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Microsoft are cashing in on the Double Rainbow YouTube clip (original)  - by making this advert.

Call if shameless or genius.

Nice work by Dan Beckemeyer.

Ampersand Food Group – Illustrations.

Stack Chair. Turn those design magazines & books into something useful.

Via Swiss-miss

We thought this was quite good:

You’re riding a high, you just put together a design that you couldn’t be more proud of. You’ve fulfilled all of the client’s goals—goals they didn’t even know they had (bonus!) and are also feeling confident of the integrity of the piece at hand. You’ve labored over the kerning, the alignment, the proportion, the balance, the slight variations of colors… you’re on top of the world and no one can stop you. At least in your head—and that’s all that matters.

Flash forward a month later. You’re struggling to come up with new ideas, fresh thinking, sound logic. You see awesome work being posted on Dribbble and FFFFound. Everywhere you look, you’re wishing you had made this, that, and the other thing. You’re wondering if you’re even cut out for the world that is design. Hell—why the world can’t see aesthetics, logic, and experience the way you do. You wonder if it is all pointless. Your parents wanted you to be an engineer and you let them down for that fancy-pants art school. You envy the mundane: the mindlessness of it all. Screw it—you’ll be happier flipping burgers. Maybe you’ll come up with a fancy way to swirl the ketchup and mustard into the restaurant’s logo.

Repeat.

Welcome to the life of a creative.

Post from Astheria on design life.

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Genius.

The latest interactive project from Sony Music’s Phil Clandillon and Steve Milbourne is an interactive music video that reacts live to the weather

Clandillon and Milbourne are the innovative duo responsible for AC/DC’s ASCII art Excel music video as well as Editors’ hack of Google Street View (which we coveredhere) and the Kasabian/Umbro live Guitar Hero video.

Their latest project is for young singer/songwriter Lissie’s single Cuckoo. It’s an interactive music video which runs on her site and is ‘controlled’ by live weather data. The singer and her band were shot against five different types of weather.

Continue Reading at Creative Review.

Via Swiss Miss

Melbourne-based George Patterson Y&R’s campaign for Schweppes, places the well-known cocktail mixer at the center of the recent resurgence of mixing among young adults. A mathematical equation that doesn’t add up, coupled with the tag line “the magic is in the mix,” effectively suggests that no matter what Schweppes is mixed with, something unexpected and memorable will be the result. The series of ads cement Schweppes’s role as the world’s original and leading mixing brand.

More over at Commarts

An excellent graphic resource.

September Industry has some nice examples of his work and more over at his site.

Klas Ernflo designed this Short Story Poster for a story written by Jess Row.

Found at Today & Tomorrow.

The must for every Creative Director.

Johnson & Banks starts mashing up logos

You know the video editing guys love this kind of thing…

Keyboard Short Cut Keys – Now available for Photoshop fans.

Educational PDF on typography by Font Shop.

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Seems promising especilly if you are always connecting to different displays.

“If you’re fastidious about keeping your windows tidy, Stay is for you. Stay ensures that your windows are always where you want them to be, even as you connect and disconnect displays.”

Read more about Stay

If you need some reminding about where the dessert spoon goes, here’s the perfect placemat for your table. Or, perhaps just get a few purely because you’ll enjoy the graphics. No one nowadays really cares all that much about correct placement of cutlery, do they?

60×65 cm (25” x 23”)
it’s the perfect size for a proper table setting as well! Cotton, machine washable.

Check it out here (Via Swiss-miss.com)

The official Google Cheat Sheet

Read post over at ISO50

These clock concepts by Saikat Biswas fall right in place with the concepts of the Holga D—just awesome. The clock no has hands or even markings to show the time, instead it uses a bar that grows progressively larger as time passes. We’ve all seen a similar design in the past when waiting impatiently for a flash site to load. To me this is a very interesting way to show time and I probably wouldn’t be hesitant to mount this on my wall.

The size of this clock is about 12 inches in diameter with a depth of about .6 of an inch. It also runs on 2 AAA batteries and as something more to note, the “loader” looking bar is actually a thin disc inside the clock and not a digital screen.

These clock concepts by Saikat Biswas fall right in place with the concepts of the Holga D—just awesome. The clock no has hands or even markings to show the time, instead it uses a bar that grows progressively larger as time passes. We’ve all seen a similar design in the past when waiting impatiently for a flash site to load. To me this is a very interesting way to show time and I probably wouldn’t be hesitant to mount this on my wall.
The size of this clock is about 12 inches in diameter with a depth of about .6 of an inch. It also runs on 2 AAA batteries and as something more to note, the “loader” looking bar is actually a thin disc inside the clock and not a digital screen.

