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The coloured space between the hour and minute hands of Stanislav Katz's Fan Clock takes on the appearance of a traditional folded hand-fan. See also: Christiaan Postma's "Clock sculpture" It's about time you owned this clock The Tokyo Commuter Alarm Clock Dropclock Haptic clock tells you the time in vibrations [via noquedanblogs.com]
iSteam - the latest in a long line of wacky iPhone apps - adds steam to your touchscreen when you blow on your iPhone's microphone! Once your handset is all steamed up, you can use your fingers to wipe it clean...and, as you do so, you'll be treated to realistic squeaking sounds, condensation, and droplets that run in the direction dictated by the orientation of your phone!
adfreak |
12 hours ago
This ad campaign from Rethink in Vancouver for D&M Publishers, an independent publishing house in Canada, might be a tad too clever for its own good. See the three full ads here. Or maybe the approach is spot-on, considering the target audience of presumably brainy readers who don't mind working an extra beat to take in the ads' subtly mind-blowing message. Either way, it's somewhat amusing that the ads rely entirely on visuals to make their point—an unintentionally ironic nod, [...]
CreativeIQ |
12 hours ago
The start of January is a good time to refocus on how to move your career forward over the upcoming year. 2009 presents a challenging landscape for today’s creative professional. Now is the time to focus on important tasks that will position yourself and your business for success over the coming year. The Printable CEO series includes a marvelous collection of PDF forms that freelance designer David Seah developed several years ago to motivate and track his own business development [...]
by Laura Neilson I know I'm not alone in my love for grocery shopping in foreign countries. It's a great way to get a sense of a country's consumer culture—not just by seeing what the people of that country buy, but also the particular ways that all the product are packaged and displayed. But what exactly does an Austrian MPREIS grocery store, self-dubbed "The Seriously Sexy Supermarket" sell? The same things as any other local supermarket, only in a seriously cool [...]
Timing is everything. Take Flickr for example, a photo sharing service that successfully emerged in 2004 not just because of good design, technology, and leadership, but because of the coincidental mass adoption of camera phones and affordable high-quality digital cameras. A good idea becomes a great idea if its time has come. So as we start off in a gloomy looking 2009, I’ll put on my hunch-hat and share my nine ideas of experiences who’s time has come: Enabling behavior change [...]
Design Milk |
12 hours ago
Since it’s a new year, I thought I’d post some shiny things. Mirrors, that is. This art deco mirror is a nice entryway piece, or even in a shiny Hollywood glamour-style bath. http://www.westelm.com The facets of this mirror make a great focal point in any room, and its size of 40” x 40” reinforces its bold statement. http://www.grahamandgreen.co.uk Frilly isn’t my type. However, the elegance from a mirror such as this Filipa mirror, creates a the perfect juxtaposition in a modern [...]
DesignNotes |
12 hours ago
For the past month I’ve been adding sites (and commentary) to Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals under the name MST. I have to admit that I did feel a bit of pressure to submit as their audience is pretty big and discerning. I tried to keep the same mantra that I use for my own Link Drops which is to present stuff that I find interesting that’s just slightly outside the norm for a design blog. The only difference being for [...]
A few weeks ago I did a wallpaper for the Abduzeedo's second anniversary. It had a very 80's style from the colors to the theme that, of course, was space. In that image we had a sort of A of light, some nebulas and more rays of light. I did everything in Photoshop CS4. So, in this tutorial I will show you how I created that image in Photoshop, it's really simple and it uses some tricks from other tutorials such [...]
Dutch Uncle Agency News |
13 hours ago
Happy New Year to everyone!! We wish you good health, happiness and success in 2009!Between us we brought in the New Year celebrations in Inverness, Norfolk, London and Tokyo. Here is a pic from my New Year....south of Invergarry, along the west shore of Loch Oich in Scotland. Pure uninterupted relaxation.Now all fresh and with renewed vigour we look forward to working with you all in 2009!Posted by Dutch Uncle Agency.
lenonvo today announced the latest additions to its idea brand of personal computers. there are four new ideapad laptops - the ideapad Y650, one of the thinnest and lightest 16-inch laptops, the Y550 and Y450 laptops with a similar family design to the Y650, and one of the thinnest all-in-one desktop PCs, the ideacentre A6002. with the explosive growth of social networking, lenovo also continues to enhance its ideapad S10 netbook with new instant on capability, [...]
