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  • Tequila Packaging

    aNEW designs
    3 May 2012 | 4:55 pm
    With Cinco de Mayo coming up this weekend, The Dieline has a round up of Tequila Packaging to get you in the mood.

  • 25 Photos of Invisible Man – See the Unseen!

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    Charlie B. Johnson
    1 May 2012 | 3:28 am
    Remember the movie Hollow Man, where Kevin Bacon acquired the power to be invisible? Imagine how cool would it be in real life? Although there hasn’t been any ‘Invisibility Cloak’ developed similar to the one in Harry Potter, there is one artist that makes it almost possible to vanish. Liu Bolin is a Chinese artist with a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts. His famous work "The Invisible Man" features camouflage artwork that makes human beings disappear into the backdrop. Liu Bolin’s works have been featured in various Art Museums. In his ‘Invisible…

  • Mini world / LP

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    Carole Guevin
    11 May 2012 | 2:14 pm
    A sneak preview of the staging area for the Little People concept / project I will be working on for the next 2 weeks. Played w/ some props and done a couple preliminary shoot for proportion, details, lighting etc. via iPhone before shooting w/ my Fuji x10. I’ve written / storyboarded about 18 potential vignettes so far. Psyched about materializing my miniature world. Stay foolish – stay inspired! _______

  • What people really want

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    Jonathan Cherry
    15 May 2012 | 3:18 am
    Men and woman are simple creatures. Give them ice cream, pizza and cars and all is well in the world. Social media monitoring company NetBase put 365 days worth of its own data about online conversations up against a recent Harris poll that asked, “What is the one thing you want right now?” The results show that people are generally emotional sharers when it comes to social media, but they are much more logical when asked a direct question. For instance, 80% of the “I want _____” updates were about food, whereas 50% of the survey responses were related to personal finance (money,…

  • Cardboard Camera

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    12 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    IKEA has unveiled an eco-friendly digital camera made out of cardboard. Powered by two AAA batteries, KNAPPA cardboard camera has enough memory to store 40 photos and comes with built-­in USB connector. Designed by Jesper Kouthoofd, these disposable and easily recyclable cameras will be given out to customers at selected IKEA stores. For more designs, check out: 12 [...]
 
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  • Fiona Rae exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery

    16 May 2012 | 11:12 am
    Fiona Rae remembers acquiring a PowerBook in 1999 at about the same time that she met her husband and fellow artist Dan Perfect. Something of a tech boff, Perfect introduced Rae to the joys of Photoshop and the rest, you could say, is history. Already well established as one of the 'Freeze' generation of British artists (she took part in Damien Hirst's game-changing group show in Docklands in 1988), Rae’s creative outpouring over the past decade - a powerhouse of distinctive works juxtaposing her painterly skills with startling digital age iconography - is the subject of her…

  • A new wave of galleries arrives in Hong Kong

    15 May 2012 | 12:45 pm
    As Hong Kong presents ART HK 12, its fifth international art fair - now under the Art Basel franchise and expected to draw even more visitors than the 63,500 last year - it is also celebrating its transformation into the de facto art capital of Asia. Thanks to an unprecedented boom in China’s art market and a growing demand for Western art (Christie’s Hong Kong sold £225 million in a week last autumn), several influential international galleries have opened permanent spaces timed to coincide with this year’s fair. ‘There is palpable excitement about how the art scene…

  • 'Liquid Glacial' tables by Zaha Hadid at David Gill Galleries, London

    14 May 2012 | 3:14 pm
    David Gill is a man who requires little introduction. A firm fixture on the contemporary design scene, the distinguished Spaniard can be credited with spearheading the shifting perception that design can be labelled as art, having commissioned pieces by Fredrikson Stallard, Barnaby Barford and Tom Dixon. This month sees Gill re-opening the doors of his eponymous gallery, 25 years since his first foray, right in the heart of Mayfair. Located on a quiet corner of King Street, and a stone’s throw away from Christie’s, the mammoth two-floor space is a minimalist vision to behold. In…

  • Manifold Editions pop-up store, London

    14 May 2012 | 12:52 pm
    You know your way around contemporary art. You can walk into a gallery and talk that art theory discourse with the best of them. You attend auctions and know a good price for a small Peter Doig canoe painting or some of Lisa Milroy’s shoes. Even so, even for experts like you, contemporary art can be an opaque world that seems to poorly serve the individual collector of more modest means. Which makes new contemporary art website Manifold Editions something of a godsend. Launched in November 2011, it sells limited-edition, high-quality signed prints that you can browse at your leisure. It…

  • May beauty news: editor's picks

    14 May 2012 | 10:00 am
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  • Sonos Soundalier

    Largetail
    16 May 2012 | 11:43 am
    We asked Lindsey Adelman to create a custom speaker for a unique audio experience during NYC Design Week Advertorial content: Best known for her hand-blown glass and sculptural brass lighting fixtures, Lindsey Adelman is no stranger to exploring the limits of industrial design. Driven by this pionering spirit, Adelman's studio, in collaboration with Kiel Mead of the AmDC, teamed up with Sonos to create the "Soundalier", a centerpiece for the Sonos Listening Library being held at The Standard East Village during the upcoming NYC Design Week. This gorgeously inventive speaker structure embodies…

  • Bill Hunt

    Jonah Samson
    16 May 2012 | 10:31 am
    Our conversation with the consummate collector on the thrill of the hunt For anyone working in the area of fine art photography, Bill Hunt is a familiar name. The self-described "champion of photography" has demonstrated an unrivaled passion for the medium as a curator, dealer and collector for almost 40 years. Hunt's photography collection is nearly as infamous within the field as the man himself. Ranging from anonymous images from the 19th century to modern masterpieces by the likes of Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus and Richard Avedon, the pictures all share one thing in common–as Hunt…

  • TEDxMogadishu: Rebirth

    Aaron Kohn
    16 May 2012 | 8:35 am
    An impromptu conference aimed at reforming a war-torn nation For many Somali‬ refugees, the film Black Hawk Down serves as one of their only memories of the civil war that has ravaged their country for the last two decades. This Thursday, 17 May 2012, thousands of expats—along with the rest of the world—will see their nation again in a live broadcast of TEDxMogadishu, an impromptu conference bravely taking place in Somalia's capital city. Documenting the event are filmmakers Sebastian Lindstrom and Alicia Sully, a progressive duo who recently shot a feature film highlighting the…

  • Christian Witkin

    CH Contributor
    15 May 2012 | 3:52 pm
    Peeling back the layers for a portrait of human truth by Katharina Galla The portrait photographer Christian Witkin is best known for his advertising and editorial work for major publications like New York Times Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, Vogue and many more. Entering what he calls "the second half of this life", he is now shifting his professional career to return to his roots in fine art, the foundation of his personal photographic work. "I've been very fortunate that most of the advertising work I do is what I love doing," says Witkin. "But the commercial world is only important to me in…

  • K-10+

    Karen Day
    15 May 2012 | 1:23 pm
    Pep up your pup's health with a daily dose of powdered vitamins Though new to the market as a clever way of thinking about canine supplements, K-10+ seems like a product that should already exist. The line of dog-friendly vitamins is the brainchild of NYC-based photographer Ryan Singer, who developed the range after realizing how difficult it is to get a dog to eat a pill. The single-serving powder formulas are "basically like Emergen-C for dogs", he tells us. Depending on the dog's weight, you simply drop the contents of one packet into its water bowl or mix it into its food for a quick and…
 
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  • Logo Lollipops

    Toxel.com
    15 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Edible logos of famous brands handcrafted out of real candy by Italian photographer Massimo Gammacurta. New York based artist created a series of delicious lollipops that look like iconic logos of world renowned companies. [order Lolli-pop book] Also check out: Honest Logos and Simplified Logos

  • Shadow Art

    Toxel.com
    14 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Wonderful shadow art created by talented Belgian artist Fred Eerdekens. Strategically placed objects cast shadows that form words and images. For more shadow art, check out: Light and Shadow Paintings

  • Upside Down House

    Toxel.com
    13 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Polish architects Irek Glowacki and Marek Rozanski have designed and constructed beautiful upside down house in Terfens, Austria. Unique house is filled with upside down furniture that was attached to the ceiling. There is even an upside down car in the garage. Fun project took eight month to complete. [photos by Dominic Ebenbichler] Also check out: Upside [...]

  • Cardboard Camera

    Toxel.com
    12 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    IKEA has unveiled an eco-friendly digital camera made out of cardboard. Powered by two AAA batteries, KNAPPA cardboard camera has enough memory to store 40 photos and comes with built-­in USB connector. Designed by Jesper Kouthoofd, these disposable and easily recyclable cameras will be given out to customers at selected IKEA stores. For more designs, check out: 12 [...]

  • Underwater Hotel

    Toxel.com
    11 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Innovative hotel with 21 underwater rooms will be constructed 33 feet (10 m) beneath the surface of the sea in Dubai. Designed by DOT, unique hotel will consist of two UFO inspired buildings, one above water and one below. The guests will be able to admire the beauty of the ocean while making the most of [...]
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  • Four Seasons Punta Mita: A Photo Journey

    Josh Spear
    15 May 2012 | 1:48 pm
    I recently had the opportunity to spend a few nights at the fantastic Four Seasons Punta Mita during their second annual Gourmet and Golf Classic. While I’m not a huge golfing fan, getting to spend time with famous chefs like the famed Patricia Quintana, Andrew Ormsby and Four Seasons’ own Philippe Piel and Jose Salas Duarte was a real treat. Punta Mita lies just 28 miles north of Puerto Vallarta Airport– and it’s down as the crown jewel of Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit. A couple nights here and you’ll see why. Everyday you can choose to hang by the beach, or by…

  • iGet.it Popup Shop

    Josh Spear
    15 May 2012 | 10:16 am
    iGet.it is an online members-only community offering designer products hand-picked by renowned international curators.  But now they’re coming to NYC. This coming weekend they’re having a Popup shop at Terminal Stores and The Tunnel, located at West 28th street and 11th Avenue. Stop by for products by Busso, scarves by Shonquis Moreno (big fan), Milk Stools by Alissia Melka-Teichroew and much more.

  • Undercover for Uniqlo

    Josh Spear
    14 May 2012 | 9:45 am
    Big fan. Awesome. Must have more Mickey in my life. Via Hypebeast

  • Education City Commencement Speech

    Josh Spear
    14 May 2012 | 8:33 am
    I was invited to give the commencement speech at the Qatar Foundation 2012 Convocation. An incredible honor. Qatar’s Education City includes branches of the following universities: Virginia Commonwealth University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas A&M University, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Northwestern University, HEC Paris and UCL. Video is now up!

  • Fake Rolex by Shelter Serra

    Josh Spear
    4 May 2012 | 2:49 pm
    In his own words: “I designed and created the Fake Rolex as a homage to the ultimate watch of status, The Rolex Submariner. Made in a limited edition, from the highest grade silicone available, this fashionable item is now available for all to enjoy and appreciate.” The Fake Rolex is available for $40 in Black and White, limited to 150 pieces.
 
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  • Concrete Beauty

    Troy Turner
    16 May 2012 | 12:08 pm
    Situation on the west coast of the Baltic island of Öland, Villa Widlund stands out as a solid white, geometric, concrete landmark in perfect contrast with a backdrop of picturesque ocean views and serene beach landscapes. Construction and furnishings are minimal so that each room highlights the windows and spectacular outdoor views. Everything about this modern beach villa is dreamy – I’d have trouble deciding to be in or out! Designer: Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects - Yanko Design Timeless Designs - Explore wonderful concepts from around the world! Yanko Design Store - We…

  • Audio Globe

    Radhika Seth
    16 May 2012 | 3:11 am
    Designed to rotate on a 23.4 degree slanted axis like the globe, DORA CD Player grabs your attention with its clever gimmick design. This could have been another drab rectangular gadget, meant to seduce you with textures and colors, but thankfully it isn’t! The CD loads into the back panel, while the speakers are placed in the front. I love the catchy remote that accompanies this player; spin my world right round, like a record….. Designer: Jeong Yong - Yanko Design Timeless Designs - Explore wonderful concepts from around the world! Yanko Design Store - We are about more than just…

  • Yes, Another Socket

    Radhika Seth
    16 May 2012 | 3:01 am
    Search for “Socket” on Yanko Design and you will be hit by countless designs, making you wonder why is this component so important in our lives. If it’s not the socket per-se, then it’s the plugs that most designers are worried about. Adding to the list is the Live Socket, an iteration that takes away the bother of pulling the plug once we are done with an appliance. Child safe and energy friendly, this design is clever and practical too! Live Socket is a 2012 iF Design Talents entry. Designer: Xu Zhang - Yanko Design Timeless Designs - Explore wonderful concepts from around the…

  • Purrrrfect Jag

    Troy Turner
    16 May 2012 | 2:01 am
    Inspired by the vintage Jag e-type of the 1960s, the Jaguar XKX concept finds a modern balance between pure muscle and supreme elegance. The design returns to the total smoothness of the brand’s original models with soft, fluid lines that dip and curve into one another like liquid. Vintage inspiration combined with highly advanced tech (I.E. – an outer skin that recharges the battery) make this one fierce kitty. With a much smaller and cooler power plant than conventional models, the aerodynamics were conceived in a new innovative way. The side deflector intakes of the front are…

  • Bright Slide

    Troy Turner
    16 May 2012 | 2:01 am
    The super modern-looking Slide Lamp is constructed from a single piece of machine-hallowed hardwood mounted on a cast aluminum base. The unorthodox construction also makes for very unique functionality- simply raise or lower the intuitive side lever to turn it on or off, or adjust the brightness! Designer: Jason Jahnke - Yanko Design Timeless Designs - Explore wonderful concepts from around the world! Yanko Design Store - We are about more than just concepts. See what's hot at the YD Store! (Bright Slide was originally posted on Yanko Design) Related posts:What A Bright Idea! Bright Humidity…
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  • Olive Us Launch! Episode 1: Gardening

    Design Mom
    16 May 2012 | 8:44 am
    It’s here! Olive Us has officially launched. Tiger in a Jar — the amazing video crew who put this together — has been working round the clock to finish up the edits. And I’m crazy excited about how it turned out! I hope you are too. : ) I can’t wait to hear what you think of it. Things you can do to join in the fun: - Watch our pilot episode. It’s called Garden Day. It was made with love! - Check out the new Olive Us website. You can find out more about the show there, including FAQs and bios of the kids. There’s even a video of Ben Blair talking about the…

  • Design Mom Asks: Childhood Memories

    Design Mom
    16 May 2012 | 6:29 am
    I love being a grown-up. It’s honestly one of the greatest jobs I’ve ever had. They let me drive a car, vote, buy an expensive piece of art or shoes if I so choose, and have six children! Total bonus. But sometimes I miss the carefree days of my childhood, when responsibilities were few and I didn’t have to drive a car or wear shoes! I’m curious: What’s the one thing you miss most about being a kid? A few friends were kind enough to reach into their memories and share their favorites with us. Let the conversation begin! Kate at Explore with Twine: The lack of responsibility. I…

  • Dos Family

    Design Mom
    15 May 2012 | 10:28 am
    Any time I want a wholly realistic dose of living with kids, I head over to Dos Family. I adore those two women and their cool broods! And they have the most genius and free ideas about designing kids’ spaces. There are IKEA rings on which to swing above beds and wallpaper to color on a whim and messes. Lots of messes. Sometimes I wish I was a little better with the lots of messes part, don’t you? P.S. — Running a lot late on this week’s Living With Kids tour, mostly due to an hour or so scrolling through past interviews! Remember this one? And this one? So many good…

  • Shops in Trucks

    Design Mom
    15 May 2012 | 6:35 am
    Anna sent me a link to this article about Shops in Trucks and I loved it! The topic reminded me of one of the panels at Mom 2.0, where we heard from Pilar Guzman, the Editor-in-Chief of Martha Stewart Living. She mentioned the magazine loved highlighting creative entrepreneurs who had left Corporate America and were pursuing their dreams on tiny farms, in small studios and backyard workshops. And that in the long-standing tradition of entrepreneurs, they had to know everything about their business — how to make the product, but also how to program the website and handle social media too.

  • Ask Design Mom: Spacing Kids

    Design Mom
    14 May 2012 | 7:30 am
    Question: Hi Gabrielle! Could you please give me some advice? My baby is turning 3 this year and I’m thinking about getting pregnant again. How did you decide to space your kids? How do you know it’s time to have another one or if you’re done? I appreciate your thoughts. — Thanks, Jeannie. Answer: Wow. That’s a big question, Jeannie! But I’m game. As far as spacing goes, in my head, I always thought I’d have babies about two years apart until I was done. But that never happened. Here’s what did happen: Ralph and Maude are 18 months apart. Maude and…
 
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  • Product Spotlight » ICFF Preview: Plank by Eric Pfeiffer and Council

    Diana Budds
    16 May 2012 | 12:07 pm
    by Diana BuddsOakland-based designer Eric Pfeiffer has been exhibiting annually at ICFF since 1997 and this year he's launching a series of outdoor pieces in collaboration with San Francisco's Council. According to Pfeiffer, the line is a take on the classic Adirondack chairs and owes some debt to mid-century design; however, it's distinctly contemporary in its restrained, minimalist features—qualities we love here at Dwell. The pieces are manufactured right here in the United States, and feature a new type of engineered wood. We sent a few questions to Pfeiffer to find out more about…

  • Product Spotlight » Mid-Century Remastered

    Kelsey Keith
    15 May 2012 | 2:42 pm
    by Kelsey KeithBernhardt Design revives Charles Pollock’s long-dormant career with the release of a timeless new lounge chair.

  • Blog » LEGO® Design Competition Finalists

    Ralston O'Neill
    14 May 2012 | 5:49 pm
    by Ralston O'NeillDwell joined forces with Pacific Standard Time to appeal to the architect—and child—within us all. The challenge was to construct a model of an original home inspired by iconic California mid-century modern architecture only using LEGO bricks. Now it's time to reveal the five finalists vying for the grand prize to be awarded at this year's Dwell on Design.

  • Hotel Register » Endemico Resguardo Silvestre, Mexico

    Jaclyn Sienna India
    14 May 2012 | 11:44 am
    by Jaclyn Sienna IndiaIn recent years, Baja’s Valle de Guadalupe, only an hour and a half from the San Diego airport and 40 minutes from Ensenada, has emerged as Mexico’s wine country. In order to showcase the best that this region has to offer, Grupo Habita’s Carlos Couturier and Moisés Micha decided to develop a property in the area that "combines amazing dry weather, rich new wines, incredible seafood and produce, impressive light, and human talent." And so, Endemico came to be. The project, whose moniker suggests that it is a "wild reserve" and "native to its…

  • Square Meal » Coffee Break: San Francisco's The Mill

    Olivia Martin
    14 May 2012 | 11:38 am
    by Olivia MartinAlthough we usually focus on completed projects, it is equally interesting to check in during construction to see how a space develops. Things that our memories smooth over post-construction, like frustrations and changes in plans, are still rampant. That never-ending argument over where to put the couch just isn’t funny yet. To capture this oft-forgotten phase, we checked in with San Francisco coffee company, Four Barrel, a few months before opening The Mill, their second cafe. Four Barrel founders Jeremy Tooker and Jodi Geren have already seen success at their nearby…
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  • Brand Logo versus Globalization

    Charlie B. Johnson
    14 May 2012 | 6:38 am
    Logo designers and brand managers have always laid paramount importance of imparting the power of their product through symbols. History has it that whether they are Mayans, Egyptian Pharaohs or Greek mythology, symbols and logos have always played a pivotal role in representing the force behind their message.   • Proposition behind the Brand Logo In the contemporary world, the effort put in by the logo designers has become more challenging and inspirational. Since the international economic market has moved towards globalization to increase profits, the consumers can actually now…

  • 22 Amazingly Graffiti Artworks – A Creative Collection!!

    Charlie B. Johnson
    9 May 2012 | 4:32 am
    One of the most infamous types of graphic arts is street and road graffiti. It is known for decades and have enhanced over the passage of time. In earlier times it was employed by the Romans as a symbol of expression and opinions against their kings. In the modern world, street graffiti is a common technique of showing governmental and humorous reviews on the surfaces of both community and personal property. But on the other hand, it is also considered as a shrewd and infamous form of art as it harasses community and personal belongings. As visual artists, graffiti is always a creativity spot…

  • 25 Photos of Invisible Man – See the Unseen!

    Charlie B. Johnson
    1 May 2012 | 3:28 am
    Remember the movie Hollow Man, where Kevin Bacon acquired the power to be invisible? Imagine how cool would it be in real life? Although there hasn’t been any ‘Invisibility Cloak’ developed similar to the one in Harry Potter, there is one artist that makes it almost possible to vanish. Liu Bolin is a Chinese artist with a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts. His famous work "The Invisible Man" features camouflage artwork that makes human beings disappear into the backdrop. Liu Bolin’s works have been featured in various Art Museums. In his ‘Invisible…

  • 5 Factors That Ruin a Graphic Designer’s Creativity!

    Charlie B. Johnson
    24 Apr 2012 | 4:31 am
    Have you ever come across a time when your creative juices stop flowing? Yes, I’m referring to that moment when you try so hard but fail to conceive a creative idea. But this doesn’t happen all of a sudden, does it? There is always a reason behind this abrupt dearth of creativity. Even the slightest of distraction can ruin a designer’s ability to think innovatively. In the field of graphic design, creativity is one attribute that makes the real difference. Whatever you design for a client must stand out from the rest of the crowd. But there are some factors that damage a…

  • Guess the Disney Cartoons – 20 Minimalist Posters

    Charlie B. Johnson
    20 Apr 2012 | 12:17 am
    Cartoons are a momentous part of everybody’s childhood memories. No matter how old you are, you cannot grow too old for cartoons. Famous animation studios like Walt Disney and Cartoon Network have created some of the most epic and iconic cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Cinderella that have etched into our minds for eternity. Recently, I came across an interesting post on re:blog that made me jog my memories about famous Disney characters. The team at re:blog has created minimalist posters on Disney’s classic cartoons using the most prominent elements of the cartoon. Some…
 
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  • Deutsche Fernsehlotterie - Paper World

    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Follow the paper plane into Sehsucht's latest origami-style world of helping hands and improved communities. We produced the 30 sec. TVC "Paper" full CG for Deutsche Fernsehlotterie, a charitable lottery, and their agency Zum Goldenen Hirschen, all three companies from Hamburg/Germany. Director Hans-Christoph Schultheiss and his team walked the tightrope between reduction and complexity, aiming to create the characters as human as possible but with a realistically foldable look that carries the complex textures of paper.

  • Nike Basketball

    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Several designs for Nike Basketball 2010-2011

  • Filter017 X Jiukoushan R.D. Series Notebook

    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    Filter017 X Jiukoushan R.D. Series Notebook

  • CHONGQING CITY | Fashion Story 01

    16 May 2012 | 1:00 am
    A narrative urban fashion vision in the city of Chongqing in China.

  • Y?kai!

    15 May 2012 | 9:00 pm
    7 characters inspired by the Y?kai - supernatural monsters from Japanese folklore - in their habitat, with their unique look and own abilities.
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  • MrSMITHSTUDIO

    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Da Marzo a Novembre 2011, durante uno stage presso MrSmith Studio, ho avuto la possibilità di collaborare allo sviluppo dei progetti presentati qui di seguito. Nello specifico, mi sono occupto di modellazione 3D e messa in tavola 2D, render e prototipazione.

  • Stream chair & stool

    15 May 2012 | 9:00 pm
    Stream series came out of my long-term passion for futuristic aesthetics, its expressiveness through soft curvy shapes, and my personal respect to roots of sixties design. Hinting to the vintage futurism, I used the aerodynamic curves and contrasting combination of materials, bright leather and chrome legs. My point is that design mostly requires clear solutions that are understandable at first sight. So objects of the Stream series are made of a soft aerodynamic volume and an elegant s-shaped back. It gives a sense of solid object, as if everything is made of one piece. The form is fasten by…

  • Jödja

    15 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    The proposal of storing water comes from earthenware crocks, improved with the qualities of porcelain. The glass integrated to the body design refers to art and sculpture, far away from the conventional bottle designs. Perfect to keep water within reach at any time. Material: Porcelain Mate Weight: 610g Capacity: 600ml Design: The Led Project

  • SocketDock

    15 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    This charger was developed after the WallDock. While the WallDock was good at what it did, with the introduction of the iPhone, we realized charging behavior had changed. Instead of leaving your device to charge locked to a dock, users liked to always have access to their phones. So, how do we give your phone a home and still give you access? We went back to the cord because it gives you freedom and created a new kind of cradle that is there when you need it and hidden when you don't! This design, like the WallDock, fits any iDevice or any number of small handheld USB-powered gadgets…

  • Jödja

    15 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    A reinterpretation of the ancient earthenware crock, with the nobility and strength of porcelain. Its shape challenges the article's equilibrium. Perfect to keep water within reach at any time. Material: Porcelain Weight: 530g Capacity: 600ml Design: The Led Project
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  • Infamous Footwear: 20 Pairs of ‘Fashion Backward’ Shoes

    Delana
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    [ By Delana in Design & Products & Packaging. ] Oh, the ways women suffer for fashion. One of the most egregious perpetrators of fashion crimes is none other than that object of burning desire, that target of endless lust: the shoe. Shoe designers, like fashion designers, often go for over-the-top looks without really considering functionality. These well-heeled examples are often high on form but short on function, though some manage to come up short in both departments. (image via: Virtual Shoe Museum) Although most people would want to avoid attracting small children to the…

  • Mini Rube Goldberg Machine Makes Cool Travel Companion

    Steph
    15 May 2012 | 8:00 pm
    [ By Steph in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ] A man takes a seat on a park bench and opens a pair of suitcases, carefully adjusting a few things inside, placing a few small objects in just the right spot. Then an alarm clock sounds, a pencil comes down onto a trigger and the most entrancing sequence of events takes place, one after the other. Melvin the Mini Machine is the creation of Dutch design studio HEYHEYHEY, and it’s possibly the coolest portable Rube Goldberg machine ever invented. As music starts playing, the choreographed movements begin, flinging objects from one of…

  • Sub(limb)inal Criminals: Faux Legs, Arms & Heads as Art

    Steph
    15 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    [ By Steph in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ] Whether they’re just the arms of a mannequin attached to inanimate urban objects or gory, all-too-realistic hands clutching violent video games, severed limbs are definitely one way to grab the attention of passersby on the street. Detached body parts appear in street art in ways that are both humorous and disturbing. Artist Mark Jenkins is known for using heads, torsos and other body parts for jaw-dropping installations highlight the plight of the homeless or just have fun with unexpected visuals, like the mannequin with a ‘Do…

  • Migrant Skyscrapers Roll Up City Streets Inside Giant Wheels

    Urbanist
    14 May 2012 | 8:00 pm
    [ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] Skip all practical considerations for a second and suspend any disbelief – now imagine what a truly nomadic urban society might look like, devoid of concerns of safety and perhaps some laws of physics. Damian & Rafa? Przyby?a present one such implausible but inspiring vision in the form of a huge vertical halo wrapping in a ring around each building, placing fourth in this year’s Evolo design competition. Their somewhat fanciful future includes the possibility of political (but apparently not structural)…

  • Salt Sculptures: 12 Stunning Artworks by Motoi Yamamoto

    Steph
    14 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    [ By Steph in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ] To many people around the world, salt is just a substance that makes food taste better. But to the Japanese, it’s deeply symbolic, an indispensable part of death rituals that imparts purification of the body and soul. Artist Motoi Yamamoto draws upon the role of salt in his culture, using it as a art medium that he painstakingly packs into sculptures or squeezes into intricate drawings. The artist aims to confront viewers with the reality of death, in the form of stark white installations that mimic trailing vines, networks of neural…
 
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    Dornob

  • Conversation Pieces: Puzzling Wall Murals of Tableware

    dornob
    15 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    [ Filed under More & in the Art of Design category ] Typically, tableware is self-contained in terms of its design, either uniform across a set or at least forming a complimentary series set around the table. These pieces are all parts of a larger puzzle, and could spark quite the discussing during either eating or cleanup at a large meal. Ceramist Molly Hatch uses historical images from major museums as the basis for her pieces, so a savvy art historian might notice something familiar in each part of the whole. Note that though she displays these in museums as well, they might be even…

  • Cocoon House Expressively Combines Lines, Curves & Green

    dornob
    15 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    [ Filed under Ultramodern & in the Architecture category ] It starts with a fluid central volume with operable circular windows and skylights for seasonal weather-based temperature flexibility, then spawns a series of additional indoor and outdoor spaces. Scheduled to be constructed on the coast of South Korea by 2015, Planning Korea let each sub-structure reflect its function with respect to the whole, including party rooms, work spaces, bedrooms and lounges that jut out at angles in each direction. A green roof also varies in height, rising toward one end of the site and sinking into…

  • Scary Penthouse Bathroom Sits on 15-Floor Elevator Shaft

    dornob
    14 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    [ Filed under Interiors & in the Bathrooms category ] There is certainly a joke in here somewhere about being scared into going to the bathroom, but you can certainly sort that out for yourself having seen this death-defying floor. Hernandez Silva Arquitecto saw an opportunity in a strangely-unused secondary elevator shaft when updating this top-floor residence, illuminating the void below and situating it (oddly) square with the bathroom above. Nearly as remarkable as the downward view is the lack of pizzazz in the space itself – a simple red-and-white color scheme is almost…

  • Unboxed: Surprisingly Spacious Flat-Pack House on Wheels

    dornob
    14 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    [ Filed under Portable & in the Architecture category ] The renderings are as matter-of-fact as the design: a no-nonsense, use-all-spaces approach to mobile and quickly-deployed housing by Mehdi Hidari Badie. The non-directional configuration contains all of the basics centered around a core volume of space – supplementary wings on either side and raised decks front and back. Adjustable metal legs support the primarily wood-and-glass frame structure, adaptable to different ground conditions when the wheels are raised. Solar panels are a clearly dominant feature, providing full…

  • Dual-Sided Digital Cutting Board & Scale for Clean Cooking

    Loef
    13 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    [ Filed under Kitchenware & in the Furnishings category ] Taking tablets to a new level of daily usage, this conceptual cutting board puts your recipes, pictures of the food you are preparing and other resources right where you want them: on hand and adjacent to the ingredients as you slice and dice them. A built-in scale shows the weight of what you are working with while surface cleanliness detection technology lets you avoid cross-contamination between uses and washes. Jaewan Jeong proposes two sides to work with, so you can flip and continue working before running water over between…
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    Customized Marketing

  • Easy E-Commerce Sites

    admin
    29 Apr 2012 | 5:51 pm
    Have you had a chance to review the Woo Commerce plugin and themes?  The unbelievably talented team over at Woo Themes never ceases to amaze us with new and improved functionality to our wordpress sites.  You can download the free WooCommerce plugin and then upload to your exisitng theme or choose one of the Woo Themes specifically made for Woo Commerce.  It installs in a flash and you are ready to add products, and set up shop immediately.  There is beautiful integration with wordpress and you will find it easy to customize for the type of product or service you want to sell.  You can…

  • Why You MUST Update Your Sites

    admin
    9 Oct 2011 | 6:54 pm
    So it seems easy enough to update your wordpress and plugins to the latest versions, yet some bloggers do not do this.  Words to the wise:  UPDATE, UPDATE, UPDATE. Yes, the unthinkable happened to yours truly!  I had some old sites on my hosting account that were inactive and because there was an older version of wordpress (or plugin), it allowed a hacker to get it and corrupt other sites on my hosting!  All fixed now, but not without a few harrowing moments, and a few hours of downtime. Do you need help getting your own “house” in order here?  Just CONTACT US and we can help…

  • Apple Design Awards – Source for Apps

    admin
    8 Jun 2011 | 7:11 am
    Check out the design awards that Apple recently bestowed on these apps.  And while you are there, look at those from 2010.  This is a good place to see if you are missing any apps for your Mac, iPad, or iPhone that meet some strict criteria in design, innovation and technical excellence.

  • Help, My Website Is Missing!

    admin
    8 Mar 2011 | 6:10 pm
    This has to rank as one of the biggest stressors out there.  You go to your site and it is not there!  You get one of many messages.  You panic.  You wait on hold for the hosting company ‘s tech support to answer.  You message your tech.  You call friends and ask them if they see your site.  Here is what you should do first.  Just go to this site (and be sure to bookmark): DownforEveryoneOrJust Me Now wasn’t that easy?  At least you know if the problem is on your end or global!

  • Totally Changed my Tune on the iPad

    admin
    6 Feb 2011 | 3:09 pm
    Although I gave the iPad a mediocre review at first, I now admit, that I am an iPad fanatic.  You may wonder what made me change my mind.  The first is that I upgraded to a version with 3G.  This makes all the difference in that you aren’t always trying to get on wifi and enter passwords as you move about.  When traveling, it is superb.  Check all email just before the flight attendant closes the cabin door, and stay in touch constantly. The second thing is setting up the iPad well enough to make it fully functional.  This includes using your calendar, and integrating work and…
 
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    PicoCool / Popular items

  • Matt Wisniewski

    cloudcuckoo
    14 May 2012 | 2:45 am
    Web developer Matt Wisniewski is also a pretty nifty image manipulator. Matt Wisniewski’s photo collages combine vintage and contemporary photography to make beautiful and surreal portraits.2 Vote(s)

  • Leica X2

    cloudcuckoo
    11 May 2012 | 3:44 am
    After months of speculation, Leica has officially announced its latest compact camera, the X2. Not quite sure as spectacular as the M9 but this one seems quite nifty.2 Vote(s)

  • Leica X2

    cloudcuckoo
    11 May 2012 | 3:04 am
    Leica has officially announced its latest compact camera, the X2. Not quite sure as spectacular as the M9 but this one seems quite nifty.1 Vote(s)

  • Elephant Chair :: Mximo Riera

    elurko
    3 May 2012 | 3:32 am
    I would like to present you the new piece from The Animal Chair Collection, "The Elephant Chair".2 Vote(s)

  • Green Carpet

    cloudcuckoo
    2 May 2012 | 1:45 pm
    Artist Gaëlle Villedary from Marseille thought of helping the village of Jaujac to celebrate 10 years of Art and Nature Trail. She came up with the idea to green fields and winding village houses over 420 meters in total.2 Vote(s)
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  • Mass Marketed Items Reduced To Their Purest Form

    laurasweet
    16 May 2012 | 12:41 pm
    A project in which mass marketed products, valued at 10$ or less, are stripped of all visible labels and branding and painted entirely white. Brand Spirit shows us how - based only their shape- these items have become recognizable and in some cases, iconic.1 Vote(s)

  • Rocco Malatesta Posters

    miguelfds
    16 May 2012 | 9:08 am
    Illustrator and graphic designer Rocco Malatesta from Berlin created this amazing collection of posters based on cult movies like Scarface, Rocky, Kill Bill, Raging Bull or The Big Lebowski. You can check out Rocco´s online store featuring his spectacular limited edition prints or check out his blog and admire his creative portfolio.1 Vote(s)

  • Plantronics Backbeat Go | Wireless Headphones

    miguelfds
    16 May 2012 | 9:03 am
    Finally! end of wires, end of hassle...you can listen to music, chat with friends, or watch movies tangle free! With a compact design and lightweight (weighs only 13 grams), BackBeat GO Bluetooth headphones feature echo suppression system and integrated controls, and offers a range of 4½ hours of talk time or up to 10 hours standby time. Tthe headset recharges via USB and is compatible with iOS and Android devices. The headphones also feature passive noise cancelation and in-line controls allowing you to take calls, skip tracks and adjust the volume.1 Vote(s)

  • ROLEX SUBMARINER CALIFORNIA | BY BWD

    miguelfds
    16 May 2012 | 8:54 am
    BWD (Bamford Watch Department) is a UK based company that personalize a range of steel sports watches. They customize various iconic sports watches from some of the major brands in the watch world. Their latest creation is the stunning Special Edition Rolex Submariner California, it features a shockproof/waterproof customized Otter box with an optional NATO strap. Each watch comes with a plate stating the number from the 41 piece edition1 Vote(s)

  • Nike "Biomorph" spot and how it was done

    laurasweet
    15 May 2012 | 6:34 pm
    A look at Biomorph, the 51 second short by David Rosenbaum for Nike's Flyknit Running Shoes in which the shoe becomes a seamless extension of the foot and a video from Digital Domain that shows how it was created.1 Vote(s)
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    Six Revisions

  • 10 Excellent Online Payment Systems

    Jacob Gube
    15 May 2012 | 9:34 pm
    Advertise here with BSA In this article, we’ll be reviewing my top 10 online payment systems for accepting payments on the Web. While many of the companies on this list have been available to online merchants for years, many are also now getting into new areas of online payments such as social commerce and in-store online card reader systems. A Quick Primer on Online Payment Systems Before getting started, here are just a few things to know about online payment systems. ACH payments are electronic credit and debit transfers, allowing customers to make payments from their bank accounts…

  • Ultra Sleek Accordion Slider: Free PSD Template

    Jacob Gube
    13 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    Advertise here with BSA This exclusive freebie on Six Revisions, brought to you by www.bestpsdfreebies.com, is a design mockup of an accordion slider that can be used to display content. It comes in 3 variations. Each slider variation has a unique texture design with a hover effect on the 3rd slider tab. This freebie comes in 3 separate and neatly organized PSD files that allow for endless customizable options. Previews Here are the 3 accordion sliders: Slider 1 Slider 2 Slider 3 License Feel free to use this accordion slider for personal or commercial projects. If you would like to share…

  • 5 Reasons Why Metaphors Can Improve the User Experience

    Jacob Gube
    11 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    Advertise here with BSA There are many ways to experience the world around us. Especially offline, we can make use of our different senses to collect information, interpret our environment and make judgments. On the Web, however, our senses are more limited. As designers, we need to present information carefully to make sure our users think, feel and do the right thing. A great way to help your users understand abstract content, create a sense of familiarity, trigger emotions, draw attention and motivate action are metaphors. "The way we think, what we experience, and what we do every…

  • 30 Minimalist Portfolio Website Designs for Inspiration

    Jacob Gube
    4 Apr 2012 | 5:00 am
    Advertise here with BSA There seems to be a recent trend whereby creatives are aesthetically stripping down their online portfolios to their bare essentials. (UK-based web designer/web developer Kean Richmond recently discussed this trend in an article about "undesign", and the possible reasons why this trend is becoming widespread.) In this showcase, you’ll get to see 30 great examples of minimalist portfolio sites for your inspiration. 1. Eleven Made 2. Jessica Caldwell 3. Buero Buero 4. Thuy Truc 5. Igor Zagnienski 6. DB Works 7. Andy Mangold 8. Alexander Munk 9. Mickaël…

  • “Undesign” Your Portfolio Website

    Jacob Gube
    2 Apr 2012 | 10:27 pm
    Advertise here with BSA Even the most ineffective, unattractive or simple of man-made objects have been designed in some way. The same is true for the Web: Even the most hideous of websites are created by someone who has consciously made decisions into its design. For web design professionals, it’s normal to put a lot of work into a design, using research, analysis and their expertise to form a design to delight and engage. This process is not quick and while many of us spend hours crafting websites for clients, our own website goes wanting. It’s in this situation that the process…
 
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    Better Living Through Design

  • JACK Table Legs

    Katie
    16 May 2012 | 9:31 am
    Table legs sold separately are always a good bet as you’re able to change out the surface to whatever suits your fancy. Plywood, wood, stone, glass, you name it, you can alter your desk/work top to whatever you want. These JACK table legs were named after the game jacks (reference there for you young things that have no idea) and will look excellent with whichever table top you prefer. The JACK legs are available in three finishes: Black, White, and shot blasted aluminum finish. And, if you’d like the table top included, there’s the complete Jack Table as well (custom sizes…

  • Pedrera Floor Lamp

    Katie
    16 May 2012 | 8:24 am
    If you love/admire/dream about the Pedrera Floor Lamp (previously written about here: PD2 Floor Lamp), today is your day. As in, the day where everything lines up perfectly and you get a steal of a deal: 40% off. It’s actually 40% off all of MoMA Store’s spring ‘must haves’ but we don’t care about that, we just care about the Pedrera, for today only, with a cost of $495. Be sure to note code below for discount. Use code VIP40 at checkout, today only. Regular price: $825.00 ($742.50 Members)

  • Organic Tote Bags

    Katie
    16 May 2012 | 8:10 am
    Time to feature some totes again, especially as SFMOMA has a couple of good ones from FluffyCo. You’ve heard time and time again that totes are great alternatives to those icky plastic bags, so if you don’t have one you’re a bad person. Not really, of course, but carrying around a tote does make you a better person, at least according to the people at the local health food store. And they know everything. If you’d like to check out all of FluffyCo’s organic totes, here’s their website: FluffyCo. (Most of their totes are priced at $56, but they don’t…

  • ARKCANARY II

    Katie
    15 May 2012 | 10:04 am
    Don’t get too excited, it’s not a modern day earhorn for your less-than-great hearing (though I suppose you could try it out to see if it works), it’s an analog acoustic speaker for the iPhone 4. You know all about acoustic speakers, as we’ve posted several, but this pint sized version seems all the more charming because of its size (and because it looks like an earhorn). Manufacturer: ARKWHAT Material: PVC Dimensions: 8.5 ” x 3.9″ x 5.8 ”

  • Cuppow Mason Jar Lid

    Simon
    15 May 2012 | 9:47 am
    Yeah I know, canning jars are extremely trendy right now, even more than the actual canning process. I’m drinking out of one in a coffee shop at this exact moment. But beyond fashion, they are simple and robust in their design, perfect for drinking glasses. However, the open top proves to be unwieldy when on-the-go. Cue the Cuppow, a plastic drinking lid designed to convert any mason jar into a spill-proof cup. The Cuppow gets bonus points for being manufactured in the United States, and at only $8, is quite affordable.
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    Uncrate

  • Maker's Mark Cigars

    16 May 2012 | 1:25 pm
    Fine cigars go great with bourbon — but what about a bourbon cigar? As it turns out, they're pretty great too. Maker's Mark Cigars ($8-$11) are made from long-leaf tobacco...Visit Uncrate for the full post.

  • Yankee Man Candles

    15 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    You know the Yankee Candle store — it's that spot in the mall that bombards you with the smell of flowers, baked goods, and seaside goodness in such a way...Visit Uncrate for the full post.

  • Smart Dot

    15 May 2012 | 2:39 pm
    And here you thought laser pointers were dead. The Smart Dot ($80) is a tiny, aluminum, headphone port-mounted laser pointer for your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad (!) that's powered...Visit Uncrate for the full post.

  • Alexander Olch Father's Day Matching Sets

    15 May 2012 | 11:47 am
    Make sure you and your progeny look as spiffy as possible this June 17 with these Alexander Olch Father's Day Matching Sets ($185). Although you have to order them separately...Visit Uncrate for the full post.

  • Joey Roth Compass

    15 May 2012 | 10:17 am
    Most of the wearable compasses we've seen lately have been integrated into watches — which makes this Joey Roth Compass ($75) a nice change of pace. Built around the Francis...Visit Uncrate for the full post.
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    Outblush

  • Cefian Peacock Maxi Dress

    16 May 2012 | 1:25 pm
    We need to snatch up this breezy, beachy Cefian Peacock Maxi Dress ($54) before it sells out. We have a feeling it'll be a popular dress, what with its boho...Visit Outblush for the full post.

  • Large Enamel Bowl

    16 May 2012 | 1:10 pm
    This bit of home decor is about as classic as it gets: the design of the Large Enamel Bowl ($37) hasn't changed much in the last hundred years or so....Visit Outblush for the full post.

  • Too Faced Primed & Poreless Pure Oil-Free Skin Smoothing Face Primer For Sensitive Skin

    16 May 2012 | 1:05 pm
    Sensitive skin has problems upon problems, but few solutions exist. And some of those solutions create even more problems. (We would know. Sad face.) Finally, a problem solver that stops...Visit Outblush for the full post.

  • Roxy Beach Blanket Coverup

    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    This Roxy beach blanket dress ($48) is obviously the ultimate beach garment, but our daydreams are about wearing it far from the sand. We love its slouchy-chic, super-casual look for...Visit Outblush for the full post.

  • PA Series Power Assisted Suitcase

    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Hate dragging your luggage through the airport? With the PA Series Power Assisted Suitcase ($1,200), your luggage can pretty much drag you. Grab the handle and tilt, and this admitted...Visit Outblush for the full post.
 
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    metacool

  • Innovation principles in practice: 16, 19, 20

    Diego Rodriguez
    5 May 2012 | 9:11 pm
    Principle 16: Grok the gestalt of teams Principle 19: Have a point of view Principle 20: Be remarkable

  • metacool Thought of the Day

    Diego Rodriguez
    1 May 2012 | 2:10 pm
    "Never delegate understanding." - Charles Eames Principle 1:  Experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world

  • Climbing Mountains and Wells

    Diego Rodriguez
    29 Apr 2012 | 10:34 am
    Innovating upon something already in existence requires change.  The road to that change can be faster or slower, but there's always a journey to be had.  If you're lucky, it may be an easy path you take, but it's much more likely to be one with lots of obstacles, dips, and dead ends along the way.  When I look back upon the things I've embarked upon to create change in the world, one thing stands out: the journey always took much longer than projected.  If that journey was something akin to climbing a big mountain, I spent more time navigating the approach to the base…

  • Big Bang Theory

    Diego Rodriguez
    24 Apr 2012 | 7:42 pm
    The essay I wrote for RACER magazine is now available online. You can find it here on pp. 34-35.  The topic is Game Changers.  At the risk of tooting my own horn, I think it's one of the better things I've written on the subject of innovating.  Here's an excerpt: How to spot one?  Beware of self-proclaimed game changers; most are just marketing hype.  Real game changers trigger resistance from competitors and rule makers.  Or, like Jim Hall's fan car, they violate unspoken taboos... I hope you like it!  Thanks.

  • Email stinks

    Diego Rodriguez
    19 Apr 2012 | 10:07 pm
    I’ve lost count of the number of misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and attenuated outcomes I’ve brought into being via the tips of my fingers.  No, I’m not talking about mediocre blog posts, I’m speaking to the thousands of emails I send each year.  When it comes to the pursuit of creative outcomes, email stinks.  I wrote a few weeks ago about the debilitating effect of sarcasm in a creative workplace.  In that same context, email has its problems, too.  With email, not only is it difficult to discern whether sarcasm is at play, but it’s also hard to confidently parse…
 
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    Jeremy Scheller

  • David Kelley on Creative Confidence.

    jeremyscheller
    16 May 2012 | 11:05 am
    Our words and actions have the power to open creative frameworks and the power to stifle creative confidence. Have you lost your creative confidence along the way. Did someone try to take it from you. David Kelley believes we all have creativity that is waiting to be unleashed. Help people take baby steps to achieve creative confidence.

  • On Vampires and Presidents.

    jeremyscheller
    16 May 2012 | 10:12 am
    I strayed away from my reading list in the last two weeks. Somehow I became intrigued with the undead just long enough to read Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Good Laawwd. My sincere apologies to all you vampire fiction fans…but this was an extraordinarily boring, choppy and pointless piece of unliterature. I don’t know how you do it. I don’t know how I stuck with it. Perhaps Seth Grahame-Smith will have better luck with the screenplay for the Tim Burton resurrection of Dark Shadows, but I was largely unimpressed with this one. I guess I can only be thankful that I read…

  • The future is finally here. The VW Hover Beetle.

    jeremyscheller
    8 May 2012 | 1:33 pm

  • A seedy idea. Tableware/Birdfeeder.

    jeremyscheller
    7 May 2012 | 2:56 pm
    Another reason to be thankful for creative & smart people. Have a BBQ. Toss and shatter your plates. Watch as the birds eat it up… Love. Original Post at Food Republic.

