Une réussite pour ce designer contemporain et français Charles Kalpakian, avec l’élégant meuble et armoire intitulée Graffititek Bookshelf. Une installation inspirée par le mouvement du street-art à Paris.
Dans le même esprit : Rek Bookcase
Three D: Graphic Spaces, edited by Gerrit Terstiege, the editor-in-chief of European design magazine form. Includes a design-historical essay by Steven Heller, an interview of Stefan Sagmeister about his typographical installations and various interviews with graphic designers by Sophia Muckle.
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Publisher Birkhäuser says: Three D – Graphic Spaces highlights a current trend in international graphic design: more and more visual designers are staging their compositions as three-dimensional scenarios, in order to turn them into posters, magazine covers, web sites, and animated films. The result is a host of suggestive new pictorial worlds that range from playfully arranged still lifes to room-filling installations. Edited by Gerrit Terstiege, editor-in-chief of the European design magazine “form”, and designed by the prizewinning German studio Pixelgarten, this book offers an inspiring look at the various modeling techniques and means of expression involved.
The book collects designs of about 50 international creative individuals and studios. A volume on a similar subject, Book review: Tactile – High Touch Visuals, was published last year but Three D: Graphic Spaces is way more talkative, offering essays, deeper analysis and descriptions.
The projects are grouped into 4 main categories: Still Lifes Come Alive, Intricate Installations, Touching Type and Thrilling Animation.
Nice touch: at the end of the book, you’ll find a small description of the design studios as well as the contact address and url of their website.
A few examples. In no particular order:
Rebecca Stephany‘s Paradise is Made of Paper, an XL origami installation in the library of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
Damien Poulain, 3-D illustrations for Uniqlo paper no.3, 2007. Tokyo, New York and London are neatly and unmistakably represented using just a couple of landmarks and key elements of the local culture.
Uniqlo paper no.3 (worldwide). Photography: Lacey
Rita’s Living Room sketches the typical style of a Québec living room. Nothing glamor or ready for the pages of trendy design magazines, just simple, archetypical decoration and lay out. Ultimately, the designers ask: ‘Where is the design? What is design anyway?’
Jocelyn Cottencin‘s practice stands at the intersection of photography, video, installation and graphic design. Her 2004 wall drawing La consommation d’oxygène est différente d’un individu à l’autre (‘the consumption of oxygen differs from one individual to another’ video) is based on the typo ‘Floréale’ that she created in 2003. Convinced that the fate of her work was to disappear swiftly, she used chalk to draw the floral pattern. Surprisingly the work remained intact for 3 years.
Elene Usdin‘s La Barbe Bleue series turns the most terrifying aspects of Bluebeard‘s butchery of his wives into dolls limbs and threads of wools.
Playarea for footwear Pointer. Models are robots given the illusion of 3D life with the help of soft shadows.
Emil Kozak‘s work for MAG, a competition for the best magazines in Denmark. All the posters Kozak designed for each award have a connection to the medium of the award.
Graphic comes to life in a more literal way in this video by Colors and the Kids and in another one shot by Jared Eberhardt for Cansai De Ser Sexy:
Julien Valle and Nicolas Burrows’ explicit paper metaphor of the way digital existence spills over our physical life.
Related stories: Book Review: Super Holland Design, Book Review – Enter Spanish Creativity, Book review: Hand Job: A Catalog of Type, Book review: Tactile – High Touch Visuals, Joshua Davis at OFFF – Lisbon.
By Gary Hustwit, the same man behind Helvetica: The Film, now comes Objectified, a documentary dedicated to our relationships with objects in everyday living, from the idea to the final product.
A must-see for any kind of designer at the very least.
The movie hasn’t been released yet. Any new information will of course be posted here.
Un chargeur de batterie universel sous la forme très originale d’un grille-pain. En activant le levier lorsque la batterie est chargée, elle remonte automatiquement, comme un toast. Un concept produit par le designer coréen Hyun-A Ko.
Dans le même esprit : Febot Batteries
Une sélection d’excellents packagings à découvrir dans la suite sur des bouteilles de laits. La plupart sont conçus en point de croix, de manière très créatives par le studio Hattomonkey.
Dans le même esprit : Visual Advice
Incredible lamps looking like they are melting, by japanese studio Kyouei Design. Check out the rest of their stuff, they got some really interesting products.
