Best of the Week #183

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

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Friday 08/05

LinkedIn Share Buttons Now On More Than 100,000 Sites

Kindergarten Guntramsdorf / goya

Recreated-Vintage VW Logo Specification Sheet

The Startup You Want To Work At The Most Is Your Own

This week at Microsoft: Zune HD Apps, Google, and BlueHat

Gmail's Preview Pane brings 'tablet-like' layout to your browser, but kills Multiple Inboxes

Unlock Doormat

Avoid These Body Language Postures and Gestures When Giving a Presentation [Presentations]

How You Can Boost Your Brain's Willpower with a Simple Working Memory Exercise [Mind Hacks]

30 Wonderful Examples of Seascape Photography

eBay now has a section for the most re-tweeted and liked products on its site

Skype two-way video chat finally arrives on more Android handsets

Thursday 08/04

Balmain House by Carter Williamson Architects

A Beginners Guide to Typography

Drafting Tools for the Serious Designer

Photo of the Day: Mayor Crushes Illegally Parked Mercedes with a Tank in Vilnius, Lithuania

Film Sessions II

Optimizing HTML email for mobile using progressive disclosure

Google slams Apple and Microsoft, claims 'hostile, organized campaign' against Android waged through 'bogus patents' (update: Microsoft responds!)

Visual bookmarks service Zootool launches Pro accounts – and the price is up to you

Facebook's Mysterious Hire: The Guy Who Designed Much of the iPhone

Twitter Rolls Out An Improved, HTML5 Version Of Twitter.com For iPad

Ashton Kutcher Or Kevin Rose, Whose Tweets Are Worth More?

Street Art Notebook

Utilizing The Power Of Recycling In Web Design

Wednesday 08/03

5 types of people who will miss Old Twitter

DropSync: Automated Dropbox sync for your Android phone

Five Low-Hanging UX Tips

20th St. Offices / Belzberg Architects

Digital art by Karim Fakhoury

Breaking Typo by Dani Chaparro

Batman Equation is Answered with the Bat-Symbol

Learn to Love the Taste of Water [Health]

Music Plus Makes Google Music Awesome [Exclusive Lifehacker Download]

[the films of] Pixar

How to Think Like Jeff Bezos

Google Chrome Predicts And Pre-Loads Instant Pages

Tuesday 08/02

Foursquare Revamps Brand Pages: Now Do-It-Yourself

Google opens up telephone calling from Gmail to 38 languages, 4 currencies

Turn your Linkedin profile into a sweet infographic with Visualize.me

Inbox 10,000: Some Thoughts After A Month Away From Email

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) Paintings

Skype for iPad is finally out (hands-on!)

GMS Grande Palladium by Malik Architecture

Monday 08/01

Vibe Design’s Kew House 3 in Melbourne

Colorful Summer Pictures by Christopher O’Donnell (23 Pics)

Amazing Self Portraits

iCloud.com beta with Mail, Contacts and Calendar web apps, now available to developers

5 Brazilian startups that will get a boost in 2011

Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animations Tool "Adobe Edge"

REWORK sales: Paper ain't dead yet