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Archive for the 'Design' Category
Advertising: From YouTube to mainstream
Is this the next step in consumer-generated advertising?
A television commercial for the new iPod Touch from Apple, running since last weekend in the US and created by Apple’s advertising agency TBWA/Chiat/Day, is based on a mock-up commercial that 18-year-old Nick Haley from Warwick, England, created on his computer in one day last month.
It might be significant because it is perhaps the first concrete example of an amateur flick being implemented and used by professionals in that way
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Life: Diesel Sweeties comics
On “Diesel Sweeties” life is a pixelated romance with robots / men / women and of course superheroes. Great site – have a look (a teaser below)
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Gadgets: Segway Ferrari Edition
Still looking for the latest geeky present (for your son / daughter) and a Ferrari is out of reach…
Well how about this one: The Segway PT i2 Ferrari Limited Edition
Segway has together with the famous Italian car maker Ferrari created a special limited edition version of
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Data Visualization: Doctors of the World
The image below was created as a poster for Dutch doctors to hangs on the wall of their waiting rooms. With 170 inhabitants per doctor Cuba is still the world leader on that chart. Not unsurprising other (former) communist countries follow on the next positions (in some of those countries the numbers have already started to deteriorate).
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Design: Moleskine notebooks on the web
Note- and Sketchbooks from the manufacturer “Moleskine” have for two centuries been a daily companion of artists, writers and designers.
The legendary notebooks were originally produced by French bookbinders who mainly supplied Parisian stationery shops until 1986 when the last of these family run businesses shut down in France. In 1998, a Milanese publisher brought the Moleskine brand and revived the tradition. Since then the Moleskine books have again found many friends around the globe…
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Advertising: The WWF Billboards
With its billboard design for a Global Warming awareness campaign the “WWF” has demonstrated that clever advertising and eco-friendliness is a good match.
The WWF billboard for this campaign uses a specially shaped awning that casts a shadow onto the poster. Throughout the day that shadow rises and illustrates graphically the raising ocean levels on the billboard…
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