A promotional coca cola light can, as reimagined by somewhat famous shoe designer Manolo Blahnik.
These cans were distributed rather liberally in Akateeminen Kirjakauppa during the recent night of the arts. Picked one up, just in case (and was anyway short of soda for Saturday morning).
Thus far I’ve had no need to own anything by him, and I’m unlikely to change my opinion based on this object.
New subject matter.
Elegant design.
No symbols related to global conspiracies.
And most importantly, the bills can actually be told apart by color.
The Facebook version of Scrabble has a pretty tight grip on the “bad UX of the year”. An unavoidable 30 second wait with a small and inappropriate advertisement is not really the way to encourage returning to the game often. Double annoyment demerits on account of the game status not being visible outside the application.
Quite a few pictures feature the greatest notebook in the world.
Task-specific notebooks from Moleskine.
On one had the idea of having a diary for movies or wine feels like overkill, on the other it just gives a good reason to take notes for the upcoming months and years.
Olympic pictograms through the ages (or from 1936 onwards).
A grand total of ONE new quarter on this trip.
While the Alaska coin is stylish, I certainly have to step up the acquisition process.
The concept of the periodic table has been applied to desserts, awesome and many other things besides.
Its use as a basis for typographical map is nowhere near as far-fetched.
As exquisite visualizations go, Wallstats take on the U.S. Budget ranks high.
Oddly enough, their other creations (such as the 389 Years of Black History) are hard to find.
The blog, on the other hand, thankfully isn’t.
Should I worry when a description of a papercamp is among the most interesting things recently discovered?
Because the world needs more concepts rendered in the style of the best subway maps.
Ministry of Type. The world needs more quality blogs on typography.
Dark Lord of logos is a short, lucid and altogether pleasant interview of Cristophe Szpajdel, the man who has designed thousands of logos for metal bands to which especially the last adjective on the list cannot really be applied.
The logos are surprisingly clean, nicely symmetric, and occasionally packed with detail. But I’m pretty sure that after 7000+ takes, the inspiration is occasionally hard to come by.
Marginatus-logo, featured alongside doesn’t show any inclination of any fatigue, and includes a bonus heavy metal umlaut for additional street cred.
[ Via kasa. ]
Movie posters that list all products placed in the film. Sex and the City absent, the canvas used is simply not big enough without resorting to a microscopic font size.
It’d been a long while since last perusal of demotivators at Despair Inc.. The new set for 2009 seemingly isn’t out yet, but a beautiful (and not very cynical at all) t-shirt is. Time to check out the rest of the wares, this multi-flavored product on blogging would definitely come in useful every once in a while as a reality anchor.
Gary Hustwit’s Helvetica was my last movie of this year’s Rakkautta&Anarkiaa-festival.
Yes. It’s about a font. And no, there are no action scenes.
Nope, just interviews, some of them interesting, some not, with various graphic designers.
Learned a few things, but also came close to nodding off.
The conclusion: since Helvetica is ubiquitous already, there’s no real danger (nor adventure) in continuing its use.
Arial was badmouthed less than expected.
And what’s pretty much the first thing seen after walking out of Andorra. That’s right, a poster for a gig at Redrum. Audaciously laid out in Helvetica Bold.
As single-issue blogs go, the ampersand has figured out an unique niche for itself.
Trust the chinese to overdo it completely. The model Shanghai of 2020 takes no less than ten thousand square meters.
And its probably way too pessimistic, and the swarming cranes end up building a much bigger city.
[ via boingboing. ]
EDIT 6.8.2008: Fixed the area.
Blinked twice when the Helsinki metro rolled in to the station today.
The traditionally thoroughly orange cars had been replaced by replicas from New York and London.
Helsingin Sanomat in running train-sized mobile ads, and this caused quite a few doubletakes by fellow passengers.
Sadly, the insides of the cars did not emulate the originals.
