhov.

GraphicDesignBar
A great blog I just stumbled upon today. Loads of interesting links.

Hello Hello
I think repost, but liking multi disciplined designer Stephen Crowhurst and his wonderful work.

Type for you.
A blog on typography, pretty good!

Kevin Roberson
Kevin Roberson is a slick studio with big name clients and very slick work.

Busy Santa
A very cute, entertaining and sticky game for Christmas!

Dieter Glauser
Nice set of graphic and typography work from Dieter Glauser.

Campaign Against Real Life
A uber funny spoof on Dove’s campaign for real beauty… Giggle.

Cathexis
Nice work from Yutaka Takahashi, web, print and identity.

Andrew Haynes
Some alright print work from Andrew Haynes.

Time: Best Photos of 2006
Take a look at the best of 2006 according to Time. Some good picks.

The Cool Hunter
A great online mag featuring some pretty good interesting stuff.

Matt Keers
Loving Matt Keers typographic design and work.

The Impotence of Proofing
This is silly. I mean, really…

Livebooks
Photographers, artists, easily create a Flash based, customizable dynamic website. Interesting…

Seth Rieder
Nice work coming from multi-disciplined designer Seth Rieder. Interesting portfolio concept!

Jacob A Gerber
Some great spaces shot by photographer Jacob A. Gerber.

William Hall
Great, clean, typographic work from William Hall in the UK.

The String Republic
I don’t care to pimp products, but these are some pretty funky looking undies.

There
There is a creative agency down under in Sydney, Australia. Nice!

Taf
Interesting slideshow of projects in the architectural realm from TAF in Sweden.

Big Spaceship: Happy Holidays 06
Cute, witty, fun Flash e-card from Big Spaceship.

Subfuse
Subfuse is fhe portfolio of Eike Menijn & Paul Rabattski, graphic designers in Berlin.

Julie Bayard
Slick Flash site for graphic designer Julie Bayard. Some very nice posters.

Inhabitat
A weblog devoted to being green, and being green in the design world.

Romeo Vidner
Nice work from graphic designer Romeo Vidner in Sweden.

Morning Breath
Great illustrations and music packaging design from Morning Breath.

Prime Objective
A very well designed photoblog for photographer Chris Keenan.

Legible London
A project on developing a wayfinding system for the illegible city.

Tenhola
Interesting mysterious blog, check out the wallpaintings! Very cool.

Raffi Simonian
Motion graphics, design & direction of Raffi Simonian. Absolutely stunning reel, my favourite of 2006.

Metropark: Obey Competition
T-shirt competition by Metropark for Obey. Go on!

Artless
Artless is a multi-disciplined design studio from Japan. Very sleek.

Monoslideshow
Very good customizable Flash slideshow app.

Ventilate
Nice motion work and portal from Ventilate.

FlashTemple
Some nice web work from Matt Booth.

Blaue Gans
Very beautiful, clean typesetted site for a German restaurant(I think?).

Speared Peanut
Interesting collective of work from Speared Peanut, a fun witty design studio.

Janusz Miller
Some sensual shots from photographer Janusz Miller. Nice use of Flash.

CMS Matrix
A great online tool to compare content management systems.

Design Project
Repost, but I like Design Project of the UK. Nice type work.

Clearification: Windows Vista
A nice marketing site for Windows Vista. Liking the illustration style.

Aya Kato
Some great illustration and work from talented young artist Aya Kato.

OK sorry, i’m a little slow on this one (we don’t get GAP commercials here in Hong Kong), but after checking out Logan’s new goodies, I stumbled upon this pretty interesting piece featuring dear Audrey from the movie Funny Face.

Nice execution, rhythm and extremely sassy. Clever, no?
Check it out here.

And then, check out the spoofs by Andy Dick and Jay Leno. Giggle…

Adam Krause
Fantastic portraits from Adam Krause.

Laszlo Kovacs
Interesting work from illustrator/designer Laszlo Kovas in Spain.

Bob Hansen
Moody, deep photography from Bob Hansen.

Sensegraphy
Some diverse work from Sensegraphy.

Alli Metall
Very nice work from Alli Metall from Iceland.

Antony Crossfield
Dark, multi-faceted, and almost scary photography from Antony Crossfield.

Pupe Illustration
Great, lively colourful illustrations from Pupe.

Guilherme Marconi
Wicked illustrations Brazilian Illustrator in Rio De Janeiro.

Will Murai
Digital/mixed media artist Will Murai. Fantastic!

Logan
New stuff at Logan. Check out the 2006 Reel!

Andrezza Valentin
A nice diverse portfolio from Andrezza Valentin.

Diseco
Some good work from graphic design studio in Spain.

Ghostco
Extremely talented 23 year old illustrator Matthew Woodson and his wicked work.

Employment Agreements for Designers
An interesting article about contracts.

Kalle Gustafsson
Sexy stirring photos with an amazing tone by Kalle Gustafsson

Defasten
Wicked design, graphic, and motion from Defasten in Montréal, Canada.

On Toyota’s Mind
Beautiful site for Toyota by North Kingdom.

Tom Robinson
Interactive designer Tom Robinson. SOme nice online campaign executions.

Richard Learoyd
Some great photography and super nice site from Richard Learoyd.

How To Create A Sexy Pop Star
From the film ‘Before the Music Dies’. Very interesting…

Ascentium
Big guns of interactive/web Ascentium.

After8ight
Some nice web work from Ng Mui Choo in Singapore.

Proekt
Design bureau, super sexy projects and work.

Mario Ruiz
Industrial design from Mario Ruiz. Nice atmosphere/experience.

Ben Tricklebank
Very big, nice portfolio of Ben Tricklebank, designer/art director.

Organic Architecture
Interesting article on Organic Architecture, and bringing living nature to our spaces.

Sven Kils
Nice portfolio and work from Sven Kils of Deutschland.

Radius Design Bureau
Design studio in Istanbul.

Keren Taggar
Talented llustrator Keren Taggar.

Logo By
Visual identity from Weisz Istvan in Romania. Nice.

Stefania Malmsten
Graphic designer/art director Stefania Malmsten. Very nice work.

Marko Kon
Mixed media designer. Some interesting work.

I’m back from my short, but very sweet trip! Overly jet lagged to catch any ‘fish’, but itching to plug this amazing newish online app from Adobe Labs called Kuler. Previously posted in my Daily Catches, I’ve grown so fond of this app it deserves it’s own post!

In essence it’s a colour community/harmonious colour mixer with a myriad of unique and individual combinations. You can create your own technicoloured schemes or browse from the deep pool of already created swatches made by the users of the community. The idea is not too fresh or new (see colorlovers.com), but Adobe’s execution is absolutely fantastic. This is exactly what Flash should be used for…

Check it out at http://kuler.adobe.com and show the world your true colours!