We’ve got together with design journalist Petra Schmidt and materials expert Nicola Stattmann to give away five copies of their new book Unfolded – Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry. (more…)
Issue 3 of the Canadian design journal UPPERCASE is out October 1st. You should subscribe to it.
Un message clair et une exécution simple mais efficace, pour cette publicité de la marque DHL. Une baseline percutante : “If there’s an address, we’ll find it” de la part de l’école AAA School of Advertising à Johannesburg. Plus d’images dans la suite.
For the Language in the Modern World cover I aimed to convey the language in a post-technologically oriented world. I photographed a young man talking, then converted the photo into a coarse halftone which I photographed and enlarged greatly. Soon after I did these covers I was asked to submit a proposal for a cover design to be applied to the entire Penguin Crime series. In other words a Penguin Crime house style.
A procession of animals make their way across this textile print, climbing aboard the ark on the hang tag.
The penguin protests when he remembers he can swim. Troublemaker.
Client: Fataim
Medium: Digital
Year: 2002
–> FitaCola
Wilco (Berkeley)
Commemorative poster for Wilco’s performance at The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA (18 x 24, 2-color screen-print).
–> David Kaneda
studio job has designed and produced more than 50 compositions of ornamental reliefs which have been casted in concrete tableaux and integrated into the facades of a new five building complex, in amsterdam. the tableaux cover-up to 800m2 (24 000 ft2).
‘for this project we have chosen a universal iconography that appeals to the multicultural background of this specific block. in floral ornaments you can see petrified flower boxes while the animal tableaux can make you think of the arch of noah. other ornaments picture machines, clockworks and sports,
referring to the imagery of socialism. sometimes the ornaments are very classical and strict, in other cases it seems as if everything has been thrown on a chaotic heap.’ – SJ
by Laura Neilson
After announcing it at Apple‘s Worldwide Developers Conference last July, car-sharing service Zipcar launched their newest “mobile” venture, an iPhone application yesterday. Improving on their already useful mobile site, the software allows members to locate, reserve and unlock cars in the fleet.
The free download uses the phone’s location-based capabilities to find the nearest available Zipcar vehicles with a Google map-style interface, making a quick overview for immediate or later rentals effortless. Sorting by hours of availability, type or model adds another layer of functionality, but in our testing so far it seems that the search results could use some refining.
Once you’re on the road, the device’s virtual key fob unlocks the designated car or truck from a close distance. (And if the car’s too hard to find in its parking lot, simply tap a button to remotely honk its horn.) While navigating through your phone might prove more tricky to use than the real thing, playing with the feature on a rental yesterday has the kind of futuristic appeal that got us hooked on the business in the first place.
Other features making the service even easier to use include more streamlined way to extend reservations and a one-touch call button that connects to Zipcar customer service. From a company that reinvented the car rental business, there’s not too much more we could ask for in the way of a reinvented mobile interface.
Download the app from iTunes and sign up for Zipcar on their site.
Proving it will be just successful as it was under its previous moniker, the mega-firm Populous has just announced that it has landed the contract to design the focal-point stadium for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia (by “focal-point” we mean the one that gets most associated with that year’s games, like the “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium in Beijing last year). The Kansas City-based Populous will start work on the gigantic stadium immediately, or just as soon as they can staff themselves up enough to cover two massive stadiums at once (they’re also responsible for London’s main stadium for 2012). Here’s a description the firm’s John Barrow gave to Building Design of the newly commissioned complex:
“Its sweeping form responds to both its coastal location and mountainous backdrop, whilst its crystalline skin engages with its surroundings by day, and provides an iconic representation of the colour and spectacle of the games when illuminated at night,” he added.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