  • Elliot the Architect.

    jeremyscheller
    7 May 2012 | 2:32 pm
    I guess my kids really do get inspired by the books we read together. I picked up this awesome picture book, Iggy Peck, Architect a few months ago. I’ve read it aloud a few times recently and then I found the following pictures that Elliot drew. I love how dangerous and creative my son is… Read books.      
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    Design*Sponge

  • upholstery basics: room divider bulletin board

    Amanda Brown
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    For the first time in several years, I’ve been spending more time at my desk. And although I love the change of pace, the change of space needed a few upgrades. My desk sits against a wall in an open living room, so I built a room divider to create a cozy little nook for my workspace. Not only does it add a ton of personality to my “office,” but the back side also serves as an inspiration/bulletin board where I can pin up my to do list or a photo of the beach to perk me up when I get weary. You won’t believe how easy it is!  — Amanda Read the full how-to after the…

  • diy project: textured planters

    Kate Pruitt
    16 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    I’m trying to get a little better at tending to plants, and have subsequently been looking for new garden pots. I had my eye on an incredible ceramic blocked planter at Anthropologie, but neglected to act quickly enough and it sold out. The pot was studded with chunky ceramic bricks, and I was drawn to the idea of trying to use different materials as beads of texture on the outside of a pot. With a thick, dry-brush coat of black and white paint, many recycled materials can take on the look of clay. I dipped into my stash of old wine corks and scrap wood for this project, but it’s…

  • diy project: hanging notepad

    Kate Pruitt
    16 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    This project stems from a conversation I had with Grace and Amy on my last visit; they had seen an image of a rolling pin held in place with two simple straps, and thought it could adapt nicely to become a wall scroll for organizing ideas. I managed to score three long branches from a tree that had been heavily pruned in our apartment’s backyard this past week, so I decided to try out the concept in the studio. It was easier than I expected. After a little bit of gathering materials, leveling, and hammering, it was up. I am a notoriously bad at keeping track of writing utensils, so I…

  • new: jill malek wallpapers

    Grace Bonney
    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    One of my favorite things that happens in design, is when an artist finds a way to elevate the everyday to a new level. I’ve always been intrigued by naturally occurring patterns in nature and life and it’s fun to see that concept come to life in Jill Malek‘s newest wallpapers, called Urban Frequencies. Dinner Party- the pattern above- was inspired by the remnants of a good evening with friends and Voyagyer, below, was inspired by the route maps that aircrafts follow on a daily basis. I can’t tell you how often I stared at those lines on a screen during the book tour…

  • stitch by stitch

    Grace Bonney
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    I really enjoy reading about companies that work with, support and celebrate artisans in rural or impoverished areas. Nothing makes me happier than knowing my purchase isn’t supporting a faceless box store, but instead a real person who is living off of their handmade work and creating beautiful things. Stitch by Stitch is a new company founded by Graham Hollick and Karen Sear Shimali. After meeting in art school in the 1980s, Graham and Karen decided to turn their love of textiles into a new company and they recently launched a new collection called Peacock Sportif. This collection was…
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    Design Sojourn

  • Hyperfocus

    Brian (Design Sojourn)
    14 May 2012 | 7:59 am
    A little change of pace in today’s blog post. I can really relate, as I’m sure you can, to this cartoon by N.C. Winters for Freelance Switch. It does on occasion happen to me, but it gets more frequent when I’m mulling over a serious problem. How about you dear reader? Enjoy! Via: Freelance Switch.

  • What it Means to Have a Designer as a Startup Founder

    Brian (Design Sojourn)
    9 May 2012 | 9:40 am
    So it looks like The Designer Fund, a VC fund that specifically invests in Startup companies that have designers as founders is starting to gain traction. It seems that suddenly everyone seems to have an opinion on the premium placed on designers. Brace yourselves! I’m going to join the fray with my 2 cents worth simply because I find that many people seem to miss what the Designer Fund is extolling. I would even dare say that even the Designer Fund itself seems to miss something in the communications of their objectives. But before we go on check out some of the current sentiments on…

  • Chip Kidd on Designing Books

    Brian (Design Sojourn)
    7 May 2012 | 5:20 am
    I was presently surprised to find out that Chip Kidd presented at TED. Chip is one of my favorite book cover designers. I especially like the cover he did for a book (which I own) on Concept Artwork for the Batman Animated series. So I really enjoyed this talk, and his super quirky sense of humor, at TED called “Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.” It is fascinating to see how his personality merges with his design philosophy. His opening statement that the first thing he learnt was a book cover needs tell people “what do stories look like?” There is a huge…

  • When Designing Experiences for Humans, Consider Common Psychological Behaviors

    Brian (Design Sojourn)
    3 May 2012 | 9:37 am
    Often designers design stuff (products/services/interfaces etc.): to fit user personas, to solve problems, to make it beautiful etc. but don’t often consider the how it psychologically interfaces with the user. Such user experience design draws heavily from human psychological behaviors that are a result of millions of years of evolution. These behaviors will not change tomorrow or even in the next 10 years, therefore we should be aware of what these behaviors are and how our designs should take them into consideration. I was therefore really excited to stumble on this article…

  • The Journey to Becoming a Designer is Never Easy

    Brian (Design Sojourn)
    19 Apr 2012 | 7:49 am
    Design Juices recently published an interview with Michael DiTullo, a designer I greatly respect, where he shares his insights and challenges he faced to get to where he is today, namely a Creative Director at Frog. (Actually it seems he is now the Chief Design Officer at DEI Holdings, Inc. Congrats Michael!) I fully relate to the stories he shared, and it seems almost every successful designer I’ve spoken too have made a similar journey. Indeed the journey of becoming a designer is never easy, and I’m glad that Michael was so open and candid especially the part about his…
 
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    A(nother) renovation blog

  • Leaks in the roof

    kaybar007
    4 May 2012 | 5:31 pm
    The rain in the UK has caused flooding, so you can imagine that quite a lot of water has fallen the last month or two. With it comes an ongoing problem that we have from our otherwise superb glass extension: The three vents (aka windows) all leak. Not from the frame, but from the rubber seals in non-consistent places on all three. Sometimes one does it, sometimes too, but never so far all

  • Downstairs bathroom is finished!

    kaybar007
    18 Apr 2012 | 5:19 pm
    And here it is!

  • Tiles are nearly done

    kaybar007
    3 Apr 2012 | 3:28 pm
    The black tiles are virtually done. Wall to wall, top to bottom, and yup, it looks dramatic. Next step is to do the tricky edging and then fill in the gaps with grey grout. Annoyingly the kids are so petite that they'll probably need their little Ikea plastic step to reach the tap on the sink for the next few years. That ubiquitious bit of blue plastic will spoil the boutique wetroom effect

  • Wetroom progress

    kaybar007
    28 Mar 2012 | 1:53 pm
    The black floor tiles have been laid and the wall tiles are on their way. The pipework has been installed, including a nifty thing that allows us to heat the back of the cabinet mirror - leading to a fog-free experience. The silver thing on the floor is the base of the shower drainer, and shows the line where the doors will open to. Did I mention this was a teeny tiny room? I was having

  • Laundry room taking shape

    kaybar007
    27 Mar 2012 | 5:12 pm
    This will post will feel as dull as dishwater, unless you're about to make a laundry room (aka utility room) too? If not, then I'd have to agree. Probably the least exciting room your home will ever have. If like me you're from New Zealand this will seem like a totally normal thing to have in your home. London flat dwellers don't usually have the space to put in a laundry room and the British
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  • 21 Best Websites for Teaching Yourself Web Development

    Jake Rocheleau
    14 May 2012 | 10:05 am
    Advertise here with BSAI remember how popular web design was even 5 or 10 years ago. Kids in high school were teaching themselves HTML and building small web pages from scratch. And nowadays this is possible because of the thousands of free tutorials and code online. Open source has dramatically shaped an industry of high-tech and high demand. But it can still be difficult pinpointing exactly what you want to learn. Beyond straight HTML/CSS there is jQuery for frontend animation, PHP/RoR for backend web apps, and even Java/Objective-C for mobile apps. With this collection you should be able…

  • 40 Photos of Creative Offices & Freelance Workspaces

    Jake Rocheleau
    11 May 2012 | 12:23 pm
    Advertise here with BSAThere’s no denying that WordPress has become the leading CMS on the market. Anybody looking to launch a simple website would be foolish not to consider WP. It has the largest amount of free themes and plugins – not to mention the huge base of developers working to push out bug fixes every day. But just working with the default WordPress options is not enough. That’s why I have this collection of 26 amazing resources for those interested in learning WordPress. You can find hundreds of free templates & plugins to mess around with. Additionally some…

  • 26 Resources for WordPress Tutorials Themes and Plugins

    Jake Rocheleau
    7 May 2012 | 8:54 am
    Advertise here with BSAFreelancing seems like one of the most lucrative job titles. And it’s true that setting your own hours and working on interesting projects can be a lot of fun. But there is also the matter of looming deadlines and touchy clients you need to keep satiated. One of the most important tools for a freelancer is their work station. You can’t get anything done if your work area is poorly setup, cluttered, or too small to fit inside. In the gallery below I have put together 40 brilliant examples of freelance offices, both home & industrial. Your creative space…

  • 22 Fresh And Free Fonts For Your Design

    Brant Wilson
    3 May 2012 | 10:33 am
    Advertise here with BSAIn this post we have put together some high quality free fonts. If you like these fonts you might also want to check out our previous posts below. 30 Free And High Quality Fonts 50 High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Design Silverfake  Metropolis Intro Graduate  Bobber Typeface Grammatica Nougatine Font GEARED Henry Valentina typeface Frontage Typeface WELLFLEET TITAN ONE FORO TROCCHI SIMONETTA OSWALD ITALIANNO ZNIKOMITNO24 Sornette Piximisa Deathe Maach NCV Advertise here with BSA

  • Building an E-mail Request Invite Form with jQuery

    Jake Rocheleau
    30 Apr 2012 | 8:19 am
    Advertise here with BSAUsing jQuery we can build some incredible web-based applications. The animations and manipulation of DOM elements using jQuery are much more intuitive than coding regular JavaScript. Because the syntax is so minimalist it’s possible to scale a very complex idea within a few hours time. In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate how we can build an HTML5 invite form and check the results through jQuery. I haven’t gone into any backend PHP as this isn’t always the best solution for an invitation system. You may want to tie into another e-mail campaign such…
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  • Publié / Autopublié

    Justin R. Saunders
    16 May 2012 | 12:28 pm
    Thanh & Didier are Publié/Autopublié. Touring installations of books, magazines, zines, etc. Based out of Montreal Great lovers of print and design – Overall great people. I love that they don’t even have a website either for this.

  • Simen Johan

    Scott A. Sant'Angelo
    16 May 2012 | 9:24 am
    Beautiful images from Swedish photographer Simen Johan. From the series Until the Kingdom Comes.

  • Friends and their wheels / pt.32: Marguerite Baux

    Yorgo Tloupas
    16 May 2012 | 9:07 am
    Parisian girls are known worldwide for their elegance, effortless style and man-crushing conversation skills. My friend Marguerite Baux is no exception: she graduated from the best literary university course in France (Agrégée de Lettres Modernes) at a very young age, got into École Normale Supérieure, and went on to become a highly esteemed writer, translator, and journalist. So it’s no surprise that when she drives, it’s in an über-cool 1989 Mercedes-Benz 300TD. Previous Friends and their wheels: pt.1, pt.2, pt.3, pt.4, pt.5, pt.6, pt.7, pt.7 v2.0, pt.7 v3.0, pt.8, pt.9,…

  • Little White Lies poster show at Colette / Jaws by Yorgo

    Yorgo Tloupas
    11 May 2012 | 10:26 am
    Sarah from Colette recently asked a bunch of Parisian illustrators and designers to participate in an ongoing show of posters, for Little White Lies magazine, inspired by famous movies. I went for a legendary predator of the seas, and did a poster made of blood drops: The show has a lot of great posters, some from very good friends of mine – all on sale by the way… Don’t miss it, at Colette until the end of May!  

  • Dazzle Yazzle performance at W hotel Paris

    Yorgo Tloupas
    11 May 2012 | 8:45 am
    Last month I was asked to do an installation for the opening night of the W Hotel in Paris. My first choice was to do a photocall inspired by dazzle battleships, and to design bathrobes that the guests would wear, sporting the same pattern so that their bodies would vanish in the optical camouflage. W Hotels weren’t too keen on guests exchanging germ-infested bathrobes, so I changed my approach, and decided to print a single white suit, and to wear it through the evening, posing with friends and guests. The effect worked wonders, and I literally disappeared in most of the shots: Some…
 
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  • Putting Dead Tree Branches to Good Use as Household Hooks

    16 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    You can never have too many wall hooks in your apartment, and mine are always full. But given that your average piece of bent metal will run you $5 a pop at a Manhattan hardware store, I've limited my urge to line my walls completely. If only I lived out in the sticks, I could use sticks. Etsy seller Gabriel Rutledge makes hers out of green maple twigs mounted to a distressed wooden board. John Robohm's Live Wire Farm is a Vermont-based outfit that manufactures goods from local hardwoods, and judging by all of the SOLD stamps on their website, does a brisk business in hooks. (more...)

  • Visualizing Criminal Networks to Help Police Solve Crime

    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Graph of the Internet. Law enforcement is an extremely complex line of work, as police officers have to keep up-to-date with events and people in the community, but usually from the sidelines or through second-hand information. Tools that can augment police officers' mental models of the communities they serve, especially in an ever increasing information-rich world, are critical to the future of policing. And that's where graph theory comes in. Graph theory looks at objects (nodes) and the relationships (edges) between them. These objects could be people, computers, or buildings, while the…

  • Sonya Yong James Puts the Wool in Front of Your Eyes

    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Atlanta-based Sonya Yong James is the textile designer and fiber artist behind Modern Fiber Lab, which produces handmade, sustainable goods from animal fibers. I work primarily with wool fibers and various felt techniques. Felt offers an extraordinary range from two dimensional design to sculptural forms for both interiors and personal ornament. No other material is as versatile. Felt is utilitarian, decorative, and completely renewable. I source all of my fiber from shepherds primarily in the United States. Everything here is a direct link to the natural world. It's safe to say James has a…

  • Digitas is seeking a Senior Art Director US in Chicago, Illinois

    16 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Senior Art Director US DigitasChicago, Illinois Digitas—one of the world's leading digital marketing and media companies—is seeking a Senior Art Director, who will be responsible for the conception, design and execution of innovative visual materials for integrated, cross channel initiatives including: large web initiatives, online advertising and digital marketing. Individuals should possess strong conceptual and design skills and assist the Creative Director in improving the conceptual, technical and creative performance of staff within his or her group. » view The best…

  • OMA completes the Syracuse Greek Theatre

    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    Rem Koolhaas led OMA's recently completed scenography project for Teatro Greco, or the Syracuse Greek Theatre, a historical landmark in Italy that dates back to the 5th century BCE. Every summer the theatre stages three classic plays, and for this season's cycle they commissioned OMA to design a temporary stage that will remain up for Aeschylus's Prometheus Unbound (directed by Claudio Longhi), Euripides' Bacchae (dir. Antonio Calenda) and Aristophane's The Birds (dir. Roberta Torre). The stage—aluminum scaffolding clad with multilayer marine plywood—was designed in three parts,…
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  • DIY Drawer Art

    decor8
    15 May 2012 | 4:31 pm
    Hello friends! How are you doing and how is your day? I got very good news that a new friend of mine will soon relocate from Paris to Berlin and so I’m very happy as I hope his move will result in us getting to see one another regularly! He is American like me so I am also curious to see how he settles in with learning all about German life & culture. Germany is the place to be more and more, so much is going on over here and the creative energy is amazing, contagious even… I’m so glad I moved here nearly 3 years ago because I really love it. It also makes me feel good…

  • Author Confessions, Oreos & e-Courses

    decor8
    11 May 2012 | 12:46 pm
    Hello everyone and happy Friday! This post is about author confessions, oreos and e-courses but first, I am nearly finished writing my next book so very soon I’ll be back full-time again to bring you your daily dose of inspiration. I really miss blogging! It’s so hard being away but sacrifice is sometimes needed when dreams are involved so I’m trying to look at my absence in a positive way. I must admit though, some days I’d much rather be right here with all of you dishing about the latest pretty finds than writing copy, but then I just keep saying to myself, ‘I…

  • Justin Timberlake and Designer Estee Stanley Launch HomeMint

    decor8
    10 May 2012 | 6:22 am
    Hello everyone! I’m Tina Ramchandani, an interior designer from New York. I recently met Holly at the Blogging Your Way Road Trip, here in New York. It was a great weekend filled with inspiring stories and creative energy. Meeting Holly and her guest teacher Leslie Shewring, of A Creative Mint, was a highlight, as I’ve been reading their blogs for quite some time now. Little did I know I would wake up one rainy New York morning to an email from Holly, asking me to cover the launch of HomeMint for decor8 since she was unable to attend. HomeMint is a home product line designed and…

  • Playing With Food: May Meringues

    decor8
    7 May 2012 | 9:15 am
    Hello everyone! It’s Emilie and I’m back with the May edition of Playing With Food. Thank you for your warm response to my first post, it’s wonderful to see the joy that food brings! I believe food is all about sharing. I’m glad to see you think so, too. Today I decided to work on two desserts, both based on French meringue. I love working with this stuff. You can create all kinds of shapes, it’s sweet, decadent and easy to colour ! I’ll start by showing you how to make little meringues that you can make for a gift (or eat yourself!). As with my first Playing with food post,…

  • What Liberty Ate: Issue Two

    decor8
    6 May 2012 | 6:09 am
    Prepare to feast your eyes! Last year I announced the launch of What Liberty Ate, a gorgeous digital magazine based in Romania founded by talented blogger and foodie Gabriela Iancu. Today she has released issue two and I simply had to pop in on a Sunday to bring this inspiring issue to you because I know you’ll enjoy it. Gabriela brings heaps of passion and love for cooking into this magazine that you can’t help but fall in love. Together with her contributors who are based all over the world, this magazine has a genuineness to it that I appreciate so much. Here are a few of my…
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  • Nagging Doubt

    Tiana Spellman
    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Beautifully handcrafted wines from the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia.

  • Oat Works

    Tiana Spellman
    16 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Pearlfisher has created the brand strategy, tone of voice, brand identity and packaging design for Oat Works, a brand new oat based drink from Wellness Works.

  • Concept Design: Sony Xperia S

    Gina Angie
    16 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    "The advertising agency Adentity developed the unique mini POS display concept for the global launch of the new iconic family of Sony smartphones.

  • Anna Amélie

    Gina Angie
    16 May 2012 | 6:01 am
    The branding for Anna Amélie was created with with classical luxury brands in mind.

  • Bread That Speaks For Itself

    Gina Angie
    15 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    "Plenum Brand Consultancy has created original bread packaging which is a bold move for the Russian market, providing a modern reappraisal of the graphical stereotypes and images of bread typical of the sector.
 
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  • Venngage: And Yet Another Online Infographics Editor

    15 May 2012 | 4:11 pm
    After 2 very similar posts in a very small timeframe, featuring Easel.ly and infogr.am respectively, I seem not to be able to follow the 'automatic infographics editing' scene fast enough. Automatic resume infographics creator visualize.me has just launched Venngage [venngage.com], which aims to empower people to create beautiful infographics in minutes, so that "creating infographics [becomes] as easy as creating a Powerpoint presentation". As a unique feature, Venngage's visual elements are displayed as pure HTML elements, which should positively influence SEO stats, page ranks and back…

  • infogr.am: Another Online Editor of Interactive Infographics

    15 May 2012 | 3:28 pm
    A few days ago, we posted the website Easel.ly, a new web-based service that aims to empower lay users to design infographic-like illustrations within the browser. Unfortunately, Easel.ly seems more apt in combining infographic-like images on a canvas, than to link real numerical data to a graphical form. So here comes Infogr.am [infogr.am], another competitor towards semi-automatic, web-based infographics editing. Developed by a start-up based in Riga (Latvia), though now based in London, the online service offers a collection of infographic themes as well as different interactive chart…

  • The Historical Evolution of Europe's Borders

    15 May 2012 | 2:36 pm
    The movie "Epic time-lapse map of Europe" fast forwards a map from the year 1000 AD until 2003 to reveal the dynamic nature of Europe's borders, alliances, unions, territories, and occupied lands. An alternative movie takes a bit longer, but contains useful textual annotations such as the actual year that is shown and the events that occurred. The movie was made with "Centennia Historical Atlas" by Centennia Software. Watch the movies below. Via @tillnm.

  • FatFonts: New Font Links Value of a Number to Amount of Pixels Shown

    11 May 2012 | 8:47 am
    FatFonts [fatfonts.org] is a novel numeric typeface for data visualization purposes. The design of FatFonts is based on Arabic numerals, but the amount of ink (i.e. dark pixels) used for each digit is proportional to its quantitative value. This font enables the reading of numerical data while still preserving an overall visual context. The typeface was developed by Miguel Nacenta, Uta Hinrichs and Sheelagh Carpendale at the University of Calgary. In the online gallery several case studies are documented on how this font can be used for good used. More detailed information about these…

  • Easel.ly Debutes Online Editor of Infographics

    10 May 2012 | 2:02 pm
    San Diego-based start-up Easel.ly [easel.ly] is offering a beta service that allows lay people to design and implement their own "infographics" via an online editor. The user-based customization of infographics seems to be the next phase after the automatic generation of infographics, and has already been promised by community websites like visual.ly. For now, easel.ly allows users to drag and drop predefined and uploaded vector images on pre-designed canvases and themes for easy creation and customization of infographics. According to the founders Patrick Alcoke and Neil Harris, all themes…
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  • Why design education must change

    chuck
    14 May 2012 | 7:07 pm
    The older I get the more I realize how little I know. It's a fact of both my life and my profession. That said, I think what makes me a decent designer is that I'm always willing to learn and, for the most part, unconcerned with making studied mistakes. Today I want to point you to a couple of articles on Core77 by Don Norman, one of the founders of the Nielsen Norman group. They discuss the growing complexity of the design professions and a warning that we need to improve design education. But here's the takeaway: don't wait around for the ship of education to make its slow turn. To be a…

  • A designer (and portfolio) worth following

    chuck
    11 May 2012 | 12:07 pm
    If you're interested in user interface design, here's a rather extraordinary portfolio. Jason Wilson has participated in a few projects you might recognize. For Apple... For Adobe... For Facebook... About Wilson... Follow Chuck on Facebook... Visit the Ideabook.com Store  |  Subscribe to the newsletter

  • A surprised mind

    chuck
    8 May 2012 | 11:07 pm
    It doesn't happen often, but occasionally I see something that surprises my mind — such experiences are, to me, creative sustenance. I hope these images by photographer and artist Murat Germen have the effect on you that they did on me. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Murat Germen's Muta-Morphosis... Asif Naqvi's Living Design offers a less complete but easier to access showing of Germen's work... An earlier post about Living Design... Follow Chuck on Facebook... Visit the Ideabook.com Store  |  Subscribe to the newsletter

  • An exercise in design perspective

    chuck
    7 May 2012 | 10:22 pm
    Imagine you are Gerardus Mercator, the cartographer who produced the world map in 1569 that forever changed the world of navigation. The map was the Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendata: the "new and augmented description of Earth corrected for the use of sailors". Now take a few minutes to watch the video below. It is a composite of a series of time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of International Space Station expeditions in 2011. A composite view of the Earth from NASA images edited by Michael König... Next, take a look at Mercator's map.

  • What every graphic designer needs to know about money illustrations

    chuck
    4 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    As the United States Secret Service says, "The law sharply restricts photographs or other printed reproductions of paper currency, checks, bonds, revenue stamps and securities of the United States and foreign governments." Yet, occasionally, I see advertisers using photographs and illustrations of currency in a size and proportion that is a violation of the law. These links point to the seriousness of the issue. Official guidelines from the United States Secret Service... A cautionary story about how an innocent promo went wrong... An interesting aside: The design changes made to United…
 
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    ABCD Design Sketch Book | milestones in life set the tone

  • A Pair of Petite French Chairs with matching Ottoman {fabric redo}

    Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo
    16 May 2012 | 7:16 am
    I’ve had these two chairs and matching ottoman following me around dressed in white muslin for as long as I can remember. As a matter of fact, I can’t remember not having these chairs! I purchased them when I was a single girl living on West 12th Street from an antique dealer in Northern Michigan on one of my Summertime visits to Harbor Springs.When we lived on Greene Street, I had them in our kitchen for a while. As a matter of fact, I had fallen in love with a bourbon color mohair while working on an interior design project on Long Island. When the client didn’t want it…

  • Everything is better in Candlelight {Hurricane & Lantern Event}

    Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo
    15 May 2012 | 7:26 am
    Do you remember last Spring when I was dream decorating our screened in porch with Mercury Glass Lanterns just in time for our Memorial Day Weekend house guests? Or when I suggested you have a candle lit ceremony with glass hurricanes lining either side of the aisle?Well, sometime around the 4th of July I found the mercury glass hurricanes I’d been coveting on super-duper sale and I snatched up a few. Since then, I’ve used the Paros Mercury Glass Lanterns for Halloween decor, on a glittery Tablescape for the Mom Trends Holiday event, and now they are being used on our kitchen…

  • Treasure Hunting at Brimfield, MA: The World’s Largest Flea Market

    Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo
    14 May 2012 | 9:51 am
    I had absolutely no idea what I should expect when I pulled into town on Thursday evening. It was dusk – and everyone was wrapping up for the night. There was a row of trucks ahead of me, and we inched our way through town at a snails pace. It turns out those trucks were arriving for the J&J field set up which would be opening in the morning.As you know from my previous posts about Brimfield, for the last few Spring and Fall markets Cynthia Bogart and Gretchen Aubuchon plan a massive tweet-up complete with a tent, a wireless connection and phone/computer charging stations. This year…

  • {What’s on?} Brimfield and #Brimfield Tweet-Up

    Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo
    11 May 2012 | 6:55 am
    Hello! I am starting this weekend off right at the Brimfield flea market and #Brimfield tweet-up. I have written about Brimfield on many occasions – Brimfield: Gotta Get There, Brimfield is ON, and What’s on? Brimfield should give you a taste of what is ahead of me. No time to waste – treasure hunting is calling my name! Happy weekend everyone!

  • ABCD, 2012 is YOUR year! {or maybe not}

    Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo
    9 May 2012 | 12:25 pm
    I recently had a lovely lunch in New York City with my friend Nichole from Little Brown Pen. Besides writing her blog, she is also a best selling author of the book Paris in Color. If you have not checked out the Paris Print Shop that she runs with her husband, you must! During lunch, we talked a lot about social media, blogging, being true to yourself and about how many bloggers have totally sold themselves out to affiliate links and sponsored posts.I want to take a moment to remind you that I do not take advertising or sponsored posts on my blog and don’t write about anything that I…
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  • On the death of great companies

    2 May 2012 | 10:19 am
    On the 1st May, 1840 a revolution in industry was started by the introduction of the Penny Black. This simple postage stamp caused a dramatic explosion in communication from 76 million letters sent in 1839 to 350 million by 1850. It wasn't a case that postal services didn't exist before but the Penny Black turned the act of posting a letter into a more standard, well defined and ultimately ubiquitous activity.The introduction caused a spate of copy cat services through the world, with the US introducing their first stamps in 1847. The 125 million pieces of post sent through their system in…

  • The battle for open standards needs you.

    1 May 2012 | 9:20 am
    Many of you are probably not aware but at this moment in time there is a battle ongoing within the UK which will help shape the future of the UK tech industry. It's all about open standards.Last year, the Cabinet Office ran a consultation on open standards covering 970 CIOs and Academics. The result of this consultation was a policy in favour of royalty free (RF) open standards in the UK. I'm not going to go through the benefits of open standards in this space other than to note that they are essential for UK's future competitive position, for spurring on innovation and creating a level…

  • Be Wary of Geeks Bearing Gifts

    10 Apr 2012 | 5:09 am
    [Repost of my Forbes Article]For many, the words open source conjures up concepts of hippy idealism where geeks in a spirit of free love give away their work to others for nothing. For many, it’s about as anti-capitalist as you can get.Those many are as gullible as the citizens of Ancient Troy.Open source is one of the deadliest weapons in the arsenal of any experienced strategist. It can be used to remove barriers to entry into an opponent’s business, to encourage standardization around your practice creating a cost of transition for opponents, and it can be used to develop ecosystems to…

  • Pet Rocks of the Software Kind

    10 Apr 2012 | 5:04 am
    [Repost of my Forbes Article]Napoleon Bonaparte once said “Never interrupt an enemy when he’s making a mistake”. For those in the business of organizational warfare, this rule is golden.It is one of the reasons why we are a fairly secretive bunch about the finer points of value chain evolution and the games to play – blocking strategies, choke points, positioning, barriers to entry, exploitation of ecosystems and tactical weapons such as open source. Anything that gives an advantage is secret, everything that doesn’t … well, write a book on it.I thought I would let you in on a…

  • Ten graphs on organisational warfare

    11 Mar 2012 | 10:00 pm
    The presentations I've given over the last seven years have been a gentle introduction into the battle between companies. Unfortunately as an industry we're not only overwhelmed with glib phrases such as "culture eats strategy for breakfast / lunch" but also a paucity of data behind many of these statements.Alas, competition isn't simple. Well more specifically, simple forces create a complex world and we inhabit that world. To demonstrate this and in honour of the general detritus that is "the ten habits of successful organisations", I thought I'd bring you Ten graphs on organisation warfare…
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  • Mary Kay Andrews Book Signing at freshvintage!

    freshvintage
    10 May 2012 | 4:34 pm
    The one and only vintage-loving, flea-market-shopping, curbside-picking, New-York-Times-bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews is coming to freshvintage for a book signing!  Join us at freshvintage on Sunday, June 10th at 2pm to meet Mary Kay Andrews. She'll be signing her new book, Spring Fever, which will be released on June 5, 2012. I was lucky enough to get a preview copy, and I am loving it so far! If you don't have a book already, you can purchase one at freshvintage - Chester County Book Company will have Mary Kay's books available for sale at our shop. And, in case you need a reason…

  • Join Us at the Vintage Garage Sale on Friday, May 4th!

    freshvintage
    1 May 2012 | 5:51 pm
    Join us this Friday night, May 4th, from 4pm to 9pm in West Chester, PA for the very first Vintage Garage Sale! Yes, it's actually in a parking garage. We'll be there with some great local vintage vendors, a cupcake truck, a jazz duo and fresh finds from my recent buying trip to Lancaster County, PA.  The event takes place during West Chester's First Friday, so shops will be open late. Get a bite to eat at one of the many great restaurants in West Chester, and then come and see us in the Chestnut Street parking garage. Visit the Vintage Garage Sale Facebook page for up-to-the-minute info.

  • Springtime at Clover Market

    freshvintage
    10 Apr 2012 | 6:34 pm
    Yes, it's that time of year again...we are selling at Clover Market on Sunday, April 15th from 10am to 4pm. Our shop at Highland Orchards will be closed that day because we can only keep one ball juggling in the air at a time. Don't hold it against us, please. There are ONE HUNDRED vendors signed up for this opening day! That's pure insanity! Definitely worth a drive, even if it takes you a few hours to get there. This is the only spring sale at Clover that we'll be participating in. So catch us while you can!  And for those of you who are too far to drive to Pennsylvania, here are a few…

  • Cubbie Crazy

    freshvintage
    29 Mar 2012 | 5:38 pm
    Chris went on some kind of mad cubbie shopping spree last week. And I am totally fine with that. The long skinny ones in the back left are the perfect size for displaying the Rewined candles in the shop. (The seasonal Mimosa-scented candles just came in and they are delish!) The one on the right has an old Nail Chart tacked on the side. The Philadelphia tri-state area is also known as the Delaware Valley (as in the Delaware River, which divides PA from NJ). I might need to keep this crate for myself. This is my favorite of the bunch. It was probably used in a post office - it has little metal…

  • freshvintage shop photos & update

    freshvintage
    5 Mar 2012 | 5:12 pm
    We are gearing up for our Grand Opening on March 10th! If you are in the Philadelphia area, please join us for some sweet treats and local wine from the vineyards along the Brandywine Valley Wine Trail. Highland Orchards will be sampling some of their yummy products as well. We'll be there from 10am to 5pm, and if you are lucky, you'll get to meet my mom and 92-year-old grandmom. The shop will also be open on Sunday from 11am to 4pm, when the celebration will continue. But only if there are leftovers. Thanks to all of the blog readers, friends, family and neighbors who visited the shop…
 
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  • Design snapshot: Wrap it to go

    Katie Hutchison
    16 May 2012 | 9:49 am
    This is a porch, yet a room. Outdoors, yet in. It’s a great example of a deep, wrap-round porch which invites use. I’d estimate that it’s twelve-feet deep – twice the minimum recommended depth in A Pattern Language pattern #167: Six-foot balcony. The semi-enclosing guardrail, periodic turned posts, and gently sloped bead-board ceiling all provide comfortable shelter, while the long, wrapping, open expanse welcomes daylight, breezes, and view. Furnishing the porch for sitting and dining, complete with finished sideboards, serving tables, and a rug, greatly…

  • Summer 2012 garden tours

    Katie Hutchison
    9 May 2012 | 12:37 pm
    Recommended upcoming New England tours Hidden Gardens of Beacon Hill (Boston, MA) Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Concord Museum 21st Annual Garden Tour (Concord, MA) Friday-Saturday June 1-2, 2012 9:00 am - 4:00 pm  Farmington/Unionville Friends Kitchens and Gardens Tour (Farmington/Unionville, CT) Saturday, June 16, 2012 10:00 am – 4:00 pm  South End Garden Tour (Boston, MA) Saturday, June 16, 2012 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Portsmouth Pocket Garden Tour (Portsmouth, NH) Friday, June 22, 2012 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm and Saturday, June 23, 2011 9:00 am - 3:00 pm…

  • An entrée to integral, entry porches

    Katie Hutchison
    2 May 2012 | 9:01 am
    Image excerpt from my Fine Homebuilding "Drawing Board" column about integral porches.Start your spring home-planning with Fine Homebuilding's annual HOUSES issue, on newsstands now. Inside, find my latest "Drawing Board" column. This one focuses on designing integral, entry porches. Learn to differentiate an applied, entry porch from an integral one, and explore four examples of successful integral, entry porches. Click here for a PDF of the column. "Design an integral porch" by Katie Hutchison, Issue #227, Spring/Summer 2012. Reprinted with permission copyright 2012, The Taunton…

  • Reading musings: Easy Edible Garden

    Katie Hutchison
    25 Apr 2012 | 10:29 am
    Broccoli I grew in last season's idjit, square-foot garden. (Who knew that broccoli blooms if not harvested in a timely fashion? Not this idjit gardener who thought the flowers were pretty.)I picked up Sunset's Easy Edible Garden special-interest-publication at my local supermarket when I was shopping hungry. You probably know better than to shop hungry, but, sometimes, it can't be helped. The Easy Edible Garden title and cover shot of a breezy, mozzarella, mixed-tomato, and basil salad appealed to both my appetite and my idjit gardening skills. Inside Easy Edible Garden, I found a fount…

  • House tour: May Day on Chestnut Street

    Katie Hutchison
    18 Apr 2012 | 12:26 pm
    Living room in a Greek Revival, double house on Chestnut StreetI had no idea when I moved to Salem that I would be living in the town featuring “the finest street, architecturally, in New England” (according to maritime historian Samuel Eliot Morison). This spring, that street -- Chestnut Street -- will welcome visitors into ten homes along it, to benefit Hamilton Hall (also on Chestnut Street). Tour first-floor, living spaces of featured homes on Saturday, May 5 from noon to 3:45 pm. Owners and guides will share tales of historic and anecdotal interest about the stately…
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  • Designed in Hackney: A-Lu-Ha by Lu Flux

    Zena Moore
    16 May 2012 | 12:15 pm
    Designed in Hackney: next up in our series of stories about Hackney fashion design is the A-Lu-Ha collection by Lu Flux, combining vintage patchwork with Hawaiian details. (more…)

  • World Architecture Festival 2012: Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre by Peter Rich Architects

    Amy Frearson
    16 May 2012 | 10:05 am
    World Architecture Festival 2012: in the next movie from our series running up to this year’s World Architecture Festival, programme director Paul Finch tells us how the jury were ”bowled over” by the hand-constructed Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre by Peter Rich Architects, winner of the festival’s World Building of the Year award in 2009. (more…)

  • Call for entries to the Wood Awards 2012

    Rose Etherington
    16 May 2012 | 9:53 am
    Promotion: entries are now being accepted for the Wood Awards 2012. (more…)

  • CCTV Headquarters by OMA

    Amy Frearson
    16 May 2012 | 4:45 am
    The China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing by architects OMA are now complete. (more…)

  • New Pinterest board: kitchens

    Zena Moore
    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    We’ve added a new board to Pinterest compiling all the best photos of kitchens from the pages of Dezeen. We now have over 3000 followers on Pinterest – join in here. See all of our stories about kitchens.
 
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  • Win a HP ENVY 14 Spectre Laptop

    Jacob Cass
    4 May 2012 | 1:51 pm
    Win this HP ENVY 14 Spectre. Details below. I was recently invited to attend a ‘top secret’ event held by HP. They emailed me and asked if I would like to attend an exciting ‘hunt’ between 4 and 8pm on a Thursday afternoon, at an undisclosed location. They were extremely vague about the event and they said to just show up, “it would be worth it”. Knowing how HP works with PR, I agreed and showed up. What was to follow was a set of extraordinary events, especially if you know how the company Accomplice works – the company that runs the show / hunt /…

  • Digital vs Traditional Offset Printing: Pros & Cons

    Jacob Cass
    1 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    Every design project is different. When it comes to making a final decision on which commercial printing process to choose, designers must take into consideration the quality and volume they desire and their budget and timescale. The two main forms of commercial printing are digital and traditional offset printing, both of which have their pros and cons. Before you make your final decision, weigh up their pros and cons against what you want from your print job and make an informed decision. The Pros and Cons of Digital Printing PROS Digital printing is incredibly fast, making it ideal for…

  • Pinterest: What, Why, How and Who? + Tips & Pin Optimisation

    Jacob Cass
    24 Apr 2012 | 8:30 am
    This article is a product of getting into Pinterest and clients coming forward saying, “What is Pinterest?”. In fact, there is a lot to learn from Pinterest and it is worthy of analysis which I will get to below. According to ExperianHitwise, Pinterest is now the #3 social media site behind Facebook and Twitter. It is also the #16th most visited site in the USA, so it is not something you should ignore. Let’s have a look at what Pinterest is, why it’s different, who uses it, what makes for the most popular pins and how to optimise websites for the best Pinterest exposure. What…

  • The Ultimate Web Design Workspace for Photoshop

    Jacob Cass
    17 Apr 2012 | 9:59 pm
    I’ve been using Adobe Photoshop on a near daily basis, since 2006 and over this time I’ve learned quite a number of tips & tricks. I’ve optimized Photoshop for performance, learned all the essential shortcut keys and tools, and have recently found out what I consider the ‘ultimate web design workspace’. What is a workspace? “By saving the current size and position of panels as a named workspace, you can restore that workspace even if you move or close a panel. The names of saved workspaces appear in the workspace switcher in the Application bar of…

  • JUST™ A Competition

    Jacob Cass
    3 Apr 2012 | 8:42 am
    With my recent rebrand and website update, came a few nifty features and one of them is the ‘hidden’ drop down menu in the top right corner of the website. On each reload, there is a new slogan that is displayed, such as: JUST™ Amazing JUST™ Be Happy JUST™ Did It JUST™ Drop That Bass JUST™ Believe There are already a good handful being rotated up there, but I thought it would be great to have JUST™ Creative readers be able to have their own one up there. So be creative, and leave your “JUST™ ____” idea in the comments below, and you could win some awesome…
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  • New: Wood Desk Organizer FELICIA

    14 May 2012 | 7:07 am
    Handmade from spalted maple, Wood Desk Organizer FELICIA stands out for extra organizational features and exceptional grain pattern. Now available in our store.

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    11 May 2012 | 4:46 pm
    Perfect for Summer

  • Some great new bags and an interview…

    9 May 2012 | 11:32 am
    Tich Bags is new to Supermarket. Be sure to check out our shop as we’re adding new bags everyday. Never heard of us? There’s a great interview over on Northern Surfer—learn all about us! http://northernsurfer.com/happenings/

  • love notes + handmade with love

    8 May 2012 | 2:40 pm
    If your order is meant to be a present please let me know. I’d love to type a little note for the lucky receiver. Email me the content at kobrienjewelry@gmail.com. Thank you for supporting my handmade business. xo, Kim

  • Just arrived: File Holder FRITZ

    8 May 2012 | 10:08 am
    We designed and handcrafted this decorative file holder to keep work in progress organized and within easy view and reach. The file organizer is lightweight and just the right size to hold separated stacks of papers in a small area. Now available in our store
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  • Modeselektor & Thom Yorke

    Arjan van de Steeg
    16 May 2012 | 4:49 am
    The German Modeselektor, which you can see live in action at Pitch festival this year, made a song together with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. This awesome video is created by Future Deluxe.

  • Amsterdam 2.0

    Rory
    15 May 2012 | 6:12 am
    Amsterdam 2.0 is an art initiative that explores the vivid art scene in one of the cosmopolitan city of Amsterdam. Combining a party and young artists their next event will take place at De Brakke Grond this friday. A great place to spot new talent (and get drunk).

  • New art director needed

    jort
    9 May 2012 | 8:23 am
    Do you have a passion for digital? And can you handle a good Oktoberfest?

  • Crowdbag

    rocco
    8 May 2012 | 3:19 am
    Every year, Dutch NGO StopAidsNow is releasing an Artbag to raise money and awareness for their activities to prevent Aids. The famous bag has been designed by Dick Bruna, Henk Schiffmacher, Viktor & Rolf, Marcel Wanders and Piet Paris in the past. Now they call out to the creative public to design this years ‘crowdbag’.

  • Arno Coenen

    Bert Hagendoorn
    3 May 2012 | 2:41 am
    After shows with artists like Quick, Paul Du Bois-Reymond and Petro, Amsterdam’s Unruly Gallery is showing the work of Arno Coenen next week. For his new artworks Arno engraved the cut-off tops of wooden barrels with pyrography techniques, burning images onto the circular surfaces with a heated pen. Come see!
 
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  • Daily Inspirations no. 425

    oliver13
    16 May 2012 | 1:47 pm
    You may look forward another cool set full of creative inspirations. Let’s start right away … we do not want to loose our precious time, right?! If you’re currious what’s hot in the photography section my answer is … make sure to check the very first and the very last photo. To be concrete I am speaking about the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park photography and Blue stones by Guido Montanes. In the illustraitons section my top choice is no doubt the Androgyny / SQUINT by Lesja Chernish. I am really into this style. Now, let’s get back to more traditional art forms … do not miss…

  • Acrylics & Mixed media by Zan von Zed

    oliver13
    16 May 2012 | 1:43 pm
    Very nice illustrations by Zan von Zed from Sydney, Australia. Enjoy :) More artworks here More artworks here More artworks here Advertise with DYT! - Join us on Facebook - Follow on Twitter - On Pinterest - Subscribe by Email

  • Photography by Russell Cobb

    Pro Photography
    16 May 2012 | 1:42 pm
    Russell Cobb is a multi award winning artist/illustrator now turned photographer. His awards include 5 Best of British Gold Awards, D&AD silvers and in 2011 Creative Review, one of the UK’s leading design publications awarded him the accolade of Best in Book. by Creative Photography Blog. Advertise with DYT! - Join us on Facebook - Follow on Twitter - On Pinterest - Subscribe by Email

  • Kaleidoscopic and Hypnotic Geometric Compositions by Andy Gilmore

    Ovsyannykov
    16 May 2012 | 1:42 pm
    A master of color and geometric composition, Andy Gilmore’s work is often characterized as kaleidoscopic and hypnotic, though it could just as well be described as visually acoustic, his often complex arrangements referencing the scales and melodies in music. Gilmore’s journey toward this masterful style followed a long and winding road. He characterizes his pursuit of education as a tangled web, noting the bookstores, bakeries, and theaters where he worked were of more importance than the schools he attended in pursuit of his BFA, which he received from SUNY Empire State College.

  • Underware by Cyril Lagel

    oliver13
    16 May 2012 | 1:40 pm
    Creative fashion photography by Cyril Lagel from Paris, France. Enjoy :) More photos here More photos here More photos here Advertise with DYT! - Join us on Facebook - Follow on Twitter - On Pinterest - Subscribe by Email
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  • New Obama ad: The business of politics

    Jonathan Cherry
    16 May 2012 | 8:52 am
    Winning elections in America is a business. You need strategy, consultants, huge budgets, catchy ads, dancing girls, pompoms, ticker tape, more ads, debates, more huge budgets and brand postioning. If people like what you’re selling – you win the contract for a few years. In South Africa – sticks and stones win elections, in the US it’s psychology that works. BTW – Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital is the majority shareholder of the Edcon Group.

  • Coca Cola branded events: Anywhere in the world

    Jonathan Cherry
    16 May 2012 | 5:41 am
    Coca Cola hosted a ‘Lucky Strike’ style secret gig last Friday as part of their involvement with the Olympics. Featuring producer Mark Ronson and singer Katy B – it’s interesting to see how advertising is going niche rather than the traditional mass reach route.  

  • Nike: Building Twist 3D projection mapping

    Jonathan Cherry
    15 May 2012 | 3:59 am
    Controlled by a Nike shoe that’s been wired up with a bunch of pressure sensors and plugged into an Arduino board – this building mapping is an effective  interactive promotion for what the shoe does. You’ve gotta love these shoes that can literally double over on themselves. It’s an impressive feature, but seriously how often is this needed when your foot is actually in the shoe? Podiatrists would be making a killing if everybody was subjecting their feet to the capabilities of what this shoe can do. via Previously: Cherryflava conference projection mapping –…

  • McDonald’s: This would also be a great condom ad

    Jonathan Cherry
    15 May 2012 | 3:40 am
    We had a cat once that used to love the idea of burying her claws into the cushions of the couch and then joyfully bounding after the goose down that flew all over the place as a result. Not sure how her next owners enjoyed that trick, but it was slightly annoying to us. McDonald’s seem to have tapped into the same strange phenomenon with kids. Fuelled by abnormally high levels of sugar and processed trans-fatty acids – that same thing seems to happen to the children when placed in a home-like environment. Don’t have the party at your place? Rather don’t have the…

  • What people really want

    Jonathan Cherry
    15 May 2012 | 3:18 am
    Men and woman are simple creatures. Give them ice cream, pizza and cars and all is well in the world. Social media monitoring company NetBase put 365 days worth of its own data about online conversations up against a recent Harris poll that asked, “What is the one thing you want right now?” The results show that people are generally emotional sharers when it comes to social media, but they are much more logical when asked a direct question. For instance, 80% of the “I want _____” updates were about food, whereas 50% of the survey responses were related to personal finance (money,…
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    Design is Kinky

  • 30 Apr 2012 | 8:35 pm

    Murray
    30 Apr 2012 | 8:35 pm
    After a long stint overseas working with the likes of Anton Corbijn, Nike & Vogue, Australian born Art Director Jamie Mitchell is back on Sydney shores. Take a look through his work.

  • Semi-Permanent Sydney 2012

    Andrew
    29 Apr 2012 | 4:55 pm
    Have you checked out this years lineup for the Semi-Permanent Sydney event? It’s going to be a great year with an awesome speaker list and the addition of the Google+ Hangout Session with acclaimed film maker Roman Coppola. Check the Semi-Permanent site for more details.

  • Boogie Workshop

    Andrew
    27 Apr 2012 | 7:29 pm
    One of our favourite street photographers, Boogie, has a workshop coming up in Italy. Check the link for details and get over there!

  • Quentin Jones

    Murray
    22 Apr 2012 | 11:32 pm
    Illustrator / Animator / Filmmaker Quentin Jones has just dropped a new 25,000 jpeg film for Nowness that’s def worth a watch.

  • 14 Apr 2012 | 11:56 pm

    Murray
    14 Apr 2012 | 11:56 pm
    Sydney based photographer Jay Harrison gave us the heads up on sculptor Dion Horstman who he’s recent shot.
 
