Location: Eureka Tower, Melbourne. Design by Axel Peemoeller.
This is a new and unique twist to directional signage in a car park. And it did win a host of international design awards. It can be read perfectly when viewed from the right position.
via kent mag blog.
Love these helmets by French designer Jerome Coste. He came up his brand Ruby after his sixth high-speed cranial fracture. Not a moment too soon I say. Jerome draws his inspiration from sci-fi, Japanese biker gangs (who smoothly blend street culture and vintage motorcycling) and of course Steve McQueen.
Poster designed by The Map Office with Eddie Opara, James Mckinnon and Salvador Orara, 2008.
From ‘Thoughts On Democracy’, an exhibition of the artistic responses to Norman Rockwell’s wartime ‘Four Freedoms‘ series. Read the NYT review here.
“The popularity of generated content and social media is transforming the web. No longer does a site need a flashy intro or exciting graphics to entice a user to dig deeper, search engines and smart architecture bring the user right to what they are seeking, and when they find that… they want to appreciate it for what it is. Usability, readability and find-ability are in style, while hefty load times, blinking graphics, and cluttered pages are out.
“This focus on content is similar to the shift in design that happened after World War II known as the International Typographic Style (or Swiss Style) Movement. The Swiss movement grew out of the Bauhaus and New Typography Movements, which were grounded in functional typography, clear communication, and geometric designs. The Chief characteristics of the international typographic style are designs that include minimal graphics and a focus on typography, sans-serif Typefaces, black and white photography, and grid based layouts.”
From Bad Ass Ideas. Read the rest of the entry here.
via quipsologies.
Here’s a flickr set of a visit to the Graphic Design Museum in Breda, the Netherlands.
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BusinessWeek picks The Best and Worst of Web Design. Some of the ‘Best’ are BibliOdyssey (clean, uncluttered, content-focused), craigslist (functional non-style is a style) and Rumplo (great visual and browsing experience for t-shirts around the world). The ‘Worst’ include Amazon and YouTube (functional, effective but at the expense of aesthetics), and eBay (compromised functionality).
Also featured are The 10 Commandments of Web Design. Don’t even think of breaking them unlike the 10 Moses received. Of these, some bear repeating. Go easy on Flash (#1). Don’t clutter (#3). And of course, content is king (#10).
After all the mess of working on these, the end result is here.
And one for fat=flavour.
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To me, the shift in the design of metal albums came in the mid-90s when nu (or new, take your pick) metal emerged. Beginning with this new generation of bands, the usual imagery associated with the subject matter of the genre was eschewed in favor of bolder and more graphic based elements.
This seems to have taken a another step with what is perhaps one of the year’s most anticipated metal releases, Cavalera Conspiracy’s Inflikted, even if only because it marks a reunion of sorts between brothers Max and Igor Cavalera. The former left Sepultura under what some believe to be circumstances that arose from his wife’s management of the band. No doubt parallels were drawn with that of Yoko Ono’s role in the demise of the Beatles.
Cavalera Conspiracy stays true to the Cavaleras’ musical roots but the design vocabulary of the album brings to mind the premise of Stranger In A Strange Land. After all metal albums aren’t usually heavy with Helvetica (liner notes, song titles and lyrics). Is there a fan of Helvetica in Cavalera Conspiracy? Throw in the liberal use of white and white space paired with the equally sparse and bold compositions of the photography, Inflikted has probably broken new ground in album design.
The firm behind this is Surface to Air which also directed the video for Sanctuary. See the slide show of the artwork for Inflikted here. There is a picture of Igor Cavalera wearing this tee. Perhaps he’s the Helvetica fan.
Weeds is never going to make it to the censorship-heavy shores of countries like mine (just like The Sopranos). After all it’s a series on a suburban housewife, Nancy Botwin (played by Mary-Louise Parker) who transforms a small time marijuana growing operation into a full blown commercial horticultural success after her husband’s demise. Anyway, I digress. Here are 3 wallpapers from Weeds done in vintage pin-up style available for download here. If marijuana had sex appeal, this would be it. A refreshing change from the usual cliched imagery of dreadlocks, giant spliffs and the red-gold-green tricolor.
via one+infinity.
The BMW GINA (an acronym of geometry, function in an infinite number of adaptations) replaces the traditional metal/plastic construction of cars with a textile fabric skin that’s pulled taut around a frame of metal and carbon fiber wires.
See the video here. Presented by Chris Bangle.
via 37signals.
Poster design by Pedro Inoue
Adbusters is inviting submissions for its One Flag Project. In their own words, a flag “free from language and well-worn clichés – that embodies the idea of global citizenship. A symbol that triggers pride and cohesion, whether worn on a backpack, displayed on a door, or flown on a flagpole. A symbol for anyone to declare membership in a growing and vital human cooperative. We invite you to prove that design has a real role to play in the fate of our world”.
Submission deadline: December 1, 2008.
via quipsologies.
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