N Building from Alexander Reeder on Vimeo.

Japan’s capital is becoming more and more digital – unlike the usual advertising hoardings and billboards, the façade of this Tokyo building displays a QR code to allow mobile phone users to access sets of information on stores, make bookings, download materials, tweets and animations that come to life on the screens of their phones. All in all a way of knowing what’s going on in the block down the road without having to visit it directly.

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Garamond? from Murat Pak on Vimeo.

Breaking down the garamond font in a phenomenal video by the designer Murat Pak.

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He is one of the most influential artists of our times famous for creating works made from every day materials put together in amazing ways. Born in 1962, Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco is exhibiting his works at Moma in New York until March 1st. Look out for his modified Citroën DS which now looks like a dragon-fly, an ensemble of mirrors, sculpture at its most curious. You just won’t stop looking at them from different angles!

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A new life for paper not just used for scribbles or printing documents but as creative material for ideas themselves. One interesting example – completely original make-up by the designer Hector Sos.

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Travellers throughout the world – listen up! From today the top ten best-selling Wallpaper City Guides are also available on iPhone.

You can decide whether to check out Amsterdam’s secret venues, visit Barcelona’s coolest nightspots, view the best London theatres or most famous sights of Berlin or the hottest addresses of Los Angeles and New York. And why not discover Paris, Milan, Rome and Tokyo. And the cost? $3.99 with Berlin thrown in free.

This latest iPhone application is just great for the demanding globe-trotter who’s well educated and prefers to travel light!

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