ISO50

Eight:48 is a new magazine for the creative community. In a tabloid newspaper format, each issue focuses on a different topic of debate relevant to the current creative scene. Ten leading designers, illustrators and product designers are asked in each issue their opinion on a given topic and have the opportunity to showcase their work and talk about their influences. The theme in Issue 01 was the future of print.

The magazine was forwarded by Steven Heller and contained original articles from Dan Rolfe Johnson and James Pallister from The Architects Journal and Grafik Magazine respectively.

More here

The GreenEyl – it’s nice that.

TheGreenEyl is a multidisciplinary design practice investigating the aesthetic potential of technology. Its five partners Willy Sengewald, Dominik Schumacher, Frédéric Eyl, Richard The and Gunnar Green divide their time between self-initiated projects and commissions, as well as consultancy and teaching. Their work has been nominated for Designs of the Year 2009 by Design Museum London, awarded an Honorary Mention from Ars Electronica in 2008, 2009, and 2010, and has been published screened and exhibited internationally. TheGreenEyl is currently distributed in Berlin, London, and New York.

MarcoArt MobileNYC’s latest food truck serves up a dose of zany pop art

Via Cool Hunting.

As a response to 25 years of cultural deep freeze in the UK, the Anti Design Festival will attempt to unlock creative fires and ideas, exploring spaces hitherto deemed out-of-bounds by a purely commercial criteria.

Created initially as a direct response to the pretty commerciality of the London Design Festival, the festival will shift the focus from bums-on-seats to brain food, and from taste and style to experiment and risk. The festival will provide a rare space for unhindered exploration and creative opportunity, where ideas may fail as equally as succeed.

At multiple venues around Redchurch Street in London’s Shoreditch area, the festival will incorporate exhibitions, installations, workshops, performances and talks in Art, Design, Product, Film, Sound, Fashion, Performance, Print and Interactive.

Directed by Neville Brody, the world-renowned graphic designer, the festival will be curated by a select group of leading practitioners in various fields. These curators include Daniel Charny, Terry Jones, James Payne, Harry Malt, Stuart Semple and Brody himself. To date, contributors include Stefan Sagmeister, Jonathan Barnbrook, Yugo Nakamura, Yomi Ayeni, and Mark Moore, as well as an open-submission route.

The main venue is the Londonewcastle Project Space at 28 Redchurch Street, and features a RadLab open workshop which will host four full-day creative explorations led by furniture and product designers and hosted by Daniel Charny. Other workshop installations will include the premier of a new trans-media film event by Yomi Ayeni, specially commissioned by the ADF, and an anti-fashion exploration produced by Let Them Eat Cake magazine. The Royal College of Art will host a one-day intervention, as will the London College of Communication.

As a response to 25 years of cultural deep freeze in the UK, the Anti Design Festival will attempt to unlock creative fires and ideas, exploring spaces hitherto deemed out-of-bounds by a purely commercial criteria.Created initially as a direct response to the pretty commerciality of the London Design Festival, the festival will shift the focus from bums-on-seats to brain food, and from taste and style to experiment and risk. The festival will provide a rare space for unhindered exploration and creative opportunity, where ideas may fail as equally as succeed.At multiple venues around Redchurch Street in London’s Shoreditch area, the festival will incorporate exhibitions, installations, workshops, performances and talks in Art, Design, Product, Film, Sound, Fashion, Performance, Print and Interactive.Directed by Neville Brody, the world-renowned graphic designer, the festival will be curated by a select group of leading practitioners in various fields. These curators include Daniel Charny, Terry Jones, James Payne, Harry Malt, Stuart Semple and Brody himself. To date, contributors include Stefan Sagmeister, Jonathan Barnbrook, Yugo Nakamura, Yomi Ayeni, and Mark Moore, as well as an open-submission route.The main venue is the Londonewcastle Project Space at 28 Redchurch Street, and features a RadLab open workshop which will host four full-day creative explorations led by furniture and product designers and hosted by Daniel Charny. Other workshop installations will include the premier of a new trans-media film event by Yomi Ayeni, specially commissioned by the ADF, and an anti-fashion exploration produced by Let Them Eat Cake magazine. The Royal College of Art will host a one-day intervention, as will the London College of Communication.

joeyroth.com/poster/

The Mid Century Modernist looks inside the mad mens office.

Create analog signs with your iPad or iPhone. Available from the iTunes app store.

