Made this logoish thingy for Bass Festival which was Basso Festival but became Bass Festival to become Bass Line Festival, uuh? But,yeah at this point it was Bass Festival.
‘Design’
Bike by Normann Copenhagen
May 2nd, 2010
It’s been far too long since the last post. Have moved my office to a new location etc. Here’s a quick one. Found this bike by Normann Copenhagen. It’s a clean one. Even though singlepeeds feels to be around every corner and under every other bikehead these days, this one’s still kinda fresh. Bike.
Papier
March 5th, 2010
Papier is a travel bag made out of synthetic paper and is fully recyclable. How about that? Not only a great idea, but a nice and simple design as well.
Gestalten TV
January 3rd, 2010
Die Gestalten Verlag is not only putting out the most interesting and wide variety of books on design, illustration etc. They now also deliver podcast on the same subjects. One of the latest is about Dieter Rams one of the most influential designer of our times.
Devil’s Tuning Fork
January 3rd, 2010
Devil’s Tuning Fork is a game developed by a group of students for the Independent Games Festival. They had six months to develop the whole thing and the result seems interesting. You can download it for free. Only for Windows though.
What if you saw the world with your ears? Devil’s Tuning Fork is a first-person exploration/puzzle game in which the player must navigate an unknown world using visual sound waves. Inspired by M.C. Escher’s classic optical illusion and the echolocation of dolphins, The Devil’s Tuning Fork allows the player to explore a new mode of perception through sound visualization.
As a mysterious epidemic causes children everywhere to fall into comas, one child wakes up in an alternate reality. It is up to this child, the player, to determine the cause of the epidemic and save the other children trapped here. By way of the devil’s tuning fork, a magical instrument that allows the player to perceive sound waves, the player must find all the children and successfully escape this alternate reality, thereby waking up from the coma.
Bike EXIF
December 29th, 2009
Inspired by yesterdays post, I went looking for some bikes and stumbled upon this. Bike EXIF is about bikes and shooting bikes. It’s currated by Chris Hunter. A Creative Director out of Sydney, who delivers some very nice images of some very nice bikes. Me myself wouldn’t mind an 70′s Japanese, maybe one like in the image above. A Honda CL 350 (cafe racer), heavily customized. Probably never will get one though, as I don’t have a license either.
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The Times Magazine
December 18th, 2009
From The New York Times:
Once again, The Times Magazine looks back on the past year from our favored perch: ideas. Like a magpie building its nest, we have hunted eclectically, though not without discrimination, for noteworthy notions of 2009 — the twigs and sticks and shiny paper scraps of human ingenuity, which, when collected and woven together, form a sort of cognitive shelter, in which the curious mind can incubate, hatch and feather. Unlike birds, we can also alphabetize. And so we hereby present, from A to Z, the most clever, important, silly and just plain weird innovations we carried back from all corners of the thinking world. To offer a nonalphabetical option for navigating the entries, this year we have attached tags to each item indicating subject matter. We hope you enjoy.
Helsinki wake up!
December 15th, 2009
While riding your bike in Helsinki, you’re in a constant danger of getting overrun by a car, bus or truck. The infrastructure just sucks big time. There is a horrible lack of bike lanes and that’s not very encouraging. Another big problem is the attitude amongst car drivers. It’s all about the survival of the bigger and more aggressive. A complete lack of respect for pedestrians and cyclists. So Helsinki wake up! Check out Copenhagen for inspiration. There 37% of the commuters travels by bike, which is great compared to our 6.8%. With climate change the biggest topic of the century and being appointed World Design Capital of 2012, it would be a great time for the City of Helsinki to step forward and do something. For more inspiration check out Cycle Chic or Copenhagenize. Fixies are a fad, bicycling is a mode of transport
Decode
December 10th, 2009
Decode: Digital Design Sensations showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. The exhibition includes works by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin, Troika and Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition features both existing works and new commissions created especially for the exhibition.
The V&A has commissioned Karsten Schmidt to design a digital identity for the Decode exhibition using open source code. They are giving you the opportunity to recode Karsten’s work and create your own original artwork. If they love your work it could even become the new Decode identity.
Happy coding. 8 December 2009 – 11 January 2010. As it happens to be, I’m in London during this time. Must go see.
Design goodness
December 3rd, 2009
Here’s one of the coolest little synthesizers/controllers i’ve seen in a while. It’s designed by Teenage Engineers from Sweden and is called OP-1. Found through It’s Nice That.
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