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ProductTank September looks particularly appealing with talks from The Guardian, Lean Analytics and BBC Future Media.

We're attending Think Drink Do on Behavioural Change and Technology on September 9th at the Book Club. Get your tickets before they run out.

We're sending a bearded delegation to the next London Designer News Meet-up on September 25th.

And our very own Front End London is happening on the 28th of August. Come along for three free talks on internet accessibility, branding at the BBC and the CMS used at The Guardian (plus pizza and beer!).

Spike and die: why products created by ad agencies fail- A good, pretty self-explanatory read.

Learning to unlearn - Our Paul Hamilton tells us about the assumptions you've got to discard if you want to design well.

An app that lets diabetics share supplies and advice - We've been talking a lot about the dark side of the sharing economy. Here's a more positive take on it.

Nobumichi Asai uses real-time face tracking with projection mapping to apply electronic make-up to a model's face. Mind-boggling.

David Foster Wallace on writing, self-improvement and how we become who we are - The great DFW's wise words will inspire you to start your days well.

This short documentary is about the mysterious unfinished pedway project intended to pedestrianise the City of London.

Ida by Pawel Pawlikowski won the Best Film award at last year's London Film Festival. It's a beautifully shot black and white film about a young novice's discovery of her hitherto unknown Jewish roots and her quest to get to know her new identity, set in 1950s Poland.

The Battersea Power Station and Everyman Cinema are screening a great selection of films this summer at their outdoor cinema. And Street Feast are catering. Aladdin, Dirty Dancing, Some Like It Hot and Grand Budapest Hotel are playing on the last day of August.

Johnpaul Douglass has taken some hilarious photos of a pepperoni pizza in the wild. We love the one on a palomino pony.

The Anagramatron is a Tumblr of random tweets that are anagrams of themselves.

The Felt Cornershop just off Columbia Road in Shoreditch is the creation of artist Lucy Sparrow. Everything is made of felt. Even the baked beans and newspapers. A must-see.

Joan Fontcuberta's photography exhibition at the Science Museum in London is a collection documentary narratives that mix fact with fiction and science with art. It makes you doubt everything in the best kind of way.

Hans Hillmann's famous film posters are on display at Kemistry Gallery until September 27th. This is his first UK retrospective. The Goethe Institut and Institut Français will be showing a selection of films that Hillman designed the posters for too.

And here's a free download of 9 art books about Bauhaus that have been out of print for ages. A true gem!

We took the cool origami-inspired Oru Kayak for a test sail on our canal. So much fun!

On Bank Holiday Monday Surfdome and O'Neill are bringing water sports to the heart of London. There will be free wakeboarding and yoga sessions and all donations go to Surfers Against Sewage.

Brick Lane cream cheese and salmon beigels (note: NOT bagels) make a great midnight snack. Apparently they make 7,000 each day. Here's a little story about our beloved Beigel Bake.