droog

I went to see their exhibition in Amsterdam and I was very much amazed by the following:

the Lego chair

the tree-trunk bench

the chest of drawers

the heat wave electric radiator

Check the rest of the projects on their website.

Things that caught my eye

precise mixing colour guide for coffee or tea from SUCK UK:

the very old whiskey wrinkle bottle:
the clean car concept by Konstantin Grcic:
and his french fries little forks:
the friendly medicine for when you need help:


and a cute logo made by Checkland Kindleysides:

How should a good motion designer reel look like

it should look like Conrad Ostwald's funny and entertaining piece of video (hi-res) which casts all the techniques an animator needs to master in a very personal way. Ostwald makes fun of the standardized way all reels are created these days in something that's clearly unrepeatable:



via Ralu.

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.

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

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.

Christoffer Hald

very colorful graphic design from Denmark.

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.

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.

Even more characters

from Belgian couple Eugene & Louise.

These cute guys are made out of marzipan in their own bakery:


via adhunt.

Nice set of characters

from Gaston Caba. Check out his work for Diesel/Adidas, L.A. Gear & Benetton.

Photographer of the week

Gene Smirnov.


via trendsnow.

Starck se lasa de design

si nu oricum, ci declarand suplimentului Leben al ziarului german Zeit ca munca lui de o viata, indiferent cat efort si aplicare a insemnat ea, a fost absolut inutila. Chiar designul ca disciplina ar fi inutil si absurd in comparatie o ocupatie mai serioasa, cum ar fi astronomia sau biologia.



"Am creat atatea lucruri fara sa ma intereseze cu-adevarat scopul final. Poate au fost necesari toti acesti ani ca sa-mi dau in final seama ca de fapt nu avem nevoie de nimic. Posedam intotdeauna prea mult" spune Starck. Nu avem nevoie de lucruri materiale, ci de inteligenta, umor, morala si capacitatea de a iubi. "Am fost un producator de materialitate. Mi-e rusine acum. In viitor as vrea sa fiu un fabricant de concepte. Ar fi mai util".
Starck nu s-a hotarat inca ce va face in viitor, dar si-a stabilit o perioada de 2 ani dupa care se va retrage.

via trendsnow.

Visual fiesta

at sumeco.net.

Hedi Slimane's photo diary

here.

Love the robots

Bennett se pare ca-i iubeste. Constructia fiecarui robot din colectia lui dureaza cel putin o luna. Materialele folosite sunt si noi si vechi, de fiecare data altele, asa ca nu exista doi roboti la fel. Fiecare are o placuta proprie care garanteaza ca a iesit din mana priceputa a lui Bennett. Sunt si de vanzare.

via grafic.

99 rooms

is a unique internet art project that interweaves wall painting, photography, animation and sound in a manner entirely unknown until now. Shortly after its launch in June 2004, more than two million individuals throughout the world have already visited this interdisciplinary composite work of art.via stanescoo.