viernes 31 de julio de 2009
Las marcas son una manifestacion de la condicion humana
jueves 30 de julio de 2009
shambala en tiempos modernos | gonkar gyatso

la obra de gonkar gyatso esta caracterizada por el uso de arte iconográfico thangka trayéndolo a nuestros tiempos y mezclado con un poco de humor. en esta obra donde utiliza lápiz, calcomanías y recortes para crear una impresionante composición. después del salto podrás ver a detalle la obra.




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miércoles 29 de julio de 2009
Before & After: Help Remedies
Before:
Help Remedies has just relaunched their packaging. They have added new 'remedies', and along came a need to better differentiate the varieties:
"Help is a new brand of over-the-counter healthcare products. Our mission is to make solving simple health issues simple. We find the best solution there is, and take away everything else. By stripping away some of the complexity and fear mongering of the health industry, we hope to make the category friendlier and more accessible, and in doing so empower people to make their own health decisions.
Help Remedies first two products "Help I have a headache" and "help I've cut myself" launched in April 2008. They generated significant press attention from design, eco, lifestyle, business and media as well as sales both online and through selected retailers.
Our packaging is made of molded paper pulp and a bio plastic made primarily of corn. We use these materials because they are interesting to look at, and they are compostable—which means one day, they might become part of a large tree. Maybe you can cut down that tree and make it into a speedboat.
ChappsMalina did structure and form, Little Fury did the graphics and our own internal team worked on bring those ideas to life in the final package."
Several more images of this fantastic design after the jump.
martes 28 de julio de 2009
arquitectura: casa zufferey | nunatak sàrl architectes

la montaña L'ardévaz, al fondo del proyecto fué la inspiración de este proyecto concebido como una enorme piedra sobre el predio, diseñada por nunatak sàrl architectes.


© Dominique Marc Wehrli

© Dominique Marc Wehrli


© Dominique Marc Wehrli

© Dominique Marc Wehrli

lunes 27 de julio de 2009
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jueves 16 de julio de 2009
How Do You Extend a Watch Brand? Create a Perfume That Smells Like Watches

Nooka's known for their futuristic watches, but in a bid to become something more, they've created a strange fragrance.
You might have seen Nooka watches before: Matthew Waldman, a moonlighting branding and interactive designer, started the company in 2004, around the idea of telling time as a linear graph.
Since then, they've pursued all kinds of brand extensions--watches in every color of the rainbow, with varying levels of polish and sophistication; at one point, they even made watches for Kanye West's Glow in the Dark Tour. Naturally, the're looking to expand, and they've just introduced a new line of belts and wallets (see below). But their kookiest idea was to create a scent that actually smells like the watches themselves.
"I don't know if it sounds like bullshit," says Waldman. "But the fragrance is designed." He accomplished that working with Drom, a German fragrance developer that has done work for Derek Jeter and Anna Sui, among others. In addition, he hired Pierre-Constantin Gueros as his "nose"--the expert responsible for translating an abstract vision for a scent into particular ingredients. The fragrance that resulted contains the scent of leather and minerals--to evoke watchbands and the quartz mechanism--and also top notes meant to to evoke electricity. The point, Waldman notes, is a "glam future"--to hark back to the 1960s and 1970s. "Futurism used to optimistic, not terrifying, like in Independence Day," he says. "I aspired to a chrome-coated future."
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Related: Book Freshener Adds Some Real Life Smells to Your E- books
miércoles 15 de julio de 2009
SIguiendo con los homenajes...
el "auuu!" del don es lo mejor.
Offi’s Paket Storage Cube Transforms into a Table and Chairs
For parents living in small dwellings in the big city, furniture that is aesthetically pleasing, highly functional and compactable is a must… especially when it comes to making room for kids and all their accouterments, either by expansion or hideaway tactics. The Offi Paket Table and Chairs set is an eco-friendly masterpiece that comprises all of the aspects mentioned above. It stylishly houses a table and four chairs in a compact storage cube that opens up to provide space to share a meal. Made of laminated birch plywood and powder coated metal, the Paket Table and Chairs set should be a staple piece in every family's home.
domingo 12 de julio de 2009
Picasso y el light graffiti
En 1949, Gjon Mili fue a fotografíar a Picasso en su estudio para la revista LIFE, mientras esto sucedía Mili le mostró algunas de sus fotos de patinadores de hielo con luces diminutas en los patines y el efecto que esto creaba. Picasso estuvo encantado con esta técnica y decidió agarrar una linterna y hacer sus propias craciones, tal vez las mas rápidas y efímeras de toda su vida.
Hace unas semanas la revista LIFE publicó el set completo de estas imágenes en su página, si creían que el ligh graffiti era algo nuevo, han vivido una mentira durante muchísimo tiempo…
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sábado 11 de julio de 2009
A is for A Lot of Dots

