Hasta La Ideas

E’ partito il 20 maggio da Roma l’Untho Shop Tour. Il mitico Never Tired sarà in giro per l’Italia a visitare i migliori negozi di streetwear, skate, surf e snowboard raccontando giorno per giorno le sue avventure su questo Tumblr.

¡Viva!, Southampton Solent University‘s Illustration degree show is on until Saturday at the Conningsby Gallery in London. I popped along and took some photos of some of the choicest bits…

Solent have got themselves a lovely spot here on Tottenham Street and have filled the gallery with the work of the 38 students on the BA Illustration course (painted window illustration, above, by Benjamin Evenett). In the catalogue accompanying the show, course leader Peter Lloyd commends the students for their “tenacity and verve” when it came to organising an additional show outside of Southampton. They’ve clearly put in some effort with the show’s identity as well, which was designed by Jon Clark:

Here’s some of the work I liked, starting with Johnny Ace:

Bears go urban in this piece from Debbie Avery (great postcards too):

And Polly Horne‘s book cover for Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat gets the Thamesian theme across very nicely (apologies to Polly for the colours in this one, it’s dark down in that corner):

Edward Brown‘s poster, possibly for a fantasy hairdressers, has some nice characterisation in it:

This one is (I think) by Carla Bromhead:

This James’ Giant Peach Stone poster is by Katie Allen:

I also really liked this slightly sleazy print by Ryan Ward (below, top) and the huge Chief Seattle piece by Richard Stuart (below, bottom, and detail) but I couldn’t find an artist’s name for either – or I’ve lost the postcard. If you’re reading this and it’s your work below, let me know in the comments and I’ll amend!:

Here’s a detail of the top:

This illustrated feast scene, apparently from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis, is by Sarah Jane Souster:

Close-up:

And I think this final one shows some work by Polly Horne (on the far right), Laura Jane Wells and Simon Abbott:

¡Viva! is on until Saturday – there’s plenty of prints for sale, too.

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pRemember a few months ago, when someone wrote an article ridiculously suggesting the new iPhone had hit the limits of industrial design, and could be designed no further? I disagreed wholeheartedly and argued that a statement like that shows a real lack of imagination; just because you can’t envision a further creative step doesn’t mean that others cannot. /p

pHere’s a perfect example of my argument: You could argue that the clock, which has been around for centuries, has largely been perfected. Yet we continue to see all manner of innovative clock designs. The latest that made me grin is the Front Back clock shown here, which cleverly integrates the AA batteries used to power it, rather than hiding them away; they become the hands themselves./p

pAt press time we were unable to access the direct link to the clock–it appears to have been taken over by a link hijacker–but you can read more about the concept A HREF=”http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/clock-proudly-uses-aa-batteries-as-hands/” here/A.br /
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Check out the works of Sebastien Cuypers, a resident Parisian with a talented hand for awesome typography and poster design.

Definitely worth checking out, more of Cuypers’ type design and illustrations can be found at his Behance page.

via LooksLikeGoodDesign

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pWe last reported on auto design superstar Jason Castriota A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/the_pininfarinanacle_of_italian_auto_design_brooklyn_boy_makes_good_12027.asp” in ’08/A and A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/new_stile_bertone_site_invites_you_to_be_a_part_of_the_top_secret_world_of_auto_design_with_jason_castriota_13121.asp” ’09/A, when the 30-something Brooklyn native was making headlines for Pininfarina and Stile Bertone. Since then Castriota has set up his own shop, and for the first time in recent memory, a major auto designer has chosen to hire an outside firm–Jason Castriota Designs–to take the lead for their designs, rather than having an in-house team./p

pFrom A HREF=”http://newsroom.saab.com/news/news/newdesigndirectoratsaabautomobile.5.6a0ed975128ec1d13f17ffe495.html” the Saab press release/A: /p

blockquoteCastriota, 36, now takes the lead role in design at Saab, reporting directly to Saab Automobile CEO Jan Åke Jonsson. He and his design company will be responsible for exterior and interior design and will lead the design activities at Saab as the brand renews and broadens its product range./blockquote

pAs A HREF=”http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/saabs-future-can-be-found-in-saabs-past-says-its-new-designer/?src=mv” IThe New York Times/I points out/A, this is kind of a throwback to the golden era of ID, when major corporations like Kodak, Polaroid and Studebaker would subcontract big-gun design talents like Teague, Dreyfuss and Loewy, respectively, to put their products on design steroids. It’s also unusual for a car company to do in this day and age, so we’re interested to see if this is a one-off act or the start of a trend.br /
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