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puppy-kitty in the raw!, originally uploaded by freshlyblended.okay this is totally not blog related and personal but this is a tribute to all those visitors who have come to my house asking for puppy-kitty and only get 2 seconds of "scaredy cat gremlin ears" before she hides away. this is the real puppy-kitty!
Ever the fashion pundits, the French have extended their obsession for what is très chic by asking design legend and man behind the house of Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, to design the 2009 issue of "Le Petit Larousse Illustrè." Translated in English as "Larousse Small Illustrated Dictionary," besides lending his artistic talents, Lagerfeld himself is included in the book's encyclopedia of proper names along with the likes of Brad Pitt and acclaimed French actress Marion Cotillard.A realistic sketch of Lagerfeld graces the [...]
What's up, everyone? Well, this week I made a presentation in college about stencil. I've been a sucker for this kind of graffiti for some time now, and made 5 cuts until now, and plan to do more. Have you ever made a stencil? If you haven't here's a little push. ;) Making a stencil is really easy. You can find dozens of videos over youtube showing you the whole process. I've selected 3 of them. Check them out. Now, if [...]
adfreak |
11 hours ago
Back to the "Elf Yourself" thing for a moment. EVB and Toy New York actually have a good relationship, I'm told. While both agencies want credit for their part in bringing OfficeMax's "Elf Yourself" to life, they get along just fine. EVB CEO Daniel Stein told me that Toy recently referred a potential client to EVB. They should be able to commiserate now that both got the boot from the Elf campaign this year after JibJab offered to do it [...]
User Interface EngineerFacebook Palo Alto, California Facebook is looking for an experienced User Interface Engineer to support a small group of designers and function at the intersection of product and engineering. This position is part of the product organization and candidates are required to be able to build and implement complex interactions in collaboration with product designers. The position is full-time and reports to the Product Design Lead. » view The best design jobs and portfolios hang out at Coroflot.(more...) [...]
Charlie Lazor is the founder of FlatPak, the system of prefab building components that are configured to meet the client's needs. The client works with the design team to create the best house for the site and can have as much creative input as he or she wishes. Or simply leave it up to the design team. (The excellent FlatPak website features a revealing case study about this process.) The system is based on one component: an 8' wall that is [...]
Three Minds @ Organic |
12 hours ago
What new tools and methods do IAs need to learn and develop to communicate the information structure and the interactive script while taking into account the social data and dynamics? How should the growing mobile web be organized differently, and what sort of new opportunities can IAs map for themselves, their field of work, their clients and users? Read more
Establishing ergonomic goals ..."Personal experience shows that the companies that have the best workplace ergonomics have set clear goals for ergonomic conditions. House ergonomic specifications are a fine way to express these goals.In my experience, it's uncommon to see much effort toward in-house standards for new equipment. Some companies understand the need, but there are plenty that focus on committees that mainly redesign existing equipment and answer employee complaints.Attempting to retrofit newly installed equipment is doing it the hard way. No [...]
adfreak |
12 hours ago
Banks give away free stuff like lollipops, pens and tote bags all the time. But TD Bank (newly merged from TD Banknorth and Commerce Bank), primed to please in a tanking economy, takes premiums to a whole new level by handing out free coffee, pizzas and umbrellas and running a sweepstakes with the services of chefs, chauffeurs and house cleaners as prizes. It's all part of a Tierney Communications campaign that uses Commerce's old line to bill TD, which mainly [...]
The second episode of NĂ©ojaponisme’s podcast series on Japanese punk and hardcore is now up. time savedtime saved
davidthedesigner |
12 hours ago
Well here we are a year down the line and we've come to end of this little series. Been interesting, hasn't it? Not always easy, mind. I've struggled at times, particularly with those last two (or should that be four?). But the effort's been worthwhile, because I've made some lovely discoveries along the way. My one regret (so far) is that I still haven't found the opportunity to use Modern. But I will.And so we come to numbers 51 and 52. [...]
