THE LATEST links from ProDesign online:

There’s no need to leave the safety of your com­puter for this afternoon’s enter­tain­ment. We’ve been surf­ing the net so you don’t have to. Today’s links are:

The State of Design Fest­ival kicked off last even­ing in Mel­bourne. Multi-disciplinary design firm Buro North put its think­ing cap on and came up with an iden­tity and a sweet suite of graphic mater­ial for the Design Insitute of Australia’s 10×10 series.

Douglas Coup­land, epoch defin­ing author of Gen­er­a­tion X, is now design­ing clothes — but it’s not about the money (that would be selling out). Rather, it’s an art/design exper­i­ment on “being Cana­dian”. Read the inter­view here

There’s noth­ing quite as ran­domly inter­est­ing as Dutch archi­tec­ture, and the port­fo­lio of the Amsterdam-based firm Con­crete is always worth a return visit. Work of note? Sup­per­clubs around the world, the Sel­fridge Hotel, and, er, a “Win­dow Brothel” in Amsterdam.

Mov­ing swiftly on to Iberian Pen­in­sula and to the work of ‘image makers’ Serial Cut — these guys are tak­ing the diorama to a whole new level. Fans of ana­log 3D will no doubt rejoice.

This web­site show­cas­ing the illus­trat­ive works of designer Stefan Glerum is run­ning on a CMS called Cargo — the res­ults look good.

Out of print or hard to find art- and design-related eph­em­era for sale, like this mag called, simply, Chair.