Start Up Britain letting down British Designers?
So I start my Monday a little sleepy but in good spirits, checked my twitter stream and noticed Start Up Britain had launched. I thought oh this looks good, nice to have some support for small businesses and start ups in Britain. So I take a look around the site and in particular the ‘Startup’ […]
Mesmerizing Motion Graphics
get addicted to … sending out a WARM SIGNAL from get addicted to … on Vimeo. Spotted this intriguing and mesmerizing motion graphics video constructed using Cinema 4D. By designer Silke Sieler the soundtrack is also excellent and is called ‘Warm Signal’ by Apparat. Thank you SwissMiss for the heads up.
Tweet Paper
Spotted this over at Swiss Miss and thought I’d share it. Note paper for those that like to Tweet offline by Luc Latulippe
Salvador Dali Museum Unveiled
This is the newly unveiled Salvador Dali Museum which opened January this year. It hosts the largest collection of Salvador Dali’s work. A great mixture of glass and concrete the building looks fantastic and reflects the scenery and colours around it. Designed by Hok.com this is a very memorable and distinctive building. See images below…
Should I work for free? (Flowchart)
Credit: www.shouldiworkforfree.com Illustrator Jessica Hische has had abit of fun creating this chart giving the answers to the question “Should I work for free?“. Go on, have a go see where you end up.
Pour some light on it…
Designed by Yeongwoo Kim this concept design called ‘Pouring Light’ is a lamp with the idea being to give off an ’emotional flow of light’. “The special feature of Pouring Light is the shape of flow water is the base. The pouring part of water is phosphorescence. When you turn off the light, it gives […]
Heat Reactive Paint
Designer Shi Yuan has created heat reactive paint as demonstrated in the form of wallpaper that reacts to heat, paintings that change when you touch them and the a calendar that could fade as the day ended. These are all achieveable using heat sensitive paint and could be used in many ways in the future.
Canon’s Pixma Paint Sound Sculptures
This series of paint sculptures using sound vibrations is part of a campaign for canon’s pixma ink printer brand created by Dentsu with some beautiful results. Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.
The Seed Cathedral (Video)
One of the more exciting and interesting buildings I’ve seen, The Seed Cathedral is truly inspiring and certainly got to be considered one of the building’s of 2010. Thomas Heatherwick said: “The Seed Cathedral sits in the centre of the UK Pavilion’s site, 20 metres in height, formed from 60,000 slender transparent rods, each 7.5 […]
…and Pantones colour of 2011 is..
So it’s the moment you have all been waiting for, well probably not, but much like last year Pantone have announced it’s colour predictions for 2011. Mostly a marketing gimmick (but judging by the amount of turquoise that was knocking about during 2010) definitely an influence on the design world. Pantone has announced its colours […]