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  • Zazzle Design Contest Winners Announced

    allisonsilber
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Zazzle is one of those totally awesome online brands that has just about everything you could wish for on one website. Aside from offering so many different products, Zazzle also gives you the chance to customize your own. Make sure you check out their selection of goods. Did you all enjoy creating iPad cases for our Zazzle contest? I hope so. There were so many fabulous entries, you guys are great at creating some inspiring pieces. So thank you for entering. Today we are here to announce the winners of the Zazzle contest. Grand prize winner will receive $500 + a copy of their winning iPad…

  • Floral Trends in Decor, Design + Fashion

    allisonsilber
    15 May 2012 | 10:17 am
    I'm excited for the return of floral prints. From fashion to design, this print has grown back into our lives and secured a very special place in current trends. These print pieces are so simple and sweet and will definitely add extra sunshine to your home office. Today we are going to take a look through all the various uses of such a trend. So get your pinning buttons ready, as you are in for a treat. Source: Tags, Journal Logo design? Using Florals? You better believe it! Source I love the use of watercolor + free hand floral drawing in this logo. This is one fun logo overall, and just…

  • Colorful Round-Up + Links From Around The Web

    allisonsilber
    11 May 2012 | 2:57 pm
    It has been quite a fun week over here at COLOURlovers. Between our iPad contest with Zazzle, book review on the new Smashing Magazine book, Redesign The Web and so much more! FAVORITE BLOG POSTS: Some of our favorite blog posts from this week are crafty projects you can do with magazine pages and some fabulously colorful digital art by Andy Gilmore! Also, Zazzle is hosting a COLOURlovers iPad Design contest! If you haven't entered, now is the chance, the winner will receive a $500 cash prize. CMYLK by DESIGN MILK Design Milk (one of our fave blogs over here at COLOURlovers) has…

  • Crafting With Magazines

    allisonsilber
    10 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    A bit ago we posted about crafting with paint chips. Today I wanted to post about another product you probably have laying around your house that you could turn into totally awesome art. Have you ever tried to find a use for magazines and catalogs that you finished looking through? Throwing them away feels like such a waste sometimes, doesn't it? Well today we are posting about various art projects you can do with those old magazines to repurpose them and bring those pages to life, for the second time. These projects are also a great way to give your kids something to do, using only…

  • Redesign The Web by Smashing Magazine

    allisonsilber
    9 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    We are very excited to review the brand new Smashing Magazine book, REDESIGN THE WEB.  I'll start by saying that I would not only recommend this book to every designer, but it is a must for any person who is in the position to make decisions about their website. Why do I think this? Understanding the how and why behind design allows you to learn the types of questions you should be asking about your website and will help the entire design process immensely. Let's start by taking a look at the table of contents: Chapter 1, The Business Side of Redesign, was my favorite chapter in the…
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    NOTCOT

  • Tasteologie + Liqurious Roundup

    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    This week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes strawberry mojitos, dandelion pancakes and mini rainbow vanilla bean donuts! To find out more about each delectable post, click on its individual image. (Want more visual goodness? See NOTCOT.com + NOTCOT.org)

  • Unboxing the BIG Jambox

    15 May 2012 | 7:10 pm
    The BIG Jambox from Jawbone is here! and much like its tinier predecessor, the Jambox, (which we unboxed poolside over a year ago) - if you order it from Jawbone themselves, the packaging is FAR more fun than what you’ll see in retail stores… playful graphics adorn the cardboard box vs the clear plastic cases that showcase the product in stores. So, what’s fun about the BIG Jambox vs the Jambox? As the name says, it’s bigger ~ but also has bass, 15 hours of battery life, play/pause/skip buttons, and their new LiveAudio. While we love having the little Jambox for…

  • NOTCOT.org Roundup

    15 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    Birds made from LEGO, fitness minded furniture and camel jumping all feature in this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org. To find out more about each post, click on its individual image. (Want more visual goodness? See NOTCOT.com + NOTCOT.org)

  • URFabulous Zee - Art Is Medicine

    14 May 2012 | 9:55 pm
    Inspiration in the randomest of places ~ ART IS MEDICINE! I remember vaguely seeing pictures of these little Zee pill toys by swiss toy makers, URFabulous (whose website is sadly no longer up!) years and years ago, but only just ran into a case of them yesterday and couldn’t resist the adorable little blind boxes. The packaging and pharmaceutical-esque copy heavy “instructions” that accompany it are even crazier than most you will get with real medication! See more pics and a full unboxing on the next page! TO PAGE 2 of "URFabulous Zee - Art Is Medicine"! -----> (Want more…

  • NotVentures Roundup

    11 May 2012 | 3:38 am
    A Colombian salt cathedral, surfing British Columbia and Hong Kong for art lovers are all part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures roundup. Find out more about each post by clicking on its individual image. (Want more visual goodness? See NOTCOT.com + NOTCOT.org)
 
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  • oscar tusquets blanca: fontal chair for expormim

    16 May 2012 | 12:32 pm
    the seating object, which reminds us of a traditional chair uses the age old technique of caning combining it with a contemporary appearance retaining a lightness and charm resulting in a flexible but resistant structure. read more

  • makoto sasaki: tokyo layers at frantic gallery

    16 May 2012 | 10:28 am
    each photo-image portrays the city lights of the bustling japanese metropolis as seen with enhanced movement through the photographer's choice to capture interrupted light stream in each picture.   read more

  • cristiano mino: micol lamp

    16 May 2012 | 9:45 am
    a table and desk lamp that can be produced with minimal and recycled materials.read more

  • douglas coupland: v-pole

    16 May 2012 | 8:47 am
    modular utility pole connected to underground optical wiring that can be installed in urban settings to provide areas with wi-fi, LED street lighting, electric vehicle charging and parking transactions.read more

  • jeong yong: dora

    16 May 2012 | 7:59 am
    a CD-player that has the ability to rotate on an axis like a globe giving the user an interactive element to a traditionally static the electronic device. read more
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    Hatch: The Design Public® Blog

  • What We’re Clicking This Week

    Becky
    11 May 2012 | 1:35 pm
    What are you clicking this week? My colleague Janet shared this video with me and now I’m dreaming of treehouses and visiting Whistler. I’m also dreaming about fantastic topiaries, because The Aestate rounded up a fantastic group of them. Also, I watched a whodunit show this week where the culprit was a topiary gardener, SPOILER ALERT! I think it was on Bones. Anyway, here’s a favorite from her collection: What to you think of this list of the top 10 world’s ugliest buildings? I agree with most of them, but I actually like the pixel building, even if it is a bit…

  • Designer Interviews: Sharon & Ted Burnett of Strand Design

    Becky
    10 May 2012 | 9:34 am
    Hey All, today we’re chatting with Sharon Burdett, co-founder, along with Ted Burdett, of Strand Design. Thanks so much to Sharon for sharing a little more about how a career leads to designing furniture at your own company, choosing recycled and recyclable materials, producing goods locally, and hip-hop night in Florence … Please tell me a bit about your background – what led you to creating Strand Design? Strand Design was created out of our desire to work together on collaborative projects, and became an actual company three years ago when we both decided to pursue these…

  • Hot Design in Action: Wall Flats at Home

    Becky
    9 May 2012 | 10:40 am
    Thanks to everyone who has been posting their Design Public goodies in action around their own homes. I love these so much more than retail product shots; it shows how talented you all are and I’m nosy; I love getting a peek into your homes and lives this way. Here are a few ways you all are using Inhabit’s Wall Flats that caught my eye this week: These Inhabit Wall Flats were posted by Lisa Choules, and because she posted this picture, I am suffering from an acute case of kitchen envy! So clean and white, full of style, and punched with color and mid-mod style in all the right…

  • Flickr Faves on Fridays

    Becky
    4 May 2012 | 8:06 am
    I realized I have been neglecting my friend Flickr lately, which actually made it really fun to go back and catch up on all of the great photographs you all have been sharing in our Fresh New Spaces Group! Here is a small sample of the many that caught my eye. This one was posted by Claudia of Twiggs Photography and it’s titled “stories from lisbon: landeau chocolate. I love the way this room has combined patinaed metals and woods against the white painted brick and those enviable industrial windows. It’s industrial yet warm, and the photography is stunning. In fact, at…

  • Color Inspiration from the Mediterranean Coast

    Becky
    3 May 2012 | 7:27 am
    Last week four of my girlfriends and I hit the Mediterranean Sea and stayed in Collioure, France. This is an absolutely stunning coastal village with a history that dates back to the Phonecians. It is also the place that inspired the Fauvists, after Henri Matisse and André Derain spent a summer collaborating and painting there. The views, people, architecture and colors continue to inspire today. While Collioure has it’s own unique style, culture and spirit, I have picked a doorway that shows off one of the most well-known French color combinations. It’s a beautiful warm yellow…
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    Fubiz™

  • Sport’s Beauty Compilation

    Versa
    16 May 2012 | 11:18 am
    Le motion et graphic designer Grégory Villien a pris l’initiative de récupérer et compiler des images exprimant selon lui la beauté du sport pour créer une vidéo sobrement intitulée « Sport’s Beauty ». Utilisant beaucoup d’images en slow-motion, ce montage dynamique est à découvrir en HD dans la suite de l’article.

  • Peugeot XRC Concept

    Fubiz
    16 May 2012 | 7:53 am
    Retour sur l’intéressant travail du designer 3D brésilien Tiago Aiello pour ce concept-car et buggy du constructeur français Peugeot. Des images impressionnantes de ce modèle atypique baptisé « Peugeot XRC Concept » à découvrir dans la suite de l’article et dans la galerie ci-dessous.

  • Modeselektor & Thom Yorke – This

    Versa
    16 May 2012 | 4:18 am
    Ecrit par Jason Drew & Andrew Jones et dirigé par ce dernier, voici la dernière vidéo illustrant le morceau de Modeselektor & Thom Yorke « This ». Mixant avec talent l’animation 3D et réalisation classique, cette vidéo sombre très intéressante est produite par FutureDeluxe et Fractured Films. A découvrir dans la suite.

  • Everyday Project – Skate

    Versa
    15 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Voici une très belle vidéo en slow-motion réalisée par Charles Bergquist pour son dernier projet « Everyday Project ». Appelée sobrement Skate, cette vidéo à la fois simple et très épurée permet de nous dévoiler quelques figures de skateboard avec beauté et maîtrise. A découvrir en images dans la suite.

  • Fubiz TV

    Versa
    15 May 2012 | 9:25 am
    L’équipe de Fubiz est fière de dévoiler Fubiz TV, un programme vidéo HD inédit et hebdomadaire diffusé tous les vendredis. Le premier épisode de Fubiz TV est diffusé exceptionnellement aujourd’hui en partenariat avec Orange. Au menu, le meilleur de l’actualité graphique ainsi qu’une interview exclusive de Geneviève Gauckler. Au sommaire cette semaine de Fubiz TV Issue 1 : Few Words Teaser, Camera Collection, Studio Variable, Punks Jump Up, Turntable Rider, et l’interview de Geneviève Gauckler.
 
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    TrendsNow

  • The Audi e-bike Wörthersee

    Mr K (boss)
    16 May 2012 | 5:08 am
    Dernière nouveauté dévoilée par le constructeur allemand aux anneaux, une mention toute particulière pour l’impressionnant « Audi e-bike Wörthersee », un concept et prototype de vélo électrique révolutionnaire aux performances à couper le souffle. Doté d’un cadre et d’un bras oscillant Lire la suite... © TrendsNow, 2012 | Permaliens | Commentaires | Partager sur Twitter | Partager sur Facebook

  • Fireplace Art

    Mr K (boss)
    16 May 2012 | 4:56 am
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  • Everyday Project

    Mr K (boss)
    16 May 2012 | 4:41 am
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  • The Rado Redux House by Peter Gluck and Partners

    Mr K (boss)
    16 May 2012 | 4:41 am
    Imaginée et construite dans les années 1956-57 par l’architecte Tchèque Ladislav Rado, un petit coup de projecteur sur cet excellent travail de rénovation de la « Rado Redux House », une splendide villa offrant désormais un style inspiré du courant post-moderne des Lire la suite... © TrendsNow, 2012 | Permaliens | Commentaires | Partager sur Twitter | Partager sur Facebook

  • Drinking Timing – Safety drinking glass

    Mr K (boss)
    16 May 2012 | 4:40 am
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  • Do A/B Tests Focus Us On The Wrong Problems?

    Jared Spool
    14 May 2012 | 11:56 am
    Last week, I attended a conference presentation where a team presented findings from their A/B Testing efforts. It was a cute presentation where they posted the control and test variants, then asked the audience to pick which one “won” the A/B test. They compared the audience answer to the variant that demonstrated the best increase in the conversion rate (sometimes as little as 0.9%, which the presenters declared as a “huge increase”). For dramatic effect, the variant that won often broke many commonly accepted design principles, supporting their case that A/B testing trumps our…

  • Brian Suda – Designing with Data

    Sean Carmichael
    14 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    [ Transcript Coming Soon! ] A data visualization, when done well, can be an incredibly powerful way to communicate information. It ultimately boils down to the choices you make in how to design and present the data. If you make the wrong choice you can run the risk of not accurately displaying the data or struggling to effectively tell its story. Brian Suda, author of A Practical Guide to Designing with Data, believes experimentation is a big part of arriving at the right choices. As ideas end up on the cutting room floor, not only do you arrive at a great visualization, but you’re building…

  • UIEtips: Five Factors for Successful Persona Projects

    Jared Spool
    8 May 2012 | 2:24 pm
    Personas are one of the most controversial tools in the professional UX toolbox. People either swear by them or swear at them. When they work, they are awesome, but when they fail, well, they fail gloriously. For the past few years, we’ve been researching why so many persona projects have such dismal results. We discovered there are basic factors that are critical for a project’s success, yet most teams ignored them. In today’s UIEtips, I look back at an article that discusses five of these factors. We look at the role of research, who should be involved in the personas, and…

  • Self Design And The Out-Of-Box Experience

    Jared Spool
    5 May 2012 | 2:34 pm
    For many projects, self design works great. By designing for our own use, we can optimize the user’s experience to be smooth and seamless. A while back, I wrote about the advantages of self design and the alternatives to self design. Of course, to be successful at self design, you have to use your design practically every day and you have to have a base of people just like you that’s big enough to support whatever business model pays for your work. That way, when something in annoying in the design, you’ll discover it quickly. And when you fix it for yourself, you’re also fixing it…

  • UIEtips: The Magical Short-Form Creative Brief

    Jared Spool
    3 May 2012 | 4:05 pm
    Small is good. We love small products. Why not small processes? Mobile phones used to be big and bulky. Then we found ways to make them smaller and pack more stuff into them. Now we walk around with multi-purpose computers in our pockets. And guess what? We use them more than ever for things we never imagined we could do. What if we did that same thing for our UX processes? What if we could “smallify” important artifacts to make them easier to carry around? Would we use them more for things we can’t imagine? In this week’s UIEtips, I talk about the Short-Form Creative…
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  • Nursery Design: Just for Gabriel

    Robert
    1 May 2012 | 1:56 am
    Gabriel’s nursery was designed by SISSY+MARLEY inside a huge loft space in Tribeca, NYC.  The ceilings are really high and the loft gets a ton of sunlight.  The clients asked for a nursery that was warm and cozy with a modern feel to it. Nursery Resource List Oeuf Furniture: Crib, Dresser, Bookcase Oeuf garland above crib Jill Malek baby elephant walk wall paper Monte Design Leather Rocker SISSY+MARLEY – Custom Elephant and Alphabet wall art was created to work with the soft color palette of the room.  All hand made, hand stitched using belgium linen, and silk and metallic…

  • Minimal & Graphic Children’s Story Posters by Christian Jackson

    Robert
    23 Apr 2012 | 7:53 am
    Just love the graphic minimalism of Christian Jackson’s poster print work of classic children’s stories.  Jackson created 15 total story posters – aside from our favorites here, they also include classics like Rapunzel, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, Princess and the Pea, and more. Available for purchase in a range of sizes from Imagekind and The Land of Nod. You just finished reading Minimal & Graphic Children's Story Posters by Christian Jackson! Consider leaving a comment! This Post Sponsored by: Orbit Baby – a modern baby transportation system Nouncee – the best…

  • Open Playhouse for Open-Ended Play

    Robert
    11 Apr 2012 | 11:53 pm
    If you know the benefits of open-ended play for kids, then you can probably envision the endless possibilities for play with this unfinished playhouse.  Imaginary doors and windows can be anywhere, the roof frame can be covered with different materials, and walls can be paper one day or hung with towels the next.  If the beauty of objects is knowing when to stop designing, then this playhouse is a masterpiece. thanks Riemuja via Apartment Therapy You just finished reading Open Playhouse for Open-Ended Play! Consider leaving a comment! This Post Sponsored by: Orbit Baby – a modern baby…

  • Eyeballs on the Wall

    Robert
    10 Apr 2012 | 2:03 am
    You know that previously featured wallpaper you could draw on, so it’s no surprise that we would love I See You wallpaper from Cavern.  Challenge your kid’s creativity by papering a wall with a field of eyeballs, and let them imagine the people and creatures they belong to. Order direct from Cavern online. You just finished reading Eyeballs on the Wall! Consider leaving a comment! This Post Sponsored by: Orbit Baby – a modern baby transportation system Nouncee – the best baby stationery designs in one site Zutano – clothes as unique as your baby Babyfloors – modern…

  • Growth Chart by Age

    Robert
    2 Apr 2012 | 10:13 pm
    I love Blik’s Wee Gallery Growth Chart ($38) where your height is tracked by age instead of feet and inches.  Use the hand-written number decals to mark the height of your child on their birthdays.  Makes so much more sense than the traditional “ruler” type growth chart, doesn’t it? You just finished reading Growth Chart by Age! Consider leaving a comment! This Post Sponsored by: Orbit Baby – a modern baby transportation system Nouncee – the best baby stationery designs in one site Zutano – clothes as unique as your baby Babyfloors – modern baby nursery…
 
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    Brand New

  • Puffs

    Armin
    16 May 2012 | 6:27 am
    Introduced in 1960, Puffs is a line of facial tissue produced by Procter & Gamble. A new look was recently introduced. Image of the new boxes below (or after the jump). Thanks to Zac Cosner for the tip. Don't forget to cast your vote about this post online

  • Full-Court Press

    Armin
    16 May 2012 | 5:42 am
    Established in 1994 (originally as Internet Wire), Marketwire provides "global press release distribution, industry-leading social media monitoring and analytics, and a fully integrated marketing communications platform for content creation, optimization, distribution and measurement." Many of the press releases we quote on Brand New come from Marketwire, as it serves more than 12,000 clients through 20 offices around the world. This week Marketwire introduced a new identity. No design credit given. Update: Identity was done by Toronto, ON-based Compass360 in collaboration with the creative…

  • Bravo (Canada)

    Armin
    15 May 2012 | 6:37 am
    Launched in 1995, Bravo in Canada is a cable channel owned by Bell Media, who licensed the name from NBCUniversal. Bravo shows a range of programs from other channels like TNT and USA, along with some minor original content. A new logo was introduced recently. If the type were any tighter the letters would need to get a room. Thanks to Shawn for the tip. Don't forget to cast your vote about this post online

  • Raising the Bars

    Armin
    15 May 2012 | 6:24 am
    Established in 2007, NYSE Euronext is the holding company of some of the most important and influential securities exchanges in the world, including the doubly eponymous New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Euronext, trading equities, futures, options, fixed-income, and exchange-traded products. With 2,993 employees and 8,000 listed issues NYSE Euronext represents "one-third of the world's equities trading and the most liquidity of any global exchange group." Yesterday, NYSE Euronext introduced a new identity designed by Interbrand. The new icon — an abstract representation of the globe…

  • Printers for Award Books & Sponsors for Conference

    Armin
    14 May 2012 | 1:35 pm
    As the image above implies, we are actively looking for partners for three of the bigger projects this year at UnderConsideration: 1 & 2) An offset printer who would be interested in producing, in full or in part, either one or both of the FPO Awards and Brand New Awards books — 256 pages each approximately, 4/4. And 3) Companies with a product or service that would like to sponsor the 2012 Brand New Conference this September in New York — Presenting, Event, and After-Party sponsorships available starting at $3,000. Contact me to inquire about the perks, benefits, and other…
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  • The Descriptive Camera

    Kim Rees
    16 May 2012 | 11:42 am
    The unassuming little Descriptive Camera made me rethink data. This project by Matt Richardson was on display at the ITP Spring Show. The basic premise is that you take a photo and the camera spits out a textual description of what it sees. The results are remarkably accurate, detailed, and humorous. Here's what my photo said: A woman wearing a seriously awesome jacket that is printed with yellow, blue, and grey circles looks at her ipad rather than making eye contact with Matt Richardson. I mean, my jacket *IS* seriously awesome! So it not only described what it saw, but it also has great…

  • What is missing?

    Kim Rees
    16 May 2012 | 2:10 am
    What is Missing? by Maya Lin seeks to raise awareness about the mass extinction of species. It has a beautiful interface. The world map is black on a sea of black. Your mouse acts as a sort of flashlight layered between land and water, showing you glimpses of familiar coastlines and allowing you to select dots that tell the stories of extinction. We are experiencing the sixth mass extinction in the planet's history, and the only one to be caused not by a catastrophic event, but by the actions of a single species - mankind. On average, every 20 minutes a distinct living species of plant or…

  • How to Visualize and Compare Distributions

    Nathan Yau
    16 May 2012 | 12:47 am
    There are a lot of ways to show distributions, but for the purposes of this tutorial, I'm only going to cover the more traditional plot types like histograms and box plots. Otherwise, we could be here all night. Plus the basic distribution plots aren't exactly well-used as it is. Before you get into plotting in R though, you should know what I mean by distribution. It's basically the spread of a dataset. For example, the median of a dataset is the half-way point. Half of the values are less than the median, and the other half are greater than. That's only part of the picture. What happens in…

  • ITP Spring Show: Iraq war and diabetes visualizations

    Kim Rees
    15 May 2012 | 5:15 am
    Yesterday I visited the ever popular NYU ITP bi-annual show which is a showcase of the students' experimental and ingenious interactive work. I stopped to talk to data visualization student and self-tracker, Doug Kanter, about his work. His first and smaller piece was about the war in Iraq. The image above depicts the number of wounded US soldiers by state (and territory) using the red stripes. The stars show the number of soldiers killed. I'm sure we could quibble about labels and where the bar chart starts, but to me, the tattered appearance of the flag created by data about war is very…

  • Welcome Kim Rees

    Nathan Yau
    15 May 2012 | 4:16 am
    I'm going to be away for a couple of weeks, with little to no Internet access most of the time, so I've asked Kim Rees to step in while I'm gone. She's the co-founder of Periscopic, one of my favorite information visualization firms, and she was the technical editor for Visualize This. You're in good hands. You can follow her at @krees. Be good, and see you all when I get back. She's all yours, Kim.
 
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    GUERRILLA INNOVATION

  • Miba - Museum of Ideas & Inventions Barcelona

    2 May 2012 | 4:05 pm
    Don't expect to see historic inventions at Miba (like the first light bulp or mobile phone). Expect up-to-date inventions, speculative and quirky designs and trends that make you think and laugh. Apart from showcasing a wide range of ideas and inventions from all over the world, Miba also hosts activities that help people generate and develop their own ideas. In a section in the museum called Mini Miba, kids are encouraged to make drawings of new ideas that come to their minds. Every month Miba picks the three best ideas and have them prototyped and patented in the kid's own name. Another…

  • I LIKE IT: Carlsberg Brewhouse Project

    3 Apr 2012 | 3:33 pm
    Carlsberg Group recently held a competition to transform its iconic brewhouse into a new Brand & Experience House. The competition process - called Brewhouse Project - was transparent and the final proposals were exhibited and presented to the public before being presented to the jury. The exhibition took place in the very brewhouse that the competition is about to change, and visitors received a card upon arriving which they could to fill out and place at the proposal they liked the most. The cards did not count as a jury-vote but as an indication of public taste and opinion. The final…

  • Save As... Basic Rules for Digital Preservation

    18 Mar 2012 | 7:32 am
    "Save As…" is a manual designed to help creative disorganized people (designers) organize and preserve their digital files. The manual contains a list of tips categorized in four themes: Maintanance (how to keep digital records usable), File Formats (how to save your files in the right format), Documents (how to name your files) and Carriers (how to store your work). Tips include basic stuff like "Store files that belong together in folders" and "Choose logical file names". No, you probably don't really need this booklet, but some tips may serve as handy reminders and it's got nice…

  • Kitchain: Modular cooking and dining

    16 Feb 2012 | 2:30 pm
    Kitchain is a modular kitchen-based system, designed turn the ritual of cooking and eating into a social event. The system can be assembled into various structures and turned into one large kitchen where it is possible to cook, eat and relax in one or more groups. Kitchain is suitable for events like festivals and it is currently installed at the Artefact festival in Leuven, Belgium. It is designed by Antonio Louro and Benedetta Maxia. Related entry: Outdoor Pop-Up Kitchen • www.kitchain.net

  • Drawings for Three Rooms in Your Home

    4 Jan 2012 | 12:55 pm
    A series of drawings by Steve Lambert, created to hang in various rooms in your home. Likely to generate some curious/awkward moments when you have guests over. Limited edition prints are for sale online. Related entry: The most awkward 404 Not Found page on the internet • www.visitsteve.com
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  • May 2012 | (R)ETAIL (R)EVOLUTION

    24 Apr 2012 | 8:01 pm
    All commerce is being affected by e-commerce. Learn about the latest innovations that are transforming e-commerce, and ultimately, reshaping shopping behavior. Both on and offline. From (M)ETAIL to ETAIL-TAINMENT. With examples from brands like Zara, Ticketmaster, Facebook, KLM and more... Read (R)ETAIL (R)EVOLUTION » Read the Trend Briefing in eight other languages: Nederlands Français Deutsch Português Español Türkçe

  • April 2012 | FLAWSOME

    27 Feb 2012 | 7:01 pm
    Brands that behave more humanly, including showing their flaws, will be awesome. FLAWSOME explores why consumers are more focused on brand attitude and behavior than ever before, with examples from brands like Four Seasons, Chevrolet, Virgin America, FedEx and more.... Read FLAWSOME » New! We've translated our free Trend Briefings into eight other languages: Nederlands Français Deutsch Português Español Türkçe

  • February/March 2012 | POINT-KNOW-BUY

    30 Jan 2012 | 7:01 pm
    Smartphone-toting consumers are embracing a world in which they can find out about (and potentially buy) anything they see or hear, even if they don't know what it is or can't describe it in words. POINT-KNOW-BUY will reshape consumers' info-expectations, search behavior and purchasing patterns. We check out the drivers, from smartphones to the emerging visual tech ecosystem. With examples from brands like Google, Heinz, Adidas and Amazon... Read POINT-KNOW-BUY » New! We've translated our free Trend Briefings into eight other languages: Nederlands Français Deutsch Português Español…

  • December 2011 | 12 CRUCIAL CONSUMER TRENDS FOR 2012

    5 Dec 2011 | 7:01 pm
    While we certainly live in ‘interesting’ times, there are more opportunities than ever for brave and creative brands and entrepreneurs to deliver on changing consumer needs. Read the 12 must-know consumer trends for 2012, from SCREEN CULTURE to RED CARPET to POINT & KNOW... Read 12 CRUCIAL CONSUMER TRENDS FOR 2012 » New! We've translated our free Trend Briefings into eight other languages: Nederlands Français Deutsch Português Español Türkçe

  • November 2011 | DEALER-CHIC

    6 Nov 2011 | 7:01 pm
    Deal hunting has become an integral part of daily life for millions of consumers. We dive into the drivers behind the deal phenomenon, the long-term impact on all B2C brands, and (of course) the latest brand innovations... Read DEALER-CHIC » New! We've translated our free Trend Briefings into eight other languages: Nederlands Français Deutsch Português Español Türkçe
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    Innovation Lab

  • Medlemsbriefing: Educating the future

    Kasper Mathias Svendsen
    15 May 2012 | 8:50 am
    KOMMENDE MEDLEMSBRIEFING - JUNI 2012 Hvilke muligheder har lærere for at inkludere digitale redskaber i undervisningen og klæde vores elever på til en stadig mere digitaliseret fremtid? Hvordan tilgår de digitale indfødte de muligheder, der opstår med internettet og teknologiens fremvækst, hvordan motiverer vi dem til at engagere sig på nye måder, og hvilke tendenser er på spil? Hvordan skabes der et gensidigt forhold mellem unge forbrugere, virksomheder og innovation? Det er afgørende for vores fremtid og vækst, at…

  • Co-Creation til alle

    Anne Fribo
    15 May 2012 | 8:48 am
    Tøv ikke & Let's Co! Medlemsbriefing i sidste uge var en stor succes! Formatet for denne session består af to timer, delt op i første halvleg med teori og praktiske eksempler om Co-creation, hvorefter deltageren præsenteres for metoden ’Co-poker’. Metoden er et spil, hvorpå man kan co-create på tværs af brancher, organisationer eller internt i virksomheden. Dagen var fyldt med spændende dialoger og især igennem ’Co-poker’ fik flere deltagere en øjenåbner og en appetitvækker til en…

  • Farveller gazeller!

    Mads Thimmer
    3 May 2012 | 2:58 am
    Jeg har aldrig fattet det storartede i at blive kåret som ”Gazelle”.  Hvis det nogensinde skete for min virksomhed, ville jeg tage det som et dårligt tegn. Som et tegn på, at jeg havde forgrebet mig på vækstbetingelserne og overudnyttet et potentiale for at score en midlertidig gevinst. Gazeller er i naturen truede dyr. De er ubegribeligt uintelligente og skræmmes let.  Afrikanske jægere er glade for gazeller. Gazeller spurter nemlig op, når man jager dem, og selvom de kan løbe superstærkt, falder de udmattede…

  • Strategisk Happiness 3/5

    Louise Jakobsen
    25 Apr 2012 | 6:04 am
    Happiness udgør en væsentlig del af DNAen hos den moderne virksomhed – og det med rigtig god grund! Nyeste forskning fra nogle af verdens mest anerkendte universiteter, Stanford og Harvard University, viser nemlig direkte sammenhæng mellem din glæde – og din evne til at være produktiv, kreativ, innovativ - og flere andre parametre der direkte skubber din bundlinje i den rigtige retning. En af de mange ekstremt positive effekter ved at være glad er den kemiske cocktail, din hjerne mixer – i dette stadie udskiller du nemlig serotonin og…

  • Seje praktikanter søges til efteråret!

    Louise Jakobsen
    13 Apr 2012 | 5:36 am
    Innovation Lab søger herligt nyt selskab i efteråret til at hjælpe med at holde dampen og kadencen oppe. Synes du, vi er spændende, så kom op forbi, når vi holder praktikant-briefing og fortæller om, hvad efteråret byder på af projekter og produktudvikling, og hvor og hvordan vi ser praktikanterne spille en super vigtig rolle. Medbring gerne lidt på skrift om dig selv, så er Anders, Project Lead, og Louise, Product Lead, klar til at fortælle og svare på spørgsmål. Innovation Lab arbejder inden for…
 
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  • Great British Fashion stamps

    15 May 2012 | 6:13 am
    These Great British Fashion stamps are launched today in the UK. Following the success of the Great British Design stamps of 2009 (which looked at a cross-section of design and featured Mary Quant’s mini-dress), the brief was to find a way to sum up 60-odd years of fashion alone.The main challenge with this subject matter is that it’s hard to make clothes look interesting if no one’s wearing them - on a tailor’s dummy they seem flat and lifeless. On the other hand, we didn’t want models or celebrities to distract from the designs. For example, there’s a…

  • A Pecha Kucha for Japan

    10 May 2012 | 12:39 pm
    We’re putting together a Pecha Kucha for Japan, which will take place in 2 weeks time on the 23rd of May. Just over a year after the tsunami sent shockwaves through a country and around the world, in conjunction with D&AD we’re gathering a collection of the design and communication world’s greatest stars to share stories about Japan.The idea is that we’ll hear about their visits, their projects, the influence of Japan on their work, and why it’s a place like no other. Some of them may talk about their work, some of them about how to find the best tempura.

  • Coming soon: more logo mash-ups

    4 May 2012 | 3:56 am
    Just a brief thought to say: we’re working on some more logo mash-ups.Here’s a little taster: what happens when a retro skate brand decides to become a social network. Full set to come next week (with luck). These are older examples, in case you’re wondering what we’re on about - this is the original set, this was the follow-up

  • The perils of unintentional endorsees

    3 May 2012 | 1:09 pm
    This week we learned that Osama Bin Laden, even whilst laying low in his Abbottabad compound, liked to make use of‘Just for Men’ hair dye to keep up appearances on the occasional video to the troops. That follows on from the bizarre and widely covered story recently in the British Press of an MI6 officer found dead inside a red North Face holdall and the equally odd news that mass murderer Anders Breivik has a preference for logo-specific sportswear, specifically Lacoste sweaters and t-shirts (as ‘modelled’ at the top of this post). From a purely branding perspective,…

  • Going Grotto in Margate

    26 Apr 2012 | 8:00 am
    During a recent trip to Margate to visit the Turner Contemporary and check out Tracy Emin’s old stomping ground, one of the johnson banks team happened upon the far more intriguing shell grotto.Tucked away down the appropriately named Grotto Hill, in the sloping streets set back from the sandy beach, is what seems like a café with gift shop. This however fronts a small museum and the entrance to an amazing underground grotto, covered in sea shells, forming mysterious patterns and pictures. Covered in 4.6 million shells (to be more precise), this Grade I-listed structure has an…
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    Tcritic - The T-Shirt Blog Covering The Best in Nerd Fashion

  • Bario Bikes Project

    karl
    15 May 2012 | 12:45 pm
    I just heard about this worthy project on Indieagogo that provides a community workshop for kids to learn how to fix bikes and also earn their way to getting a new bike. This kind of community project is very valuable and a great example that lots of communities could replicate. As with Kickstarter they offer various incentives to people to help fund their project including the T-Shirt above, you can also buy bikes, sticker packs and other goodies. Check out the video, it’s a great story.

  • I love librarians

    karl
    16 Mar 2012 | 12:55 pm
    Nice idea, I could see quite a few variations on this theme. Gotta love Diesel Sweeties.

  • Another Big Lebowski T-Shirt

    karl
    16 Mar 2012 | 10:44 am
    The Dude Abides, as do we all. Found this little gem via Design Milk and Society6. They also have prints and a pretty cool laptop skin. It’s got some classic lines on it: “calmer than you are” “hey, this is a private residence” “you human paraquat” “obviously you’re not a golfer”

  • The Cake is a Liar

    karl
    17 Sep 2011 | 6:37 am
    Tshirt woot’s “The Cake is a Liar” A couple of years ago I wrote about some t-shirts related to Valve’s amazing FPP (first person puzzle) game Portal and am now downloading the game for free on my mac. To celebrate this I thought I’d create another portal related post. I have not been able to play Portal 2 as i sold my xbox and have yet to replace it so I won’t be playing that for a while. I love this story about someone designing a custom portal level to propose to his fiance, very rad. Here’s the previos post Weighted Companion Cube t-shirts (BTW I…

  • It’s not often your called a pioneer

    karl
    12 Sep 2011 | 11:42 am
    Glad the Alice Waters post was picked up, she does such great work. Tcritic is a pioneering t-shirt blog which helped kickstart the popularity of these types of blogs. It’s appropriate then that this week Tcritic brings us a post about another pioneer. Alice Waters founded a restaurant called Chez Panisse over 40 years ago. The cool thing is that this restaurant was one of the first ones on the scene of the local food movement. Their focus is on sustainability and they’re releasing a line of t-shirts called the edible schoolyard project to bring attention to the cause. Published on…
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    Ponoko - Blog

  • 3D printed earbud adapter

    David McGahan
    16 May 2012 | 7:37 am
    Making the not-so-ergonomic, ergonomic again… Apple is usually revered as an shining example in the design world. There is the ocassional exception, however. They seem unwilling to design a mouse that takes into account biomechanics and ergonomic factors of the human hand since at least the early 90’s. The iPod earbud style headphones are another instance – where Apple has a priority of designing a geometric neo-minimalist form, rather than ensuring comfort and performance. Cupped headphones are also much better at isolating your ears away from the ambient noise of the world. These…

  • Modern Eco-spirit of Feistyelle

    yana
    14 May 2012 | 9:58 pm
    Retail Ready: small business interview with a creative entrepreneurLeslie Yang is passionate about jewelry, eco-awareness and San Fancisco. Her jewelry line Feistyelle is yet another fantastic example that green design doesn’t have to be all brown rice and sandals, but can communicate a polished, modern aesthetic. A Ponoko regular for a number of years, Leslie was the first person to laser cut felt for jewelry. With that innovative approach to materials she has been evolving her ever-popular, wearable laser cut designs and regularly introducing new ideas. Getting Started • What made you…

  • DIWire Bender

    Guy Blashki
    13 May 2012 | 11:38 pm
    CNC wire bender creates 2D and 3D forms The versatility of 3D printers is much lauded, and there are many reasons why we hold them in high regard. But what happens when you need to output lines in space rather than volumes? That’s where a CNC wire bender comes in handy. Usually found in factories and serious machinery setups, CNC wire benders tend to be out of reach for the DIY maker. Not any more. The guys over at Pensa have developed a handy little unit they call the DIWire Bender. This table-top device is a prototyping machine that can bend metal wire into 2D and 3D shapes.

  • Laser cut nori – ’nuff said

    Sam
    13 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    The Laser Cutter Roundup — a weekly dose of laser-cut love: #77 Hey, Sam here,back collecting the post from The Laser Cutter. It’s been two weeks and it’s time for the big news: TLC has a Facebook page so you can submit you work to be featured through there! Maybe that wasn’t as exciting as I thought… Anyway, above is laser cut Nori from UMINO. Photo courtesy of  Bored Panda. After the jump, a bike safe, another wedding invitation, and Melbourne Laser Cutter… Above is a laser cut steel bike safe from steelpipe1. Above is a laser cut wedding invitation from Julia…

  • 3D-printed mini lathe

    Rich Decibels
    11 May 2012 | 6:45 pm
    Getting some serious work out of your hobby 3D printer. It has been said that once you have a lathe you can make just about any other tool. This open-source printable mini lathe could be the perfect place to get started. With the quality of hobby printers increasing so rapidly, it is great to see complex mechanical models like this making their way out into the ecosystem. (We’ve seen a printed mini-lathe before, but that project seems to be obsolete now.) Posted in 3D Printing, Hardware, Open Source, Rich Decibels, Tools + Apps by Rich Decibels | 1 Comment
 
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    Baekdal.com

  • Google Consumer Surveys For Publishers... Really? - (by @baekdal)

    11 May 2012 | 3:43 pm
    When Google launched 'Google Consumer Surveys for Publishers' I was pretty sure it was some kind of April fools joke. And even it wasn't, publishers would surely not buy into it. So, I ignored it. But it wasn't a joke. Many publishers are seriously considering Google Surveys, and some are even using it. On top of that, several of my readers have been sending me links to it, and asking me to write an article - so, I couldn't ignore it any longer.Is Google Surveys a good idea? Are you kidding me? It's crap ...and here is why:If you don't know what Google Consumer Surveys is, here is the short…

  • Social Engagement is a Post Conversion Activity - (by @baekdal)

    11 May 2012 | 4:59 am
    One of the main problems with how brands use social media is that they do it too late, and they target the wrong people. Social media is very different from other types of media. It starts as a post-conversion activity whereas all most forms of media starts as a pre-conversion activity.You cannot start something with social. You continue it.How it worksTraditional media is a pre-conversion activity. It what you do *before* a sale (a conversion). It's an activity designed to create awareness through exposure to people who don't know that you exist.The aim, of course, is to get people to a…

  • Breaking Down the Media Silos: Connecting a Mixed-Media World - (by @baekdal)

    9 May 2012 | 3:27 pm
    In The Shift, I wrote about how the new media world is breaking down the traditional media silos. Not just for the media themselves but also by brands, organizations, and for the public as a whole.Baekdal Plus: Read the rest of this article in Baekdal Plus

  • Helping the Environment By Making it Worse - (by @baekdal)

    3 May 2012 | 3:35 pm
    This morning my stream was filled with all kinds of studies and new research (as it is most mornings), but today, many were missing some vital element that put the results into the 'not helping' category.Let me give you an example: Researchers from Cambridge University have found a way to remove toner from laser printed pages. The idea is intriguing. With this technology, you could effectively buy a printer that would first detect and remove any print already on a page, before printing something new.It's the un-printer. Amazing!The results showed that toner-print can be removed effectively…

  • Top Management's Fear of Long Term Risk - (by @baekdal)

    2 May 2012 | 4:22 pm
    Back in 1992, The city of Las Vegas had a problem. The Las Vegas Strip, with all its fancy casinos, was decimating downtown Vegas. So the city invited architects and planners to come up with ideas for the 'Las Vegas redevelopment competition'.The result was what we today know as the Fremont Street Experience, which is just a mall. The 'experience' itself is a large canopy. It's 27 meters wide (90 ft) and 460 meters long (1,500 ft), with 12.5 million LED embedded displays. It's impressive, but not that exciting.And it wasn't the real winner of the competition either. The city wanted an…
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  • 21 Cool Vintage Cartoon Posters

    16 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    We looked way back in time and we managed to gather 21 Cool Vintage Cartoon Posters. These cover the era when Walt Disney unique style of drawing was a magnet for millions of children. To be more specific, the oldest poster to feature here is from 1929 (Mickey Mouse- Wild Waves), whereas the newest is from 1954 (Donald Duck).

  • Coding the Digg v4 Layout with HTML5 and CSS3

    16 May 2012 | 12:56 pm
    The social news community Digg has been online since 2004 and rapidly grew in popularity leading up to the 2008 elections. Come 2011 the Digg team performed an overhaul on the system and completely revamped the site layout. This also broke the friends system, allowing big-name publishers to game the front page. This upset many powerhouse users who were furious with the major changes.

  • 16 Essential Web Development Online Tools

    16 May 2012 | 12:49 pm
    In this post, I have gathered 16 essential web development tools and they are being categorised into Javascript, CSS, Image Optimisation and misc. Pretty sure they would be of a great helpers for your workflow

  • Tips & tricks: how to optimize a website for mobile devices

    16 May 2012 | 12:49 pm
    The huge development and usage of mobile devices makes us pay a close attention to this market of potential clients that will accede the website we’re creating with a far lower resolution respect to the standards (320 x480 tells you something?). In this article I’ll give you a few hints on how it’s possible to optimize the website or part of it, for a better usabilty on these mobile devices. In the following examples I’ll use iPhone as a reference

  • 30 Must-See Diablo 3 Fan Art And Wallpapers

    16 May 2012 | 12:49 pm
    With the release of one of the most anticipated role-playing game this year, here are some awesome Diablo 3 fan artworks and wallpapers for gamers out there.
 
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  • Daily Inspirations no. 425

    oliver13
    16 May 2012 | 1:47 pm
    You may look forward another cool set full of creative inspirations. Let’s start right away … we do not want to loose our precious time, right?! If you’re currious what’s hot in the photography section my answer is … make sure to check the very first and the very last photo. To be concrete I am speaking about the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park photography and Blue stones by Guido Montanes. In the illustraitons section my top choice is no doubt the Androgyny / SQUINT by Lesja Chernish. I am really into this style. Now, let’s get back to more traditional art forms … do not miss…

  • Acrylics & Mixed media by Zan von Zed

    oliver13
    16 May 2012 | 1:43 pm
    Very nice illustrations by Zan von Zed from Sydney, Australia. Enjoy :) More artworks here More artworks here More artworks here Advertise with DYT! - Join us on Facebook - Follow on Twitter - On Pinterest - Subscribe by Email

  • Photography by Russell Cobb

    Pro Photography
    16 May 2012 | 1:42 pm
    Russell Cobb is a multi award winning artist/illustrator now turned photographer. His awards include 5 Best of British Gold Awards, D&AD silvers and in 2011 Creative Review, one of the UK’s leading design publications awarded him the accolade of Best in Book. by Creative Photography Blog. Advertise with DYT! - Join us on Facebook - Follow on Twitter - On Pinterest - Subscribe by Email

  • Kaleidoscopic and Hypnotic Geometric Compositions by Andy Gilmore

    Ovsyannykov
    16 May 2012 | 1:42 pm
    A master of color and geometric composition, Andy Gilmore’s work is often characterized as kaleidoscopic and hypnotic, though it could just as well be described as visually acoustic, his often complex arrangements referencing the scales and melodies in music. Gilmore’s journey toward this masterful style followed a long and winding road. He characterizes his pursuit of education as a tangled web, noting the bookstores, bakeries, and theaters where he worked were of more importance than the schools he attended in pursuit of his BFA, which he received from SUNY Empire State College.

  • Underware by Cyril Lagel

    oliver13
    16 May 2012 | 1:40 pm
    Creative fashion photography by Cyril Lagel from Paris, France. Enjoy :) More photos here More photos here More photos here Advertise with DYT! - Join us on Facebook - Follow on Twitter - On Pinterest - Subscribe by Email
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  • You! Be Inspired! #0005 – NYT’s Lively Morgue, Festival of Colors, and PREVIIEW

    Cadence Wu
    16 May 2012 | 2:50 am
    Every geek out there is probably giddy about this week, especially today. Today marks the release of the third Diablo game (which basically took more than a decade to make). Diablo 3 aside, we’ll be featuring some street artists this week and we’ll talk about the art of sticker bombing and wheatpasting. Enough about this week’s events and topics, today we give to you this week’s edition of You! Be Inspired! Here we go!   Lively Morgue – New York Time’s Photographs It’s refreshing to find old photos being uploaded online and archived digitally. The New York Times recently…

  • If Walls Could Speak: Creative Poster Design Ideas for Dorm Decoration

    Cadence Wu
    11 May 2012 | 11:26 pm
    It’s graduation season here in the US, and we’re reminded of the time we spent in our respective universities and colleges. While we’re thankful that we’re done with school, there are some college experiences that we want to relive. Living in a dorm is one of the most liberating things for a student who has lived with parents all his life. The freedom of having things your way is one of the perks of college.   Being the so-called creatives at the office, we all agree that deciding on which posters to plaster our walls with was one of the highlights of living in a…

  • You! Be Informed! #0004 – Adobe Muse, AIGA/NY 30th Anniversary, and Maurice Sendak

    Cadence Wu
    11 May 2012 | 4:02 am
    This week’s about to end and we’d like to close it out with some interesting design news. We’ve heard some disheartening news, but there’s some good news out there, too. We’ve compiled some interesting projects, events, and news about design and designers.   Graphic designers often look at pictures to draw inspiration for their projects. But looking for the perfect muse can be tricky. You can check Piccsy, they’ve recently re-launched their site and is now offering an improved image search, related image search, and high quality images. If you’re looking for an alternative…

  • The Art of Rock: Design Trends in Gig Posters

    Cadence Wu
    10 May 2012 | 9:53 pm
    Since I’ve talked about album covers in a previous post, I’ve decided you still need a second serving of creativity care of our rock and roll gods. In this second serving, we won’t be talking about the people who created album covers or gig posters (there’s too many good artists out there, today). Instead, we’ll discuss some fascinating trends in designing the proverbial rock poster, as well as processes that most graphic designers use today. Here we go! Before starting this piece, I’ve had my team scour Google images and Flickr.com for different poster designs. Through the…

  • You! Be Inspired! #0004 – History Comics, Fan Art, and Artist Workspaces

    Cadence Wu
    10 May 2012 | 3:40 am
    Despite having interesting topics to write about, there comes a time when whatever I type looks and feels uninspired. When that happens, I visit the online abodes of my favorite artists. The team stumbles upon new sites and artists often, and that’s what You! Be Inspired! is all about! We hope you enjoy these creative folks as much as we do!   You’ll never look at literary and historical figures the same way when you read Kate Beaton’s well-loved comic, Hark! A Vagrant.  The artist’s simple drawings paired with witty lines are always fun to read. Her hand-drawn…
 
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  • Typography Mania #132

    paul0v2
    16 May 2012 | 9:55 am
    Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs. Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania Make sure to click on each image to go to original location where you can check out more work from each artist and designer. Submit your Typography work From now on you can submit your typography mania piece by adding your image to Abduzeedo's Flickr Group and use the tag…

  • Architect Day: Gangoly & Kristiner

    MarceloSeferin
    16 May 2012 | 7:27 am
    Hans Gangoly and Irene Kristiner began working together in 1997 to found in 2007 the office with their names. With projects in different areas of architecture, accumulate awards for its projects in Austria. gangoly.at Hans Gangoly was born in 1959 in the town of Oberwart in Austria and Irene Kristiner was born in 1968 in Weiz. Both studied at the Graz University of Technology, Hans received his degree in 1988 and Irene in 1997. Working together since 1997, decided to found his own firm 10 years later, called Gangoly & Kristiner. Montan University Leoben, Áustria. photo © Paul Ott…

  • Exquisite Cemetery Statues

    PauloGabriel
    15 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    This is probably an unexpected post. When people think about cemeteries they usually associate it with ugly, dark, scary things. But not today. There's beauty in cemeteries and it only takes us a little effort to find it. Statues are probably the most beautiful element in any cemetery. Of course that we can easily find awful ones, but there's so much beauty to be seen that it's simply incredible these won't get more attention. I really wish it was easier to find out who the artists behind these exquisite pieces of art are. It pretty much makes art galleries out of cemeteries. I hope you enjoy…
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    DannyOutlaw
    8 May 2012 | 6:17 pm
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    Danny Outlaw
    30 Mar 2012 | 9:08 am
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  • Free Website PSD – Drafted

    DannyOutlaw
    16 Feb 2012 | 2:37 pm
    I made this file a while back intending to use it as a Tumblr theme. I have since moved on to other projects and this file has just been hanging out on my dropbox, so I thought Id share. Special thanks to Premium Pixels for some of the styles used in the design. Homepage Inner Page [box type="download"] Download Here [/box]   Rights and Usage You may freely use my resources, without restriction, in your work and other materials intended for sale or distribution so long as the file is not redistributed in its entirety. i.e. you can not turn this file into a premium wordpress theme and…

  • Basecamp Next: A peek at early iterations of the Projects screen – (37signals)

    DannyOutlaw
    16 Feb 2012 | 1:39 pm
    Super cool and interesting to see how multi-million dollar companies work on UI and thier design process. Basecamp Next: A peek at early iterations of the Projects screen – (37signals).

