Hasta La Ideas

For Wallpaper*‘s forthcoming August issue (The Handmade Issue) the magazine is encouraging its readers to design their own bespoke cover using a nifty online design-it-yourself app.

Users of the app will be able to play around (rotate, resize and colour or pattern) a host of shapes, illustrations and typographic assets supplied by James Joyce, The Hort, Anthony Burrill, Kam Tang, and Nigel Robinson.

We’ve had a go and were really impressed by the online design app. And, truth be told, our minds boggle at the mere thought of the logistical wizardry that Wallpaper* must have masterminded to be able to promise to print, bind and deliver a copy of the magazine sporting the appropriately self-designed cover to each user / subscriber…

Here are some screengrabs of us playing around with the app and designing a cover – which we look forwrard to seeing in print when the issue arrives in a month or two:

Have a go yourself (the deadline for submitting your own design is June 8) by visiting wallpaper.com/custom-covers/registration

Hong Kong designer Michael Young has created two collections of watches for brand o.d.m. (more…)

It’s already been more than a full year of battle between the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey over his now-iconic Barack Obama “Hope” poster. Since then, we’ve seen the artist lie about where he got his source material, admit to lying (much to the chagrin of his lawyers), and hit the road to talk about his deceit. Now it looks like we might be nearing an end to this drawn out process, as the judge overseeing the case has just urged the two parties settle and wrap this argument up once and for all. Unsurprising to anyone, and likely even to Fairey, Judge Alvin Hellerstein has said that he feels confident that the AP will easily win the case, so if the organization will drop its push to have the artist punished for copyright infringement, erasing evidence, etc., and just makes some sort of financial agreement, the process can come to an end. However, despite his recommendations, it doesn’t sound like either side is quite ready to throw in the towel and word from both sounds like the fight will continue, at least for now.

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pstrongDoing good business and doing good for the world need not be mutually exclusive. In fact more and more companies are making the world’s problems their business./strong/p

pstronga href=”http://ideascompass.dk/en/”The Ideas Compass/a/strong is the place where small and medium-sized companies can find inspiration to innovate and evolve. The focus of this website is on CSR-driven innovation – an innovation process focusing on current social and environmental needs which gives companies an opportunity to develop sustainable products or services./p

pThe Ideas Compass has been produced by the Danish Commerce and Companies Agency under the Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs with support from Region Zealand, the Nordic Innovation Centre and TrygVesta./p

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