Genius. The video for Cut Chemists’ ‘My First Big Break’, shot with a 360° panoramic lens.

As part of their 25th Anniversary, Taschen are reprinting what has got got be one of the best books on Stanley Kubrick - ‘The Stanley Kubrick Archives‘. Featuring 800 film stills, many taken from the original prints, essays and interviews and a CD of a 1966 interview of Stanley Kubrick by Jeremy Bernstein, original copies of the book are hard to find and expensive with the first print including a 12 frame film strip from a 70mm print of 2001 owned by Kubrick. The preface to the book by Alison Castle can be found here.

• A galaxy not so far away - Great photo essay in this Saturday’s Guardian Weekend about sci-fi fans who like to dress up as their heroes. Photo’s are by Steve Schofield.
• Blow Up - Image view that hooks into the Flickr API and lets you view your images full screen

• There’s a great article over on the Creative Review blog about the reprinting of Wim Crouwel’s ‘Vormgevers’ poster and the process behind reproducing the artwork so that it matches the original ‘non-computer’ created design and all its imperfections. The reprinted poster is available from Blanka and looks fantastic.
• Lego Wall-E as created by pixar animator Angus MacLane. Think Lego missed a trick here.
• SoundCloud - Online audio platform designed for music professionals that’s come up with some clever ways of sending and receiving music.

“The Type Museum has successfully collected a large proportion of all the definitive historical materials relating to the art, design & manufacturing production in Britain of the typefaces in which the world languages are communicated and recorded. This collection has been closed for two years and needs re-opening to public access, educational and scholarly use not broken up or put into storage as is currently being proposed. The Type Museum’s collections need exhibiting, curatorial & conservation development and educational workshops - not storage. This legacy is vital for the quality of education of future generations of communicators in which Britain has frequently led the world. We appeal for resources to restore and safeguard educational access to these collections.”

You can sign the petition here.

• Aurora - Web interface concept from Adaptive Path that explores “new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios”. Designed as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series, Aurora is designed around four themes: Context awareness, natural interaction, continuity and multi-user applications. HD versions of the series of videos can be found here.
• Britain from above - New series from the BBC exploring the topography of Britain using satellite technology and aerial photography. Starts Sunday 10th August. Preview.
• Incredible satellite images of earth via Environmental Graffiti

• Large Hadron Collider - Fantastic collection of photo’s of CERN’s 17 mile long particle accelerator via The Boston Globe. Check out the aerial view for the scale of all of CERN’s rings.
• Passing the Torch: An Evolution of Form - Nice interactive piece on the history of the Olympic Torch from the New York Times

• Dieter Rams’ Good design in ten commandments. All of which can be seen in his iconic 606 Universal Shelving System designed for Vitsoe.
• More bamboo, Brano Meres’ Bamboo composite road bike frame.
• Wish I had the time to play with this. Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping platform that can be used with processing and flash built apps.

Following on from the excellent Helvetica, Gary Hustwit’s new project is a documentary on industrial design called ‘ Objectified‘. The documentary explores the creative process behind some of the world’s most influential designers and how their designs impact on our world.

The film is currently in production with a release date of early 2009. Featuring interviews with the likes of Jonathan Ive (Apple), Marc Newson (Ikepod, Lockheed Lounge), Dieter Rams (Braun) and Bill Moggridge (IDEO); Objectified looks set to become a designer’s ‘must-see’.

Gary covers the rationale behind the film on the Objectified blog and it’s worth checking out the production stills which give a flavour as to how good this film will be.

Worth checking out as well is the logo for Objectified, designed by Michael C. Place from Build and made up of a number of ‘iconic’ design icons including the iPod scroller, Braun radio and the Panton chair.