Ever wonder what life would be like if all our apps suddenly disappeared? Enter the App-ocalypse.

Darkly playful video by London based Motion designer and director Michael Marczewski showing some poor, autonomous robots being pushed to their limits.

You can see more of Michael Marczewski’s work at www.michaelm.tv
And you can watch the ‘making of’ video here

Music by Marcus Olsson

Experiment #2 from my new series of explorations into light and sound. This time looking at the satisfying sound of analogue camera mechanisms from 1920’s–1970’s.

There’s something quite beautiful about getting real mechanical feedback when using a camera, something I miss a little bit more every time I take a picture these days. Ironically though, I shot the footage on my phone…

All of the snippets can be seen on my Instagram here: instagram.com/tomwalshdesign

An edited down version of a 2004 personal project into light and memory that I’m thinking of revisiting. Watch this space…

Lovely work from Imaginary Forces for Netflix’s latest cult show ‘Stranger Things’. By pairing 70’s type classics Benguiat (Ed Benguiat) and Avant Garde (Herb Lubalin) they’ve managed to use two of my possible all-time favourite typefaces by two of my type design heroes, and more importantly, made them work.

Inspired by Stephen King novel covers, which the show’s creators Matt and Ross Duffer sent to Imaginary Forces as reference, the sequence fills you with intrigue and unease. Perfectly setting the tone for the show to follow.

I think what I like about it most is the abstract details from Benguiat fading and pulsing throughout the background, showing the beauty of the typeface is in all of its fine details, before effortlessly blending together at the end. This, with the contrast of Avant Garde in the foreground, makes for what can only be described as type porn. Something rarely seen in such a commercial project, but I’m glad it made it through!

You can see more of Imaginary Forces work on their site here

A lovely, and darkly comedic stop-frame animation from Dutch Director Nina Gantz telling the tale of ‘Edmond’. Having won awards including a BAFTA for short animation, and the Short Film Jury Award at this year’s Sundance film festival its clear I’m not the only one to appreciate it. The soft, friendly aesthetic, coupled with the dark story of love and cannibalism make it both mesmerising and beautiful.

Directed by Nina Gantz
Produced by Emilie Jouffroy

An amazing book/sculpture piece from American visual artist Tauba Auerbach. Created in collaboration with New York-based independent bookstore Printed Matter, its made up of six die cut paper ‘pop-up book’ style sculptures, creating a truly interactive experience for the ‘reader’.

Video shot by director Sam Fleischner.

See more of Tauba Auerbach’s projects here

Discover the LuxDeco Style Guide – a 92-page complimentary, interactive publication created to give you all the inspiration, tips and pieces you need to transform your home. Request your copy to access key spring/summer looks, exclusive pieces, inspiring tastemakers and practical style notes.

Read more about this project here

And order your free copy here

Lovely animated typography piece by DJA to launch Karen Walker’s first set of fragrances. Embodying Karen’s signature eccentric energy the film brings the neon titles of each of the three fragrances to life. DJA describe it as:

“Channeling the upbeat, irreverent spirit of the Op Art movement, a bold, graphic approach to packaging for Karen Walker’s fragrance debut ABC.”

If you’re not already aware of The Noun Project, you should be. It’s one of those sites you think should have always existed, and wonder why it took so long to arrive. Launched in 2010 by husband-and-wife team of Edward Boatman and Sofya Polyakov, along with designer Scott Thomas, the site allows members to upload icons for others to download. They describe it as –

Creating, Sharing and Celebrating the World’s Visual Language

Its a simple concept, but one with multiple uses. From my own experience I’ve been uploading icons on and off for the last two–three years (and being paid monthly for downloads), but from digging a little deeper into their blog there’s a whole other aspect to it. The ‘Nouns’ on their site have also been used for education and signage systems, like their ‘Iconathons’ where they aim to “add to the public domain a set of graphic symbols that can be used to easily communicate concepts frequently needed in civic design.

If you fancy having a look around, or even uploading/downloading some icons, you can take a look at thenounproject.com

Or if you’d like to take a look at my icon collection you can see them on my page at thenounproject.com/tomwalshdesign