Photo of the Day: Yoda Wins the 2011 World’s Ugliest Dog Contest
Yoda reaches out for her victory trophy after winning the 2011 World’s Ugliest Dog Contest on Friday, June 24, 2011, in Petaluma, Calif. A a 14-year-old Chinese Crested and Chihuahua mix, Yoda took home $1000 and a plethora of pet perks during the event at the Sonoma-Marin Fair. (Noah Berger / AP). Click to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Invisible Man Hits Manhattan
Chinese Liu Bolin stands hidden for a self-portrait at the Charging Bull in Lower Manhattan on June 23rd, 2011. Bolin is creating a series called “Hiding In The City” in which he camouflages himself against an urban background for a self-portrait. (Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal). Click to zoom.
3D Hand-made Models of Mountain Reliefs
Eduard Imhof (1895-1986) was professor of cartography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich from 1925 – 1965. His fame far beyond the Institute of Technology was based on his school maps and atlases. In 1995 it was 100 years since his birthday. On this occasion several exhibitions celebrated his life and work, among others in Zurich, Bern, Bad Ragaz, Küsnacht/ZH, Barcelona, Karlsruhe and Berlin. The last such exhibition took place in summer 1997 in the Graphische Sammlung of the ETH. There it was possible to show a large number of maps and pictures in the original. At the conclusion of the exhibition Imhof’s family bequested his original works to the ETH-Bibliothek Zurich. Mrs. Viola Imhof, the widow of Eduard Imhof, being very much attached to his work, had a major part in making it accessible to the public.
Eduard Imhof not only cartographed and drew the mountains, but also modeled them. The three relief models he made are on permanent display at the Swiss Alpine Museum in Bern, in the Naturwissenschaftlichen Sammlungen of the city of Winterthur and in the ETH-Hönggerberg (HIL-Gebäude). Continue reading »
Époque Chair: past eras of design, beautifully blended into a modern seat
Launching Époque, Eftwelve introduces a chair unique in form, dimensions and material.
The Époque is a fresh chair by Dutch designer Wybren van Keulen. The curves and sharp folds of this design reminisce of times passed. Époque brings together several eras of design, beautifully blended into a modern seat. Continue reading »
Ben Greenman’s Museum of Silly Charts
Ben Greenman is an author and editor at the New Yorker, who has been making infographics for an upcoming fiction project. Continue reading »
The Walking Portfolio
My name is Victoria Kalogerou and I’m a junior copywriter.
I’m currently looking for a job and to promote myself I created the Walking Portfolio, a combination of my love for walking and for advertising. A portfolio that allows people to interact with it!
Lesquatrestacions
‘Lesquatrestacions’ – otherwise ‘The Four Seasons’ – refers to the musical composition of the composer, Antonio Vivaldi. It is essentially a graphic interpretation of the four violin concertos that make this baroque masterpiece. To create ‘Lesquatrestacions’, we have designed a prototype – ‘SisTeMu’ – a graphic notation system which looks at interpreting musical texture.
http://www.motstudio.com/index.php?idWork=42
Death in Paris
Jag Diamonds is an installation for the luxury brand Jag Zoeppritz. This video mapping has been release for the “Nomads Days”, an artistic journey organize by the city of Paris.
Technic is video mapping on paper shapes. It plays with minimalist graphic design and a very colorful range. Purpose was to create a scene with geometric shapes having a lot of facets, where graphics and colors can wonder between them, giving life to a whole.
http://www.deathinparis.com
Photo of the Day: Skateboarding Afghan Style
A group of Afghan children have a go at skateboarding through the capital Kabul, to mark World Skateboarding Day. (AP). Click to zoom.
Limited edition art prints featured on ITV
Clare Shields, designer from London, creating and selling limited edition art prints with an illustrative style to them. The works are printed using fade resistant archival inks onto German Etching paper. They are limited to an edition of 30. The print titled “Wrapped Up in a Bow” will be featured on a home make-over segment of ITV’s This Morning, hosted by celebrity interior designer Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, on Wednesday 29th June. http://www.itv.com/this-morning Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Sick Fearless Bastard
“I took this in the middle of the night on Ed and Frans balcony. I loved both of the cats, but they were incredibly suicidal all the time. They actually fought and chased each other on this railing, and as you can see its pretty damn fucking high. My heart always skipped a beat when I saw them doing this, but Ed told me its OK. loco gatos potones!” Click to zoom.
