Puppies and Flowers

Wow, that's terrifically awful. Enough to make me hurl my beans 'n toast.

Fortunately many English are petitioning for a re-design.

BBC readers have already begun suggesting alternatives

Link to oddee

Not sure what it's all about but you make a lot weird things happen to the head,

Feed the head

Find out on the cool Design Observer blog

A wide collection of opening title sequences. Great stuff.

Link to submarinechannel and thanks to Miss Cellania at Neatorama

Link to funnymos via the presurfer

Related previous postings: 1 2 3

Melting wall clocks come in three different shapes and are available in any color (not limited to colors shown). They are made from 3/8 inch Baltic birch and hand painted. They are finished with multiple layers of pre-catalyzed lacquer for a durable high gloss surface. Recently I have started offering a stained version of the wall clock that uses wood stain to preserve the wood grain and give the clocks a whole new look and texture. All clocks have a quartz movement that runs on one AA battery (included). Price is $40.00 plus $9.00 for shipping. Allow 2-3 weeks since clocks are made as ordered and require compliant weather to spray lacquer.

Link to clocks via neatorama

Collection [1] [2]

Link to GetUSB with a variety of fun USB drives.
Still not as cool as The White Stripes one.

(images: Guiliano Sargentini/Emilio Bianchi)
 

Tom Perkins had done it all. He'd made a fortune, conquered Silicon Valley, even been Danielle Steel's fifth husband for a time. His venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was an early backer of Genentech, Netscape, and Google. But when he turned 70 a few years ago, Perkins decided to do something even grander and a bit crazier: He would build the biggest, riskiest, fastest, most technologically advanced, single-hulled sailing mega yacht in the world. The 289-foot Maltese Falcon, launched in spring 2006, is that engineering dream come to life.

There's no official definition of a megayacht, but every one agrees they're longer than 250 feet and tend to be triumphs of excess, with opulent staterooms, stainless steel and leather galore, plasma TVs — even their own speedboats and jet skis. To accommodate these toys, all mega yachts used to be powerboats, for the simple reason that sailboats must be reasonably svelte. But Perkins insisted on sail power — and refused to compromise on speed or lavish appointments. The solution was to go long, since (other things being equal) the longer the hull, the faster a sailboat can go. The result is the perfect blend of ego and utility, a $130 million wonder that represents the most daring advance in sailing technology in 150 years.

Continue reading at Wired 

Cylindrical Colonies (Interior view)

Bernal Spheres (Colony construction crew at work)

A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. These have been converted to jpegs and are available as thumbnails, quarter page, full screen and publication quality images.

Link to NASA

Found on eBay 

Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen of Forsythe + MacAllen Design, www.forsythe-macallen.com, have been operating a multi-disciplinary design studio since 1996 and are currently based in Vancouver, Canada. 

Felt rocks are sculptural pieces, made from 100% pure wool felt - solid all the way through! felt rocks are sold in sets of 6 hand selected rocks, including one rock that has been split in half to reveal the solid wool interior. The felt rocks are packaged in a natural wool felt bag that can be re-purposed as a fashionable and useful hand bag. The rocks vary in shape in size, but average about 4-6 inches across.

Link to Molo Design via elmanco

From BBC:

A car made famous by the cartoon series The Pink Panther is expected to fetch up to £100,000 at auction.

The sleek pink car appeared in the titles and credits of the television series featuring the legendary pink cat and Inspector Clouseau.

The 23ft (7m) car is a lengthened 1969 Oldsmobile Toronado, complete with pink plush interior.

It will be auctioned at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, on Saturday and is expected to fetch £75,000 to £90,000.

But Christian Penwill, from auctioneers Coys, said the famous vehicle may fetch a lot more.

Fully working

"At the auction of the Batmobile in February, the price rocketed. It sold for £119,000 in the end," he said.

Although the Pink Panther car has been stored in a museum for years, it is in full working order and has recently been used for charity and promotional work.

It was the only Pink Panther car ever produced. It was built in 1969 by Californian car customiser Jay Ohrberg, who also created the open-top Batmobile for the 1992 film Batman Returns.

The car will go under the hammer at the Fine Motor Cars and the Jaguar Legend Auction on 14 July.  Link to BBC 

Link to Coys auction via Arbroath

An awning on the top of the billboard creates the illusion of of the ocean rising.

Link to time lapse YouTube clip

Found at NOTCOT 

The exhibition brings together 34 of Scotland's most exciting designers in an exhibition at The Lighthouse, with associated projects including a 6 citywide billboard project, publication and specially commissioned souvenirs. Building on the success of The Scottish Show in 2004, the exhibition will celebrate the vibrancy and vitality of Scotland's design industry.

Work and installations by the designers will take over most of The Lighthouse by inhabiting the galleries, corridors, stairwells and shop.
The Scottish Show 07 is the national exhibition of the inaugural six cities design Festival.

OSTREET Billboard 

Link to the Scottish Show 07 via DesignBoom

Shown here: 8 vintage Art Deco styled microphones circa 1920's-1950's

Link to more collections 

Show me more weird hats! 

Artist Cayetano Ferrer posts an image of what's hidden behind the billbooard onto it, then takes a chunk of it and posts on an adjacent building.

