Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Infographs everywhere

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Nate Broughton is right.  Infographics on the interwebs are now ubiquitous. Here's a recent favorite from GigaOm concerning the economy of iPhone applications:

The Third & The Seventh

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. Slow moving but breathtakingly gorgeous.  HD, fullscreen it. Full CG architecture and nature never looked more, um, (vibrantly) natural; although while gradually seeping into the surreal. To delve into this further, visit The Third & The Seventh site and view the shorter Compositing ...

Jeremy Mayer’s Typewriter sculpture

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Jeremy Mayer assembles humanoid sculptures using only typewriter parts, fitting them together without any glue or welding. (via Laughing Squid)

Mail Me Art (2)

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Mail Me Art is a fairly simple concept.  Create a piece of art that can be mailed then mail it to: Mail Me Art 37 Thames Court Victoria Avenue West Molesey Surrey KT8 1TP United Kingdom There are some stipulations, but that's basically it.  The project's first round is done and a book of several submissions has been ...

Make a font from your handwriting with FontCapture

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Ran across FontCapture, a service that will turn your handwriting into a font, usable on both Windows and Mac computers.  Just print out a form, fill it out, scan it and upload to the FontCapture site.  Magic is worked, then you can download your custom font and install it. I would ...

Diet A & W Root Beer: Old design vs new

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

"Old" Diet A & W Root Beer can design "New" Diet A & W Root Beer can design I purchase soda for the office so I see several types soda pour down the gullets of thirsty employees.  The diet A&W root beer redesign caught my eye.  Both are particularly ugly, but ...

Help me “Rhonda”

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

There's not much information about the video above on its website. But it is basically a 3D drawing tool called "Rhonda". Looks pretty mind blowing.  Rhonda is currently being developed for "various platforms" and you can enter to become a beta tester.

Looking for iPhone wallpaper? Try Poolga

Monday, August 10th, 2009

The Creator by Jolby If you are still searching for creative, one of a kind images to use as wallpaper for your iPhone or iPod touch, head over to Poolga.  Not only is everything free, but you'll get wonderfully unique backgrounds that fit the screen perfectly.  (I ran into this site ...

Jennifer Maestre’s colored pencil sculpture

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Luna by Jennifer Maestre Jennifer Maestre creates a type of sculpture from colored pencils.  Hundreds of pencils are cut into one inch sections and a hole drilled through allowing each to be fastened together.  An article about Maestre, including several examples of her work, is up at Dailymail.co.uk.

CustomADart provides marketplace for custom ad images

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

There's already 99designs, crowdSPRING and inkd to crowdsource graphic design.  Now there is customADart for bringing together photographers and those looking to buy the perfect image for their needs. The way it basically works is advertisers post a job on the site describing what kind of photo they want.  Photographers then ...