By Crazy Ivory.
Fake Beverage Packages + Pedo Beer!
Absolutely funny and super-cool fake drinks packages created by Kalimulin Ilya, designer from Russia. DIY prints available for your pleasure! Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Riparian Ballroom
A canyoneer rappels into one of the most bizarre places on the Earth. A natural spring has slowly eroded out an enormous spherical riparian ballroom, an oasis deep in the Waterpocket Fold of Capitol Reef National Park, UT. Absolutely amazing, fantastic and astounding adventure photos by Dan Ransom. Click to zoom.
Photographer Simon Laveuve
Simon Laveuve, a 22 years old photographer from Paris, France. Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Riot Breaks Out After Game In Vancouver
VANCOUVER, BC – JUNE 15: Riot police walk in the street as a couple kiss on June 15, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver broke out in riots after their hockey team the Vancouver Canucks lost in Game Seven of the Stanley Cup Finals. (Picture: Getty Images). Click to zoom.
disperse 2011
“About the invites and poster. Our invitations this year are designed and made by our design team on campus featuring foil blocking and most notably laser-cut and engraved on the reverse. Our limited edition series of A1 posters are laser-cut on the GF Smith colorplan range with our logo.”
Disperse is an exhibition of work from the BA (Hons) Graphic Design students graduating this summer from the Arts University College at Bournemouth, England. Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Storm Trooper
An actor dressed as the Star Wars character Darth Vader waits in the rain to be photographed with tourists in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The tourists, meanwhile, have all taken shelter. (AP). Click to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Sliding Off
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND – JUNE 13: The remains of a damaged house at Shag Rock near Sumner after the cliff fell away during two magnitude 6.0 and 5.5 earthquakes struck on June 13, 2011 in Christchurch, New Zealand. The aftershocks have followed four months after the major eathquake which hit the city on February 22, 2011 resulting in the deaths of 181 people. (Photo by Martin Hunter/Getty Images). Click to zoom.
Internet K-hole: the Best Photo Blog You’ve ever Seen!
Absolutely amazing! Fantastic! Terrible! “Internet K-hole” is the best photo blog I’ve ever seen. Take a deep breath and welcome back in 70th, 80th and 90th. From colledge parties to university messes, from oldies and early punk-rockers to the mobs and oldskool rap-stars, from your moms and dads to your pals. Most of these photos were made of amateur photographers.
Photo of the Day: Mother & Cub
Spotted hyena cub (Crocuta crocuta), sitting next to resting guardian, Masai Mara, Kenya. Photo credits: Elliott Neep. Click to zoom.
A Crime-Fighting Armored Glove
Inventor and Founder, Dave Brown, was originally inspired to develop The BodyGuard 9XI out of concern about wild animal attacks around his Southern California home. An avid hiker, David was distressed when he learned that two female mountain bikers had been mauled by a cougar on one of his favorite trails. It became apparent later that night that the same mountain lion that attacked the women had earlier killed 36 year-old mountain biker, Mark Reynolds. To protect himself against such animal attacks, Brown began inventing The BodyGuard.
It is equipped with a video camera and a stun gun to keep criminals at bay. For police and corrections officers, preventing and defusing confrontations can save lives, and that’s the premise behind the BodyGuard.
Firefox Markup
http://vimeo.com/24856024
Recently Mozilla Firefox launched Mark Up, an interactive online project that allows visitors to sign their name in support of the open Web. Anyone can contribute a mark, which are connected and visualized in an interactive HTML 5 experience. The project, done in collaboration with Evan Roth, creator of Graffiti Markup Language (GML), aligns with Mozilla’s belief that the Web is a shared public resource.
How it works:
– mark Up captures contributors’ marks using GML and mouse input, and then connects each individual mark end-to-end in a single line, beautifully rendered in 3D space. Visitors are able to browse, pan, zoom, rotate and sort animated marks.
– the 3D visualization is open-source and GML data will be made available for public use.
