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Nanan-Urban Sculptures
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Forbes: The World Without Donald Trump, Eike Batista, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Tiger Woods, Mark Zuckerberg
A clever perspective taken of – A world without….. some of the wealthiest individuals in the world.
Advertising Agency: Ogilvy, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Chief Creative Officer: Anselmo Ramos
Executive Creative Directors: Fred Saldanha, Claudio Lima
Creative Director: Eduardo Marques
Copywriter: Marcelo Padoca
Art Director: Fernando Reis
Illustrator: Arthur D’áraujo
Typographer: Fernando Reis
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Virgin Atlantic Airways Upper Class Bar and Cabin by VW+BS Studio
This spring, the first virgin atlantic airways A330 flight took off from london to new york, featuring a brand new bar and cabin, offering passengers a new experience when up 30 000 feet in the air. The design has been developed by the international VW + BS studio in partnership with the virgin atlantic team.
Four years ago, VW + BS were approached by virgin with a test brief to see what they could do if they had a free hand to redesign one of their planes. They researched the changing trends in travel and hospitality to produce an intelligence report that could form a reference for the client, and determine how these new ideas could be incorporated on board an aircraft. the existing product that was introduced in 2003 remained a market leader, but trends in travel were changing and virgin was determined to be the industry innovator. from the test project VW + BS went on to develop the real thing. the brief was very ambitious: to create an exciting and engaging social space for passengers, while meeting an immense technical requirement of a wide bodied plane with the strictest safety regulations.
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iRelease Your Digital Model Release Solution On-The-Go
What is a model release form worth? This one page document can provide you peace of mind, legal protection and increase revenue for your work. Usually this is some extra time of work on your tight photography schedule. But there are some good news: No more paperwork, yeah!
If you’re a professional photographer, streamlining your model and property releases on-the-go will be a great advantage that will save you lots of time on location and back in the office. iRelease ($ 8.49) by Fullframe photographics is a total solution that seamlessly integrate with your professional workflow. Further this app for iPhone and iPad gives you the freedom of customizing your releases with your logo or own text.
Simply type in the models or property details, get them to sign the screen and take their photo. The appautomatically creates a digital model release from – you can choose from this templates here – saves a copy to your device and syncs the form to your free online account. You can even email directly to yourself and your model from the application.
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Dieter Ram’s “10 Commandments of Good Design” Speech
One of my favorite designers –
Influential designer Dieter Rams has been an instrumental factor in a number of projects and brands over the years – having been a driving force behind Braun Electronics as well as his immense impact on Apple’s Jony Ive. It’s perhaps his lesser known work with smaller company Vitsœ – the British manufacturer that has been producing Rams’s modular shelving system for 50 years – where his greatest work stemmed from. To mark his 80th birthday, Vitsœ has released the transcript from Rams’s speech delivered in New York in 1976, in which he articulates his ethos of user-centered creations and some of his famous 10 commandments of design. Choice excerpts from the speech appear below while the entire oration can be read at Vitsœ.
Ladies and gentlemen, design is a popular subject today. No wonder because, in the face of increasing competition, design is often the only product differentiation that is truly discernible to the buyer.
Dieter Rams, recognised as one of the most influential industrial designers of the 20th century, will celebrate his 80th birthday on 20 May. To mark the occasion, Rams has invited Vitsœ to release the transcript of his speech, ‘Design by Vitsœ’, which he gave in December 1976 in New York City; it provides an insight into a design ethos that was remarkably ahead of its time.
Rams’s frank and prescient speech asserts his commitment to responsible design and awareness of an “increasing and irreversible shortage of natural resources”. Believing that good design can only come from an understanding of people, Rams asks designers – indeed all of us – to take more responsibility for the state of the world around us: “I imagine our current situation will cause future generations to shudder at the thoughtlessness in the way in which we today fill our homes, our cities and our landscape with a chaos of assorted junk.”
Dieter Rams delivered this speech 36 years ago; it was not until 1983 – seven years later – that the UN would establish the Brundtland Commission to address the deterioration of the human environment and natural resources. Through intelligent and forward-thinking design, epitomised by the 606 Universal Shelving System, Rams’s ethos was already making its way around the world, one home at a time.
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Acid Drops feat. Dylan Rieder: Transforming skateboarding into art
The second in a series of hand painted studies that aim to psychedelically capture the individual styles of influential skateboarders.
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Wish I was here.
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Wine labels designed by Lavernia & Cienfuegos
Spanish design studio Lavernia & Cienfuegos has redesigned a range of playful wine labels that the Belgian supermarket chain Delhaize offers within its own brand 365.
The wine corks were dressed up to create forms that resemble the countries. These include a koala bear to represent Australian wine, an elephant to represent South African wine, and a Trojan to represent Italy.
“The cork is a sign of humility, an object of little value, often used as craft material, as a simple and easily manipulated element with which to play and create. The use of cork gives it the air of something simple, typical of an everyday product. The cap is the element that unifies and personalizes the whole range,” wrote the design studio on its site.
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Brooklyn Nets New NBA Logo
Designed by minority owner Jay-Z and inspired by the New York City subway signs from 1957. To be honest I felt a bit let down when I first saw it because I would of thought with Jay-Z’s limitless source of creative talent they might of come up with something with a bit more punch. But it’s growing on me more. Go NETS!
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Amazing Three Dimensional Goldfish Sculptures made by Layering paint and resin
When struggling with artistic vision, Fukahori’s pet goldfish became his inspiration and ever since his passion and lifelong theme. His unique style of painting uses acrylic on clear resin which is poured into containers, resulting in a three-dimensional appearance and lifelike vitality.
This video gives you a glimpse of his amazing painting process.
