«So, you’re saying that it will take 2 days to complete this illustration. If we give you the project today, can we have it tomorrow afternoon at half the price?»
«Can you make a mirror in photoshop?»
«So I shared your rough design concepts with my wife’s childbirthing class to get their feedback…»
«We really don’t like web as a medium. Can you please force our sites visitors to print out a copy of every page? We want our page to be more tangible.»
«You’re the designer, Why do you need information from me?»
«See this Myspace page, I want our website to look like that. Can you also make it play music? You can take away the stop button, I’ve seen it done before.»
«I want my website to look exactly like yours. That would be perfect. Except I want my own logo—exactly like this company’s.»
«No, I said that everything on the site should be in all caps. That’s how important the message is.»
«Could you make my website fit a A4 paper? And please, no scrolling, visitors get confused when they have to scroll.»
«Looks fine, would suggest changing the font to, say, comic sans possibly?»
Spanish designer Oscar Diaz has designed a calendar that uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the date.
Each month, a bottle of coloured ink spreads across a sheet of paper embossed with numbers, colouring them in as it goes.
Ink Calendar will be exhibited at an exhibition called Sueños de un Grifo – Diseño con Alma de Agua that opens at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid today.
TITLE : INK CALENDAR
DESIGNER: Oscar Diaz ( http://www.oscar-diaz.net)
DIMENSIONS: 420 X 595 mm
MATERIALS: Paper and ink.
Project Description
Ink Calendar make use of the timed pace of the ink spreading on the paper to indicate time. The ink is absorbed slowly, and the numbers in the calendar are ‘printed ‘ daily. One a day, they are filled with ink until the end of the month. The calendar enhances the perception of time passing and not only signaling it. The aim of the project is to address our senses, rather than the logical and conscious brain.
The ink colors are based on a spectrum, which relate to a “color temperature scale”, each month having a color related to our perception of the weather on that month. The colors range from dark blue in December to three shades of green in spring or orange and red in the summer.
Ink Calendar is shown as part of SUEÑOS DE UN GRIFO.
Diseño con alma de agua at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
Curated by Hector Serrano (http://www.hectorserrano.com) and Javier Esteban, the exhibition explores the role that objects may have in our dialogue with water from different points of view.
On view until October 11, 2009, the exhibition has been organized by ddi (Sociedad Estatal para el Desarrollo del Diseño y la Innovación, and Círculo de Bellas Artes ( http://www.circulobellasartes.com) in Madrid, where is being held.
When: 17 July – 11 October 2009
Where: Sala Juana Mordó, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
Yup, i know, its not a new movie at all, but common, its sooo cute!
“Stephane, Stephanie: clic clak, matsch-match”
hihihihi
The Science of Sleep” is a film that very cleverly relates sleep and dreams into reality. In this film you experience editing and camera tricks that make you confused about what is real and what is just a dream.
Everyone has experienced this before, waking up from a dream and thinking either you are still in the dream or that you never were dreaming it was real so you end up saying something stupid to the closest person. This film is able to make you feel the haze-like state where the lines of reality and imagination is nothing but a blur.
Zum fünften Mal lobt das ZVAB den mit 25.000 Euro dotierten ‘ZVAB-PHÖNIX
- der Kunstpreis für Nachwuchskünstler’ aus. “Der ZVAB-PHÖNIX zielt darauf
ab, wahrhaft talentierte KünstlerInnen, die den Durchbruch noch vor sich
haben und noch nicht auf dem Kunstmarkt etabliert sind, durch Ankauf von
Kunst in Höhe von 25.000 Euro zu fördern. Die Preisträger werden zudem durch
die fortwährende Ausstellung ihrer Werke, Pressearbeit und langfristige
Begleitung ihrer Aktivitäten unterstützt. Diese hohe und nachhaltige
Förderung macht den Preis so einzigartig”, sagt Richard von Rheinbaben,
Aufsichtratsvorsitzender der mediantis AG.
