We’ve all seen them, whether they are knee high or just over the tops of a pair of converse. Stripy socks have something about them which makes them alluring, these photographs taken from DeviantART showcase some brilliant camerawork using close-up and clever angle selection in producing some quite breath taking shots.

Each photograph links back to its original location online.

Find A True Design Icon & Stripes: The Chuck Taylor Converse & Sexy Stripey Socks on Design Juices

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Article written by Jared Thompson

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Sabri Akin is an Istanbul based, freelance designer and photographer and a student in VCD department of Istanbul Bilgi University. His inspirations include basic geometric shape unities, technology, robots, minimalism.

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Taken from the project ‘F*ck mon ex!’

Taken from the project ‘Quarryland’

Taken from the project ‘Typography for the masses’

Taken from the project ‘I am confused’

Taken from the project ‘Tell the Truth’

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Design Boom is a great site for the best in design news of all types and disciplines, Luckily I am subscribed to their RSS feed. This allows me to receive each of their articles into my Google reader inbox each day. Here I am going to round-up some of my favourite articles from which they have released in the past few weeks.

Lego Big Mac

Ever Wanted your chips made of bricks?

Istvan Kulinyi: Mobil Pixel Lamp

This is one sexy lamp, made by Hungarian designer Kulinyi.

Lava: Tower Skin

International architectural firm LAVA has developed a simple, cost effective, easily constructed skin that promises to transforms aged 1960′s buildings in Sydney, into sustainable, iconic buildings.

Augmented Reality T-shirt

The future in augmented reality is amazing to think of!

Solar Powered Lawn Mower

Creative design thinking at its best!

Monopoly Revolution

The classic board game undertakes a new look.

Notion: Air Helmet

A new form of head protection for snow sports.

Airmouse

The concept aims to prevent repetitive stress injuries by dissolving the standard desktop mouse into a floating device worn on the user’s hand.

Julien Renault: Hand Forged Aluminium Stools

Hand craftsmanship at it’s very best.

House Made with 15 Shipping Containers

How can you not be a little interested in this concept?

2010 Vancouver Olympics Medals

Everyone is buzzing over the Olympics, check out the medals the athletes are vying to win.

Olympic Medal Design

The design process by Omer Arbel.

Karim Rashid for XO

You’ve seen him on Objectified now check out his furniture and stools collection.

Toronto Interior Design Show: Prototype

Love some great prototype designs.

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A Gold Medal Win: the Vancouver 2010 Campaign via Fuel Your Creativity

2010 Vancouver Olympics Medals via Design Boom

Meet The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Mascots via Bitrebels

Cannon Design: Richmond Olympic Oval via Design Boom

Vancouver 2010 Advertising by Vanoc via Design You Trust

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Victory Ceremony Podiums via Core77

This collection is an array of photos where the camera is the subject and focus of the photographers thinking, each photo links back to the original photograph on the web.

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Article written by Jared Thompson

Head writer of Design Something Blog, currently studying Product design at the University of Central Lancashire in his final year. He has interest in minimal, clean and simplistic design styles.

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Now over the past few months I have left this blog in the hands of the most enthusiastic blogger I have come across, Jared. I now feel obliged to post something every now and then when I find the time, but I can never think of anything that will compare to his imaginative and fantastic posts. Either way, I’m going to have an attempt.

Being a designer (product, graphic, and website) I have collected a few bookmarks throughout the time. I will therefore list the ones that I personally use, they might not be ideal for yourself, but some may catch your eye. I hope you enjoy them:

Wallbase
Looking for a new, high quality desktop wallpaper? Certainly a place to think about along with DevArt. The website layout is simple and clean, and the browsing is efficient and fast.

IconFinder
I’m constantly wanting new icons for various websites, I admit I usually scan other blogposts to find some, however I recently came across this site and found it to be rather helpful. Not just website icons, but also icons for you to personalise your computer.

Icon Resources
For more icons, ideally for websites, this post has helped me along the way.

Essential Mac Apps
There are thousands of posts about ‘must have Mac Apps’ and being a computer enthusiast I have always wanted to hop on the bandwagon and add what I think are the best apps for the Mac. However, for the time being I shall recommend this post that simply lists a selection of ideal applications.

Paper Textures
A huge collection of high quality paper textures that have made themselves useful within my graphical works. Quite a few of them, the more choice the better.

Pattern Cooler
This site offers a huge resource of patterns for you website backgrounds, some quite ugly… but also some at the other end of the scale that are very innovative and attractive.

Submit Buttons
A nice post on customising your Submit form button and getting the most of the aesthetic appeal of the element within your website.

13 Essential CSS Tools
Need to create a basic stylesheet and fast? This post has a collection of quite a range of useful tools for you to create your site layout, and understand what exactly does what.

Desktop Customisation
A collection of some of the most attractive customised desktops I have seen, actually a pos that I forgot all about. I remember that I attempted the State of Flux however I believe some of the links of the resources were broken. If anyone has any over great desktop customisation tips, please let me know.

Download Sites
A post of over 100 websites that offer a method to download certain things. Certainly something for the download junkie out there, and that doesn’t break the law.

Ubuntu Boost
Get the best performance from your Linux operating system by visiting this post and discovering what tweaks you can do to your system to speed it up.

Windows 7 Boost
Not really boosts but simple little tweaks that make the new operating system more personal. I have to say that I have grown to love Windows 7, I did follow the crowd on disliking Vista, however I do feel that 7 is a step forward in Microsoft’s market.

jQuery Resources
Love jQuery? I know I do, such a brilliant tool to enhance your user’s experience on your website. Find a few neat little scripts in this post that can help your site.

Ninite
Got a new computer, or installed a new operating system recently and need all your apps back on? Well Ninite offers a selection of freeware apps that are very popular (I use alot of them) and allows you to download and install all the apps that you want, all in one.

Firefox Hacks
If you haven’t gone to the Chrome side, or the simple side of Safari, and I hope to God that you do not use IE, then these little hacks for your firefox are to enable the app to give you the most efficiency in production. It is a dated post I admit, and most likely there are more valuable posts out there, but this one has helped me.

Audio Mashup
This last link isn’t really anything useful, but I feel is rather inspirational. If your internet does not lag, and your browser can handle many videos at once, then head on over to this link. It is a collection of videos of people playing a tune on a different instrument. They are all in time with each other and no matter what order you play a video in, they all play together. Quite interesting really.

I know this post is just linking to other people’s posts but I find these things useful and would just like to share them with you. I hope they have helped you in some way, and if they haven’t, sorry for wasting your time.

I have many more tools that I use and I know I have left thousands out, so feel free to post up what you find useful. I only got onto page 3 of my Stumble favourites when creating this post. I will try to post more soon.

Thanks.

Dan.

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