Link 

From news article:

Bay Area zero-emission advocates got their first test ride Thursday on a zippy new all-electric motor scooter that can take two commuters on a silent freeway ride that will cost them just pennies in electrical power.

The plug-in hybrid automobile crowd, in the news these days because of advances in the technology of fuel-efficient hybrids, gathered at San Francisco's Presidio to see the latest wrinkle in emission-free transportation - an electric motor scooter called the Vectrix that can whiz along at 60 miles an hour.

At $11,000, the Vectrix may be a bit pricey, but it is a first of sorts and it will probably appeal to the same high-income people who have ordered the $100,000 all-electric Tesla sports car. "We want to get to the right consumer demographics," said Jeff Morrill, Vectrix's managing director for marketing. "It's for urban commuting, and it targets environmentalists, active (electric power) enthusiasts."

Ad for Mondo Pasta in Hamburg, Germany.

Found here 

Link 

Fun blog full of submitted images of what creatives have on their desks.

(Shouldn't this be an upper and lower case?) 

Shown here: 

Toniduran, Graphic Designer & illustrator
Cherbourg, France
www.toniduran.ouvaton.org 

Link to blog 

Give me an idea 

Link to lots more pictures 

RMF Radio Station in Poland Occupies 21st Century Facility

Found at Deputy Dog

Satellite picture here 

i

Kinda Totally cheesey 'Top-of the Pops' circa 1970's video effects.

Beautiful music if you close your eyes.

Should you need any advice on building, repairing, restoring a stringed instrument, Andy Carruthers is an amazing craftsman, he used to have a really cool website, but now there are just plain pictures. 

Found at Ursi's 

Link to more lamps 

Link to artist's bio 

Cris Siqueira or Cris Vector, is a commercial llustrator whose works are created as vector art (using Adobe Illustrator). Lovely stuff.

Thanks Christo 

According to Scott Beale at Laughing Squid: 

Wow, this is a shocker. At around 3 am Tuesday morning at Burning Man 2007, during a rare lunar eclipse, the Burning Man sculpture was set on fire prematurely (it is normally burned on Saturday). The Black Rock City Emergency Services Department was able to put out the fire in time and salvage the sculpture (it had not yet been loaded with fuel or explosives). It is still scheduled for its normal burn on Saturday and they will be working throughout the week to repair any burn damage and re-install the neon.

Lots more info, pictures and updates at Laughing Squid 

UPDATE: arsonist arrested 

Link to SF Bay Guardian blog 

What is this about?

It's about finding an answer to that age-old question, the one that we have all asked ourselves:

What would happen if you shipped 20 unassembled old-timey wooden fishing lure kits off to be finished by a bunch of artists? It turns out that the answer is CRANKbait! Lures of Distinction.

Shown here by Hugh Macdonald, see them all here.

Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing fame painted one too.

Make your own Bob Dylan “Subterranean Homesick Blues” signs.

Link via Neatorama 

Why, for the love of Christ, do they have to have pink ones to appeal to women? 

Link to Taser

Clip from NYTimes: 

The new C2, as the weapon is called, looks more like a large disposable razor than a gun, comes in a variety of colors and is $350, all of which Taser executives believe will persuade women to add the weapon to their checklist for the evening: lipstick, wallet, keys, Taser.

From MacNN: 

Apple boss Steve Jobs today introduced the widely rumored and highly anticipated touch-sensitive iPod, codenamed iPod touch. The iPod looks nearly identical to the iPhone in appearance, with a large screen and a customary 'home' button at the bottom. "It features our revolutionary multi-touch interface that you've come to know and love on the iPhone," said Jobs. "If you've used an iPhone you'll feel at home, it's exactly the same." The company also unveiled a new application specific to iPod touch and the iPhone, the iTunes WiFi music store. The new store allows users to preview and download songs via WiFi in the same fashion as the original iTunes software. Apple will offer the iPod touch in two configurations with 8GB and 16GB storage capacities for $300 and $400, respectively. Both models are slated for shipment "in just a few weeks" but before the end of the month.

The 3.5-inch widescreen display displays photos just like the iPhone, and supports Apple's "pinch-to-zoom" technique as well as the customary slide for unlocking the device.

The iPod touch features CoverFlow technology, and includes a WiFi meter in the top-left corner of the screen to monitor signal strength. The new iPod's wireless capability includes 802.11 b/g support, and utilizes the company's Safari Web browser to login to public wireless networks as well as surf the Web.

Apple's iPod touch supports YouTube in a fashion similar to the iPhone, and boasts a battery life of 22 hours for audio playback or five hours of video playback.

Link via The Presurfer

Every now and then the internet surprises me with an unexpected gem. While searching for an image for a different post, I came across these great photos of a Montreal street artist named 'Roadsworth'. Apparently "Montreal police arrested Gibson on November 29  last year [2005] and charged him with 51 counts of mischief, the charges carrying maximum penalties ranging from $200 to $5,000" but since January 6, 2006, "All charges against Gibson have been dropped. His punisment is a minor fine and 40 hours of 'community work'."

Makes me want to grab a few cans of aerosol!

(All images found on Flickr) 

Source of above quotes

Link to FlickrSet 

If you like guerilla-street-stencil art you will most definitely like these too, by Banksy. 

