Banksy’s stained glass window
Spotted this recent work of Banksy’s over at flavorwire. He worked with Los Angeles students (who created the tagged background) while the window and figure were created by Banksy himself. More images of the work including closeups can be seen over at the flavorwire.com site.
Virtual iPhone – iPhone 4 in pure CSS3
If this doesn’t show off the possiblities of CSS3 nothing will, check out TJrus’s handy work over at tjrus.com
Steel Installation Sensation
This installation works sheer scale and detail is awe-inspiring. Created by London artist Zadok Ben David and using 12,000 cut steel botanical specimens modelled from old textbook illustrations. The level of detail and clever mixture of industrial and organic is impressive. Read the whole story and see further images of the installation over at thisiscolossal.com
Ridley Scott’s forth coming ‘Prometheus’ – Alien Prequel?
For me Alien directed by Ridley Scott back in 1979 defined a whole genre and style that many have copied since. A classic film mixing horror and science fiction in equal measure. So when I heard news there was going to be a prequel to ‘Alien’ titled ‘Prometheus’ I found it hard to hide my […]
iThermostat – shaking up the home heating world…
So what does the designer of the original iPod do years after shaking up the music world? Well shake up the home heating world of course! Tony Fadell and the people at Nest have re-inventioned the humble thermostat. It ‘learns’ your heating habits, what temperature you choose for what time of day and also actively […]
An interview with illustrator Rob Ryan
Handmade Portraits: Rob Ryan from Etsy on Vimeo.
KernType – A Kerning Game
I can’t imagine there are many kerning based games knocking about the internet, so it was great to stumble upon this one via Twitter. ‘Kern Me’ is a Html 5 built website that challenges designers and a like to kern various words and be scored on the results. I scored 85% on my first turn, […]
It’s for a bloody good cause…
Charity SWEAR BOX from Fueled on Vimeo. How no one has thought of this before I don’t know, but this is an excellent idea to take the humble swear box online. It’s called Charity Swear Box and basically you link your Twitter account to the site and nominate a charity, from then on every time […]
Probably the best thing about the new iPhone 4S…
Pinche Pinche Mexican Restaurant – Brand Identity
It doesn’t get much tastier (well for us at least) than getting your teeth into a new brand identity project. Add into the mix that it’s the development of the branding for a new Leeds based mexican restaurant Pinche Pinche and we were salivating. We were invited by Brian Hawkins (Commercial Interior Designer at Casabella […]