Music’s Billboard Top 40 meets web design with Design Charts‘ new weekly rankings site. Design Charts bases its results on the opinions of three other sites: Dope Awards, Website Design Awards, and Designaside–the three of which are in the business of awarding the best sites around the world. The Design Charts website itself has been derided by some for its design, but I think its mainstream, bouncy, and sound injected interface is a good fit for what it really is: a medium through which to rank the ‘pop stars’ of the web world (plus, I just enjoy the irony). The sites featured within Design Charts are truly amazing–you could fill an entire lazy Sunday perusing forty sites that are soaked with creativity and innovativeness. For those of you looking for inspiration for your own web design endeavors, or for those just looking for some eye candy–Design Charts is definitely worth checking out. Via Notcot

Hanae Mori began her prestigious career as a costume designer in the post-war Japan movie scene. In 1965 she presented her famous collection, “East Meets West” in New York, and in 1979 she became the only Asian designer to be admitted to La Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. Commemorating her prestigious career, the Hanae Mori Foundation will be presenting a retrospective at La Maison de l'Amérique Latine in Paris from October 6th to the 27th. In addition to her more famous pieces the website informs us that the exhibition will feature an animated robot mannequin designed by Tatsuya Matsui and dressed by Ms. Mori in an effort “to be a hyphen with [the] 21st century rather than pure nostalgia.” It should be a lovely exhibition, so if you're in Paris at the time, go and check it out.