Bewerben können sich KünstlerInnen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum oder
Deutsche, die sich im Ausland befinden. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 15.05.09.
Zugelassen sind Werke der Bildenden Kunst. Nähere Informationen zum Preis
und den Teilnahmebedingungen können auf www.zvab.com eingesehen oder direkt
bei der ZVAB Kunstbeauftragten Dr. Barbara Haubold per Mail an
barbara.haubold@zvab.com angefordert werden.
Procrastination from TutoxNet on Vimeo.The Seed is an animated journey through the life of an apple seed. The animation was funded by Adobe through their agency of record, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. In a nutshell, John Kelly was given free reign to create a piece to promote their new version of software, Adobe CS4.Story and direction : Johnny Kelly
Production manager: Jo Bierton
2D animation: Michael Zauner
3D animation: Eoin Coughlan
Paper modeler: Elin Svensson
Assisted by: Anna Benner
Stop frame DOP: Micolaj Jarosewicz
Stop frame animation: Matthew Cooper
Compositing: Alasdair Brotherston
Music: Jape
Sound supervisor: Mike Wyeld
Foley artist: Sue Harding
Executive producers: Charlotte Bavasso, Chris O’Reilly
Producer: Christine Ponzevera
Agency: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Creative director: Keith Anderson
Associate Creative Director: Tony Stern
Associate Creative Director: Frank Aldorf
Art director: Johan Arlig
Copywriter: Steve Payonzeck
Art director: Karishma Mehta
Copywriter: Gregory Lane
Interactive Producer: Stella Wong
Art Buyer: Jenny Tai
Never underestimate the power of simple office supplies. Post-It Notes come in many vibrant colors and provide everything from a building block for engaging sculptures to a collection of blank slates for interactive community art projects. Here are 16 projects that involve covering, cladding, sculpting and decorating with simply sticky pieces of paper.
Do you suppose the owner of this vehicle was entertained or furious when he came back to find his car plastered in bright pink, blue, purple and green sticky notes? It might not be high art but it certainly makes a pop impression Warhol may have admired.
It’s almost hard to look at this incredibly vibrant wall of notes without your vision swimming somewhat. The stark contrast between the wall and the rest of the room creates a surreal backdrop an otherwise ordinary space.
There’s no reason that this kind of art needs to be limited to non-representational forms. In this case the artists playfully took advantage of multiple stories of glass frontage to create a nifty illusion recalling a classic video game that appears both day and night.
If Donkey Kong, then why not Ray Charles and Elvis as well? Once you get started with this kind of art there really aren’t many limitations, particularly at a larger scale and from a distance. The outcome is predictable but the effect is nonetheless interesting.
Post-It projects also don’t have to simply be interesting things to look at. In this case, passers by were encouraged to contribute to the wall by writing their to-do lists and leaving them in place for all to see – a kind of civic group exercise in sharing and organization.
Taking things a step further, each note can become a blank slate, a simple and small canvass that can be individualized at a limited scale and then begins to form accidental visual patterns when viewed from a distance.
But why stop there? Why not just plaster everything in notes like Rebecca Murtaugh has done in the photograph above? She didn’t stop with the living room, either, but also covered her bedroom and various other furniture objects.
It may be a bit too much if your boss catches you, but you don’t necessarily have to stick to posting over your own furniture and spaces. Still, smothering an office with sticky notes is at least a good alternative to staring at the clock waiting for the day to end, right?
So you have the theory down, now there are a few other creative ways to put this art into practice. Since Post-Its are simple to use, compact and easy to rearrange they make perfect material to form the basis of a stop-motion animation film such as the one above.This one shows the creation of a Post-It piece in progress.Even marketers have considered ways to get in on the action.
Lisa Mettier alias "gschpaenli" is a graphic design student from Switzerland.
She's also organizing the electro-parties «Killer» and «Much Love»
and is the manager of the international producer-duo Cryptonites.
In late 2009 Lisa established the fashionshow «Kostume», together with Jonas Hegi