Link to more examples 

These where sent to me by two local San francisco artists:

Below, [Above] you’ll find four choices that highlight the places that most of us urban hipsters like to frequent and the remainder of you drug addicts and johns like to frequent as well.  Choose wisely. Your T-shirt will be a sign that you were the first in San Francisco history to own an ironic SF Parks and Rec parody shirt before everyone else did. 

Each high-quality sweatshop-free 100% cotton American Apparel T comes with a free design on it and will only set you back $20. 

Link to come shortly or check comments.

Link via Gerard 

Link to YouTube 

The company I work for did this but in February 2007, TBWA\Chiat\Day San Francisco became Cutwater. 

The nine metre (30 feet) high and wide creature is made of bronze, stainless steel and marble and is the creation of renowned artist Louise Bourgeois.

"The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver," the 95-year-old Bourgeois said in a statement.

"Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother," she added.

Huh? Link

Link to FLickrSet 

Wiki entry on Gaetano

Won't be holding my breath waiting for these… 

Clip:

The disc-shaped device can take off vertically from any surface, land practically anywhere, and if it accidentally contacts a building or cliff, it won't explode into a fireball, like those rascally helicopters.

These features could make the aircraft uniquely suited to flying in urban war zones, aiding with search and rescue in disaster areas, inspecting crops and pipelines, and taking aerial photographs (read: surveillance).

Read more

Link to lots more samples 

Below: the new NYC Taxi logo that caused an uproar, click here to see reader submitted designs, some of which are excellent.

Designed by Wolff Olins — who also created the 'fabulous' London 2012 Olympic logo:

Link to BBC readers alternatives

Found here. (A PDF file is also available for download)

Gene Simmons pumpkin with ham tongue, from the 2006 winners list. Link

With an interesting post on the 'art' of sharpening pencils. Link

Christopher Locke buys up confiscated scissors from TSA auctions and makes these really cool spider sculptures from them. Follow link to see more pictures and a how-to of the process.

Link to more 

Clip: 

A group of German grannies have turned their knitting circle into a company selling kinky knitwear.

Their range includes lingerie, face masks and willy warmers, as well as conventional woollen clothing.

Manuela Buesch-Dankewitz, 45, who manages the group of lady knitters said: "The women love to knit, and it's great to earn something from it.

"Our oldest team member is 86. She makes willy warmers and other gear just like the rest."

Ms Buesch-Dankewitz came up with the idea after a US customer asked for a woollen bondage suit and since then has expanded her team to cater for ever more exotic tastes.

She added: "Since we put the items on-line we have been flooded with requests from all around the world.

"We make our wool products to order and there is a big demand out there."

The firm's products can be seen on their new web site at http://wolltraum.de

Link

Instructions on how to make your own 

Via Miss C and Neatorama

Drivers would presumably slow down to avoid the 'sticker' potholes and then encounter the message: "Feels like Pioneer Suspension". Nifty.

Very nice website. 

Jaysus, gotta get me one of these. iTase? 

LAS VEGAS - A handy new holster from Taser International Inc. holds not only your stun gun but a music player too.

Link to article 

A new creation of Israeli designer and photographer Anat Safran, 'Pitapocket' is a pita-like, cotton wallet.
Link

Found here 

From PingMag, a Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things"

In Tokyo, you can wear these every night - in other cities, there will soon be Carnival. How about false eyelashes by Kakuyasu Uchiide! The brilliant Japanese head make-up artist of renowned Shu Uemura cosmetics will give you beauty obsessed people a tour through his current false eyelash collection for instant transformation into a mysterious Egyptian princess, an extravagant bird or a magical wood elf… We are not being silly here. PingMag spoke also to Uchiide about the perfectionist standards of beauty in Japan. 

article with more examples

UPDATE: Video available here or by clicking on the image.

NEW YORK - Four giant waterfalls will be erected in New York for three months this summer in a public art project city officials hope will create $55 million in extra tourism revenue for the Big Apple.

The waterfalls, including one that will fall from the famed Brooklyn Bridge, are the brainchild of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Installation will cost $15 million, funded by private donations to New York's Public Art Fund.

Link 

I can remember all the crappy graphics of previous political campaigns but Obama's gives us the sense of how 'current' he is.

Link to more samples. Thanks Devin. 

Complete article: 

Could this be the reason Amy Winehouse seemed to have sprouted such a heaving chest when she left rehab yesterday?

For those occasions when booze just isn't allowed a wine-holding bra has been created for the ladettes of this world.

Be it a rock concert of simply a trip to the women simply need to fill up the sports bra device with their favourite tipple and then once inside suck the liquid out of the special teat.

The bra serves the double purpose of also making the wearer's (wine) rack look more full – until the alcohol is all drunk down that is and the woman goes from a big chested beauty to a big bellied Betty.

The £20 polyurethane bladder can contain 750ml of liquid (a normal wine bottle) and boosts a woman's chest by two cups.

It is not the first time Metro has reported on illicit booze drinking devices. In 2006 we brought you the polyurethane beer belly for men.

For more information go to www.firebox.com/product/2061?src_t=cat&src_id=party

Found here

Link 

Link to hundreds of examples.

Via The Presurfer 

Headline: Everyone Makes Mistakes

Advertising Agency: Grey Hong Kong
Executive Creative Director: Keith Ho
Creative Director: Paul Chan
Art Director: V Lau
Copywriters: Paul Chan, Kennex Ma

via The Creative Blog

Link to YouTube clip 

See more entries at Osocio 

Simply stunning.

