An interesting idea of sharing ideas. That’s what comes first to mind when you visit Mainual. We can find many blogs telling us about design ideas and even examples of these ideas. With Mainual it is different. Here people share the ideas they didn’t accomplished yet.

It’s like a public notebook for ideas of the designers community where everyone is a contributor. If you ask why, then the answer is simple – so the ideas you hide in your notes somewhere in your work desk would actually live and develop, give inspiration for other ideas.

Each idea generator at least once felt a feeling that there are so many ideas that it is sure that most of them would never become real. So they keep accumulating and in the end you have a whole bunch of untapped ideas.

Somehow it is a place for unselfish sharing of your ideas. At first sight it is difficult to believe that. Still it is true that people have worries about ideas being “hooked”. Nevertheless these fears are not well-founded because each post has required information that identifies the author of the idea. So it is actually not a concern but an opportunity for the author that an idea will be possibly shown to the digital community.

Voldemars Dudums tried to found out that creating the first live Twitter stream made by real birds. The project took place in a small village Sarnate near the coast in the west of Latvia . He said that it could seem “that it is quite silly, but if you look to what other people are sometimes writing on Twitter, then I think tomtit’s messages are still ok”.

And it’s true that sometimes the content on Twitter is not content at all. Hungry Birds project now made 2 215 tweets, has 4 935 followers and listed in 128 lists. A success. The project will continue this year on november.

Hungry Birds on Twitter: @hungry_birds
Hungry Birds project: http://birdsontwitter.com

Homer Henard and Nic Lamb scoring mega slabs somewhere up north.

Lego felt tip 110 printer connected to an Apple Mac. This is not mindstorms, designed/built/coded it all from scratch including analog motor electronics, sensors and printer driver, the USB interface uses a “wiring” board.

I recently found myself wondering what a video game might look like in the form of a stop motion animation. While a normal person’s response to such a question would of course be “who gives a shit?” I possess few of the qualities typically associated with normalcy and was irrevocably compelled to find out. This is the result.

Alex Varanese

A San Francisco-based artist characterized by an unhealthy fixation on red and a style that mixes 2D, 3D and typography in ways that he’d like to think are highly original but probably aren’t in the grand scheme of things.

Combined hero for fans of Shrek and Avatar. Dowload Shrevatar wallpaper (1920×1200)