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| I've been meaning to create a response to 'that' poster for quite some time but never quite got there. It may be a little late but here it is. Inspiration came to me while watching a traffic warden going about his nefarious business. 'Keep calm and carry on' is the worst advice you can give to the British people, a people who don't complain but actually apologise when things aren't going their way. Stop it! Stop it now!! |
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Stop Keeping Calm and Stop Carrying On
Keep it Real
Somewhere between OK Go’s music videos and Sony Bravia’s bouncing balls there’s been a need to make everything for real in promotional videos and advertising. Graphics and animation are just not enough, you have to be able to touch them and, more importantly, watch the ‘making of’ documentary online. Not to mention buy the (obligatory) dreamy folktronica track that accompanies it. TV channel More 4 seem to have embraced this trend wholeheartedly and in quite fine style with a lot of Hard work by ManvsMachine.
Via Creative Review
30 Best Film Posters of 2011
Flavorpill’s pick of the best film posters of 2011
Their comment on this for Cold Weather really hits the mark: “Ah, minimalism. Overused in unofficial movie posters that go viral on the Internet, but sorely underused in official posters that advertise movies.” See all 30 here
The Colour of 2012
'Provides the energy boost we need to recharge and move forward.' Sounds good. More on Pantone's website – which I'm not sure I'm buying... We will see.
Code Warriors: a decade of processing
onedotzero are celebrating 10 years of creative coding tool Processing at this years Adventures in Motion at London’s BFI. Processing: 10 years of turning geeks into artists and artists in to geeks. Thanks.
London 2012 Olympics Posters
As always, the bile in the comments on Dezeen are always good for a laugh. Put simply by Dimitris – “They all really, REALLY really suck. Really.”
Well, at least it's still getting people talking. That must count for something, right? I mean, when the logo was unveiled, practically the whole country was having a heated conversation about the merits of branding and graphic design! Unheard of before or since!
P.S. I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that, after seeing the interview by Alan Yentob on Imagine, I hate Anish Kapoor. Not his work, I love (much of) his work. Him. Personally. Tosser. And Alan Yentob.
Decode the QR Code
Artists and musicians have been using gorilla sticker campaigns with QR codes for a good few years now to get their work onto your ‘generic-mobile-device’ (or ‘iPhone’ to you and me). More recently it seems that everybody with some online content to promote has caught up and these undecipherable and none to pretty blocks of black and white squares are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. Turns out that these things are pretty robust don’t have to be as ugly as you might think. With a little bit of work you can make something that still works and has some beauty all of its own. And the message in the stencilled code above? ‘U R SO PORNO BABY!’. Thanks for that Mr Fahrenheit, you made my day.
Alt//Language
Our recent London show...
"Come in and shelter from a virtual thunderstorm, fight samurais in the dark, make music with paint and play in a Wiimote band, all in the atmospheric seting of Shoreditch Town Hall Basement. Expect screens, projectors and speakers, immersive environments and games, audio and visual installations, sonic experiences and performance."
altlanguage.com
Squirtle
Squirtle from We're So Digital on Vimeo.
So I've been spending the last year working on interactive digital art installations. Squirle was the first one to go public. It's in the form of a game uses that uses galvanic skin response to measure users' emotions. The user has to maintain steady emotions to get to the end of the animation on the screen. If their emotions change, the animation plays backwards. Sounds simple – but it can be incredibly frustrating! Uses Processing, Arduino and Flash.
Decode
If you haven't been to Decode at London's V&A yet you gotta go!! An extremely inspiring interactive digital art exhibition.
It's mostly screen based, but my favourite was Daniel Rozin's Weave Mirror (above), which is basically also basically a screen – only made of wood! Wooden pixels! Yeah! Go wooden pixels go!
On until 11 April, 2010
Decode
Movie Posters of the Decade
A nice selection of some of the best movie poster of the last ten years. Like it says. Shame they didn't include Empire Design's UK Kill Bill Vol. 1 poster though.
Movie Posters of the Decade
Cassette Lamps
Ooo My Design's cassette tape floor lamps are made out of repurposed tape cassettes held together with zip ties. Mmmm... retro...
ooomydesign.com
Heinz Edelmann
Just a quick nod to german graphic designer and illustrator Heinz Edelmann who died on july 21st, aged 75. Edelmann was the art director of Beatles film The Yellow Submarine, surely one of the best animated features of all time.
Salon des Refusés
New vintage clothing project from Rebecca Sweeting. 'Vintage clothing, lingerie and accessories from the 1900s to present day.'
Salon des Refusés
Design By Say Hello
Illustration by Miles Donovan at Peepshow
Damien Poulain 'Totem 49'
Exhibition of the French born, London based designer's latest project at Kemistry Gallery from: 5 June - 18 July 2009
Sagmeister at Offf
There were lots of great stuff at Offf festival but seminal Austrian designer Stefan Sagmeister's talk about happiness in design really brought the house down. And he did the whole thing wearing a nice blue summer dress (the above version was filmed somewhere else though...)
Offf Festival
Say Hello are heading to Lisbon for Offf 2009, the 'international festival for the post-digital creation culture', to rub shoulders with the cream of the world's digital designers, film makers and musicians, including Universal Everything (featured), Neville Brody and many many more. We'll report back in May.
Offf
Colette's Barbie World
50? Do you think she's had plastic surgery? Colette celebrates Barbie's 50th birthday with part of their Paris store dedicated to the plastic princess. Specially selected designers have provided Barbie themed products from very low-end to very hign-end. Particularly like the 'hair' brush. Colette; kitch? Maybe just a little...
colette.fr
T-shirt by Married To The Mob
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