Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Shortest Film on a stamp



KesselsKramer from Amsterdam created this 30 frame lenticular on a Dutch stamp. All shot by Anton Corbin. Don't blink or you'll miss it.

Monday, 27 September 2010

UNITED EUROPE - Maps that show what the Euro zone really thinks of one another




Maps by Graphic Designer Yanko Tsvetkov.

More here

BRA WARS - yes it's a bra that doubles up as a gas mask.




Find out more at emergency bra HQ http://ebbra.com/

Monday, 9 August 2010

Smart building

In Tuscany, Italy by Italian architect Massimo Mariani...



Read all about it here

Tuesday, 13 July 2010

The art of Cosmogramma



Short film by Flying Lotus about the sleeve art of his latest LP 'Cosmogramma' which was done by artist Leigh J McCloskey

Dell X Threadless

Dell now offer 11 different designer lap top covers (at an extra $85) through crowd-sourcing design company Threadless (famous for their tees primarily)







Seen on Contagious Feed

Thursday, 8 July 2010

The Lo Res Project

The Lo Res Project makes new renderings of objects by decreasing the resolution... so a Lamborghini starts life as you know it and slowly ends up as a representative shape...





Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Power up

This power station in Roombeek, the Netherlands is designed to develop a sensibility for the consumption of energy and sustainable cohabitation. Looks stunning, lovely tiles and a great idea to make something visible and with a message - when most other power stations strive to be invisible within the landscape...







Read a bit more at ArchDaily

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Cheers



Nice beer and footy collab posters...



Check them all here

Thursday, 24 June 2010

Nerdball

Some lovely data visualisations of football over at World Cup of Nerds ...



Monday, 21 June 2010

We are not time travellers



Alex Varanese has grabbed grab all the modern technology he could find, taken it back to the late 70's, superficially redesigned it all to blend in, and started a fictional consumer electronics company to unleash it upon the world. Cool.









For the full set go here

Thursday, 27 May 2010

Startup quotes

Loads of inspiring quotes from people that have started their own successful businesses...









Lots more here

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

The Pantone Hotel

Recently opened in Brussels...





From Hypebeast... "Each of the seven floors have been decorated using different color palettes to enhance its guests’ emotions, indeed the rooms are also patterned from one of seven distinct pantone colors".

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Strategic Plan...



By and available to buy from The Baltimore Print Studios

Monday, 17 May 2010

Football socks

Nice World cup themed stuff by design agency Wong Wong and Happy Socks.



The other one is here

Monday, 19 April 2010

So you need a typeface?

A humorous flowchart of the choices we go through choosing fonts by Julian Hansen - click on it to view it big.

Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Google maps



Funny little Google maps manipulations by Christoph Niemann - who has plenty of other top notch illustrations on his site - worth a look.









Loads more here

Monday, 12 April 2010

Repeat X Repeat Y



Repeat X Repeat Y is a collection of patterns from a plethora of designers, illustrator and artists:







View and submit here

Thursday, 8 April 2010

TrustoCorp

NYC based TrustoCorp (an upstart street art conglomerate) are full of mischief and mayhem.

They've made fake products and put them on the shelves of real stores....







More on that over at Arrested Motion

They've done tons of guerrilla street signage as social commentary and culture jamming. Like:







Their Flickr stream is full of cool shit and is well worth a look; their minimal official site is here

Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Music Philosophy

Song lyrics meets nice type. Loads more here







 

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