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mtn | chrome features: analogic explains technologic

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:23:00 +0200

mtn | chrome features: analogic explains technologic:

One of the best product explanation video I’ve seen.

The advert titled Google Chrome Features was done by BBH New York advertising agency for Google Chrome (GOOGLE company) in USA.

It was released in the December 2009.

Agency · BBH New York

google spot: always ahead.

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lookin2thefuture | http://bethanamysands.tumblr.com/

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:40:10 +0200

lookin2thefuture | http://bethanamysands.tumblr.com/:

—Bethan is a young student of Graphic Design at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Bethan Amy Sands is UK-based artist. Although she’s currently studying graphic design at Sheffield Hallam University.
Sands is simultaneously pumping out some great collages. Often using magazines as her base material, she’s reconstructing images to have a fashion sensibility and is in turn publishing these works through magazines (which lends a unique cycle to her process). Have a look to her last project: tourist zine.
Hope she will keep on rockin’!
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phtgrphy | lee jeffries - when photo speak

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:01:00 +0200

phtgrphy | lee jeffries - when photo speak:

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No need for words to describe the photographs of Lee Jeffries.

His portraits tell stories through his Canon 5D (24mm f/1.4L lens favorite).

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Lee Jeffries us to know details of human faces, who have lived intense lives and do not hide it.

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No additional filter to its Canon, just a good job of optimizing and contrast in post production (as now the vast majority of photographers).

Let the pictures speak.

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take care of your eyes on bloggokin.it

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master | karel martens — a life for unexpected shape

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:04:00 +0200

master | karel martens — a life for unexpected shape:

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“Evoking meaning rather than boldly presenting truth is the essence of typographer Karel Martens work” says the disembodied voice of this eight-and-a-half minute profile film following the Dutch pedagogic graphic designer, created by the Submarine Channel.

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What Martens has achieved in his extraordinary career would not fit into a film 100 times as long but what this short does do is shed a renewing light on the importance of play as a mode for thought.

As a stalwart of Dutch modernism, this is not an established idea of “playful” but more looking at regular systems for irregular, unexpected elisions in form, information and meaning. Which is in some way explained by his constant experimentation with colour – “I have always marvelled at the fact that with the three primary colours, you can make all the colours in the world” – and with subjects like maths and science which are introduced to inform his work, rather than merely displaying the information of that particular subject.

Martens does not disappoint in the personality scale either, he’s a joy to watch and I for one will be quoting him the next time I drink a mug of red: “I think it’s important that like good wine, a design has a lingering flavour.”

Thanks for you creative energy mr. Martens.

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dsgn | I have pop — street furniture

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:00:00 +0200

dsgn | I have pop — street furniture:

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Idea · furniture design

Designer · I Have Pop

Source · blokkokin.it

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The study I Have Pop Amsterdam has created this interesting project of Street furniture.

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The idea is to create design objects (with high prevalence for chairs) with material from the road, metal nets, signs, pallets, walls and all that you can make an interesting piece of design.

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The project is on the border between the urban art and design semi-industrial and even if not new (the basic principle is the same bags Freitag ), the study of Amsterdam, however, has found a way to re-invent objects without losing the quality and design.

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pckgng | x-tape: "lock your cardboard box"

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:00:00 +0200

pckgng | x-tape: "lock your cardboard box":

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Idea · packaging / graphic design

Designer · Hyoungmin Park & Jeongmin Lee for mmiinn

Source · yankodesign

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So far you have been sealing your cartons with either duct tape or normal transparent scotch tape.

If you were to have the option of the X-tape, I’m sure you would have used it.
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Design is not always about problem solving or functionality.

Sometimes elements of surprise, like this optical illusion “hinge” tape gives creativity the fun-edge that it requires. Mr Lee & Mr Park, how about sealing it with a kiss next time?

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dsgn·grfk | crump the map - emanuele pizzolorusso

Thu, 31 May 2012 15:09:52 +0200

dsgn·grfk | crump the map - emanuele pizzolorusso:

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getaddicted to

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Times are tough for printed stuff in the internet age. But sometimes when you’re traveling you don’t want to stress your bill to use maps on your smartphone or tablet. When you travel it has to be easy, convenient and cheap.

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Here is the map you’ve always wanted: it is soft, extra-light (Weighing only 20 grams and 100% waterproof), beautiful to look at and doesn’t mind being ill-treated. It is truly indestructible and the Crumpled City maps (New York, London and many others for roughly $15), by Emanuele Pizzolorusso for Palomar, have also been awarded with Design Plus Award.

