Hasta La Ideas

Un intéressant concept sur cette publicité pour la nouvelle Citröen C3 Picasso et son coffre spacieux. Trois visuels : “Vélo, Boîte et Chien” ont été créés à cette occasion par l’agence Euro RSCG Milan, sur des photographies de Alberto Callari
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Previously on Fubiz

• The Dog and the Butcher
• Umbrella Guide
• Absolut : Anthem

Go back to the last century and you’d see babies sucking on rubber pacifiers, Maggie-Simpson-style, which every parent bought; years later we’d find out those seemingly harmless chew-things actually release endocrine disrupters over time. Not good.

One of the modern-day companies trying to keep babies safe from chemical crap–in style–is Bloom, founded by four dads in the U.K. Their latest, the Alma folding crib, is made from toxic-preservative-free wood using low VOC finishes and formaldehyde-free adhesives, culled from sustainable forests to boot. You also won’t find any of that ubiquitous MDF, which off-gases over time. Lastly, the Alma folds up into a tidy little package when not in use, for those of us with smaller spaces.

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As discussed at last week’s Intel Technology Summit, the name granted to the new category of laptops–the Mama Bear, as it were, to the Papa Bear regular laptop and Baby Bear netbook–is “ultrathin.” The chief distinction is size, in that netbooks generally have up to 10-inch screens whereas ultrathins will have 13.3- to 15.6-inch screens.

Another distinction will be in the industrial design itself:

“You can’t sell a keyboard and a screen,” [Intel manager Mooly] Eden said, describing the ideal ultrathin laptop design. “You have to sell something that somebody will desire. We need to go beyond the great CPU, great performance…to something that a normal consumer can look at say ‘I want that.'”

In addition to standout aesthetics, the more powerful ultrathins will need better cooling than a netbook; Intel knows the tech will keep shrinking, but as the temperature keeps rising, it cancels out the benefits. No one wants a portable, paper-thin way to burn your lap. Intel’s currently looking into laminar air flow technology, a system of cooling flow used in jet engines. We hope to see some successfully-integrated examples of this soon.

via cnet

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Norwegian Illustrators Kristian Hammerstad and Levi Bergqvist sent us these posters they designed for Lot Lot, a club in Oslo. Too late for Eliza’s Nice Work post, we thought we’d post up the full monster-themed set for your delectation…

On 12 August Lot Lot is set to host a four-day event, in association with Øyafestivalen in Oslo. These flyers illustrate the acts playing on each of the nights.

There’s lovely B-movie monster feel to them and the illustration has a discernable touch of the Charles Burns to it. Mix in the green and red type and you have a pretty nice set of flyers.

Illustration and design: Kristian Hammerstad / Levi Bergqvist.

Ever since this writer moved to Chicago, he’s been continually impressed by the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art. And that was largely due to chief curator Elizabeth Smith‘s careful crafting of the museum’s exhibitions. So it worries us a little to see the announcement that Smith has decided to step down and will be resigning as of August 31st. Although the museum’s president, Madeleine Grynsztejn, has told the Chicago Tribune that Smith’s decision to leave had nothing to do with “creative differences or economic troubles posed by the recession,” this writer is a full-time, jaded skeptic who always thinks the opposite of whatever some public figure is assuring them is not the case (like in this instance or with Sarah Palin‘s divorce). It does sound a little less suspicious if you read the Sun Times, with Smith saying “A decade is a good long time to be somewhere. It’s been a great 10 years, but I feel like it’s time to move on” but we shall remain ever vigil in our baseless speculations, dear readers. For now all that’s left to do is miss Ms. Smith and wish her and the museum all the best. Here’s a bit:

Her major exhibitions include a widely praised 2004 retrospective of the artist Lee Bontecou and a 2008 survey of the work of artist Jenny Holzer. She also organized architecture and design exhibitions such as the 1999 show “At the End of the Century: 100 Years of Architecture,” for which she served as co-curator.

Grynsztejn said she plans to seek a replacement with a comparably broad background.

“I want to hire someone of curatorial excellence whose communications are accessible and embracing to a large audience beyond that of the current MCA community,” she said.

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