The statement from Richard Maddocks, Chairman of the Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association, AWARD for short, states in part: Let's be clear. AWARD is not a committee, a board or an institution. AWARD is a community. […] AWARD is as strong, dynamic and powerful as the people who participate in it. AWARD evolves as the community that forms it evolves. Based on the latter two principles, Interbrand Australia created a new, living identity that reflects the evolving and dynamic nature of the organization.

The logo is comprised of numerous dots, each dot representing a member of the organization. The logo taps into the AWARD membership database to recreate itself whenever needed, be it online in the web site designed by Deepend or for print purposes. Interbrand Australia's Creative Director, Chris Maclean, further explains:
Controlled by a complex algorithm, the dots converge, diverge, bounce and swarm — behaviour that you would expect of a creative organism. Together, the dots form the shape of an ever-morphing "A" for AWARD.
The dots come in three different sizes to represent membership levels. The smallest dots represent the students of AWARD School; the largest dots represent members who have received accolades from AWARD; and, the medium sized dots represent all other members. An individual career can therefore be tracked all the way from a student to an awarded professional.
As time goes by, the logo will evolve with the population of the membership and as each member's career progress.
In the printed world, the logo retains its dynamic nature, appearing in a different configuration on every application. This is made possible by an online logo-generator. A unique logo is automatically and instantaneously downloaded every time new artwork goes to print.

I am getting addicted to these living identities — like last month's Namics — and I wonder if there will be a day, much like the day when a cell phone without a GPS map is obsolete, that a logo that doesn't live in real time will be obsolete. But you don't come here for my futuristic predictions, so let's get to the design. Static, it's hard to discern that the "A" is made of dots and not just of rounded debris, which is not entirely bad, but I wonder if allowing a few of the dots to stray on their own would help make it clear that these are a bunch of dots, not just a distressed "A." However, online, the logo is amazingly convincing and engaging, bringing the concept to life, and I guess that will always be the challenge of bridging the ease of portraying real time online with the hardship of translating it to print, but it's nice to see that AWARD is taking advantage of digital printing to move this living identity concept forward.
Without sounding like a lame criticism of the organization, it's kind of advantageous that AWARD does not have thousands of members, because they would probably end up with an unrecognizable blob. In the end, this is a great identity for a creative organization and it's nice to see a client that allows the boundaries of identity to be pushed a little.

miércoles 8 de julio de 2009
arte:Articulating the Wind: Technorama Science Center Media Facade

While this "media" facade might strongly resemble that of "Flare Facade", originally posted about a year ago, it is fundamentally different in its lack of any computational power, motors or sensors. Instead, designer Ned Kahn [nedkahn.com] developed a mechanical version which is composed of thousands of aluminum panels that move in the air currents and reveal the complex patterns of turbulence in the wind. The kinetic facade is designed for Technorama, a major science center in Switzerland, located in Winterthur, Switzerland, and visible from the large urban plaza in front of the museum. Similar works from the same artist can be admired on his wind themed portfolio page.
Watch the facade "in action" below.
Thnkx Estelle and via Swiss Miss. More on Media Architecture, Nature of Neptune.




