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"A street artist makes derelict structures come alive by adding eyes and facial features. Nikita Nomerz's work ranges from water towers painted to look like they're laughing to dilapidated buildings with broken window frames for eyes. Nomerz, from the western Russian city of Nizhniy Novgorod, travels around various cities in his homeland to carry out his art." Daily Telegraph
http://vimeo.com/32435748
P.s. You might also like Pavel 183 street art
Tough Russian designers from NAPALM collab create design concept that stuck in head after and forever.
Check their recent projects like "Bang-bang" door-knob in a form of classic gun Makarov or White table landed right from space. I believe anyone can find a project for his own taste.
Futuristic watches producer NOOKA released a nice time watching iPhone application. NOOKA presents a graphical representation of time that transcends the linguistics and math that make telling time—creating a truly intuitive experience to tell time, set alarms, and visualise world-time/timezones.
Find Nooka Lite (Free) and Full versions on iTunes
http://vimeo.com/34683680
"Bang & Olufsen joins the AirPlay party with the BeoLit 12 wireless speaker" says Gizmodo while selecting new product from Bang & Oulfsen as the coolest speakers at CES 2012. That's a true Class D digital amplifier with a total of 120 watts designed by Cecilie Manz will cost you $800. http://www.beoplay.com
Famous for humanized and simplified ideas Philip Starck came up with the next one juxtaposed from digital culture and music behavior. Zik Parrot is a new handset with touch control - easy? Swipe down the touch pane on the headset and low the volume, swipe forward to skip to the next song. "It pauses the song if you take it off and instantly picks back up when you put it on, has 3 microphones and a bone conduction sensor for your calls and active noise cancelation, and even has an app to control it all. 4 years of work has gone into these.." adds Notcot editor. Recently shown up on CES Exhibition Zik Parrot gained good comments from visitors and plus for Philip's studio karma from us.
via Notcoto
PressPausePlay film that we watched at OFFF festival is available now on Vimeo and through PPP website.
"The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era."
As a human being Type has its own evolution timeline and specimens, each letter has a flesh, blood and bones. That was proved by Dr. Andreas Scheiger later last year and exhibited online and offline.
Industrial designers Yookyung Shin & Hanhsi Chen launched their first usb stick collection called Empty Memory for London based Design Studio Logical Art. The collection comes with two different designs – Structure and Transparency, which are the results of two different approaches regarding the same concept by each designer.
via Trendland
This was circulating on blogs later last year worth to refresh the memory and go for wandering the illusions of the Small World by Frank Kunert. Frankly speaking I was fooled when saw "Tennis-Halfpipe" for the first time.
Russian typographer Pavel Emelyanov (from Murmansk city) is back to the roots. His woodcut letterpress calendar beside the unique way of copying has an ultimate way to change months by reordering wooden elements. Don't miss a video at the end of the post.
Briefly "Dekocahri" is overdecorated bikes in Japan and "Dekotora" is same for large trucks - the field for chrome and lights. Japan fashion and editorial photographer Satoshi Minakawa, Intersection Magazine and the theprintspace galleries team up to create "Customized" exhibition featuring this Japanese trend. Don't miss a video from exhibition opening.
Olenishka (eng. "Doe") is a first furniture concept from Moscow based young designer and daily dreamer Niaz Sayfutdinov. That is a kind of a stand-by to spend cold autumn eves contemplating the view out of the rainy window with Plato's book. Frame and wooden plates are drafted from precious materials.
Google Pittsburgh office designed by Strada with a steam-punk twist inspired by the exterior and the history of the building. And they have a giant hammock net to keep coders code and doers do.
The Smart is making it’s world premier at the NAIAS Auto Show this days. Here are some exclusive images of the world premier at NAIAS 2012.
Read the review on 3d-car-shows.com
New York based designer Julius Tarng revealed his senior project for humanizing mobile devices. The concept of Modai phone answers the question "How can we enhance the relationship between user and device?". Making the device a trusted companion (it has emotions) with a happy human interaction (it has intuition) and sustainable environment (it has smart hardware upgrade system) Julius gives Modai a unique conceptual twist. The more you get into the project the more you love it. Discover more on his portfolio website http://tarng.com
I got in to the Polaroid culture when I was ten with a proud colour one "Assembled in the USSR". This was a high times, today Swissmiss made a huge flashback and now I really want to install Polaboy frame featuring some of the photos from my past. Smart and simple idea and citing Swissmiss: "Polaboys are enlarged Polaroids to a scale of 10:1 (to 88x107cm) and backlit. They are 20 mm thick and use energy-saving LED area lights. The frame is wooden and they are made in Germany. Also good to know: The photographs can be changed at any time and you can even send your custom image."
We are really happy to present you photography stock Fotolia project "10 by 10". First because they featured Designcollector's Resident Editor - Xavier Bourdil in a second round!
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RedBall Project is a global art project by Kurt Perschke that exists as a series of temporary installations in a city over a few weeks. The work has taken place in places such as Syndey, Barcelona, Chicago, Korea, and England among others.
The 2012 begins and it's time to renew calendars. With the help of Designmilk and Behance Network we selected the most interesting and creative calendars for 2012. Typodarium 2010 Typodarium 2010 is the first typographic tear-off calendar, with 366 typefaces from 252 designers hailing from 32 countries. via DesignMilk
urbnCal "The team from UrbnCal chooses a city to feature each year in a calendar. The team then bikes around that city and photographs number plates to represent each day of the year. This year they chose Helsinki, Finland." via DesignMilk
Art Calendar 2012 by Martin Grohs Print graphic calendar created by Martin Grohs
Infographic Calendar 2012 by Martin Oberhäuser Each color/ring represents one month of the year. National holidays (Germany) are highlighted with an icon and pink color. The tabular view at the bottom offers some space to fill in appointments or birthdays. Check it on Behance
The Eyes of Imagination 2012 New calendar by talented illustrator Irina Vinnik features her love to imagination and hand drawing. Available in inverted colours version too. Check it on Behance
2012 Typographic Wall Calendar The calendar is made of exactly the number of used keyboard keys that represent the year. Created by Harald Geisler, via DesignMilk
Twenty Twelve A collaboration between Evgenia and Dominic Righini-Brand and Attitude Creative resulted the one-sheet graphic calendar "Twenty Twelve"
Calendar 2012 by GHIN "Calendar 2012 by GHIN comes with lunar cycles and the Mayan calendar. It’s also available in an Interfaith edition – various prices available on ghin.co.uk" via DesignMilk
Bubble Calendar 2012 Each time I see Calendar using a packaging bubble wrap I remember my university course work in 2002 when I did the same calendar. Enough reflecting here is a real Bubble calendar you can buy and pop everyday.
2012 Typography Calendar Created by Studi Hinrichs. Each edition of Typography Calendar features 12 unique typefaces, with brief descriptive text about what makes the font distinctive, and a biography of each type designer. All major holidays for the United States and Canada are noted on the calendar, along with the birthdays of the type designers. via DesignMilk
Minimal Calendar "The minimal black and white illustrations featured in Pawling Print Studio‘s calendar reflect the patterns of traditional textiles that they were inspired by" via DesignMilk
Cut Out Number Calendar 2012 Simple and graphic cut out numbers form this 2012 wall calendar. Choose your colour.
A bit dated and we missed that before but still this floats our boat. San Fransisco designers Studio O+A have completed the headquarters for Facebook in Palo Alto, California few years ago.
