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Massimo’s calendar

Can’t say I need a 4×3 foot calendar – but I’m certainly glad that this one exists.

2010 Calendar – Massimo Vignelli

2010 Calendar – Massimo Vignelli

Filed under: Design, Lifestyle, Print, Typography, Uncategorized

Dollar Dollar Bills y’all…

This is some crazy laser etching… beautiful and some what obsessive in the making. I love the detail in this work.

“Making his major exhibition debut in London, New York-based tattoo artist Scott Campbell recently opened his latest exhibition, entitled “Always Almost There”, at the Lazarides Gallery. The show featured Campbell’s signature style in the form of laser etching on multi-layered creations. “Always Almost There” runs through October 30th, 2009.”

Check it out here

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CORE Body

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The human body: revealed with exceptional form by the NYTimes.

Filed under: Betterment, Illustration, Interactive, Lifestyle ,

DIY Greeting Cards – Digi Font

The only trick to these is remembering what you want to say. DIY Greeting Cards In Nerd Font

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Filed under: Lifestyle, Packaging, Typography, Uncategorized

flyps’s focus on Iran

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If you haven’t seen Flyp magazine before this is a good introduction, an online full screen flash magazine featuring more videos and images and less text. Exactly how magazines were originally intended to be!

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Sour – ‘Hibi no neiro’

Creative crowdsource music video for Sour’s ‘Hibi no Neiro’ (Tone of everyday). The cast was selected from the actual fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.

Directors: Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura

(via studiokudos)

Filed under: Animation, Motion, Music, Video

Minimal life in a white box

I can’t tell what this is but from what I can guess, it’s a modular / mobile living unit. I like it… but does it come with closets and a shoe rack?

antenna7.com

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Filed under: Architecture, Environmental, Lifestyle, Sculpture

JOHN MAEDA VISITS W+K TOKYO FOR BREAKFAST

Just a pick blurb, John Maeda dropped by our office to have breakfast with us Friday Morning. We spent a nice hour eating and chatting about what he’s been up to. Check out the full blog post on our company blog.

Best part… and don’t be jealous, Amy Lee is visiting Japan and staying with Donna and I so I invited them both for breakfast so they also got this rare chance to see him.

Anyone want to use up those “stay at Mark’s place for free” tickets I handed out 2 years ago?

wktokyo.jp/blog

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Filed under: Lecture, People

New TIFF Brand

Not entirely sure how I feel about it but for some reasons it makes me want marshmallows. Discuss (the logo not my obsession with marshmallows).

 
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TIFF 09 site

Filed under: Branding, Design ,

Google Maps meets SimCity?

It’s interesting to see how “colourful” Shanghai looks. What’s even more funny is when you switch to satellite view and see the dramatic contrast in colour.

Above all it’s an interesting way to show a map… reminds me of SimCity… but is it really useful? I mean it’s not showing the map directly from above like most of the satellite images data Google Maps uses. And unlike Google Earth’s 3D view with X,Y,Z Panning/Zooming this map has a fixed angle and it feels more like a giant painting. Not sure if the amount of work put into this is worth it’s weight in functionality. Humm… but if it was done in an eboy style… that would be a different story perhaps.

maps as art?

maps as art?

Filed under: Environmental, Illustration, Urban planning

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