  • CakeHR

    DannyOutlaw
    13 Feb 2012 | 9:14 am
    Pretty sweet looking online HR app. Could be good for webshops that have real fulltime employees.
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  • Create a Dark Vintage Style Motorcycle Poster Design

    Chris Spooner
    14 May 2012 | 1:00 am
    My absolute favourite style of motorcycle is the custom “bobber”. I love the stripped down appearance and the raw vintage styling. It’s my plan to chop up a bike of my own one day, but for now I have to settle with designing custom motorcycle posters instead. Follow this step by step Photoshop and Illustrator tutorial to combine photography and typography and create a dark vintage style motorcycle poster design.The final poster design is based on custom motorcycle shop Brass Balls Bobber’s award winning “Tattoo” bike, thanks to a Creative Commons photo by…

  • Yearly FanExtra Memberships Giveaway for Members

    Chris Spooner
    11 May 2012 | 1:00 am
    If you've found the collection of design resources from the Access All Areas section here on Blog.SpoonGraphics useful, you might be interested in the FanExtra Network's premium membership. With over 2000 downloadable resources and advanced members-only Photoshop tutorials being added weekly it's definitely worth checking out. This week Access All ...Log in to your Access All Areas account to read the rest of this post.Not a member? Becoming an Access All Areas member gives you the ability to view exclusive members-only content just like this. The premium category is already packed full of…

  • Inspiring Examples of Custom Lettering Logo Designs

    Chris Spooner
    7 May 2012 | 1:00 am
    One way to create an absolutely unique logo design is to craft the lettering by hand, as opposed to selecting an existing font. This allows the designer to create the perfect logo with their own custom ligatures, tails and loops. This post showcases 20 inspiring examples of custom lettering logos, each featuring the designer’s initial sketch to show how the hand drawn scripts are converted from pencil to vector.Pixelo by Gert van DuinenMattrunks by Claire CoullonInk Butter by Alan AriailScratch by Sergey ShapiroAha-ok by Sergey ShapiroThe Funtasty by Claire CoullonGeek by Claire…

  • Art & Design Inspiration Fix for May 4th 2012

    Chris Spooner
    4 May 2012 | 1:00 am
    The Art & Design Inspiration Fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have designs from Rubens Cantuni, Félix Ajenjo, Dariusz Markiw, Matthew Reilly and Ruel Jun Andaya.Nike T-Shirt by Rubens CantuniAuthority Blowing Away by Félix AjenjoThe Crow by Dariusz MarkiwStormtrooper by Matthew ReillyPowerpuff Villains by Ruel Jun Andaya

  • Blog.SpoonGraphics Turns 5 Years Old – Thank You!

    Chris Spooner
    30 Apr 2012 | 1:00 am
    Every year since the start of Blog.SpoonGraphics in April 2007 I have created a special anniversary post celebrating the growth and success of my little blog. Despite being a pretty big milestone this year I had forgotten all about my little tradition. Thankfully I remembered just in time to bring you my 5 years of Blog.SpoonGraphics overview on the last day of April. Let’s take a look at changes in stats and figures over the past year.To see how things have changed over the years head back and check out 2011′s 4 year post, 2010′s 3 year post, 2009′s 2 year post,…
 
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  • Creative Fuel #6: Music Vectors, Creating a Typeface & Web Design’s Lack of Critique Culture

    Joel Falconer
    16 May 2012 | 12:06 am
    Advertise here via BSA Creative Fuel is a periodic collection of design and creativity awesomeness found around the web. Find out about new apps and services, the best freebies, and other significant news from the design community! Design Freebies: Music Vectors, Login Form & CSS3 Buttons Building a music app? We’ve got free vectors for common features such as shuffle and repeat from 365psd. Also from 365psd is a modern, minimalist login form. Finally, Smashing Magazine has released a heap of buttons for 72 different social and web services — all in CSS3, including the little…

  • Showcase: 50 Exuberantly Colorful Logos

    Felix Diaconu
    14 May 2012 | 10:47 pm
    Advertise here via BSA Last week, we looked at 50 black and white logos and talked about the need to design logos in black and white first so that they can be reproduced in the broadest array of media. This week, we’re looking at the flip side: exuberantly colorful logos. You might not want a logo as bright as one of these, but adding some color to your finished black and white version can help a logo pop out in a design or piece of stationery, and can be useful when surrounded by other brands. Take a look at these 50 colorful logos and tell us what you think: would your personal logo…

  • $500 Contest: Design a Funny 2012 Presidential Campaign Logo

    Joel Falconer
    14 May 2012 | 2:37 am
    Advertise here via BSA It’s campaign time in the US, and we all know what that means: we’re in for a circus more entertaining than Cirque du Soleil and more ridiculous than Bozo the Clown. You might even think all your news channels are redirecting to Comedy Central. One of the best examples of late is the so-called Dog-gate, in which pundits tried to sway the debate on who should run the power with the largest economy and military in the world based on Mitt Romney’s treatment of the family dog in the 80s, revolving around an incident involving a dog who couldn’t…

  • How to Create a Basic GIF in Photoshop CS5

    Daniel Bramhall
    13 May 2012 | 8:51 pm
    Advertise here via BSA There are many different image file formats — PNG and JPEG and each are good for their own specific uses, but there’s a few things that make the GIF (Graphics Interchanged Format) different. GIFs tend to take up less room than similar images in other formats. But perhaps what GIFs are known for — and when used poorly, despised for — is their ability to show animations while retaining their tiny file sizes. Despite the hate that is often heaped upon GIFs a little too broadly, there are plenty of instances where an efficiently sized animation could…

  • Grayscale Inspiration: 50 Black & White Logos

    Felix Diaconu
    10 May 2012 | 11:44 pm
    Advertise here via BSA One of the most commonly given pieces of advice on the topic of logo design is that you should always start the project in black and white. There are a number of reasons for this. For one, it keeps you from using color as a crutch and getting the lines and shapes perfect because there is nothing present to distract from them. Secondly, it means that in the myriad situations where your logo will be reproduced in black and white, it’ll look good because it was initially designed for that scenario. Designers can then add color to their logos, whether that’s…
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  • Ed J Brown

    Luke Tonge
    15 May 2012 | 11:26 am
    Ed J Brown is a freelance illustrator based in the Midlands (UK) who’s been in touch to let us know about some of his recent commissions, for the likes of Readers Digest. Advertise here with BSA

  • Aaron Draplin

    Luke Tonge
    14 May 2012 | 7:36 am
    Most of you reading this will know about the work of Aaron Draplin (and his Draplin Design Co.) the man is already a living legend in many peoples eyes – championing the ‘Midwestern’ style, exuding enthusiasm, truly a larger-than-life character. His Field notes brand is a global success story and this insight into his personal collection is a hint at why. He just loves this stuff. His merch offering is also impressive, with a great attention to detail and tone of voice. My ‘hair organizer’ arrived in the post this morning and its hard not to raise a smile at. In…

  • Graphic Designer Internship

    tdomf_79bcd
    10 May 2012 | 6:03 am
    Karmarama is on the lookout for a young and interesting creative designer. This is a great opportunity to work in a fun, happy, hard working studio. Karmarama are looking for someone who is keen, eager, a natural in the studio environment with a good understanding of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Any experience in moving image would be a bonus but by no means essential. The length of the internship is initially for six weeks with a good amount of flexibility to be extended. £150 a week will be offered toward expenses initially. To apply, please send a small PDF or a web address of…

  • Middle Weight / Senior Designer

    mhgdesign
    10 May 2012 | 6:03 am
    US: Founded in 1995, MHG Design Ltd. is a multi-disciplinary agency specialising in design-led marketing solutions for our clients – small independent start-ups through to blue chip multi-nationals. We are a small friendly team who enjoy a good social working atmosphere, based in a large open-plan warehouse in Balham, South London. You will be taking over from one of our key team members, these are big boots to fill, so only apply if you’ve got the skills. YOU: A creative superhero, with at least 4 years agency experience (this is a must!), a thorough knowledge of Adobe Creative…

  • Junior Art Director

    tdomf_79bcd
    10 May 2012 | 6:03 am
    Junior Art Director Orange Cube Werbeagentur GmbH Standort: Kassel Begeistern statt nur bewerben: Ein kurzes Statement und nur einer von vielen Gründen für den Erfolg von Orange Cube. An unseren beiden Standorten Hamburg und Kassel sorgen 20 kreative Köpfe dafür, dass die Einzigartigkeit unserer bundesweiten Kunden in originelle, verkaufsstarke Werbeideen übersetzt wird. Unsere Arbeitsweise ist klar, weit vorausdenkend und auch unter größtem Termindruck absolut zuverlässig. Zur Unterstützung suchen wir für unseren Standort in Kassel ab sofort einen Junior Art Director (w/m) im…
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  • Portfolio Images Look Better and Load Faster

    Jason
    15 May 2012 | 12:06 pm
    As browsers get better, Carbonmade gets better with them. We're constantly tinkering to make the images in your portfolios look their best. Here are a few of our recent image improvements: Color Profile Support Color profiles have always been irksome on the web. We've been wrestling with this problem and have finally come up with a working solution. If you're using color profiles and a modern browser like Safari 5.1, Chrome or Firefox 5+, your color workflow will stay consistent all the way to the web. YEAH! JPEG XRs We now support JPEG XR image uploads. If you’re using IE9 or greater, we…

  • Carbonmade Designer Timo Kuhn Is A Proud Papa

    Angela
    9 May 2012 | 5:15 pm
    It's pretty neat watching someone's life change over night. Timo and his wife Aki recently welcomed bundles of joy Mila and Remi into their lives. It's been a real treat for everyone at Carbonmade to share in their happiness and ooh and awwww over his beautiful photos. Timo's already a natural at being a great pop and we're happy to be a part of their big baby-filled adventure. Dragontwins Tumblr

  • Google Basics: Moving Your Work Up In The World

    Angela
    8 May 2012 | 12:31 pm
    One of the most frequently asked questions we get at Carbonmade is: how come my portfolio isn’t ranked higher on Google? Beyond the tinkering we do on your behalf, here's our advice for using how the search behemoth works to better advantage. Sharing is caring. Do great work and share it on all of your online spaces. The more links Google finds for your portfolio, the more likely they'll bump you up a notch or two. It especially helps if the people sharing your work are somewhat influential online. So, a link to your portfolio shared by Al Gore has more pull than one from your Uncle Nemo.

  • Introducing Nigel, a Brainslug by Jimbo

    Griffin
    2 May 2012 | 4:21 pm
    Once upon a time, we asked our superstar illustrator pals to crack open their craniums for a peek at their brainslugs: the suckers that feed on their fertile frontal lobes. We’re back at it and look forward to introducing them to their new home on this blog. Nigel looks like he’s seen better days. He’s taken on some direct hits and there’s evidence of other ca-slug-ualties of war. It’s no surprise when you consider what an army of these slimers are up against in Jimbo’s illustrated imaginings. The doodles he creates under his Okayboss moniker are endlessly mind-blowing and his…

  • In The Press: Advanced Photoshop

    Angela
    27 Apr 2012 | 11:49 am
    Carbonmade’s creative director Dave Gorum shares his thoughts for a nifty feature article in Advanced Photoshop magazine. The topic? How to keep your design skills fresh while building your career and keeping up with client work. We pulled a couple of our favorite Dave bites to share but encourage you to check out the full story in Issue 94. On investing in your own growth If you were an apple farmer and your apple trees paid your bills, you wouldn’t stop watering your leafy money makers. On keeping up with peers and trends You don’t have to drown yourself in the river of new design,…
 
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  • Club Céramique Poster

    Antonio Carusone
    16 May 2012 | 11:27 am
    This is a recent poster designed by the awesome folks at Experiment Jetset for an exhibition titled “Club Céramique” by NAiM/Bureau Europa. I love how The Jet mixes in photography with type.

  • Pollen

    Antonio Carusone
    15 May 2012 | 10:39 am
    Pollen is a creative agency founded in 2001 and consists of Barny Collis, Rosa van Wyk and Anton Agejkin. The work is stellar, and the site is impressive as well. It amazes me how many agencies don’t have great sites to present their work. It makes a huge difference.

  • Dieter Rams’ 1976 Speech

    Antonio Carusone
    14 May 2012 | 8:52 am
    In December of 1976, Dieter Rams gave a speech titled “Design by Vitsœ” in New York City about his work with Vitsoe. He also outlined much of his design thinking, which later evolved into his 10 Principles for Good Design. Vitsoe has released the full transcript of the speech to celebrate Rams’ 80th birthday on May 20th. It’s a must read.

  • [Sponsor] FusionLab

    Antonio Carusone
    14 May 2012 | 7:57 am
    FusionLab specializes in visual communication design for mobile media. Our apps include: VIEW — a quarterly art photography magazine for the iPad featuring photographers from all over the world and is available on Newsstand. image/words – a creative tool developed for the iPad which allows the typographical artist in you to commit thoughtful words to beautiful images. Antique ABCs – a children’s game app featuring charming illustrations from a 19th c. children’s book. Developed for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. FusionLab conceptualizes from the ground up or works as consultants,…

  • Page 1: Great Expectations

    Antonio Carusone
    10 May 2012 | 1:12 pm
    GraphicDesign& publishing house is releasing its first title, Page 1: Great Expectations. The book includes 70 different typographic interpretations of the first page of Dickens’ novel Great Expectations from some of today’s best designers. Contributors include: APFEL, Phil Baines, Tony Brook, Cartlidge Levene, Tony Chambers, William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand, Experimental Jetset, Fraser Muggeridge, KarlssonWilker, Frith Kerr, Robin Kinross, Ellen Lupton, Luke Hayman, Morag Myerscough, Erik Spiekermann and Sam Winston. Page 1 is 110mm x 178mm and contains 320 pages. The cover is…
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  • Apartment in the Gothic Quarter

    Sylvia
    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    YLAB Arquitectos renovated a 130 square meter apartment with terrace, located in the hearth of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, in a catalogued building behind the City Hall. Project description: The original space is composed of a sequence of bright and spacious rooms connected by large arched openings, with balconies along the façade and an inner courtyard. Original features are maintained such as traditional Catalan ceilings with wooden beams and vaulted arches, as well as exterior carpentry with wooden shutters. The project is based on a reinterpretation of the existing spatial…

  • Apartment Transformation

    Sylvia
    11 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    CSAR Architecture tranformed a former family home into a loft apartment located in Amsterdam. The identity of the existing house has been the inspiration for the transformation, redesign the existing house with almost the same program but keep it more spacious. The original details has been kept in the facade and is mixed with a modern style interior fitting. Project description: In the centre of the house where is the minimum of daylight we planned the functional spaces of the program. The kitchen, toilet and shower are situated in this central zone of the floor plan. To show the contrast…

  • First Photographs of Hong Kong Exhibition

    Sylvia
    8 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Design Systems Ltd. created a theme that intends to deliver a closely-intertwined retrospection of both Hong Kong photography and architecture. Project description: As the opening exhibition of the Hong Kong Photo Festival 2010, the “First Photographs of Hong Kong” Exhibition, held at the Former Central Police Station Compound, presents a hundred of old photos of Hong Kong, which have captured the birth of Hong Kong photography during the years from 1858 to 1875. Returning from Europe and America, the photos contain the oldest one according to authentic records. Since the…

  • Bukiya Japanese Shop

    Sylvia
    4 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    This is the renovation project by Archiee for a boutique, located in Paris, that displays and sells traditional Japanese products. Project description: • Simple grid: The project is based on a simple grid of Phillips screws that form the system for displaying the merchandise. There are a total of 377 screws, each having been individually screwed by hand in its allocated point. Each screw is accompanied by a simple clip, which allows the merchandise to be hung to the wall. • Flexibility of the layout: The grid enables the boutique great flexibility with regard to the display of the…

  • Johnnie Walker House

    Sylvia
    27 Apr 2012 | 3:00 am
    Asylum collaborated with the creative agency LOVE to design an interactive space to host the most sophisticated “Whisky Converstions”. Housed in the 3 storey Sinan Mansion, located in the French concession of Shanghai, the space was conceived with the intent to engage and advocate loyalty amongst premium whisky drinkers. The concept incorporates the rich history of Johnnie Walker and whisky knowledge alongside essential elements and building blocks of whisky into the spatial design, using the 3 step approach to evangelism. Project description: Based on the central design theme –…
 
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    Mirko
    15 May 2012 | 8:26 pm
    According to internet marketers, the email list is still what you should look to grow fast if you want to make any money online. For non-business people, it is a great way to spread ideas and contact many people at once. I recently encountered problems with a client’s email list, some emails are not sent, so I’ve been looking for new ways to manage their newsletter. In the following article I share some of the popular options you get to technically manage your newsletter. Open-source solutions Whenever I start a new project or need some software to perform some tasks, I always…

  • The best rejected New Yorker covers

    Mirko
    14 May 2012 | 7:27 pm
    The New Yorker is famous for its gorgeous illustrated covers, but the published covers are only the tip of the iceberg. Many, many cover proposals stay unpublished for various reasons. Françoise Mouly, who has been chosing covers since 1993 as art director, authored a book giving these rejected covers some exposure. You can see some of these covers here, and see more as well as an interview on ImPrint Mag.

  • This week on Pinterest

    Mirko
    13 May 2012 | 8:15 pm
    Pinterest has become a great source of inspiration for me. Each week I share my favorite pins of the week. If you don’t want to miss any pin, make sure to follow me on Pinterest. Alessandro Gottardo illustration. Via My Modern Met.   The Velvet Underground Loaded Album Cover.Via Tralfaz Archives. Sculpture by Ron Ulicny. Via Colossal. To Kill a Mockingbird cover. Via Amazon. Photography by Daniela Sachs. Via Flickr. Coffee Duck logo. Via Behance. Cool vintage typographic label. Via Codex99.

  • How to get people to buy your software

    Mirko
    11 May 2012 | 10:37 pm
    A quite fun way by the founders of the Chocolat text editor to get people, graphic designers at least, to purchase your software. Via Reddit.

  • Stylised 17th century floriated letterforms

    Mirko
    10 May 2012 | 9:22 pm
    Usually exagerated ornaments aren’t my cup of tea, but there is something charming about these letters engravings. See more on BibliOdyssey.
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    Hip.Young.Thing.

  • Augmented Reality Sandbox

    admin
    10 May 2012 | 7:20 pm
    Damn! What a fun toy to play with. Now all we need is to be able to place buildings and we've got ourselves an AR Sim City!

  • Anthony Mattox

    admin
    8 May 2012 | 7:23 pm
    Nice generative art from interaction designer Anthony Mattox.

  • Patrick Lindell

    admin
    7 May 2012 | 7:02 pm
    Loving the lines and symmetry in Patrick Lindell's pictures.

  • Sometimes I Feel

    admin
    5 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    An interesting use of Tumblr. Post anonymously and tell people how you feel. Hit random to find some funny, heartfelt and kooky feelings. By Patrick T Lo.

  • Loom

    admin
    4 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Loom. Cute website, awesome rugs!
 
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  • The New, Improved Albany Office

    SEI Design Group
    2 May 2012 | 3:54 pm
    Everyone is finally settled and happy in the new, improved SEI Albany Office.  We are located in the same building, but now have more room to breathe and work.  Stop on up to see us. 

  • Sock Mojo Prizes Unveiled

    SEI Design Group
    30 Apr 2012 | 9:44 am
    The prize winners are revealing their winnings from the Sock Mojo contest. First, you see Kurt’s legs fancy tuxedo socks.  You then see Laura in (according to her) her only pair of matching socks.  Way to rock the socks!

  • Congrats Marcus Whitman CSD!

    SEI Design Group
    28 Mar 2012 | 6:57 am
    Congratulations to Marcus Whitman Central School District on the passing of their $8,470,000 Capital Improvement Project!  Scope of work involves renovations and upgrades to all three schools.

  • March Madness Contest

    SEI Design Group
    27 Mar 2012 | 2:10 pm
    We seem to have socks on our mind, and we know that you will want to win one of these pairs to celebrate March Madness. All you have to do is leave a comment here telling us why you should win the socks. You only have until Monday night to enter, so comment away, basket ball fans. You can only enter once, but you automatically get two entries if you are using a gravatar. SEI staff, friends and family may participate in this contest.

  • Sock It To Me!

    SEI Design Group
    27 Mar 2012 | 1:51 pm
    We have the winners of the Sock Mojo contest!  Couldn’t decide between, so had to award 2 winners.  Luckily, we are not making them share one pair of socks, because that could be awkward.  The final winners are Laura for brand loyalty, and Kurt for bravery.  The winners will receive their prize this week (socks, of course) and you can expect to see photos of the winners modeling their prizes soon. 
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  • Hump Day Hotties

    Pony
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Hump Day is always better with a selection of hotties. Related posts: Hump Day Hotties (30 Photos) Hump Day Hotties (28 Photos) Hump Day Hotties (27 Photos) Related posts: Hump Day Hotties (30 Photos) Hump Day Hotties (28 Photos) Hump Day Hotties (27 Photos)

  • Some Excellent Signs

    Pony
    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    I guess some people need a little more information for obvious things. Related posts: More Great Signs Signs that make you think Important Signs Related posts: More Great Signs Signs that make you think Important Signs

  • Tooshie Tuesday

    Pony
    15 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Careful now that looks slippery. Related posts: Tooshie Tuesday Tooshie Tuesday Tooshie Tuesday Related posts: Tooshie Tuesday Tooshie Tuesday Tooshie Tuesday

  • Daily Cool Pics

    Pony
    15 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Forget the ice cream truck…it comes to you on the beach in  a boat! Related posts: Daily Cool Pics Daily Cool Pics Memory goes with age Related posts: Daily Cool Pics Daily Cool Pics Memory goes with age

  • Best of Frisky Friday

    Pony
    15 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Frisky with three different angles. Related posts: Best of Frisky Friday Best of Frisky Friday Best of Frisky Friday Related posts: Best of Frisky Friday Best of Frisky Friday Best of Frisky Friday
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  • Plug Book by Dave Hakkens

    David Carlson
    16 May 2012 | 12:21 pm
    Dutch designer Dave Hakkens has just finished a new project named he named Plug Book. It’s a multiple socket shaped like a book always hidden in the middle of your living room. However, to be able to realize the project he put it on Kickstarter. So, if you like the Plug Book you have the possibility to help Dave make it happen!

  • Swedish designers Folkform celebrates Masonite at Svenskt Tenn

    David Carlson
    14 May 2012 | 8:22 am
    The exhibition ’Masonite: Memoriam’ by Anna Holmquist and Chandra Ahlsell of the Swedish design duo Folkform displays a series of cabinets exclusively designed for Svenskt Tenn. The Masonite sheets that the cabinets were built from were recently discovered in an old warehouse. These were the very first product samples from 1929, with different colors and textures. In the cabinets, they are combined with new pieces of board manufactured just before the factory was closed down. All of the cabinets are unique. When the Masonite manufacturer in Rundvik closed, it was the last of its kind, a…

  • Widlund vacation house on Öland

    David Carlson
    11 May 2012 | 9:45 am
    The Widlund vacation house by Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune is like a funnel of light, space and sea views. The location is the west coast of the Baltic island of Öland. The white concrete box is “corsetted” in the middle, creating slightly sheared wall and roof angles. This gives the house both its direction and character, while also marking the difference between the rear private two-storey bedroom part and the communal double ceiling-height front part. Precast concrete is perhaps not the most common choice for a private house at this scale, but was ideal for…

  • Leica X2 – a classic camera in both looks and feel

    David Carlson
    11 May 2012 | 2:48 am
    Leica has released the X2, a new addition to the X-line of compact digital cameras. At David Report we have tried the predecessor called X1 a couple of times and have always been happy with the quality it delivers. The new X2 is handmade at Leica’s headquarters in Germany, and features a new APS-C-format professional CMOS image sensor with over 16.5 megapixels. In combination with the high-performance Leica Elmarit 24 mm f/2.8 ASPH. lens, a classic focal length for photojournalism, this sensor ensures maximum image quality and sparkling brilliance. The Leica X2’s large sensor and fast…

  • Design Museum celebrates Louboutin’s 20 years of shoe making.

    Li Hoang
    5 May 2012 | 9:59 am
    Renowned shoe artist Christian Louboutin makes his mark at The Design Museum in London to celebrate the brand’s 20th Anniversary. The exhibition takes you through his journey from life as a cobbler through to travel inspirations, leaving fashion for garden design and finally creating the ultimate shoe of every woman’s dreams. With 200 pairs of shoes carefully selected for display from a period of two decades, each pair expresses its own personality of materials from feathers, lace, frills, studs and fur. Red velvet is draped over displays, shoe’s dangled around a carousel and light…
 
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  • FK04 CALVERT by Ferdinand Kramer for e15

    Daily Icon
    15 May 2012 | 3:30 pm
    FK04 CALVERT is from a series of coffee tables, desi­gned in 1951 by renowned modernist German architect and designer Ferdinand Kramer during his time in America. Part of his successful “Knock-Down” furniture series, the square FK04 CALVERT is an enduring and modern piece. The easily invertible and collapsible coffee table consists of a tabletop and two crossing invertib­le sheets serving as a base for the table. Similar to a clothing pattern, the components of the table are cut out of a single plywood sheet. The intrinsically simple cut out base of FK04 CALVERT reveals a sculptural…

  • Hermès M9 Special Edition Camera by Leica

    Daily Icon
    14 May 2012 | 3:30 pm
    Following a string of limited edition collaborations, Leica is back with a third in a line of special M-System cameras built with the help of renowned Parisian fashion house, Hermès. The partnership results in two special editions, with a total of 300 Edition Hermès digital rangefinders set to ship beginning in June for $25,000, while 100 “very special” Edition Hermès — Sèrire Limitèe Jean-Louis Dumas models will release in July for — $50,000. Both editions will be offered as complete kits, with the “cheaper” of the two built with soft calfskin leather with a silver…

  • Traverso Table by Francesco Faccin for Valsecchi1918

    Daily Icon
    13 May 2012 | 3:30 pm
    The Traverso Table is a tribute to the Frate table made by Enzo Mari. “I exaggerated the idea of the beam as a key element. I tried to turn the beam in the central “spine” of the project. Without the beam the table doesn’t exist. On the front of the table you can clearly read the section that is both decorative but absolutely structural. I like to think about objects in which the structural and mechanical element, that is for this necessary, is also the focal point, the “decorative” point.” - Francesco Faccin The upper part of table is divided into…

  • Paso Robles Residence by Aidlin Darling Design

    Daily Icon
    10 May 2012 | 3:30 pm
    This rural home sits on an 80-acre agricultural site in California’s Central Coast wine region. The design directly responds to the wide diurnal temperature fluctuations of its arid climate. Masonry walls anchor the building to the earth and structure the primary living spaces, centering activity around a covered outdoor living room. The design integrates deep overhangs, passive ventilation, photovoltaic electricity, solar hot water and radiant heat. Paso Robles Residence, Paso Robles, California, USA, by Aidlin Darling Design

  • Variations Collection by Patricia Urquiola for Baccarat

    Daily Icon
    10 May 2012 | 3:15 pm
    The Variations collection, hovering between sophisticated objet and sculpture, to be interpreted together or individually, comprises a series of highly colourful pieces where glass-cutting principles and Baccarat savoir faire have been reinvented. Variations rings the changes on an art de vivre as imagined by Patricia Urquiola. The collection transforms everyday ritual into the art of living, where objects from past and present coexist and combine for mutual magnification. Accented by acid colour hues, the glasses exude a relaxed, neo-pop vibe. Variations Collection, by Patricia Urquiola, for…
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  • Maxime Ansiau

    Jeff
    16 May 2012 | 6:52 am
    Plates by Maxime Ansiau.

  • Jaime Treadwell

    Jeff
    16 May 2012 | 6:09 am
    Paintings by Jaime Treadwell.

  • World’s Tallest Lego Tower

    Jeff
    16 May 2012 | 5:50 am
    It took 4,000 children 5 days and more than 50,000 bricks to build a record-breaking 105 ft Lego tower in Seoul, Korea. Insert child-labour joke here. Watch the video below!

  • Jenny Morgan

    Jeff
    16 May 2012 | 5:04 am
    Paintings by Jenny Morgan.

  • Ghostpatrol

    Jeff
    16 May 2012 | 3:40 am
    “Cosmic Scale and the Super Future”, new works by Ghostpatrol debut at Backwoods Gallery on Friday.
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    Pro Blog Design

  • 7 Plugins to Save Time With the Dashboard

    Claudia Somerfield
    14 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    As bloggers, we spend a lot of time working on a range of different tasks. This includes things like checking stats, monitoring ad revenue, and interacting on social media. That leaves us with a lot of sites to log into. But by adding a few WordPress plugins, you can pull some of this data back into the WordPress dashboard, which saves you time by giving a quick snapshot overview of everything. Analytics 360 Analytics 360 brings Google Analytics and Mailchimp (Newsletter service) data together, and displays them on a subpage under the WordPress dashboard. This helps in accessing analytics…

  • CSS & JS Auto-Refreshing with Live.js

    Michael Martin
    3 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    I want to share a fantastic little tool that I’ve only recently come across; Live.js, written by Martin Kool. This JavaScript file automatically checks for changes to your CSS and JavaScript files, and refreshes them. That means you can have your text editor in one half of the screen, and a web browser in the other. When you save changes in the editor, the updates are reflected immediately in your browser. It really helps to speed up your development time. A lot of text editors offer HTML previews and such, but they only work for plain .html pages. The great thing about Live.js is that…

  • WordPress Development: Bypassing the Settings API

    Andy Walpole
    23 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am
    The following is a guest post by Andy Walpole. There are many parts of the WordPress API which are fantastic but there are also other parts which, I would argue, are lacking. The Settings API was introduced in version 2.7 to allow the semi-automation of form creation. All credible Content Management Systems and frameworks have their own set of functions or classes for the same purpose. Drupal has a multitude of hooks which can be leveraged, while CodeIgniter uses a combination of the Form Validation Class and the Form Helper . When creating a WordPress plugin recently I wanted to create a…

  • How to Install and Customize Varnish for WordPress

    Austin Gunter
    12 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am
    The following is a guest post by Austin Gunter of WPEngine.com. If you’re looking to boost performance for a content-heavy WordPress installation, adding a cache like Varnish is a great way to boost your site’s performance. NB – This is an advanced topic, and only relevant if you have full control over your server (e.g. you’re on a VPS). It does not apply to regular webhosting. What is Varnish? Varnish Cache is a web app accelerator, or a caching HTTP reverse proxy. Install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents, and the Varnish…

  • 6 Ways to Power Up WordPress Comments

    Michael Martin
    28 Mar 2012 | 11:00 am
    It’s a relatively simple process to add some flair to your blog comments these days. I want to look at 6 of the best free tools and give you a quick overview of the benefits of each. Let’s start with one you’ve likely heard of before… Disqus Disqus uses JavaScript to replace your WordPress comments with their own system. You lose the total design flexibility that vanilla WordPress comments offer, but you gain a large feature set, including: Real-time Comments – New comments appear on the page without needing to refresh. Not a major benefit for smaller sites, but…
 
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    INHABITAT

  • Pakmat is a Green Air Mattress that is Stored Inside its Own Air Pump

    Mark Boyer
    16 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    Do you enjoy camping but find it hard to get a good night’s sleep? The Pakmat is a comfortable, eco-friendly, and compact product ideal for outdoor enthusiasts, as well as for emergency use during disaster relief efforts. There is no need to carry a separate pump or rely on an electrical power source, because the PakMat uses a handheld pump with human energy to inflate the bed. It’s the first air pump that is specifically designed to act as a clean storage unit for the airbed it is designed to inflate. + AeroBed Pakmat The article above was submitted to us by an Inhabitat reader. Want…

  • Wij krijgen Kippen’s Giant Egg Wanders Amsterdam to Provide Green Energy Education

    jeroen bisscheroux
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    “Wij krijgen Kippen,” which roughly translates from the Dutch to ”we pick up chickens,” has an unusual educational tool for informing the public about energy usage — their giant egg wanders through the streets of Amsterdam, and nests itself everywhere that local energy is generated. The group’s objective is to help the borough of Amsterdam Zuid transition from traditional energy sources to new, locally produced green energy. Supported by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, Wij krijgen kippen is comprised of a growing group of…

  • LivingHomes Introduces C6.2, a LEED Platinum Prefab House!

    Leon Kaye
    16 May 2012 | 12:40 pm
    Santa Monica-based LivingHomes has launched the C6.2, an affordable prefab house that is certified LEED Platinum. Previously, LivingHomes had introduced the C6, an affordable three-bedroom home, but the company rolled out this smaller version for homeowners who want a smaller and more energy-efficient option. The sleek, two-bedroom, two-bathroom home is a good fit for smaller infill lots common in cities or for eco-conscious homeowners who want to save on construction and installation costs. Read the rest of LivingHomes Introduces C6.2, a LEED Platinum Prefab House! Permalink | Add to…

  • BRC’s Halide Chandelier Transforms 28 Disused Lightbulbs into a Dazzling Energy Efficient Lamp

    Lori Zimmer
    16 May 2012 | 12:20 pm
    Benjamin Rollins Caldwell’s new LED chandelier fuses the structure of mid-century modern style with modern innovation. The Halide Chandelier recycles disused industrial elements into a dazzling, energy-efficient light. The piece will make an appearance at BRC’s display at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in NYC next week. Read the rest of BRC’s Halide Chandelier Transforms 28 Disused Lightbulbs into a Dazzling Energy Efficient Lamp Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Benjamin Rollins Caldwell, BRC Design Studio, eco design, green design, LED Chandelier,…

  • Tom Sachs and Nike Transform Astronaut Gear into Space-Themed Apparel

    Mark Boyer
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    New York-based artist Tom Sachs has teamed up with Nike on a capsule collection that combines Sach’s DIY ethos and his preoccupation with space exploration with the sportswear giant’s yen for performance innovation. Together, they’ve come up with a series of limited-edition sneakers, bags and jackets that are made using fabric from Mars Excursion Rover airbags, mainsails for boats, and even NASA spacesuits. The joint venture, dubbed NikeCraft, will launch on the eve of Sach’s Space Program: Mars installation at Manhattan’s Armory Park. READ MORE >…
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    Motionworks

  • After Effects: Boris Film Looks 2

    John Dickinson
    15 May 2012 | 6:04 pm
    In this After Effects tutorial for Boris FX, learn how you can use Boris Continuum Complete 8 Match Grain, Film Glow and 3 Way Color Grade effects to transform an average looking shot.

  • Unplugged 33: Zax Dow – Zaxwerks

    John Dickinson
    13 May 2012 | 7:01 pm
    In this special episode of Unplugged, I chat with Zax Dow of Zaxwerks about After Effects CS6 and what the introduction of the 3D ray-traced features means to Zaxwerks flagship products 3D Invigorator and ProAnimator. Use the code motionworks12 for a 10% discount on 3D Invigorator Classic, 3D Invigorator Pro and ProAnimator.

  • Red Giant Plug-ins CS6 ready

    John Dickinson
    12 May 2012 | 5:06 pm
    All Red Giant Software plug-ins are now CS6 compatible. Use the code “motionworks10″ for a 10% discount on everything from Red Giant!

  • After Effects: Creating an alien meteor storm

    John Dickinson
    10 May 2012 | 5:07 am
    In this walkthrough tutorial learn how I used After Effects with Trapcode Particular (use “motionworks10″ for a 10% discount), GenArts Sapphire and Noise Industries FX Factory Pro to create an alien meteor storm reminiscent of the film The Darkest Hour.

  • After Effects: CS6 3D Template Available Now

    John Dickinson
    9 May 2012 | 5:54 am
    The 3D Material Template project I was commissioned by Adobe to create is now available for free download. It was created to give you some ideas when working with 3D ray traced scenes in After Effects CS6. Grab the project file here. Check out my tutorial on using the file here.
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    Artlog

  • POP: This Week's Performances, Openings, and Parties

    15 May 2012 | 8:00 pm
    This week in NYC, enjoy the warm weather on the Met roof, explore the Martian landscape at the Park avenue Armory, and party for your favorite non-profits at their annual benefits. For full listings of this week’s events, check our calendar. 1. Celebrate the Growing Arts Community in Long Island City Various locations, May 12 – 20 This week is the second annual LIC Arts Open, check their schedule for performances, readings, exhibitions, and open studios. 2. Enjoy the View from Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud City Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 15 – Nov 4 For this year’s…

  • Understanding the World in Images

    15 May 2012 | 1:00 am
    An art historian and an art editor have teamed up to produce Information Graphics, a new Taschen publication (slated for release on May 27) that encyclopedically chronicles the images that make sense of the torrent of data rushing past us. The book itself provokes information overload with four hundred infographics about subjects from sleep to politics and four essays about the history of graphic design. Preview a few highlights from the collection below. From Information Graphics by Sandra Rendgen and Julius Wiedemann, 2012. Courtesy of Taschen. A circular wheel links Edgar Allan Poe with…

  • Helmut Lang's First New York Solo Show

    14 May 2012 | 9:00 pm
    If you were at Frieze last weekend, a school of monochrome black and white pillars might have caught your eye. These totem pole-like sculptures, made of rubber, chalk, steel, plaster, sheepskin, and other found materials, are the handiwork of Helmut Lang, the iconic fashion designer whose eponymous label attained global recognition after its founding in 1978. His penchant for minimalism is equally evident in his art, which he has opted to focus on full-time after Prada acquired his line seven years ago. Art adviser Mark Fletcher, London gallerist Sadie Coles, and Neville Wakefield curated the…

  • Construct Something Out of a Cereal Box, Leave It in a Museum

    14 May 2012 | 8:00 pm
    Unfortunately (or fortunately), we can’t all afford to go to art school. But now there’s a much cheaper way to learn from the likes of John Baldessari or Liam Gillick. Brooklyn-based contemporary art journal Paper Monument (sister publication of literary magazine n + 1) has released Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment, which shows that the studio classroom isn’t the only place to receive an art education. The volume is a testimonial to both learning and teaching a subject that easily escapes verbalization. Honing in on the intricacies of the art…

  • Bright Spots in Public Spaces: Baji Lives!

    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    One year ago, a curious intervention popped up overnight on the Williamsburg Bridge: egg-shaped swatches of green, yellow, blue, maroon, purple, red, and blood-orange lined the beams above the bike lane, a subtle yet peppy addition to commutes and weekend rides. Such is the work of Brooklyn-based artist Peter Brock, who founded the ongoing project known as Baji Lives! with the M.O. of brightening public spaces (and eliciting the occasional smile). Brock recruits so-called “collaborators” via email and his Facebook page, hoping to build a network of supporters to help make forthcoming…
 
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  • Logo Analyzes By A Five Year Old

    11 May 2012 | 5:59 pm
    I found this over at the Brand New site_ Cincinnati, Ohio-based identity designer Adam Ladd asked his 5-year-old daughter her impressions on some popular logos — my favorite is her response to the Republican Party logo. This is both adorable and some of the best and most authentic field research out there. This will show you the power of a logos from a 5 yr old and hopefully will brighten your Friday up.

  • Julius Shulman

    10 May 2012 | 5:05 pm
    Think of modern design and the photos of Julius Shulman will cycle through like a Kodak Carousel. Shulman's work help define modern design and architecture and life in California and elsewhere. The NY Times had a recent article on Shulman and visiting some of the famous homes he photographed in the LA area. You may also be interested in learning more of Julius Shulman through a film that was created just prior to his death in 2009, Visual Acoustics, The Modernism of Julius Shulman by Eric Bricker. It is a wonderful film that narrates modern design and a life full of beautiful images. Visual…

  • Tequila Packaging

    3 May 2012 | 4:55 pm
    With Cinco de Mayo coming up this weekend, The Dieline has a round up of Tequila Packaging to get you in the mood.

  • Holocaust Remembrance Day

    19 Apr 2012 | 10:28 pm
    (Poster from Israel to Remember the Holocaust, 2012) For two minutes in Israel today sirens wailed to remember the 6 million Jews that died in the Holocaust. All life comes to a stop to remember and pray that "we never forget."  Learn more by visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Museum site.

  • Wayfinding - a video

    18 Apr 2012 | 5:09 pm
    Navigation with way-finding graphics from Ubelly on Vimeo. Enjoy this interesting video on wayfinding from Tony Howard, the Managing Director of the London based Transport Design Consultancy.
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    Culturepush

  • Spotted! Audrie Leong

    Michele Adriaens
    16 May 2012 | 11:01 am
    Audrie Leong was raised by the Internet. After graduating from Nanyang Polytechnic’s School of Digital Media Design in 2008, she spent two years in Melbourne, alternately basking in the freedom of an Arts education and being crushed under the weight of essay research and deadlines. “In other words, I haven’t had much formal training as an artist. I have an unnatural fondness for parentheses, comedy that’s slightly off-centre, and, like most other people who want to give the appearance of quirkiness and independence, cats. My hobbies include doodling on paper with…

  • Spotted! Cleo Teh

    Michele Adriaens
    14 May 2012 | 11:01 am
    Cleo Teh is a Year 2 Visual Communication student at Temasek Polytechnic. She is inspired by nature, geometry, hedonism and generally anything genuine and ethereal. “Being in a technocratic society where people assume to have the answers to everything, moments of intrigue are few and far between—and because of that I am deeply inclined to produce work that pays tribute to those rare occurrences.”

  • Spotted! Zinkie Aw

    Michele Adriaens
    12 May 2012 | 11:01 am
    Photography started off as a curious experiment for designer Zinkie Aw, but it has since evolved into a mainstay that helps define who she is. Camera in hand, the 26-year-old packs more courage than she normally would in her approach to life. The camera is her best excuse to dwell deeper and relate to the world a little more. “I like to document social trends (and changes). Underlying themes of her works include modernisation and abandonment, changing ways of lives of people in Singapore, and issues of mobile technology. My photo series work to critique upon a society’s change in…

  • A LIFE PERFORMANCE

    Michele Adriaens
    11 May 2012 | 1:12 am
    When we fall into an overly structured, predictable and unchangeable system, we create artificial playgrounds to keep ourselves entertained. Much like installing a luxurious home-entertainment theatre with a huge velvet upholstered sofa inside a 1-room HDB flat. How do we make sense of things when there is constant displacement of logic and information? How much absurdity needs to be introduced to upset the social norm? a LIFE performance deconstructs snippets of life encounters in an artificially constructed world. Choreographer and performer Joavien Ng mischievously attempts to disrupt…

  • Exhibition: A Crisis of Confidence

    Culturepush
    10 May 2012 | 11:01 am
    Wong Jing Wei, Queenstown Cinema & Bowling Centre. From the series, Temporary States (2012). Geraldine Kang, in collaboration with Benjamin Cheah. Film still from Chemical Head (2012). Tan Peiling, Soundtracks for an unknown landscape (2012). Videostills from Multimedia Installation. A Crisis of Confidence features new work produced by three recipients of the Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Still Photography. Graduates of NTU ADM, they have each been engaged in efforts to expand their individual practices beyond conventions of the printed image. Between these artists is a shared…
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    TheDieline.com - Package Design Blog

  • Nagging Doubt

    Tiana Spellman
    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Beautifully handcrafted wines from the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia.

  • Oat Works

    Tiana Spellman
    16 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Pearlfisher has created the brand strategy, tone of voice, brand identity and packaging design for Oat Works, a brand new oat based drink from Wellness Works.

  • Concept Design: Sony Xperia S

    Gina Angie
    16 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    "The advertising agency Adentity developed the unique mini POS display concept for the global launch of the new iconic family of Sony smartphones.

  • Anna Amélie

    Gina Angie
    16 May 2012 | 6:01 am
    The branding for Anna Amélie was created with with classical luxury brands in mind.

  • Bread That Speaks For Itself

    Gina Angie
    15 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    "Plenum Brand Consultancy has created original bread packaging which is a bold move for the Russian market, providing a modern reappraisal of the graphical stereotypes and images of bread typical of the sector.
 
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    Cool Material

  • Design in the Mind of Christopher David Ryan

    Ben Dahl
    16 May 2012 | 11:15 am
    There was a time when you could get away with having a bunch of prints of your favorite Bruce Willis movie, Cindy Crawford and a Lamborghini Countach hanging on your wall. Those days are no [...]Visit Cool Material for the full post.

  • 13 Weapons for Cubicle Warfare

    Mike Newman
    16 May 2012 | 10:20 am
    Staying sane while spending hours in a cubicle is difficult. You're constantly at war with claustrophobia, aching kneecaps and, at times, the guy sitting next to you. Whether mean-spirited or not, an office war requires [...]Visit Cool Material for the full post.

  • VSCO Cam iPhone App

    Ben Dahl
    16 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    Instagram is the Facebook of iPhone camera apps. It's literally the elephant in the room at this point in time, and we're not just saying that because Facebook now officially owns them. There are approximately [...]Visit Cool Material for the full post.

  • EiMIM Pen

    Mike Newman
    16 May 2012 | 8:49 am
    Most of the pens you own you didn't purchase. They appeared in your home or your bag through some sort of weird pen osmosis. They are fine for scribbling "To Do" lists around the house, [...]Visit Cool Material for the full post.

  • The Amazing Spider-Man 4 Minute Preview

    Mike Newman
    15 May 2012 | 1:16 pm
    With the changing of the story and the plethora of superhero movies flooding theaters, it seems The Amazing Spider-Man has been met with a high dose of skepticism. We'll admit we weren't all too hyped to [...]Visit Cool Material for the full post.
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  • Viscurrealistic Fabrications

    mike
    15 May 2012 | 6:45 am
    Ron Ulicny has created an entire line of work that has really captured my attention.  He has a very clever approach in the arrangement of parts and pieces to create art. See more:  http://www.ronulicny.com/ Related posts:Postal Portraits Using stamped and mailed envelopes from yesterday and a BIC... A Fistful of Colors   Costume designer Maria Cristina Bellucci has taken colored pencils... A Double Shot of Design   This takes the term “mug shot” to the next...

  • Architecture Series Legos

    mike
    10 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    What better way to learn the works of the masters, than to build them yourself!  Lego has a variety of famous structures, ready to build right out of the box. If you [have] ever wondered what Falling Water and the Robie House would look like together, see for yourself. Related posts:An Architectural Treasure This, the AE House in Mexico City, is very similar... Product Design: Backcountry Boiler Kickstarter has brought a lot of success to many innovative...

  • Postal Portraits

    mike
    8 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Using stamped and mailed envelopes from yesterday and a BIC pen, Mark Powell has created a very detailed set of drawings.  This is a very clever means of sketching. Read more:  http://www.thisiscolossal.com/page/8/ Related posts:Taking Sketches, Not Notes This Core77 article is a good read for students and... Chiseled Portraits This Portuguese artist has used decaying buildings as a canvas.... PULL TAB ENVELOPES These clever envelopes make static transportation like cars, trains and...

  • Old School Illustrating

    mike
    1 May 2012 | 6:38 am
      With a computer program for every kind of design these days, it is nice to see someone using markers and x-acto blades to design.  This guy has skills! Read more:  http://extend-graphics.com/the-creative-illustrations-of-book-williams-jr/ Related posts:Do You See What I See? This interactive website uses your cursor to transform a single... Carving Creativity What an impressive way to sell the Sharp brand of... Fashionable Food Fabricated with chocolate, pastries, leafed vegetables and pastas, these costumes...

  • A Seat with a View

    mike
    26 Apr 2012 | 12:00 am
    This Landscape Dinner Set is modeled after a kid’s drawing, making sitting down for a meal more tolerable.  The melamine cup, plate and serving-ware set nests together and is a silly way to spend time exploring new foods. Read more:  http://www.doiydesign.com/en/product/landscape_dinner_set/32 Related posts:Rolled Omelet Pan If you aren’t already hungry for breakfast, just one look... The Mona Seat-a What do you get when you cross the Mona Lisa... Mood Mugs Very sleek, very silly design on these coffee mugs. I don’t...
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  • ‘Space Printer’ at Osaka Station City by KOEI

    admin
    14 May 2012 | 11:31 pm
    This stunning “water clock” is located at Osaka Station — right next to the entrance of the South Gate building.