Personally, I don’t use a third-party font management application at all. I just move fonts in and out of the Fonts folder manually. It sounds tedious, but I use so few fonts that I find the trouble negligible enough to not worry about—especially in comparison to the headaches and overhead of a font management program. - Khoi Vinh

“Selection of work + Interview (Build designed cover), the issue came enclosed in a screen printed bag, with a selection of Build designed objects (A1 poster/Sticker set/Mouse-mat/Postcard set). The A1 poster (bottom) ‘Anatomy of a Build holding-page’ is one of Build’s many holding pages translated into printed form.”

Nice project overview at SeptemberIndustry. See all the shots here.

View the work of Samantha-Harvey you know you want to.

The first thing we see in NASA’s previous logos is that perennial truth that what looks futuristic today looks passe tomorrow. And of course tomorrow comes faster today than it did yesterday. We also wanted to avoid anything that would be too techy—NASA isn’t about technology; it’s about using technology as a vehicle for doing and going and discovering. So we went with a fairly neutral typeface that won’t look immediately dated. But we also wanted to de-emphasize the name in the logo to create more of a symbol that would be universally understood. So we eclipse the name with a giant sphere, which could be Earth or any other planet. In this way, we don’t get rid of the “meatball”; it’s still there, you just don’t see it.

Full article and break down here.

TypArchive is an image library primarily focused on hand painted signage.

The objective is to amass a comprehensive global collection of a high-quality images and produce hard-copy volumes.

Amidst a landscape of vapid strip malls and sterile signage, hand-painted lettering retains a soulful aesthetic to be treasured. Like other crafts dissolving in the digital age, sign painting is a fading occupation. Today it’s easy for any layman with minimal computer knowledge to produce a sign within minutes, but the skill acquired to artfully produce hand lettering took years of apprenticeships, dedication and true talent.

The sites a little painful but the work is tidy.

Studio Transformer

Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Kako’s illustrations have been commissioned by people from all over the world; as a result, his work has been recognized by Communication Arts, Society of Illustrators, Archive, SPD, Cannes Ad Festival, HQMix, El Ojo de IberoAmerica, D&DA.

What’s one thing you wish you knew when you started your career? That I could have declined some jobs. On the other hand, if I had, I wouldn’t know now how to avoid bad clients.

Read more over at Communication Arts.

A great interview with Adrian Shaugh­nessy by Pro-Design.

Happy cog talks about the process of the zappos redesign.

“We are pretty keen on viewing design as a verb, not a noun here. We never finish designs, we never “redesign,” we evolve. Business needs are always changing, economies change, customer needs change—hence how we tackle these issues need to evolve.”

Read the rest at Happy Cog

Purchase an 1978 edition of Chair Magazine or have a quick perv here.

designishistory.com

As a designer it is important to understand where design came from, how it developed, and who shaped its evolution. The more exposure you have to past, current and future design trends, styles and designers, the larger your problem-solving toolkit. The larger your toolkit, the more effective of a designer you can be.

Part of the graduate thesis of designer Dominic Flask, this site was created as a teaching tool for young designers just beginning to explore graphic design and as a reference tool for all designers. It is supposed to provide brief overviews of a wide range of topics rather than an in-depth study of only a few. It is a constantly evolving, changing, expanding reference library.

As a designer you can’t help but think about weird stuff. I can’t help but imagine that if curious space aliens with no knowledge of human artifacts came to this planet and went through my apartment, they’d initially find little to distinguish one possession from another. But I’d be willing to wager that it is the iPhone 4, amidst the clutter of objects on my desk, that they would pick up and begin inquisitively licking or running their antennae over or what have you.

Continue reading at Core 77

The world’s first HTML5 embeddable album, Francis and the Lights’ It’ll Be Better site simplifies the music listening process for Apple’s new less Flash-friendly digital world. Developed by Muxtape founder Justin Ouellette, he created it specifically to play on the iPad and new iPhone 4, which otherwise can’t stream most music because of the operating system’s lack of Flash support. And, with this new site and the introduction of iOS 4, listeners can enjoy the album while simultaneously using other applications.

More at CoolHunting

Nice work by notjones.com

This limited edition version of 12IN12 by Craig Oldham is printed on yellow newsprint, and will be available exclusively for £1 at D&AD New Blood from June 24 – July 02. All proceeds will go to the D&AD Education charity. A great booklet for a great cause.

Via Aisleone

Purchase from Etsy

Photos at Dwell, take a tour.

We’ve already said to much. More Soon has a great site.

Herman Millers Embody chairs to be exact. Read their post

Pick Me Up – an exhibition by Karl Maier and Craig Redman, runs until July 16 at Monster Children gallery, 20 Burton Street, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia. Review over at CR