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Tired of using boring old lorem ipsum in your GUI's and layouts, feel like your personality could shine through more in your master pages? Then Cupcake Ipsum is the app for you.

Cupcake Ipsum is an auto text generator built by Applicake that takes the idea of dummy text and makes it so much more sweeter:

Cheesecake marzipan powder faworki jelly-o jelly-o jelly-o fruitcake. Chocolate bar danish gingerbread pudding oat cake halvah wafer chocolate bar lollipop. Jelly-o applicake liquorice bear claw chocolate muffin faworki souffle.

This is a series from the Lego campaign: Imagine, created by Jung Von Matt using single column stacks of colored Lego that represent iconic TV characters from our childhood. An extremely simple and clever idea that is executed perfectly... can you "imagine" who they are?

The iPad allows us to do many things, whether it be to watch and interact with media, utilise hundreds of thousands of apps, browse the web, send email or simply play games.

People are continually finding new ways to use the iPad as a promotional tool, but this video from Swedish magicians Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales, on behalf of the city of Stocklholm... is pretty awesome, combining seven iPads with a bit of sleight of hand and a live audience.

or check out Simon Pierro?s voodoo fueled iPad demonstration.






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This morning I was tagged in a video on Facebook called "How not to ruin great design" where Mag+ fire their client Frank Woods for being an ignorant dick and as a result create an app to help clients work with designers. Now I can''t work out whether this is fictitious or not, but either way it's a bit of fun.

As I began hunting around for some validation on this video I found this sweet guide to design for start ups, although the information in the guide should be absorbed by all...

Start Ups, this is how Design works.

Dancing Coca-Cola bottles promo by Korb for the Eyeka co-creation community contest in 2010. Treated more as an iconic object, red topped white glass bottle with brown drink inside. This is what happens when a legendary image meets sounds of the harp in sterile neutral space.