  • Dressing Bay Windows with Blinds

    admin
    14 May 2012 | 6:15 pm
    Big bay windows lend themselves to being dressed with blinds, as they are perfect to emphasise the size of the window whilst also letting in the light. There are no rules for which type of blinds you should opt for. It all depends on the look and feel of your home as well as your budget of course. From practical and affordable roller blinds to Venetian or Vertical here we take a look at the options for dressing bay windows. Roman Blinds This is the perfect option for a soft and informal window dressing. Hanging an individual Roman blind in each section of the bay you can have them pulled down…

  • ‘SheLLf’ by Ka-Lai Chan

    admin
    6 May 2012 | 1:59 am
    Dutch designer Ka-Lai Chan has produced a limited edition of the ‘SheLLf’ bookcase for Kristalia that will only be at Salone Internazionale del Mobile. The title of Ka-Lai’s latest product is in fact a linguistic and conceptual amalgamation of ‘shell’ and ‘shelf’. Like a shell, it undulates from flatness to depth, creating a dynamic space. Made of separate compartments that are arranged in a gently increasing and decreasing way, it seems as if the shelf is crawling across the wall, literally growing out of the wall, like an animal crawling out of its shell. The…

  • Serpens Collection by Qiu Hao

    admin
    30 Apr 2012 | 12:38 pm
    Chinese fashion designer Qiu Hao teamed up with French photographer Matthieu Belin to shoot his F/W 2011 Serpens Collection. The collection was named after the Serpens constellation (a reptile) and was meant to pay tribute to it. By working with Belin, the line in turn becomes a whole new work of art. furnishing shop window design display, turquoise green bathroom, sod ideas, open system book shelves, helsinki design shirt, sneakers Graphical design, sport shoes, t-shirts food, adidas porsche design t shirt, thai design

  • ‘Para Clocks’ by LeeLABS

    admin
    28 Apr 2012 | 11:46 am
    LeeLABS is behind a new line of concrete clocks, called ‘Para Clocks‘, that were designed using parametric software to achieve the radial patterns they were inspired by. Despite being handmade of concrete, these clocks have a delicate look about them. Currently there are 6 patterns to choose from but the designers currently try to fund the building of an App that will allow customers to create their own designs. “The possibilities of clock styles will be endless.” Some background information: “LeeLABS is a architecturally based design studio dedicated to making…
 
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  • Top 10 Most Influential People to Follow on Twitter

    Pinar
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Information travels quicker today than ever and that is due, in part, to the growing popularity of Twitter. The social networking platform connects people across the world and allows everyone to share their thoughts, 140 characters at a time, with a wide audience. With hundreds of millions of Twitter accounts out there, it can be hard to have one voice heard over others. Today, we bring you the ten most widely followed, heard, and influential people on Twitter that are worth following. You can read the full list of the Top 10 Most Influential People to Follow on Twitter on Intel's My Life…

  • Dreamy Double Exposure Made with Shiny Stickers

    alice
    16 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    While we've seen our share of cherry blossom tree photos, we've never seen one quite like this. Japanese photographer Takeshi Suga created this gorgeous double exposure, called Cherry Blossom Slide, using his Contax Aria camera. Interested in learning how he created the rainbow of colors? "I went to the same place two years ago and was really intrigued with the view from the top of the slide looking down the cherry blossom trees," he says. "I didn't know the technique back then, so wanted to try it this time around. I took the photo of the cherry blossom first and then took the second image.

  • Hengki Koentjoro's Breathtaking Misty World

    Katie Hosmer
    16 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    These photographs don’t have any signs of Clint Eastwood, but they are still incredibly breathtaking. In this series entitled Play Misty for Me, Indonesian photographer Hengki Koentjoro has really figured out how to visually represent emotion and mood through classic black and white images. Koentjoro’s bio says, “Photography is not just a way of expressing his most inner soul but also creating a window to the world where, through his pictures, the unseen and the unspoken can be grasped.” By using only black and white, Koentjoro transforms these landscapes into abstract and elaborate…

  • Beautiful Elephants Made With Kenyan Earth

    alice
    16 May 2012 | 10:27 am
    I came across this beautiful drawing of elephants by artist Dominique Salm and was intrigued by the materials she used. The large 140 x 87 cm work is drawn in pencil with Kenyan red earth used as a pigment. It shows a family of elephants drinking at a river in Kenya. As she told Londonist, "With my elephant paintings, I felt I couldn’t capture the red pigmentation of the dust that they’re caked in. So I used the earth from Kenya and mixed it into my work." Dominique Salm's website

  • Dramatic Black and White Photography by Benoit Courti

    alice
    16 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    Perhaps it's because Benoit Courti was a music composer in his past life that his photos have a lyrical feel. A professional portrait and art photographer since 2010, the Paris-based creative has made a beautiful set called Deep Black where he's staged a series of symbols against black backdrops. While some of these photos appear light and playful, still others have an emotional heaviness about them that can't be denied. "Illuminating simple subjects, minimal compositions whilst preserving a strong expressiveness," Courti says was the thought behind this series. Benoit Courti's website
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  • Scandanavian design auction. Wright.

    PRand
    16 May 2012 | 12:44 pm
    egg chair and ottoman by arne jacobsen | click > enlarge Wright’s Scandinavian Design auction features 231 lots of the preeminent modern designs of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.  The sale includes works by favorite designers of the region including Hans Wegner, Poul Kjaerholm, Josef Frank, Ole Wanscher and Alvar Aalto to name only a few.  acorn silverware service by johan rohde carpet by marianne richter monumental sconces by paavo tynell 12 chairs by hans wegner Sale highlights include a pair of monumental sconces by Paavo Tynell, an Egg chair and ottoman by Arne Jacobsen and…

  • Virgin atlantic allows in-flight cellphone calls.

    PRand
    16 May 2012 | 10:31 am
    virgin alantic allows in-flight cellphone calls: only on new airbus A330 flying between london and new york. via time techland [RK]

  • Sticks by gerard de hoop.

    Perrin Drumm
    16 May 2012 | 8:48 am
    click > enlarge Sticks aren’t a brand new design, but since I’ve never seen a cabinet system quite like it I think deserves some attention anyway. Made in 2011 by Gerard de Hoop, a product and interior designer based in the Netherlands, Sticks come in four different heights and widths and a variety of colors, so you can customize them to fit the needs of your space. They can be used a lowboard, sideboard, small wardrobe or as a single loose cube that can serve as a nightstand or side table. Which brings me to their best design feature (if it wasn’t obvious already): they…

  • Porcelainware by lena dubinsky. Holon design week.

    Perrin Drumm
    15 May 2012 | 7:42 am
    click > enlarge Of all the talented young Israeli designers I met during Holon Design Week, Lena Dubinsky was an easy standout. She won a reddot design award in 2008 for her paving tile system for rainwater irrigation. The earthenware tiles are part of a sustainable, modular system designed to “collect and reuse rainwater for irrigation in urban settings.” By arranging the tiles around a city tree, for example, you can direct the flow of rainwater to the roots, doing away with the need for a sprinkler system or other wasteful forms of artificial irrigation. My favorite pieces from…

  • Tokyobikes hit the streets of london. Milan 2012

    Perrin Drumm
    15 May 2012 | 7:22 am
    click > enlarge It’s been difficult for tokyobike fans not living in Japan to get ahold of one of the company’s well respected city bikes, but on May 17th their London shop will officially open. To celebrate Dezeen is giving away a single-speed tokyobike worth $840. To enter, just show up to the opening party in Shoreditch this Thursday night. The winner will get to ride home on the bike that evening, and five runners up with get Gropes leather handlebar grips worth $40 apiece. If you’re unfamiliar with tokyobike, it’s a small, independent bicycle manufacturer founded…
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    DeTnk - A new way of collecting design

  • booo studio Launch in Milan

    Collecting Design
    16 May 2012 | 5:56 am
    Holland booo studio is a new company based in Holland and composed by an team coming from different fields and countries to work in between avantgarde design and mass production industry. read more

  • The NoMad Hotel Opens in NYC

    Collecting Design
    15 May 2012 | 3:36 am
    New York City The NoMad Hotel is housed in a turn-of-the-century Beaux-Arts building that has been fully restored to its original grandeur with interiors by French designer Jacques Garcia. read more

  • Chun Liao at Marsden Woo Gallery

    Collecting Design
    14 May 2012 | 5:35 am
    London From May 3rd through June 16th 2012 Marsden Woo Gallery are presenting new works by Chun Liao. Liao’s beautiful new vessels evoke her feelings on the subject of time. Her subconscious thoughts are traced by her minimal, richly coloured and captivating work, through which a highly personal poeticism radiates. read more

  • COLLECT 2012

    Collecting Design
    11 May 2012 | 2:40 am
    London From the 11th - the 14th of May 2012 the UK Crafts Council will once again host "Collect," the leading international art fair for museum-quality contemporary craft, showcasing the very best ceramic, glass, jewellery, textiles, wood, furniture, silver and fine metalwork by both new talent and established artists. read more

  • French Design Forum 2012

    Collecting Design
    10 May 2012 | 4:16 am
    London From 10 am - 8 pm on Thursday May 10th 2012 The Trade Commission of the French Embassy will be hosting an exhibition from 15 exceptional French craftsmen for the 2012 French Design Forum. read more
 
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    Spot Cool Stuff: Design

  • Colorful Colorful Joseph Joseph

    Spot Cool Stuff
    16 May 2012 | 7:35 am
    Bright colors, durable materials and smart designs come together in the selection of creative kitchenware produced by Joseph Joseph. The New York City-based company founded by twin brothers, Richard and Antony Joseph, makes all sorts of cool serving bowls, chopping boards, kitchen tools and food preparation items. Here’s our review of some of our favorites: Joseph Joseph Food Preparation Nest The lusciously colorful Joseph Joseph Food Preparation Nest looks so strikingly cool that it can take some time to realize how practical it is too. Mixing bowls, colanders, measuring cups and other…

  • Psychology of Color Infographic

    Spot Cool Stuff
    11 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Most of us are not consciously aware of the large extent to which color affects our moods. Green creates a feeling of tranquility. Blue makes you feel productive. Yellow infuses you with energy—and makes babies cry. The Psychology of Color, a cool infographic produced by NowSourcing, is all about color and its effect on our psyche. When deciding what hue to paint a room, or what color pallet to choose for your home decor, you might want to consider the psychological impacts of your choice as shown on this infographic. If you don’t like the infographic or the information that’s…

  • 4 Sleeping Bags That Look Like Something Else

    Spot Cool Stuff
    4 May 2012 | 6:08 am
    None of the four sleeping bags reviewed below are ones you’ll come across shopping the REI sleeping bag finder. Practical, portable, warm—these four sleeping bags have none of those qualities. But each does have a design that’s novel (to say the least) and a look that resembles something un-sleeping-bag-like: Slice of Pizza Sleeping Bag Up late one drunk night in college, Spot Cool Stuff had the idea of selling a sleeping bag that looked like a slice of pizza. We never followed through on our idea, probably because we thought of it while in college and sleep deprived—and…

  • Design Your Own Dress Shirt

    Spot Cool Stuff
    21 Apr 2012 | 8:44 am
    You needn’t be an avid fashion designer, à la a Project Runway contestant, to create your own men’s dress shirt. All you need is access to a cool website. Like Blank Label. On Blank Label most anyone can create their own shirt—within limits, of course. The basic shirt concept and range of fabrics is pre-determined. But within that, it is impressive how many design options you have. Read the rest on our websites review blog

  • The Flintstones House In Real Life

    Spot Cool Stuff
    19 Apr 2012 | 2:29 pm
    Recently deceased American TV and radio legend Dick Clark was best known for hosting American Bandstand, the game show Pyramid and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. But the man often described a “the world’s oldest teenager” left behind more than memories and an impact on American culture. He also had a house that was inspired by the 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Flintstones. Clark’s abode is not the first inspired by an animated film or television show. Among the fictional houses created in real life are The Simpsons house and the flying house…
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  • It’s a go

    Carole Guevin
    16 May 2012 | 10:54 am
    Today I’m kicking off my ‘official’ sabbatical – not to return till late September / even later if needed / to pursue / complete personal projects and a much needed creative reinvention process. I’m going to have a blast. Hope you do too. Featured / by on hiatus till I return.

  • Mini world / LP

    Carole Guevin
    11 May 2012 | 2:14 pm
    A sneak preview of the staging area for the Little People concept / project I will be working on for the next 2 weeks. Played w/ some props and done a couple preliminary shoot for proportion, details, lighting etc. via iPhone before shooting w/ my Fuji x10. I’ve written / storyboarded about 18 potential vignettes so far. Psyched about materializing my miniature world. Stay foolish – stay inspired! _______

  • Inspire yourself

    Carole Guevin
    11 May 2012 | 12:02 pm
    While I am away working on a project for the next 2 weeks, follow my Pinterest for inspiring eye candy visuals across 7 boards. You can pick to follow any one or all: Designy -> Outstanding concepts / eye candy designs. Cool stuff -> Stuff found. Merch / toys / accessories. Furniforma -> SOHO / Home / Office. Pretty pictures -> Shot w/ iPhone – or not. Typographika -> <3 typography – examples 2 study. ‘C’ -> Part of an on-going concept research. Analog or not -> I read / see / hear.
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  • A Cottage Reborn in Rural Maine

    Justine
    16 May 2012 | 1:32 pm
    Rescued from the tide, a former general store in rural Maine is reborn as a modern summer cottage. When Fiona Hooper first set foot in the dilapidated general-store-turned-cottage, she fell in love with the view. Where Harbor Cottage is set—right against the bay in Martinsville, Maine—the high tide literally laps at the porch, which also caused the basement to flood. Fiona staved off the tide with some initial improvements. But when it came time for a total interior overhaul, she and her husband, Tony, called on architect Sheila Narusawa (a member of the Remodelista Architect and…

  • An Eco Color Palette for Prince Charles

    Eve
    16 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    I've been tearing Plain English ad pages out of World of Interiors for years. Plain, yes, but perfect and elegant, sometimes beyond words. A dream kitchen for those of us that thrive in pure but personal spaces. And the colors are always spot on. This kitchen is no exception. I've been painting kitchens in this "half and half" manner for years, coating the bottom half of the room in a darker color and the top half in something lighter. Part utility, part beauty. When I spotted A Kitchen for the People: Courtesy of Prince Charles, I was inspired to create a similar color…

  • A Toolbox with Scandinavian Style

    Justine
    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Designed by Danish firm Frama, this toolbox may prefer inside jobs. The pared-down form and spare lines of Frama Toolbox, designed by Kristian Nørhave for the Danish firm Frama, resembles a classic toolbox. Frama's iteration is really more of a multipurpose container, though, that can be flipped to hold everything from magazines to files, even tools. But whatever you store in it, we think you'll agree, Frama's box is too pretty to be kept hidden in the garage. Above: Made from birch plywood, Frama's Toolbox comes in natural, black, or terra cotta. It is currently for…

  • Controversy in Toronto: Parts & Labour Restaurant & Club

    Meredith
    16 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    In their quest to make Toronto a hub of world-class culture, the owners of Parts & Labour have ruffled a few feathers. The idea sounds innocent—a French Acadian restaurant sourcing organic beets and nettles from its rooftop garden—but it's Parts & Labour's punk-rock basement, avant-garde arts scene, and overall nontraditional approach that has naysayers up in arms. The space was designed by multidisciplinary Toronto firm Castor Design, whose part-industrial, part-glam environment is peppered with furniture and lighting of its own design. Open for almost two years,…

  • Salvaged Canadian Chic: Love the Design Shop

    Christine
    16 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    Photographer and graphic designer Christine Flynn applied her designer’s eye to home decor and furnishings when she opened Love the Design in the Leslieville area of Toronto. A quick glance around the shop (the motto is "where design is art") demonstrates a keen talent for mixing and matching with a dash of the unexpected. Photography via Love the Design, unless otherwise noted. Above: Flynn's finds are a combination of upcycled vintage and modern industrial. Above: Flynn often applies a layer of graphics to her vintage finds. Above: Flynn is an award winning photographer…
 
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  • 热情的悖论

    Reena Jana
    15 May 2012 | 1:54 am
      Scott Barry Kaufman，一位专注于智力、创造力和性格等方面发展的认知心理学家，开始反思他在教育、商业和社会研究中所施用的方法——他通过多种手段接近对方，甚至包括文字和访谈这样的交流方式。Kaufman对目前心理学实验研究的深入浅出的分析见诸《今日心理学》、《哈佛商业评论》在线、《科学美国人》等刊物，以及他刚刚上线的个人站点，Creativitypost.com。…

  • A Conversation on Creativity, Passion, Education--and Psychology's Role in Each

    Reena Jana
    14 May 2012 | 10:28 pm
    Ever wish you could ask a psychologist about how creativity really works? If you had this pscyhologist's attention, wouldn't you also love to ask about whether the passions you pursue at work and at play were healthy and balanced? And then...why not ask about how to cultivate more creativity and positive passions among future generations of designers and innovators?  At frog's New York studio, we had the opportunity to do so on May 11. Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, who teaches at New York University and blogs for Harvard Business Review and Pscyhology Today--and who was…

  • A Hackathon to “Reinvent Business”

    Tim Leberecht
    13 May 2012 | 7:45 am
    Can social technology enable companies and the people within them to make better decisions? Can it improve corporate behavior? Can it perhaps even help restore the social contract between business and society? These are just some of the questions to be tackled by the “Reinvent Business” hackathon – a collaborative, rapid ideation and programming workshop – to be held in San Francisco on June 9-10, Hosted by frog and LRN, in partnership with BSR, Carnegie Mellon University, Dachis Group, Net Impact, Silicon Valley Bank, Fast Company, and the World Economic Forum, the…

  • CCA Junior Critique

    Max Burton
    11 May 2012 | 10:35 am
    Last week was the culmination of a 16-week Industrial Design junior level class from the California College of the Arts (CCA). The class was divided into two groups with two different subject areas for the students to choose from. Myself, Max Burton from frog and Karson Shadley from Shape Field Office taught a segment on ‘wearable sound’ and Chris Luomanen of Thing-Tank and Rob Swinton from Huge Design taught a segment on ‘personal mobile safety.’ To enhance the level of realism and to develop connections with the local professional design community, we held the final…

  • Sitopia

    Carolyn Steel
    9 May 2012 | 5:55 pm
    A new model for feeding the world’s expanding cities
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  • Five Questions to Ask Before Overhauling Your Company Logo

    Ben Johnson
    9 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Re-branding your company's logo should be one of the most carefully thought-out decisions you ever make for your business. Hastily adopting a new logo can be disastrous to your image and may literally cost you a significant percentage of your customers. On the other hand, a smart re-branding can generate new revenue and open markets you'd struggled to break into with your old concept.

  • Windows 8 Logo Design – Simplicity that Makes Sense

    Ben Johnson
    26 Mar 2012 | 7:07 am
    This year, Microsoft unveiled a brand new look of the Windows logo, which is designed for the most awaited operating system ‘Windows 8’. It has become one of the most talked about logos because of the dramatic change in its branding and styling, and one can also find some significant backlash around the Internet. But, everyone seems to overlook the fact that the new Windows 8 logo is a Microsoft’s smart move.

  • 2012 Web Design Trends – Gain your Competitive Edge

    Ben Johnson
    28 Feb 2012 | 4:31 am
    If your website doesn't look as polished and professional as your competitors, visitors might not stick around long enough to appreciate your content or product. For your help, here are a few of the latest trends that you can incorporate into your website and improve its performance:

  • Valentine’s Day Offer – 15% Discount

    Ben Johnson
    13 Feb 2012 | 3:01 am
    Our design services are reliable and of high quality. We’ve got all that you need for establishing a sound brand image, so don’t let go of this opportunity and use our services at a discount price. This 15% discount is applicable on every package you order, no matter how many you order in one go. Yes! You can really save 15% on every package.

  • 6 Reasons Why Your Business Should Not use Google Analytics Alone

    Ben Johnson
    7 Feb 2012 | 4:35 am
    A website without analytics and a website owner unaware of the intricacies involved in the traceability of websites using Google analytics are sure to lag behind in the competitive business world. Although, the God-Like image of Google has made organizations completely dependent on its tools for rankings, analytics and reputation management. But here are six beefy reasons to why you should not use Google Analytics alone.
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  • Ferris Wheel Cupcake Ideas

    Amy
    15 May 2012 | 9:41 am
    I came across some cute Ferris Wheel Cupcake Ideas and thought I would share with you! How fun would it be to host a summer carnival party? Whether it’s a birthday party or end of school party, making cupcakes or turning a cake into a ferris wheel is just so much fun especially with these simple ideas. A) Lucy Blue Bakery (photo found via Flickr) from San Fernando Valley made adorable Ferris Wheel Cupcakes. B) An amazing candy covered Ferris Wheel Cake via Parents.com. C) An adorable Ferris Wheel Cupcake Holder via Horchow. D) I think this Lalaloopsy Ferris Wheel would be adorable on…

  • Happy Mother’s Day – Funny Things Kids Say

    Amy
    13 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Happy Mothers Day to all of you moms out there! I hope you are doing something fun with your family and getting lots of nice gifts. You deserve it!!! The best part of being a mom to me is the joy that my kids bring. Especially when they are little and say the funniest things! Earlier this week, my daughter made me laugh really hard, so I asked you on Facebook to tell me some funny things your kids have said lately. For laughs, I have gathered a few of my favorites here today. Enjoy! What funny things have your kids said lately? FYI- The card is courtesy of  Your e-Cards. Have a great day!!!

  • Mother’s Day Free Printable Cards & Gifts

    Amy
    12 May 2012 | 12:21 pm
    Are you in need of a last minute Mother’s Day Gift Idea or Free Card to print? You’ll enjoy this round-up of pretty cards and easy DIY gifts. Happy Mother’s Day to all of you! My Super Mom Notes are a fun and easy free printable gift idea. Get the container at Staples for only $1.00! I also designed a cheery Yellow & Black Mother’s Day Card with free gift tags to match. Kami from No Biggie has a cute free printable Best Mom Medallion. I designed Free Printable Mother’s Day Bookmarks. I like the black and white version for the kids to color! Make your own…

  • Ice Cream Sundae Cupcakes – Teacher Appreciation {Free Printables}

    Amy
    10 May 2012 | 11:36 am
    Need an amazing idea for a Teacher Appreciation or Mother’s Day gift? Hosting an Ice Cream Party this summer? Well if so, you will LOVE this Ice Cream Sundae Cupcake idea that the very talented Kristan from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen and I collaborated on last year. It was a huge hit all over the internet and I just had to share it again for all of you new readers out there! Yes, these are cupcakes to look like Ice Cream Sundaes! Aren’t they adorable? Get the Ice Cream Sundae Cupcake directions and Free Printable Tags here. I LOVE when you share your creations found from…

  • The Avengers Craft & Party Ideas {Free Printables}

    Amy
    9 May 2012 | 7:59 am
    The Avengers movie was a HUGE hit at my house! When school is out for the summer, we’ll need ideas to keep the kids busy. If you have an Avengers fan, then these free party printables, crafts and fun food ideas will keep your little super heroes entertained! Enjoy these creative DIY ideas to help with your party planning and more from talented bloggers around the web. The Avengers Cake Pops by Little Lion Baked Goods are so cute! DIY Avenger Bookmarks from Crafts by Amanda would make fun party favors. My Paper Heroes made Captain America, Thor and Black Widow Free Printable Paper…
 
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    The Office Stylist

  • DWM Offices’ Office Makeover

    The Office Stylist Team
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    What it looked like before!   More after photos! TheOfficeStylist: Describe your office to us: The DWM offices are the headquarters for Society Awards, Mode Design Group and Ambition Beverages. The space is open, light and modern, embracing the industrial loft feeling. The entrance is highlighted by a full bar with translucent ebony sliding doors, which faces the impressive glass-walled conference room and glass trophy cabinet.  This room houses Society Awards’ notable body of work, with trophies from prestigious award shows including the Golden Globes, Emmys, MTV VMA and Movie…

  • Office With a View: TeamSnap

    The Office Stylist Team
    15 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    How does the view make you feel when you look at it? You sometimes want to pinch yourself that you are lucky enough to have both a great company to work for and they are located in such a scenic place.  Before work or at lunch I often try to get out for a run in trails that you see in the photos.  Alternately, there is an hour bike ride up to the top of the mountains shown.  If you take that ride early in the morning, you are treated to a magnificent view of Boulder right as the sun is starting to shine on it – it really makes you feel alive. Would you say that having a great view has…

  • Elizabeth Moyer’s Pretty Pink Desktop

    The Office Stylist Team
    14 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    1. Sunset Pink Pen 2. Ceramic Pencil & Pen Tray 3. Pink Stylin’ Calculator 4. Pink Lipstick Pen 5. Flower Clips 6. Shopping Bag Paperclip Holder What’s on your desk right now? My Apple desktop, stationery, fresh tulips and favorite art work by Patricia Van Essche. What’s the one thing on your desk you can’t live without? Aside from my computer, I would say my pens. I am constantly jotting something down!   How does your desk look throughout your day? I really wish I could say it is pristine, but it goes through a cycle throughout the day. Starts off clear, then, I start…

  • Amanda Carol Interiors

    The Office Stylist
    11 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
      Describe your office space to us. My office is now a chic, sophisticated place that I feel good being in. Where did the inspiration for your office space design come from? My inspiration was a living room that I found in Rue Magazine.   What is your favorite part/design of your office space and why? My favorite part of my office has to be my hot pink chair.  It was a garage sale find covered in a dark rose colored floral.  I took it to my upholsterer and had them recover it with the lush pink velvet.   Do you feel that having a well designed and inspiring office has changed the way you…

  • Pets at Work with Meatball the Security Guard & Garbage Disposal

    The Office Stylist Team
    10 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
       About your pet  Official Title: Security Guard & Garbage Disposal Workday duties: Attend meetings, greet guests, clean up food that fell on the floor, lap warmer Breed/animal: Chihuahua Favorite workday activities: Napping and sitting in front of the space heater Favorite workday snacks: Anything people feed me! Especially chicken! Start Time: 11am How long has Meatball been at the company? 4 years About you What made you decide to start bringing Meatball into work? Meatball goes everywhere we go! He is very well behaved (most of the time) and everyone loves him and misses him…
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  • Cabin Luggage : Alien Artifacts

    3 May 2012 | 6:32 am
    Bench Alien Artifacts OpenAlien Artifacts is the perfect case to carry these alien artifacts, high-tech goodies, extremely important documents and a pair of additional socks with you. A Case like no other.

  • Stool : Tooths For Fun

    30 Apr 2012 | 9:25 am
    Stool Tooths For Fun OpenTooths! Tooths! Yes, Tooths! For Fun are stackable stools that are inspired by the human tooth, stylized in a cartoonish and fun way, very stable and also acts as a storage.

  • Spice Shaker : Mountainer

    28 Apr 2012 | 4:29 pm
    Mountainer OpenMountainers are cute ceramic salt and paper shakers with a cartoonish mountain feeling into them.

  • End Table : Trin

    21 Apr 2012 | 8:16 am
    End Table Trin OpenThe Tris is a stacking equilateral triangle end table with a decorated inner part.

  • Tray : Yumusak

    21 Apr 2012 | 7:45 am
    Twin Door Yumusak OpenThe Bone tray is a very durable food tray with rounded edges and soft looking form, it is quite large and could hold a lot of glasses or plates.
 
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    Neoformix

  • Movement in Manhattan Video

    8 May 2012 | 2:20 am
    In my last post about visualizing Movement in Manhattan I mentioned that it would be interesting to explore a more direct view of the data by using an animation. I have created such a video based on a fresh collection of tweets from Monday, April 30th. I gathered new data because I realized that my previous data set was collected over the weekend and I suspected that a weekday might provide more obvious patterns. It compresses 24 hours of data into 1 minute of video. Here it is: I was influenced by the 'Fireflies' video showing iPhone traces done by Michael Kreil. In particular, I like the…

  • Movement in Manhattan

    18 Apr 2012 | 6:35 am
    Inspired by the beautiful and elegant Interactive Wind Map created by Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg I have begun to explore the flow of people within a city. An ideal dataset to do this would include the GPS traces from thousands of people wearing trackers for weeks as they go about their daily lives. Organizations such as crowdflow.net and OpenPaths collect voluntarily donated data of this type and might be fruitful to explore. I decided, instead, to use geolocated tweets to try and see how the movement of people is affected by the urban landscape. The image below shows an area of…

  • Datavis Subgroup Word Analysis

    5 Mar 2012 | 1:30 am
    This is Part 4 of a set of posts related to the analysis of the Data Visualization Field on Twitter. For context or more information you may want to read those other posts first. They are: The Data Visualization Field on Twitter Data Visualization Field Subgroups Datavis Blue-Red Connections In the previous posts we have seen that there are two fairly cohesive subgroups of twitter accounts that emerged from our analysis of the original 1000 accounts. I've been calling them the 'blue' and the 'red'. They were determined by looking exclusively at the references to twitter IDs within the tweets…

  • Datavis Blue-Red Connections

    2 Mar 2012 | 9:30 am
    The recent post on Data Visualization Field Subgroups had an interesting reaction on Twitter that I didn't expect. Many people that were placed in the 'red group' by the community detection algorithm in Gephi joked about being part of the 'team' and being happy to represent it and be grouped together with the others. Jen Lowe lightheartedly suggested a scrimmage at #eyeo between the red and blue. There was much less reaction from the 'blue group', likely because I'm embedded within the reds myself and so they likely paid more attention to my posts and the subsequent reaction on twitter. There…

  • Data Visualization Field Subgroups

    28 Feb 2012 | 9:30 am
    There was some interesting discussion yesterday on Twitter about my post on the Data Visualization Field on Twitter. Moritz Stefaner pointed out that he didn't see a big improvement over his VIZoSPHERE and a quite similar topology. Furthermore, he noted that if you rotate my version 90 degrees counter-clockwise many of the primary nodes line up fairly closely with his. He's right, and it's something I missed noticing completely. It's not really surprising that an analysis of most of the same twitter accounts using a different connectedness metric would yield similar results. I do still feel…
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  • 33 WordPress Responsive Themes for Business

    Ebrian Acebedo
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    The business world has now invaded the net. What with the numerous prospective clients who are surfing through the net, no wonder many business have also turned to the web to promote, advertise and display their services and other provisions to gain more profit. Since innovation is fast and numerous gadgets have also been created [...]

  • 30 Breathtaking Examples of Garden Wallpaper

    Joan Mae Maguale
    16 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    There is nothing quite as thrilling as picturing yourself getting the beauty treatment that comes from our mother nature, don’t you think? So, here we are helping you give yourself the treatment that is surely best for you! We hope to help you find ways to inject some celebrity magic into your everyday life. After [...]

  • 23 Powerful Superboy Illustration Artworks

    Marvi Ocampo
    15 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Another phenomenal DC Comic character is Superboy, who is presented on various comics as the youthful incarnations of Superman and the main character of the series, Superboy. The most popular story of Superboy was simply Superman as a boy, acting as a superhero in Smallville, where Kal-El (Superboy’s Kryptonian name) lives under his secret identity, [...]

  • Extraordinary Collection of Breathtaking Splash Photography

    Sarah Corres
    15 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    We have already showcased several beautiful examples of high speed photography in the past. In today’s post, we are going to feature a collection of impresive type of high speed photography which shows several liquid splashes in action. Splash photography is a technique of shooting pictures with a greater shutter speed and is usually used [...]

  • Free To Download of Pencil Icon Designs

    Ebrian Acebedo
    14 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Icons are images, illustrations or graphics designed to symbolize a function as well as a feature in various means. As with any visual symbol, icons accentuate the design. They point out meanings effectively and can be recognized simply by their categorization based on their style and design and connection to the message. In today’s post, [...]
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  • The slowest snail of the world. #gardening #design – Photo

    +Frank Neulichedl
    26 Apr 2012 | 11:31 pm
    via Instagram http://instagr.am/p/J6M9MaGw4L/

  • 3 reasons I prefer Google Drive over Dropbox for professional use

    +Frank Neulichedl
    25 Apr 2012 | 2:36 pm
    It took me some time to find a use for Dropbox – and yes there are plenty, but I had already similar services setup on my own, with remote access etc. So even after I started using it, I never felt that it is safe for real professional stuff. And here are the reasons why that is and how Google Drive resolves this issues. Multiple users I like to have a server – a central storage where I can manage access and the data get’s backed up and is safe. The idea of having several computers with the same files is something that I don’t like much. What if the service goes away?

  • Blend modes on websites through CSS – we are getting there

    +Frank Neulichedl
    16 Apr 2012 | 11:06 am
    At least for webkit browsers. I welcome Adobe as the design tool giant it is to their efforts on developing HTML and CSS. They could really bring technical innovations that Designers actually need or want. One of them are blending modes. Be hones, PNG overlays don’t look the same as a multiplied image. Also we cannot rely on “prerendering” such overlays in Photoshop if we have responsive Design that has different layouts for different devices. Can you immagine preparing you image banners multiple times? This is just a draft spec and I expect that it will take another year or…

  • Retina Images for you website, 3 solutions – 1 Problem

    +Frank Neulichedl
    15 Apr 2012 | 6:59 pm
    You might consider upgrading your current graphics of your website for retina displays. Here are 3 solutions to do it in a very simple way … but wait before you re-export all your images at a higher resolution. The new iPad and the iPhone 4S might not display the image at it’s full size – if it is too big it will downsize it, making your efforts in creating a high res web experience a fail. For more info read the following blog post, 5by5 Hypercritical Podcast and the specification from Apple of the mobile Safari webbrowser. -…

  • A handy portable Instagram Filter Cheatsheet

    +Frank Neulichedl
    14 Apr 2012 | 1:31 pm
    I stumbled across these guide to Instagram Filters and while I liked it very much it lacked 2 things – a couple of filters and it’s not handy while you take photos on the road. So I fired up my Indesign and made up a quick cheatsheet to keep with you all the time. Just print it out at 100%, cut and fold it – it’s credit card size. Available both as jpeg and pdf for your convenience. JPEG VERSION Click here to download PDF VERSION Click here to download
 
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    Rames Studios

  • Penang Trip : Part 7 | Khoo Kongsi Temple

    Rames
    3 May 2012 | 8:15 am
    Hi all,Hope everyone is doing good! I took a long break from updating my blog! Felt so bad -_-"Sorry, I've been really busy + I got a new hobby! What's that? Will share with you all very soon :)Anyways, let's continue my penang trip posts from where I left off :). Here are some shots taken at Khoo Kongsi. It's 650 years temple! Amazing!!

  • My interview about The New iPad on THR.FM (Kalakkal Kaalai show)

    Rames
    23 Apr 2012 | 9:57 am
    Hi all,My short interview with Aanantha & Uthaya (Kalakkal Kaalai show) on THR.FM this morning. Check it out below :)

  • My Photoshop Workshop @ Linton University College

    Rames
    21 Apr 2012 | 7:18 am
    What a great day! I was invited by Linton University College to conduct Photoshop Workshop. I've shared a lots of tips and tricks. Hopefully it'll be useful for them in the near future :)

  • 10 hand-picked shots from the amazing Phuket!

    Rames
    12 Apr 2012 | 9:32 am
    Hi all,How's everyone? Hope good. I just got home yesterday from Phuket.I'm sure most of you already know about the earthquake & tsunami yesterday. We were so lucky cos it happens few hours after we left Phuket. One of the unforgettable getaway :P.Anyways, here are 10 shots to share with you all. Hope you like it :DMore after pending posts ya :)

  • I'm off to Phuket, Thailand!

    Rames
    5 Apr 2012 | 8:59 am
    See you guys when I'm back :D
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    Dexigner

  • Stephen Hodder to Be Next President of the RIBA

    16 May 2012 | 6:01 am
    Stephen Hodder has been confirmed as the next President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Stephen will become President Elect on September 1, 2012 and will take over the two-year elected presidency from Angela Brady on September 1, 2013. Stephen will be the 75th RIBA President, a position previously held by significant architects Sir G. Gilbert Scott and Sir Basil Spence among others.

  • Royal Mail Great British Fashion Stamps

    16 May 2012 | 5:48 am
    Royal Mail is featuring some of Britain's most renowned fashion designers on ten new first class stamps, available today from all Post Office Branches. The work of Hardy Amies, Norman Hartnell, Granny Takes a Trip, Ossie Clark with Celia Birtwell, Tommy Nutter, Jean Muir, Zandra Rhodes, Vivienne Westwood, Paul Smith and Alexander McQueen showcase some of the most exciting years of British fashion.

  • Architecture Billings Index Reverts to Negative Territory in April 2012

    16 May 2012 | 4:50 am
    After five months of positive readings, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has fallen into negative terrain. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported the April ABI score was 48.4, following a mark of 50.4 in March.

  • MPC Takes the Ribena Berry to the Next Level

    16 May 2012 | 4:04 am
    MPC collaborated with M&C Saatchi and Independent to deliver a fully CG commercial for the makers of Ribena, bringing the famous berries to life again. Working closely with director Peter Szewczyk, MPC was tasked with creating photorealistic characters and environments to promote the new Ribena Plus product range.

  • Working Well Design Challenge

    16 May 2012 | 3:06 am
    Designers and youth organisations are being invited to join forces to design, build and launch new digital products and services that help young people secure the opportunities they deserve in a new challenge, launched today by Design Council and Nominet Trust. At a time when youth unemployment is at an all time high, the Working Well Design Challenge will offer three teams £50,000 each to develop an idea that will offer young people new opportunities to participate in society, both economically and socially.
 
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    Flavorwire

  • Children’s Drawings Transformed into Cool Plush Toys

    Judy Berman
    16 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    Some of the world’s most wonderfully strange works of art aren’t hanging on gallery walls — they’re stuck to the refrigerators of proud parents. Artist Dave DeVries knew this when he launched The Monster Engine, in which he creates realistic paintings based on children’s drawings. But actual kids will probably be more excited about Sunny Little Studio, a company run by a pair of friends that transforms their sketches into plush toys and pillows, which we discovered via Doodlers Anonymous. Their 3D reinterpretations of everything from penguins to smiling hot dogs…

  • 10 Clever Web-Inspired Street Art Projects

    Claire Cottrell
    16 May 2012 | 1:06 pm
    We love the virtual world as much as the next guy, but we have to admit, the sights, sounds, and feel good tactile fun of good ol’ fashioned reality often have us questioning the ungodly amount of time we spend online. Just last week the Singapore-based global conversation agency, we are social, posted a fascinating infographic reporting that collectively the world spends 35 billion minutes per month online. If that staggering statistic has you racing to book an unplugged retreat in a yurt on California’s Central Coast, then consider this us flipping the doom and gloom of an…

  • ‘Superbad’ Director to Adapt Jeffrey Eugenides’ ‘The Marriage Plot’ for the Big Screen?

    Judy Berman
    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Well, this is an interesting choice: Superbad director Greg Mottola, who also wrote and directed Adventureland, is in talks to adapt Jeffrey Eugenides’ most recent, marriage plot-dissecting novel, The Marriage Plot. While Mottola wouldn’t be our first choice for this novel about academia, philosophy, love, and mental illness, we can’t deny that there’s something exciting about seeing producer Scott Rudin court Mottola. He certainly has a way with coming-of-age stories, and his films are subtler and sweeter than your standard Judd Apatow fare. We’d especially…

  • Touching Photos of Married Same-Sex Couples

    Marina Galperina
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    When photographer Natalie Gruppuso began shooting this project in 2007, Massachusetts was the only state in the US that allowed same-sex couples to marry. Since then, after several incrimental legal victories and losses, more than 16,000 couples wed in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Iowa, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC. The touching and simple Love and Equality: The Faces of Same-Sex Marriage series of portraits is one of those projects that we wish didn’t have to exist. Let us explain. “These portraits show same-sex couples living their lives…

  • Flavorpill’s Guide to Movies You Need to Stream This Week

    Jason Bailey
    16 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    Welcome to Flavorpill’s streaming movie guide, in which we help you sift through the scores of movies streaming on Netflix, Hulu, and other services to find the best of the recently available, freshly relevant, or soon to expire. This week, we’ve got films from Ryan Gosling, Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, Mel Brooks, Bill Murray, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Robin Williams, plus new documentaries and an ‘80s classic. Check them all out after the jump, and follow the title links to watch them right now. Drive Last summer’s critical sensation was perceived as a…
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    The Design Files

  • Kyneton Home – Tara Pearce and Family

    Lucy
    15 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    The Kyneton home of photographer Tara Pearce and family.  All photos – Lucy Feagins, styling assistant – Marni KornhauserTara’s workspaceDetails from Tara’s workspace / master bedroomDramatic dining room!   Photos – Lucy Feagins, styling assistant – Marni KornhauserFor a teeny tiny country town, I have to say, Kyneton is totally punching above it’s weight in the interior design departament.  Today we have another beautiful home to share, again belonging to a clever local creative who made the decision to move to Victoria’s Macedon Ranges…

  • 5 Questions with Kitiya Palaskas

    Lisa
    14 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Kitiya Palaskas + mobile + papery crafty cutenessMore random crafty cuteness from Kit Palaskas!Kit (or Kitiya) Palaskas is a professional crafter.  I say this because aside from making her own cheerful crafty creations for styling, selling, workshopping and exhibiting, Kit also works in the craft department at Family Circle Magazine (previously she also worked in a similar role at Better Homes and Gardens magazine).  Can you BELIEVE this kind of dream job actually exists?  Kit also moonlights as a creative workshop tutor, and Etsy Sydney team captain!  See? Professional.  And…

  • Pia Blair – Collage Art Giveaway!

    Lucy
    13 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Artwork by collage artist Pia BlairArtwork by Pia Blair. Photo by Armelle Habib, Styling Julia Green and Lucy Fenton, shot on location at the very beautiful Fenton & Fenton!Various artworks by Pia BlairMelbourne stylist / creative agent Julia Green is always feeding me excellent new finds, and these fabulous artworks by Pia Blair are another of her discoveries! (Thanks for the tip off Julia!).Pia Blair is a Melbourne girl, but has been living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for three years.  She creates these original screenprinted and collaged works on paper with unexpected imagery and…

  • New Guest Blog – Fashion Week Favourites with Kate Gaskin!

    Lucy
    13 May 2012 | 2:57 pm
    This week fashion editor and stylist Kate Gaskin joins us for a round-up from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week!Kate Gaskin is a fashion stylist and PROPER fashion editor at The Age Melbourne Magazine, so it’s pretty freaking amazing that we have her joining us on the Guest Blog all this week!  I know, awesome, right!?Like all the best fashionistas, Kate attended Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Sydney just over a week ago, and she has rounded up her highlights from the week especially for us!  We’ll see new season picks from all Kate’s favourite local labels, including Romance was…

  • Interview – Leah Bartholomew

    Lucy
    10 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Beneath The Sun ‘Girl in Flowers’ cushionBeneath The Sun ‘shapes’ cushions and ‘The Sun Shines On’ tea towelPillowcases by Beneath The Sun.  Cannot decide my favourite!  Maybe the ‘My Only Song’ ones!?  Tough call!Leah Bartholomew is a quiet achiever.  After five years working in Melbourne as Beci Orpin‘s right hand woman, last year Leah decided it was time to move back to her childhood home – the tiny town of Bilambil.. half an hour north of Byron Bay in Northern NSW.  She craved the warmer weather, and the idea of getting…
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    Frankie - Award winning Art Director

  • The slowest snail of the world. #gardening #design – Photo

    +Frank Neulichedl
    26 Apr 2012 | 11:31 pm
    via Instagram http://instagr.am/p/J6M9MaGw4L/

  • 3 reasons I prefer Google Drive over Dropbox for professional use

    +Frank Neulichedl
    25 Apr 2012 | 2:36 pm
    It took me some time to find a use for Dropbox – and yes there are plenty, but I had already similar services setup on my own, with remote access etc. So even after I started using it, I never felt that it is safe for real professional stuff. And here are the reasons why that is and how Google Drive resolves this issues. Multiple users I like to have a server – a central storage where I can manage access and the data get’s backed up and is safe. The idea of having several computers with the same files is something that I don’t like much. What if the service goes away?

  • Blend modes on websites through CSS – we are getting there

    +Frank Neulichedl
    16 Apr 2012 | 11:06 am
    At least for webkit browsers. I welcome Adobe as the design tool giant it is to their efforts on developing HTML and CSS. They could really bring technical innovations that Designers actually need or want. One of them are blending modes. Be hones, PNG overlays don’t look the same as a multiplied image. Also we cannot rely on “prerendering” such overlays in Photoshop if we have responsive Design that has different layouts for different devices. Can you immagine preparing you image banners multiple times? This is just a draft spec and I expect that it will take another year or…

  • Retina Images for you website, 3 solutions – 1 Problem

    +Frank Neulichedl
    15 Apr 2012 | 6:59 pm
    You might consider upgrading your current graphics of your website for retina displays. Here are 3 solutions to do it in a very simple way … but wait before you re-export all your images at a higher resolution. The new iPad and the iPhone 4S might not display the image at it’s full size – if it is too big it will downsize it, making your efforts in creating a high res web experience a fail. For more info read the following blog post, 5by5 Hypercritical Podcast and the specification from Apple of the mobile Safari webbrowser. -…

  • A handy portable Instagram Filter Cheatsheet

    +Frank Neulichedl
    14 Apr 2012 | 1:31 pm
    I stumbled across these guide to Instagram Filters and while I liked it very much it lacked 2 things – a couple of filters and it’s not handy while you take photos on the road. So I fired up my Indesign and made up a quick cheatsheet to keep with you all the time. Just print it out at 100%, cut and fold it – it’s credit card size. Available both as jpeg and pdf for your convenience. JPEG VERSION Click here to download PDF VERSION Click here to download
 
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  • Takes the biscuit

    David Airey
    15 May 2012 | 7:58 am
    Via @asburyandasbury. More on London 2012: London 2012 logo threatens Iran 2012 Olympic non-events Royal Mail 2012 stamps Related posts worth a lookMadrid 2020 logo causes controversyLondon 2012 alternative2012 Olympic non-eventsRio 2016 Paralympic Games logoWaterstones reveals new (old) logo

  • Behind the innocent logo

    David Airey
    14 May 2012 | 3:29 am
    Launched twelve years ago, innocent sells more than two million pure fruit smoothies each week in 11,000 UK outlets. Here’s the story behind the “face with the halo” logo quoted from a comment thread on the Fast Tractor innocent blog. The story goes like this — the name ‘innocent’ came from us (actually via Rich (founder) going through the thesauruses in Huddersfield town library). We had a fair few dodgy names before settling on innocent. The logo was designed by Gravy at Deepend. Gravy doodled on a piece of paper in front of us in response to our brief…

  • Elephant Combs

    David Airey
    9 May 2012 | 11:48 am
    The Elephant Combs logo caught my eye over on Creative Review’s roundup of the 2012 One Show Awards. Designed by TBWA/India for MKV Household Products, it also made the graphic design longlist at D&AD. It’s so fitting I can’t help but think it was designed before the product existed. That’s a compliment. Related posts worth a lookStedelijk MuseumBrand New Awards 2011 winnersNottingham JazzChickenBrainKen’s hair logoPeter and the Starcatcher

  • Trying to remember logos (by my 5-year-old)

    David Airey
    8 May 2012 | 3:46 am
    Contributed by Cincinnati-based Adam Ladd. innocent logo, designed in 1999 by Deepend After Faith’s “impressions” on logos, it was fun to see her retention of some she is not familiar with (embedded below). You can catch Adam on Twitter here. Related posts worth a lookMobil logoWorld Wildlife Fund logo sketchesI (heart) NY concept sketchBrand alphabets, Chicken Now, the Apple logo designer, and a fuss over nothingTenth logo by Nancy Wu

  • Indifferent

    David Airey
    7 May 2012 | 5:48 am
    A project by Tommaso Guerra, described in his words. We live in an infinite constellation of different products; infinite variations, infinite differences, infinite options. But what’s the real value of the difference in a globalised world economy? Multinational companies hide exploitation, politics of territory, and people, behind the objective of optimisation of resources, covering up everything with a skilled show of recognisable and distinguishing brand personality. We know them, we recognise them, we chose them consciously and with an exact reason why. I wonder if it could be just…
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  • Childish Things

    swissmiss
    16 May 2012 | 10:31 am
    The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. - Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

  • Street Seats

    swissmiss
    16 May 2012 | 8:22 am
    Bade Stageberg Cox collected 50 abandoned chairs on the streets of New York, repaired them and gave them a new life with a coat of taxi cab yellow paint. The bottom of each chair is stamped and documented with the date and location it was recovered. Lovely. Street Seats.