Artist Riusuke Fukahori’s London debut exhibition “Goldfish Salvation” was held at ICN gallery from 1 December 2011 – 11 January 2012.
Portions of this promotional video of Riusuke Fukahori’s process contains shots from a TV-CM for Yagimoku.inc. (Shizuoka, Japan) which have been used with their permission.
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HB Essentials: Pharrell Williams
I love this section on HB and it was interesting to see Pharrell’s ‘essentials’ as this was shot while he was in Hong Kong and I was lucky enough to meet him. So I liked seeing what he carries on him while in ‘The Big Dumpling’. The fishing lures were one of my favorite accessories.
The creative took a paint pen to his 6″ Timberlands adding a Chanel logo, skeleton toes, personal motifs and more. Rounding out his daily collection is an enticing display of jewelry including pieces from the famous jeweler, Jacob & Co., A Bathing Ape x Daiwa “A Fishing Ape” Lures, and a Cartier Aldo Cipullo Vintage Nail Cuff.
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VICE Presents: Getting High off Asian Food with Eddie Huang
Chef Eddie Huang is tired of Americans eating Chinese food like hooligans, so on this tour of the best Asian restaurants in NYC he teaches us how to eat soup dumpling properly. We also follow him and his crew, which includes Grammy Award-winning producer Emile Haynie and nightlife empresarios Max Koshkerman and Simonez Wolf, to the Russian Bath and lastly back to BaoHaus for some drunken eats.
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Anatomy of a Job Interview Infographic
This infographic provides solid and useful advice for the job applicant. While much of the information is common sense there are other bits that someone new to finding a job may not know such as: You should prepare 3 thought-provoking questions for the employer and never ask questions you can find by doing a Internet search. I really enjoyed the “not so common questions” section of the infographic. My favorite interview question in this area was, “How Would you Move Mount Fuji?” My answer would be one stone at at time.
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Waves by Daniel Palacios
A long piece of rope represents three dimensionally a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also simultaneously creates the sound by cutting through the air, making up a single element.
Depending on how we may act in front of it, according to the number of observers and their movements, it will pass from a steady line without sound to chaotic shapes of irregular sounds (the more movement there is around the installation) through the different phases of sinusoidal waves and harmonic sounds.
But even though this could seem like a mere representation of what we can’t see for ourselves, beyond the persistence of vision, it connects with our most visceral side, combining the intangible beauty of the represented graphic with the brutality of the sound it produces, creating a hypnotic environment of audible results and unique visual stimulations.
More info at: danielpalacios.info
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MEDICI Chair by Konstantin Grcic for Mattiazzi
Mattiazzi make furniture in wood, using both traditional means of production and the newest digital production technologies. MEDICI was born on Mattiazzi’s factory floor. The chair was inspired by the material, the machinery and, of course, the skill and craftsmanship of the people we worked with.
Right from the beginning, I was looking for a distinct grammar for my design, a language that would express the characteristics of wood. I liked the idea of working with planks. They signify the very beginning of the production process – a tree trunk that is cut into slices. I like the way in which a carpenter joins wood. It is immediate and direct. The construction remains visible and easy to read. Structure turns into form.
MEDICI is a low chair with a comfortably reclined posture. Its generous dimensions give it an embracing confidence. The chair can be used as a solitary piece of furniture or in small groups, in private or public, both indoors and out. It is produced in three different woods: American walnut, Douglas fir, and thermo-treated ash, a wood that is suitable for outdoors. The Douglas fir version is available in natural as well as in yellow and grey stain.
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Where Things Come From
Hardy Seiler’s finished Bachelor project – a short animated trailer for a fictional education tv-series.
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Introduction to Photoshop CS6
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Monocle Magazine: Neighbourhood Sheung Wan
Sheung Wan is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Hong Kong, and with its old low-rise buildings and ancient printing presses it’s a place where the past has largely survived. It’s now also home to a growing influx of international designers, new boutiques, cafés and more. Monocle visits to find out whether this delicate balance of old and new – the source of the area’s distinctive character – can last in a city like Hong Kong where property development is rampant and rents are skyrocketing.
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Steve Jobs The Lost Interview Trailer
In 1995, during the making of his TV series Triumph of the Nerds about the birth of the PC, Bob Cringely did a memorable hour-long interview with Steve Jobs.
It was 10 years since Jobs had left Apple following a bruising struggle with John Sculley, the CEO he had brought into the company. At the time of the interview Jobs was running NeXT, the niche computer company he had founded after leaving Apple.
During the interview, Jobs was at his charismatic best — witty, outspoken, visionary. In the end, only a part of the interview was used in the series and the rest was thought lost. But recently a VHS copy was found in the series director’s garage. Now, cleaned up with modern technology, and put into context by Cringely, the entire interview will be screened in Landmark Theatres.
In the interview Jobs talks about his pioneering days with Steve Wozniak, when they built a Blue Box and phoned the Pope; how they — “two guys who didn’t know much” — assembled the first Apple computer and went on to found the Apple company. “I was worth around a million dollars when I was 23, over 10 million dollars when I was 24 and over 100 million dollars when I was 25 — and it wasn’t really important!” Jobs recalls the visits he made to Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and how it inspired the making of the Macintosh, the world’s first modern PC, when he was “on a mission from God to save Apple.” He talks frankly and sadly about his enforced departure from Apple and explains what he is doing at NeXT (which he would soon sell to Apple and whose software would then be at the heart of the first iMac’s operating system). Finally in spell-binding terms, he offers his vision of a digital future — a world of wonderful products created by artists and poets.
It is an interview that reveals the burning passion of Steve Jobs, a passion that would go on to give us the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. As a tribute to an amazing man, Landmark is proud to be screening Steve Jobs — the Lost Interview.
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