What I wore today
Have fun browsing this amazing blog that gathers illustrations created by different people and representing their daily outfits -> http://whatiworedrawings.blogspot.com/
The 4 icons challenge
“The four icons challenge” is a beautiful illustration project designed by Kyle Tezak: here the challenge is to represent in just 4 icons his favourite movies and books, to summarize in few elements stories and meanings. According to Kyle, this work gave him “a surprising amount of insight into the author’s message and intentions, as...
Mapping stereotypes
Have a look at these superfunny examples of visual representation of data: the “Mapping stereotypes project” is beautiful collection of world maps with a series of filtered bigot interpretation of countries depending on different points of view. “Europe according to Italy”, “Europe according to the Vatican”, “The world according to the USA” are just some...
Icy letters (a million types in one)
Interesting typographic video-exploration created by NY visual designer Cameron Zotter: ice intended as the primal source of transformation of shape, curves, corners and edges of a type…how many temprary status a font can possibly take in a span of determined time?
The Alphabet 2 experiment
Check out this funny an beautiful video created by the italian video production studio n9ve. The Alphabet 2 is an experimental stop-motion video where each character visually represents the meaning of the word itself. Different techniques and materials where used, but always using helvetica font’s proportions.
Introduction to OpenIDEO / OpenIDEO.com
A short film created with motion graphic technique introducing OpenIDEO, a web-based platform created by IDEO, the world largest and most important design consultancy firm. OpenIdeo is a web-based platform created for a community of people in seek of solutions for complex issues using collaboration, shared knowledge and digital tools.
Print and build your own ‘Lie-ca M3′ camera
Just £2.00. This is what you need to afford an “authentic” paper-made version of the historic Leica camera, created by Matthew Nicholson, designer and photographer based in London. This project explores the issues of form and feeling as unavoidable elements pertaining to the market of luxury consumer products. The playfulness and beauty of paper-cutting and...
Choreographic data
Agenda Italia 2020 is a beautiful and essential infographics installation designed by ToDo, one of the most important studios of interaction & media designed studios based in Italy (Turin). A flow of data and statistics on the actual italian situation (education, job market, public health, elderly people, internet revolution and energetic strategies) generate a choreography...
Interactive CD packaging
Uceroz is a new music brand by Ivan Palacký, a musician playing an amplified knitting machine called Dopleta 160 (180). The packaging of the CD is somehow an interactive experience as after opening (tearing off the seal), the outer minimalistic graphic of the snow-white package is irretrievably disturbed by a stain, which turns to the...
Human emotion, in six movements
http://www.wefeelfine.org/ : an exploration of human emotion, in six movements. This is how designers Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar described their interactive web application aimed at giving an aesthetically compelling look to dynamically changing data of users related to their emotions and feelings. From 2005 “We feel fine” has been harvesting human feelings from a...
Pencil vs. Camera
Playing with reality and building parallel sketched dimensions made of ripped paper and graphite: it’s a Ben Heine‘s idea, a photographer, illustrator, potraitist, caricaturist from Ivory Coast (check out his facebook page ). Simple and fascinating, the leit motiv is that of a hand grabbing a piece of paper showing a superimposing fantasy of worlds...
Artist for a day
Jay Weeks, designer and illustrator created a beautiful digital application able to make everyone create elegant and minimalistic sketches of intereconnected lines: ‘Sketchy Structures’. It is available for use online as a cool html5 Canvas application that allows you to select different line variations, create work in realtime and save the file as a png....
