When you see dismantled, deconstructed and neatly arranged objects you can't help but think of IKEA. Well, IKEA took this "deconstruction" concept and marvelously incorporated it to something you'd never expect to see it: a cookbook. Up until now, we were accustomed to seeing the final result of a recipe in such a book, something that would show you where you're supposed to be heading, in terms of executing the recipe. Not this one though. Now I'm so curious to see the whole book. I wonder how it's designed...
I love pizza. Pizza is love. I would have pizza every single day, every single meal would be pizza; if I only could. Basically, the only pizza I enjoy these days, is the one I make on wasa bread, or a wholegrain base.
Anywho, the point is that this amazing box reintroduces one of the most common things in such a brilliant way that this needs to be adopted by every single pizza place.
I found this video while browsing the ISO50 blog, and I was blown away. I admit that I hadn't heard of Jon Hopkins before (poor ignorant moi) but this track (and the original version of Vessel) are very cool!
The video (to the Four Tet Remix) however, is beyond perfect. I love the superimposition of those gorgeous reds and cyans (I'm a sucker for the red and cyan coexistence) throughout the whole video, and the great handling of the motion speeds and loops. Directed by Bison.
I have been using Dropbox for some time now; installed the Mac App and the iPhone App and I just use it on a dily basis for exchanging files with friends, links with myself, uploading stuff for others to download, and storing files to be accessed from everywhere. It's like an online "flash drive" accessible from everywhere as long as you have an internet connection. The free version gives users a good 2GB of free space, while you can purchase more space from the Dropbox website. Apps are available for iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry phones.
Read It Later is probably my favorite thing these days, I'd say it's as awesome as the invention of the command-Z feature. It was brought to my attention via the official Twitter app for the iPhone where there's an option for saving links off of tweets to a list to be read later. When I registered for an account I noticed that you can use it with while browsing (by installing a third-party extension to your browser) and it's like the best thing since sliced bread! Really it's like building your reading list with just a few clicks. I haven't used the iPhone app that much, mainly because I find it sort of tedious reading off websites on the iPhone, but the mobile app has an awesome feature, that of saving the articles for offline reading.
Japanese advertising agency Dentsu asked London-based interface design agency BERG to creatively deliver the role of screens in our lives. BERG went ahead and created this amazing time-lapse photography/video project with amazing 3D typography. I'm not even going to try to explain how they did it, everything is beautifully explained in the embedded video right before Making Future Magic begins.
Moses Parting the Red SeaAdam & Eve in the Garden of Eden (look closely)Noah's ArkThe Crucifixion
The Glue Society, a creative collective based in Sydney, created a series of satellite-POV images depicting four of the most important Biblical events.
The pieces were showcased at Pulse Art's (who commissioned the work) Miami Art Fair.
James Dive of The Glue Society stated: "As a method of representation satellite photography is so trusted, it has been interesting to mess with that trust."
I love print, I really really do love print. I also love adore typography, the stillness, movement and expression of any possible emotion that an adequate typographer can achieve with mere typefaces. Now this comes to stir everything we, the designers and the rest of the people, know.
Animated typefaces! Well, it was bound to happen at some point; iPads, tablets, animated webpages etc. This one, named Moshun (motion) and created by Calango based in The Netherlands, is some serious (moving) eye-candy! I should really dust off that stale and moldy knowledge I once had of After Effects if I want to dig into this.
Being the pop-drenched graphic designer I am, I couldn't help but fall for Kylie Minogue's new video to Get Outta My Way (video at the end of the post), off her new album Aphrodite (which is a great album by the way). After all, the first post I ever did on this blog was Kylie's video to The One, which still remains one of my favorite music videos.
I don't know who had the idea for this video, well, most probably the directors AlexandLiane, but I mean who thought of bringing Frieder Weiss' work into play and all that brilliant styling? (maybe with the exception of the white socks, donned by the dancers)
Frieder Weiss' amazing- a m a z i n g - interactive graphics are the most visually exciting thing I've seen in the past few months! Many of the effects from Outta My Way were introduced in the Frieder Weiss - Chunky Move collaboration titled "Glow" which premiered back in 2006 (also this year, in Sydney Australia, 13-16 October). I guess, this music video is one of the cases in which the widely accessible pop culture meets the somewhat alternative and densely creative art world. While some will rush to label this coexistence as "selling out" (from the part of the fine artist) I, and many others, tend to see this as a great opportunity for more people to learn about these brilliant artists. I, myself, didn't know about Weiss until I googled to find the credits for the video.
Imagine the good that the availability of all this info can do to an aspiring designer/artist at the beginning of their course! Whether people like it or not, the Madonnas, Gagas, Kylies, and Beyoncés (and in my case the Mariahs too) define a bit more than just the pop culture of today. It could be said that they open new exploration routes to those who are capable of handling (or even deciphering) the bundle of info that's given to them. (I hereby declare that I partially owe David LaChapelle and Herb Ritts to Mariah Carey)
I remember when Tipexx produced just a series of crappy looking and badly packaged products. The one in the bottle which was applied with a brush ended up being thick, lumpy and hard to apply in just a couple of days of use. While the ballpoint version took ages to dry and the rollerball would brake, rendering the whole thing useless.
Apparently, Tipexx managed to advance over the years and not only do they have a "tape version" of their error-correcting material, they've also gone all viral and Old-Spicey on us with this cool online campaign.
Just follow the video below (to the youtube website), and let the fun begin.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 1:01 AM 