According to its designers, it is built to resemble a Chinese dragon. Its structural plan is a homage to the architectural marvel that is the Forbidden City.

Link to Telegraph article  

More photos, including interior shots from the architect, Foster + Partners site.

Construction photos.

Shown here: Public Urination as Advertising - Guerrilla Ad Campaign

See all fifty at TrendHunter 

From AdFreak:

People in Chicago must be starving after the long, cold winter there, as they have ravaged this bus-shelter ad from ampm convenience stores to retrieve the snacks inside. Ogilvy put the ad up with the idea of slowly taking the snacks away over a four-week period, to reveal the tagline, “Too much good stuff.” Area vandals shortened the campaign’s run to two days. Curiously, they didn’t seem to like the Doritos much.

Many other examples of Kinematic typography, including 'Kill Bill', 'The Big Lebowski', 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' and 'Psycho' can be found here.

From the lenticular cover that changes with the angle of your hands, all the way to the Z, ABC3D is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 dimensional letters move and change before your eyes. C turns into D with a snap. M stands at attention. X becomes Y with a flick of the wrist. And then there's U... Boldly conceived and brilliantly executed with a striking black, red, and white palette, this is a book that readers and art lovers of all ages will treasure for years to come.

MARION BATAILLE is graphic and book designer who has never before been published in this country. She lives in Paris. This is just a hand-made mock-up of the actual book which publishes in Oct. 2008.

You're being watched: Despite being observed by CCTV cameras, elusive grafitti artist Baksy managed to create his latest - and biggest - work to date under the cover of darkness

Source 

From Pink Tentacle:

Swedish furniture giant IKEA has converted the Kobe Portliner Monorail into a moving showroom before the April 14 opening of a new retail outlet at Port Island. The redecorated train, which features a colorful exterior, bright upholstery and fancy curtains, will carry passengers in style until May 6.

Link to more photos 

Link to NYT interactive 

From the Telegraph:

It cost £14,000 to create, but clearly no-one at the smart London design outfit that came up with the new logo for HM Treasury thought to turn it on its side.

Previously on P&F:
The Best and Worst Logo Remakes of the Century

Link to gallery, scroll down to 'Multimedia' link.

The slogans are are even better than the art:

“Let's take revenge a thousand times on the US imperialist wolves!”

“Our missile programme is a guarantee for world peace and security.”

'Let's all become perfect swimmers" — this one had me scratching my head a little bit.

Link

This game is a challenge. 

Scrabble is one of my favorite games. These print ads come from Ogilvy, Hungary. The tagline reads "Every word counts".

Via why me? 

When layed out like below, the design reveals the Shield of the Royal Arms. 

Designed by Matthew Dent. 

Link to the Royal Mint. 

Link via YBNBY 

Awesome collection of photographs from the Cans Festival by Justine (AKA RUGenius) at NOTCOT.

She also scanned the entire festival program. 

Photos of the event 1 and 2.

Too bad there aren't links to larger sizes of the posters. 

30,000 bubble stickers were printed by New York artist Ji Lee.
They are placed on top of OOH ads all over New York City. Passersby fill them in.
Later the results are photographed.

Link to The Bubble Project.

Link to video of Ji Lee in action. 

Via 

Link to The Ampersand

Link to set

100% edible paper. Fiat Panda 1.2 Natural Power Climbing €11.000. Offer valid until supplies run out. Better make this ad disappear quickly.

Agency: Leo Burnett Milan, Italy.

Found here 

Interview and more pictures  found on The Design Files

Link 

Great collection of designs from around the world. 

Artist Emma Hack, who lives in Australia, creates really gorgeous designs utilizing female models that she successfully blends in with their surroundings. Link to more samples here.

Vaguely similar to the Israeli artist, Desiree Palmen, I posted about here last week. 

Found here 

Nice looking Poster from JWT Italy, although it reminds me of a Guinness!

8 hours of writing
5 permanent markers
3 baths and 2 showers to clean off

Part of a campaign to promote writing on designated graffiti walls rather than someone elses property.

Link to YouTube

Lowercase and number scarves are also available. Made by Little Factory in Hong Kong.

Video for Le le's hitsong 'Breakfast'. It consists solely of drawings made by Piet Parra that are also used as loops during the live performances. The song is about bitches and eggs...

Link to YouTube clip.

This sounds too good to be true, but Reuters is reporting:

Tired of petrol prices rising daily at the pump? A Japanese company has invented an electric-powered, and environmentally friendly, car that it says runs solely on water.

Genepax unveiled the car in the western city of Osaka on Thursday, saying that a liter (2.1 pints) of any kind of water -- rain, river or sea -- was all you needed to get the engine going for about an hour at a speed of 80 km (50 miles).

"The car will continue to run as long as you have a bottle of water to top up from time to time," Genepax CEO Kiyoshi Hirasawa told local broadcaster TV Tokyo.

"It does not require you to build up an infrastructure to recharge your batteries, which is usually the case for most electric cars," he added.

Once the water is poured into the tank at the back of the car, the a generator breaks it down and uses it to create electrical power, TV Tokyo said.

Whether the car makes it into showrooms remains to be seen. Genepax said it had just applied for a patent and is hoping to collaborate with Japanese auto manufacturers in the future.

