May, 2009

Olympic posters proposal for London 2012 by Alan Clarke. "My thinking behind these posters was to convey the movement and energy of the games, in a simple abstract way."

A series of articles on transparency featuring beautiful information graphics by a range of designers including; Jacob Magraw-Mickelson, Atleykins, KissMeImPolish , Timko and Klick , Fogelson-Lubliner, RobDiIeso

Big media often gives attention to huge architectural projects like towers in Dubaï or Shanghai - this list from Designer Daily gives some exposure to more human-scaled houses. Queenstown architects Kerr Ritchie make the list with their Drift Bay house.

Heli Test sees NZ music video director Samuel Peacocke trying out some tilt-shift trickery. Via Vimeo.

Completely unrelated to the Colenso BBDO campaign for Auckland city - but a much nicer rendering of pixels than the new campaign website: www.biglittlecity.co.nz.

Via archdaily.com. Italian practice studiometrico share how they converted an old cinema in Milan, into the new Bastard flagship store, which also includes a suspended bowl and offices for Comvert. A skateboarders dream place to work.

How creative can you get with fonts and typography? Here is a short list of interesting illustrations made of text and different fonts.

Inspired by the human hand, the Relax lounge chair by a young Czech
designer, Kamil Kurka, has a base made of a continuous flexible frame
that lets you float in the air.

The frame, which has no fixed connections at the crossing, is made
of straight grain veneer layers glued together. Multiple grain
directions in each layer add to the strength and flexibility.

Clever advertising campaign for Panamericana School of Art and Design encourages people everywhere to test their creativity.

The objective is to draw as many things as possible that originate from X’s or O’s.

Thoughtful and well written blog post on the Rita Angus: Life & Vision exhibition by the art historian Cheryl Bernstein. More on Rita Angus at Te Papa.

Typography in Motion from ilovetypography.com on Vimeo.

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