Designer BBQ

A nice set of posters from The Partners to promote their annual Designer Summer BBQ.

According to their blog, all the items were actually BBQ'ed. Poor yellow pencil :(







FormFiftyFive speaks to Kevin Lan about how they were made here


JS

David Shares his Interest in Gray Pants

We're all partial to something, aren't we?

Actually, Graypants is a collaboration between two architects that focus on furniture, lighting and graphics. They're particularly keen on upcycling old boxes into sleek, modern fixtures.

Check them out: http://www.graypants.com/

Can you guess what these are?

Created by Israeli textile designer Sivan Royz, these fungus-like purses are made of layers of laser-cut silk. The tighter the curves, the darker the edges of the silk. Holes in the fabric line up to create cavities inside, suitable for holding items like a lipstick and mobile phone. The pieces are coloured evenly or not coloured at all. The shading and dark parts are created by the laser cut line, as a straight line will create less dark areas then a crooked line. The dimensional pieces react to movement when handled and change accordingly like a living organism.

Herring Pack

A lovely new piece of packaging by SDL (Stockholm Design Lab) for IKEA Food and their Skarpsill (Herring) product.

sainsburys packaging from long ago

saw the cornflakes pack on the CR blog site and suddenly I was back in my childhood, well worth a look

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/august/sainsburys-own-label-book

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On this day, (last week) Aug 3

2004: The Statue of Liberty reopens

2012: The remake of Total Recall will be released

2011: We celebrated Tanawat's Birthday!

TUBE MAP

Mark Noad (a designer) has redrawn the Tube map so that it shows the routes and distances between stations more accurately.

He has posted the map online and plans to launch an iPhone app in the coming days.

"The traditional map is based on one created by Harry Beck in 1931 and has become a design classic.
Mr Noad called the original ‘a brilliant piece of information design’ but said it needed an update.
He said: ‘I doubt if Beck would want to put his name to the current version. If he were to start from scratch today would he have used the same approach?
‘There are twice as many lines with London Overground and the DLR. When Beck was drawing up his map, the Circle line was the focus but that has now moved away and you have places such as Canary Wharf. This is not intended as a replacement to the official version – it is simply another way to look at it.’"

Click here to view the map in more detail

JS

WORLDS LARGEST STOP MOTION SET

'Gulp' is a new short film created by Aardman, depicting a fisherman going about his daily catch. Shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales, every frame of this stop-motion animation was shot using a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics. The film has broken a world record for the 'largest stop-motion animation set', with the largest scene stretching over 11,000 square feet.

Gulp. The world's largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. from Nokia HD on Vimeo.

This film follows on from Aardman's Dot, which was the world’s smallest animation, and won several prestigious awards

SATELLITE COLLECTIONS

Jenny Odell, has created a set of prints of collected things cut out from Google satellite view.

"The view from a satellite is not a human one, nor is it one we were ever really meant to see. But it is precisely from this inhuman point of view that we are able to read our own humanity, in all of its tiny, reliably repetitive marks upon the face of the earth. From this view, the lines that make up basketball courts and the scattered blue rectangles of swimming pools become like hieroglyphs that read: people were here.

At the same time, like any photograph, satellite imagery is also immediately an image of the past. That is, to look at satellite imagery is to look not only down upon ourselves but back in time, even if only by a matter of hours or days. In recording the moment at which things as bizarre as water parks and racetracks covered the earth, the photograph also implies that moment's own passing, encoding each tiny structure with vulnerability and pre-emptive nostagia. My desire to collect these pieces stems not only from the fascination of any collector but from a wish to save these low-resolution, sporadically-updated pixels--these strange pictures of ourselves--from time and the ephemerality of the internet."


97 Cooling Towers




104 airplanes




120 stadiums




77 waste and salt ponds




125 swimming pools




Every basketball court in manhattan



Click here to see more & view images bigger.

JS

MONA LISA REMIX

Leonardo da Vinci's classic distilled, reduced & remixed down into 140 exact circular characters of colour. Part of a series created by Graphic Nothing. However, I don't think the other prints work so well. - JS

On this Day, (Tomorrow) July 30

1947: Arnold Schwarzenegger was born.

2000: Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston married.

2011: We celebrated Amy's birthday!

CG

On this Day, July 27

1940: Bugs Bunny was introduced in an animated short, "A Wild Hare."

1990: Zsa Zsa Gabor began a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop.

2011: We celebrated Andy's birthday!

SB+CG

Liquid Lunch

Check out these promotional lunch boxes designed to resemble soda can 6-packs and bottle carriers.

From Box Vox. (an interesting package design blog worth following) -SB

On This Day, July 24th

1982: Prince released his album 1999.

1847: Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.

2011: We celebrated Megan's birthday!

Mancave™

On this day, July 22

1971: "Till Death Us Do Part" debuted on England's BBC

1991: Jeffrey Dahmer is caught red handed

2011: We celebrated Butler's birthday!

On This Day, July 21

1924: actor/comedian Don Knotts was born.

2007: The seventh and last book of the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," was released.

2011: We celebrated Chris' birthday!

Mancave™

Origami

Too much time on you hands? too much money?

think about taking money origami.

BD

Sick Ceramics

Japanese artist, Katsuyo Aoki, has a portfolio full of incredibly detailed work.

Link: http://katsuyoaoki.s1.bindsite.jp/Works.html

CG

On This Day (Tomorrow), July 15

1996: Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially split after their divorce.

2011: It was declared Bird Week at the Turks and Caicos National Museum. (Yes, it's a weak fact, but just go with it.)

2011: We celebrated Georgiana's birthday!

CG

PS: Georgiana really loves birds.