Most big automakers, meanwhile, are working on fuel-cell cars that run on hydrogen and emit -- not consume -- water.

Link to article.

Wonderbra brand has launched a campaign to recruit women from across the UK to pose in their underwear. This viral ad was created by integrated marketing agency Iris.

The new campaign, which with its emphasis on real body shapes echoes Dove's ongoing Real Women strategy, launches today. A viral film featuring a montage of images representing a range of familiar nicknames, from puppies to jugs, is used to describe women's breasts.

Wonderbra is aiming to encourage 1,000 women to attend Britain's largest underwear shoot to date in central London on June 2.

Link to clip.

Previously on P&F about Wonderbra:

Wonderbra: stand behind the yellow line

Saatchi & Saatchi New York ambient for Glide Dental Floss involves a pig. I have no idea what a pig has to do with dental floss. Are they saying that I have a bit of pork rind jammed between my teeth just like this pig is jammed between buildings? Are buildings the teeth of the city? Wow. Far fetched but eyecatching then I guess.

Found here.

UPDATE: Video available here.

NEW YORK - Four giant waterfalls will be erected in New York for three months this summer in a public art project city officials hope will create $55 million in extra tourism revenue for the Big Apple.

The waterfalls, including one that will fall from the famed Brooklyn Bridge, are the brainchild of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Installation will cost $15 million, funded by private donations to New York's Public Art Fund.

Link

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Create your own or just browse the latest user creations.

Found here

Previously related:

Stainless Steel Spiders made from Stolen Scissors

Sorry I can't remember where I originally came across these but have held on to them for years.

Link to his site. +pictures

From The Independant:

They are said to produce unparalleled sound quality. Until now, however, no one has been able to explain why 300-year-old Stradivarius violins have never been matched in terms of musical expressiveness and projection.

A study has found that the secret may be explained by the consistent density of the two wooden panels used to make its body, rather than anything to do with the instrument's overall contours, varnish, angle of the neck, fingerboard or strings.

Scientists compared five antique violins made by the Cremonese masters Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri Del Gesu with seven modern-day instruments by placing them in a medical scanner that could accurately gauge the density of the two wooden plates that make up the top and the back of the body.

They found that, overall, the density of the two groups of violins was the same, but what differed significantly was that the two plates of the older instruments had a more uniform density compared to the more inconsistent densities of the modern plates.

Continue reading

‘Big Is In’ campaign for the Magimix line of food processors features print ads which use Rubinesk, bikini-clad, veggies. Food carving has been seeing a resurgence in recent days, and here we see eggplants, squash and potatoes carved into pleasantly plump swimsuit models.

The new Magimix XL food processor is a high end appliance with a lexan bowl, automatically adjusting power and a 12 year motor guarantee. The Magimix 5200 XL model has an 1100w powerhouse and a 3.6 litre bowl.

“The Magimix food processor was the domestic version of appliances designed for professional use,” according to the France based company.

The ad campaign was conceived by the Gray Ad Agency from Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Found here

Link

Air Canada

Alberta Tourist Board

BBC

FedEx

Heineken

Kill Bill

Martial Arts School

Nerolac Quick Dry Paint

Nike

Anti-Smoking Campaign

Red Cross

Sharpie

Source

detail:

Detail:

Detail:

Link to large versions

Previously on P&F related:

Puppies and Jugs

Wonderbra: stand behind the yellow line

Link to Peleg Design website, check out their clocks too.

Very cool indeed.

Learn about how the video was made and the 3D plotting technologies behind it.

Thanks Noah.

Chilean designers of the 60's and 70's.

If anyone has any more info please email me at:

peter(AT)puppiesandflowers.com

Very nice, found here.

Link to his slick website.

"The future will be analog"

"Freedom, remember? One day we all had it."

"Big car, small chick!"
(Chick is Portugeuse slang for penis).

Found here, thanks for the translations Fabio!

Dr. Steel envisions living in a world where fun is the top priority. He imagines a landscape filled with endless possibilities based on the ideology that life should be spent doing the things that make us happy.

Dr. Steel's Army of Toy Soldiers are active supporters of this cause. A Toy Soldier knows that by rejecting fear, embracing inspiration and by uniting in a singular focused vision, that the world can and will be transformed into a Utopian Playland.

By becoming a Toy Soldier you are an integral part of Dr. Steel's success. You are Dr. Steel's eyes and ears. You are the legs on which he stands.

Only YOU can help Dr. Steel take over the world, so sign up today and begin making this world a better place!

Link to site

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27 kilometer (17 mile) long particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, is nearly set to begin its first particle beam tests. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is preparing for its first small tests in early August, leading to a planned full-track test in September - and the first planned particle collisions before the end of the year. The final step before starting is the chilling of the entire collider to -271.25 C (-456.25 F). Here is a collection of photographs from CERN, showing various stages of completion of the LHC and several of its larger experiments (some over seven stories tall), over the past several years. (27 photos total)

Link to article and more photos.

Link to huge collection

Link to Homage. Link to entire collection.

These are pictures of an international airport runway in the Maderia Islands of Portugal. The runway is about 1 3/4 miles long and over 1/2 mile of that is the "bridge" part of the runway. There are 180 pillars in the bridge and each pillar is as high as a 23 floor building. Check out the cars parked below the runway! More on the Madeira Airport at Wikipedia.

