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13.08.2007 by Zoltan 
Neu Army
Apart from being a design studio, Neu Army is an RSS of quality websites that i've always subscribed to. And although its been down for sometime now (boo hoo), here's a lovely piece of old-skool typographic design that I think is worth sharing. That and as a positioning tool, "This ain't no side hustle" is also interesting... Anyway, i'm looking forward to the 07 site!
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26.07.2007 by Zoltan Checkland Kindleysides
This site for Checkland Kindleysides is a nice translation into digital of the amazing work of Peter Callesen (above). Sure it lacks the beautiful 3Dimensionality of real paper, but the effect is still nice. They also use Mrs Eaves which is one of the nicest sets of ligatures around, if a little overused now :(
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23.07.2007 by Zoltan Wine that loves…
Wine that loves is like "Wine for Dummies" but for the ADD-generation. Why bother to learn about anything when some clever marketing can do it for you? Cynicism aside, its actually some lovely bold, and most importantly simple, graphic design on the bottles. Shame about the website...
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16.07.2007 by Zoltan Republic Of Ideas
The Republic Of Ideas is billed as "a place to swap ideas". It launches in September, and word on the street is that its going to be an 'new ideas marketplace', i guess not unlike OpenAd, but potentially more digitally-led. At the moment there's some nice motion/type goinng on, so let's wait and see...
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13.07.2007 by Zoltan D&AD student of the year
Scott Evans might have won student of the year, but I can't help but think that there musn't have been too much else on offer. Sorry Scott, I liked your video but it was a little too conveniently political for my liking to be the winner of such a prestigious prize. Although simplicity is the best way of communicating (complex) concepts, I don't see global warming as particularly difficult to comprehend. Stop driving when you can and take public transport. Or even better, get a bike. Stop buying apples from the other side of the planet when they're out of season here. Boycott ryanair and easyjet. Its pretty fucking simple... via CR
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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... -
20.06.2007 by Zoltan Illustration 2020
Today I'm wondering about the future of illustration. There's no doubt that hand-generated illustration as a design tool is enjoying a certain renaissance in our vector-perfect lives at the moment. But what's next? How can illustration remain relevant when this trend/fashion moves onto something else? In an attempt to think about this, I've set up a new discussion thread on the flickr group unillustrated. Some of my (crazy?) thoughts so far: can we use nanomachines to create illustration? or what about Arificial Intelligence? can computer's 'illustrate'? or is it a quintessentially *human* ability? So go on, have your say!
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19.06.2007 by Zoltan NikeSB + SWFForceSize
NikeSB updates today with a fresh design from odopod. However its not really the design that grabbed me, but more the very clever use of dynamically scaling the height of the flash movie, without having to refresh the HTML... the result is that the browser's scrollbar functions as usual (when required, when not it simply disappears), but the entire height of the window is a flash movie.
This is not something I've seen too much of before, so I've asked around here at de-construct and funnily enough, they're using some of my mate Gabes' open source .js :) anyway what happens is this (courtesy of Matt): "looks like an event from the flash is being called on each new 'page' in the flash, which in turns calls a resize of the swf embed:"
function updateSwfSize(w,h){
var forcesize = new SWFForceSize( so,w,h );
}
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18.06.2007 by Zoltan unillustrated
unillustrated is a little collaborative project I've just set up on flickr. Essentially, its an ongoing experiment into the power of illustration - by removing it from iconic pieces of communication. The above example of Pink Floyd's cover is a good indication of where I'm going with this, but I think someone else trumped me with the Ikea instruction sheet.
Anyway there's also a bunch of dicussion threads where I'mn trying to figure out - by throwing it open - exactly what is / is not illustration. So, help me out and get involved! :)
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