A link to a website concept I recently found on reddit really blew my mind.
It’s a concept for General Electric’s campaign Ecomagination.
To get a grasp, watch this video:

You can try out the actual application on ecomagination.com.

Update: The concept of using Augmented Reality in advertising has also been used in this ad for the Mini Cabrio.
Update 2: The microsite has apparently been created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in cooperation with North Kingdom (Source).

Alekc provides a simple but stunningly fast Last.fm wallpaper generator that fetches your favourite album covers and stitches them to an impressive wallpaper.

After choosing a resolution of your choice it could look something like the following image – a collage of my favorite albums for the last 3 months:

iuneWind is a designer from Samara, Russia that creates some fantastic digital artwork.
I really love the organic style and the attention to detail in every artwork, which is consistently taken through all elements.
Check out those incredible, colorful wallpapers!

This is a thing I discovered on digg today. If you are enjoying an installation of Apple’s new Leopard OS X you can change the visual appearance of the three-dimensional dock by replacing 5 graphic-files of the Dock package.

Download files from InsideMacGames forum

I tried it out and copied the example graphics into the instructed folder. You then only need to ‘reset’ the Dock application by executing killall Dock in the Terminal.

The new dock

The new glossy Leopard Dock provides more contrast and visual appeal

The standard Dock

The standard Leopard Dock is also nice, but lacks contrast

I personally like the jet-black glossy version better and will stick with it. Really slick.

This mod also makes the glowing dot indicators for active apps better recognizable. People who like to have the old fashioned black triangle indicators back should read this article on Silver Mac.

Detailed instructions on how and where to replace the neccessary files are included with the download ZIP.

I’m not a MySpace member myself but I tend to listen to one or another song once in a while. It’s a great way to discover new tunes or watch newcoming superstars grow as they publish their songs on MySpace.

Since MySpace is especially popular among musicians for its audio streaming capability, one could expect that MySpace designers and developers dedicate an extra focus to this functionality.

The user experience I’ve made with their embedded Flash player shows me they don’t.

Read the full entry "5 Design Flaws In The MySpace Audio Player"

All things have an interface. Shaping interfaces is shaping the character of things. The brand is what transports the character of things. When looking at McDonalds, iPod, Nintendo DS it becomes quite obvious that the interface is the brand.

From: The Interface of a Cheeseburger. A vigorous article which teaches you that branding hasn’t necessarily to be pretty, but strong.