  • Reverse Of Volume

    swissmiss
    16 May 2012 | 8:14 am
    In this stunning installation, reverse of volume RG, Yasuaki Onishi uses the simplest materials — plastic sheeting and black hot glue — to create a monumental, mountainous form that appears to float inside of Rice University Art Gallery. (Thank you Mark and Angela)

  • Geeks and Repetitive Tasks

    swissmiss
    15 May 2012 | 4:28 pm
    (via Chart Porn)

  • Never too late

    swissmiss
    15 May 2012 | 3:19 pm
    “You’re never too old to become younger.” - Mae West
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  • KH Gears Headquarters - China

    14 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    The interior of the headquarters for KH Gears exudes a sense of engine power, industry and technology. One can almost hear the metallic rumble of massive machinery, toiling tirelessly in a massive engine room somewhere in the not-so-distant future. The 855 square-meter (about 9,200 sq.ft.) first phase of the 5,300 square-meter (about 57,000 sq.ft.) industrial laboratory and office space of one of the world’s largest gear producers, opened in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, in December 2011. The remainder of the space will be developed along the same design guidelines in 2013. Hong-Kong-based…

  • Rokeby Studios: Melbourne

    13 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    We think Rokeby studios in Melbourne's Collingwood could be a portent of things to come: the designer photographer's space. Photographer Mariija Ivkovic wasn't happy with the spaces she shot in. They didn't reflect the creative spirit she wanted her work to imbue. So she created the space herself. Joining forces with photographer Lachlan Moore she dug out a warehouse space to create a smattering of studios that now house two architecturally designed chameleon SMEG-stocked kitchens, a salon with a fully plumbed hair basin, a cafe area, board room, client “snug” and, of course,…

  • Pointillist Power

    12 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Pencils, pegboards, pins, pixels — we’ve been fascinated for a long time by the notion of creating big things from tiny parts. Hiding the image in plain site. Creating pointillist art with physical objects. So whenever we see yet another iteration of this idea, we pay attention. Apparently, Stockholm-based photographer Philip Karlberg has also been twirling his pencils for some time, and now all that toying has resulted in a photo shoot for Plaza Magazine. Karlberg’s six famous sunglass wearers were created using 1,200 sticks and photographed over six days. From top: Karl…

  • Utah Tourism Montgomery Tunnel Installation

    11 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) riders face an unexpected scene at the Montgomery Street Station. With a clever 3D illustration, the station’s tunnel is reborn as one of Utah’s scenic icons – the Delicate Arch in Arches National Park – Watch commuters experiencing the installation. This ad is part of the Utah Office of Tourism’s (UOT) $2.2 million regional spring/summer Utah Life Elevated® campaign and it will stay in place till the end of June. It was created by UOT’s ad agency of the record for the past seven year, Salt Lake…

  • TCH Design Competition - A Call For Designer Inflatables!

    2 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    It is time to save inflatables from death by boredom, and elevate them to must-have designer experiences! We are talking about enhancing the way adults enjoy playing in the water, although even kids will find a designer inflatable quite a refreshing experience! What if a designer hotel or resort had amazing, on-brand  inflatables in the pool, or on the beach, available for guests to enjoy, take pictures of, share with their networks? We are looking for architectural, playful, cool, imaginative, never-before-seen designer ideas for inflatables. Show us what you can do. Show us how far we…
 
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    Lovely Package

  • Dark Matter

    Lovely Package
    14 May 2012 | 1:28 pm
    Designed by Astronaut Studio | Country: United States “Sure you COULD Photoshop coffee grounds into Pegasus form. But wouldn’t you rather dump some grounds on the table and do it yourself? It took longer, yes, but pushing grounds on paper with an X-acto blade tends to be a much richer experience than pushing pixels with a cursor. Dark Matter is a custom blend of small-batch roasted coffee with original package design developed as a 2011 holiday gift for Astronaut Studio’s clients, partners and vendors. The image of the Pegasus is actual coffee grounds hand-tooled into the…

  • ByALEX A Range

    Lovely Package
    14 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Designed by Company | Country: United Kingdom ‘The A Range is a simple furniture based on two interlocking letter As shapes. The range includes a stool, side table, coat stand. Made from accredited birch plywood and available in white and grey, the A Stool and A Table come in a simple box with a carry-away handle. This is the first flat-pack, carry away furniture sold at John Lewis stores.”

  • Student Work – Samantha Szakolczay

    Lovely Package
    13 May 2012 | 5:01 pm
    Designed by Samantha Szakolczay | Country: United States “For this conceptual project, students were to chose a pre-existing and well-known brand and develop a line of skin care products. The key factor in deciding upon a brand was that it was not currently affiliated with a skin care line of products. The challenge was then to maintain equity within the brand and translate that into skin care. Altoids has always been a product meant for a mass audience of both men and women. As a largely popular breath mint in the United States, the mint product is slightly more expensive than the…

  • Gordy’s Pickle Jar

    Lovely Package
    10 May 2012 | 11:44 am
    Designed by Common Complex | Country: United States “Our intention was to create a design that celebrated the rebirth of an old craft.  We wanted a design that would feel right at home in a grandma’s kitchen—the kind of grandma that might show you her old biker tattoos while she readies the tea and Sunday paper. Time regained. Gordy’s handcrafted pickles and preserves are a labor of love. Each thoughtfully designed recipe uses fresh, local produce & responsibly cultivated spices.”

  • Kiyu Taro

    Lovely Package
    9 May 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Designed by Victor Branading Design Corp. | Country: Taiwan “Kiyu Meteorological Station taro production from Jiaxian, Kaohsiung, is an unforgettable delicious snack in the Taiwanese memory. This packaging line boldly attempts to use the product itself different tastes, and does not make sense forming interesting combination with weather images. The changing weather referred to as touched the senses of taste, the spicy taste of mustard make us cry like a rain; spicy flavors makes you stamping like thundering; fragrant curry, such as the beautiful moonlit night, sweet caramel taste is…
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    The Inspiration Room

  • Bloemen.nl Wedding Anniversary

    Duncan
    16 May 2012 | 7:37 am
    Bloemen.nl, an online florist company in The Netherlands, is running “De Klos”, a commercial featuring a man whose journey home from the office becomes life threatening. He’s the victim of a drive by shooting, is surprised by a cobra in the mailbox, and discovers the lid to the salt cellar unscrewed. “Nooit meer je trouwdag vergeten. Bestel nu alvast een boeket”. (Never forget your wedding anniversary. Order a bouquet now!) Click on the image below to play the De Klos video in YouTube (HD) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Yk5qTqVFw Credits The Bloemen.nl Wedding…

  • Amarok Automatic Online

    Duncan
    16 May 2012 | 5:21 am
    Volkswagen has launched the new automatic version of the Amarok in Brazil with an automatic site, amarok.vw.com.br. Just like in the pick-up, people can also choose their option of transmission. If the user chooses to browse in the automatic mode, Amarok identifies the obstacles in the corner of the screen without the person having to use the mouse or the keyboard. The webcam scans the face and the navigation occurs automatically, only with the eyes. Credits The Automatic Amarok site was developed at AlmapBBDO, Sao Paulo, by general creative director Luiz Sanches, creative directors Andre…

  • Ministry of Letters

    Duncan
    15 May 2012 | 9:10 pm
    Creative agency Mother’s latest IP venture, The Ministry of Letters, is launching a smartphone app designed to foster a love of literacy in children. The “Singing Alphabet” app builds on the idea that the alphabet is alive, highly organised and made up of a gang of unique, colourful male and female characters. In the app, the 26 members of the alphabet are shown waiting on stage ready to perform for the user. Children touch a letter to hear it sing its ‘phonetic’ sound. By continuing to press the characters, simple words can be created at the bottom of the screen and the…

  • Persil Color Gel

    Duncan
    15 May 2012 | 5:43 pm
    Henkel‘s Persil Color Gel is being promoted as the way to preserve clothing color in this print advertising campaign featuring clothing-shaped post-it notes. The campaign is designed to simply represent the way the product keeps the color of the fabric intact with every wash, depicted visually as if it’s like discovering a new garment every time. Credits The Color Gel campaign was developed at DDB Dubai and DDB-Tribal Dusseldorf by copywriter/art director Kapil Mayekar, creative directors Makarand Patil and Kartik Aiyar, retoucher Sanu Raju, photographer Issam Bouini, account team…

  • Penguin Books In Your Ear

    Duncan
    15 May 2012 | 7:20 am
    Penguin Books promotion of audio books in Malaysia has won a range of recent advertising awards, including Silver at the 2012 One Show Awards and Black Pencils for Entertainment – Motion Pictures, Plays and Books (Campaign) and Newspaper: Technique & Artistry – Illustration (Campaign) at the Andy Awards, adding to the Bronze Outdoor Lion at Cannes in 2011. Three print ads show characters walking from the outer ear to the inner ear, representing three well known tales: The Piped Piper of Hamelin, The Wizard of Oz, The Jungle Book. Credits The Penguin Books Ear campaign was…
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    Bit Rebels

  • How To: Woo A Blogger For Publicity

    Amy Chan
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Advertise here with BSABloggers are a marketer’s dream come true. If you can get on their good side, they will be one of your company’s biggest brand ambassadors. Their existing fan base already trusts their recommends. This means if they talk about you, your company will get in front of potential customers usually not within your reach. Part of the DNA of true bloggers is the fact that they cannot contain their excitement and passion when they love a product and feel it is their duty to tell the world about it on every social medium possible. Oh, and they usually do this for free.

  • Mickey Mouse Sugar Rush: Mickey Oreos, Cupcakes & Cake Pops

    Diana Adams
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Advertise here with BSAHave you ever been on the Internet reading something and then you see another interesting link somewhere on the page and you click on it? Everybody has done that, right? You read that page and then click on another link, and this goes on and on until you find yourself on a website and you have no idea how you really got there. It’s completely off the topic that you were originally reading about, but it’s interesting, so you read on. This is the story of my life on a daily basis, and it’s probably the main reason why I’m an Internet addict. I…

  • Understoodit Classroom App: Press Red Button If You’re Confused

    Tricia Edgar
    16 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    Advertise here with BSAIt’s early in the morning, and you’re sitting in class. You pulled an all-nighter yesterday, and the evening before you may or may not have been out partying. You’re not at peak performance, to say the least. And then the prof enters the room, and it’s all over. Confusion time. While some university confusion could be eliminated through diligent study, fewer hangovers, and far fewer all night study sessions, some of it could also be reduced if the profs actually knew that their students were confused. However, if you’re like me, you may not really want to put…
 
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    Dornob

  • Conversation Pieces: Puzzling Wall Murals of Tableware

    dornob
    15 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    [ Filed under More & in the Art of Design category ] Typically, tableware is self-contained in terms of its design, either uniform across a set or at least forming a complimentary series set around the table. These pieces are all parts of a larger puzzle, and could spark quite the discussing during either eating or cleanup at a large meal. Ceramist Molly Hatch uses historical images from major museums as the basis for her pieces, so a savvy art historian might notice something familiar in each part of the whole. Note that though she displays these in museums as well, they might be even…

  • Cocoon House Expressively Combines Lines, Curves & Green

    dornob
    15 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    [ Filed under Ultramodern & in the Architecture category ] It starts with a fluid central volume with operable circular windows and skylights for seasonal weather-based temperature flexibility, then spawns a series of additional indoor and outdoor spaces. Scheduled to be constructed on the coast of South Korea by 2015, Planning Korea let each sub-structure reflect its function with respect to the whole, including party rooms, work spaces, bedrooms and lounges that jut out at angles in each direction. A green roof also varies in height, rising toward one end of the site and sinking into…

  • Scary Penthouse Bathroom Sits on 15-Floor Elevator Shaft

    dornob
    14 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    [ Filed under Interiors & in the Bathrooms category ] There is certainly a joke in here somewhere about being scared into going to the bathroom, but you can certainly sort that out for yourself having seen this death-defying floor. Hernandez Silva Arquitecto saw an opportunity in a strangely-unused secondary elevator shaft when updating this top-floor residence, illuminating the void below and situating it (oddly) square with the bathroom above. Nearly as remarkable as the downward view is the lack of pizzazz in the space itself – a simple red-and-white color scheme is almost…

  • Unboxed: Surprisingly Spacious Flat-Pack House on Wheels

    dornob
    14 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    [ Filed under Portable & in the Architecture category ] The renderings are as matter-of-fact as the design: a no-nonsense, use-all-spaces approach to mobile and quickly-deployed housing by Mehdi Hidari Badie. The non-directional configuration contains all of the basics centered around a core volume of space – supplementary wings on either side and raised decks front and back. Adjustable metal legs support the primarily wood-and-glass frame structure, adaptable to different ground conditions when the wheels are raised. Solar panels are a clearly dominant feature, providing full…

  • Dual-Sided Digital Cutting Board & Scale for Clean Cooking

    Loef
    13 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    [ Filed under Kitchenware & in the Furnishings category ] Taking tablets to a new level of daily usage, this conceptual cutting board puts your recipes, pictures of the food you are preparing and other resources right where you want them: on hand and adjacent to the ingredients as you slice and dice them. A built-in scale shows the weight of what you are working with while surface cleanliness detection technology lets you avoid cross-contamination between uses and washes. Jaewan Jeong proposes two sides to work with, so you can flip and continue working before running water over between…
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    If It's Hip, It's Here

  • Mass Marketed Items Reduced To Their Purest Form in Brand Spirit.

    laura sweet
    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Brand Spirit is a Tumblr project by Andrew Miller of New York's Carbone Smolan Agency. Every day for 100 days, he is painting one object entirely in white, removing all evidence of visual branding and reducing the object to its purest form. He then adds a photograph of the object to his Tumblr site.above: VictorinoxThe consumables, toys, desk accessories, household staples and other objects (all priced at or under $10) are surprisingly recognizable without signage and labels. The exercise/ project proves how many mass produced and marketed items become icons in their own right, based soley on…

  • The Nike "Biomorph" Launch Spot for Their Flyknit Running Shoes And How It Was Done.

    laura sweet
    15 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Nike tapped David Rosenbaum of Mothership to conceive the :51 second short that launched its Flyknit technology and shoe collection. Inspired by the concept of body schema, David developed a story in which the shoe becomes a seamless extension of the runner’s foot through a progression of organic visuals, and took the piece from start to finish."Biomorph":To develop an accurate visual expression for the innovative weaving process director David Rosenbaum met with Nike engineers and watched the shoes being made on customized industrial knitting machines.The making of "Biomorph":Credits:Andy…

  • The "ish" Watch For The Perpetually Casual. Clarification On The Designs And Pricing.

    laura sweet
    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    You might have seen this watch on various 'creative' sites and blog in the past week. A new watch by HYPHEN, The Indian Stretchable Time' / 'ish' watch, allows for some leeway when it comes to time. In lieu of your typical quarter hour markings, the "ish" watch has 12ish, 3ish, 6ish and 9ish printed askew on the white face.Despite getting lots of recent press on sites such as Designboom, Comm Arts and other creative design blogs and e-mags, no one seems to have pointed out that the watch details seem to be inconsistent in terms of the hands, the second hand, the bezels and the straps shown in…

  • Pantone Hard-Sided Luggage To Go With The Pantone Luggage Tags. What A Trip.

    laura sweet
    14 May 2012 | 5:00 pm
    News has broken that Pantone Universe has designed a series of hard-sided luggage, the latest in a long, long list of Pantone-inspired products (I have over 20 posts on Pantone and Pantone-inspired products, just use the search box at the top of the blog or the one in the side bar and type in Pantone).No word yet on when or where the suitcases will be available and exactly which styles, but like all Pantone Inspired products, I'll be sure to keep you posted!Pantone Universe presently has two types of luggage tags that would go nicely with these hard-sided Pantone travel bags:The two types of…

  • Wonderfully Whimsically Witty Wallpaper By Graphic Designer Aimee Wilder.

    laura sweet
    14 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    From Sumo Wrestlers and Samurai to Koi and Candy, the selection of wallpapers by graphic designer Aimee Wilder will make you smile and add some wit to any environment. Bold and graphic, her wallpaper designs come in either repeating icons and animals or bold graphic patterns. It's a little like Marimekko meets Escher.above: Sumo Wrestlers Wallpaper They can be used in bright colors on an accent wall or in subtler colors for an entire room. Trendy images like robots, kokeshi dolls and analog electronics are great for kids' rooms while damask patterns, nature inspired images and abstract…
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    Vital Design Blog

  • Giving Back: Vital Supports Cross Roads House

    Ellen Stuart
    15 May 2012 | 1:33 pm
    On Saturday May 5, Cross Roads House of Portsmouth held their 10th annual Benefit by the Sea at Wentworth by the Sea Hotel, raising nearly $280,000 dollars. Cross Roads House has been providing emergency and transitional shelter to homeless men, women and children in the Seacoast community for  30 years. Cross Roads House estimates that over the past 30 years, they have provided 500,000 nights of shelter to over 5,000 different people and 500 families. Cross Roads House is not just a place to sleep for the night. The team at Cross Roads is truly committed to breaking the cycle of…

  • Vital Basics: First Steps on Twitter

    Ellen Stuart
    15 May 2012 | 9:45 am
    We have a wide range of skill levels come through our office when it comes to social media. A few clients are already social media savvy and are happily tweeting, pinning and Instagramming away. Many of our clients, however, have been busy building incredible non-profits, small businesses and innovative products, and haven’t had the time to get caught up on the social media revolution. To that end, we’re introducing a new series of blog posts that will focus on the tools you need to get started on social networks. We’re cutting out the techspeak and even some of the social…

  • Keeping Your Cool: Moms on Social Media

    Rachel Swanson
    11 May 2012 | 3:03 pm
    In honor of Mother’s Day, we’ve put together a few tips for all the moms out there using social media. As a member of Vital’s “Team Mom,” I understand that it’s sometimes hard to know whether you’re connecting with people in an effective and appropriate manner from inside the baby bubble. I cringe at the implication (or even blatant statement) that women become irrelevant or uncool once they give birth, and sometimes I fear we aren’t doing ourselves any favors. So whether you’re a SAHM or you head into the office during the week, keep these pointers in mind before posting…

  • How to Turn Your iPad 2 Into a Sketchbook

    Ellen Stuart
    8 May 2012 | 8:19 am
    If you’re a designer, we probably don’t need to waste time explaining why you would want your iPad to convert itself into a fully featured sketchbook. Vital’s Creative Director Jesse Rand had been searching for the best way to accomplish this for as long as he’s had his iPad 2, and he finally found a combination of accessories and apps that can turn your iPad into a powerful sketchbook. Wacom Bamboo Pen I made this discovery on the bottom shelf of the accessories aisle at BestBuy. It’s the Wacom Bamboo Pen–at $40 it’s a bit pricey, but it’s a…

  • Looking for an Awesome Summer Internship? Work at Vital!

    Ellen Stuart
    2 May 2012 | 2:27 pm
    Vital is a pretty sweet place to work. We have beach days, alley parties and occasionally we’ve got a dog, a baby or a baby dog hanging out in the office. In our spare time, Vital team members are also artists, marathoners, volunteers, film buffs, yoginis, skiers and guitarists. Oh, and we build some awesome websites, too. We’re currently searching for some web development interns to shadow our web team. These interns would be working with our team of hybrid creative designers/developers to plan and execute new sites. So, we wanted to tell you what’s so great about interning…
 
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    Web.AppStorm

  • Ten Tools for Your Pinterest Toolbelt

    Heather Weaver
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Pinterest is a great social networking site, but it is definitely still young and lacking in some features. Whether you want to pin an unsupported format or want an in-depth analysis of your “pinfluence”, these and other potential features just aren’t available in Pinterest (yet, anyway). If you’d like the Pinterest experience but with more features, you can either use an entirely different Pinterest alternative, or you can try using one of these Pinterest-based tools. This collection has a huge variety of tools, including ways to explore, discover, analyze and more.

  • Do You Really Need an App Just for Sharing Files?

    Matthew Guay
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    If you’re looking for a way to store your files online, it can quickly get confusing trying to find the best app. We recently rounded up a number of great apps for syncing your files to your other devices and the cloud, then followed up with a list of apps for sharing files online. There’s a bit of crossover between the two, and among each category many of the apps share very similar features. If you don’t already have a file sharing or syncing app you love, it can be rather tough to decide which is the best for you. But then, why would you need both an app to sync files and an app to…

  • Weebly: Create Your Own Customized Website in Minutes

    Vasu
    15 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    At this time of age, web presence is really critical for your business. Whether you are a florist or running a pet store, nothing sets your apart more than a beautifully crafted website. You’ll be able to reach customers far outside of your normal customer base, and better engage your existing customers. But web development involves a steep learning curve, and could easily scare beginners away. You can hire a professional developer to do the chores, but that can be prohibitively expensive for small businesses. Is there any simple yet inexpensive way that makes it easy? That’s exactly…

  • Weekly Poll: How do You Share Files Online?

    Matthew Guay
    15 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    How do you share files online? Odds are, you’ve shared a file online this week. From a simple screenshot to a code snippet to a PDF document you’ve spent hours writing, we’re sending and sharing more files online all the time. My youngest brother the other day commented on how odd a floppy looked after he’d discovered an old one laying around the house. To him, sharing a file meant using the internet, and he couldn’t even imagine having to use a piece of plastic that couldn’t even hold one picture from most digital cameras today. Fortunately, there’s…

  • Automate Your Workflow With Wappwolf

    Shaun Takenouchi
    15 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    One of the things that is a catch twenty-two with me is the fact that I love to find shortcuts and an easier way to do something. Although it does come in handy, there are times, when it comes back to bite me. But, you have to admit, when it comes to your workflow, if there is a way to cut down on time, we are all for it. I know my time is precious, and I want to maximize it the best that I can. That is why when an app like Wappwolf comes around, I get pretty excited. Wappwolf has a suite of apps that connect to certain cloud services where you can create automations to help with your…
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  • Jaguar XKX Concept Car

    djjoelyd
    8 May 2012 | 6:03 am
    {lang: 'en-GB'}Today we have an amazing concept car to show you. The Jaguar XKX Concept. Skyrill who hails from Manama, Bahrain, has displayed this awesome work of beauty on his Behance profile. “The XKX Jaguar is a new generation electric roadster, aimed at pushing both performance and power efficiency to a new level. This concept tries to revive the glorious design lines of the brand, combining fresh solutions, a unique, new aerodynamics, tailored around the electrical elements of the power system as well as cutting-edge energy feedback.” – Skyrill. Check out the awesome…

  • Featured Artist Exclusive : Giulio Iurissevich

    djjoelyd
    12 Apr 2012 | 6:15 am
    {lang: 'en-GB'}Giulio Iurissevich just loves images, pretty much ever since when he was born, — “And perhaps even earlier.” he reminisces. “I like to watch, hear and communicate through images.” Life, women, instinct & nature are four of the most things that inspire him. When we asked him on what drives him to still be drawing for more than 30 years, he simply answered, “I still do it because I love my job, which is above all, passion. When the work is passion allows you to know you better especially when you’re pressed to the difficulties so you…

  • Jaguar C-X75 – Limited Edition

    djjoelyd
    15 Mar 2012 | 8:26 am
    {lang: 'en-GB'}Today we have a supercar to battle all ours. British car maker Jaguar unveiled the concept car C-X75. There will only be 250 limited edition vehicles produced, with the majority of them packing a turbo charged hybrid 4 cylinder motor. Specs for this impressive motor include packing 95 horsepower helping this vehicle reach 60 miles per hour from a standstill in just 3 seconds flat. I would love to learn how about the cad drafting technology they use to design this thing, it is bad! If I win the euromillions this baby will be mine!
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    WFDJ

  • OBEY hits NYC with Harmony and Discord show in May

    Chris Burns
    27 Apr 2012 | 12:27 am
    Behold the bomb on the first day of the newest Shepard Fairey art show hosted by Pace Prints in New York City called Harmony & Discord. This show is set to bring a whole new batch of Fairey’s fine art pieces including collage, silkscreens, and mixes of the two as well as a few embossed and relief pieces as well. There will be large metal plates, there will be plain ol’ screenprints, and there will be masses of fabulous hand-painted multiples for the swarms of NYC residents that are sure to descend upon the show. This show is part of a residency Shepard Fairey is completing at…

  • Pharrell moves with HMI Orchestra to bring “i am Other” composition to life

    Chris Burns
    16 Jan 2012 | 11:14 pm
    There’s a fellow out there by the name of Pharrell Williams, and if he seems like just a hip-hop artist to you, or just a guy who likes to get into a bunch of popular art forms, you’ve got one or two of the right ideas – next find yourself in a video of a full orchestra playing a piece called “i am Other” commissioned by him for his next CD. There’s something very attractive about how Pharrell goes about moving through life, starting a handful of year ago when he first started getting powerful in the hearts and minds of young people through his music…

  • BobbleDroids turns you into a massively awesome Android bobble-head figurine

    Chris Burns
    19 Nov 2011 | 2:19 pm
    This week the fine folks at BobbleDroids open their doors to the public so that anyone, even you, can drop a little holiday cash with a picture of yourself as an Android so that the team can make a completely unique 3D bobble-head action figure for you and your loved ones! What you do first is pick up the Androidify app from the Android Marketplace, then you make an avatar of yourself on the screen. You take that avatar and you share it to an email, send it over to BobbleDroids, and bam! You got yourself a perfect little desk mate. Full disclosure, one of the folks on staff over at…

  • Diablo III: the Cinematics Begin

    Chris Burns
    22 Oct 2011 | 5:18 pm
    We’re now only months from the release of the third installment in any good cold-blooded American’s favorite RPG video game series of all time: Diablo. The video you’re about to watch is a cinematic from this soon to be released game, it containing footage of what Blizzard says is Deckard Cain’s niece Leah as the pours over her uncle’s writings. Cain appeared in the first two games as a storyline character who bore witness to the horror that was the invasion of earth by the forces of evil. Now its time for Leah to take up the mantel, and although it appears that…

  • D-Face paints a pool with skateboards and spraypaint

    Chris Burns
    21 Oct 2011 | 10:44 pm
    Since the hip-hop monster first came into being in the 1980′s there’s been some changes to the tenants living in its house. Rap, graffiti, and breakdancing have always been kings in the kingdom – now pay heed to skateboarding as well. Skateboarding has been synonymous with spraypaint graffiti since its own birth and culmination into a street-worthy activity from all the way back in the 70′s through the 90′s where the many different forms of skateboarding were all at their height. Remember when Tony Hawk first pulled off the 900? That shit was awesome. Now…
 
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    Beautiful Life

  • Survival Kit “Just in Case”

    Jessica
    16 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    This end-of-the-world survival kit was crafted and designed in Mexico by Menosunocerouno. “If the world ends this year, we better be happily ready. Expecting a beautiful chaos, Menosunocerouno created “Just in Case”, the perfect brand for the end of times. A brand that covers all your basic apocalyptic needs. The perfect gift for friends and [...]

  • Modern Banana Chair “Zjedzony”

    Jessica
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    This modern is inspired by and looks like a banana. It’s actually named Zjedzony, which means “eaten” in Polish. Luxurious and soft chair design brings original aesthetic and functionality into room decor, offering a comfortable shape and a cheerful color combination. Modern chair design by WamHouse continues the tradition of creating food inspired modern furniture [...]

  • Audi E-bike Wörthersee Concept Bike

    Jessica
    14 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    We have earlier seen some of interesting models of e-bikes like Electric Bike PiCycle LTD by Pi Mobility. But today we will show you bike with exclusive design by well-known brand Audi. The Audi’s e-bike Wörthersee looks futuristic at the very first glance and it’s neither a conventional bike nor a pedelec, but is best [...]

  • The Norwegian Wild Reindeer Center Pavilion

    Jessica
    13 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    The Norwegian Wild Reindeer Center Pavilion is located in Dorve, Norway. The architectural marvel has been constructed by Snohetta that comprises of architects, Rune Grasdal, Kjetil T. Thorsen, Margit Tidemand Ruud, Eerik Brett Jacobsen, Martin Brunner and interior architect Heidi Pettersvold. The observation pavilion is spread over an area of 90 square meters and has [...]

  • Stone Footprints by Iain Blake

    Jessica
    12 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    This weekend we want to show you cute series of photos “Stone Footprints” created by photographer Iain Blake. Ian found a lot of smooth stones and pebbles and placed them in fun footprint patterns: five tiny stone “toes” surround a larger stone. Amateur photographer working in the emergency service sector in Renfrew, Scotland, the Stone [...]
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    Visible Logic: Design Advances Success

  • Branding Case Study: ClaimVantage

    Emily Brackett
    8 May 2012 | 5:54 am
    Recently, we completed a branding upgrade for our client ClaimVantage. ClaimVantage is a software company that has developed a claims processing solution that runs on the cloud-based force.com platform. The company has offices in both Portland, Maine and Dublin, Ireland. We’ve been working with ClaimVantage for more than a year and the branding process was part evolution, part revolution. When we first started working together we helped them with a “clean up” of their web site. But at that time they didn’t have the budget for a complete rebuilding of their brand…

  • Differentiation: Key to Branding, But Detrimental to SEO?

    Emily Brackett
    4 May 2012 | 10:20 am
    As branding experts, we work with companies to develop unique brand identities. We begin the process by helping business owners to figure out how to differentiate their product or service, and separate themselves from their competitors. We then turn this into a name, logo, web site or printed material that positions them apart from their competition. However, we’ve discovered there are some people who want to promote a distinct part of their brand identity so much that they end up losing search results. Let me give you a made up example: Imagine there is a company that coaches business…

  • What To Do When You Can’t Afford Branding

    Emily Brackett
    18 Apr 2012 | 1:20 pm
    Recently, I got an email from a long-time friend. He told me how he was thinking of starting his own business, but still trying to figure out if it would work. He couldn’t afford to invest in a professionally designed brand identity system now, so what advice did I have for him about working with low cost options for web sites, etc. First of all, I have to say this is a bit like walking into the BMW dealership and asking them which Hyundai model they would recommend. I don’t study the free options out there for building web sites. I use and choose professional level tools. But, I…

  • Cheap Templates Suggest a Cheap, Uncreative Business

    Emily Brackett
    19 Mar 2012 | 11:38 am
    We’re living in a DIY world, and many small business owners and especially start-ups make the mistake of choosing a cheap template to define their brand identity. They start with one one cheap template to create their web site, another for their email marketing and finally another to make a logo and put it on a business card. Now you have not only one, but maybe multiple, unrelated, completely generic and cheap looking pieces that define your organization’s essential identity. Inc. Magazine had an interesting article called: Your Homemade Website Isn’t Cutting It Anymore…

  • Your Web Site Does Not Need More Traffic

    Emily Brackett
    14 Mar 2012 | 10:29 am
    Everyone seems to wonder: “How much traffic is my web site getting?” “Am I getting enough hits on my web site?” “How much traffic should I expect from my web site?” What you really need to find out is: Am I getting the right traffic to help my business? Because more traffic does not always equate to more leads, more sales, more calls or however you define as success. How does your web site fit into your business plan? I’m frequently surprised when clients seem to have some random number in their head about the amount of traffic they expect from their…
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    From the small desk of Bryan Connor

  • "Perhaps the time has come to say that there is, in reality, no such choice as Yeats’s “Perfection of..."

    bconnor-interactive
    14 May 2012 | 1:25 pm
    “Perhaps the time has come to say that there is, in reality, no such choice as Yeats’s “Perfection of the life, or of the work.” The division implied by this proposed choice is not only destructive; it is based upon a shallow understanding of the relation between work and life. The conflicts of life and work, like those of rest and work, would ideally be resolved in balance: enough of each. In practice, however, they probably can be resolved (if that is the word) only in tension, in a principled unwillingness to let go of either, or to sacrifice either to the other. But it is a…

  • Interface Bauhaus Pinterest

    bconnor-interactive
    10 May 2012 | 4:32 pm
    Started a board for these design at http://pinterest.com/bryanconnor/interface-bauhaus/ - follow the board to be updated as I add more that I find. Pinned this new one today: 

  • Undesigning Undesign

    bconnor-interactive
    3 May 2012 | 3:27 pm
    Undesigning Undesign: Interesting article in the context of some of the design work I’ve been posting here. It’s not minimalism and it’s not “undesigned.” It’s very careful reduction to the point of clarity.  

  • "As life grows more complex, it requires a greater and greater extension of language. Graphic..."

    bconnor-interactive
    1 May 2012 | 8:26 am
    “As life grows more complex, it requires a greater and greater extension of language. Graphic representation is that extension, that synthesis of art and science now urgently demanded by contemporary life.” - Will Burtin

  • Colorblocking

    bconnor-interactive
    23 Apr 2012 | 10:30 am
    My friend @abachman rightly pointed out the fashion trend of colorblocking as being related to the interface style I’ve been exploring here.  There’s definitely a correlation. What’s interesting is that this trend works best on garments that are themselves relatively simple in construction. This re-enforces the idea that we’re not just talking about an aesthetic style of minimalism here. It goes deeper, into the form of the clothes themselves. 
 
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    DesignFloat Blog

  • Sculptures by Edouard Martinet. Metal Art

    Katarina
    16 May 2012 | 8:28 am
    The life-like works created by this talented former graphic designer who has become a sculptor amaze with their look. The fact is that they are created from various metal parts and other refused materials that the artist finds whatever he can. One more amazing fact is that these works are made without welding. You can spend hours looking at them, examining their parts and the finest details that look like a puzzle that was put together from the random pieces. It’s really a secret how Edouard Martinet crafts these astonishing pieces of art, but perhaps you’ll be the first to find it out…

  • Free Website Template for Business Project. jQuery Powered Slider

    Anny
    15 May 2012 | 7:51 am
    Great design and rich creativity are the main key features which form the basis for creating professional and effective designs. Following these principles, our experts combine different techniques and methods with the latest trends to create amazing themes and present you the top-grade templates like today’s Free Website Template for Business Project. jQuery Powered Slider. Taking into consideration your business requirements and professional needs we introduce you this great template with fresh design and clean style. If you need to make your website effective and noticeable among others,…

  • How to Give a Unique and Creative Touch to your Logo Designs Projects

    Mortimer
    11 May 2012 | 9:06 am
    As creation needs creativity, creation or designing of a logo also requires creativity. Therefore, it can be said that the logo designing is considered as the best example of someone’s creativity. A complete logo designing process takes a quality amount of knowledge related to both graphical representation and programming languages. Only the logo designers and the people related to this field know how much effort and hard work one has to put to create a logo and make it creative and unique. It is not must for you to have a degree in graphic designing but you need to have a creative eye to…

  • Awesome Pinterest Tools for Social Media Addicts

    Mortimer
    10 May 2012 | 3:52 am
    Being the latest social media sensation Pinterest community continues to grow insanely fast. It is hard to believe that these guys have managed to build such a huge social network just in two years. Considering the growing popularity of Pinterest social network we’ve decided to collect some useful and interesting tools and add-ons that would make “pinning” more user-friendly. Below you’ll find our list of some great Pinterest applications that can potentially benefit you. Also don’t forget to share with us apps that we might have missed. Stay social, stay with…

  • Light Installations by Lee Eunyeol. Mystic Nights

    Katarina
    9 May 2012 | 7:06 am
    The wonder of the starry nights are perfectly brought into the works of the artist we are going to talk about it today’s post. Lee Eunyeol is the artist who creates the breathtaking light installations and settles them in the most unusual places. The landscapes gain the fairy-tale look after this artist works with them for some time. The tiny electric bulbs are able to change the trivial place into the romantic one, adding to them the magic of night. When you look at them, it seems that the night sky has fallen down and now gladdens our eyes with its beauty. *** *** *** *** *** *** ***…
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    2Modern Blog

  • Michelle Armas’ Cheery and Colorful Paintings

    greg@2modern.com (2Modern)
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Wow! Love loving Michelle Armas’ bold and bright modern fine art paintings. Energetic and cheerful, they really infuse the viewer with a sense of optimism. And the colors are superb: lots of warm reds, yellows and oranges mix with greens and more. Abstract and modern, drips mingle with slight geometric shapes. Though they don’t have a lot of depth, we enjoy their slightly landscape-ish feel. More on Michelle Armas’ website. What do you think about this art? Images: Michelle Armas’ website

  • DIY: Felted Box Storage Thingy

    greg@2modern.com (2Modern)
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    We’d be lying if we said we could completely understand what’s going on with this DIY project; the site we found it on is in Portuguese and Google Translator isn’t working its best work today. Like, we’re not entirely sure where you get a giant piece of gray felt…maybe you make it? Or maybe a fabric store? The point is if you have a giant sheet of felt and some neon-colored yarn you might have an awesome DIY project on your hands. More information on Casa de Colorir.

  • Sleek & Slideable: Whangapoua Sled House

    greg@2modern.com (2Modern)
    15 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Crosson Clark Carnachan Architects hit one out of the ball park with their cute and clever Whangapoua Sled House. We just love modern design that isn’t huge; that’s a reasonable size but still has everything you need and looks great. Located on a white sand beach on New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula, the home is tall, narrow and covered in lovely wood hues. “Designed to close up against the elements, the hut measures a mere 40 square metres and rests on two thick wooden ‘sleds’ that allow it to be shifted around the beach front section. This innovative…

  • Rabih Hage: The Leftover Collection

    greg@2modern.com (2Modern)
    15 May 2012 | 12:48 pm
    Not sure how we missed this when all the Milan design week excitement was going on, but we just discovered interior designer and architect Rabih Hage’s “The Leftover Collection” for Corian® Colour Evolution. Used to promote the new colors available for this material, Hage used leftover pieces from building to create new, stunning furniture pieces. “I have always been fascinated by unused material or discarded cuts of stone, wood or metal whether chea or expensive. Reusing these materials as a luxury product and treating the off-cuts as something precious is my real…

  • Row Studio’s Rainbow Wax Revolution Polanco

    greg@2modern.com (2Modern)
    15 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    I’d consider getting waxed for this! Located in the upscale neighborhood of Polanco, Mexico City, this is the second branch of Wax Revolution, a new epilation chain based in Mexico. As you can see, this space is bold, angled, colorful and not what you usually think of when you imagine the interiors of these kinds of businesses. From Row Studio’s website: “The first challenge was to give notoriety to an otherwise invisible space, for this we proposed a faceted structure made from a sequence of black steel frames descending from the street to the salon in a similar fashion to…
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    Design Milk

  • FLYM by designaffairs studio

    Caroline
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    From the Munich, Germany-based designaffairs studio comes FLYM, a foldable speaker concept that is so portable it fits in your pocket. Anytime you want to listen to music, simply unfold it and adjust the magnetic latch. It requires no battery and just plugs into any device with a headphone jack. Using a super thin speaker film, the speakers are lightweight and convenient enough to join you on the go for impromptu dance parties or music listening. Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook. © 2012 Design Milk | Posted by…

  • Nonspace by Emily Grundon

    Jaime
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    This art project by Emily Grundon would probably be perfect for our Skim Milk column but I couldn’t wait. Called Nonspace, the projects aims to highlight the architectural geometry of space through a study of light and shadow. Looking to the corners, Emily puts the focus on the lines and angles of the art gallery itself – as opposed to that displayed within it. She hopes to draw more interest to the details that often go unnoticed, and as she says, “hopefully creating a quiet but intriguing view of the simplicity and value of architecture.” Share This: Twitter |…

  • Jessica Carnevale at Milan Design Week

    Katie
    16 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    Heartbreakingly, I missed the very talented Jessica Carnevale and her fabulous Puffy furniture in Milan, so we caught up afterwards. Here’s what we talked about… Your work, especially the Puffy collection, is really unusual. What are your influences? Where do you get your inspiration? Yes, the pieces seem to have their own personality, I’m glad to say. Puffy takes the much-loved puffy jacket, as its inspiration. Rather than just doing one piece, I wanted to extend my experimentation across a whole collection. Fashion designers get to create whole crazy collections every…

  • Where I Work: black+blum

    Jaime
    16 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Dan Black and Martin Blum founded black+blum in 1998 and are based in London, where they work out of an historic building with tons of character, but it wasn’t always like that (think: working out of a caravan). They design, source and market their own range of products, which are now sold in leading design stores all over the world, like the recently-featured Eau Good Water Bottle. We popped into their digs to check out where they come up with their best-selling designs. When we arrived, Martin was not present because he and his wife recently welcomed twins! So, Dan thought it would be…

  • Kreuzband Stool by Judith Jacobi

    Jaime
    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, which was part of the exhibition at Ventura Lambrate 2012 in Milan. One of the exhibiting students, Judith Jacobi, showed her Kreuzband stool. Kreuzband uses the human “locomotor system” as a model for its construction. The human body’s bones and tendons are replaced by wood and rope, so the stool doesn’t need nails or screws. Because of the flexible design, Kreuzband can also be folded. This skeletal construction is covered with a leather-surface, allowing to sit comfortable and relaxed (isn’t that all we ask from seating,…
 
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    DESIGN FETISH

  • iPhone Inspired Business Cards

    16 May 2012 | 1:06 pm
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  • Bubbles Soapdish

    16 May 2012 | 1:05 pm
    Hmm…pretty deceiving!!! Like! [via]

  • Fireplace Art

    16 May 2012 | 1:03 pm
    Custom painted pixelated fireplace!!! [via]

  • Instagram Socialmatic Camera

    13 May 2012 | 2:58 pm
    A concept design by ADR-Studio envisions what a physical Instagram camera might look like – a giant Instagram logo, of course. The square camera would not just shoot, but print photos. [via]

  • Magazine Cover Mirror

    13 May 2012 | 2:56 pm
    Available in six different magazines, choose the one you’d love to be on the cover of the most! Get them here. [via]
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    Packaging of the World: Creative Package Design Archive and Gallery

  • Wave (Concept)

    16 May 2012 | 4:57 am
    Designed by ENTWURFREICH, Germany. Here is what the multi-cycle crate of the future could look like: Out of 443 design ideas from 75 different countries, the jury has awarded first prize to the concept “WAVE” in the category “Design”. Earlier this year, the company had called young designers to submit their ideas as part of the “Coca-Cola Design+ Award“ to the creative platform jovoto.com. The best design, according to the jury, was submitted by the young industrial design agency “ENTWURFREICH” from Düsseldorf (Germany) for the design "WAVE" in which the jury unanimously…

  • Neverending Story (Student Work)

    16 May 2012 | 3:55 am
    Designed by Matteo Giuseppe Pani, Italy. This is a personal collection of Michael Jackson's hits. The title of this piece was chosen to illustrate the immortality of his music. I wanted to design a cover which portrayed MJ in a surrealistic world which paradoxically was also his life. Since it was my intention to do a special edition cover I decided to create a package that was in line with this idea and the style of MJ.

  • Kiss (Concept)

    16 May 2012 | 3:44 am
    Designed by Istratova Alexandra, Russia. Packing for a puree of vegetables and fruits Every kiss has its own unique taste and feeling... you can find what you like! I have collected an unusual mix of natural fruits and vegetables in our package. DOY-PACK - can easily eat on the go or during your lectures.

  • Untapped (Redesigned)

    15 May 2012 | 1:19 am
    Designed by Kelsey Heinrich, Australia. Untapped is a Beer Boutique, located in Teneriffe, that stocks Australia's best range of craft beers. They requested a complete re-brand of their identity that would allude to their exclusive point of difference and reflect the quality of their products. The redesign makes reference to traditional breweries of the past by using an ample amount of crafted typefaces, particularly ones which recall historic themes.

  • Mateo & Bernabé

    15 May 2012 | 1:09 am
    Designed by Estudio Moruba, Spain. The task provided by the Project Management Team (TSMGO) to the Design Team (ESTUDIO MORUBA) was to create a visual poem that would give personality to each of the creations of Mateo and Bernabe with a graphical design both recognisable and full of meaning. Each of the varieties of beer would have the personality of a saint (without the liturgy or religious components) to make them more personable. The characteristics of each variety would be seen more clearly and would tell the story of each Saint associated with the place of which he is patron, to invite…
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    Behance Network Featured Projects

  • Deutsche Fernsehlotterie - Paper World

    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Follow the paper plane into Sehsucht's latest origami-style world of helping hands and improved communities. We produced the 30 sec. TVC "Paper" full CG for Deutsche Fernsehlotterie, a charitable lottery, and their agency Zum Goldenen Hirschen, all three companies from Hamburg/Germany. Director Hans-Christoph Schultheiss and his team walked the tightrope between reduction and complexity, aiming to create the characters as human as possible but with a realistically foldable look that carries the complex textures of paper.

  • Nike Basketball

    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Several designs for Nike Basketball 2010-2011

  • Filter017 X Jiukoushan R.D. Series Notebook

    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    Filter017 X Jiukoushan R.D. Series Notebook

  • CHONGQING CITY | Fashion Story 01

    16 May 2012 | 1:00 am
    A narrative urban fashion vision in the city of Chongqing in China.

  • Y?kai!

    15 May 2012 | 9:00 pm
    7 characters inspired by the Y?kai - supernatural monsters from Japanese folklore - in their habitat, with their unique look and own abilities.
 
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    DesignModo

  • How Web Designers Can Successfully Use the Dribbble Network

    Jenna Scaglione
    16 May 2012 | 4:34 am
    Do you like basketball? If you do and you are a web designer, you may take a liking to the design community Dribbble. If you hate sports, no worries! You still may like the network, especially if you are a web designer looking to showcase some of your work and share snippets of it with [...]Advertise here with BSA

  • Pandora UI Free for iOS – User Interface Pack

    Adrian
    15 May 2012 | 5:54 am
    After the successful launch of Pandora UI premium pack by DesignModo, we have decided to share a part of it with our beloved readers. You can now download the free version of Pandora UI containing a handful of elements that will definitely be helpful. The Pandora UI Free Kit, contains 2 samples and some elements [...]Advertise here with BSA

  • Vendor Prefixes: A Force For Good or Evil?

    Joe Savage
    14 May 2012 | 7:12 am
    The Story and Problems If you’re a web developer working with CSS (especially CSS3) in modern browsers, it’s more than likely that you’ve come across these things called vendor prefixes. Initially used for features unique to certain browsers, vendor prefixes are essentially a way of making a certain CSS property exclusive for one browser or [...]Advertise here with BSA

  • UI Kits for Developers – Prototyping and Homemade Design

    Rochester Oliveira
    11 May 2012 | 5:18 am
    Hope you guys are enjoying our posts on UI Kits functionality. It’s such a new topic that it’s even hard to find other opinions out there, all we find is UI Kits collections, but no reflections or creative uses. So, hope to see more discussion on this, the door (a.k.a. comments / trackbacks section) is [...]Advertise here with BSA

  • Adobe Illustrator CS6 – Review of New Features

    Iaroslav Lazunov
    10 May 2012 | 7:12 am
    Today I will try to analyze the most important of new features of Adobe Illustrator CS6, and will review the other less significant, in my opinion, improvements. After reading this review, you can get a first glimpse of the advantages of this release, and make your own conclusions; I was just trying to make an [...]Advertise here with BSA
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    Mochatini

  • Guest Post: Brighten up your home with vibrant colors this Summer

    manvi
    1 May 2012 | 1:51 pm
    As a special treat, decorating with color guest post by Polly Vaughan Distressed-effect shabby chic or high-gloss minimalism – whichever way your home décor inclines, it’d be easy to assume that the default-option colour is white. Flick through any glossy interiors mags, Pinterest boards, style blogs and catalogues, and you’re confronted with shades from swansdown to snowdrop, chalk to cotton wool; it’s a bit like the audience at fashion shows where everyone’s wearing black. I’m beginning to find this a little boring – but can’t quite bring myself to break open a tin of…

  • Happy Birthday Mochatini + Giveaway

    manvi
    30 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am
    Hard to believe it has been FOUR years since I started this little bloggity blog. I truly appreciate your friendships, support and encouragement. A HUGE thank you and hug to you all. To celebrate, I have a fantastic giveaway for you!   I truly appreciate your friendships, support and encouragement. A HUGE thank you and hug to you all. To celebrate, I have a fantastic giveaway for you!     DSLR camera owners take note:: I am giving away a brand new copy of Adobe Lightroom 4, $150 value, to one lucky Mochatini reader. If you arent familiar with it, Lightroom 4 – is a great…

  • Hello Monday

    manvi
    23 Apr 2012 | 10:51 pm
      from my recent glamping look for hgtv.com: Throw a luxury camping party at home styled and photographed by manvi drona-hidalgo

  • Striped up

    manvi
    11 Apr 2012 | 10:49 am
    A huge lover of stripes, I am loving how this graphic pattern is all over design world, lately. From dress, design, decor, stationery, tabletop and even food, stripes are everywhere! While black and white stripes are a classic, I am totally digging navy and white too. My take on this chic graphic trend? Add a splash of gold to the mix.  

  • Eat | Avacado Arugula Apple Salad

    manvi
    27 Mar 2012 | 11:15 pm
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    WebyLife

  • 10 Essential Tips for designing Ecommerce sites

    Guest Post
    13 May 2012 | 10:14 pm
    Finding useful information about important areas of eCommerce websites can be quite hard with the massive amount of information out there on web. Here is a list of what we believe are essential tips for designing ecommerce websites, that will help you design a site that is user friendly & high on conversion. Below is [...]

