A friendly visual match between those two cities, as seen by a Parisian-based-and-lover on New York : details, cliches and contradictions.

Beautifully simple and effortlessly charming. I like.

Le Tennis

Le pain

Le réalisateur

See all of them here.

Via Cool Hunting.

I love it when someone takes something as dull and as everyday as a barcode and makes it fun. And now that I’ve seen these efforts by various Japanese designers, I’m left wondering why more people haven’t done it before(?).

But then again, maybe they’ve been doing it for years and I’ve just been too zoned out to notice when I’m scanning in my pasta sauces at the Tesco Self Service machine.

See some more on Cool Hunting.

Kanye, 2Pac, Snoop, Andre 3000, Ice-T and their chums given the full-on Simpsons treatment.

There’s a whole load of other MCs I’d like to have seen done too (Busta, Q-Tip, ODB, …maybe even Vanilla Ice), but it’s still pretty cool.

Found on Kanye’s blog

There’s something intrinsically cool about the NES.

Maybe it’s because it came from a time when games had to be playable first and look good second. And even though I never actually owned one, I’ve always been a Nintendo true-blood.

I’ve gone from Gameboy to SNES to N64 to Gamecube to Wii, with never so much as a minuscule hint of a Sega or a Sony to sully the Wario waters. And that’s why I’m loving these external hard drives.

They’re all custom-built by a company called 8-bit Memory and are available to buy here. I hope they sell millions.

If I ever get married,  I don’t want some boring old invite written in calligraphy that is so poorly executed that it actually puts people off coming. Or if they do manage to work out how to RSVP, then they won’t have a snowflake in Hell’s chance of getting there because the directions to the church are as uninformative as an ITV documentary.

Instead, I want one of these – an invite with dashes of humour, romance and a solid narrative. Is that asking too much? I think not.