9.5.08

The Art-Eggcident

Several huge poached eggs made their apparition in the central square of Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands. The author is artist Henk Hofstra who is not at his first try to make his artwork very visible. His other project involved painting 1000 meters of road with blue paint. Hofstra was hoping his Blue Road would eventually show on Google Earth.

the Blue Road:via wooster collective & artsjournal.

Paper monsters, tshirts and some planes

Jean Jullien is a very talented designer that mainly works with paper that he cuts and pastes in amazing ways to create objects, characters, posters, books or movies.

Some music is magic, but most of it is not

this is the conclusion of the new Magic FM campaign made by my colleagues at BBDO, Mihai Gongu & Cristina Panaitescu. Enjoy:





Fun at the office: free the walls!

a stairwell redesign project set up by W+K. Read all about it (1 & 2).

electric wires turn into a plant

the second floor

the unofficial meeting space on the stairs

the world map made out of stamps from all countries

stamps from Africa

Listerine kills 99% of germs

this is what the rest of 1% are doing:


via adsoftheworld.

The flip-book music video



Received the link so many times this week that I can't remember who to credit :)

5.5.08

Designing movement

Artist and designer Ben Hopson realized that designers tend to be exclusively interested in form when they create a new product and that innovations in the way products move (for example, the opening of a case) are sadly not their priorities. Aesthetic principles seem to apply only to static objects and kinetics are always left in engineers' hands.

Hopson believes that a more beautiful or surprising movement can add value to new products and improve functions of existing objects.

So he started to explore and experiment on the aesthetics of movement using playing cards and foam models. See his recordings here and read his conclusions.

via stanescoo.

25.4.08

BBC Motion Gallery

10 000 movie clips from BBC's archive are now available for download in lo-res and, if you buy a license, also in hi-res. BBC will continue to expand its database to one million hours of video content gathered in its 70 years long history.

The gallery also provides an interesting inspiration tool: Concept search.

How to build the best good looking pinhole camera

download it as a pdf, print it and start taking pictures.

The cameras were designed by readymech using stock photography & illustrations. Courtesy of Corbis Images.

23.4.08

Snickers treadmill

click on the image to see it big.

22.4.08

Christoffer Hald

very colorful graphic design from Denmark.

21.4.08

Kristiana Parn

I wish I could draw like this.


via ibarbar.

Jeffrey Docherty

face design si art direction de exceptie.

Expozitie Aya Kato in Bucuresti

Artista japoneza de doar 25 de ani va expune in diferite locatii din Bucuresti (Universitate, Romana, Victoriei, Piata Obor, Piata Presei Libere) si la Galeria 115. Influentata de early manga si pop-art, Kato construieste imagini-povesti cu eroi si eroine fantastice de o frumusete uluitoare.


"Flower of memory" va fi deschisa timp de doua luni, incepand cu 19 aprilie.

Mai multe info: otaku & yazee.

10.4.08

The end of advertising

Ar putea fi foarte aproape: forte reactionare lupta impotriva publicitatii folosind mesaje subversive de tipul celor de mai jos.

Ne asteptam la o proliferare a acestor acte de vandalism in urmatoarele luni, atunci cand fiecare cetatean va poseda acest kit de stickere gratuite:


via gawker.