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Last night saw the launch of the radical architecture manifesto ManTownHuman. In the words of Nico Macdonald, it's "[...] more progressive than First Things First."

In a bid to encourage Londoners to spend more time reading, London based design agency Kent Lyons produced this simple stencil campaign! More pictures on Flickr.
The Graphic Design graduates from The Arts Institute at Bournemouth have produced a really interesting idea for the promotion of their end of year exhibition, entitled Inhibition Xhibition. Taking a huge collection of boxes on tour, they have put together this stop motion video to illustrate the process. The graduate exhibition will be open from 18th - 26th June at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth and at D&AD New Blood in London from 23rd - 25th June.



For those of you looking for some more visual inspiration, visit Russian based DesignSlices.com, created by Arseny Vesnin.

If you have not already heard of "Dynamic Architecture", well... welcome to the future of architecture; it moves, it rotates and its sustainable. There's a wealth of videos on YouTube. Via. Inhabitat.com.
The "Good 50×70" 2008 poster exhibition, opens in Milan on June 10th! For the schedule and further information visit Good50x70.org. (Thanks to Derek Stewart for the reminder on Design21 this morning).
It is continually inspiring to discover new social design initiatives, increasingly springing up from a wealth of industry sectors, however this week I came across a project that (I feel) deserves huge creative and social credit. It’s name, The Global Oneness Project. Read my full review here.
Award winning public service and communication design agency ThinkPublic launched The Social Lab last week, a project space set up for people to meet and discuss design-led concepts to address social challenges. I am looking forward to watching this project evolve.
TypeBase.com is an extensive typographic resource from Amsterdam. Another one for the graphic designers' bookmarks!
If you haven't already come across Threadless, check out Laura House's review on AIGA this month. It's quite simple mind you - submit your designs for a T-Shirt and if it gets picked, you get paid.