December 2011
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Confetti Death (2010) by TYPOE
Old, well, a year, but reeeeeeal good.
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Up Close and Personal
The Macro Cell Lens Band is a strap-on macro lens that fits over a user’s smartphone camera allowing them to shoot incredibly detailed (and occasionally uncomfortable) close-up shots of any doodad, thingamajig, ant’s face or eyeball they deem worthy of taking up precious phone memory.
It’s all in the detail.
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EVIAN RELEASES COMMEMORATIVE STAR WARS BOTTLES
The prestigious French mineral water producer recently demonstrated an “innovative intergalactic take on design packaging.” These Evian bottles are shaped like lightsabers and each one pays tribute to a Star Wars character. Each illustration fills the label and includes characters like Darth Vader, R2D2, C-3PO and Chewbacca.
The bottles were designed by Amanda Brencys Carbonato and created in...
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HONDA CIVIC INTERACTIVE 360º FILM
To support the launch of the 2012 Honda Civic, Wieden + Kennedy created an interactive 360 degree online experience that lets people explore amazing environments and journey into the unknown. Inspired by Google’s Street View, “Off the Grid,” lets users move the camera through 360 degrees to explore the different locations fully.
Viewers leave a virtual art gallery through a hole in the wall,...
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Leif Podhajsky: Artist/Creative Director
Artist/Creative Director Leif Podhajsky creates artwork for a number of bands and record labels around the world such asWarp Records, Modular Records, Sub Pop Records, Sony Music, Shabazz Palaces, Lykke Li and Tame Impala and has exhibited work in Berlin, The Netherlands, Sydney, and Melbourne. He has also spoken at the prestigious art & design conference Semi Permanent.
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Zach Johnsen, Acid Over Easy.
Great work by Zach Johnsen from the “Acid Over Easy” exhibition in Melbourne, Australia.
Here.
Prints are sold out, unfortunately.
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Social Sharing Trends 2011
Take a look at the whole infographic here
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New York Writes Itself
Agency, Leo Burnett hosted a letterpress prints exhibition at the Art Directors Club in an event titled ‘New York Writes Itself.’ Letterpress artists — including Swayspace, Center for the Book Arts, The KDU, Peter Kruty Editions and Tarhorse Press — were invited to create prints where they source their material from a scribe community that captured poignant New York moments on a digital...
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You Kern, You Earn
Nice little game for all you typo/graphers out there.
CLICK CLICK.
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What's your Flavour?
UFlavor is an Indianapolis-based startup that brings consumers directly into the beverage design process. The company, which is currently in beta, worked with flavour company Flavors of North America (FONA) to create 42 ‘ingredients’ that can be mixed by users online, down to the percentage of the ingredient the user would like. Users simply select the flavours they would like to combine,...
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Gucci Launches Transparency Campaign With Its...
Gucci celebrates its 90-year anniversary by setting up a pop-up workshop around the world as part of its new marketing campaign. Dubbed The Artisan Corner, the retail campaign transports the craftsmanship of Gucci’s Florentine leather goods factory directly to a Gucci store.
So far, the event has travelled the globe, including Japan, the U.S. and Europe. Most recently, Gucci flew in artisans to...
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An exploration of human emotion, in six movements
Drawing from a database of more than 12 million individual sentences collected over 3 years from personal blogs on the Internet, We Feel Fine presents a comprehensive contemporary portrait of the world’s emotional landscape, exploring the ups and downs of everyday life in all its color, chaos, and candor. It is incredible.
Here.
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I Invented Cokes New Charitable Vending...
So, in our office at Nerv Interactive we have a Coca-Cola vending machine. I put in my one pound coin and got my 30p change and can. Small change gets lost down the back of the sofa, swills around in your pocket, falls onto the street….which got me thinking about giving my change to charity.
Why don’t Coca-Cola vending machines have an option which you can select that then donates...
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Ralph Lauren’s Animated Greeting Cards Are...
Clothing company Ralph Lauren‘s Rugby line is inviting users to create animated greeting cards in the style of its online catalogue. The website’s creative feature is customisable, allowing users to share their own holiday message composed of animated images of models holding the letters. The clothing worn by each model is listed beneath their picture along with the price and you can click to...
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An exoplanet called Me
Planet Hunters is a browser-based online platform that asks participants to help astrologers find evidence of exoplanets, or planets located outside our Solar system, using data being transmitted by NASA’s orbiting Kepler Space Telescope. Created in collaboration with Zooniverse, a collection of web-based citizen science projects supported by over 400,000 registered users, the platform tasks...
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Fold.it
There has been a growing tendency towards games being used to To Solve The Unsolvable. One example of this trend is Fold.it-a web-based platform for collaborating on scientific research that allows gamers to compete against one another to design new proteins which could be used to help prevent or treat diseases like HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s and Cancer.
Developed by researchers at the US...
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TYPE A PAINTING
Washington-based painter, Tyree Callahan conceived of an enticing new way to make art. Built for the 2012 West Prize competition, he created a functional painting typewriter, dubbed the Chromatic Typewriter, by replacing the letter keys on a vintage 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter with color pads and hue labels.
Though, it may not yield the same results as brushstrokes, the concept of...
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