Jun 10, 2010
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I’ve always been a sucker for scale models and really dig making small replicas of big things. I know, sounds a bit geeky, but sometimes there are things that come along which just need to be made public.
In this case it’s a few items on the Makers Market (the sell through site the creative people who read Make Magazine) which we shouldn’t really spend as much time looking through as we do. There is a store on there called “Everything tiny” which has a set of itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny stuff. Mainly dinosaurs, but as you see the picture above shows how you can display tiny origami cranes with their special kit for only $16!
Once again it’s another laser cut related item (seeing a common thread starting here) which we are talking about, but for good reason. If you take the late night mouse to Clickyville on the picture above you will get to see the other items which they sell there.
Everybody says well done Kellbot, these are wonderful little creations that we need to create our tiny desktop natural history museum… now does anyone know where we can get 1:500 scale stuffed Giraffe to start our new “African Savannah” exhibition hall?
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May 21, 2010
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Everybody knows that Everybody loves letterpress as a printing method. Results are always interesting, and when combined with a fantastic image and used properly it becomes much amazing.
Recently whilst looking for something else, (as is always the case) we stumbled upon this amazing example of a letterpress poster. The designer, Cameron Moll, was inspired by a visit to the Colosseum in Rome to produce the poster you see a detail of above, it’s an example of what can happen when a designer or artist gets close to becoming obsessive. In this case it is pure inspiration.
You can click the image above to go to the website that he has produced to sell prints of the poster. There is a fantastic video of the production of the poster which will help you understand the process, and hopefully inspire you to make something as beautiful as this yourself.
Everybody says well done Cameron, this is a fantastically inspiring piece which we can’t keep ourselves from looking at over and over.
We’ve had a busy month so we will update the site with more stuff that has inspired us over the last few weeks whilst we’ve been knocking out the work!
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Apr 08, 2010
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Well, not actually made of Pixels, but the wall is covered with them. The Pixel bar is a new wine and Tapas bar in Brussels, Belgium whose walls are completely covered in soundproofed foam cushions. Over 8,000 of them in total, each made from cubed foam pads in 27 different coloured covers.
When viewed from afar, the image is that of a pixelated countryside scene, close up it is a beautifully abstracted bunch of coloured blocks. As ever the simple ideas are the best, and when executed in such a perfect manner you get something as special as this.
Everybody says great work to the designer behind the bar, Charles Kaisin… Right, Brussels is about 2 hours from here, Friday afternoon drinks there? 6:30pm anyone?
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Apr 05, 2010
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I’ll start this in the old way I used to start most of my older blog posts… just because it’s true, so here goes.
Once in a while an item comes along and makes you stand up and pay attention. Here is one of them. This is an attractive looking hen house which is quite extraordinary, if only for it’s external beauty!
The wooden, multi-level hen house is designed to be a place to roost and rest for the (possibly more pampered) chicken(s) in your life. Using principles of architecture in the design of a simple hen house is a stroke of genius and we wonder how long it is before someone starts a study on whether chicken lay more in this than a standard koop.
The designer is Frederik Roijé, who is from the east of the Netherlands. After a prodigious period at the reknowned Eindhoven institute and a couple of internships at famous designers’ in both the Netherlands and Italy, he opened the door on his own design practice in Amsterdam during 2003, specialising in product design. His early flair for “interior items” has been continued through his work for companies such as Droog design and many of his own collections.
We thoroughly recommend a good look around his website to ensure you see all his work, it is very inspirational. Click the image above and you will go to his site to see his works and learn about him and his company.
Everybody thinks this is great work and inspiration to everyone indeed!
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Mar 28, 2010
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For a few months we’ve been into stop frame animation, sure it’s been around for a long time, but we;re gonna post a few examples of how stop frame motion can give a much more emotive feel for video work. Once upon a time the only way to produce animation was to use “Stop Frame Animation”, ie. move something very slightly and take a photo of it each time… when run together you get motion. That’s old school, but it is often the case the old ways are often the best for different reasons.
for years filmmakers such as the legendary Ray Harryhausen used this method to produce mind blowing animations of dinosaurs and skeleton warriors in films before the computer became the pre-eminent production method. Ray Harryhausen was the main exponent of this style in Hollywood movies such as Jason and the Argonauts and the Sinbad series, one look at his website will give you a great idea of what he is about.
This is the video for the single from Oren Lavie called “Her Morning Elegance” it’s a beautiful example of how stop frame animation can be used to explore an idea. Call it art for arts sake if you want, but in this case it suits the music perfectly. (It has obvious similarities (too similar some say) to a video by the artist Mitchell Rose, have a look here click)
The video show just how an idea can come to life using one technique over another… imagine if this had been produce in a 3d computer style, it would have nothing like the same emotion, drawn either.
Everybody likes this movie, and indeed Stop Frame Animation. As usual click the movie to go to youtube and watch it. It’s well worth 5 minutes of your day.
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