Thanks Liam. 

Here are some users entries: 

All these drawings were done using these characters:

Link to FONTPARK

As part of a new campaign for Wonderbra D size, women were invited to submit pictures of themselves in their bras. The final piece is a billboard in Central London, but there is also  a website where you can look close-up, at the hundreds of pictures used to create the finished piece.

Link to website

Previously on P&F about Wonderbra:

Wonderbra: stand behind the yellow line

More Wonderbra ads — swimwear campaign

This amazing Wifi T-Shirt illuminates with 802.11b or 802.11g showing the precise strength. This T-Shirt uses EL technology. What is EL? Simply explained, EL (stand for Electro-Luminescence) is paper thin panels that radiate light. This technology is superior to other light emitting technologies because it is light weight, flexible, durable, generates no heat, waterproof and landfill friendly because it's production uses no hazardous materials.

Link to site

Link with more images 

More of the series here.

 
Here’s a clever print ad for a Belgian optician, by LG&F in Brussels. View larger

Copy at the bottom of the letter:
“Is it difficult for you to read these letters? If it is, than please drop by for a free eye test”

See more of these vision express ads. 

Don't know if I could resist burning off a couple of extra days. 

Link to Michael Gilette's website. Read about Ian Fleming. 

David Byrne and the New York City Department of Transportation, in conjunction with New York art gallery PaceWildenstein, have unveiled nine unique bicycle racks designed by DB and installed in various locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. An avid bicyclist for almost 30 years, Byrne was invited to join the panel of jurors selected by the DOT to judge a design competition for outdoor and indoor bicycle racks. Inspired by the city's initiative, he submitted some original design ideas of his own named after specific locations and neighborhoods, which the DOT enthusiastically agreed to install for a period of 364 days.

Link to site 

"Introducing the ultra-thin MacBook Air."

Stealing your co-worker's lunch is a downright contemptible act, that is, if it's perpetrated by someone other than you. But, if you've ever had your lunch stolen, you know the the frustration and anger it causes. You know the revenge and ill-will it inspires. And you know that no matter how well you try to hide your lunch bag at the back of the refrigerator, something's gonna be missing when you open it. Well, lament no more. The Anti-Theft Lunch Bag to the rescue . . .

Found here 

Link

Check to see if you need one… 

Found here. 

THIS ON-LINE TREAT was put together to help Scholastic Books promote J. Otto Seibold's pop-up book, "Alice in Wonderland." 

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Go ahead, pretend its 2001 and 'click around' a bit. Then, get back to your homework.

FGA: animation, audio supervision, edit
PERSONNEL: Matt Eller, Bill Morrison
AUDIO: Hatfarm
CLIENT: JOTTO
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Books

Link

Link to Set 

Musician Josh Pyke films the video for his new song 'Make You Happy' in a special boat created to the exact specifications of the Maton acoustic guitar that he performs with, at Rozelle Bay on October 9, 2008 in Sydney, Australia. The track will be the second single released from Pyke's second album 'Chimney's Afire' which was released on Saturday.

Link with more pictures 

From Core77:

Giraffe obsessed Colleen Venable has taken the conventional tattoo to another level, you know she'll be a great hit at kids parties.

Link 

Cliff-Top Chateau, France: This 'oasis of pis' overlooks a picturesque bend in the Dordogne River.

Link to photo collection

I love these light bulbs by Pieke Bergmans.  Select 'work' then 'light bulbs' to see more images including the fabrication process.

From apartment therapy:

Pieke Bergmans' series of one-of-a-kind crystal LED lamps for Royal Leerdam Crystal and Solid Lighting are what the designer calls "light blubs." And what exactly is a light blub?

"The answer is simple," says the young Dutch designer. "It is a light bulb that has gone way out of line. Infected by the dreaded Design Virus, these Blubs have taken on all kinds of forms and sizes you wouldn't expect from such well behaving and reliable little products."

Bergmans calls her one-of-a-kind light sculptures "unlimited edition," in that that each unique piece is made using an industrial process she developed that can be repeated until the end of time.

Link to collection via The Presurfer and just in case you need light bulbs…

From Not Martha:

Last year I had a lot of fun making the creepy crawly cakes so I decided to try a few again this year. This time I pulled out my Betty Crocker mini bake and fill pans and bought a box of chocolate cake mix and some Pocky. I made whipped cream (vanilla pudding would work too) and raspberry coulis (I left the seeds in) for spider guts. I also made some cupcakes to fill, tested one using a bakery bought cupcake and did a frosting variation, the Pocky legs can take an awfully long time. Pocky leg instruction can be found mid-page here. 

Link to collection

I get inspired by the industrial world, all the rigidity of machinery, the network of pipes, wires, refineries, etc. Then I join that with an opposite of flowing graceful, harmonious, and pleasing design of the Baroque and Rococo. And of course I add a bit weirdness and the macabre.

Propaganda Am-Bush Machine

Churchtank Type6.6F with Mine Rollers

Church Tank Type 5A

Venus Admiring Mars' Gun

Link to site

Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin makes images of unexpected buildings – that is, he "combines photographs of parts of buildings into new, fictional, architectonic structures," Mark Magazine explains.

