Nowadays, with all of our forms of media, we are constantly confronted with a barrage of images, sights and sounds. All of these combine to create the visual & societal texture that will come to define our time.

Here are some of the year’s most interesting textures in media:

1. Gap & JCPenney’s bright ideas for Spring.

2. Die Antwoord & T by Alexander Wang collaborate for Spring ’12.

3. Diet Coke revamps their cans hoping to reach a fashion customer base.

4. Investigating the increasing abundance of textures in advertising and infographics.

5. J. Crew’s walk-through of the process of painting and pattern-making for product and social content.

6. Hound Design & INDO’s inventive backdrops.

7. Ian Hall’s Patterns of Science presents a mashup of cultures through pattern.

8. Watercolor and photoshop for clothing label Mimi & Maximus.

9. Does the ease of smart phone photography fuel or hinder our creativity?

10. Meara O’Reilly uses cymatic effects to reflect the texture in sound through vibration in matter for Björk’s Biophilia world tour.