Virgin Atlantic have launched a beverage service for their long haul flights and needed a series of logos that were capable of doubling as pattern for their beverage packs. Each stain contains a discreet skyline of a popular Virgin destination.
Monday, 3 September 2007
Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Atlantic have launched a beverage service for their long haul flights and needed a series of logos that were capable of doubling as pattern for their beverage packs. Each stain contains a discreet skyline of a popular Virgin destination.
Cats let nothing darken their roar
A brilliant, witty and clever 2006 calendar from Spanish designer Noa Bembibre. Incredably eye catching and unique it instantly grabbed my attention.
Accept and Proceed
An A1 hand printed graphic diagram that charts average rainfall in the UK between 1971-2000. As you can see on the image above, the graph itself is styled to look a little like a downpour of rain. The bars are plotted directly over the weather station's that they related to, which also gives an abstracted map of the UK.
Accept & Proceed is a design and art direction facility providing print and interactive design for a wide range of sectors including music, fashion, and advertising. Other interesting work from them includes the production of two posters, which are graphic representations of the hours of light and hours of dark during 2007.
“In order to give the piece commercial longevity I decided it best to create a design that would last the year round, explains Johnston. “I worked on the project with designer Stephen Heath, and after much discussion between the two of us we decided upon the idea of producing two posters, which would be graphic representations of the hours of light and hours of dark during 2007.
“As we were dealing with light and dark, the designs use only B&W inks and stocks, although it also seemed fitting to include a phosfluorescent overprint which also shows the information in the dark. After discussing and agreeing the concept, the team looked at different ways to represent statistics for the hours. The posters were designed in Adobe Illustrator and screen printed by hand at K2 Screen in London."
The concept is so strong that the project will continue, with Accept & Proceed producing an annual monochrome representation of the hours of light and dark in the coming years.
Visit London
I came across this work on the Creative Review online blog. Designer Oscar Wilson has produced a set of typographic illistrations for the Visit London advertising campaign with a goal to bring mor visitora to London's famous areas, attractions and events. The work, commissioned by agency RKCR/Y&R, can be seen on buses and tubes throughout the city.
Things you can do in the regents Park area of London
Camdens famous nightlife
St Pauls
London's Southbank
Each image is composed from multiple lines of hand-drawn copy, which includes the names of famous places and pursuits. The use of vibrant colours set against a black background create bold images which instantly catch the eye and deliever a sense of excitment about the capital.
Things you can do in the regents Park area of London
Camdens famous nightlife
St Pauls
London's Southbank
Each image is composed from multiple lines of hand-drawn copy, which includes the names of famous places and pursuits. The use of vibrant colours set against a black background create bold images which instantly catch the eye and deliever a sense of excitment about the capital.
Sunday, 2 September 2007
Zara Hadid
I also saw the exhibition of Zaha Hadid, Architecture and design whilst visiting the London Design Museum.
Zaha Hadid is an Iraqi born British citizen based in London. She has lived in London since 1972, when she left Baghdad to study at the Architecture Association. Hadid is the only female architect to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture and is also becoming increasingly involved in furniture-related projects, teaming up with London based electronics engineer Moritz Waldemayer to sculpt a Corian kitchen for the 21st century.
The exhibition is the first full scale show of Zaha Hadid’s work in the UK. It is also one of the largest projects undertaken by the Design Museum, spread over two floors of galleries, and focuses on the recent extraordinarily productive period in Hadid’s work.
Sir Terence Conran talks about the Zara Hadid exhibition in The Design Issue of The Observer Magazine, 'In her work nothing ever seems to be at a right angle. It's intensely sculptural, and completley confounds what architect Jean Pouvre said: 'Never design anything that you don't know how to make' - it seems to me the Zara has done exactly the opposite..I find her full of imagination." ( Interview with Ian Tucker, 'Designers' London.' 2 September 2007.)
Here are a few images from the exhibition:
Zaha’s Vortexx chandelier was designed in 2005 for Italian lighting brand Sawaya & Moroni and represents an “infinite ribbon of light”. The exhibition text says: “The curved lines conjure up a double helix that appears to flow in perpetual motion. The chandelier is made from fibreglass and acrylic, finished in car paint with a recessed LED light source by Zumtobel.”
This model of the forthcoming Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre is probably the most interesting and spectacular models in the show. Architecturally the project - which was announced earlier this year - marks a new direction for Hadid. “As it winds through the site, the architecture increases in complexity, building up height and depth and achieving multiple summits in the bodies housing the performance spaces, which spring from the structure like fruits on a vine and face westward, toward the water,” explains Hadid.
Zaha Hadid is an Iraqi born British citizen based in London. She has lived in London since 1972, when she left Baghdad to study at the Architecture Association. Hadid is the only female architect to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture and is also becoming increasingly involved in furniture-related projects, teaming up with London based electronics engineer Moritz Waldemayer to sculpt a Corian kitchen for the 21st century.
The exhibition is the first full scale show of Zaha Hadid’s work in the UK. It is also one of the largest projects undertaken by the Design Museum, spread over two floors of galleries, and focuses on the recent extraordinarily productive period in Hadid’s work.
Sir Terence Conran talks about the Zara Hadid exhibition in The Design Issue of The Observer Magazine, 'In her work nothing ever seems to be at a right angle. It's intensely sculptural, and completley confounds what architect Jean Pouvre said: 'Never design anything that you don't know how to make' - it seems to me the Zara has done exactly the opposite..I find her full of imagination." ( Interview with Ian Tucker, 'Designers' London.' 2 September 2007.)
Here are a few images from the exhibition:
Zaha’s Vortexx chandelier was designed in 2005 for Italian lighting brand Sawaya & Moroni and represents an “infinite ribbon of light”. The exhibition text says: “The curved lines conjure up a double helix that appears to flow in perpetual motion. The chandelier is made from fibreglass and acrylic, finished in car paint with a recessed LED light source by Zumtobel.”
This model of the forthcoming Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre is probably the most interesting and spectacular models in the show. Architecturally the project - which was announced earlier this year - marks a new direction for Hadid. “As it winds through the site, the architecture increases in complexity, building up height and depth and achieving multiple summits in the bodies housing the performance spaces, which spring from the structure like fruits on a vine and face westward, toward the water,” explains Hadid.
Friday, 31 August 2007
My Cuppa Tea
A quirky mug produced by Suck UK, 'my cuppa tea'. The Pantone-esque shades offer visual matches with "milky", "classic British", "builder's brew" and "just tea". Allowing the user to specify their prefered pantone colour of tea.
A similar concept was used a few years ago by British designer Onkar Singh Kular. He produced pantone tea mugs, in 128 shades of brown - from beige to builder's. Whenever a relative or colleague makes tea for the mug owner, they will be able to tell from the colour of the mug exactly how strong it should be and how much milk to add.
Onkar Singh Kular' objective is to create objects which can exist as comfortably in a gallery as in a high street homeware catalogue.
Domestic Violence
As i was looking for information about the website 'What Noise?' which i have previously talked about, i came across a piece of direct mail created by the same agency, Kenetic.
The direct mailer shows the unforgettable scars that are left on the victims of domestic violence. The inner pages are glues together so when the resipient flips open the booklet to find out more, they tear off parts of the victims face, simulating the lives torn apart by domestic violence.
An interesting use of direct mail. Simple and effective.
2006 PAVE
The direct mailer shows the unforgettable scars that are left on the victims of domestic violence. The inner pages are glues together so when the resipient flips open the booklet to find out more, they tear off parts of the victims face, simulating the lives torn apart by domestic violence.
An interesting use of direct mail. Simple and effective.
2006 PAVE
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