The Moscow metro stations are famous for their ornate design. These bus shelters to match are less known – but equally charming.
As seen by canadian photographer Christoffer Herwig.
Cleo
The newest mystery game from BBC: CDX (by Preloaded)
as always the BBC and preloaded have delivered a crime story that just sucks you in. At first I thought what is this? probably something not that special! But oh I was wrong, quite wrong indeed, and the hour I spent immersed in the game, without any intention to do so, is testiment that this new game is pretty damn cool.
All from the graphics, which by the way are almost all videos, to the real cinematic feel of the of the story and the character. The only thing I can say is go try it for yourself and you be the judge of the quality of this work.
Cheers S
Hey everybody in Copenhagen (and vicinity),
this might be short notice but tonight there’s going to be an event at Republikken on Vesterbrogade, if you want see and hear some nice work come and take part. Sweet Talk is happening in Dublin, New York & Copenhagen. Just to get an idea here are some pictures for you to view
Here is what Richard Seabrooke from Sweet Talk has to say about it:
WHAT IS SWEETTALK?_ SweetTalk started over a year, and 17 editions, ago to encourage stimulating conversations about Design, Illustration, Motion Graphics, Fine Art, Animation, Photography and all those excellent disciplines in between that make up the fantastic creative world around us.
SweetTalk is about seeing the people LIVE onstage who practice these disciplines best… Pioneers, Legends and forthright thinkers. They are there so you can hear them firsthand in a relaxed, enthusiastic atmosphere,not a stuffy cold conference style format. People who attend get to make up their own minds on what the speakers have to say about their work and working process. We try as much as possible too not to tax the patrons, preferring to charge the minimum amount to cover costs and keep this going, something that has stood as we’ve moved out of Irish only editions to the UK, Scandinavia and now the States…
SWEETTALK 18. COPENHAGEN Candy in association with Tiger Beer present Sweettalk 18, Copenhagen.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 8TH 2007. Venue: RUMMET IN REPUBLIKKEN. 24 VESTERBROGADE. COPENHAGEN. Admission: 75DKR. Tiger Beer reception from 7pm, first speaker 8pm. Limited edition treats for early arrivers!
Speakers: Bleed (Norway). http://www.bleed.no Martin De Thurah (Denmark). http://www.dethurah.dk Ingen Frygt (Denmark). http://www.ingenfrygt.dk
Hope to see you there - Shaft
I just couldn’t help but put this one out there, not just because it has a Japanese video intro but also because the works are pretty damn good. If you dont believe me go look at it for yourself and be impressed! i know some of you certainly have seen some of the work in the portfolio.
The Art of Type is a panel discussion about typography from Extensis, go and listen now!
“This year at the Macworld Conference and Expo, we hosted a number of expert font panel discussions at our booth on the show floor. The discussions turned out quite well, and for those of you who were unable to make it to the show, we”™re happy to report that we recorded everything!”
Chris Bolton is a Finnish designer, not only does he make interesting work, but so is his site: It is built on xml and xsl styleshees, making it quite fast to update and in a logical way too.
Letter by Circle is founded by Dante H Carlos, and you will like it. Outlandish is photography creation house for young Belgian talent, not to be mistaken by the Danish music group. Hey that’s my pencil there
Last but certainly not least check out Tony vs Paul, they really are rivals huh?!
This is going to be super interesting for anybody who enjoys quality films, from up-an-coming directors. The Sundance Film Festival is showing their entries online!
Here is what they are saying: “Invited from the same short film program as its namesake event, this exclusive collection of premiere work in short filmmaking premieres first in Park City, Utah — and then rolls-out streaming to you. Free from anywhere in the world.”
And here are the others
Beautiful work from Mario Hugo.
And one of my personal favorite artists Lee Misenheimer from Brooklyn, NYC
Concept & Art Direction from Stockholm(via Newstoday)
Janus Friis’ newest project which was codenamed “Venice” launched yesterday under the name of Joost, pronounced juiced. Let us see if the people, who brought online telephony to the public, can do the same for online television. We can only wait and see what will happen.
Designing a website anno 2007 can pose all kinds of interesting and tough challenges – but designing a website for 2012 raises some fundamentally different ones.
Such as: - Does websites even exist 5 years from now? - Will information be smart and automatically know who you are, where you are and what you need? - Will information technologies be truly ubiquitous and blend into our surroundings and perhaps even our skin?
In brief: how do we design something as familiar as a website for something as unfamiliar as the future?
This was the challenging assignment that 1508 was given a few months ago. The client and collaborator The Digital Taskforce (a unit at the Danish Ministry of Finance) asked us to come up with a e-Gov concept for 2012, which is based on the recently launched ‘citizen portal’ Borger.dk.
We are about halfway through a very interesting process, which so far has been focused on foresight research in order to set the most viable stage for 2012. During this process we have looked at relevant sociological and technological drivers that we believe will influence the future and to qualify our research findings we have facilitated a range of role-play and scenario workshops.
The output of these workshops will fuel the upcoming design phase, which – as we can reveal already now – will result in something very different from present day websites and e-Gov portals.
Sebastian
Gathering insights: What drivers are relevant when designing a future scenario?
Design Game: Which research findings are most important?
Role-play: What are people’s needs in 2012?
What do you do if you are an avant-garde, anti-capitalistic theatre and need to promote yourself to sell tickets? If your target group (and yourself) is generally suspicious of branding and advertising ““ an advanced, critical audience more in the habit of going to clubs and cinemas?
Germany’s leading avant-garde theatre, Die Volksbühne am Rosa Luxembourg Platz in Berlin, rejected a proposal by advertising agency Springer & Jacoby and decided to do things their own way. Over the past 15 years they have created an extremely successfull anti-design superbrand, by ignoring all existing standards of advertising. Not a single thought was waisted on strategy, target groups, user panels or trend scouts.
The plays are much praised, but they are only a part of the Volksbühne show. The Volksbühne posters are in it as well. So are the Volksbühne stickers mixing with the street art, the badly assempled, rough looking Volksbühne matchboxes, the Volksbühne building, the Volksbühne flags and banners, the grumpy Volksbühne woman in the ticket booth and the lack of a decent Volksbühne website. It is a complete world: clever, ironic, fun, self assured, rebellious and spot on.
The “Volksbühne style” makes most other theatres, look like brave choire boys (which they probably are in comparison). They rely heavily on good reviews and hope to catch our attention with a nice poster. No wonder we usually forget about them and head oft to the cinema…
The consumer of tomorrow may come a lot closer to the Volksbühne Audience of today: Suspiocious, critical, fed up and difficult to seduce. Future advertising and design agencies can look to Rosa Luxembourg Platz to see what charming, intelligent anti-design branding can lead to.
www.volksbuehne-berlin.de www.lsd-berlin.de
Cleopatra
