Jul 04, 2011
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As part of the 100 year celebrations which have seen the entire offices redesigned and opened out to help develop the company and bring it up to date. As part of our ongoing work with Padley and Venables, we were asked to develop a wall graphic for this reception area to reflect the website designer previously by us. The size of this graphic is 5 metres X 1.75 m.
It was a simple thing for us to provide a strong graphic which shows the international nature of the company’s business and reminds every visitor of the scale of the operation. The other side of the wall shown here, is also covered with a graphic which helps communicate the company brand values to the staff on a daily basis.
The interior design and build was taken care of by Domino Commercial Interiors in Sheffield, with whom we worked to produce the graphic and get it in place.
We’ll update you with more on this project soon.
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May 17, 2011
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As lovers of image, this is quite simply breathtaking. We were told about a website belonging to Parisian artist, Guido Mocafico, who produces some literally stunning images. When we visited the site it was one of the rare ones which makes us stop, gather around a screen and click each image. Every one of them.
The ones which we felt compelled to show you first are the Serpent series, which are, as we mentioned at the start of this post, breathtaking. Scientists argue that our brains are hardwired to be scared of snakes (amongst other things) but when they are presented in this manner, you can’t help be see them as stunning examples of how nature can make colours and beauty that man could never make up.
The image shown above is of Dendroaspis jamesoni jamesoni, or Jameson’s Green Mamba – or so I am informed, a snake which comes originally from Burundi, living mainly in trees.
After we discussed it a little, we realised it was the context in which the snakes are all photographed which makes this series of shots so special. Think about it, you usually see snakes in their natural habitat (or a mock up of it’s natural habitat at least) but these are all photographed against a black background, which is obviously containing them and forcing the shapes they are making, usually long, curved and lithe, square and angular. This forces them to become a real abstraction of themselves and results in some amazing images.
This is a website which we would really recommend a visit to for this series alone, but the rest of the photos are as good, so have a look and see what you think. (Clicking the image above will take you to the site of the artist.)
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May 16, 2011
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As is the usual, I stumbled on this whilst looking for something else this morning.
It was so nice that I even forgot what I was actually looking for in the first place. (Not strictly true but it side-tracked me for a while!)
As you can see in the picture above, it’s a quite nicely made table which has rows of little LEDs recessed in the surface in a halftone screen image. In this case you can see it’s a tree. Which is quite an amazing effect. It’s made by a company called NKcharms, hailing from Hong Kong. It’s a really nice addition to the table which would pretty much be suitable in my home. Just sayin’. As is usual, if you click on the image you can get more details for yourself, and see more images.
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Apr 24, 2011
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I always say that if design can make someone smile it works just as well as if it fulfils it’s commercial responsibilities too. That’s why when I was in Israel recently I made a note of a name I saw in reference to shoe designs. It’s not something I would usually look at as I tend to wear trainers most of the time, but these designs made me pay attention, due to the brilliantly humourous way of looking at what a shoe actually could be.
The designer I’m talking about is an Israeli footwear designer called Kobi Levi, a graduate of the Bezalel academy in Jerusalem who has his own practice and has worked on an international basis with high profile companies as a freelancer whilst maintaining his own practice.
The shoe I’ve chosen to show you, above, struck a cord with me as it reminded me of the poster advertisement being run for at least the last 5 years in Rotterdam of chewing gum stuck to a shoe. On closer inspection you see that the chewing gum is actually the heel of this high heeled shoe.
As ever, if you click the picture you will be taken to the website by Kobi, which shows just what he is capable of, from the clever use of bird imagery to the brilliantly risqué “XXX pump”. Well worth 5 minutes of anyone’s time, especially if you like your shoes a little different.
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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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