Hasta La Ideas

pEven with all of the new stuff we have to play around with, a subset of people will get bored with it and start mining the past for old stuff to combine with the new. Which is why we have the “new” Camaro, an IA-Team movie/I starring Liam Neeson, and the items you see below. /p

pMaking the blog rounds is this A HREF=”http://www.etsy.com/listing/44692496/iretrofone-base” iRetrofone Base/A that pipes your cell phone through an old-school receiver. You can even buy a “dialer” app to turn the screen into a rotary dial. The charging solution is a little inelegant, but that’s because it was designed to be used with different cell phones, not just Apple’s./p

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pA step less sophisticated is the A HREF=”http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/13/ipad-skype-retro-han.html” Moshi Moshi 01H Handset/A, which plugs into your iPad or what have you. It doesn’t make sense for on-the-go chatting, but it’s a good solution for those who Skype at their desks and crave the feel of the analogue receiver./p

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pBut this week’s winner for combining an old tech with new doesn’t have to do with phones, but with film, as A HREF=”http://laptopogram.tumblr.com/” presented by shooter Aditya Mandayam/A: /p

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blockquoteLaptopograms are images made by pressing photosensitive paper onto a laptop screen and flashing an image in a manner not unlike contact printing or photograms.

p’Laptopogram’ is a misnomer – I reckon they can be made with pretty much any monitor. Perhaps ‘Luminous Screen Emulsion Transfers’ is a better. Here, however, the negative is a digital image – and is flashed for a little time onto the paper before developing the image in a darkroom./blockquotebr /
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In the second installment of our batch of short films made whilst perusing the wares and exhibits of the Pick Me Up graphic art fair currently running at Somerset House, we caught up with Alex Spiro and Sam Arthur, founders of Nobrow…

Spiro and Arthur haven’t just been busy getting the show ready, the pair have somehow managed to publish a slew of new books and publications since CR last spoke to them just a few months ago… Before you watch the next film, you might want to tweak the volume on your computer as this sound on this next film is a little louder than on the last!

Here’s a closer look at the books Al showcases in the above film:

The latest issue of Nobrow’s regularly published illustration magazine, Nobrow 3 (cover, shown above is by ATAK) features work by a host of illustrators and artsists including…

John Sibbick

Luke Pearson

Mike Bertino

The first 3000 copies of each Nobrow is numbered on the back cover, as above

Rise & Fall is a concertina folded “book” that showcases artist Micah Lidberg’s illustrated depiction of the rise and fall of the dinosaurs on one side and then the rise of the mammals on the other. Above is a shot of a copy of it displayed in the Nobrow section of Pick Me Up. Below is a detail and below that is a shot of how the book is packaged.

Birchfield Close by Jon McNaught. Hardback cover shown above, a selection of spreads shown below

Dog Crime by Blex Bolex. Cover above, some spreads below

Jeff Job Hunter by Jack Teagle – the latest in Nobrow’s 17×23 short graphic story series. It tells the tale of Jeff who goes to the Job Centre to claim his job-seekers allowance but ends up slicing up serpents and skeletons in a dungeon…

These are the latest two tomes to be hand screenprinted in Nobrow’s basement screenprinting studio. The one on the left is Hand by Luke Best, the one on the right is Short Cuts by Orlando. Here’s a spread from each:

To find out more about Nobrow’s books and products, visit their brand spanking new website at nobrow.net/

A lamp is connected to an energy source, therefore it can also be a source of energy to feed other electrical components.Pielettrico is a hibrid object, being both a source of light and a source of light. It combines two useful functions both for the home or office. It is a source of light, an electrical ´totem´ .The lamp´s base has 3 takes and a switch. It´s body of light is changeable in order to adapt to different requirements of the market.The base proportions are those of the diameter of a round standard Shucho take. It´s 4 horizontal legs meet in the centre where another take allows the body of the lamp to be conennected.The neon version presented at the SaloneSatellite 2010 is the starting point to develop a whole new series of lamps containing the main carachteristics of the Pielettrico.

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