Monday, June 30, 2008

Nevver. Designed for repeated listening.



One image, one mp3 track. From Peter Nidzgorski.


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Fred Perry x SWEAR



Produced by SWEAR London as part of their collaboration with sportswear icons Fred Perry.


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Emil Kozak



A vast selection of graphic design work from Emil Kozak, Denmark now based in Barcelona.


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Six Pack



Cool apparels from various designers/artistes at the SixPack label based in France.


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Friday, June 27, 2008

Goodbye 7th Storery Hotel



Farewell... "This is necessary to accommodate station structures and will also 'enable comprehensive redevelopment of the area'." Enough.


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Playing the Building





Music legend David Byrne transforms an entire NYC building into a giant musical instrument. In the video above, David Byrne turns an entire New York building into an instrument. He explains, “Devices [have been] attached to the building’s structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.”


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Steampunk



Sometimes high tech just gets too glossy, too fussy, too plasticy and some of us long for the gears and real-world widgets of the past. Enter Steampunk, the subculture that simultaneously embraces burlap and iPhones. Jake von Slatt, the man behind it all documents projects outfitting new technology with a burnished Victorian edge: a computer keyboard, a flat-panel monitor, even a motorcycle!


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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Sesame Street - In Hell



A-one and a-two and a-chicka booma chick!


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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Rent, Shopping...



Bizarre... All of a sudden these 2 songs from PSB just popped up in my mind. One about mercenary love and the other where money can buy you certain happiness. The love for consumerism, or consumerism as a way of life?

"We never-ever argue, we never calculate, the currency we've spent..."


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Julian Red





Stockholm denim label Julian Red. The Swedish label is better known for its slim cut jeans for men and women is slowly being recognized for its T-shirts, hoodies, sturdy-fitted jackets and sleek dresses and tops. Very nice!


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Monday, June 23, 2008

UNICEF project: Fifty Designers’ Current Favourite Typefaces




100% of the cover price goes to UNICEF's Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Children's Appeal in the wake of Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar on 2nd May 2008. Designers include Daniel Eatock, Wim Crouwel, eBoy, Experimental Jetset, Farrow, James Goggin, SEA, Non-Format, NB: Studio, Pentagram, Antoine+Manuel, MadeThought, Bibliothèque, Cartlidge Levene, Browns, Michael C. Place, North, YES, Spin, Stefan Sagmeister, The Designers Republic, Why Not Associates and Zak Kyes.


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Double Negative: Cloverfield




Despite the film's weak plot, the special effects behind the movie is astounding. Double Negative was responsible for most of the effects on the movie. As the website stated "Double Negative's main task was to wreak destructive havoc upon New York City. Complex digital environments were built and then attacked with a variety of CG tools."

The company has also worked on Batman Begins, Hot Fuzz, and even The Bourne Ultimatum. You can catch the entire behind-the-scenes documentary on the movie's DVD release, it's worth the time.


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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button




The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) is a movie adaptation of the 1922 short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, regarded as one of the twentieth century's great writers.

Fitzgerald's short story first appeared in the 27 May 1922 edition of Collier's Weekly. Fitzgerald noted that "This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain’s to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end." Read the original transcript, brilliant story and film adaptation.


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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Hard Format



Reaching for the sublime in music design.

"It seems like everybody’s talking about the end of physical music media. Who knows whether they’re right or not, but Hard Format is a little place we’ve set up to celebrate our love of brilliant music-related design. That means we’re going to focus on records, CDs, cassettes and their like. However, Hard Format isn’t intended to become a dusty museum devoted exclusively to past glories, though there’ll certainly be some of that, we also want to highlight the brilliant new design work being produced right now.

In fact, we’re not setting ourselves up to supply a canon of classic design - this is a place where we record stuff we like, if you want yet another reproduction of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band there are enough ‘Greatest album covers of all time’ books out there already." - Justin and Colin, Hard Format.


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Nakkna



Nakkna is a Swedish fashion label based in Stockholm, Sweden. The Nakkna concept is built on a close and thematic creational strategy, where the starting points and ideas are formulated and defined through the personal and harmonised visions of the three designers.

They have pronounced ambition to evolve with contemporary expressions. Consequently, the designers work in close cooperation with artists, musicians, photographers, film makers and choreographers -particularly for the catwalk presentations that are essential to the Nakkna concept.


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Ralph McQuarrie Concept Paintings for Star Wars



A selection of Ralph McQuarrie's concept paintings and drawings done for the original Star Wars trilogy.


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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

[ REC ]



See the original version before the Hollywood-butchered remake.
Believe it.


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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Muxtape No.5



((( New selection )))

Tracklist
Akasha - Brown Sugar (WallOfSound)
Model 500 - Starlight (Metroplex)
Ellen Allien - Caress (BPitch)
Soundhack - Rodeo (MMM/Soundhack)
Minilogue - Cow, Crickets And Clay (Cocoon Recordings)
Loco Dice- Got Leaks In The Roof (Desolat)
Marco Carola - Cortortionist (Plus 8)
Apparat - Schallstrom (Thomas Fehlmann Remix) (Shitkatapult)
Will Saul & Tam Cooper - Tech Noir (Jamie Jones White Water Remix) (Simple)
Jay Haze - Inner Hurt (Tuning Spork)
Gui Boratto - Golden Axe (Cocoon Recordings)
Shocking Pinks - Dressed To Please (Nathan Fake Remix) (DFA/EMI)


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Common Projects




Sneakers are a man's best friend.


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Friday, June 13, 2008

I Love By®



Ironically funny, but nice to have it around on the sofa.


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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Space Collective



The future of everything. Where forward thinking terrestrials exchange ideas and information about the state of the species, the planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction today. The Gallery on the site has an extensive collection of visually stunning imagery collated from around the globe.


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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

ABC3D





For all typography geeks out there. Currently, what we see here is just a hand-made mockup of the actual popup book which will be published in October 2008.


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Joy Divison - The Documentary






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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Now Showing



40+ Creatives were given the task of creating their own interpretation of a cult, classic or obscure film poster from the past, whether it be a literal or abstract solution. The result is Now Showing, an art exhibition paying homage to more than 70 years of film, through the form of prints, one off screenprints and sculptures.


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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Akasha - Brown Sugar (1997)



Let me announce myself...
They call me Brown Sugar.
But to those who know me, I am love.


A fine downtempo/trip-hop single that I can always listen to and putting it on repeat mode. Taken from Akasha's 1997 debut LP, Cinematique. Les Rythmes Digitales (Jacques Lu Cont) & PFM also did an excellent rework on the original.


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The (Not So) Glamorous Life of Karlssonwilker



A feature on Karlssonwilker, this article appears in the current issue of CR (June).


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The biggest drawing in the world





Erik Nordenankar wanted to make the biggest drawing in the world. So he took a suitcase with a GPS tracking device and gave exact instructions to DHL of where to ship this suitcase and in what order. By tracking the device through 62 countries and six continents and recording the travel route on the map, Erik made a self portrait of himself. C'mon guys sponsor him, its a fucking brilliant idea.


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Monday, June 02, 2008

Mercedes vs. Digitalism




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Herbert Lubalin



A tribute to Herbert Lubalin, one of the most influential graphic designer and typographer in the 20th century. Think Avant Garde, Serif Gothic & Lubalin Graph.


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