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This is what Crumpled City says: “The map also has an index of all the Monuments, Museums, art Galleries, Buildings, Historical Places and Parks that can be easily found on the map. But there’s more, an original list of the city’s Soulsights. Visit these places and you will feel like an artist, a poet, a photographer, a director, a lover and a dreamer.” ❚

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dsgn | instagram socialmatic camera — ADR studio

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:04:00 +0200

dsgn | instagram socialmatic camera — ADR studio:

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getaddicted says:

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Since Facebook has bought Instagram for nearly a billion dollars in cash and stock, many users, bloggers, economy experts have thought Instagram could build its first real photo camera.Imagine to pick the Instagram App icon and now imagine it as real camera.

This is the main idea of ADR Studio at the base of Instagram Socialmatic Concept.

A social camera with 16 GB mass storage, Wi-Fi, bluetooth, optical zoom, webcam apps, QR Code capturing, LED flash, internal printer, 4:3 touchscreen and 2 main lenses with possibility to put on some 3D filters.

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With the integrated printer you could print out your photography directly on Instagram Paper Sheets. Every Instagram printed photo reports your Instagram nickname and a QR code on the frontside.

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The Paper Sheets have a retro touch with a glue strip, just like a post-it. On the bottom of your printed photo you will have a dedicated space to write something on your own, like on the old Polaroid photos. Photo-it, emotion-it, print-it and finally post-it. One day Socialmatic could be the first Instagram photo camera

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idntty | sabadì chocolate – happycentro

Tue, 15 May 2012 01:21:00 +0200

idntty | sabadì chocolate – happycentro:

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the dieline says

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Chocolate created for the day when we slow down and are able to reflect on what is really important.

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“Sabadì is a brand that mainly focuses, since its birth, to eatables that have a magic inside.

The first product that came out of this brand is a “cioccolato di Modica”, a typical sicilian way of making chocolate, in this case made by extraordinary cocoa selected in Ecuador, in six combinations with strong personality.

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The raw materials used come from fair trade producers and Slow Food presidia with respect for small indigenous communities, the environment and biodiversity.

We started by studying and designing the logo and entire brand identity, that had to match owner’s mood about business and life in general.

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Sabadì (sounds like Saturday in Italian) is ‘… perhaps the day that does not exist… the day when we slow down, we reflect on what is really important…’ We then developed its first chocolate collection designing 6 characters, 6 packages and a crowner.”

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Scattata con instagram

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:10:32 +0200

Scattata con instagram

pckgng&grfk | mac and ninny paper co: "nature printing."

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:00:00 +0200

pckgng&grfk | mac and ninny paper co: "nature printing.":

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the dieline says

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Mac and Ninny Paper Co are a new British company making paper goods in the UK .

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” Amongst other things, we have designed and illustrated a brand new range of 64 bookplates, all manufactured in the UK.

Our bookplate outer packaging is made from 100% recycled post-consumer waste (which we feel adds texture and personality to the packaging) and everything is printed using vegetable based inks.

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Our packaging comprises an outer wallet which doubles as a library card for keeping track of your books (if you lend them out that is) and folds neatly to house the dozen bookplates contained in the pack.”

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geek | see through 3D desktop:" Minority report is here."

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:13:00 +0200

geek | see through 3D desktop:" Minority report is here.":

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grfk | carita: beauty collections identity – kōbōse

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:15:00 +0100

grfk | carita: beauty collections identity – kōbōse:

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Special advertising artwork for all CARITA collection treatment.

Starting for new product identity (by kobose) for Shiseido French brand, kōbōse designed 6 different colored artwork for each collection.
History archive had an estreme value-support during concept phase.

Soon shooting about the exhibit Parfumery Mazzolari @ S.Babila Milano.

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We reasearch, recoup and remaster all CARITA history archive images: women full of poetry, elegance e famous beauty testimonial.

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UP • shop window exhibit

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pckgng | shorf - istratova alexandra: "From Russia with cheese."

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:59:00 +0100

pckgng | shorf - istratova alexandra: "From Russia with cheese.":

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the dieline says

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The sweets eaten during the holiday season in Russia inspired this line of infused cheeses.

“There are a lot of holidays at the beginning of the year in Russia – we celebrate Christmas, New Year, February 23 and March 8. Lots of candies and sweets are being eaten at this time so I thought that the sweets could be replaced with cheeses with different additions: dried apricots, prunes, nuts and even chocolate.

A flexible package retains traditional shape of a piece of cheese, a handmade chart emphasizes the naturalness of the product.

This is natural and delicious!”

