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Pinch, zoom, grab using your fingers - here to stay and getting more sophisticated in the next generation user interfaces. Having used a trackpad for years and ditched my mouse for a tablet/stylus more recently, we like 10/GUI. A lot. Via 10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

Product and industrial designers are shaping graphic design practices of the future. Will current graphic designers have the brain power to keep up?

Gunnersbury, London: stencil, aerosol heart. Made me stop and look.

From illustrator Olly Moss, and along the same lines as Men versus Women

Great, sensitive illustrations - almost haunting - from Cristiana Couceiro

Editorial graphics are hard to get right. Make them too good and they easily look like adverts. That’s why I’ve always thought the illustrator has it easier than the designer. Take a look at the sensitivity of these lively, bold illustrations from Raymond Biesinger out of Canada.

Tapes rock We recently had an argument with a client over the relative merits of cassette tape imagery. Is it because I am old that I love them so much? (I was a serious pause pusher in my youth). All I can say is that the brief was digital music and they wanted artwork with edge. [...]

Forgot how good Art of the Title is. Check it out. Elegent tech from Les Chevaliers du Ciel (Sky Fighters). Sequence put together by Sabotage Studio, Paris.

Via Eli Horne. More here.

Beautiful illustrations by Katie Kirk, via sfgirlbybay. More here.

Chopping heads in east London, Decapitator does it with style.

You move your hands around and monsters appear. One of my highlights of last year.