I highly doubt I’m the only one who would love to live in this colourful, whimsical, totally unique house. An awesome circular staircase, a slide into the kitchen, secret hatches, a rotating bed—this house is most definitely a funhouse.

The Rainbow House, London from Ab Rogers Design on Vimeo.

Here’s a great stop motion video by Adam Voorhes (featuring illustration by Will Bryant) for the Bluetooth publication Signature. It’s a digital magazine cover, which is cool.

Stop Motion Digital Magazine Cover from Adam Voorhes on Vimeo.

Could you walk in a straight line if you were blindfolded? Apparently, like, no one can. NPR’s Robert Krulwich, along with animator Benjamin Arthur, offer this wonderfully animated report on why we can’t manage the shortest distance between A and B without visual markers like the sun to guide our path.

[Via BoingBoing]

I’ve been reading The Sartorialist on and off for a couple of years (though you wouldn’t know it to look at me—heh), and I’ve always enjoyed how the man behind the blog, Scott Schuman, manages to blend street and fashion photography so effortlessly, with such captivating results. He makes me want to dress better.

Schuman is the subject of this great little documentary, in which he described what he does, how he does it, and why.

[Via Kottke]

Happy new year everyone! For the first post of 2011, I’d like to share this video from National Geographic. It’s an intro to a year-long special feature they’re doing on our explosively growing human population. Some nice typographic animation too.

Check out this stop-motion video made for Ikea by Forsman & Bodenfors. It shows how they put together the Homemade is Best cookbook, which lays out the ingredients for its recipes in really imaginative, unorthodox, and, well, geometric ways. I especially like the little pyramids made out of flour.

[Via Design Milk]

Here’s a great stop-motion animated short for BBC Knowledge, a new magazine dedicated to, well, celebrating how awesome humans are.

Honk If You’re Human