Miles Tsang Gig Posters

Love Miles Tsang's style of gig posters...

Wash Your Hands In The Streets of London

This great concept piece by Julia Kononenko is a wooden three-dimension basin representing the streets of central part of London. The London map choice being a tribute to the fact that it was England where first industrial products had appeared back in the XVIII century.

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Incredible Paper Marbling Video

Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design, which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other stone. The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution known as size, and then carefully transferred to an absorbent surface, such as paper or fabric. Through several centuries, people have applied marbled materials to a variety of surfaces. It is often employed as a writing surface for calligraphy, and especially book covers and endpapers in bookbinding and stationery. Part of its appeal is that each print is a unique monotype.

 
Seyit UYGUR { Ebru Artist } from Oguz Uygur.

Sign Painters: A Documentary

AWESOME!

Check out this trailer for Sign Painters, a documentary by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon.
There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper. The resulting proliferation of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping sameness into our landscape. Fortunately, there is a growing trend to seek out traditional sign painters and a renaissance in the trade.

In 2010 Directors Faythe Levine and Sam Macon, with Cinematographer Travis Auclair, began documenting these dedicated practitioners, their time-honored methods, and their appreciation for quality and craftsmanship. Sign Painters, the first anecdotal history of the craft, features the stories of more than two dozen sign painters working in cities throughout the United States. The documentary and book profiles sign painters young and old, from the new vanguard working solo to collaborative shops such as San Francisco’s New Bohemia Signs and New York’s Colossal Media’s Sky High Murals.

I can't wait to see it!

Blacksmith Forges Batman's Batarangs

Li Hongbo – Pure White Paper, Formable Sculptures

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Bonsai Tree Aquarium

Makoto Azuma creates stunning hybrids of nature and man-made systems....

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Fou Lard Scarves

Fou Lard is a brainchild of Swiss designer Natalie Luder. The scarf is made of 100% silk, digitally printed and hemmed by the artist herself.

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The Clock Clock White

Humans Since 1982 are a collective who came up with a good idea for clocks to be able to work together to display one singular time. Great idea....

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Pop Pop Bang

"You know that feeling – you come in from the pub, put the TV on for a second and then get completely engrossed in an astoundingly crappy B-movie. It’s called something like Road Flip or Checkmate (don’t bother with IMDB, I made those up) and yet you stick it out until the credits roll, unable to tear yourself away from the hammy action.

Well photographer Thomas Brown and creative director Anna Burns have tapped into the unlikely appeal of such films in their new project Pop Pop Bang, which Thomas describes as a mix of “film, photography and pyro.”

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Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design

Phaidon is publishing a boxed collection of what is says is ‘the very best in visual communication from the last 500 years’. The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design is a collection of 500 cards, charting the evolution of graphic design through technological advancements and changes in techniques. It is available for £140...

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Sam Coldy Lenticular Art

Interesting colour theory going on here: "Sam Coldy overlays patterned vectors to create textures that shimmer on screen and in print. He’s even managed to use the effect within typefaces, creating fonts that leap from the page. Sam mostly works for musical clients, his colour-saturated abstracts lending themselves naturally to album artwork and promo materials. With a client list that already includes big-name labels like Columbia, EMI, Polydor and super-cool indy label Moshi Moshi."

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Original Planters

Score + Solder is selling these beautiful planters. They come in different shapes, such as diamond, quartz, cube or hanging. We just love the simple, graphical design as a mix of traditional fabrication techniques with contemporary forms. It looks like your plants can grow peacefully, protected in their own space.

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When Engineers Own Dogs

Postcards From Above

Postcards From Above is a cool idea. Images taken from Google Maps and then given the retro filter treatment to make postcards.

Famous Logos and their Costs

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group logo price tag: $15,000,000 New Zealand Banking Group logo was redesigned in 2009.

BBC logo price tag: $1,800,000. The BBC logo was redesigned in 1997.

London 2012 Olympics logo price tag: $625,000. The 2012 Olympics logo was designed by Wolff Ollins in 2007. See Olympic logos from the last 100 years here.

Nike logo price tag: $35 The Nike logo was designed by Carolyn Davidson in 1975. The price only included the logo design, which later has been refined but the original concept just like in the case of Google and Coca-Cola has been kept intact. Later Nike gave 500 shares of stock to the designer, which is now worth over $600,000.

Pepsi logo price tag: $1,000,000 The new Pepsi logo was designed by the Arnell Group in 2008. The listed prices include a complete branding package unless otherwise noted.

Twitter logo price tag: $15 The Twitter logo was designed by Simon Oxley in 2009. It has recently been updated.

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Every RGB Colour In Existence Book

American artist Tauba Auerbach presents an 8 x 8 x 8-inch hard-back book illustrating the RGB color scheme in a page-by-page medium. The book is digital offset print on paper with an airbrushed cloth cover and the book edges create a colorful reference volume of all the colors in existence.

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Transform Doodles and Ideas Into Digital Text Files

"Italian sketchbook manufacturer moleskine has teamed up with application developer evernote to create pocket-sized notebooks capable of transforming text into digital files. Together with an app designed specifically for the iPhone and iPad, the program transforms doodles and writing into a digitized version that becomes searchable and sharable. smart stickers tag specific pages, organizing them into categories for a fast and easy way to track and archive newly created files."

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Edge House Architecture

"Bulgarian firm STARH stanislavov architects have completed the plans for the 'edge house,' a single family dwelling found in the densely vegetated suburbia of varna, next to the sea. the residence's peculiar plan, reminiscent of a conch shell, ends in a southern-facing full-height curtain wall orienting all programmatic elements towards the ocean. a cast-in-place concrete shear-wall system frames vertical glazing along the convex sawtooth element of the floor plan, with a deep overhang over the main transparent facade, that helps control solar gain along with the surrounding trees."

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Clerkenwell Design Week

Interesting video made at Clerkenwell design Week- " Etsy UK marketing manager Georgina Blain explains how their global online marketplace is helping designers such as Sandra Dieckmann (work pictured) to expand from a local customer base to promote and sell their work internationally."

 

Clerkenwell Design Week: Etsy.

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