OK - The first competiton of the year is now finished. After a little creative flair this would absolutely have to be one of the coolest Ladas kicking around!

Also a big thanks to all of those people that submitted their designs.

All the pictures can be found here:
http://jalopnik.com/photogallery/ladamartini/

I’m beached as bro!

You have to love the piss being taken out of a few Kiwis.

Everyone needs a good excuse to grow some wild facial hair… Introducing MOvember.

One of Melbourne’s hottest digital agencies - IE Media - has built the web site for MOvember and as of last night, http://www.movember.com is live for the 2008 campaign.

The Movember event raises awareness around men’s health issues and funds for carefully selected beneficiary partners that are also charitable organisations, with a focus on prostate cancer and depression in men.

Movember’s current beneficiary partners in Australia are The Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and beyondblue: the national depression initiative .

Why not join up and raise money as an individual, or start a team with workmates or friends? You can even create your own MO Space.

Check it out now!!

http://www.movember.com - (Incase you missed the domain)

OK - First competiton of the year is now underway.  We all know Lada’s are one of the coolest cars kicking around…… well it’s time to exercise some creative flair and help design our new Lada.

Winners will be announced over the coming weeks and all artwork is to be showcased on this site with links back to your site / portfolio.

More exciting though is you will get to see your artwork come to life with the winning design actually transferred onto our brand new Lada and seen on various motor racing events throughout Australia.

Do not delay - begin creating your ultimate Lada now!! Send your entries through to - lada@bloggnews.com

Download the Base Artwork here - lada-blank.pdf

View the first entry in the competition: - lada-gulf.jpg

BloggNews loves finding free stuff… and we especially love free fonts.

This OpenType font family comes in regular, italic, bold and small caps and has some nice OpenType features. Besides ligatures, contextual alternatives, fractions, oldstyle/tabular numerals, Anivers also has a ‘case’ feature for case sensative forms and tabular numerals … so Anivers can crunch numbers with ease.

To download the free regular you only have to register - but if you use it make sure you sling the bloke a few bucks to buy him a coffee - it’s worth it for such a quality product.

To preview and download the font visit:

http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/anivers.html

Surely everyone will want a pair of these.  Now all i have to do is drum up that old red life vest and we are set!

Apparently Nike have decided to produce the futuristic sneakers worn by Marty McFly after an Internet petition was started a while back on mcfly2015.com.

Nike will release a limited version of the Hyperdunk, this years most talked about basketball shoe, in a Back to the Future inspired color scheme. The sneakers are expected to be released later this Summer.

Unfortunately, the sneakers don’t tie themselves like the ones shown in the film.

Soooo soooo sooooo sooooo cool!

http://www.slashfilm.com/

Oh my god!  Who said open plan offices are not the way to go?

I can’t really write anything more to explain this - just watch!  Craaaaaaazy

In order to demonstrate the power of the Leica D-Lux 3 a real sized 3D dog was created with a catchphrase about the camera being able see objects in more detail.

Check out some of the photos of construction and if you plan on reading the article you better brush up on your Portuguese - All in all very creative idea and i think it looks pretty sweet.

http://comunicadores.info/2008/06/11/leica-d-lux-3-dog-pixel/

Finally there is some consistency in designing our Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - thanks to …. you guessed it - our best friends over there at Google.

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

The Blueprint CSS Framework is available for use in all personal or commercial projects, under both the MIT and the GPL license. You may choose the one that fits your project.

For more information and to download the framework for FREE - head over to the website:

http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/

This site is a must bookmark for anyone who sits in front of a computer and is getting slightly bored with the music in their iTunes library.

The Hype Machine tracks a variety of MP3 blogs. If a post contains MP3 links, it adds those links to its database and displays them on the front page.

Some of the frequently accessed tracks are cached by the Hype Machine server, much like Google Search caches web pages, to reduce load on the bloggers’ servers and protect their bandwidth.

Those tracks are NOT available for download, but you can preview them via the play buttons that are next to each track.

The blog that posted a particular track is identified under every track by name so you can read more about why they posted it. If you enjoyed a track someone posted, stop by and let them know!

You can purchase CDs and individual tracks by using the “amazon” and “itunes” links that appear next to most tracks. Each purchase you make via the Amazon and iTunes links supports both the artists and the Hype Machine.

http://hypem.com/