Entries tagged “design”
minimal Mad Men teaser billboard ads for Season Five
The above variation of the “falling man” makes good use of white space on the side of the Andaz Hotel on Sunset Boulevard instead of a traditional billboard shape.
Mad Men Season 5 premieres on March 25th, 2012 on AMC.
(photographs of campaign via Daily Billboard)
Pentax K-01 camera designed by Marc Newson
“…Newson always incorporates thoughtful proportions. In this case, he not only worked with Pentax on the camera body, but also on the 40mm F2.8 kit lens that comes with it. The pancake lens is impossibly thin, measuring in at .36 inches—just enough room for a manual focus ring, and that’s about it. The K-01 uses the standard K-mount so it’s compatible with every lens Pentax has made over the years. Removing the viewfinder and the mirror from the equation also gave Newson more creative flexibility…”
—Josh Rubin, Cool Hunting
I usually shy away from bright yellow fashion accessories or gadgets. But, this new Pentax K-01 designed by Marc Newson, makes it to my too pricey wishlist.
said the shower curtain to Dave Eggers…
Text becomes another object for issue #16 of the form shifting THE THING Quarterly.
“Published on a shower curtain, with the idea that one would read it while showering, this issue is a monologue told to Dave Eggers by his shower curtain. It was produced in collaboration with Izola and is printed on a 72x72 inch PEVA (PVC Free) shower curtain.” —THE THING
(first discovered via Junk Culture)
dreaming of toys cover for F.A.O. Schwarz Christmas Catalog c. 1959
(via wishbook)
poster in “Great Ideas of Western Man” series
Alvin Lustig designed this ad for the Container Corporation of America. The quote is from John Ruskin “On the Benefits of Education.”
(via designopolis on etsy)
Shop Sign Bird Houses by Peter Marigold
“A series of seven bird houses made from salvaged shop signs and crate material. The folds in the material are unmeasured resulting in a series of irregular coloured shapes. The regularity of forms that populate our modern man made environment are driven by the economical use of materials and machinery…” —Peter Marigold
(rediscovered via Inhabitat)
Original Apple iPhone 1983 - designer Hartmut Esslinger, the same guy who made the Apple IIc computer, came up with this phone/tablet prototype.
Die Legowand, wall divider made with thousands of LEGO bricks by Npire
(via Fubiz)
PANTONE 17-1463 Tangerine Tango, “Color of the Year for 2012”
“…Over the past several years, orange has grown in popularity and acceptance among designers and consumers alike. A provocative attention-getter, Tangerine Tango is especially appealing in men’s and women’s fashion…” —press release
vintage plastic cameras turned into Nightlights by Jason Hull
(first discovered via neatorama, above Ansco Cadet II w/ flash)
‘Companion Rack’ for magazines designed by Gavin Coyle
(via Junk Culture)
The exhibition catalogue with slipcase for the past Design Criminals exhibition at the Vienna MAK is entirely edible. Made with sugar pastillage, Andreas Pohancenik (from Practice + Theory) designed a typographically unique book and signage for the exhibit.
“…If pastillage often historically represented architecture and objects, might this tradition be reversed and allow architecture and design to learn from its now distant relative? If we think of a cake, in some way at least, as an architectural object, might we also be able to think of ways in which architecture and design might be able to possess cake-like qualities?…” —Andreas Pohancenik on “ornament and crime”
(rediscovered via Fast Company)
custom ‘Original Design’ handcrafted silver watch dials by Wilk Watchworks
limited edition of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
“This limited edition of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 was a collaboration between Kristen Harrison here at The Curved House, Simon Rhodes of Harvill Secker (an imprint of Random House) and designer Stefanie Posavec. The edition was strictly limited to 111 copies signed by the author…” — The Curved House
(via typoretum)
