I’ve been seeing lenticular prints all-over lately. On postcards, free-bees, on billboards and in window installations. Just during a short shopping spree at the west end of Oxford Street the other day, I managed to come across two stores who used lenticular prints as part of their décor. Maybe there is a future for lenticular prints after all?
Zeroperzero is a design duo from Seoul. Kim Ji-Hwan and Jin Sol are graphic designers and focus a lot on information design. Their probably most known work is the Railway System Maps. The idea behind the redesigned maps was to make them reflect the character of the city better.
The Strange Attractor’s new collaborative project, Pattern & Shape is quite cool. The brief, given to Gavin Potenza, Driv Loo, Pete Barnett, Andrio Abero, Travis Stearns, Steve Rura and Matthieu Bessudo, was to “design a t-shirt using a geometric shape and incorporating pattern”. mmmm I want I want I want.
The Olympic winter games are over for this time. It was the same old story as the previous winter olympics. Norway stacked up on medals (23 total) and Great Britain slid into a single gold medal. But one thing had changed
Two of my favourite blogs have recently cut the cord. Kjefta!, an Oslo based resource for design, art and other things worth mentioning, shut down on their third birthday two weeks ago. And just before the weekend, everyone’s favourite, Grafikcache, closed his curtains.
TypoFlat is a great resource for very cool free stuff. The site focuses mostly on type (hence the name), but also do a bit of stock vectors.
Some bands get it. Some labels get it. Take a look at this beautiful release.
Teenage Engineering makes really (really) nice looking things from their Stockholm studio. The first thing that caught my eye was the OP-1 synth. It looks amazing, with a fun, minimalistic design, but it actually seems like a very resourceful little music box as well.
Another good photographer i wanted to post here after Kim Høltermand the other week (almost starting to look like a photography series this) is Patricia Thompson. She caught my eye with the picture above. The composition and colours in that photo really struck a cord in me.
Kim Høltermand is a danish photographer. He has a very good eye for shapes and forms in architecture. He finds beautiful patterns and shapes in both “normal” and “abnormal” constructions.
An iPhone owning traveller’s must have: Wallpaper City Guides. Wallpaper has digitalized and applified their pocked-size guidebooks and they can really be handy.
Videos that caught my attention this time: four good and one awful, including Universal everything, Bansajo and LCD soundsystem.
I’ve just noticed some problems with the site that appears in Firefox 3.6. For some reason it will not load the CSS, which of course messes things up. We’re working with the problem and hopefully it will be fixed very soon. In the mean time (if you are effected), use another browser, like Safari, or an older version of Firefox (3.5.7) to get your latest music and design updates the way they should be.
Beacuse of this, the site might be a bit unstable and the colours and the typography might look a bit off for a short while.
Oh, and if anyone has any idea what it could be, we would appreciate help.
Update: The problem is now fixed. Apparently, The newest version of Firefox has become particulary picky with quotations marks. We had overseen one single qoutation mark in the CSS file, causing the whole site to go down. So the morale of the story: be very cautious in the furure with quotation marks when coding CSS.
Hvass&Hannibal is having a show at the Kemistry Gallery in Shoreditch, London nowadays. “Inspired by the collection and sorting of random data sources, Danish design polymaths Nan Na Hvass and Sofie Hannibal are reinterpreting information and expressing it by way of wooden sculptures, hand-benched silkscreen prints and offset posters”
My new Freitag F-77 Ben Computer Bag just arrived in the mail today. The bag is made out of recycled, used truk tarpaulins and used car seat belts.