  • Best Way To Monitor Staff Productivity To Enhance Businesses

    Guest Post
    9 May 2012 | 1:05 pm
    Monitoring productivity has become highly essential for smooth operation of all businesses. Employee morale is a significant factor that determines productivity. There are several factors the needs to be borne in mind by employers to ensure that their employees are happy. Fostering a positive environment at work is equally important. There are quite a few [...]

  • 10 Things to Remember When Designing Highly Converting Forms

    Guest Post
    30 Apr 2012 | 2:54 am
    That Google thought to create the AutoFill function for users filling out forms says a lot about forms themselves.  They are boring and tedious, the quagmire of the internet, designed, it seems sometimes, only to frustrate and annoy innocent browsers. It is a sad reality, then, that so many designers of forms seem to have [...]

  • 4 Reasons Why You Need Web Design Services

    Guest Post
    29 Apr 2012 | 1:58 am
    In this day and age, when the internet has widely been acknowledged as the most effective and efficient medium of communication and transferring of information, the role of website design services has become even more important. The internet not only serves as the sales front for many established companies, but is also an important cornerstone [...]

  • What Web Designers can learn from the Fashion Runway?

    Nikunj Tamboli
    28 Apr 2012 | 5:35 am
    Good web designers draw inspiration from the natural, artistic, and business world around them. Art, literature, and more can all provide the much needed spark which gets a designer on the path to producing a website which is uniquely effective, and also something their client will love. One place that web designers may not first [...]
 
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    Pokate

  • Allie Rex

    Kate
    11 May 2012 | 6:57 pm
    My job is an odd one as I spend 99% of my time talking about technology and various Internet and mobile companies and another 80% of my time (everyone works more than 100% of their “allotted” time I believe) writing here, working on the yurt and volunteering with parks groups. So I guess one of my most fun things is when those worlds overlap and this week they did. I met, via work work, a girl who I think would be my friend friend even sans work, which is the best kind. While we met talking startups it turns out we have far more in common from an artistic standpoint and low and…

  • Ruth Borgenicht

    Kate
    9 May 2012 | 5:42 pm
    I think I should have realized this soon – crochet looks like chain mail and knitting too in some instances but definitely crochet. I know the stitch is called chaining and I guess the thought has crossed my mind before but the work of Ruth Borgenicht really drove this idea home. She creates chain mail out stoneware materials and subsequently uses that to create vessels, wall art, etc. They’re really unbelievable. I shutter to think how stressful the firings must be as they must be pre-assembled before that, right? I don’t really get how they remain so acute, not floppy or…

  • Suzanne Husky

    Kate
    7 May 2012 | 6:03 pm
    I have been MIA! Going off on my own and working for myself was a quick way to re-engage my mind out of a bit of dormancy, however, it has also meant less time than I expected on my own things – like the blog. Good thing there are incredible people over on Facebook sharing all sorts of stuff I’m into – including the works of Suzanne Husky. This is a pod big enough to fit several humans and she’s made it to look like a porcupine (perhaps not on purpose but that’s what it looks like to me!). I can’t imagine this would be too difficult to build but time…

  • Rina Peleg

    Kate
    22 Apr 2012 | 9:48 pm
    My parents are big into native american vessels. Growing up we had an entire room filled with pieces that were woven, clay, leather, you name it. When I saw Rina Peleg’s work I was immediately brought back to time in our TV room – the only room where things in our house were kept behind glass cases. Those are woven. I can’t even fathom how she does this. When you think about how quickly clay dries and then how brittle it becomes? I just can’t imagine how she does these and keeps them looking so so even and perfectly spherical. Beautiful – like woven snow. Rina…

  • Jonathan Delafield Cook

    Kate
    16 Apr 2012 | 5:21 pm
    Rare is it that I’m not writing about sculpture here on the blog but when I saw Jonathan Delafield Cook’s charcoal drawings I was blown away. When I saw their scale I was even more impressed! The above is from his Nest series and is 78×82 centimeters – that’s huge! And it’s all charcoal. Some people think charcoal and the first thought is “what a mess” but this is truly extraordinary. You can imagine a little bird just curling up inside it! I mean, I just don’t event think I need to write anything. They’re that good. You think you can…
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    mydesignpick.com

  • Melissa Shoes Melbourne

    admin
    16 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Bubblegum hues, bulging balloons and contrasting textures comprise the new Melissa shoe shop in Melbourne, Australia. ‘The need was to create another world, a sensory delight,’ say designers Juliet Moore and Ben Edwards who were commissioned to realize the Brazilian shoe label’s first shop on Aussie soil. They filled the space with 300 PTFE plastic spheres that resemble suspended balloons. Threaded onto cables mounted around the perimeter, the spheres hang in clusters throughout the shop. Called ‘bubbles,’ they can be used to hang and display shoes in various manners with the help…

  • Skull Bookshelf Sculptures

    admin
    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    British artist James Hopkins created these wonderful skull sculptures out of bookshelves and household items.

  • Outdoor Shower System LOOP by Idiha Design

    admin
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Loop is the new Idiha design producr designed by Diego Granese. Idiha turns water into an excenting multi-sensory experience. Loop is a product to featuren indoor and outdoor spaces, garden, swimming pool or spa.

  • The Piano House

    admin
    15 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    The Piano House is a unique design that looks like a giant transparent violin sitting next to an enormous piano. The building was made by the local government in Huainan, China to increase tourism to the newly developed area. It also serves as a place where local college music students can practice. The two buildings are connected by a staircase inside the violin.

  • Swimming over the air in Shanghai

    admin
    14 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Would you like to swim in a pool like that? I must be honest it’s a little scary for me. The new Holiday Inn Shanghai Pudong Kangqiao features a one of a kind swimming pool,located on the 24th floor of the hotel, the 30 meters long swimming pool is in suspension over the edge. Hotels guests can experience swimming over the air, twenty four floors above the ground with nothing but a glass bottom underneath…! (via)
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    Coolvibe - Daily Digital Art Inspiration

  • Illustration: Hadoken

    Vhaddyz
    16 May 2012 | 5:04 am
    Illustration by Dave Wilkins, USA. Download full image here. Tools: Photoshop

  • Fantasy: Anger

    Vhaddyz
    16 May 2012 | 4:51 am
    Fantasy by Svetlin Velinov, Bulgaria. Tools: Photoshop

  • 2D Art: Bestial Rage

    Vhaddyz
    16 May 2012 | 4:46 am
    2D Art by Mike Capprotti, USA. Download full image here. Tools: Photoshop

  • Portrait: Hydra

    Vhaddyz
    16 May 2012 | 4:39 am
    Portrait by Stjepan Sejic, Croatia. Download image here. Tools: ZBrush, Photoshop

  • Portrait: First Born

    Vhaddyz
    15 May 2012 | 3:59 am
    Portrait by Stjepan Sejic, Croatia. Download full image here. Tools: Photoshop
 
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    Stunning Mesh

  • Inevitable Importance of Inspiration in Web Designing

    Arfa Mirza
    14 May 2012 | 1:31 pm
    We can use the word attraction for inspiration because just like you get attracted to something you like, you get inspired by something you like as well. Inspiration is a natural way to respond towards things which catches our attention or something which opens our minds to new ideas and perspectives that we had never [...]

  • Stylish Wooden Text Effect in Photoshop

    Adil Raja
    13 May 2012 | 1:31 pm
    In this Photoshop Tutorial you will be learning how to make Stylish Wooden Text effect using Photoshop. We will be putting some Wooden Pattern over text then placing it over a Grass and putting some leaves over it. Some Layer Style commands would be used along with some tools. Not a very long tutorial, hopefully [...]

  • Mother’s Day – Express the feelings through Poems and Pictures

    Wijdan Rohail
    12 May 2012 | 1:31 pm
    In most of the countries, second Sunday of every May is dedicated to all mothers of the world. This day is know as Mother’s Day. No doubt every one love the mother which gives them Birth and become the source of bringing them into this world. We salute all Mothers of the world. I’m dedicating [...]

  • Enhance Your Convenience by Installing a Tanning bed in Your Home

    Harper Mac
    11 May 2012 | 1:31 pm
    There are plenty of items we keep in our homes to enhance our appearance as well as our convenience. Although home tanning beds may be a larger investment than hair curlers and facial products, it can save avid tanners a great deal of time and money in the long run. Not to mention, a tanning [...]

  • Nice Miscellaneous Tutorials about making Office Stationery

    Adil Raja
    10 May 2012 | 2:45 am
    Printing, whether it is Online Printing or Offline Printing, depends upon nice design. Every new company requires to Print Business Cards, Brochures, Flyers, Pamphlets, Banners & Signs, Calendars, Catalogs & Booklets, Posters, Stickers, Envelopes, Letterheads, Magnets, Presentation Folders etc. to introduce their-selves in the market. If you got any project about these Office Stationery then [...]
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    TAXI Daily News

  • Siri Has A Change Of Heart, Says iPhone Is The Best Smart Phone

    16 May 2012 | 6:44 am
    Just last week Apple’s virtual personal assistant ‘Siri’ was telling everyone that the Nokia Lumnia 900 was the best smartphone in the market. However, if you were to ask Siri the same question now, odds are you will be given a sarcastic reply such as “The one you are holding” or “You’re kidding right?”. But why the sudden change of heart? According to CNET, they suspected that Apple had changed the answers that Siri gave—however Apple has not given any official word that they did in fact, change her replies. Is this a case of Siri being fickle-minded? [via CNET]

  • Turn Your Old Credit Cards Into Guitar Picks

    16 May 2012 | 6:06 am
    [Click here to view the video in this article] MTV has found a good way to recycle old credit cards—by turning them into guitar picks! By recognizing that most cards have expiration dates, MTV created an installation called ‘Green Picks Recycle Machine’ that punches out guitar picks from old plastic cards. Now you can ‘rock out’ your very own customized guitar picks while helping to reduce wastage! Watch the video below to see how it works: [via MTV]

  • New York Gets The First Underground Park Of The Future

    16 May 2012 | 5:53 am
    A few years ago, Dan Barasch and James Ramsey discovered an abandoned trolley terminal from 1903 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan—and they decided to build an underground park. Called ‘Delancey Underground’ or ‘LowLine’ (as in an underground ‘The High Line’ park for the Lower East Side), the first underground park of New York will use a system of fiber optic cables to gather and transfer sunlight from above the ground, to the ceilings below the ground. The cables will help disperse, and support the growth and photosynthesis of plants and trees. According to Barasch and…

  • Using Old Photography Books, Artists Create Vintage Camera

    16 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    Swiss artists Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs—together known as Tonk—have assembled a camera made out of old photography books. The books are first carved hollow before attaching the lens and buttons. The duo’s latest piece is part of their self-published photo magazine titled As Long as It Photographs and It Must Be a Camera In both books, various camera apparatus are being constructed from almost anything hallow such as a television set to an empty turtle shell! And yes, you can take pictures with their unusual and unorthodox cameras. [via Tonk]

  • How To Make 8-bit Popup Cards

    16 May 2012 | 5:28 am
    Stay-home mom Kate Lilley has created a tutorial on how to make 8-bit minimalistic popup cards. The steps are easily crafted—suitable for teenagers and adults to do. To make the card, you would need: paper, a craft knife, ruler that’s preferably metal, a cutting mat, and a needle. Download either card templates from Lilley’s website: Space Invader, Skull; and the envelope template. Use scissors to trim around the edge of the template. Using a needle and ruler, cut and score along the lines on the template. Then fold the card in half—ensuring that the shape pops out. For more details…
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    Brabantia Life

  • How to become a Brabantia designer, but hurry, time is running out!

    Aime
    15 May 2012 | 3:15 am
    There’s less than a month to go to take part in our competition to find an aspiring designer to create a new design for our 2013 Retro Bin range. So far we’ve received a staggering 534 fantastic entries from all over the world from Belgium to Brazil, China to Chile, and the Netherlands to New Zealand! The Design Your Bin competition is open to all budding creatives throughout the globe – age, experience and location are no barriers. Anyone with creative flair can submit a design – it could be a favourite photo, a piece of fine art, urban graffiti street art, or a…

  • Best MAD Food Blog – Finalists Revealed in UK Mummy and Daddy Blog Awards

    Aime
    12 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    The finalists have been announced in the third annual MAD Blog Awards - the best British Mummy and Daddy blogs. Here at Brabantialife we are sponsoring the Best MAD Food Blog category, celebrating brilliant family cooking, whether it’s baking, menu planning or blogs that get kids cooking for themselves. As huge fans of home dining and creating an authentic home restaurant experience with fun and delicious food, on a budget whilst still keeping on trend, we love to follow our top foodie bloggers who inspire us with new ways to dine. More than 50,000 nominations were received in the…

  • How to pick the correct Brabantia bin liners and more…

    Aime
    10 May 2012 | 1:57 am
    Have you seen all our product and How To Customer videos on YouTube yet? We’ve created a series of How To and product information videos to help you get the most out of your Brabantia products.   Are you wondering which is our best bin to help you organise your recycling? Are you looking for a space saving devise so you can dry your laundry outside? Are you unsure how to change your new ironing board cover? Are you thinking about updating your gadgets and don’t know which products to select? Send us a Tweet @Brabantialife or leave a comment in the box below if you…

  • How to gain backstage access to the sold out #MeettheBlogger event

    Aime
    3 May 2012 | 1:15 pm
    We’re delighted to be sponsoring Meet the Blogger and we hope you managed to book a place on our workshops! Our first workshop (SOLD OUT), is with designer and artist Joran van der Haar winner of the 2010 Iron in Style, who has designed the striking Limited Edition ‘London’ Retro Bin, a must-have for street and urban art fans. He will be joined by our CEO Tijn van Elderen and together they will explore what makes Useful Design Beautiful from a product design perspective. The next workshop discusses product photography with Yvonne Eijkenduijn from the amazing Yvestown Blog. She…

  • Cherry Blossom and Gecko – how to bring glamour to your ironing!

    Aime
    29 Apr 2012 | 1:52 pm
    Well known for fusing beautiful design with innovative functionality we’ve now introduced two unusual and elegant new designs to our stylish range of ironing table covers – Cherry Blossom and Gecko. And, with research showing that the average person in the UK spends almost six years [1] cleaning the house and dealing with household chores, it seems only right to bring a touch of glamour to the ironing! Hitting the production lines is Dutch stylist’s Gerda Elzenaar’s striking yet feminine ‘Cherry Blossom’ design. Crowned the international winner of our 2011 Iron in Style…
 
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    Never Say Cool

  • Leonardo da Vinci at the Queen’s Gallery

    neversa3
    16 May 2012 | 6:58 am
    Leonardo the anatomist. Is there an end to Leonardo’s genius? The latest proof of his never-ending capabilities is on show at the Queen’s Gallery in London UK. Leonardo da Vinci’s groundbreaking studies of the human body are on display in the largest ever exhibition of his anatomical work. The exhibition, which takes place almost 500 years after his death, features 87 pages from his notebook, including 27 sides of previously unexhibited material. Even though Leonardo is recognised as one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, he was one of the most original and perceptive…

  • Cutty Sark Re-opens to the Public

    neversa3
    14 May 2012 | 8:54 am
    Cutty Sark, a ship perfect for carrying tea, re-opens to the public on 26 April 2012. For almost two centuries the magnificent Cutty Sark sailed across all seas of the world. Cutty Sark was built with iron frames, wooden planks and brass sheathing and was considered perfect for carrying tea by ship owners like John Willis. She made eight tea voyages, loading tea at Shanghai and Hankou and each time she picked up a cargo of around 600,000 kg of tea. On Cutty Sark’s first voyage she carried 10,335 chests, 1,790 half chests, 621 boxes and 2,256 packages. Her fastest journey to China was to…

  • Withings Smart Baby Monitor

    neversa3
    11 May 2012 | 7:58 am
    Consumerism is not sparing us,we have seen tons of babies products lately and tons of useful and fun objects operated by a smartphone.It’s time now spread the voice about the Smart Baby Monitor by Withings.This product has the best technology for baby monitoring(night vision, temperature, humidity, audio and video)and yes it works remotely with your iPhone and iPad! Price: $300 Video: 3 megapixel high definition video sensor (2048 x 1536) with LED IR night vision Audio: Dual input microphone, 16 bit sound sampling at 44.1 kHz, AAC 32 kbit/s encoding Networking: Ethernet, Bluetooth,…

  • 10 Ridiculously Oversized Objects

    neversa3
    10 May 2012 | 12:49 pm
    Several times we have stumbled across oversized objects on the internet,built for fun,to release creativity and yet for commercial purposes they always attract our attention.Here we listed 10 amongst the ones we found more entertaining! Holga Camera (Bitrebels) The aim of the project is to manufacture a 3:1 scale model of the popular pinhole Holga camera.It was made as part of a University project by Gil Adam. Basket Building(NSC) As the architect explains:”If they can put a man on the moon, we can certainly build a building that’s shaped like a basket.” Christmas…

  • Cocoon House

    neversa3
    9 May 2012 | 8:41 am
    Inspired by the volcanic topography of Jeju island and the cocoon of a living organism, Seoul-based architectural practice, Planning Korea, completed their design for the Cocoon House, which is complemented with their amazing rendering techniques. The cocoon, located at the center of the house, provides a space made by nature that protects and develops inner living things from outside. The first phase of the construction will be started in September 2012 and will be completed in 2015. Their cocoon design creates a space like an art piece by translating the round shape of cocoon as an…
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    Pokkisam

  • Interesting Campaign Of Star Wars Identities

    livefordo
    9 May 2012 | 1:28 am
    "Star Wars Identities" explores the  unforgettable star wars characters by exploring the theme of identity illustrated by Gaetan Namouric. read more

  • Adorable Stone Footprints By Iain Blake

    livefordo
    2 May 2012 | 11:59 pm
    Scotland based amateur photographer Iain Blake has used only pepples to create a unique footprints for his photography album on Flickr. Actually it is an adorable concept by him. Let it be Pokkisam’s showcase for your weekend inspiration. The complete set is available at his Flickr set. read more

  • Striking Digital Arts By Russia Artist

    livefordo
    30 Apr 2012 | 6:19 am
    Absolutely striking, the digital arts portfolio of Russian artist LLen29 is exactly what its name alludes to. Done by LLen29, an amateur photographer from the city of Russia, the Digital art is a creative, adorable concept. Although the illustrations themselves are amazing in their crispness and composition of objects. read more

  • Photography Inspiration #32

    livefordo
    30 Apr 2012 | 4:45 am
    In Pokkisam inspiration showcase series today we glad to present Photography Inspiration #32.This is the post of weekly inspirations for your present and future projects. To get the best updates for photography inspiration subscribe to our free RSS feed , Connect with twitter, Become a fan of Facebook page. read more

  • Bluberi: A Cute Frozen Yogurt shop

    livefordo
    27 Apr 2012 | 2:09 am
    'Bluberi' is a frozen yogurt shop which is recently opened outside of washington DC in woodbridge, designed by tokyo-based architect emmanuelle moureaux. The brand owner wanted a cute, delicious and memorable theme to impress customers. The shop has juicy red-pigmented metal chairs along with a bold lime green wall, the interior features eye catching colors with low-VOC paints. read more
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    Creative Fluff Design Blog and Art Magazine

  • Critical Play—The Game as an Art Form | MOMA Event

    Fred McCoy
    10 May 2012 | 2:25 pm
    The Contemporary Art Forum presents timely and innovative programs (lectures, conversations, and performances) that address pressing issues in contemporary art, and grow out of discussions with MoMA curators. Participants include artists and designers, critics, curators, and scholars, among others. From Marcel Duchamp’s chess games to Lygia Clark’s puzzles, artists throughout the 20th century have adopted the structures and strategies of games. In recent years, they have begun to explore virtual, online, and video games in their work—as well as game theory, an increasingly critical…

  • New Music – Darin Bennett and the Requiem

    Chris Prince
    10 May 2012 | 10:33 am
    Rock, Soul, Blues and a Banjo! If you enjoy anyone of those genre’s your going to love this band! Darin Bennett and the Requiem have this really great old school earthy tone. The kind of tone that is reminiscent of crossing LA with the Deep South. Holdin’ Me is a music video directed by Andrew Cochrane. The video uses a one shot comic book frame style to tell it’s story. The cinematography combined with the dusty setting gives a real wild west feel which compliments the tone and feel of the song very well. While some scenes do seem fairly awkward (The shotgun scene and the…

  • Little Cars by Lilian Hardouineau / Patea Films

    Fred McCoy
    8 May 2012 | 9:05 am
    Does anyone actually remember Atomic Kitten? The Locomotion? Come on Baby…I’m showing my age aren’t I. Little Cars is a fantastic film about street racing pieces of paper with car parts scribbled on them. While the animation features a common contemporary french style, it makes use of that by giving us simple visuals and telling a simple story. The are two cars. They’re racing. Shenanigans ensue. At first I wasn’t sure about the choice of music in the background but the end of the film really does bring a new meaning to “Do the Locomotion”. Check out…

  • SubWars – Pop Culture Anime Inspired Madness by SeanSoong

    Fred McCoy
    24 Apr 2012 | 9:04 am
    It’s Tuesday morning. The sun is shining. The birds are chirping. And somewhere at this very moment there is a subway car full of inconsiderate people about to have their lives cut short by a old man with a lightsaber because they chose to not offer their seat to him. Subwars, directed by Sean Soong is an amazing anime inspired pop culture mash-up featuring iconic Western characters animated with contemporary Japanese influences. Catch the video past the break and check out some of our choice screens below. Lesson to be learned? The rules like “Seats for Elderly & Pregnant…

  • The Art and Visual Effects of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

    Fred McCoy
    19 Apr 2012 | 1:34 pm
    Are you an artist and avid gamer? If you are and happen to be on the West Coast then you have to check out the making of Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 3. The event features a detailed look at the art and visual effects of the blockbuster cross-console game. The gathering is sponsored by the famous Gnomon School of digital arts. Get the details below: Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, co-developed by Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games, was released on Tuesday, November 8, 2011, and quickly broke the record for the biggest opening launch in entertainment history. Join us for an…
 
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    ZURB

  • Size Matters Not: The Road to Foundation 3.0

    15 May 2012 | 5:30 pm
    If you hadn’t heard, bigger monitors are in, small ones are out … at least for desktops. The 1366x768 has ousted 1024x768 as the supreme screen size. Now we hope you’re not thinking that means we should stop designing for small screens, even if it is for desktops, despite what Jakob Nielsen might be saying. Because when it comes to designing for the web — size shouldn’t matter. Nielsen makes it a point to carefully say that “small screens are finally so rare for desktop computers that we don’t have to design for them.” Then he goes on to cover his bases, saying we still have…

  • Why Every ZURBian Carries an iPad

    14 May 2012 | 4:05 pm
    Last week, we were excited here at ZURB to distribute new iPads to every member of the ZURB team: design, operations, marketing and engineering — even our interns. There's plenty of companies in Silicon Valley that kit their employees out with nice gear, but this wasn't just about everyone having shiny toys (though it doesn't hurt). Multi-Device is the Future You've probably noticed that it's not just laptops and desktops people are using these days. Other classes of device, like smartphones or tablets or eReaders (etc, etc) are beginning to dominate how people access the Web, or talk…

  • Week In Review: ZURB Culture, Customer Service and The Scientific Method

    14 May 2012 | 2:25 pm
    Curious to learn more about the ZURB culture? If you’ve been following our posts from last week, we gave you a nice look into how a new designer adjusts into a new environment as well as our approach to failure. It’s different, and we embrace it! Culture aside, we had two other posts covering entrepreneurship and customer service topics. Grab that cup of coffee and enjoy our Week-In-Review. Breaking In A New Designer One of the most exciting times in a ZURB designer’s career is joining the company, but it doesn’t come without a few bumps in the road. Alina, one of our new designers,…

  • In Product Design, Customer Service Is Much More Than A Simple Q&A

    11 May 2012 | 5:30 pm
    Customer service is a core part of ZURB’s day-to-day operations. We spend a lot of hours ensuring that each of our customers can take full advantage of the apps that they invest in. In the most traditional sense, customer service is actually quite basic. A customer has a question, gets in contact with the company and gets their question answered. Perhaps it’s not always this easy, but at its core, it’s a transactional exchange of information for a time. When it comes to ZURB (and product design), however, customer service is a completely different animal. No longer is it just a…

  • Rewarding Failure? Actually, We're Fostering Success

    9 May 2012 | 4:15 pm
    Alina highlighted something the other day that caught the attention of a few people — that part of our culture is to encourage our teammates to get crazy and throw out some pretty wild ideas, even if it means failure. She rightfully called it opportunity and outlined three good reasons why we do it: To get bad ideas out of our system To make sure no creative stone is unturned And, occasionally, to gauge the customer’s wild side But there’s also another reason we do it — to learn and to do so quickly so that we can move on. We call it “fail fast.” When you enable people to…
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  • Weddings in gold and white

    kalynor
    16 May 2012 | 3:41 am
    I wonder why i love wedding dresses, it doesn’t matter that i’m already married, it’s just pure pleasure looking at them and discovering new collections! Here is a collage of two of my favorites… Gold dream…Monique Lhuillier 2013 bridal collection Pure white…Oscar de la Renta 2013 bridal collection So who is getting married this summer? *images,pinterest,weddingchicks

  • Crushing on…

    kalynor
    15 May 2012 | 7:32 am
    Major crush on this laundry room! The black and white tiles, the Fornasetti wallpaper, the polka dot, the black door….Laundry would surely be fun in this room! *image,mixandchic

  • Monday inspiration

    kalynor
    14 May 2012 | 8:16 am
    Love the desk, love the chair… Mirrored subway tiles in the kitchen? Glamour vs cleaning? I would have loved having a room like this for my kids when they were little… This room does something to me..The books, the colors, the curtains…I just can imagine myself sitting here for hours! A window nook that is actually outside the house! Adore it! Who wouldn’t like having a party under this gorgeous wisteria?! *images,ruemag,designsponge,thedailybuzz,pinterest,inspirebohemia

  • My weekend in pictures

    kalynor
    14 May 2012 | 3:38 am
    Hello everyone! How was your weekend? Mine started friday evening with some lovely bubbly… A visit to a gallery Great art, isn’t it? Then a day spent by the sea side Amazing weather! Couldn’t resist a shot of La Duree window And finally ended up Sunday discovering a jewel of a restaurant hidden in a little street… Check out those old tiles! Hope you all have a lovely week! xo…

  • Sunday quote

    kalynor
    13 May 2012 | 1:55 am
 
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    Incredible Things

  • Totally Furreal: Hello Kitty Airlines

    Brittany High
    16 May 2012 | 12:40 pm
    Hello Kitty Airlines (aka The Cutest Airline in Existence) is the result of a collaboration between Eva Airlines of Taiwan and Sanrio, the company behind Hello Kitty. Sure you could always take a smelly ole [...]Visit IncredibleThings.com for the full post.

  • This Is How I Want To Die: Bacon Boss Burger

    Jenni Chasteen
    16 May 2012 | 11:55 am
    How much bacon is too much bacon? Man, get the hell out of here with that shit. There’s no such thing as too much bacon and to prove that point, Epic Meal Time created the [...]Visit IncredibleThings.com for the full post.

  • Dapper Cat Is Dapper: Fedoras For Kitties

    Jenni Chasteen
    16 May 2012 | 11:15 am
    While French berets for cats were a hit with cat lovers (aka the whole internet), let’s face facts people: beret’s are out. Fedoras on the other hand, they look stupid... as in stupid cool! [...]Visit IncredibleThings.com for the full post.

  • Chocolate Brain Based Off MRI Scan

    Brittany High
    16 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Inition, a 3D technology company, created this edible chocolate brain modeled after a 3D printed version from co-founder Andy Millin's MRI scan. They even provide the step-by-step tutorial over at Instructables so you can [...]Visit IncredibleThings.com for the full post.

  • Game Boy + Watch – Games = Watch Boy

    Jenni Chasteen
    16 May 2012 | 9:10 am
    You might have nostalgic feelings towards you old Gameboy, but who needs black and white tetris when you can play Ocarina of Time on your 3DS? Realistically you’re probably not going to carry that thing [...]Visit IncredibleThings.com for the full post.
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    eBlog - Earning Money Online

  • Incorporate Accessibility Into Your Web Design For The Visually Impaired

    Raj
    12 May 2012 | 3:13 am
    There was a major stir few years back in the web designing sector regarding the lawsuit filed against Target citing that their website does not offer accessibility for the blinds. The latest report says that a huge section of internet community who participate in online banking or online shopping are represented by the people who [...]

  • Make Money Online & Repay Your Debt Obligations with Ease

    Raj
    4 May 2012 | 11:15 pm
    Make money online and repay your debt obligations with ease Are you looking for ways in which you can boost your monthly income in order to repay debt? If answered yes, you have to leverage the internet so that you can easily utilize certain ways to increase your monthly income. With the national debt level [...]

  • 5 Ways to Create a Successful International SEO Strategy

    admin
    30 Apr 2012 | 7:14 am
    SEO is a complex business and with recent updates like Panda and Penguin to contend with, having a sustainable SEO strategy is more important than ever. If your business is active internationally then international SEO is another important consideration in order to maximise your exposure in international search engines. But how does international SEO differ [...]

  • How to Avoid Failure in Blogging & Making Money Online

    Raj
    19 Apr 2012 | 12:53 pm
    There are many misconceptions which exist in the mind of bloggers that play a crucial role in their failure to make money online. Your thinking plays a major role on how you approach your blogging. If there is anything wrong in the thinking process, it is bound to reflect on your blog and may cause [...]

  • Top 2 Best WordPress Hosting for Graphics Design Websites, Blogs

    Raj
    14 Apr 2012 | 12:13 am
    There are many best web hosting companies, but you need the top hosting (shared, VPS, dedicated) for your graphics design or development wordpress website (or blog) because design websites will have more images, videos and other media to be uploaded and displayed, so they need good speed and less loading time. If your starting a [...]
 
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    Chair Blog

  • Our Half April – Half May, 2012 Top 6

    Guido J. van den Elshout
    14 May 2012 | 6:38 pm
    1) Occupy Chair by Dejane Kabiljo – Milan 2012 : 448 views. 2) Sarajevo’s Empty Chairs: 433 views. 3) Tribute to Mart Stam’s Tubular Cantilever Chair by Henrich Zrubec: 432 views. 4) Tedd Lott’s Sculptural Practice: 431 views. Tedd Lott's Sculptural Practice 5) Gold Leaf Hand Chair by Pedro Friedeberg : 426 views. 6) Marni Chairs Project – Milan 2012: 425 views. Top Posts Chair Blog Half April – Half May, 2012 Stats time again based on our FeedBurner stats of the last 30 days, so it also covers half of April, 2012. Total Number of visits a bit up in this period: 42,111…

  • Black and White Knit Chair by Emiliano Gordoy

    Guido J. van den Elshout
    12 May 2012 | 4:32 pm
    Found this black and white edition of Emiliano Gordoy‘s Knit Chair at Pirwi, the manufacturers site . Black and White Knit Chair by Emiliano Gordoy is a post from: Chair Blog. Care to subscribe to Chairblog's Mailing List, Feed Reader, or FB Fanpage?

  • The Barcelona Chair Necklace by Bruxe Design

    Julia Osovskaya
    9 May 2012 | 3:23 pm
    The “only replica worth having”, this Barcelona Chair necklace is part of the collectible series called Tiny Little Chairs by Montreal’s Bruxe Design. The brand’s wearable chairs are available in silver, bronze and gold. Would you wear one? The Barcelona Chair Necklace by Bruxe Design is a post from: Chair Blog. Care to subscribe to Chairblog's Mailing List, Feed Reader, or FB Fanpage?

  • Bommel by MYK: Pom Pom Poufs & a Chair

    Julia Osovskaya
    7 May 2012 | 7:19 am
    The Bommel collection by MYK is entirely crafted by hand. Several hundred wool threads are bundled, rolled, tied and cut to be made into pom poms of various sizes, and each piece of the collection is made of up to 1300 of such woolen balls. The amount calls for about 45 kilos of wool for a single furniture object! MYK was set up in 2009 by the academically qualified fashion designer Myra Klose. She studied fashion design at Trier and Madrid universities ( 1992 – 1996 ) and has since been working professionally in Austria and Germany. Bommel by MYK: Pom Pom Poufs & a Chair is a post…

  • Riemann Chair in Gilt Bronze by Craig Van Den Brulle

    Guido J. van den Elshout
    6 May 2012 | 5:23 pm
    Riemann Chair in Mirror Polised Gilt Bronze Is a limited edition of 5 by NYC based Craig Van Den Brulle Riemann Chair in Gilt Bronze by Craig Van Den Brulle is a post from: Chair Blog. Care to subscribe to Chairblog's Mailing List, Feed Reader, or FB Fanpage?
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    The Inspiration Blog

  • Kerr Vernon Graphic Design

    Jason Shaw
    9 May 2012 | 11:40 pm
    KVGD is an independent graphic design studio who focus on branding and communications that engage and inspire. Their portfolio and online store are well worth a look!

  • Boxed – Great Designs In A Box

    Jason Shaw
    9 May 2012 | 11:32 pm
    Boxed is an online store showcasing a great collection of modern furniture and accessories created by independent designers.

  • Artist Showcase: Mesmerizing Fashion Photography by Edgar Berg

    Jason Shaw
    7 May 2012 | 11:57 pm
    Edgar Berg is a young and ambitious photographer from Dortmund, Germany. His main passions are around fashion, beauty and editorial. Taking a closer look at his photographs you will see a strong emphasis on detail and emotion which he uses to tell a story.Triggering the right feeling by implementing natural light situations is an important feature in the composition his pictures. Recently Edgar spent six months in Paris absorbing fresh inspiration from one of the world's fashion capitals.

  • Calling All Design Students!

    Jason Shaw
    16 Apr 2012 | 1:57 am
    Here at The Inspiration Blog we understand the need for budding designers to have their work published. Over the next few weeks we'll be accepting submissions from design students and showcasing your work on our homepage, Facebook and Twitter feed for FREE.Are you ready to be "discovered"?Read the rest of this post for details on how to submit your work and get your name in lights...

  • Identifying Yourself with a Logo

    The Design Community
    8 Apr 2012 | 7:27 pm
    When you think of popular companies, you will often find that even the mention of a company’s name will bring to mind the image of the company’s logo or a snippet of their jingle. The most well known companies in the world identify themselves with a famous logo for many reasons.
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    Design Work Life

  • Andrew Holder: outside Lands

    Courtney
    16 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    This year Andrew Holder created an updated identity for Outside Lands, a music festival held in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. (Sidenote: the lineup sounds pretty awesome—I wish I could go.) The design revolves around a triangular pattern filled with all sorts of natural, musical, architectural and abstract illustrations—love the result.

  • Brent Couchman New Site

    Courtney
    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    I’ve been anticipating the launch of Brent Couchman’s new site ever since I saw some snippets on Dribbble awhile back. Well last week, the site went live. The site itself is perfectly minimal, and features a huge selection of impressive design and illustration work. Below are a handful of favorites, but be sure to take a look for yourself right here.

  • Student Work: Allison Kerek: The Retired Kid Illustration

    Courtney
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    I am in love with Allison Kerek’s illustration style. Her portfolio is overflowing with great work. But as a lifelong fan of illustrated books, I was especially drawn to her reimagining of the children’s story, The Retired Kid by John Agee.

  • Collection: May Flowers

    Courtney
    16 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    FOUND: 1.Eva Solo Flower Vase, 2. Prescott Dishtowel, 3. Castile Rose Bathmat, 4. Silhouetted Zinnia Knob, 5. Rifle Paper Co Botanical Journal, 6. Drake’s Flower-Print Linen Pocket Square, 7. Helen Dardik Pattern.

  • Dorian: New Wine Packaging

    Courtney
    15 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    Barcelona-based Dorian recently published a few new wine packaging projects—take a look.
 
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    Ahmad Hania Blog

  • 30 New Icon Creation Tutorials in 2012

    Eric Shafer
    15 May 2012 | 3:30 am
    Icon design is one of the most important skills a designer can have, because the principles used in icon design overlap so significantly with other fields such as user interface design, web design and logo design. Designing a good icon can be a lot more challenging than it seems, because the small size makes it hard to integrate the desired detail, but a certain amount of detail must be present in order for the icon to be convincing. The best way to learn icon design is to practice and follow tutorials.  In the year 2012, there’s already been a lot of great new icon creation tutorials…

  • 70 High Quality Free PSDs to Download

    Eric Shafer
    10 Mar 2012 | 12:40 am
    PSD files are a terrific resource for designers, because not only can they save you time on your projects, they can also teach you techniques and styles that you might not otherwise know. There are a lot of PSD files available on the web, ranging from icon sets to textures, layers, buttons and more. In this post, you’ll find 70 free PSD files for web designers, web developers, and everyone else, that you can download and use in your designs. We’ve handpicked the absolute best PSD files on the web, so every resource you’ll find here is layered and organized with pixel-perfect…

  • Slick UI Elements Free PSD

    Ahmad Hania
    3 Dec 2011 | 12:55 am
    Today we are excited to release a new freebie resource. A free Slick UI Elements. We are releasing this free resource in a fully layered PSD file. This resource is offered exclusively on ahmadhania.com. Download, full preview and more information after the jump. The Slick UI Elements resource contains a design for major UI Elements in a blue over gray color theme, with design for the following elements: text box, button, toggle button, check box, combo box, radio button, separator, slider, dialog box and progress bar. All necessary states has been designed as well: normal, hover and selected…

  • Orange Blog Template Free PSD

    Ahmad Hania
    26 Sep 2011 | 4:00 am
    Today we are excited to release a new freebie resource. A free Orange Blog Template. We are releasing this free resource in a fully layered PSD file. This resource is offered kindly and exclusively on ahmadhania.com by our friend Scott Rollo. Download, full preview and more information after the jump. The Orange Blog Template resource is a unique blog template that focuses on good use of typography with a minimalist, clean-cut and CSS friendly design. Typography features include leading to make body copy easier to read, asymmetric pagination for comfortable reading, quote blocks and paragraph…

  • EMPOWER: Corporate Website Template – Free PSD

    Ahmad Hania
    20 Aug 2011 | 4:00 am
    Today we are excited to release a new freebie resource. A professional and corporate website template. We are releasing this free resource in a fully layered PSD file. This stylish resource is offered kindly and exclusively on ahmadhania.com by our friend Michael John Burns. Download, full preview and more information after the jump. This free corporate website template is called EMPOWER. The template is suitable to be used for any business website and it contains a header with main menu and call to action section, a slider with professional and stylish design, a products section, a content…
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    Bedroom Designs, Living Room Design, Decorating Ideas, Interiors, Bathroom, Furniture & Kitchen Ideas

  • Designer Penthouses – Beautiful And Luxurious Home Designs

    admin
    13 May 2012 | 11:51 am
    Penthouses are expressions of sophisticated design and grandiose interiors. They are luxurious apartments that are constructed on the topmost floor of a high-rise building. Almost all penthouses generally are built with walls that juts out beyond the maim walls of the building. And they are all superbly designed and tastefully furnished. Beautifully Furnished Living Area A penthouse is a very beautifully designed and constructed luxury apartment. But their designs are different from other normal apartments. Their sizes are also different – sometimes with a higher floor level just for…

  • Add Sophistication with Glass Coffee Tables

    admin
    13 May 2012 | 11:27 am
    Coffee tables are today an integral part of any living room. Placed in front of the sofa, a coffee table is handy to store books, keep flowers or drinks and to even put up your feet! With its many uses, coffee tables are very useful additions to your living room. Not only that, they are often the centrepiece of the room, and so play an important role to enhance the visual appeal. Coffee Tables are normally placed in the corners of a room or right in the middle of the living room and a good designer glass table or coffee table can uplift the entire look and feel of the living room design and…

  • Entryway Benches – An Elegant and Functional Option for Foyers

    admin
    11 May 2012 | 12:01 am
    Entryways create first impressions, so they must form an integral part of your design plan. Give it a makeover today if it isn’t! Make it a stylish as well as an inviting introduction to your home by integrating elements like wallpapers, décor pieces, artwork, and mirrors. Consider also including entryway benches – they are a practical but elegant addition to the space. Imagine walking into your home, sitting comfortably, taking off your shoes and storing them – all in one place. Yes, that’s how useful the right entryway bench can be. Very Antique Entry Way Bench Furniture…

  • Charmingly Elegant Conference Tables – A Must for Office Ambience

    admin
    10 May 2012 | 6:37 am
    Conferences and meetings are important happenings in office life. Many important discussions and decisions take place in conference rooms throughout the day some times and as often like daily, twice or thrice weekly or periodically. Not only internal employees attend these meetings. Shareholders, other company visitors also come to attend important meetings. A lavish looking conference table always make a style statement and speak a lot about the reputation of the office. Conference tables are used normally by board members or some important international client and hence its important to…

  • Ostentatious and Luxurious Home Designs

    admin
    9 May 2012 | 12:43 am
    The commencement of a luxurious and elegant home sets up with the vision, then comes transforming this vision on apaper and then into reality. The vision may be a consolidation of many ideas and imaginations from months or even years. The blueprint of the luxurious house is the most difficult task to be accomplished. This blueprint too would need to be revised and redrawn a couple of times until the final draft has been created, but the efforts and expense that would go in re doing these drafts are any day less than making changes to the actual structure if a mistake is realized later. The…
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    Inspiration Lab

  • HelloMe

    myanimalfarm
    16 May 2012 | 2:04 am
    So since I’m in Berlin I figure it’s appropriate to blog a few Berlin based graphic designers. So here’s HelloMe. I’m especially impressed with these two projects for music clients. One centered around exploring colour and one a really original display type I just think they both rock! See more: http://tillwiedeck.com

  • Raffael Stüken

    myanimalfarm
    15 May 2012 | 3:52 pm
    I’m coming to you this week from Berlin. I’m here with my students breathing in inspiration. Was book shopping yesterday and while flipping through the book from ’100 Beste Plakate’ (100 best posters) my eye caught the one below from Raffael Stüken, graphic designer based in Cologne. Totally love the crazy composition and contrast. I really like his posters overall! See more: http://www.raffaelstueken.de

  • Steve Keros

    myanimalfarm
    14 May 2012 | 3:32 pm
    Check out photographer Steve Keros. I first noticed his work when I came across his portrait of Thom Yorke. Being a HUGE Radiohead fan I immediately LOVED it. Lots of cool shots! See more: http://www.stevekeros.com/

  • Spencer Wilson

    myanimalfarm
    12 May 2012 | 3:45 am
    I love when people I admire write me to tell me they’ve updated their websites. It’s so exciting to see new things and follow the development of someone’s style. I got one of these messages the other day from one of my all time fave illustrators Spencer Wilson. He was one of the first people I featured here and I kinda gave him a hard time about his old website, sorry Spencer ;-) But now the site is updated with lots of new work and it’s so cool to see the new stuff. REALLY vibrant colours and still great compositions and characters. Totally uplifting! See more:…

  • Marian by Paul Barnes

    myanimalfarm
    10 May 2012 | 2:15 am
    I have fallen in love with a new font by Paul Barnes. It’s called Marian and it comes in a huge variety of romans and italics, even a black letter version. Don’t know where the name comes from but I wonder if it’s a Bantjes homage. There is something about it that reminds me of her work. See more: http://commercialtype.com/typefaces/marian  
 
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    Teaching Design | Christopher Simmons

  • Post Modern Dogs

    Christopher Simmons
    11 May 2012 | 5:02 pm
    We’ve talked a lot about intellectual property, fair use, reference and flat our ripping shit off in our classes. Sometimes the line is blurry, subtle or even debatable. Sometimes, though, it seems razor sharp. We’ve had our run-ins with others [allegedly] copying our work, most recently by a social media firm called Friendemic, whose logo looks, shall we say, remarkably like one we did for Peachpit Press several years ago.   What is often more astonishing than the copying is the reaction the offending parties have when confronted: Last fall we learned that our friends up at…

  • Question of the Week #10

    Christopher Simmons
    1 May 2012 | 9:10 am
    This week’s question comes from Hye Seon Jung, who wants to know, “After school, how can you improve your graphic design knowledge?” First of all, I like the spirit of this question. Learning doesn’t stop with school, in fact in many ways that’s just where it begins. When you matriculate from college you will be armed with numerable skills but principal among them will be how to learn. Knowing how to learn—and how to apply that learning to your chosen profession, passion and craft—will be essential to your ongoing development as a designer. There are…

  • Portfolio Day

    Christopher Simmons
    26 Apr 2012 | 11:39 am
    Known as the best portfolio review on the West Coast, this is an opportunity for students to get valuable one-on-one feedback on their portfolio and career goals from some of the Bay Area’s best designers. More than 90 top Bay Area designers will serve as reviewers. You don’t have to be a graduating senior to participate — in fact Portfolio Day is a great opportunity for students to get outside perspective on their work. If you don’t have a polished “portfolio” just bring a selection of physical projects, your laptop, whatever you have. You will receive your…

  • Question of the Week #09

    Christopher Simmons
    24 Apr 2012 | 8:13 pm
    14 weeks into the semester and somehow we’re only on question #09. Looks like this series will extend in to the summer. Before that, though, James Edmondson asks, “What do you do when you’re burned out?” I’m going to answer this more fully (when I’m not feeling so burned out myself). I promise. Meanwhile, my friend James Victore has some advice on this very topic:

  • The Play’s the Thing

    Christopher Simmons
    14 Apr 2012 | 1:15 am
    Today was the deadline to submit to AIGA’s much-talked-about Justified competition. We had been planning not to enter until I read a comment on Paula Scher’s original article from a designer named Marc Levitt. Levitt’s studio worked with AIGA to develop the branding (including the controversial name) for the competition. His comments concluded with the basic plea, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.  Ok. We’ll try it. Below is our submission, verbatim, to Justified. It took 3 hours and 43 minutes of my time ($750) to write the 1,757 words required by the…
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    Pawling Print Studio

  • National Stationery Show

    trisha
    9 May 2012 | 11:16 am
    You may have noticed that it's been a little quiet around here. That's because we've been gearing up for the upcoming National Stationery Show. We've reworked our packaging, branding, website, collateral, product shots, etc. and we're finally ready to share it with you! We're debuting at the 2012 NSS, May 20-23 at the Jacob Javits Center in NY. If you're attending, stop by and visit us at booth #1570. We'll be giving away some product samples!

  • happy new year!

    Pawling Print Studio
    4 Jan 2012 | 12:08 pm
    Happy New Year! 2012 Calendars are now 50% OFF!

  • holiday store closing

    Pawling Print Studio
    24 Dec 2011 | 11:30 am
    See you in the New Year! We will be closed from December 24 to January 4. Orders placed after Dec 24 will not be processed until Jan 4, 2012.