"Intranets are getting more strategic, with increased collaboration support. Team size is growing by 12% per year, and platforms are becoming integrated, with a strong showing for SharePoint. Improving usability increased use by 106% on average." (Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox)
Inhabitat |
14 hours ago
Milano Santa Monica is a lush green super city that is scheduled to sprout up just outside of Milan. Envisioned as a stacked series of high-rises overflowing with flowering terraces, the self-contained development will employ principles of bio-architecture in addition to photovoltaic panels and solar-thermal water heaters to cut down on energy use. (more…)
Side projects are the small businesses of the web — the little projects people put their blood, sweat & tears into. Many side projects downright fail, some succeed wildly, and the rest just kind of sit there. I’ve been launching my own little side projects since early 2004 (and trying to create them since around 2000). I’ve had a wide range of successes and failures profit-wise making up 4%-25% of my yearly income. Snook was talking on twitter about this post [...]
orly genger's 'whole' installation all images © indianapolis museum of art orly genger: whole exhibition at: indianapolis museum of art, USAon now until june 14, 2009 new york based artist orly genger has created 'whole', a site-specific installation at indianapolis museum of art. known for transforming common nylon climbing rope into elaborate monumental sculptures this is her largest project to date. the installation incorporates thousands of feet of rope, which genger hand knots, paints and stacks creating immense sculptures. 'whole' [...]
Tim van Damme was one of the hottest web designers of 2008, and a couple of weeks ago he launched his redesigned blog. With a color scheme to die for and a layout to kill for, it's impossible to deny the droolworthyness of this blog. Spot on, if you ask me.
Shantell Martin is kinking off 2009 with another remix project — you can see results from last year’s “On the March Remixed” project here — this time with the CD jacket she created for Tokyo-based group KeKe as the piece to be remixed. Here’s the deal (taken from Shantell’s announcement): A. Download/print out the drawing. B. Remix it in your own style! C. Send your finished results info to: on-the-march@shantellmartin.com Please provide the following information to appear below your work: [...]
"Two weeks ago I had to opportunity to give a lecture on Service Design at the Hogeschool Rotterdam. The presentation was recorded so hereby I'd like to share the footage with you." (Marc Fonteijn - 31Volts)
Cscout Japan takes us on a tour of the newly opened Beams Tokyo Cultuart select shop in Harajuku — it’s part of the Beams empire of stores in the area. The product info browser — done through your iPhone — is a rather neat idea, especially that they’ve made it bilingual.
Dirty Mouse |
15 hours ago
Jamie Gregory is a London based graduate looking for freelance work and employment in Graphic Design. There’s some fun work in Jamie’s portfolio, not least the top piece which is the expansion of a typeface (VAG Rounded) especially for a zoological environment.
Dirty Mouse |
15 hours ago
Daniel Elliott is a recent graduate from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia and is now on the scout for work opportunities after launching his shiny new site. There’s some really nice, clean examples of graphic design on display here.
The Style Press |
15 hours ago
Just—My—Type™ is a side project of designer Jakob Nylund / Formconspiracy. All typefaces are free to download and free to use without any restrictions. Most of them are only available in Illustrator AI format and the capital letters A-Z are the only characters that exist if nothing else is stated.
I spent December of 2008 in mixed states of both reflection and eager anticipation. I realize our economy is in shambles, and optimistic may not be the most popular word these days, but it’s hard for me not to be excited about things to come. 2008 Was Pretty Awesome Just days before sticking a fork in 2007, my daughter was born, and a month previous, my wife quit her day job for good. What was to follow was both the [...]
Newsdesigner.com |
Jan 04, 2009 11:31PM
The New York Times will sell display ads on its front page and, in fact, already has, as you can see in the above image of Monday’s front page. The Times would not disclose the rates it charges for...
A Whole Lotta Nothing |
Jan 04, 2009 11:05PM
You've seen the original, now watch this one. Geeks may enjoy it more than the original: I love that youtube makes this all possible, that two guys can make a funny parody and film it and upload it and no one in the NBC/SNL/LonelyIsland mix are copyright crazies that would pull it offline, and thousands more people can enjoy it. So great.
