With the massive explosion of everything digital and app based, its really nice to see some good old fashioned print based work. However what makes Offscreen magazine so cool is that its a magazine exploring the people behind screen based designs. With interviews with designers and creatives, Offscreen is both a brilliant read and a beautifully designed piece of work. As its still in it’s infancy, they only have two issues, with a third in the making. We loved the first two here at Culturedrop and we cant wait for the third. Keep up the amazing work, those working on it and those featured.

Ink stories is a series of shorts looking at tattoo artists and those influenced by the art. This first video looks at young tattooist Daniel “Ronnie” Ronson.

Amazing light effect photoshop illustrations. See more here.

“Designed by Chengdu Gaoyuan Automobile Industry, this sleek mini-crossover is as sexy as it is speedy – up to 120 mph – with capacity for three people. With a target release date of 2014.” See more here.

Carbon Fiber Stormtrooper suit. BOOM! Enough said! See more here.

Mark Solomon is Principal Designer of HP’s Innovation Program Office, and he has recently published a project to his behance page simply called, Google Chromebook. Its possible that HP have been working with Google to develop their own branded chromebook. This would following in line with Samsung developing and manufacturing their Nexus phone. However considering Google’s recent aquisition of Motorola, we think this will be the last ‘collaboration’ between these companies.  Find out more here.

Locus OS Interface from Barton Smith on Vimeo.

Designer Barten Smith has combined elements of Microsoft Zune with touches from iPhone/iPad and even Mac OSX interface to create this concept for a Microsoft home computer. Although it looks pretty nifty, we’re still not sure touch screen home computers are the way forward. Time will tell i guess. You can find out more here.