Moving sand anime from Ukraine

Gonna pick up posting again soon – just a bit busy right now. But here’s some extremely skillful but rather rather melancholic and soulful sand anime from the Ukraine (looks like it’s related to WWII in the Ukraine, then a part of the USSR). Thanks Inga.

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Moir on North Korea

The whole world is up in arms about North Korea. And the pun is intended, looking at all those gun-toting and gun-using nations like the US and Britain (and USSR etc) bristling with atomic weapons and constantly plotting on increasing their arsenals, wasting trillions of tax payers money. They’re all crying wolf but they won’t [...]

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Jeanne d’Arc

Terror and beauty I’d say – impressive piece found on Amanda Palmer’s Twitpic site with reference “warning, naked lady and french references. i love catching up on email when it contains art like this from sylvia k.”

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Little Red Riding Hood, told in animated infographics

more about “Little Red Riding Hood, the Animated …“, posted with vodpod
What a great way by Tomas Nilsson, a graphic design student from Linköping University, to tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood with animated infographics. The video was inspired by Röyksopp’s ‘Remind Me’. And the sometimes quite funnily place graphics cover topics [...]

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3,477 cars parked by their colour

more about “Urban Prankster“, posted with vodpod
On a lighter note than the previous posts: this is a mashup of social experiment and art, and by the sounds of it, it was a great success. This one happened in the mid-nineties – 1994 to be exact. Artist Mark Tribe explains::
“Nina Katchadourian, Steven Matheson and Mark [...]

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Palestine: street art

A mural in Gaza City commemorating Palestinian prisoners day (Eóin Murray)

A mural in Gaza that depicts scenes of horror and despair intimately wrapped up in the issue of the occupation and that of prisoners (Eóin Murray)
These murals most likely aren’t new, but they nevertheless seem to evoke very similar impressions and feelings arising when looking [...]

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Obama’s sinking

Say no more – an Alan Moir cartoon.

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Periodic table of typefaces

Finally a visually more exciting alternative to the forever boring (though) clickable list of fonts: the Periodic Table of Typefaces. It covers a number of major fonts and includes information about the family and classification of each, the designer, the year the font was designed, and a ranking as cribbed from a number of internet [...]

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Clocks made from old vinyls

There are the serious times for reflecting on the vile systemic expressions of capitalism (like the actions of CEOs or politicians), and there are other times when you enjoy the quirky beauty of design, especially when it relates to objects made from recycled materials. This is an example from The Grateful Thread blog: clocks made [...]

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The Satorialist – a fashion blog of a different kind

A friend of mine send me a link to a blog called The Satorialist, which is all about fashion but in a way that’s very different from what at least I think fashion blogs are. It’s not about haute couture and not even about designer labels. Scott Schuman takes fotos of ordinary people in the [...]

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Flexible electronic books to hit market soon

New Scientist, 23. February 2009
by Paul Marks
GADGET-makers have long promised us a flexible electronic book, but actually producing a robust, bendy screen has proved tough – until now. Plastic Logic, a display technology company based in Cambridge, UK, says it will launch the first flexible electronic book in January.
The two most popular e-books on the [...]

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Pieke Bermans – irregular mass production and viruses

Pieke Bergmans is a young Dutch industrial designer who seems to be best known for her “virus design”: infectious objects.  The forms she creates are organic, taking their lead from natural shapes as well as the occasional freedom of being able to flow into their final ‘gestalt’. Bergmans uses a range of materials for her [...]

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Architecture: new look for the Danube Flower building – but what about the environment?

Communist architecture wasn’t exactly known for aesthetic beauty or bold futuristic design. The only exception I’m aware of so far (and there are probably a handful of  others) was the colossal Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, which remained a shell coz the regime ran out of money. Here though is another, much more modest example (in a round-about [...]

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Mike Harrison UK

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Siggi Eggertsson Grafiks

I happened to stumble across Siggi Eggertsson’s graphic design site; I find his style quite appealing.

Eggertsson says: “Ultima Thule is a typeface that I made with a good friend of mine, Sveinn. One night we were really bored and decided to make a typeface together. We worked all night and at 6 o’clock in the [...]

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Marc Newson’s Ikepod time

Like any of those Marc Newson Ikepod Design watches? You’ll need some spare pocket money in the vicinity of US$ 39.000. Better start saving.

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Loudspeaker aka cuckoo clock

 

There is design and design, the latter not winning a awards for usefulness but for eccentricity. Make features a a Stephane Vigny designed hybrid of cuckoo clock and large loud speaker. When the bass reaches high levels, the door opens and bottom woofer is catapulted out on a hinge mechanism, retreating once the bass volume rescinds [...]

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Workshopped 08

Workshopped is on again – this time at Chifley Plaza in the heart of Sydney ’s CBD (2 Chifley Square). The exhibition will be the largest single event of Sydney Design 08 and is co-presented by the Powerhouse Museum. The exhibition is open (free) to the public 13 – 23 August 2008. This year’s brief [...]

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Pixel Couch

 Royal College of Art graduate (UK) Cristian Zuzunaga has devised a fabric based on a ‘pixel’ concept, which is being produced by Danish manufacturer Kvadrat and sold through Moroso. 
[via The Cool Humter]

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Pile of Books – a bedside table

You’ll need a special bed to match this bedside table by Josefin Hellström-Olsson, but I think it looks gorgeous. I’m not a bookworm, so it doesn’t complement my pre-sleep habits; maybe a pile of laptops would be more appropropriate. I would go out of my way though to find a more excentric looking bed for [...]

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