Audi Centenary Sculpture by Gerry Judah
Designer Gerry Judah created a 32 metre-high sculpture for Audi at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in West Sussex, England. The 44 tonne sculpture, created to mark the car brand’s centenary, features a vintage Audi and a modern car racing into the sky. Via Dezeen.
Art Forms of Nature: The Ernst Haeckel Collection
Ernst Haeckel - philosopher, professor, physician, naturalist, biologist and artist. The pinnacle of his work - Art Forms of Nature - began publication in 1899 and is still an astonishing record of life on earth. When art and science combine, something sublime can come to pass.
Graphic Design, Referenced
Graphic Design, Referenced is a visual and informational guide to the most commonly referenced terms, historical moments, landmark projects, and influential practitioners in the field of graphic design. With more than 2,000 design projects illustrating more than 400 entries, it provides an intense overview of the varied elements that make up the graphic design profession through a unique set of chapters:
London 2012 posters
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."
GOOD magazine infographics
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
25 examples of great architecture
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.
Auckland, big little city
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.
Bastard store by studiometrico
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.
Typography art
How creative can you get with fonts and typography? Here is a short list of interesting illustrations made of text and different fonts.
Sit back, Relax
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.
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