Can we go on the swing, pleeease??

World's Largest Rope Swing!
by Devin Super Tramp (facebook page)

Re-posted from Scott Carthy's blog

Ultrabook™ POP-UP THEATER

What a great consept!

" The Ultrabook™ POP-UP THEATER is a series of live stunts that demonstrates the ultra thin design & responsiveness of the Ultrabook™.
A uniquely choreographed team of 60 individuals create a human digital wall made of Ultrabooks. The Pop-Up teams make surprise appearances on the streets of Los Angeles, transforming an everyday location into a mini theater. "

http://popuptheater.intel.com/

Gravity Stool

Amazingly cool way of thinking about new methods for product design.
Having one of these you might want to consider having a few plasters in the house though...

May the force be with you... 

Don't forget to play the video at the bottom!
By dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel.

Photos by Peter Lipton

Rape of a Nation by Marcus Bleasdale

A short movie on a bit more than 11 minutes, with a really strong message. A film you should have (or make) time to watch.

The Democratic Republic of Congo sits atop one of the world's most vast deposits of diamonds and gold; yet it is also home to the world's most deadly war. In Rape of a Nation, photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale explores the connection. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/publication/rape-of-a-nation

NYC Dining Car

Uni Project: Moving Parts

The brief:
We were given a foreign-language word or phrase. Our mission was to create a 10 second stop-motion film which illustrated this meaning to an audience who are unfamiliar with it.
Some tight constraints we had to follow:
- Use only the word/phrase as content
- Only black and white colours
- The handed out A4 sheet with the phrase written on is your basis for all visual matter
- You have to have 12 frames per second.

Can you guess what our phrase is without translating it??
Our word is in Polish: Uszkodzone Dane

Created with Lizzie Reid and David Sandford

20th Century Fox Flute Edition

Haha.

Itsy bitsy spider...

I just loved this photo, even though it was a result of the not so nice flooding in parts of Pakistan a while ago.

They say that "(...) millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters. Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs. People in this part of Sindh have never seen this phenonemon before - but they also report that there are now less mosquitos than they would expect, given the amoungt of stagnant, standing water that is around."

Source: Department for International Development

"Getting Up"

First seen at the blog www.booooooom.com

"After being diagnosed with ALS and rendered almost completely paralyzed, legendary L.A. graffiti artist Tony "Tempt" Quan gets his voice back through technology that reads the movement of his eyes and enables him to create art and write once again." 

Uni Project: Ology Orgy!

I have no clue why I haven't posted this before, as it was a great project we did before Christmas! Anyway, here we go:

We were warned prior to the start of this brief that that we would be working long hours every day for one week (3 days..) to get this finished.
The brief was to come up with your own unique “Ology” or area of study and produce a piece of graphic communication which defines and explains your explorations of, and observations on the subject. At the Ology Orgy, a convention which ran all day on Friday the 28th of October 2011, we were allocated a space and given the platform to put forward the case for your subject’s elevation to official “Ology” status.

Our group came up with the obscure and slightly weird “Insigniology” which was by definition

Our expert area of study was to classify every celebrity, into accurate “B” to “Z” lists which were representative of their fame at that present moment in time. The “A” list was reserved for people who’s fame and celebrity status never changed due to them being highly regarded or having achieved great things. 

We decided to go about calculating this by buying a range of weekly gossip mags and trawling through each of them and seeing how many times a celebrity’s name appeared.

After this we then cross referenced them against the other magazines to get a total number of the times they appeared across the spectrum of magazines we used. We then decided to come up with a formula to calculate what list the celebrity would go into, (affectionately named, “The Insignioformulai”). 

 

We did this by adding up the number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers and Google search results returned multiplied by the number of times they appeared in the gossip mags which would give out a number we could then rank all the celebrities by accurately according to their “Fame” that week. We decided to visually represent this by a 5x5 grid on the floor, each cell “B” to “Z” with each of the celebrities photos in their corresponding cell, with the “A” list up on the wall, never changing. So we had to print out over 300 celebrity pictures to put into this grid!

After we had inserted everything into our space, including all of our research and excel spreadsheets calculating all the celebrities rank’s it looked like this:

 

 

We then had to come up with an interesting and unique way of presenting Insigniology to the Ology Acreditation Panel. We decided to act as 5 Completely different people from all walks of life (a female wrestler, an air hostess from EastJet, a math teacher, a guy who don't have a job and lives with his mom and a MP for Hemel Hempstead) who met up every week to do this…purely for their love, fascination and obsession with celebrity classification.

Our presentation was a success, the accreditation panel loved our idea and our ology and said it was the best of the morning, (as it was split into two halves the morning and afternoon). They commended us on strong branding as Insigniologists and said our idea of being different people with different day jobs on the side worked fantastically. These were such rewarding things for us as a group to hear as we had all worked so hard and tirelessly over the week for it all to come together was exactly what we were aiming for. We left on a high.

Created with Kia Tasbihgou, Rhys George, Lizzie Reid and Gabriel Bean.

Creative packaging

Taken from DESIGN.inc

Citroen C3 Selection: Bip Bip!

I saw this when it was created almost a year ago, so you have probably seen it too, but I just needed to share. So well done!!
Toot toot!


Citroen C3 Selection: Bip Bip from Erhan TURAN on Vimeo.

SIRE: 'Marked for life'

 

Tattoo 1: "Your mother ruined us all"
Tattoo 2: "I wish we never had children"
Tattoo 3: "Forget your Dad. He's already forgotten you."

Text below each picture: "What you say during divorce lasts forever."
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Agency: 180 Amsterdam
Exec creative director: Andy Fackrell
Copywriters: Jessica Hartley, Marianne Riphagen
Art director: Andy Fackrell
Photography: Laura Pannack
Director (TV): Ariel Kleiman
Production company (TV): Partizan