Moggridge is a renowned interaction designer and the director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. His new book “examines connections and conflicts between old and new media, describing how the [mainstream media] have changed and how new patterns of media consumption are emerging.” It’s composed of Moggridge’s interviews with almost forty prominent people shaping media today.

You can buy the book Amazon. Over at the marketing site, there’s a wealth of interview segments available.

An interview with Bronx-born filmmaker Heather Quinlan, who is working on a documentary about the gradual disappearance of the classic New Yawk accent. Fascinating.

Designer Gerry Mckay’s concept illustration for a design based on the iconic Adidas Superstar basketball shoe. Also see his design for a Facebook shoe.

Wonderful body of photographic projects from this veteran Italian photographer.

His photos of crowd scenes, particularly beach panoramas like the one above, remind me a bit of the work of Andreas Gursky and Photographer Simon Hoegsberg’s 100 meter-wide photograph of twenty days on a railroad bridge on in Berlin. See his online portfolio here.

Over at I Love Typography, designer Seb Lester talks about the process he went through to design three new, beautiful typographic prints. Really superb work, including the organically mottled appearance of this script typography which, upon closer inspection, is composed of graphically arranged stars.

There are lots of detail shots plus a nice video. Read more here.

Designer Cristian Kit Paul created these geektastic spoofs on Apple’s weather Dashboard widget, showcasing forecasts from locations within the “Star Wars” universe. They’re all pretty clever but my favorite is the forecast for Alderaan, which packs a clever, second-read joke.

Oops, sorry, just realized this is the second Star Wars-related entry this month. I’m really showing my age. Anyway, see all of Cristian’s weather icons here.

This exhaustive inventory of things you can do with everyone’s favorite cloud-synchronized file utility is a true marvel. The Dropbox folks have to be completely blown away by pages like this, which speak so loudly to their tremendous success. Because this is what every startup wants: such pervasive enthusiasm for your product that you can hardly keep track of the many ways in which people are integrating it into their own products, and such uniform acceptance of your product as a de facto standard that new businesses feel the urgent need to integrate with it. All of this for a file utility. Amazing.

A very promising trailer for a documentary about a 250-year-old farmhouse in Japan that was restored by an American journalist and his adopted Japanese son.

“In Fall 2007, Princeton Architectural Press published ‘Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan,” the memoir of retired AP foreign correspondent John Roderick. Moved by the story of this remarkable house and the memories it contained, and with seed funding from the Graham Foundation, we began work on a documentary film about John, his adopted son architect Yoshihiro Takishita, and the 250-year old house they shared. John died in March 2008 at the age of 93. ‘Minka’ is a meditation on place, architecture, memory and the meanings of home.”

The movie, a production by two friends of mine at Birdling Films, is only available as a trailer right now here on Vimeo. But the filmmakers have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds to complete it — as of this writing they’re just shy of halfway to their goal of US$10,000. You can donate here and help get this done.

BitTorrent-focused blog TorrentFreak has this roundup of I guess what you’d call historically significant torrent files, including the largest torrent on record, the oldest torrent on record, the torrent shared by the most people at once, etc. It’s a fascinating look inside a sharing medium that I bet most people (like me) assume can’t be easily quantified.

A treasure trove of unofficial art for famous movies. Some of them are quite beautiful, like this one from artist Frank Stockton.

Mondo sells screen prints of the art in limited editions. See more here.