  • gift cards + deadlines

    Pawling Print Studio
    12 Dec 2011 | 11:35 pm
    Holiday shipping deadlines are fast approaching! For domestic addresses, please order by Dec 19 for delivery by Dec 25. And don't forget we have free shipping on orders over $50. Simply enter code FREESHIP when you checkout. International shipping deadlines have passed, but if you are in Australia, there is still time to order from EllaEco.com. (They are also offering free shipping for a limited time!) Of course, no one likes deadlines, so we are also happy to introduce $25 and $50 Gift Cards available for instant delivery via email or in physical form via snail mail. They are perfect for…

  • uncovet

    Pawling Print Studio
    10 Dec 2011 | 4:58 pm
    Uncovet is a curated design-centric shop delivered via email. It's a new type of flash sale site that's sort of like perusing your favorite Pinterest or Svpply collections ... but everything is on sale! Heather Lipner hand-picks daily finds from both new and established brands. It's a great tool for discovering new designers, even if you're not shopping. Read more about Uncovet over at Racked. Our Ikat Everyday Tote and Natural Lines Pillow Cover were featured on November 9, 2011. Thanks, Heather!
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    Colossal

  • The Art of Trees

    Christopher Jobson
    16 May 2012 | 12:10 pm
    The recently completed Kerry Landman Memorial Tree by Jordan Mason and Eric Landman (via Miguel-Hernan Otero-Meier) Trees made of books by Frederico Uribe (via the curiosity workshop) Stacked firewood sculpture by Alastair Heseltine (via cmybacon) The Voice of Winds (2012). Suspended tree branches of hollow earthenware by Kazunori Matsumura. (via surface) Wheel tree photographed by Robert Holmgren I have an enormous folder of saved links, things I’m on the edge about posting, or just want to save for later reference. From time to time patterns start to emerge and it just make sense to…

  • A Beached Whale in the Forests of Argentina

    Christopher Jobson
    15 May 2012 | 7:27 am
    Argentinean sculptor Adrián Villar Rojas creates enormous sculptural works that seem like remnants of a science fiction movie set, or bizarre moments from a surreal dream. One of my favorite pieces is My Family Dead (2009), in which he created a life-size blue whale in the woods outside Ushuaia, Argentina. The beached cetacean is pockmarked with tree stumps, making me wonder if it’s being slowly claimed by the forest or perhaps it’s a native resident. Beautiful. (via devid sketchbook)

  • [Sponsor] UPrinting

    Christopher Jobson
    14 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    UPrinting is a leading, socially responsible online printing company. Online since 2000, the company has established itself as a major player in the industry of on-demand printing by combining high-quality press printing with a robust yet easy-to-use online ordering system. UPrinting offers a wide variety of products from business cards and brochures to envelopes, greeting cards, posters, canvas prints and more. Make sure to check out their high quality eco-friendly prints that use recycled paper and vegetable/soy-based inks with lower levels of VOCs than traditional petroleum-based inks…

  • A Miniature City Built with Metal Typography

    Christopher Jobson
    14 May 2012 | 10:01 am
    Type City is a recent artwork by artist Hong Seon Jang that uses pieces of movable type from a printing press to create an elaborate cityscape. It’s fascinating to watch as the need for printed books and typography wanes, the unused objects themselves are more frequently used as an actual medium. Jang also completed a much larger Type City in 2009. Also, if you liked this, make sure you watch the creation of Ephemicropolis by Peter Root, a city built from 100,000 staples. Images courtesy Hong Seon Jang and David B. Smith Gallery. (via quipsologies)

  • 100,000 LED Spheres Flowing Down a Japanese River

    Christopher Jobson
    13 May 2012 | 9:52 am
    As part of the recent Tokyo Hotaru Festival, 100,000 illuminated blue LEDs were released in the Sumida River. The massive installation of solar-powered spheres was meant to mimic a swarm of fireflies that twisted and bobbed along the river by moonlight. For those of you worried about pollution or safety, the lights were later caught downstream by giant nets. See much more over at Spoon & Tamago. (photos by jeremy v, makure, and ajpscs)
 
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    GraphicsFuel.com

  • Shiny peel stickers (PSD)

    Rafi
    7 May 2012 | 12:44 pm
    Friends, today’s download is a set of 4 shiny peel stickers in editable Photoshop shape layers. These stickers contain non-rasterized layers so this means you can easily edit the colors, text, shapes and resize them to your needs. You can use these web elements for your ecommerce website, pricing page, on banners, posters and more. Get creative!!!  The font used in this work is Arial. You may also like to download these similar download: Wooden graphic elements PSD  and Web elements pack (PSD & PNG). Preview of the stickers Author: Rafi File Resolution: 800x800px Format: Photoshop…

  • Thumbs up, thumbs down icons (PSD)

    Rafi
    1 May 2012 | 12:58 pm
    Today’s PSD freebie is a set of thumbs-up and thumbs-down icons. The illustrated hands can be used to represent rating / liking on your website or product. The download includes editable PSD, as always! Along with it is included a .png version of the icons in standard sizes of 256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32 pixels.  You may also like to download similar icons: Yes, no icons (PSD). Enjoy! Preview of the icons Author: Rafi File Resolution: 1000x1000px Format: Photoshop, PNG Keywords: thumbs up icon, thumbs down icon, icons, PSD files Size: 293KB  (zip) License:…

  • Paper coffee cup icon (PSD)

    Rafi
    28 Apr 2012 | 4:00 pm
    Friends, today’s PSD resource is a realistic paper coffee cup icon in Photoshop format. You can use the detailed illustration to represent coffee cup for your coffee or restaurant / food related website. The icon is designed in Photoshop using vector shape layers. You can easily resize the icon without losing quality. Also, the icon is isolated on transparent PNG background  in popular sizes of 512×512, 256×256 and 128×128. Download the PSD file & icons and let me know your thoughts. You may also like to download similar coffee cup icon PSD file. The free font used for the…

  • Sleek progress bar and toggle buttons (PSD)

    Rafi
    20 Apr 2012 | 12:25 pm
    Friends, today’s PSD download is a set of sleek progress bar and toggle buttons in Photoshop format. These buttons are pretty modern in their look, can be used in websites, apps, software programs, and user interfaces. Like always, the UI web elements come in full vector shape layers, so you can easily edit the graphics. Thanks for downloading! You may also like to download this similar freebie: Clean GUI elements pack (PSD). Author: Rafi File Resolution: 600px Format: Photoshop, JPEG Keywords: progress bar and toggle buttons, web UI elements, PSD files Size: 120KB  (zip) License:…

  • Assorted textures pack

    Rafi
    13 Apr 2012 | 11:22 am
    Friends, today graphic resource is a set of 5 high-quality assorted textures. These can be used as backgrounds or textures for your next website, backdrops for your graphic or print related works. The download includes JPG images of the textures in 2000×1500 px. I hope these are large enough to help you in your design works. Download and let me know your comments. You may also like to download these free textures pack. High quality brick wall textures Light subtle grunge textures Intense dark grunge textures Hi-res grunge texture pack Grunge texture pack Preview of the Textures Author: Rafi…
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    Elaine Biss

  • Pardon Mon Faux Pas

    10 May 2012 | 5:10 pm
    Hello everyone!After a wonderful week and a small change of plans that basically ended up changing my whole itinerary. Instead of the Javits Center Accessory show, we visited the ENK Show.On Tuesday morning, Paula from Paula and Chlo and her husband Randy met me in 7th Ave. (I was across the street from H&M.) From there we took a crazy taxi ride to the venue where we entered on the red carpet. Tony Drockton from Hammtt LA Sarah Cavender MetalworksLast but not least, I want to thank Paula and Randy from Paula and Chlo. I believe the internet is filled with good and wonderful people. I have…

  • Traveling...

    7 May 2012 | 3:35 pm
    I am not in Trenton but that is one of my stops before getting to the city. Check the rest of the pictures at my instagram. :-)

  • From NY with Love

    4 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    I am going to the Accessories Show at the Javits Center in NYC next week. I will be updating my tumblr and my instagram almost every minute. After that I will do a little shopping and food-venturing throughout the city. Whatever I can shoot, I will. I am taking three cameras. I also will be posting special messages for my significant other from NYC. Enjoy and see you on the flip side…

  • Croquis de Elaine

    3 May 2012 | 11:40 am
    Did this last summer and I just got around to adding it. Enjoy!

  • My New Business Cards

    30 Apr 2012 | 8:58 am
    This picture doesn't do it justice. I was hoping that the pearl paper, the sparkly paper in which they are printed, would show up a little better.I will be taking these to NY.
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    Vector Patterns

  • Beautiful Floral Style Seamless Vector Pattern

    Timothy Blake
    13 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    A great beautiful seamless vector pattern available to be used within design projects for free. The pattern comes in 5 different colours, in order to give to give you more creative freedom to play around with.   What’s Included within the pattern set ? A Scalable Vector file of the Pattern set which can be scaled down or made bigger without reducing the quality of the patterns. The pattern is also available in 5 different colours. Preview License Details The source files are made available download can be used within commercial and non commercial design projects. You may may not…

  • Colorful Abstract Seamless Circle Vector Pattern

    Timothy Blake
    6 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    A very unique colourful vibrant seamless vector pattern. The pattern is available in 5 different colors. The pattern is available to be used in commercial and non commercial design projects. I hope you enjoy. What’s Included within the pattern set ? A Scalable Vector file of the Pattern set which can be scaled down or made bigger without reducing the quality of the patterns. The pattern is also available in 5 different colours. Preview License Details The source files are made available download can be used within commercial and non commercial design projects. You may may not…

  • Quick Tip: How To Use and load Seamless Vector Patterns

    Timothy Blake
    2 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    This blog post is simple on how you can download and use Seamless vector patterns within your design projects. I’m sure that a lot people may not be aware of how easy it is to load patterns into illustrator, this video will help show you how simple it is to do so. A special thanks also to our Sister site Creative Nerds for producing the video.

  • An Brilliant Free Seamless Vector Pattern Bundle

    Timothy Blake
    29 Apr 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Today we are offering a free seamless vector pattern bundle, which is exclusive to our Facebook fans. To download the bundle just simply like our Facebook fan page, you will then be capble of downloading and enjoying the free seamless patterns. The bundle consists of 5 seamless Vector Patterns. Below is a preview of all the patterns featured within the Vector Pattern bundle. Preview of what’s included in the bundle

  • Beautiful Avengers Illustration Designs

    Timothy Blake
    25 Apr 2012 | 7:00 pm
    The avengers was always a Favourite comic book of mine. What I personally really like about comic books is the beautiful illustrations and the great attentions to detail. Reading comic books is not as popular as it once was, because of the internet, but never the less they can truly be a great source inspiration to fuel your creativity. This blog post is a collection of beautiful illustrations, of the ever so popular comic book series avengers. Whether or not your a fan of comic books, I’m more than certain that you will appricite these beautiful illustration. One of my…
 
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    Columbia CabinetWorks

  • Pull-out Faucets in the Kitchen

    ccabinet
    10 May 2012 | 3:22 pm
    From Danze to Kohler, the pull-out kitchen faucet has been all the rage in the design world. Both homeowners and designers have moved away from the standard faucet with a detached side spray in favor of pull-out models that integrate the two functions into a single unit. According to the National Kitchen and Bath Association, 14 of out every 15 designers who designed a kitchen over the final three months of 2011 incorporated a pull-out faucet. The look is a modern and sleek faucet that works well with any style. Today, you can find a contemporary pull-out kitchen faucet in a variety of…

  • Ray’s Favorite Things for the Bathroom

    ccabinet
    27 Apr 2012 | 2:14 pm
    Our designer Ray loves exploring the technical aspects needed to design a space that is functional for homeowners. Below, learn a few of Ray’s favorite things that will make life a little more enjoyable in the bathroom. American Standard H2Option Toilet Conserve water and save money with every flush. The American Standard H2Option Toilet is a wonderful investment to help the environment and cut back on your bills. Ray just installed the model in his own bathroom and loves it. You’ll also enjoy the two button actuator on top of the tank. With it, you have the ability to save water with…

  • Luke’s Favorite Things for the Kitchen

    ccabinet
    26 Apr 2012 | 9:44 am
    As the newest member of CCW, Luke has been an excellent addition to the team. And no, I’m not just saying that because he’s my son. Luke has been extremely eager to assist the team with their design needs and was very excited to share his favorite things for the kitchen! Liven up your kitchen as you cook and entertain with the Bose Wave Stereo with SoundLink. This wonderful device allows you to listen to music wirelessly from your computer or Bluetooth. What Luke loves most about the system is its proprietary waveguide speaker technology that enables full-bodied sound, especially…

  • Amy’s Favorite Things for the Bathroom

    ccabinet
    25 Apr 2012 | 2:26 pm
    With a passion for combining colors, textures and objects together, Amy brings a creative edge to her designs. For the bathroom, see what Amy recommends to turn your space into a home away from home! Kohler Spa Tubs Create a tranquil environment and install a spa tub into your bathroom layout. These spa tubs from Kohler combine lights and aromatherapy to relieve stress. Remember, the bathroom is more than a place to shower and brush your teeth. It’s a space to relax and replenish your mind and body. Curbless Trench Drain Shower Keep your bathroom minimal and modern with a curbless…

  • Anna’s Favorite Things for the Kitchen

    ccabinet
    24 Apr 2012 | 12:51 pm
    You may not know it, but our designer Anna has a background in historic preservation. With each of her designs, she mixes that background with her passion of the fine arts. Together, she designs a space that is truly spectacular. Below, see what a few of Anna’s favorite things are in the kitchen. La Cornue French Cooker Range If you ever want to perfect Boeuf Bourguignon, this is the one range you will want. La Cornue is an unrivaled French range that is still only produced to order, and is individually hand-made with patience and pride. With only a few hundred produced a year,…
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    DUDYE

  • KIGI Exhibition: Ryosuke Uehara and Yoshie Watanabe

    DUDYE
    11 May 2012 | 4:04 am
    The KIGI Exhibition in Tokyo is held until May 30, 2012 where the works of graphic designers Ryosuke Uehara and Yoshie Watanabe are exhibited, hosted by ginza graphic gallery. Uehara and Watanabe first began working as a team in 1999. Together they have been involved in a number of distinctive projects, including direction at D-BROS – a venture began by DRAFT Co., Ltd. to pursue new approaches to products from the standpoint of the graphic designer. This exhibition, which coincides with the establishment of their new company, will introduce the projects that Uehara and Watanabe have been…

  • designLSM’s New Interior Design for Quilon Restaurant: “A Sophisticated Experience”

    DUDYE
    5 May 2012 | 6:42 pm
    designLSM were appointed to design an interior which captured Quilon’s cultural origins and positioning as one of the leading Michelin starred restaurants in London. Here is the design team's description of the design: The private room, which accommodates up to 16 seated and 35 standing offers an intimate dining experience. Striking design features include features a bespoke wenge candle wall - inspired by a Hindu temple in Kerala, an imported 8ft Indian fishing boat which has been transformed into a glass topped bar and a floor to ceiling ‘wine wall’. Wall recesses feature softly lit,…

  • Citylife Tower in Milan: To Be the Tallest Skyscraper in Italy

    DUDYE
    30 Apr 2012 | 10:20 am
    The Citylife tower designed by Arata Isozaki and Andrea Maffei will by 2015 reach a height of 207 metres, with 50 floors of offices, and become the tallest skyscraper in Italy. The tower designed by Arata Isozaki and Andrea Maffei as part of the redevelopment programme of the historical trade fair area in Milan commissioned by the company Citylife, is the first, with respect to those by Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind, to start construction at the site. From its newly laid foundations, the skyscraper will reach a height of 207 metres in 2015, and will be the tallest in Italy. The tower…

  • Eco-Friendly 3D-Wallpanels Created Out of the Fibrous Residue of Sugarcane

    DUDYE
    29 Apr 2012 | 9:47 am
    WallArt have send in their eco friendly 3d-wallpanels, made out of the fibrous residue of sugarcane called "bagasse". They've been the first entering the market with this eco friendly interior decor. This fibres of crushed sugarcane stalks, remaining after raw sugar is extracted from the juice of the sugarcane by shredding it, is now the raw material that forms the base of this installed eco friendly interior product. The raw material used for WallArt 3d-wallpanels is 100% recycled, compostable and therefore 100% biodegradable. Bagasse, as a residue of sugarcane, is one of the world’s most…

  • Inspired by the Pilates Ball: Bounce Chair by Pedro Gomes

    DUDYE
    19 Apr 2012 | 2:36 pm
    The Bounce Chair by Pedro Gomes is produced with sustainable materials, and derives from a reflection about the equilibrium between product design and its responsibility to improve the human condition. Analyzing the act of seating, as a symbolic gesture, Bounce re-creates the dynamic relation between comfort, health and well being. In this system, the chair presents it self as a unique and innovative model that adopts the functionality of a pilates ball and applies it to a new formal and structural form and materials. Inspired by the pilates ball, where there is no back rest, the handle is…
 
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    Creative Nerds

  • 70 Creative And Innovating Business Card Designs You Must See

    TimothyBlake
    13 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Advertise here with BSAA great humongous inspirational blog post. Which showcases over 60 creative as well as innovating business card designs. If you’re looking to design your own print business card, this is a great starting point to help fuel your creativity to kick start the thought process. You should always think about making a statement with your business card, by making the design unique as well memorable for potential clients who obtain your business card. A creative innovating business card makes a great first impression with clients, and will certainly make it difficult…

  • Quick tip: How to Create A Colourful Smoke Effect

    TimothyBlake
    9 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Advertise here with BSA This is a great short easy to follow video quick tip. Which will guide you through the process of creating a great colourful smoke effect using Photoshop. The end result is great and takes less than a few minuets to achieve. Tutorial DetailsDifficulty: BeginnerTutorial estimation time: 2 to 5minsProgram: PhotoshopPreviewThe Tutorial:Advertise here with BSA

  • 40 Best Fresh Free High Quality Fonts Created In 2012

    TimothyBlake
    6 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Advertise here with BSAI’m pretty much a font fanatic. If your anything like me, I’m sure this is a post you will enjoy. This roundup is a collection of fresh free fonts released in the past 12 weeks. There is nothing better than free fonts which look good, and are useable within your design projects. There’s some truly hidden gems in this compilation, so be sure to download some of the fonts featured in the post.We would love for you to share in the comments section of your favourite fonts featured in the post.  Don’t for get to check out some of our other compilations on…

  • A Free 3D Silver Social Media Icon Set

    TimothyBlake
    2 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Advertise here with BSAToday we have a great icon set freebie. The icon set includes large silver 3D  icons which each have a subtle noise effect added to each icon. The icon set includes 12 icons from some of most popular social media platforms.  I hope you enjoy. I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback in the comments  below. License DetailsThe icon set can be used within commercial and non-commercial design projects. The icon set CAN NOT be redistributed on any other website without permission from the Creative Nerds team.PreviewAdvertise here with BSA

  • Best Of Web And Design In April 2012

    TimothyBlake
    29 Apr 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Advertise here with BSAThis monthly roundup is another great one. The post includes a great collection of Photoshop and illustrator tutorials, which I’m sure you will enjoy. Along side some excellent freebies certainly worth downloading. I hope you enjoy the post, and i would love to hear your thoughts upon it. Photoshop TutorialsEnigmatic Black and White Flyer Design Tutorial with Photoshop How to create a club flyer design that was not your typical “scantily clad” affair that appeals to the more discerning club goers. So, with a few easy Photoshop and Illustrator effects, and…
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    BP&O Logo, Branding, Packaging & Opinion by Richard Baird

  • Logo & Branding: Clifton Arms

    Richard Baird
    16 May 2012 | 2:39 am
    Clifton Arms is a hotel, restaurant, bar and brasserie situated within a grade two listed building at the heart of the UK seaside town of Lytham. The hotel has a rich heritage dating back to 1794 which includes a location change from Clifton Street to West Beach in 1840 and the reception of high profile guests such as Winston Churchill and The Beatles. Following a recent renovation, Preston based creative agency Wash, drawing inspiration from the hotel’s past, developed a new visual identity that includes a revised coat of arms, weighty slab serif logo-type and a warm copper…

  • Logo & Branding: 7GigaCloud

    Richard Baird
    15 May 2012 | 3:53 am
    7GigaCloud is a Saudi Arabian IT consultation firm founded in 2011 by Ahmed Al-Okaili that advises companies on the utilisation of technology and delivers staffing support to both local and global business. 7GigaCloud’s visual identity, designed by supermodernist design agency Face, juxtaposes a bold but simple logo-type with fine line detail confidently executed as a silver block foil and UV varnish treatment across the stationary and collateral. “7GigaCloud contacted Face to design a stylish, international-looking identity and we created a very basic and very aesthetic concept:…

  • Logo & Branding: Privacy International

    Richard Baird
    14 May 2012 | 3:59 am
    Privacy International is a UK based non-profit organisation established in 1990 to monitor the security intrusions of governments and business, increase the awareness of the data protection and establish ‘new forms of privacy advocacy’ at an international level. Made up of computer professionals, academics, lawyers, journalists and human rights campaigners the organisation has worked on initiatives across fifty countries and is funded by British privacy activist Simon Davies. Advertising, design and branding agency This Is Real Art recently developed the organisation’s…

  • Packaging: Dell Inspiron

    Richard Baird
    11 May 2012 | 3:48 am
    Inspiron is a PC, laptop and all-in-one range from electronics manufacturer and on-line retailer Dell. UK and US based multidisciplinary design studio Dowling Duncan, in collaboration with Dell’s Visual Identity and Brand Experience team, developed a new packaging system for the Inspirion range confidently mixing technological cues, functionality and a craft-like aesthetic. I have seen this kind of solution before (check out Morse Studio’s work for Falcon Enamelware and Office’s work for Ebay) but I think in this instance it feels like a subtle but smart union of the…

  • Review on The Dieline: San Miguel 1516

    Richard Baird
    10 May 2012 | 4:04 am
    San Miguel 1516 is a Spanish brand of premium beer that is founded on the principles of the Germanic purity law of 1516 which identifies water, malt, hops and yeast as the only four ingredients to be used in beer production. Click here to read my review and share your own opinion of Design Bridge’s work for San Miguel on The Dieline. More Crits from Richard Baird published on The Dieline
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    Design Crave

  • Got Time to Spare? What to Do With an Extra Two Hours

    Diana Cook
    14 May 2012 | 5:31 pm
    Can all agree that wasting time searching for data is a lame way to spend two hours? Okay, now that we got that out of the way, imagine what could be accomplished with an extra few hours added to your day.  Our friends over at Domo researched the question and created this infographic to show some of the most common – and surprising – answers. The average information worker spends nearly nine hours each week just looking for information. As you’ll see from the graphic below, getting rid of that burden would free them up to do some pretty cool and interesting things. You can check…

  • Surprising (and Not So Surprising) Things Social Media Reveals About America

    Diana Cook
    4 May 2012 | 10:09 am
    Nearly half of all Americans are now members of at least one social network, double the proportion of just two years ago. This infographic created by Social media strategy firm Hasai reveals some surprising and not so surprising facts.  Using information gathered from top sites like Facebook, Twitter and Tagged, the graph shows how Americans are using social media. Some surprising tidbits uncovered include: North Dakota and New Jersey are among the most social states in the union and Americans are obsessed with British Royalty. For more of what’s going on you can check out the link…

  • Chocolate Mustache Pops, Gamification for Good, Secret NYC Gardens and More

    Diana Cook
    2 May 2012 | 11:41 am
    Hey, hey it’s May. From stylish chocolates to games that will improve your life, we’ve gathered all the best links from around the web. Can gamification make you a better person? Over at Soshable.com, they take a look at five places where gamification is helping people achieve results in fields like personal finance and weight loss. For those of you wanting to get away from it all, Curbed has a map of New York’s Secret Gardens. With nine little known spots to choose from, you can take a break from the hustle and bustle of the city. Looking to hone your coding skills?

  • Moving With Pets: Keep Your Furry Companions Happy

    Diana Cook
    30 Apr 2012 | 5:53 pm
    Are you planning a move in the near future that involves your pets?  We found the resources and tips in this infographic very helpful to pet owners who plan on bringing their furry friends along with them to their new home. This graph higlights the best cities to move to if you have pets, and also helpful tips for getting your new landlord to approve of you pet. Sadly, “moving” is the number-one reason cited for pet abandonment. Both dogs and cats, on a huge, nation-wide scale, fall victim at move time. My Move wanted to find out why moving is such a common reason for pet abandonment. We…

  • Innovative Ad of the Week: Bumble Bee’s “Fish” Tale

    Diana Cook
    26 Apr 2012 | 7:53 am
    Let’s face it, in a sea of ho-hum advertising campaigns, it’s refreshing when a company uses innovative techniques to tell a story and raise brand awareness. One of our recent favorites is from Bumble Bee Foods. Using documentary-style webisodes that chronicle top-ranked U.S. men’s tennis player Mardy Fish’s quest to lead a healthy life, they’ve created video vignettes to work in tandem with the brand’s signature program, BeeWell for Life. Originally launched in 2008, BeeWell for Life is an interactive program that inspires people to exercise, be active and eat healthier. It…
 
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    Design Happens

  • Upcycle 101: From Fruit Crate to Toy Chest

    Erin Loechner
    16 May 2012 | 9:48 am
    Upcycling. You love it, right? Equal parts upgrading and recycling, the art of upcycling promises to breathe new life into those found objects you just aren’t quite sure what to do with. Case in point: a fruit crate I was gifted by some lovely blogger friends while teaching a course in Portland last summer. You might argue that a fruit crate is an odd gift, but to a design blogger? A fruit crate is the mecca of possibility. Still, the aforementioned crate sat dusty in my entryway, begging to be used for more than hat, gloves and scarf storage. And as we started to plan our little…

  • What the … ? Double the Color

    Farima Alavi
    16 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    The flat top on this object reminds me of a whistle, but it doesn’t make noise, and it is a fashionable addition to one of the most popular rooms in your home. What do you think this object is? Give us your best guess, and we’ll reveal the answer tomorrow. Related posts:What the … ? Designer Look What the … ? Not So Crystal Clear What the … ? Where’s the Candy?

  • Daily Delight: Decorate Your Walls With Hats

    Farima Alavi
    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    So I thought I’d continue Home Improvement Month with another easy project. This idea comes from our very own Sarah Richardson, who spruced up a wall in her summer house with straw hats. If you have a cottage style home (or even if you don’t), the hats can really add an extra lighthearted touch. You can incorporate some colorful hats or stick to neutral ones like Sarah did — you really can’t go wrong whichever way you choose to display them. Plus, you will save some room in your closet so you have an excuse to go shopping! What other simple home improvement projects are…

  • HGTV How-To: Reclaimed Wood Coffee Table

    Kayla Kitts
    15 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    So, there’s a bit of a design dilemma in our home. I have a love for all things vintage and a bit retro, and that includes industrial-chic, too. My boyfriend, well, let’s just say we would own the most sleek and modern furnishings available if he had his way. We’re talking Star Trek-style modern. See the problem here? It’s virtually impossible to marry both of our styles, so we usually agree on something contemporary or retro/modern-inspired, shake hands and move on. But I stumbled across this reclaimed wood coffee table and I just couldn’t let it pass me by.

  • Daily Delight: Vintage Trailer Birdhouse

    Farima Alavi
    15 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    I’m sure some of you grew up RVing in a 1950s Shasta camper during the summer months. Well, now your neighborhood birds can camp in the same style. Etsy shop owner jumahl created this birdhouse using retro turquoise accents and corrugated aluminum. Aside from its design aesthetic, the aluminum door is a squirrel deterrent so the birds can eat in peace. I love all the details — including the curved awning, wheels and trailer hitch. Now if you could only teach the birds how to make S’mores and sing popular camping songs — that would be a sight to see! Related posts:Daily…
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    Dedece Blog

  • Minotti 2012 Collections @ Salone Milan 2012

    John Engelen
    15 May 2012 | 10:40 pm
    A Storybook catalogue portrays the distinctive traits of an entity that is constantly changing, one that takes its cue from the previous collection and turns that achievement into the point of departure for a new beginning. The 2012 collection, coordinated by Rodolfo Dordoni, embraces the challenge to innovate with a stream of creative ideas for new seating systems, armchairs, tables, chairs, accessories, storage pieces and beds that interpret the latest trends with stunning individuality, a clear reminder of Minotti’s talent for uniqueness. The Minotti 2012 Collections catalogue…

  • Librocielo (Skybook) – Milan’s Roman Heart @ Salone Milan 2012

    John Engelen
    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
      The Biblioteca Ambrosiana ( Library) in Milan, housed along with the Pinoteca Ambroisiana (Art Gallery) is one of the great repositories of European culture Skybook ( Librocielo ) – Lights and Voices reflecting upon life in Milan’s Roman heart – was held at the Biblioteca Pinacoteca Accademia Ambrosiana during the Salone 2012. The city of Milan historically has two hearts, two sites that have contributed equally to establish its unique identity. >> The first, the ancient Celtic forest – mother/matter of the city – was re-evoked in Piazza San Fedele during…

  • Be Open to the Future @ Salone Milan 2012

    John Engelen
    14 May 2012 | 4:55 am
    BE OPEN: a global scheme to foster creativity and innovation, to imagine and build solutions for the future The BE OPEN think tank launched during this year’s Salone – in collaboration with Interni Magazine and sociologist Francesco Morace—with a series of speakers from the worlds of art, media, business and science gathered over three days to exchange ideas about how design thinking can respond to and find solutions for current and future social, environmental and economic needs. Behind the creation of BE OPEN, stands an international team united around one of the most…

  • Glenn Murcutt interview – by Marcus Trimble

    John Engelen
    13 May 2012 | 10:35 pm
    Marcus Trimble talks to architect Glenn Murcutt about generations of practice, beginning in the 1950s. In a climate in which Australian architects and recent graduates alike face financial uncertainty, it is important to have some perspective. An economic downturn, one of many in a long life, provides a moment of reappraisal or, in the words of a friend of Glenn Murcutt’s, a downturn is “like a flood that cleans the system.” Photos taken at Q & A with dedece Photos taken by Brett Boardman Architecture Australia – Jan 2012 (vol.101 no.1) Full interview follows here Marcus Trimble…

  • Instant Stories @ Salone Milan 2012

    John Engelen
    13 May 2012 | 9:55 pm
    Celebrating it’s fifth year in Milan, DMY Berlin presented Instant Stories, showing the work of eleven designers and creative studios from Berlin. The Designers were Werner Aisslinger, Mark Braun, Heike Buchfelder, Coordination, Fabien Dumas, e27, ett la benn, Oskar Fabian, David Hanauer, Studio Hausen, Hermann August Weizenegger.   Emphasizing the narrative quality of design, the exhibition‘s setting enabled the designers to seize on different aspects, attributes and concepts of their designs and to enhance these in a specific scenery. Produced and presented as a traveling…
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    design42day

  • Joon Ahn

    riccardo
    15 May 2012 | 2:06 pm
    Coming from what one could consider the archetype of an artistic family, with his parents, aunts and uncles all connected to visual creativity, it was no surprise that Korean-born Joon Ahn decided to pursue a career in the concept design field.

  • Buchtisch Table Book by Voigt Dietrich

    riccardo
    14 May 2012 | 9:39 am
    Buchtisch is a multi-functional piece of furniture, carefully tending to both the practical and emotional needs of its users and it is brought to us from German design duo Studio Voigt Dietrich.

  • The Dami Series by Seung Yong Song

    riccardo
    14 May 2012 | 9:13 am
    The ‘Dami’ is named from Korean verb means ‘put in’. Dami series are consist of basket forms and covers and available for different and various usage depending on form and size. It shows visual beauty as well as the structure of Korean traditional grille which has light and sturdy durability, and the combination of new [...]

  • Glasscape

    riccardo
    14 May 2012 | 2:25 am
    "Humans shouldn’t have all the fun". This is the introductroy phrase to the new design concept by Aruliden – a glass fishscape.

  • Lamborghini Urus Concept

    riccardo
    10 May 2012 | 5:12 pm
    Presented by Automobili Lamborghini at the Beijing Motor Show 2012, the Ursus Concept Car is the new creation of the Italian car maker for the luxury SUV segment with an output of around 440 kW / 600 hp.
 
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    WPCrown Magazine

  • Interview with Jesús (pezflash)

    Alex Tintea
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    I publish many interviews on WPCrown Magazine, some of the interviews are made for you, the readers, but there is another type of posts, the ones which I do for myself, the ones which I read five times and from which I learn more than you do. This is the one of them. Today I...

  • Viceroy Bali Luxury Resort

    Alex Tintea
    15 May 2012 | 12:13 am
    The ultra-luxury Viceroy Bali resort and spa consists of 25-villas majestically situated on a secluded ridge of the Petanu River gorge along Bali’s “Valley of the Kings,” an appellation given by locals for the generations of Balinese royalty who have resided in nearby villages. The resort is also well known by sophisticated international travellers as one of...

  • Townhouse Renovation by Fractal Construction

    Alex Tintea
    7 May 2012 | 3:57 pm
    Fractal Construction collaborated with light designer Ingo Maurer and sculptor Emilio Garcia to create an up-to-date residence described by the constructors as follows: “The walls and ceilings of the living and kitchen area are punctuated with the sensuous sculptures and exploding light fixtures of Garcia and Maurer.” Ulises Liceaga, redeveloping the upper half of the building only,...

  • Web Collection: BuddyPress Themes #1

    Alex Tintea
    7 May 2012 | 1:06 am
    BuddyPress is an open source social networking software package owned by Automattic since 2008. It is a plugin that can be installed on WordPress to transform it into a social network platform. This field might not be very explored, there are not many high-quality BP themes out there, this is why I made this collection with some of the best BP...

  • High Speed Photography by Alan Sailer

    Alex Tintea
    3 May 2012 | 1:14 am
    The photographer Alan Sailer spends countless days setting up his specialized hi-speed camera to shoot objects exploding, or bullets piercing things. Click here to see his complete portfolio on Flickr.
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    Artists Inspire Artists

  • Artists Series – Nathan Sawaya

    Mackenzie
    16 May 2012 | 9:38 am
    In Artists Inspire Artists’s “Artists Series” we single out one amazing artist who’s work could stand alone. Today we have Nathan Sawaya, an incredible artists who luckily never grew up! Nathan creates these incredible life size LEGO® sculptures, spending about 2-3 weeks & using somewhere between 15,000 – 25,000 bricks per piece. So as always, enjoy & live inspired! Artists Inspire Artists

  • Inspirational Gallery #33 – Photography

    Mackenzie
    14 May 2012 | 10:54 am
    In Artists Inspire Artist’s Inspirational Galleries, we present to you amazing & high quality artwork from incredible artists throughout the world. Today we have a collection of amazing and inspirational photography examples. So enjoy and as always Live Inspired! Artists Inspire Artists

  • Inspirational Gallery #32 – Logo Design

    Mackenzie
    10 May 2012 | 11:53 am
    In Artists Inspire Artist’s Inspirational Galleries, we present to you amazing & high quality artwork from incredible artists throughout the world. Today we have a collection of amazing and inspirational logo design examples. So enjoy and as always Live Inspired!     Artists Inspire Artists

  • Artists Series – Steve Payne

    Mackenzie
    8 May 2012 | 10:39 am
    In Artists Inspire Artists’s “Artists Series” we single out one amazing artist who’s work could stand alone. Today we have Steve Payne, who created the Replaceface series, where Steve took digital copies of George Dawe’s paintings of russian generals and added celebrities faces to the portrait using photoshop. So as always, enjoy & live inspired! Artists Inspire Artists

  • Artists Series – Gina Kiel

    Mackenzie
    3 May 2012 | 11:04 am
    In Artists Inspire Artists’s “Artists Series” we single out one amazing artist who’s work could stand alone. Today we have Gina Kiel, an amazing illustrator based in Wellington City in New Zealand and is represented by Sydney based Illustration agency The Drawing Book Studios. I think the reason I like her work so much (besides the fact that she does incredible artwork) is that she has a nice mix between illustrations & typography. Artists Inspire Artists
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    Design Crave

  • Got Time to Spare? What to Do With an Extra Two Hours

    Diana Cook
    14 May 2012 | 5:31 pm
    Can all agree that wasting time searching for data is a lame way to spend two hours? Okay, now that we got that out of the way, imagine what could be accomplished with an extra few hours added to your day.  Our friends over at Domo researched the question and created this infographic to show some of the most common – and surprising – answers. The average information worker spends nearly nine hours each week just looking for information. As you’ll see from the graphic below, getting rid of that burden would free them up to do some pretty cool and interesting things. You can check…

  • Surprising (and Not So Surprising) Things Social Media Reveals About America

    Diana Cook
    4 May 2012 | 10:09 am
    Nearly half of all Americans are now members of at least one social network, double the proportion of just two years ago. This infographic created by Social media strategy firm Hasai reveals some surprising and not so surprising facts.  Using information gathered from top sites like Facebook, Twitter and Tagged, the graph shows how Americans are using social media. Some surprising tidbits uncovered include: North Dakota and New Jersey are among the most social states in the union and Americans are obsessed with British Royalty. For more of what’s going on you can check out the link…

  • Chocolate Mustache Pops, Gamification for Good, Secret NYC Gardens and More

    Diana Cook
    2 May 2012 | 11:41 am
    Hey, hey it’s May. From stylish chocolates to games that will improve your life, we’ve gathered all the best links from around the web. Can gamification make you a better person? Over at Soshable.com, they take a look at five places where gamification is helping people achieve results in fields like personal finance and weight loss. For those of you wanting to get away from it all, Curbed has a map of New York’s Secret Gardens. With nine little known spots to choose from, you can take a break from the hustle and bustle of the city. Looking to hone your coding skills?

  • Moving With Pets: Keep Your Furry Companions Happy

    Diana Cook
    30 Apr 2012 | 5:53 pm
    Are you planning a move in the near future that involves your pets?  We found the resources and tips in this infographic very helpful to pet owners who plan on bringing their furry friends along with them to their new home. This graph higlights the best cities to move to if you have pets, and also helpful tips for getting your new landlord to approve of you pet. Sadly, “moving” is the number-one reason cited for pet abandonment. Both dogs and cats, on a huge, nation-wide scale, fall victim at move time. My Move wanted to find out why moving is such a common reason for pet abandonment. We…

  • Innovative Ad of the Week: Bumble Bee’s “Fish” Tale

    Diana Cook
    26 Apr 2012 | 7:53 am
    Let’s face it, in a sea of ho-hum advertising campaigns, it’s refreshing when a company uses innovative techniques to tell a story and raise brand awareness. One of our recent favorites is from Bumble Bee Foods. Using documentary-style webisodes that chronicle top-ranked U.S. men’s tennis player Mardy Fish’s quest to lead a healthy life, they’ve created video vignettes to work in tandem with the brand’s signature program, BeeWell for Life. Originally launched in 2008, BeeWell for Life is an interactive program that inspires people to exercise, be active and eat healthier. It…
 
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    Drawar

  • The Role of the 21st Century Designer

    Scrivs
    11 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Yesterday I got asked on Twitter if this is a custom design. I guess you could consider it one because I coded it up and “designed” it myself, but I had to chuckle at the question because there really isn’t that much to the design of any of the sections on this site. I try to only add what I feel is necessary, but as designers we know that is hard to do. At least it is hard to do and still make things look good. Then I came across this quote by Phillipe Starck: The designer today should not help to produce more — he has to help produce fewer and better things. There is…

  • Hell Yeah, Another Pinterest Site

    Scrivs
    11 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    It seems like yesterday I was lamenting the fact that so many Twitter Bootstrap sites look like Twitter Bootstrap sites. It is kind of understandable because Bootstrap is being used as a framework to get an idea up and out the door and most people that use it are developers who might not want to take the time designing something unique. However, I’m starting to see an even more disturbing trend: the rise of the Pinterest layout. Of course Pinterest didn’t come up with their layout. It has been around for a while since the arrival of the wonderful Masonry plugin. But you have to…

  • SSS: stry.us

    Scrivs
    9 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Doesn’t matter the resolution, this site is beautiful. We’re Stry, a new type of news organization. We don’t care much about big headlines or news of the day, and we’re not easily distracted. We’re just a band of reporters in pursuit of great storytelling. We tell stories about the issues that affect our lives. Works for me.

  • The Gestural Calculator and Gesture Design Challenges

    Scrivs
    9 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    There are consequences to being the first one out the door with a new design idea. You might get a ton of praise, but it also takes a lot of time for people to understand what you are doing. Usually this is because there are established design paradigms in a person’s head and when you try to introduce something new it throws them for a loop. Designing Ideas Today I came across Rechner, the world’s first gesture based calculator. Personally, I don’t use a calculator enough to remember how a gesture will work. I like to open the calculator app and use the functions that are right…

  • Designing Ideas

    Scrivs
    8 May 2012 | 11:36 am
    Every day I wake up and I see inspiration all around me. This might not be positive inspiration. Sometimes it is negative inspiration where I see something that could be done better and I think of how I would design it. Because of this I’m already planning in my head how I am going to go about it. 99.9999999% of the time these ideas don’t get beyond my subconscious and that is okay because they help to make sure that the 0.000000001% do succeed. At least I think. Unfortunately when those far and few between ideas reach the screen they might not be able to succeed, but it…
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    China Design Hub

  • Hu Huishan Memorial

    waikit
    15 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Perhaps Hu Huishan Memorial  is the smallest memorial in the world. It is designed and donated by Jiakun Architects. Hu Huishan is a 15 years old girl who was buried in the earthquake happened on May 12th, 2008, her death time is unknown. During her lifetime, she liked literature, and dreamed of becoming a writer. The memorial takes its prototype of make-shift tents which are seen frequently in disaster zone, its area of footprint, volume and form are all similar to the tent. The floor in the exterior is paved with red bricks, and surfaces on the exterior wall are plastered in a way that is…

  • Zhu Chao’s Graphic Design Work

    waikit
    14 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Zhu Chao is a very young graphic designer and art director, born in Hubei and now working in Beijing. His work has been displayed at Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2012 and GDC 11 and 09 Visit the portfolio of Zhu Chao

  • NanoActiv Skin Restoring System

    waikit
    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    NanoActiv skin restoring system is a new breakthrough to home spa devices. It applies patented Nano Cyclone Technology (NCT) to turn skin nutrition supplements into nano-sized particles for a true moisture and nutrients penetration deep into the skin layers. It is designed to bring the quality of salon treatments to the privacy of your homes. The UI design and operation modes are highly user-friendly for women. Comes with a set of accessories you can enjoy different beauty treatments at home just like having professional treatments in the beauty salon. Designed by Oregon Scientific in Hong…

  • The Innovation Debate: Can Beijing be the next Silicon Valley?

    waikit
    11 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    “Lets not forget that China has a rich history of creativity from the invention of paper, gunpowder, printing, and the compass. Today’s environment has changed beyond recognition, but the spirit of invention in China remains. The Chinese will become innovators, rather than emulators, over the following decades, as investment into human capital moves China from manufacturing into the service sector.” Read the article at Aeris Magazine

  • Wallpaper* China Site

    waikit
    10 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Wallpaper* is one of the world’s leading global design and lifestyle magazine brand. Since our first issue in 1996, Wallpaper* has changed the way the world looks, not only identifying trends but forging new ideas and introducing new products and places. Even before we produced an entire issue dedicated to China in June 2009, we knew that the next stage of the country’s development would involve a huge flowering of creative energy that would drive it on to new heights. To continue to engage with this dynamism and bring the best of China’s writers and thinkers to a Chinese audience, we…
 
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    Enpundit

  • 36 Incredible Places To See On Earth

    Enpundit
    16 May 2012 | 12:47 am
    Great Blue Hole, Belize Horseshoe Bend, Colorado River, Arizona Golden Horn, Brac Island, Croatia Uluru Mountain (aka Ayers Rock), Uluru, [...] Visit Enpundit for the full post.

  • Whistler Residence by Battersby Howat Architects

    Enpundit
    15 May 2012 | 9:16 pm
    Batteresby Howat Architects have designed this beautiful home located halfway up the mountainside in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. The clients [...] Visit Enpundit for the full post.

  • Holiday House in Melides, Portugal

    Enpundit
    15 May 2012 | 8:05 pm
    Pedro Reis has designed this house in Melides, Grândola, Portugal as a holiday home for his clients. Photos by FG+SG. Visit Enpundit for the full post.

  • Shark Filled Atrium at Miami Science Museum

    Enpundit
    14 May 2012 | 2:02 am
    Grimshaw Architects have designed the new $275 million Miami Science Museum. The most striking aspect of the design is the [...] Visit Enpundit for the full post.

  • Impressive Water Display at Osaka Station City

    Enpundit
    14 May 2012 | 1:08 am
    This mesmerizing water display created by Koei Industry is located at the Osaka Station City shopping mall in Japan. It uses [...] Visit Enpundit for the full post.
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    Stadri Emblems Blog

  • Enter the “Caption the Patch” Contest to Win 100 Stadri Dollars

    Marisa Brayman
    10 May 2012 | 11:12 am
    Share with Addthis At Stadri, we know how creative our customers can be. The sheer volume of awesome designs they send us to make into patches speaks for itself. Some of these designs simply blow us away. Since you’re all so creative with images and design, we decided we’d like to see how creative you are with words. Hence, our first ever caption-the-patch contest. Yes, it’s a simple as it sounds. Below is a real patch we’ve done for Warren Wilson College. The text is blurred out; we need you to fill it back in with something clever and witty—in other words, caption the patch!

  • How Custom Embroidered Biker Patches Enrich the Riding Experience

    Marisa Brayman
    7 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Share with Addthis There are few finer ways to see the world than on a motorcycle; a combination of exotic locations and an exhilarating mode of transportation offers an experience that is as memorable as it is unique. Even with this in mind, however, there are still steps you can take to maximize your enjoyment and provide yourself with special mementos of your trips and the clubs that you have ridden with. Custom embroidered biker patches offer this in abundance, and allow you to build an entire collection that reflects your riding history.  How Do Patches Improve the Rider’s…

  • An Accepting, Yet Highly-Organized Motorcycle Ministry

    Marisa Brayman
    1 May 2012 | 8:13 am
    Share with Addthis PNC Thunder is just one of the many ministries of the Puyallup Nazarene Church in Washington, which is usually the starting point of most rides. The ministry started as merely a group of riders who would meet together throughout the summer months to ride. These individuals were realizing the great opportunity they had to get in touch with other motorcycle enthusiasts. So, in the early spring of 2004, they were officially organized.  They refer to themselves as a ministry for their motorcycle enthusiasts, providing the opportunity to participate in organized rides, with…

  • Choosing the Right Design For Your Promotional Products: A Case Study

    Marisa Brayman
    23 Apr 2012 | 11:55 am
    Share with Addthis Instantly recognizable to all who see it, designers have been creating emblems and logos for years and even those with a limited fashion knowledge can differentiate between the main brands. Establishing a logo is a key part of a business’ development but not all brands are able to project the prestige which they desire from something as simple as a Scottie Dog–so what is the secret? For a UK-based luxury bag company called Radley—the brand behind the iconic canine—the secret lies in the simplicity. A brand developed from the creative designs of a native Londoner,…

  • A Different Spin On Self Defense and a Standard Use For Custom Patches

    Marisa Brayman
    16 Apr 2012 | 1:56 pm
    Share with Addthis United Martial Arts Self Defense Academy, located in South Salinas, CA, is a school for learning methods of Self Defense. According to their website, it has a “mission of providing uncompromisingly high quality training with the exclusive focus on Self Defense applications.” WHAT THEIR NAME REPRESENTS: United Martial Arts: Their coursework originating from several mother systems of training Self Defense: Their training focus Academy: A place of learning Founded in July of 2005, they have a varied curriculum, with their coursework being modeled around the collegiate…
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    Design Tickle

  • Tags Designed for Website Layouts and Mobile Apps

    Jake Rocheleau
    14 May 2012 | 5:58 am
    Tags from a user experience standpoint are a revolutionary invention. With the social media craze has come the idea of tagging posts and photographs. The social news script Pligg CMS does a very good job at including tags for submitted news stories. Users can organize their bookmarks or submitted links based on topic, items, or people. But even more than the system of tagging is designing the interface. You have to consider how a tag system would look for any given website or application. In the showcase below I have collected dozens of different graphics related to tagged content. Some of…

  • Custom Icons Fitted for Website Layouts

    Jake Rocheleau
    11 May 2012 | 5:01 am
    Adding in small icons to the layout of your website is the perfect way to capture attention. Visitor’s love extra spice in design work and it helps your layout stand apart from the crowd. I find examples of web icons very inspiring, you can almost get a sense of where the current trends are moving. And sitting in 2012 I find web design to be an extremely interesting topic of discussion. In the small showcase below I’ve put together a collection of powerful icons found in web design. User interfaces are key to navigating any layout and interacting with the site data. With the right…

  • Unique Traffic Charts for Data Analytics

    Jake Rocheleau
    9 May 2012 | 4:59 am
    SEO and social networking can only bring your website so far with marketing. There are other trends you need to keep up with, and the best system is through traffic analytics. Google provides some of the most informative graphs to look over. But their interface quickly grows on you to be come dull, bland, and very simple.. not that this is a bad thing. But I’ve got a passion for great design and handy user interfaces. Thus I’ve collected a small handful of graphics and charts posted for data analyzation. Web and mobile users will love these interface designs and maybe even…

  • New & Improved Mac App Interfaces for OSX

    Jake Rocheleau
    8 May 2012 | 5:40 am
    There’s no denying that Apple Computers has dramatically influenced the hold of technology in our society. The company has boldly moved into tablets and smartphones for personal use. But Apple is still dedicated to expand their OS X operating system for laptops and desktop models. And with the press hounding over 10.8 Mountain Lion it’s just a matter of time before we can build even more intuitive desktop applications. In the showcase below I’ve collected dozens of OSX app screenshots for your inspiration. These all feature new ideologies for how to build apps on the Mac.

  • Graphical Display of Polaroids and Digital Cameras

    Jake Rocheleau
    4 May 2012 | 5:43 am
    Cameras are a legacy technology which have helped humanity over the past 100 years or more. We have been able to capture moments in history and save their presence forever. It also provides great content for illustrators and digital artists from across the world. In this minimalist showcase I’ve put together a select few examples of cameras and polaroids. Instagram may be the most popular example of an app icon – but real illustrations are a whole different ball game. Many such examples could be perfect for logo branding or as a website vector display. Polaroid Icon Brown Polaroid…
 
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