Last Thursday, Creativity and Penguin Books announced that U.K.-based Matt Taylor's design was the cover winner of the first annual Hearts and Minds Talent Competition. The contest challenged artists of varying experience and backgrounds to design a cover for the upcoming Penguin novel, The Island at the End of the World, written by Sam Taylor, author of The Amnesiac. Matt Taylor's design, chosen from more than 300 submissions, will appear on the cover of the new novel when it is published next year. View all 25 of the finalists here.

Matt Taylor

Creativity

Terry Richardson On Handshakes

Born in New York City and raised in Hollywood. Terry Richardson is an international celebrity as well as one of the most prolific and compelling photographers of his generation. Known for his uncanny ability to cut to the raw essence of whomever appears before his lens, Mr. Richardson's vision is at once humorous, tragic, often beautiful, and always provocative.

tbone

Diesel 30 Years Of Expression

Not a brand new idea, but a fun idea and nicely done.
Diesel promotes its anniversary with the dirtiest clean video ever made!

More clean fun on this page: Diesel - XXX

Freddy King

Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time

The list

Spacelander Bicycle

Designer: Benjamin G. Bowden, American, born England 1907-1998
Manufacturer: Bomard Industries
Medium: Fiberglass, metal, glass, rubber
Place Manufactured: Grand Haven, Michigan, USA
Dates: Prototype designed 1946; Manufactured 1960Dimensions: 36 x 40 x 18 in. (91.4 x 101.6 x 45.7 cm)
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Center for American Art, 5th Floor

D&AD Creative Bible Online

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Nagi Noda Passes Away

The multitalented artist/director leaves behind an impressive legacy of bizarre and playful work:

Uchu Country

R.I.P

Good Old Bootleg'ish

If you're a huge John Mayer fan I've got a treat for you:
Motherload of downloads

Punkt

Punkt is a music festival in the city of Kristiansand in the south of Norway. The festival concept is centered around a stage/studio hybrid called the Alpha Room. This room is an extension of how the curators of the festival, Jan Bang and Erik Honoré, have worked with a range of Nordic and international improvisational artists over the last years; with live sampling and live electronics, and as record producers and remixers.

Yesterday Thom Hell, Norways greatest and most talented musician, started the whole festival with a kick-ass concert. (Photo of Thom Hell by Ole Martin Buene).

For this year's PUNKT program, go here.