Jun 04, 2008
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This is a great little thing. It looks like a simple 100 dollar note, but upon closer inspection it is made up from 10,000 little drawings. The artists, Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima, produced a single image from data collected over a period of 5 months. Each small piece of the collage was produced by random visitors to a website, who were, in return paid 1¢ US for their art.
The website where the art is hosted is still available and you can see each and every one of the 10,000 pieces as they were drawn (each drawing was recorded and is played back as you roll over the portion and click with your mouse.)
I found it interesting to see just how far some people would go to make an accurate reproduction of the portion of image they were assigned, whilst others were clearly giving exactly 1¢ worth of their time. As you explore the image you can see a great example of pointillism, one artist gives us a great portrait which is not on, or part of the 100 dollar bill, and others choose to leave messages on the note. The resulting image is available for the cost of $100 and (surprisingly) limited to an edition of 10,000.
Art like this is a great use of the web and the technologies available for use upon it and also proves to us all that art can appear outside the realm of canvas and marble. Technically, the dwell times and footfall are incredible too, most websites would kill for stats like this.
Anyway, why not wander across to the site yourself and see just how interesting this project is, clicking the picture above will take you there.
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Jun 04, 2008
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Simple Illustration and a great fun feeling, make this website a great piece of brand communication for the Orange phone company in the UK. This is one of those feel good things that you don’t mind spending some time on, Everytime. Click the image above to go to the site to see for yourself.
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Jun 04, 2008
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As a Brit living in Europe, getting used to the ‘Euro’ as a currency has been a slow process. The thing which has always struck me about the Euro is how modern the designs are in comparison to the UK Pound. The UK coinage has been a traditional and historically based emblem for years, and The Royal Mint (who issue the pound) recently held a competition to redesign the images which would adorn the reverse (the ‘tails’ side) of the coins.
The winner of the competition was a Graphic Designer by the name of Matthew Dent. At the age of 26 the designer took the project to heart and invested time using research and revision to produce his series of designs. Thankfully the designs for the new coins are modern in design, using historic heraldic emblems and using dynamic crops of the image to create a very modern and appealing design.
We say well done Matthew, it’s time we had a revision of the UK coinage and this design is a great example of how design crosses old and new.
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Jun 03, 2008
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One of the best general Design shows in Europe comes to Rotterdam’s Van Nelle Fabriek this coming weekend. 5/6/7th June 2008. See you there.
Link to the exhibition site by clicking the Logo.
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Jun 03, 2008
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Dunno about you, but often I hate using thumb tacks (or drawing pins as we Brits call them) because they look, so, well… tacky. I stumbled upon these great pins the other day while looking for something else (don’t the best web finds start that way?) and thought they were a great way of holding your paper to the office notice board, and making your drawings look a little bit more bad-ass too!
Based on the Ninja throwing stars we’re familiar with after watching all those kung fu movies as kids, these pins are a great example of how someone has re-thought the simple thumb tack. This leads us to ask how you would redesign something which you use everyday and take for granted? Answers below in the comments boxes please.
image © chromoly.ca
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