Archive for the ‘design’ Category

write here, right now

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Check this video out, is part of a campaign to promote writing on designated graffiti spaces rather than someone elses property.

  • 8 hours of writing
  • 5 permanent markers
  • 3 baths and 2 showers to clean off

Fat Boy Slim is playing in London (right here, right now) today…

the art of the title

Monday, June 30th, 2008

In The art of the tittle you will find a collection of credits from film and TV series ( video, sound and images) ordered alphabetically and in my personal opinion selected with great discretion.

One more website for my bookmarks!

via greenshines :)

leake st, art tunnel

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Last week I finally had a chance to go to check out the remains of the Cans Festival that took part few weeks ago in London (I couldn’t make it then because was so crowded was imposible to go in), where the international artists invited by Banksy decorated the tunnel (used as a taxi run in the days before Eurostar decamped) close to Bakerloo.

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If you have not gone yet, you are able to check out the stencils for yourself over the next six months. 100% must be seen!

iphone wallpapers - poolga

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Do you have an iphone or ipod touch and want to customize it?

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Image above by Will Bryant

At poolga.com you will find new wallpapers for them every couple of days.

The images were created by an extensed list of designers, artists, illustrators and dopey street bumps from around the world.

Cool stuff!

aitor escauriaza

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Yesterday I was messing around and typed “Salou” (the village where I grew up) into Flickr.com (in my opinion the best management and sharing application for photos and “long photos” :) )

To my surprise, instead of pictures of tourists red as lobsters, really nice pictures showed up, and most of them were taken by Aitor Escauriaza

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May be a lot of photoshop but good ones anyway.

Check more pictures from Aitor Escauriaza here .

london 3D tube map

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Wow! Oquiroga has just sent me a link to this.

You can click and drag to pan around and zoom in and out using the usual google map interface or view the map full screen

Is just a presentation but a company is currently working on a render farm of 250 or so processors for their London model and they expect to have it in movie form soon…

I can’t wait to see it live and finished!

big ideas are small, design barcode

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Biquitous emblems of our consumer civilisation, aka barcodes have received a radical makeover by a Japanese firm D-barcode and their ideas ended up on grocery products all over Japan.

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Check this amazing roundup of creative barcodes out: Roasted Blend

Simple, yet brilliant ideas!!

via boingboing.net

a walk in the woods

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Would you like to have a walk in the woods?? Check this hilarious animation video out!



Also eat a lot of lentils, beans or chickpeas will help you… more cool stuff at weebls-stuff.com

via rufadas.com

banksy - the bear and the bee

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

I’ve already talked about Banksy at this blog, but last weekend I saw this hilarious piece highly related to happiness at work on the side of a trash contanier in Notting Hill, and I think deserves a new post.

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The text is a parody of a “La Fontaine” fable and goes like this:

?Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long the bee collected nectar from morning to night while the bear lay on his back basking in the long grass.

When Winter came the Bear realised he had nothing to eat and thought to himself ?I hope that busy little Bee will share some of his honey with me?. But the Bee was nowhere to be found - he had died of a stress induced coronary disease?.

:)

banksy - wall and peace

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Banksy - Wall and Peace, I’ve got this book at the office, and I’m used to check it out when I need a break…

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“A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.”

The book shows and explains some of the best work from Banksy, a British street artist with an international reputation who in my opinion does a f**g good stuff!

One important thing, don’t buy his street art in an auction house, its undemocratic, it glorifies greed and he never sees any of the money :)

bring bad design to justice

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

This sentence is the slogan of design-police.org, the perfect website for frustrated graphic designers.

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If you want to take an active interest in the victimisation of the poor quality, and irritating graphic design that plagues our streets today, you can download their Visual Enforcement Kit, complete with all the tools you need to embark on your mission of graphic agitation.

Some notices/inflict acts of design I really like:

  • Microsoft Word is not a design tool
  • Comic Sans is illegal
  • Please do not use Word Art
  • This make no sense
  • This does not communicate

Happy visual correction!

doodle for google

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Sometimes (like important dates) google logo changes. Who is in charge of these designs? Dennis Hwang is.

In this video the Chief Google Doodler Dennis Hwang draw a Google Doodle from start to finish (quick motion of course). He creates a doodle that commemorates the Lunar New Year and invites students to join the Doodle 4 Google art competition.

Ah! Have you noticed the quality of the video and audio… too much for youtube?

graffiti motion video

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Jung von Matt/next, is the Jung von Matt agency for interactive and innovative communication. They present the project “Tagged in Motion”.
Graffiti artist: DAIM “sprays” digital graffiti into empty space. Awesome!

More info at: nextwall.net

imb?cil

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

I’ve always loved the spanish insult “IMB?CIL”!

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Spanish-English Translation:

  • I am a whore
  • I am a nigger
  • I am a queer
  • I am a moor
  • I am a south american
  • I am a woman
  • You are the different one, IDIOT!

I know “idiot”, “silly”, “fool”,… are not rude enugh for “imb?cil”. Imagine it with a “Fucking” in front, ok?

via herederosdejuanpalomo

old porn movie posters

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Here you are some porn movie’s posters from 60’s and 70’s

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Some of the famous titles:

  • Deep Throat (1972)
  • Behind The Green Door (1972)
  • The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976)
  • Debbie Does Dallas (1978)

Check out the rest (over 150) of porn movie posters at xratedcollection.com

I saw a porn movie once and it’s not that bad :)