Link Via BLDGBLOG

This underground data center has greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. It looks like the secret HQ of a James Bond villain.

And it is real. It is a newly opened high-security data center run by one of Sweden’s largest ISPs, located in an old nuclear bunker deep below the bedrock of Stockholm city, sealed off from the world by entrance doors 40 cm thick (almost 16 inches).

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Show me more covers…

From Glenfiddich's site:

Following the success of the inaugural Glenfiddich Barrel Art exhibition in 2007, we have developed a new exhibition for 2008. This year’s programme involves a single artist who will produce a collection of works that encapsulate the theme of time. We’ve chosen esteemed designer Michael Johnson. Michael has been at the forefront of British design throughout a career spanning decades and work the theme of time has been prevalent in his work to date.

Link to Exhibition site with more photos.  [via]

Agency: JWT, Chile

Link to larger images

Previously posted Scrabble ads here

Link

Link to Anthony Lister's website. Link to Flickr Set. Via

It is 60 years ago tomorrow that Scrabble was registered as a trade mark by Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect from New York state, and his businessman friend James Brunot.

Scrabble AD by PES:

Link to The Independent's article on the inventor and origins of Scrabble

Clicking on images launches Flash movie.

From The Behance Network:

Title: I Lose myself

Magazine: Hintmag

Photographer- Paco Peregrín (www.pacoperegrin.com )

Art Direction, digital art and illustrated- Calvin Ho (www.atomicattack.com)

Styling- Kattaca (www.kattaca.com )

Make up artist and Hairdresser- Beatriz Matallana.(beatrizmatallana.com)

Lots more samples…

Museum of London

The new Museum of London logo first appears to be a collation of current logo design trends, but with deeper inspection and research the underlying meaning of the logo is discovered. The organic shapes that make up the logo represent the history of London, showing its growth over time expanding geographically.

Schizophrenic

Another logo that plays in representational symbols while relating heavily to the brand name is the Schizonphrenic logo. Being a medical disorder that often depicts split personalities the logo characterises this with simple shapes that depict a happy and sad face.

Link to rest of collection  [via]

This letterpress poster was handcrafted character by character over the course of roughly 100 hours. Characters from the Bickham Script Pro, Engravers MT, and Epic typeface families form the edifice featured in the artwork, the Salt Lake Temple.

Each poster measures 16"x24" and is printed on Crane Lettra Pearl. Letterpressed by Bryce Knudson of Bjørn Letterpress in Provo, Utah.

Spire Detail

Link to Veer

As far as I can tell, this is the original poster. 

From IMBd:

Media from The Birds (1963)

Things Magazine have a great collection of Pelican Books' covers spanning the last century. Amazing stuff. These samples are from the 1960's.

This keyboard was commissioned by a couple of friends of mine from back east (NJ) who are avid Scrabble players. Most of the keys are made from real Scrabble tiles that were all hand-beveled (truly an exercise in patience/masochism!) and built onto a USB, clicky, mechanical-switch keyboard. This keyboard was going into a Mac environment so I decided to use brushed aluminum for the casing and round all of the corners to keep with the sleek, simple Macintosh styling. Near the end of the build, I decided that the keyboard looked a little too minimalist so I added some silver hardware and a seam to put a slightly industrialized twist on the design. 

Link to product site

Here are some samples of his more whimsical work:

PINOCCHIO // WASHING LINE // OUTLOOK DESIGN ITALIA 

BIGFOOT // SCALE // OUTLOOK DESIGN ITALIA

BIGNUT // HEADREST-BALL // OUTLOOK DESIGN ITALIA

Link to castiglionemorellidesign.it

 Continuing on the theme of Industrial Design, here is:

A peek at the upcoming design documentary "Objectified", by Gary Hustwit, the director of "Helvetica". The trailer features the voices of Jonathan Ive, Andrew Blauvelt, Marc Newson, and Karim Rashid. The song is "I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool" by El Ten Eleven.

Objectified premieres at film festivals and events worldwide starting this March, more info here: www.objectifiedfilm.com

Very cute handcrafted ceramic vases. Each one is unique and sells for $39.99.

Link to ModernArtisans  [via 7 Gadgets]

Excellent collection of numbers photographed on the streets of Budapest.
From Zsolt Molnár's blog:

This is my typo-photographic project that I started in Summer 2008, focusing on the typographical diversity of Budapest’s street numbers. On this blog I will post a number each day in 2009. 365 different types of street numbers hopefully.

Link to Budapest36.

Swiss artist and computer wiz Michael Flückiger combines installation, text art, and computer program design to create interactive text/projection works.

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My friend Brady found this beauty while cleaning out his studio. It's simply amazing! The different typefaces are cool, it must have looked very mod in its day.

The 'Engineering Appliance Company' is alas, no longer in business. The San Francisco street address in now condos and a google search returned no results.

Got it?

Thanks Brady

Link to katwood on Flickr

I love Flickr. While looking for some reference material I came across this excellent collection. The prints look like lino-cuts or wood blocks.

From Oldtasty's Flickrset

This is an outstanding collection of Cultural-Revolution era imagery and propaganda, made available with thanks to Webster University (for use of their scanning station) and Flickr. Translations will be added over time.

Link to Flickrset

From Gizmodo

Here are some alternatives

Huge collection and variety here, amazing. I only grabbed a few as examples.
Click on images for larger versions.

