The Mauerpark in Berlin is a green area that used to be enclosed by the Wall and was nothing more than a disused piece of wasteland. Since the reunification, the area has established itself as an outdoors space for the inhabitants of Prenzlauer Berg and northern Mitte. Since 1994 the area is officially called the "Mauerpark".
The park and the nearby Sunday market is frequented by many, among them lots of tourists, especially in the summer months. Allmightys have started selling shirts here on the market on Sundays as well ;)
The nearby wall is second only to the actual remains of the Wall concerning the amount and quality of graffiti. Hundreds of sprayers and street artists are having the time of their lives here.

check out some shots...

Drawing Day is a worldwide drawing event encouraging everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art. The internet is an open canvas. Help drawingday.org create 1 million drawings online this day and boost online art communities.

All you have to do is submit drawings at any of the art communities listed on their website on June 7 . Communities include: Facebook, Flickr, DevianArt, MySpace,YouTube, Amateur Illustrator and RateMyDrawings. Go here for the full list and links to groups for each site.

Happy Drawing Day All!!

How often do you update your desktop wallpaper? My personal rhythm varies, sometimes once a week, at other times I leave a wallpaper for much longer.
Here's Desktoptopia, a site that automatically updates your wallpaper from an image bank. There is a huge number of cool and corny wallpapers available and you can even upload yours to add to the numbers.

check it out here...

Take a look at Joshua Budich's website which he devoted to his collection of Star Wars figures. His collection, which consists of over 600 figures and took 8 years to collect, started at very early childhood. I think most of us have collected the famous plastic figures at one time or the other, but Joshua certainly deserved the praise of going all the way. On his website there is also a link to his portfolio, which is interesting to look at.

take a look at his collection here...

Yesterday was April fools day, and I wonder how many of you were actually fooled :)
Here is a funny collection of yesterdays fools on the net. It's a fun browse- some of these are hilarious. My personal favourite is the BBC documentary on penguins that can fly. Or the new Google function that allows you to search for something one day in advance...

Have fun reading more here...

Want some free tees? Then head over to You The Designer and leave a comment about our current competition theme and win yourself two allmightys tees of your choice. Whilst you there, make sure you check out some other posts on the site ..fantastic resource for all related to design (tutorials, tips, etc..)

Here is the info:
As designers we tend to spend countless hours in front of the computer screen so in a previous article how important it is to get fresh air once in a while. Venturing outdoors is a great way to clear your mind and many artists find nature incredibly inspirational. This is why we wanted to start a discussion about why you love the outdoors! Do you skateboard, hike, jump put of planes, or just lay on the grass and look at the clouds? Whatever it is we want to know! read more and now to enter

Earthlive is a Discovery Channel site which superimposes several different global phenomena and effects on a globe. You can, for instance, take a look at the gulf stream, the path of hurricane Katarina or what the world looks like with all the lights on. The site is nicely done and the rotateable globe reminds yo of a strategy computer game. At the moment there only a few topics to choose from, but it looks like more will be added. There are also links to news about certain projects and institutions.

I like these exploratory sites a lot. This one looks promising and will hopefully develop further in the future. Take a look...

Graffiti Archeology is a project that looks at walls and their graffiti over a span of several years, documenting the change over time. The walls in question are located in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and other cities. The timespan of documentation ranges from the early 190's to the present.

As graffiti-covered walls change their appearance very quickly, this project observes and conservates the style and artwork over time.

Have a look at the cool website here...

Here is an interesting project to visualize language in terms of related images in referral to the semantic meaning of nouns. The compilation of the related images comes through Google and other search engines and the nouns through Wordnet. The result is a huge mosaic of image clusters that make up the big 'language picture' and explores the similarities and proximity of visual and semantic content.

Read more here...

Jim Denevan is an artist from Santa Cruz, California, who uses beaches as his preferred media. He uses a stick he finds on the beach and draws huge, amazingly accurate patterns and shapes into the wet sand. He must have a brilliant spatial perception, as he doesn't use any measuring aids. After a while the tide comes in and washes everything away, which is a shame, really...

have a look...