Hyperkit updates
British touche-Ã -tout Hyperkit have opened a new website to present their wide range of productions that include art direction, branding, stationery, publications, exhibitions, websites, packaging and signage systems.
Foursquare
Location-based social networking in the form of a game, and the “sequel” to Dodgeball. The 1.0 iPhone app is a bit crashy for me, but the design is very good. ★
Tech Book Published Exclusively on iPhone
Drew McCormack: I happen to have a few book length manuscripts lying around, so I decided to take one of them — Scientific Scripting with Python — and undertake an experiment: I developed a basic book reader, reformatted the manuscript for the iPhone, and submitted it to the App Store. ★
Sunday Type: Fast cars, tiny letters, & more
Need for Speed: The Art of the Title Sequence shows off some great examples of high-speed type & imagery from movie title sequences. The Periodic Table of Typefaces drops some serif science. [Via] Aoyama Hina makes ridiculously delicate, intricate papercut lettering. More photos are on Flickr. Sometimes one letter makes all the difference.
Decision Paths
We live by the Thames Path. Our bit of it is closed at the moment for some building works. It's pretty well sign posted (as well as you'd expect) and the diversions are clearly marked. The diversion would be obvious to locals but the Thames Path gets much traffic from walkers and cyclists. I've noticed something about peoples decision process when faced with this sign.Everyone walks up to the sign, and the barriers, and peers round to see if it's true. [...]
Andrew Golpys Updates
Dirty Mouse |
Mar 15, 2009 09:36AM
Andrew Golpys has been hard at work designing and building new sites.
Logo Design Love book deal
Following the advances of US publisher, Peachpit Press, I’ve been officially offered a deal to author their first book about logo design. Terms are agreed, and a contract is being prepared. Peachpit is a part of Pearson, the international media company responsible for The Financial Times, Penguin, Dorling Kindersley, Prentice Hall and other leading brands. I’ve begun approaching iconic logo designers, asking if they’d contribute to the book, and so far the response has been fantastic. Confirmed contributors include Miles [...]
Náttúra documentary
For lovers of nature and beautiful pictures, here is a very nice documentary focusing specifically on Iceland, often nicknamed "the land of ice and fire" because of its active volcanoes and majestuous glaciers. The Icelandic environmental documentary Náttúra has been released this week (only on iTunes). The film focuses on the current environmental issues that face Iceland ; it includes interviews with Björk along with many other well-known Icelandic figures active in the preservation of its untamed nature. This documentary comes at a time [...]
We Love Magazine Library
First with the bad news: if you’re hearing about the “We Love Magazine Library” exhibition for the first time, then you’re out of luck because it ended yesterday. I must apologize for not having posted this before — I had actually taken note of it before its start, but completely forgot to post something. I did get a chance to check it out this past Friday night — it was held in the basement event space of Omotesando Hills — [...]
salzburg sternbrauerei housing by toshiko mori
salzburg, austria is a unique city where, as architect toshiko mori explains, architecture and nature coexist in a unique state of balanced tension. the citys high cliffs are an architectural challenge in their own right. for toshiko moris entry for the salzburg sternbrauerei housing competition, the architect chose to embrace the cliffs and stressed the differences between their height and the low level of urban infrastructure. their design was a hybrid housing typology that features two distinct sections. the city dwelling [...]
Ergonomics in Dentistry: How to overcome workplace injuries
Ergonomics issues in dentistry ..."Dealing daily with vibrating tools and heavy workloads are preludes to disaster for dental personnel, said Dr Hjh Norlila Datuk Paduka Hj Abd Jalil, the Director General of Medical Services, at a seminar yesterday entitled "Ergonomics in Dentistry".Errors may also creep in due to fatigue, discomfort, illness and injuries, which could further endanger the patients' health and safety, added the director general, who was also the event's guest of honour.Yesterday's seminar organised by the Department of Dental [...]
Yoga for Back Pain
A program to avoid back pain ..."Back RX - A 15-Minute-A-Day Yoga and Pilates Based Program to End Low Back Pain is an informative book written from the perspective of a physician and back pain sufferer. Its author, Vijay Vad, MD, is a sports medicine specialist, professor at Cornell University Medical Center, and Back Care Advisor for the PGA Tour. The prescribed program blends traditional physical therapy/rehabilitation with yoga and Pilates poses and has been shown effective for relieving low back [...]
My Home Office
Importance of customizing your home office ..."We’ve previously covered planning your home office and setting up your home office here on WebWorkerDaily. Here I share a real-life home office: mine. I’m not a decorator — far from it, just an organized person who wants things to have a place and feel comfortable where I spend most of my time during the work week. Seriously, if I can set up a home office like mine, anyone can.I don’t let my family mess [...]
