With the new Oi office in mind I have been looking for inspirational office decor… (more…)
Jaws, jaws, jaws.
July 14th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
Another nice bit of work here, this time a bit more brash than DEVIL, but equally as cool (especially if you’re into movie posters like me). This beautiful domestic one sheet for Alex Aja’s Piranha 3D pays direct homage to Joe Dante’s original ‘78 film and Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. If you feel inclined to watch people in bathing costumes get eaten by fish, you can check out the trailer at the movie title link above.
The Devil’s in the details.
July 14th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
Beautifully simplistic yet killer execution for the first official movie poster of the new film DEVIL, produced by M. Night. Shyamalan.
LuminAReyougottabekidding?!
July 14th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane BrunThis is the guy that won the Audi Tony Stark Innovation contest to promote the R8 and won $15,000 to further develop his idea. His incredible invention consists of a small computer, a pico projector and a camera, all packed into an angle-poise-style light that projects the internet onto the desk, wall or anything you point it at. The camera watches this image and can detect if you touch anything: you can type on a projected keyboard, for example. I’m still speechless by the sheer awesomeness of this. I’m gonna’ have to go lie down.
How hot is it?
July 14th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
lab[au] is a design studio founded in 1997 and based in Brussels. They mainly create interactive artworks, audiovisual performances and scenographies, for which they develop their own software and interfaces. For a 2008 project the group transformed the Dexia Tower in Brussels into a giant weather report, using LED’s in each window to create something pretty stunning.
I hope mine’s 64GB.
July 14th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
Seeing as I’m getting wed in a few weeks, this little bit of cool caught my eye today and so I humbly share it with all of you.
A software engineer at Microsoft is getting married to a woman that doesn’t necessarily share his enthusiasm for gaming. But her love is such that she decided to celebrate her beau’s geekery by having a special wedding ring custom made for him with the inscription, “For a lifetime of memories.”
Lifetime of memories?? That’ll be the USB drive built into the ring then.
Ahhhhhh.
Oh, the wonders of scrap.
June 30th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
Sometimes you just have to sit back in wonder and wonder at how much wonder there is in the world. Only just the other day I was sitting at home wondering about how wonderful it would be to be able to put old plumbing to wonderous good use rather than just casting it aside and low and behold…
More than a box.
May 19th, 2010 | Posted by Nat Whitty
Forget having to recycle your cardboard wine carriers. This unique, highly useful and ingenious design is something you will definitely want to keep around…
Bland packaging is Dead & Buried.
April 21st, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
There’s nothing I like more than a nice bit of packaging design.
Okay, so that’s a complete lie. I love infinitely more things than nice packaging design; sweet n’ sour prawn balls, crispy chilli beef, prawn crackers, beer, horror movies, horror movies about killer sweet n’ sour prawns…you get the idea. But this bit of work for the totally incredible HBO series Six Feet Under really is quite stunning. Avoiding the usual cardboard DVD cases inside a larger cardboard case, the designers have instead opted for…ummm, well…?..okay, so it’s a load of cardboard DVD cases inside a larger cardboard case, but that’s not the point…
Dump the stupid old bag.
April 20th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
Old bags…what a pain. What a waste of space. What a complete, utter annoyance they are. They’re everywhere for a start, getting under everyone’s feet, cluttering up the parks and the streets. They take forever to go away and even when they do, they clog up the earth for centuries.
And there’s millions of them…literally; millions and millions of the hateful things.
Well, PUMA are getting ready to do something about it and I for one am behind them 100% in getting ready to knock the old things on the head once and for all and make the world a cleaner and better place for all of us…
Coke to go green?
April 6th, 2010 | Posted by Nat Whitty
Could this become a familiar sight on our supermarket shelves? Design student Andrew Kim would hope so.
For his freshman product design project Andrew created not only a functional but simply stunning new potential packaging for Coke…
Use your iPhone smarter.
March 31st, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
Things are constantly changing, evolving, being altered and messed with to create things that are as much new and exciting as they are ridiculous and pointless. Take the iPhone. We can all recall what life was like without one (at least I can) and how it has undoubtedly changed the face of mobile technology (and no, geeks, nothing running Windows 7 counts). Imagine then, taking this innovation and de-innovating it? Devolving it, taking it back more than a few steps in time and space to create a newly born functionality that surpasses the old functionality…in terms of functionality…
Water way, to think of the environment.
March 18th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
OK…sorry for the shameless Alan Partridge pun, but I couldn’t help it. Sue me…it’s been a long day.
Rightso, this is quite an exceptional idea and one that’s had me thinking of the possibilities most of the afternoon. I’m not gonna’ waffle on, I’ll let the cut & paste from Design Boom do that inside, but just think what the world would be like if every new building had this level of thought put into it?…
Get your hands on a piece of design history.
February 23rd, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
What a beautiful idea this is. The Design Auction was set up by some tutors and students of Lincoln School of Art & Design back in 2007 as a way to make some cash for their third year graphic design end of year degree show. A few phone-calls and emails later and the great & good of the design world were offering them rare and beautiful bits and pieces of loveliness and gorgousnessness. It’s a simply brilliant idea, a great website and a showcase of some truly ground-breaking bits of design. So grab yer’ mouse, a cup of tea and a pack of Digestives and enjoy…
The coolest thing since sliced bread.
January 14th, 2010 | Posted by Stéphane Brun
It’s not often I get excited by shiny silver technology…well, not often…ahem….but I’ve just been forced to stop work entirely and rush to the bank to see if I have a spare £160 to fork out on one of these beauties…
It wasn’t me: It was Tom.
October 16th, 2009 | Posted by Stéphane BrunSometimes, one has to simply sit back and admit defeat…y’know? You’d like to think you’re the best thing to happen to whatever industry you’re in, but inevitably you are faced with the realisation that, well…you’re not. That’s the cool [and also the horrific] thing about working in a studio with talented people. Yes, you get to work as a team and learn from / influence each other, but you also have to put up with hard, cold facts:
‘That piece of work is great and I couldn’t have come up with it”…
