Possibly one of the smoothest running projects I’ve worked on for a long time, my Milan Style home page re-design has now gone live! An up and coming luxury menswear site covering brands such as McQueen and Rick Owens, Milan Style needed a home page that reflected the quality of its product. With plenty of white space, and a clean gridded structure the new home page design allows the product to shine, while keeping information clear. As a side project I also provided guides for a soft re-design of the remaining areas of the site, so check back for updates on when those go live too!
Beautiful animation created by Globaïa for the short film ‘Welcome to the Anthropocene’, a commission for the Planet Under Pressure conference. Showing every road, flight path and shipping route in the world you know from the start its going to be pretty spectacular. Watching the rotating globe is strangely hypnotic, but my favourite part of the video is when they remove the earth to show an ‘elastic band ball’ of our travel paths. Although I do find it very similar to the BBC’s ‘Every Death On Every Road’ project (which you can see here), as it’s gone a step further I can overlook that…
You can read more about this project here, and see more of Globaïa’s work here
Following on from Microsoft’s ‘Productivity Future Vision‘ video late last year (which you can see in my post here) this is Google’s version of how the future will play out with their ‘Project Glass‘. Here’s how The Guardian described it -
“The video, ominously titled “One Day …” depicts what a day in the life of a Google glasses-wearer would be like. Shown literally through the eyes of a hip downtown New Yorker, the video starts with the glasses booting up. A series of icons flash into his field of vision, Terminator-style. He checks his calendar and the weather, chats and shares photos with friends in his circles (remember that week we were all active on Google+?) and listens to music.”
Personally the guy in the video annoys me a little, and the idea of that being the future scares me a little more, but all in all an interesting concept and a nicely made video to promote it. I can’t help but think it’ll be a bit like most of the products they used to show on ‘Tomorrow’s World’ though, that never actually made it into public consumption…
As I missed this exhibition (by nearly a year…) it’s nice that they took the time to film themselves flicking through the work shown. I think it’ll be a while before I come across a showcase of such intricate print work, and it’s especially nice to see some of it being constructed & deconstructed. So here you have it, a permanent digital version you can peruse whenever you have a spare 30mins, lovely!
Transfixing fashion short by Callum Cooper for Klezinski. With some clever apparatus & camera work you’re taken 360 around the rope jumping models. No idea how he did it, but it looks good!
Combining the latest in 3-dimensional prototyping technology with sublime typographic art, johnson banks have created Arkitypo: 26 letters, or 26 typographic sculptures, each exploring the character and history of an individual font.
The Arkitypo project developed as a collaboration with digital media and design college Ravensbourne, and acts as a showcase for the college’s prototyping skills and technology. The result is sheer visual delirium, from the “fractalised” Akzidenz Grotesk via the lace-like pipework of Johnston to the Vorticist collision of Zig Zag. Arkitypo took over six months to complete, and was the product of considerable research and practical experiment. And when examined in complete rotation, the results are all the more surprising and inspiring.
Whiling away an hour or so on Youtube over the weekend Nike’s ‘Tag’ ad came up in the side bar and reminded me how much I liked it. I’m not sure I ever saw it on TV, I think it came on one of Creative Reviews annual round up DVDs (?), but it’s still one of my favourite adverts of all time. When I was looking for a decent quality version to add into the post I also came across a version with alternate music, which made me appreciate how well suited the final soundtrack was…
For good measure I’ve also added in their ‘What if we treated all atheletes like skateboarders’ advert. Not as memorable as Tag, but well worth a mention.
Nice project by Pentagram matching colours to moods. The booklet contains various coloured pages, with the mood they represent displayed typographically. Skim down the closed book to the colour you’re feeling and open it to find out what mood you’re in!
Here’s their description -
“Today I’m Feeling Turquoise” is an attempt to do something that should have been done a long time ago: pairing up colours with their respective moods.
Because everyone knows that red means anger, green envy, and blue misery. But who knew that olive was the colour of deja-vu, brown the colour of indifference, or pink of laughing on the outside, crying on the inside?
No matter how much the sceptics go on about BA jumping on the Olympic bandwagon (despite them being sponsors), Terminal 5 losing luggage or Jim Rosenthal being a football/F1 commentator, I like this ad. It’s fun, engaging and the next time it comes on I’ll happily watch it again. I can’t say the same for most of the ads out there…
Possibly one of the smoothest running projects I’ve worked on for a long time, my Milan Style home page re-design has now gone live! An up and coming luxury menswear site covering brands such as McQueen and Rick Owens, Milan Style needed a home page that reflected the quality of its product. With plenty of white space, and a clean gridded structure the new home page design allows the product to shine, while keeping information clear. As a side project I also provided guides for a soft re-design of the remaining areas of the site, so check back for updates on when those go live too!