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Nice little collab between American Apparel and Protein channel LOOKBOOK.nu

Our boy Bjorn has made this rather awesome messaging service. Best of all it's 100% Chromo Enabled.

Protein friend David Bausola's latest project is taking the social conversation to a whole new level. Props to the Herdmeister for the tipoff.

Via Koldcast

One of the more interesting launches at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week is the Puma Phone. It's a white labeled Sagem with a few extra "sporty and fun" features, so we will watch how this one develops with interest.

With Protein TV shortly returning (shhh, don't tell anyone), I thought I'd share this Jim Jarmusch classic featuring GZA, RZA and Bill Murray getting "delirium" over coffee and cigarettes:

Props to Mr Moo for the link.

Recent D&AD winner and comes c/o the clever folks at Mytton Williams.

We've been waiting for this for a while and now can show you a sneak peek of the future of online video. Please be upstanding for HTML5.

What's all the fuss about? No flash, no plugins, no buffering issues, no worries. Yes, this is what Steve has been waiting for and one of the main reasons why you find any Adobe products on your iPhone. Props once again to cousin Ciaran for the linkage.

American Apparel are good for two things. White vests in the summer and hot girls in their ads. It seems they're running out of models, as they've just launched a search for the "best bottom in the world". Amateur porn or the most perfect marketing campaign? I'll let you to decide ...

• Shoreditch locals, Tweetdeck isn't new, but certainly remaining fresh with regular feature updates and a super loyal community. As a standalone app developed in Adobe Flex, it allows for greater functionality and the recent iPhone version allows you to take it with you.
  
  
• CoTweet started making some noise mid-last year. It is now out of beta and running supreme in the "enterprise" market, aimed squaring at larger organisations with multiple Twitter teams. Tweet assigning, redirecting and commenting is incredibly useful and the Outlook-style UI makes for very easy use.
  
  

I've been a big fan of Nicholas Felton since he produced his first Annual Report in 2006 and the awesome Daytum site. His 2009 report is more of the awesome same and as data visualisation is very much "on-trend" at the moment, will surely boost his already rising profile.

Get yours now at Beverly Hsu (via The Cool List)

Well, they're not "officially" Moleskin, but who's complaining ...

Protein idol, Tim Berners-Lee opened up the UK Governement's data.gov.uk site to the public yesterday. It might not seen like big news to most of you, but we've been tracking the site for some time as it marks a big step in creating a truly open source public data service.

While taking a page from the US with the launch of its own public data hub, the UK data portal offers almost three times the number of data sets available on the US site.

Speaking at the launch, TBL explained, "Data underpins our economy and our society - data about how much is being spent and where, data about how schools, hospitals and police are performing, data about where things are and data about the weather. Yet until recently not many non-technical people concerned themselves with data and how it could be used better."

Our friends at Shooting People (the world’s largest network of independent filmmakers) are always looking for ways to help filmmakers make money. Their latest initiative is Mofilm's Make An Ad competition, which culminatas in Barcelona this February. Open until 1 February, filmmakers are asked to make an ad of less than 90 seconds for one of five brands. Prizes include a car, going to Tribeca Film Festival, designing your own film tech packages, and a bunch of other cash prizes (ranging from USD1,000 to USD10,000). Boom.

Banksy made a movie. Go see it at Sundance.

"I'm Here - A Robot Love Story" is premiering at Sundance and then online here. More details on the blog here.

Awesome. Via the equally awesome, King of Africa.

Arabic + Helvetica = my two favourite influences in typography and this new typeface by Nadine Chahine is genius. Designed to work seamlessly with Roman Helv Neue, the Arabic version is now available at Linotype.

Recently spotted in Present around the corner from the Protein office on Shoreditch High Street. I rarely get excited by magazines, but Inventory has good articles, good insights and good design.

In an increasingly digital world, these High Snobiety and Selectism coasters are pretty sweet. Made by RepeatPress. Video by iloveq. Music by White Stripes

Wallpaper* have finally launched their great City Guides for the iPhone. Priced at £2.39/$3.99, I've just downloaded London and the Berlin one is free, so will let you know how I get on. First impressions are good.

Believe. Props to Chris Maha.

It doesn't get more Protein than this awesome looking book from Information is Beautiful. It is being released in the States on the 10th November and in the UK on 4th Feb 2010. Definitely one for the Christmas list ...

It was only a matter of time. HMV have teamed up with our favourite indie chain, Curzon Cinemas, to open a three screen theatre in Wimbledon. Ultra Culture has a pretty good write up from the opening last night here.

We just made a little showreel of some of the projects that's been keeping us busy the last couple of months. Like what you see? Why not hire us to do your next project ...