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Designed by Istratova Alexandra

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typgrphy | type.construct — atelier olschinsky

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:44:00 +0100

typgrphy | type.construct — atelier olschinsky:

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Here the new studio project by atelier olschinsky. Each time they surprise me. Enjoy…

behance says

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347 (by Rétrofuturs (Hulk4598) / Stéphane Massa-Bidal)

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:17:31 +0100

347 (by Rétrofuturs (Hulk4598) / Stéphane Massa-Bidal)

dsgn | thomas bernstrand — nola: "pay&sit."

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:24:00 +0100

dsgn | thomas bernstrand — nola: "pay&sit.":

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Stockholm 2012: these outdoor chairs by Stockholm designer Thomas Bernstrand are joined together like shopping trolleys to encourage park visitors to tidy them away when they leave.

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Having visited parks in Paris where chairs are available for people to place where they want, Bernstrand liked the idea of not being confined to fixed benches but felt sorry for the person who has to collect the chairs in order to cut the grass.

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The Share system requires users to insert a coin to release a chair from the chain. The coin is released when they return the chair.

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Bernstrand presents the prototype with outdoor furniture brand Nola at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week, which continues until 11 February.

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His previous projects include stackable slanting shelves for Swedese and furniture for an artificial beach.

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“I like to design furniture for the outdoors because I can go there and see how people are using it.” says Bernstrand. “Once I went back to one of my benches and it was half burnt.”

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The chair’s locking mechanism can be operated by a coin or a token, encouraging users to return the chairs to the correct location after use.

Designed similarly to stackable chairs, Share nests inside each another, making them easy to store when returned to base.

~~Here are some more details from Nola:~~

SharePortable Park Chair Designed by Thomas Bernstrand

Share chairs are lightweight outdoor seats designed to nest within each other as they attach to an immovable base.

Like the attachable trolleys used in super- markets and airports, the chairs are equipped with coin-operated locking mechanisms that link them together when not in use.

Made for parks, city squares and shopping centres, the chairs are mobile seats that individuals can place where they want to. Share chairs provide more flexibility than fixed seating, as they can be positioned to face the sun, enjoy the shade, or take advantage of the view.

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pckgng | legacy - colin garven: "Also heroes can have a drink."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:48:00 +0100

pckgng | legacy - colin garven: "Also heroes can have a drink.":

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the dieline says

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“Colin Garven, a Digital Arts & Design student at Full Sail University created LEGACY to pay homage to the adventurers of the 1930s film serials.

LEGACY embodies that sense of exploration and bravery so boldly displayed by its heroes.

Taken from the time where men had true grit, the packaging was designed to resemble the look of hidden treasure that only gains value with age.”

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“The brand’s logo features an elephant gun that represents adventure while the telescope represents exploration.

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The use of strong materials and textures gives the owner a complete experience that highlights the fine taste of its whisky.

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LEGACY is unique with the feel of its leather, burlap, and metal accompanying the smell of wood and burnt label edges.

Cask strength whisky is the strongest type of scotch and must be further distilled before drinking, and it is with that pure, bold taste the brand was created.

From the high peaks of mountains to the vast oceans of water, LEGACY salutes those who venture beyond the civilized and into the wild searching for the next great journey.”

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Designed by Colin Garven, Full Sail University, Florida

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retail | digital library - YTA: "your room into the city."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:12:00 +0100

retail | digital library - YTA: "your room into the city.":

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dezeen says

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Brazilian architects YTA have converted the spare room of a house into a multimedia library where pine floorboards and industrial lighting climb the walls.

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Some of the pine boards also fold forwards from the concrete block walls to create shelves for storing books.

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On the far wall, boards fold up from the floor to create a stand for a television, revealing a base of stark concrete below.

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A desk is positioned along the back wall of the room, while other furniture and miscellaneous items are scattered around elsewhere and electrical sockets are integrated within the lighting grids.

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Photography is by André Paterlini.

~~Here’s some more information from YTA:~~

Digital Library – Retro-nology

At YTÅ, we believe in the essence of materials, in rationalizing resources and in optimizing elements when creating our projects and environments.

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This library materialized these three concepts and created a space where high-tech contrasts with raw matter, returns to its origins, creating dialogue and balance.

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The space is made up of juxtaposed layers:

the concrete base, the wooden shell, the metal wrapping.

All these elements are exposed, made evident and work together.

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As the main character, certified pine wood boards run, fold and unfold themselves throughout the room, wrapping the books in their own original media, closing the cycle.

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Technology here is in favour of the user, allowing him to control his whole environment (audio, video, lighting, temperature, safety) through a tablet, as well as connecting him to the world through online navigation. Making a statement, vintage elements maintain the memory of the analogic and books and magazines are available at arm’s reach, for they are, as we believe, irreplaceable.

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This project was built in a family home, located in Ribeirao Preto – state of São Paulo, in Brazil.

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