On This Day (Sunday), July 10

1980: Jessica Simpson was born.

1990: "Mr. Belvedere" broadcasted it's final episode.

2011: We celebrated Sarah's birthday!

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Kitchen Space Invaders

A fun packaging concept by Designslave spotted on Deviant Art.

Link: http://designslave.deviantart.com/art/Frusion-42711165


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On This Day, July 7

1947: A supposed spacecraft crashed in Roswell, New Mexico.

1949: Shelly Duvall was born.

2011: We celebrated Tall Brian's birthday!

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SAND

At a magnification of over 250 times, tiny grains of sand are shown to be beautiful, delicate and colourful structures.

When seen well beyond the limits of human eyesight, the miniature particles are exposed as fragments of crystals, spiral fragments of shells and crumbs of volcanic rock.

Professor Gary Greenberg who has a PhD in biomedical research from University College London said: 'It is incredible to think when you are walking on the beach you are standing on these tiny treasures.

Amazing!

JS

Cheers!

Zarb champagne has an interesting approach to packaging. Very much focused on sustaining brand loyalty by creating new graphics and packaging concepts, they have a commercial range with evocative high resolution photography, as well as the art range. Pics from the art range below. See the commercial range and more art projects here:

http://zarbchampagne.com/










Cheers!
jc

MOVIE BARCODES

Moviebarcodes is a tumblr blog from an unknown author that posts these images generated from different movies. Each frame of the movie is stretched tall and thin to create this single image from an entire movie.



The Matrix



Dumbo



Gangs Of New York



Silence Of The Lambs

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SHORT HAND LOGOS

The following are from a TVN Channel advertising campaign to run alongside the tagline, “Shorter commercial breaks.”

Some beautiful long exposure images that show the trajectories of aircraft as they take off and land.

Found here



















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Lego Where You Go

Another great ad from the Lego "Imagine" series.

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Symbols - Angus Hyland

Angus Hyland, a Pentagram partner, gives a lecture on symbols at the Design Musuem in London to coincide with the launch of his book 'Symbol' (co-authored by Steven Bateman).

Part One:

Symbols by Angus Hyland: Part one from Laurence King Publishing on Vimeo.

Part Two:

Symbols by Angus Hyland: Part two from Laurence King Publishing on Vimeo.

Part Three:

Symbols by Angus Hyland: Part three from Laurence King Publishing on Vimeo.

Part Four:

Symbols by Angus Hyland: Part four from Laurence King Publishing on Vimeo.

Part Five:

Symbols by Angus Hyland: Part five from Laurence King Publishing on Vimeo.

You can buy the book here

Life in the Big Apple

Photographer, Christopher Boffoli's, series, "Disparity," contains some really fun use of scale and context.

Link: http://cjboffoli.500px.com/disparity/#/0

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Premium Fatherly Brews

In celebration of Fathers' Day.

Link: http://everyguyed.com/lookbook/cheers-dad/

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On This Day, June 16

Some awesome stuff happened on this day.

1989: Ghostbusters II premiered.

1992: World's largest salami was created.

2011: We celebrated Jesse's birthday!

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Made in Cupertino

Yesterday, Steve Jobs unveiled his plans to build a new iconic Apple HQ in Cupertino to house 12,000 employees. The circular building, like many Apple stores, is deceivingly simple-looking, but will not have one piece of exterior glass that is straight. The plan also calls for auditoriums to give Apple keynote lectures and underground parking to allow for a massive amount of landscaping to fill the rest of the lot.

Check out the link below to listen to Steve Jobs' proposal to the Cupertino City Council.

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20070327-248/cupertino-mayor-says-citys-ready-for-apple-hq-2.0/

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On This Day, June 7

1972: The musical, "Grease", opened on Broadway.

2009: Singer, Bret Michaels, fractured his nose and cut his lip when a piece of scenery hit him on the Tony Awards.

2011: We celebrated Sam's birthday!

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On This Day, June 3

1987: "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" premiered in France.

2011: The ASPCA announced June to be "Cat Month".

2011: We celebrated Robert's birthday!

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