Craig Alun Smith's WANK chair is a metaphor of the interdependent relationship between the first and third world and speaks to the war for oil in Iraq. You may have noticed the white chair is missing a leg (possibly due to a roadside bomb) and is bleeding oil.... Craig's summary of this work: "In reality WANK is a joke, a commentary on the current state of design and the trend of designers to create pointless 'one line' design objects and [...]
Sub-Studio Design Blog |
12 hours ago
While the name of Dill Pixel's Flickr collection is quite ominous, The End is a collection of end screens for old films. The 'The End' gives each image a finality that makes me want to go backwards and find out how they got there. Thanks to EO for the link.
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We’d like to think that we’ve built a little street cred for our knowledge of denim. But Tenue de Nimes is rapidly becoming the Mecca of denim — made from denim. Starting in December, not only can you buy the best jeans there, but you can also get special Japanese washing powder for your Japanese raw. The list of brands they carry is basically a who’s who in the denim world, including a few exclusive items. They’re so proud of [...]
img. Positive Light James Joyce has a new site presenting some of his great works for clients such as Creative Review, the Guardian and more. Joyce founded his own studio in 2006 and you can view and buy his work and prints at his site One Fine Day. // Site put together by Proud
adfreak |
13 hours ago
It doesn't include any swimsuit pics, but an article about Donny Deutsch in the new issue of Success magazine is revealing in its own way. Among the tidbits: In his current role at Deutsch Inc., he "considers himself more of a 'spiritual leader' " than a "buttoned-up company chairman"; while doling out tough advice to would-be entrepreneurs who watch his CNBC show, The Big Idea, he "believes in being honest, not mean"; his "very specific rituals" include a daily breakfast [...]
adfreak |
13 hours ago
Creatures of the forest don't get to narrate too many automotive ads, but they do in this Mercedes-Benz campaign from German agency Jung von Matt. See the four ads here. The idea is that the vehicles' special handling and brake controls have saved these beasts from getting splattered all over the street—a happy development that they discuss in the copy with varying levels of awareness. Of the four creatures, only the pig really gets philosophical about what's happened. The others [...]
Well, more or less. Not quite the full platform imagined in that post - or this - but a small step in that direction. I'm currently teaching a two-week class at University of Technology Sydney, on the Master of Digital Architecture degree. As per the 'street as platform' idea, we're creating a multiperspectival portrait of the street, seen through the lens of data. Some of this data is derived from sensors we're placing around the immediate urban environment, some of it [...]
the cool hunter |
13 hours ago
When the investment group All Capital wanted a power space for their high-powered meetings in Amsterdam, they engaged two local creative firms that had the right vision. Interior design firm i29 (http://www.i29.nl/) and architectural office Eckhardt en Leeuwenstein (http://www.eckhardtenleeuwenstein.nl/) created meeting and lounge areas that are prestigious and opulent without being pretentious or stuffy.Themed around the playful concept of being under a spotlight, the spaces feature gigantic, round, black lamp shades spray-painted gold inside. These power lights appear to cast spot [...]
Rate My Area describes itself as: …the new and easy way to find, review, share and discuss all that’s good (and not so good!) in your area. The name is a little bit confusing. You don’t actually rate your area as such, you rate the businesses in your area. But Rate My Cafés, Pubs, Takeaways and Everything Else would be a very long-winded name. Anyway, the reason I mention the site is that Clearleft had a hand in it: information architecture, [...]
coke fridge, the coca-cola online & mobile based promotion / dialogue marketing and loyalty platform has been relaunched. new content concept and a sparkling clean design by argonauten G2.
So maybe a recession is a good time to start a startup. It’s hard to say whether advantages like lack of competition outweigh disadvantages like reluctant investors. But it doesn’t matter much either way. It’s the people that matter. And for a given set of people working on a given technology, the time to act is always now. —Paul Graham on Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
