28.06.2007 by Zoltan

Mac VS PC

This is simply (super-geeky) gold! The lyrics are funny, its a piss take of all the shithouse rap produced lately and above all I love the shout out to old rap videos with the (shitty) purple halo on the green screen work and the posterising – although its got nothing on MIA’s latest effort.

28.06.2007 by Zoltan

Skate = beat

This is a nice little piece of motion, well shot and well edited. Also very good if you like percussion-based music ;)

26.06.2007 by Zoltan

NT posters

The National Theatre has just released its entire poster archive for online sale / reprint. They’re not very expensive and there’s some great design such as the ‘Equus’ poster above. But what’s really interesting is that – because they are usually designed in-house – today’s NT posters are a continuation of a graphic language began in the 60’s (see the second image above).

via Nicki

26.06.2007 by Zoltan

Uniqlock

Not sure if this is by Yugop, but considering his input into the online strategy of Uniqlo of late I wouldn’t be surprised. The Uniqlock is a really interesting study in creating something with seemingly no connection to anything, but doing it so well that its sheer memory-effect reinforces a positive brand image.

26.06.2007 by Zoltan

Social networking sites and class divides (USA)

An interesting article on the BBC today about the real-world class divides being replicated on online social networking sites. Essentially wealthier, better educated people are on facebook, and everyone else is on myspace. Get the whole report here.

26.06.2007 by Zoltan

Apple’s evolution

Its no secret that I’m a mac man through and through, possibly even a zealot. I can’t understand people that complain about the price of Apple products. Yeah they’re expensive, but they’re so fucking sexy (the power of emotional design) I just don’t care.

So if you’re anything like me, you’ll also appreciate this image detailing the evolution of every Apple product since the company began.

via Alex Griffin

26.06.2007 by Zoltan

365 shirts

If this is a cheap ploy to get 365 new shirts for free, this guy is simply brilliant. The idea is that he wears a different shirt every day for a year, and somehow the Alzheimer’s foundation gets some money out of it (not quite sure what though). Either wat I wish him luck, and when i get my brand off the ground, i’ll be sure to send him one!

25.06.2007 by Zoltan

Graphics goldmine

One for all the designers out there, the favourites of Michael C Place from Build. Not only is the set itself a great archive, but I actually never knew Flickr had this functionality.

25.06.2007 by Zoltan

Architecture of Density

Through my continuing my research into layers, I came across the photography of Michael Wolf. Based in Hong Kong, he takes tightly cropped photographs of the city’s residential skyscrapers. Divorced from the ground and/or horizon line, they cease to be architectural photos, and become beautifully entrancing patterns. I can only imagine how insane these must be when blown-up.

25.06.2007 by Zoltan

Glass of Water

Although it was fresh chilli in a Vietnamese restaurant, I had this exact thing happen to me today so I completely dig this fantastically simple poster for Tabasco. The copy reads “a glass of water please” under the sign language alphabet equivalent. Location / Agency unknown, but it comes from the often insightful flickr stream of Olivier Vaunois.

25.06.2007 by Zoltan

New C-Class site

This new Mercedes (UK) C-Class site went around work today, and I thought it was worth mentioning because it stands out for its lack of car-porn photography. Instead, it uses little interactive experiences to illustrate the product points (check out the pink section), but does so in a very restrained, let’s say Mercedes, way.

Only at the very end do you get a small 360 of a white car on a white background. Nice, subtle work by Agency Republic.

25.06.2007 by Zoltan

Blur Building

Coming from the horse’s mouth, Diller Scofidio + Renfro is “an interdisciplinary firm straddling architecture, urban design, visual arts and the performing arts”. You should definitely check them out, because they make beautiful hybrid “things” like the Blur Building in the photo above.

From their site: “Water is pumped from the lake, filtered, and shot as a fine mist through 31,500 high-pressure mist nozzles… Upon entering the fog mass, visual and acoustic references are erased, leaving only an optical “white-out” and the “white-noise” of pulsing nozzles. Blur is an anti-spectacle. Contrary to immersive environments that strive for high-definition visual fidelity with ever-greater technical virtuosity, Blur is decidedly low-definition: there is nothing to see but our dependence on vision itself”.

Damn impressive is what that means in plain english. Wish I had of seen it myself…

25.06.2007 by Zoltan

Super Mario Bros + lightning

OK, this is so geeky that i simply couldn’t resist. via engadget

22.06.2007 by Zoltan

Little Deviant

Little Deviant is another car site pretending to not be a car site. With a much younger target market than most brands, Scion can afford to be a little more edgy and this combination of illustration and a generally dark WoW aesthetic (not to mention the complete voiceover rip-off) serves to really differentiate this piece of marketing from the average.

Not only is the pop-up aesthetic of the ’sets’ done very well, but the site is its own world with its own mythology – neologisms such as “sheeple” make it stick in the mind long after the browser window is closed. But its the soft-sell and the lack of car-porn that roots you in this new ‘world’. In fact you only get anything more than a cursory glimpse of the car/logo in scene 5.

Anyway check it out, and just in case you’ve got ADD, the password to jump to the end is either “scralp” or “slog”.

21.06.2007 by Zoltan

A Month In The Life Of A Graphic Designer

CR is running an experiment with Michael C Place of Build, where they will ‘document one month in the life of a graphic designer’.

Whilst I think as an idea its quite interesting, I can’t get over the fact that its a little too old-skool traditional to do all this documentation, then release it in print… To me its screaming out for a real-time website – where you can listen to the music he’s listenting to (rather than just reading about it), see his diary (rather than just reading about it) and see the buzz around the studio. It seems like a perfect way for the bored designer to kill 10 mins, but its definitely not riveting reading…