One Minute Portraits

Melbourne-based graphic designer offers original art in a minute or less

Perhaps Warhol was the first to open up the art world to the idea of fast art, smashing the notion that the quality of art is parallel to the time spent creating it. Granting more than just a nod to Warhol’s ideology is UK artist, Benjamin Hammond. After years of sketching his colleagues during weekly work meetings, the now Melbourne-based graphic designer began getting requests …

Pinterest

Exclusive invites to a new social bookmarking site inspired by the bulletin board

Those looking for a more dynamic way to track their web finds (and those of others) will like Pinterest, a new invite-only site that co-founder Ben Silbermann calls “a personal version of Cool Hunting.” With a format combining the simplicity of sites like Tumblr and the visual stimulation of those like Ffffound, the service one-ups others by “making it easy to follow people, making collections …

It’ll Be Better

Stream Francis and the Lights' new album from a pioneering HTML5 site

The world’s first HTML5 embeddable album, Francis and the Lights’ It’ll Be Better site simplifies the music listening process for Apple’s new less Flash-friendly digital world. Developed by Muxtape founder Justin Ouellette, he created it specifically to play on the iPad and new iPhone 4, which otherwise can’t stream most music because of the operating system’s lack of Flash support. And, with this new site …