This season, street fashion has hit an all time high in Nordic countries as men combine hobo with boho and the ladies are sporting chic nightclub worthy fashions at all times of the day!

Menswear

It’s military school drop out meets high school punk as a spectrum of styles for men collide. Capturing that “anything goes” attitude and looking as if they picked a few things up off of their dorm room floor, men street fashion is inspired by a myriad of looks. Cardigans, cut-offs and Converse are the three must haves for men this season. Scarves and trucker hats are accessories that can be found on every street corner and colors include a Mad Max array of muted reds, grays, khakis and navy.

The Look for Ladies

Sequins, sparkle and shine are hot day and night! From leopard prints to satin slacks, Scandinavian women can be spotted in everything from super short skirts to floor length dresses. Peep toe boots in animal prints are the “it” shoe and the bigger the accessory, the better. The same goes for purses, the over sized bag is the way to go right now. Black is in as always and shades of tan, gray and ivory are also heavy hitters for women in the color department.

Bio: Alexis Bonari is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident education blogger and performs research surrounding College Scholarships. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop.

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Typography Competition Enter Communication Arts’ Inaugural Typography Competition

Promote your talent—enter our inaugural juried competition celebrating the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus original typeface design, calligraphy and hand lettering.

Why enter? If selected, your award-winning work will be beautifully reproduced in the 2011 Typography Annual, and on the Communication Arts Web site, assuring a prominent place on the premier stage of the industry.

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Submission Guidelines and FAQs: commarts.com/competitions/typography To Enter Online NOW: submit2.commarts.com Entries must be sumitted by September 10, 2010. Entries submitted after that date require a $10 per entry late fee. No entries will be accepted after September 24, 2010.

Since 2005, Istanbul Design Week has been the greatest design organization of Turkey and this year it will be held between 29th September – 3rd October 2010.

In the Capital of Culture of year 2010, IDW will be hosting many exhibitions from all around the world, with the theme ‘city & design’.

Visitors will experience intense design days with symposiums, workshops and conferences at this connection point for creative ideas from different disciplines of design. Reaching much bigger number of people than the previous years is aimed.

This year, IDW has taken its place as a brand in international design events calendar. Having a remarkable dynamism regarding participation and advertisement internationally, IDW is more than just a showcase for designers; it is a creativity platform presenting reference points for them to draw their path.

+80 years and sexy / Life after death / See the papy-boom coming / The best places in the village. > > > Design and art that challenge preconceived thoughts, Saturday the 14th of August at 19h. in Transplant. > > The design research program Ideal Lab´ relocates the meaning of design in a mutated social environment. “Longer Participation”, > the first theme of Ideal Lab´ asks, how can we contribute to a longer participation of the senior generation in the community. After a life of > working, and with perhaps limited experience of using modern communication tools, active seniors can get isolated. Valuable knowledge > is lost, which could be useful for society. The exhibition shows results of several scenarios within the theme of “Longer Participation”. > > Charlotte Grum /DK > Sensing Dale Workshop / workshop process & result > > Mathieu Lehanneur / FR > The Age of the World pyramids / object > > James Auger & Jimmy Loizeau / UK > Afterlife + Gadgets / objects > > Erwin Olaf / NL > Mature / photography > > > The exhibition is open until the 30th of September. > > For more info: Birgitta Ralston +47 577 355 97 or +47 48 123 115 an here (invitation) and here (project documentation). >

People in Nordic countries are enthusiastic regarding sports and tend to keep themselves physically fit. They are also keen readers of newspapers, books and other reading materials. In some of the Nordic countries alcohol drinking is considered an unpopular activity. Although people here love to party after skiing, skating and other sports activities, they avoid alcohol drinking. The governments of these countries are also discouraging alcohol drinking by implementing strict measures which include imprisonment and paying heavy fines for people who are found driving under the influence of alcohol.

People are very friendly and warm welcoming. They take pride in whatever they do and try to remain happy no matter the situation. Tax payments are considered as a constructive activity here as people feel that money collected by the authorities would be used for the good of the public as opposed to many countries where people pay taxes half heartedly. This has made common facilities available at large to the public and there is a small income gap between the rich and the poor.

Verbal communication has high importance therefore promises made verbally are taken seriously but they are composed and do not mind long periods of silence. They believe in innovations and tend to make the use of both man-made and natural resources. One of the key aspects of Nordic countries is that they have equal rights for man and woman. A woman has every right to participate in politics and other fields of life just like his counterpart.

Author Bio:

Richard Jacobs is a chief editor since early 2007, and he currently works for a website related to home furniture like bunk beds and living room furniture. A webiste that helps you to find the right furniture for your home online anytime.

I recently got a FedEx package from PR company working for PHILIPS with some computer gadgets by PHILIPS. They wrote in cover letter that they noticed my blogging activities, and that I writing about gadgets, so they decided to send me these items. They stated that I am under no obligation to write about the products if I feel that they are not relevant, but if I will drop a line or two they will appreciate it. A clerk is wrote also, that I need to mention that received the gift from Philips, so everything will be transparent, etc.

I receive sometimes various devices from companies in tasting purposes, as a luxury phone from NOKIA at the last spring for some period of time (although I was so busy and had no time to write a review) but all other companies wanted their things back, and it was not so sweet as this time, when I got it in my own use.

So, when we opened a box (there were a lot of fun with bubble wraps) we got:

• A pair of cushions for laptops, one with a speaker connected with USB and a second one, with a heat-neutralizing system is more suitable for smaller laptops.
• A bluetooth enabled mouse with some several interesting functionality.
• A speaker system for laptop attaching to the top of the lid.

I and my family tested all items during two weeks, and we found some of gadgets very useful and nice. I liked a mouse, because it has a functionality for use without a surface thorough some kind of optical trackball on the top of it, and especially, because of its wireless nature. This gadget helped me to cheat my littlest daughter (she hates when I am using laptop when I am holding her – she is a newborn) so I was able to operate laptop from the far via the mouse in the pocket of my jeans. I loved a Notebook CushionSpeaker, since it really protect laps from the heat of my MacBookPro, but this cushion has very slippery surface, but special rubber stoppers fortunately were included in the box as well. Regarding to the speaker – my daughters loved to use them during the gaming and watching movies.

I heard that PHILIPS has acquired AVENT – maybe the next time I will receive some nice things for my little baby? I promise to write about it!

Pixel City – Procedurally generated city
This is a demonstration of a program Shamus Young wrote to generate and fly through a dynamically generated city. You can read the step-by-step of how it was made at his website: http://www.shamusyoung.com/…..

JK Wedding Entrance Dance
It’s fun and amazing… made me a day!

Sirenia – The Other Side (Official Music Video)
Video of the song ‘The Other Side’ taken from the album ‘Nine Destinies and a Downfall’ released in February 2007 by the Norwegian female fronted gothic rock band Sirenia (www.sirenia.no)

“It’s exactly like Twitter”
Phil has made a standup from his experience on twitter…