Minimal Website Design

Check out minimalsites.com to see examples of extremely simply designed sites.
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Really Cool New Content Aggregator

Widexplorer allows you to surf multiple sites simultaneously. Scroll horizontally to view the sites, and scroll vertically to navigate within them. Really, really cool. Trust me.
Widexplorer

Ad Agencies Spin 2008 Election Advertising

A bunch of the top agencies in the country accept a challenge from AdWeek to do some seriously creative political advertising. Really cool stuff.
AdWeek article

Inventory of User Experience Templates and Examples

The website Pattern Tap offers a great library of ways to display various information online.
Pattern Tap

Web 3.0? Yoowalk lets you surf in 3D

Yoowalk is a new site that allows you to explore the web using an avatar.
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Smynx Offers Ideas To Spice Up Your Life

Bored? Just browse Smynx for fun and interesting things to do.
Smynx

Design is not Art?

“Design helps solve human problems. The highest accolade we can bestow on a design is not that it is beautiful, as we do in Art, but that it is well-used.”
– Joshua Porter 
Five Principles to Design by

MANIFESTO FOR GROWTH

http://www.brucemaudesign.com/incomplete_manifesto.html
“It’s not about the world of design. It’s about the design of the world.” - Bruce Mau

Table of Contents Best Practice Examples

For anyone still designing print pieces, check out this gallery of creative ways to display a table of contents.
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Custom 3D Fabrication from Shapeways

A new company makes customized 3D fabrication of art and products easy and affordable.
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