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For Deaf Awareness Week, DDB New Zealand has produced a series of posters highlighting the damage Mp3 players can inflict on young ears, directing people to saveyourhearing.org.nz.

Every now and then every one of us needs a bit of inspiration to kick start the creative process. Check out and enjoy the work of your fellow designers. Here is list of 16 great logo inspiration sites, which offer several different types of collections of logos for different occasions.

Sex sells claims the old and undeniably true adage. We are sexual beings. Advertisers use this attribute by trying to associate their products and services with sexy imagery hoping that some of the hotness gets attached to their brand in the consumer's subconscious mind.

Good infographics are not only informative, but also help you digest huge amount of data otherwise impossible to grasp. When infographics are well designed they make dull raw data interesting enough to make the reader become involved and even entertained. Producing such imagery is labor intensive and requires extreme attention to detail. Here are 20 images and 5 videos of great examples of infographics for your inspiration.

The OSX 10.6 operating system code named Snow Leopard isn't out yet, but you can already check out and download all 35 cool desktop pictures it is shipping with. Download all (40.6MB). Compare them with the upcoming 30 Windows 7 wallpapers posted earlier.

Bamboo

Federico Mauro created these Photoshop mockups just for fun. Enjoy!

Despite the crisis, Adris Group has had a successful business year 2008, so they wanted to show it off with their annual report. Adris Group believes how good ideas glow, so their annual report glows in the dark because the successful business year is the result of all the glowing ideas of their 3000 employees. Read on for more picts.

Excerpted from Yes We Did! An inside look at how social media built the Obama brand (New Riders)
By Rahaf Harfoush
Dateline: July 31, 2009

Obama's official social network, my.barackobama.com, was at the heart of the campaign’s new media strategy. Affectionately referred to internally as MyBO, the site allowed users to create events, exchange information, raise funds, and connect with voters in their area. MyBO was the digital home base from which the campaign could mobilize its army of supporters. Creating an account required an email address and a password. Users didn’t even have to confirm their email address. This was done to make the sign-up process as fast and easy as possible.