Author : Ewa Frysztak
Poster : "BALLADA O DZIEWCZYNIE", 1965

 

Author : Maciej Hibner

Poster : "IDIOTA", 1959

Author : Anna Huskowska

Poster : "MARIA CANDELARIA", 1959

Author : Wladyslaw Janiszewski

Poster : "LOTNA", 1959

Author : Waldemar Swierzy

Poster : "DREWNIANY ROZANIEC", 1964

This cute coin purse may fit in your PitaPocket bag. Designed by Laura Victore

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I came across this guitar yesterday at Real Guitars in San Francisco. It's great this small shop is surviving, I've been going there for over twenty years. Link to Real Guitars unfortunate website (the place is better in person).

Lots more at mpt.1607's Poster and Advertisements Flickr set.

With really nice fluid animation, this game may be too good to stop playing. Thanks Luc L!

Looks delicious!

Chocolate Pie Chart

5.5 oz chocolate chart (3.5" diameter x .75" high) made of 70% milk, 20% dark and 10% white chocolate.

Link to maryandmatt.com

More about chocolate on P&F:

Chocolate Keyboard

Chocolate Type Foundry

Dessert of the day : Hot chocolate, beer and 'Snickers-laced' whipped cream

More good news about Chocolate, better for your teeth than flouride

Chocolate shoes…

Happy Easter : melting chocolate bunnies

Creative director Steve Juras led designers Aaron Draplin and Chris Glass in the assignment to create two logos, one for projects completed under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and the second for the  U.S. Department of Transportation’s TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) team. ModeProject.com

Seee the rest of the collection.

SCX_Tyler:

Found at a Construction site near St George subway station Toronto, Ontario.
From left to right:
Bill Murray, Bill Crosby, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton 

chumptastic

Fonts listed in order of their popularity based on 6 top typography websites.

Click for Larger.

Link to more of arcticcobalt's work on Flickr.

Space Invader filmed during the installation of of one of his pieces on March 10, 2009 in Montreuil, Île-de-France, France. Very cool, even the cops who stop by seem to think so.

Alex tries but misunderstands Aug 2008

Alex tries but misunderstands Aug 2008 Detail

I smell something burning May 2008

I smell something burning May 2008

Cheer up Sep 2007 Detail

Cheer up Sep 2007

Fly baby fly Aug 2007

Fly baby fly Aug 2007 Detail

love me madly Oct 2005

Panopticon Aug 2004

Bel's Nook has some more pictures and info on Alexandros Vasmoulakis.

www.re-winder.com

Shown here Sweeney Todd –scroll down a little after the jump or this link takes you directly to the clip.

Some more samples:

• Aeon Flux
• Barbarella
• Casino Royale
• Edward Scissorhands
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Available online at 212-BIG-BOLT

Part of apertures of metal band became digital display screen. Metal band and digital figures mingle together in proportion naturally. Without the face of "timepiece", it displays figures only when needed but also quite vague existence, "time".

VIA D&AD

I want to get the set already—just because.

From CNN:

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Homer Simpson and his cartoon family soon will help you get letters, bills and packages to their destinations.

On Thursday, the U.S. Postal Service revealed five first-class stamps featuring characters from the Fox animated series "The Simpsons" -- Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie -- that will hit a post office near you May 7.

"This is the biggest and most adhesive honor 'The Simpsons' has ever received," creator Matt Groening said.

The TV show, the longest running prime-time sitcom, was chosen from about 50,000 stamp subject suggestions submitted last year, the Postal Service said.

"We are emotionally moved by the Postal Service selecting us rather than making the lazy choice of someone who has benefited society," said "Simpsons" producer James L. Brooks. Read on

These are a collection of images I've been gathering over the last year or so,  all images were found on Flickr and I apologize for not having kept a record of the photographers.

Found at Boston Public Library's FlickrStream.
The rest of The Brewery Posters are here.

All images link to higher resolution versions.

I really like the old school registration marks and color bars.

Source

Hitler.

Tagline reads: 8 GB of political speeches.

Chaplin.

Tagline reads: 8 GB of classic comedies.

These illustrations come from the book “The Frenchmen and the 7 Deadly Sins”, by Cyril Satorsky.

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A new concept design from Ji Woong feature a zipper that lets you zip them up to eliminate cable knots. Bonus points for the volume and hold feature in the zipper pull. As this is just a concept at this time, no price or availibility, but if real manufacturers are paying attention, maybe we'll actually see this hit the streets.

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Source with more images.

Really nice animation.

These samples found on deviantART and Souloff's blog.

This series of 'point and click' games by Armor Games is really well done, I particularily like the music in the The Great Attic Escape — when it changes.

• The Great Kitchen Escape
• The Great Living Room Escape
• The Great Bathroom Escape
• The Great Basement Escape
• The Great Attic Escape
• The Great House Escape

Okay then, in response to a few emails:

The squiggly, arthritic looking pieces of wire are what physically exist in these pieces, the 'images' you see are actually the shadows created by a light souce specifically focused on the wire constructions. 

Watch the video here.

The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden.

The game is still in development and no release plans have been announced. You can track the game's development on the blog.

The Unfinished Swan - Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

Play Crush the Castle. Thanks Chris C.