Want some glasses that liven it up a bit. This is a ingenious idea used to describe the content of kitchen glasses. Thanks to designer Damjan Stanković, the code can be deciphered if one pour in the right content. Wonder it the idea of color coding like this could be used other places…
In the beginning of may Grafill hosted the Visuelt day’s filled with inspiration for creative people. During these days the winners of the Visuelt competition are announced. The competition is open for creative professionals in Norway, and has a wide range of categories. All of the work is amazing and it’s hard to pick something to show. So after looking trough everything the alphabet by Byggstudio and a MTV promo by Anti are what stuck to my mind the best.
Click here to go to the site to see all the winners.
A total of 31 companies and agencies now have bragging rights after the Norwegian Design Council has awarded it´s 2010 winners. Two of the winners were the So-ro – Cradle and Destinasjon Voss´ Corporate identity.
The So-ro Cradle is elegant and smart, with a double functionality. It follows a trend that baby accessories are one of the best ways for parents to show off themselves and their kid. One of the positive outcomes from this trend is that not everything is sugar-sweet anymore, retro is easier to find and that the products evolve faster. Like the case of the So-ro cradle.
Destination Voss is a tourism campaign promoting the Norwegian west coast town of Voss. Already having a renown Extreme sports week, it promotes itself as a place for people with special interests. Something that fits in well with the people from Voss. By taking their own quirkiness and turning it in to something positive they’ve made a campaign that is easy to understand, and people seeking something a little different in understand they can find it at Destination Voss.
The Ornamo and Grafia Finnish Designer Awards 2010 winners are out, and in the category for graphic design it was Sami Kortemäki came out on top. He is one of the founders of Underware, a font design company. I know that a few of his fonts have been used in my work. Good to see that something often overlooked gets acknowledged. Finding the right font can be as hard as getting the right photo, each font has personality and it has to work together with the rest of the design. Kudos to Sami (and Underware), keep the fonts flowing.
All the winners: Ornamo and Grafia Finnish Designer Awards 2010
Samis company: Underware website
Thanks to a blogpost on My Modern Met I found a photographer that sees things a little differently. Catching scenes from everyday life in just the right moment, getting the composition just right and the light just right. Basically getter the photo just right. By using humor his pictures have an uplifting spirit. I’m sure some of us see situations like these and a lot of us overlook situations like these, but capturing them as he does is pure gold.
Check out Elliott Erwitt’s photos and I’m sure you’ll agree.
SMFB won two gold at Kreativ Forum’s awardshow, Gullblyanten, with this campaign for a diaper deal. I have to take my hat of for these guys. In a time when commercials for diapers far to often use cute babies, it’s fun to see a different approach to the target group. Is there any reason that “cute” is the accepted universal baby language? Recently there has been discussed that babies are an accessory to show a successful life. Baby clothing has sky rocketed and there is a need for the babies to show of their parents coolness. Toddlers in Ramones body’s doesn’t raise eyebrows anymore. The kid has to who attitude and coolness. It’s never to early to be a hipster.
This also shows something else. That parents don’t necessarily want to be in the “cute” category. Either it is the memory of a time before kids, when they were young and reckless, or it is finally being talked to in a different way, these commercials work.
The sentence at the end reads: Suddenly you need every fourth pack of diapers free.
SND posted the results of their 31st annual creative competition. In the category of Worlds best designed newspapers Germany got two awards and the US go one. The winning newspapers were: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Freitag and New York Times. Congratulations!
Check out the SND website for all the winners in each category.
OK Go have done it again. The men behind the famous treadmill video step it up to a new level. An amazing video, that I will have to watch more than once in order to see everything that is going on. Just one small question. Could you listen to the lyrics while you were watching this? I couldn’t. I was looking for the next ting to roll, crash or explode. The default skeptic in me started thinking: Is this music good enough, without the visual effects?
This reminds me of an interview with Louise Kahn, lead singer of Terry Poison, when I asked her about their famous live performances.
“Nobody want to listen to bands that play crap music, even if they deliver a good live show. It works the other way around also, if a band is really good at making music nobody will go to their concerts if they are boring live. There are a lot of wünder-geek-musicians out there that make really good music, but it’s music for the few. We want to make music for the many.”
It’s a good thing that artist start thinking about branding themselves. Times are changing and it’s time to learn to swim. Madonna is now signed to Live Nation, a live-events company not a record company. If this trend continues we’ll see more touring and less bands sitting in a studio just putting out albums.
On another note this video shows the return to simple mechanics in visualization. We’ve all seen Avatar and high-tech CGI stuff, and as all trends it is followed by a counterweight. Think of the Google Chrome video, Honda Cog video or The Mighty Boosh. The trend now seems to be making things simple again. To put time and effort into projects seems to be something people want to watch.