History of Graphic Design Avant Garde
History of Graphic Design Avant Garde is a 30-second animated film short by Minji Aye Hong that visually describes the beginning of Avant-garde modernism.
Nice little video, bet it was fun to make.
Dyson DC36 Ball Vacuum
Dyson have release official pictures of their new DC36 Ball Vacuum.
Boring you may think, but I’m a big fan of Dyson and their sexy products… The Apple of vacuums…
It runs on a ball making movement that much easier, if vacuuming can be made more pleasurable in anyway, then I’m game.
These Karlsson Table clocks are a neat idea (why not called a book or shelf clock though?)
Via fuelforthoughts:
VOID - Conceptual Processing Magazine
Beautiful and in-depth iPad concept from Berlin-based freelance designer Natalie Hanke. The magazine aims to bring coding closer to designers by presenting examples that are interactive and visually stunning. I’d absolutely love to have something like this that’s updated often. As a resource; being able to view, test out and manipulate creative code that’s presented so elegantly would be a fantastic stimulus to have around.
Kickstart. Now!
A stunning idea and design.
GOAB: A TV Experience Concept
New technical possibilities are the mainspring of the today’s television. The needs of the viewers seem secondary.
Today, watching tv can mean a lot of things: TV via Internet, web content via TV, video on demand, IPTV, cable, satellite, DVB-T, mobile television, etc.
But, how do we want to watch tv in the future?
This is an interesting take on dual screening for TV and iPad.
A lovely interface that is easy to use, and in-show information on whatever you are watching.
This dual-screening seems to have taken off since Heineken Star-player by AKQA.
FUJITSU design award: a life with future computing
‘flexbook’, a concept device by taiwan-based designer hao-chun huang, offers portable, multi-use computing within a single device. the concept was shortlisted from over 1000 designs in our recent designboom competition ’a life with future computing’, organized in collaboration with FUJITSU.
With a waterproof keypad and 21:9 screen, ‘flexbook’ is designed for portability and range of use among the constantly connected. Featuring a flexible structure with a center joint, the laptop can be folded into a range of configurations, while a 180-degree swivel touch screen offers different configurations of viewing, including a laptop and tablet mode.
The design lets the device’s shape reflect its functionality: folded as a book for reading e-books, a tablet for browsing newspapers or in crowded environments, or a laptop when preparing typed documents. ‘flexbook’ is also easily portable, serving as its own case when folded it in half.
The device is further customizable through the availability of easily swappable rubber skins, which huang envisions available for purchase online where users can select their own colours and patterned textures.
I think this is a great little simple idea, not necessarily something that couldn’t have been thought of a few decades ago, but now seems to the the right time for it. Technology is surely at the level where something like this would be achievable?
Lovely Helvetica posters
A Grotesk love affair
A typographic experiment - Favourite Sans Serif Typefaces
Good designers like fonts. Great designers find them physically arousing.
With this thought in mind, we set out to dramatize designers everlasting love affair with Grotesk fonts, and democratically determine which one got designers’ juices flowing the most.
We designed a poster inviting people to vote, with the promise that their name would appear on the final product, and posted it on various design blogs and social media sites.
The web address on the poster directed users to a site (http://vote.ryanatkinson.info) with multiple examples of Grotesk fonts, and allowed them to vote for their favourite.
This information was then translated into statistical data, and used as the basis for the design, where we used typographical grids to layout all the information.
The PDF’s are now available for download. enjoy!
By Ryan Atkinson and Stephen de Lange
DIETER RAMS: Braun
Came across this post on the iso50 blog about Dieter Rams -
http://bit.ly/iKDBS9
He mentions this huge gallery of images on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/groups/464886@N22/pool/
Amazing!