The downfall of a Structured Society
Vodcast on the subject. Is my first so I could learn a lot on presentation and quality Throughout the ages we began to centralize a lot of our society so we could do things more efficiently. Education, healthcare, government, security, production, living, entertainment: everything needed to be bigger to be better. This thinking is a product of the industrial revolution and mass media. We needed central organizations to give more and more people in our society access. We invented rules [...]
SixthSense: A Wearable Gestural Interface
SixthSense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces. Created by Patti Maes (MIT Media Lab).
Steffan Postaer at the Dubai Lynx: day four
adfreak |
Mar 15, 2009 06:34AM
Steffan Postaer, chairman and chief creative officer of Euro RSCG Chicago, is sending us daily updates as he judges the Dubai Lynx awards this week. Day Four: Saturday, March 14 Having seen all the work entered into Dubai Lynx at least once, let me try to identify some trends. First of all, as is often the case, the print and outdoor shows were the deepest in terms of quality. While one usually expects to find the highest highs in television, [...]
andres jaque architects: mousse city, stavanger, norway
'mousse city' by andres jaque architects image courtesy andres jaque architects the mousse city project by andres jaque architects hopes to provide a solution to the lack of adaptability in residential structures. the design consists of various sized structures all assembled together. bubble-atoms can be physically connected, disconnected and reconnected in different ways, and economically managed to create an on-demand spatial translation of users life. property is related to spatial units like in timeshare condominiums schemes. rights are not directly linked to specific bubbles. a [...]
Kate Moross rocks!
A cross between psychedelia 70s laced with an apparent obsession with Sargent Peppers’s record sleeve making and post-punk eras, most of her gigs are entertainment and music industry related. Kate Moross is a 22 year old London based creative practicing as an illustrator and graphic designer. She also runs ISO & Isomorph Records which you can read about here. She claims having “a fascination with three sided shapes, illegible typography, and freeform lettering.”
Ogilvy office - Guangzhou
Surrealism is going mainstream. Carnival office for Ogilvy & Mather in Guangzhou - China. Brillant. Via Source: Username
The art of Rosalia Banet
Rosalia Banet creates sculptures, photos, drawings and videos of meals made with the bodies of human beings. Meet also her strange species like Penis Boy and The Chocolate Man. Rosalia Banet Blog
InDesigning?
Are you an InDesign user? I have launched a new InDesign blog: InDesigning.net. The main target group is current InDesign users, who knows their way around the application - with guides, tips and tricks and screencasts to make you better, and thoughts and ideas on how I think Adobe could proceed with improving and adding new features. I have never recorded a screencast before, and my english is rather rusty, so this should be exciting. But I am really excited about [...]
Beg, Steal or Borrow auction
Students from the University for the Creative Arts (UK) will be holding a design auction, taking place to help fund their end of year show. They have Beg, Steal or Borrow work from notable designers. If want eye goodies and support their cause. Save the date. Upcoming: March 21
Nothing cardboard office
Step into my cardboard office… via CR Blog Nothing is a new commercial creative agency formed by Michael Jansen and Bas Korsten that just opened its doors in Amsterdam. The office is an unusual construction too, in that it is built almost entirely out of cardboard and is h.q. to building 4 in-house brands to be released in the near future. If you want to make a splash in the design industry, finding such an original idea will definitely make [...]
peepoo bag
peepoo bag in the world today, 2.6 billion people have no access to basic sanitation. human faeces contains infectious and lethal pathogens, causing diseases such as cholera and diarrhea. the situation could be described as an ongoing emergency. swedish architect peter thuvader together with peepoopeople have developed the peepoobag as a sanitation solution that aims at solving this global problem. the peepoobag is a personal, single-use toilet that sanitises human excreta shortly after defecation. all this is done within a high performance degradable bioplastic [...]
SUSTAINABLE STYLE: Alabama Chanin Fall/Winter 2009
Inhabitat |
Mar 15, 2009 02:01AM
New York Fashion Week has come and gone but the slow fashion Alabama Chanin caravan just keeps on rolling between ‘The Factory’ in Florence, Alabama to Birmingham, Nashville, and back to NYC again this April. Listen up folks, as we can think of no better designer and do-it-yourself enterprise to help you combat the current recession blues. From folksy embroidered skirts to hand-stitched, organic cotton tees and true indigo denim, Alabama Chanin’s Fall/Winter 2009 Collection inspires you to pick yourself [...]
