When was the last time you picked up a book? I picked one up today. It was fun. Really. Then I put it down again and read the internet. And this is what I read—sorry if you already know of it.
Synaptic Stimuli
Updates about once a week with a host of visual material based around one artist or designer's work, often to do with various broader, philosophical concepts. Provides links to further reading—great stuff. Has the second best titles for posts on the internet today.
Tputh
To quote their tagline, Tputh is "Socially Generated, Machine Filtered, Hand Polished, Electronic Newspaper for Geeks, Designers & Venture Capitalists" (their emphasis). Currently holds the title for... best titles. How can you go past "Hot or not? (Mostly not)" or "Fat man in expensive suit lurches at be-speckeld crowd of design dorks"? It's also a great way to stay abreast of design and tech developments, as it updates a couple of times a day.
Buamai
This is the place to go for image based research—if a style exists, its probably on here. Essentially, Buamai allows you to select an image and then, based on some crazy algorithm that I don't understand, throws up images that relate to that one. They could be by the same artist, or by someone completely different. Either way, it's awesome.
Twitter combined with Echofon [Mac] or TweetDeck [PC & Mac]
So this one might seem obvious, but, in all seriousness, Twitter is your friend. The one thing that not many people know, or understand, about the service is that you only have to tweet once. Then you can start following whomever you like—for instance, Vin mentioned H&FJ in his previous post. They tweet. As does most every designer, design blog and news service. Twitter allows them to recommend content for you, and you don't even have to open your browser to get it.
The Age and ABC News
Because its nice to read something that isn't about design.
Hopefully you found something interesting to read—if not, there's always burgers.
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