More pics below:
Ces meubles sont conçus à partir de matériaux neufs et de planches en bois ancien. Grâce à l’artiste suédoise Katarina Häll, ils combinent à la fois fonctionnalité et simplicité.
Dans le même esprit que Pong Watch, voici 3 prototypes intitulés Tv Star, Tetris et Pong. Ils sont conçus pour la marque Nixon, sur une réalisation du graphiste Lysandre Follet.
Portfolio de Lysandre Follet.
Issue 5 is now open for business!.
We’re slowly expanding our reach with the great collaborations by:
Alberto Cerriteño
Karoly Kiralyfalvi
Miriam Moshinsky
Helio Vega.
As always a big thank you to everyone who participated in this issue and you for visiting.
Here’s a personal collection of things I’ve been wanting to blog about for a while, and it seems like the right time of the year to put them all together. Enjoy!
Yulia Brodskaya Amazing paper illustrations by the Russian designer (now living in London)
Knitta Please – Urban guerrilla knitting group. Illegal? Doesn’t look that illegal when it’s so colorful and harmless, right? 
Here’s a little interview to the artist themselves:
Aspen Boutique (formerly Aspen Traders) – A long-standing tradition of mailing fanciful holiday cards to their customers, since 1987. Beautiful and creative X-mas cards designed by Gardner Design
Happy Holidays everyone!!!
Sources:
Yulia Brodskaya
Knitta Please
Aspen Boutique
Gardner Design
Graphic Exchange
Free Image Hosting
Deputy Dog
Reuben Miller Blog
Flickr
So yesterday, when I visited one of my big clients, it turned out that as part of a “green” initiative, they decided to eliminate the sign-in sheets at the front desk to save paper.
If you’re also looking to save resources any way you can, try a href=”http://www.ecofont.eu/ecofont_en.html”Ecofont/a, the new font with little clear circles inside it so it uses less ink.
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a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2008/dec/22/waste-ethicalliving”The Guardian has more:/a
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Le concept : une fondue au chocolat d’une taille de 12 centimètres en porcelaine, afin que le chocolat reste chaud sans jamais brûler. Une réalisation de Jakob Wagner, artiste en provenance du Danemark. Plus d’images dans la suite.
Disponible pour 32 euros.
Bagvertising isn’t new, I’ve seen it many times before, but the results are often very nice.
Just like this one for example:
Although I like this example, I seriously doubt that the optical illusion is as good in real life as it is in these pictures. If the optical illusion is any good you can be sure of two things:
a) this bag will turn some heads when an old lady walking down the street is carrying it.
b) a lot of people are going to want one of these bags.
It’s been a while ago since I told you about 60 Unite for Children, a project by I told you about 60 Unite for Children, a project by UNICEF dwhere 60 designers and artists from around the world showcase graphics and thoughts related to children.
After a lot a lot of thinking, and when I realized that now shipping costs are free, I decided to buy it.
And yesterday, after a week, the book got to my hands
A kickass purchase. The 180 pages book contains a huge amount of top notch works plus some beautiful thoughts.
Want a copy?. Go get yours at the official website.
Funniest project seen at the RCA show. You won’t need my explanation, just have a look at the video:
Signs of Life was created by Freddie Yauner (of the highest popping toaster in the world fame) a graduate of the Design Products department, Platform 11 . Because it was exhibited where you’d expect to see an emergency exit sign i did believe that it was a real one for a moment.
Good friend Raúl Burgos, after a long time wait, has finally released his personal website with some of his hot works.
Stay sharp for this guy.
I like good logos and all, but I don’t quite get why people obsess over them. And I can’t imagine the decision-making process that went into Walmart’s new logo. Plus, they’re dropping the hyphen.
So, what do you think?
BusinessWeek canvassed a broad range of Internet luminaries to discover the design rules they live by.
1. Thou shalt not abuse Flash.
2. Thou shalt not hide content.
3. Thou shalt not clutter.
4. Thou shalt not overuse glassy reflections.
5. Thou shalt not name your Web 2.0 company with an unnecessary surplus or dearth of vowels.
6. Thou shalt worship at the altar of typography.
7. Thou shalt create immersive experiences.
8. Thou shalt be social.
9. Thou shalt embrace proven technologies.
10. Thou shalt make content king.
Contributors ranged from the guru of Web usability, Don Norman, to the design director of NYTimes.com, Khoi Vinh, and John Maeda, president-elect of the Rhode Island School of Design.
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