Everybody was asked by our friend Gaudi Hoedaya to develop and design a promotional brochure for Comenius College. The brochure had to be appealing to both parents and potential students, whilst making clear which type of education and facilities are available at which of their five locations, situated in Capelle aan den IJssel, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel and Rotterdam Alexander.

Within a very tight deadline Everybody produced a very well received promotional brochure that was warmly welcomed by the communication department with the words; ‘a paper jewel’ and ‘new thinking with a new look’.

Everybody enjoyed working together with Gaudi and looks forward to more collaboration!

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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I was once told – years ago, that all designers are a little bit OCD. In my case it is more than a little true, lord knows I can spend hours sweating over the kerning of a single word in a headline, or checking 6 times that I put crop marks on the last PDF file I put to the printers’… But this guy… This guy brings a new meaning to the old adage, attention to detail.

For example, not content with reading Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, he remixed it. Took the words, every word, rearranged them into different categories of emotion, and made them look beautiful. It’s quite a stunning example of the length he will go to make things. It’s kind of scary when you see it, cos it simply makes me want to take that straight column of copy I just laid out and make it messy… Beautiful but messy.

It’s incredible to see how far one individual will go to make his or her art, and in this case Sam goes the extra mile, then runs another marathon. Spend some time wondering around the work section of his website and you will come away thinking differently about everything. Take your mouse button to smackdown town over the picture and go to his website.

Everybody says Sam’s work is incredible, and should be admired. Do it.

Not very often does a designer get an amazing brief. We seem to be lucky here at Everybody, we get some great ones, but we are open minded and remember that we have a commercial responsibility.

Now. When you are the head of design at a world renowned sports car company, you grab the chance to produce a piece which is ‘definitive’ and marks the mark as far as the future of the company and the whole sports car genre. That was pretty much the brief that was given to Marek Reichman by Ulrich Betz, CEO of Aston Martin. The idea was to inject all the beauty and emotion that Aston Martin can put into a car. Distil that further and you basically have to produce a piece of hand crafted Art. The Brand Essence poured into a bottle and sold as a car.

Before you rush out and buy one, there is a very limited edition of only 77 of these – which are probably already sold, even at the £1,000,000 pound price tag. If you want to make it even more perfect, you can tailor it to match your needs, tastes and driving style.

It is also worth noting that this is the first completely new, from the ground up Aston Martin since the brand was sold to the Ford group. The great thing for us as Brand designers is that Aston really understand the need to communicate their brand in the best way they can, produce the best car they have ever made and show off their abilities, simple as that. For now, though, Everybody will make do with looking at pictures of the car as it is a true piece of art in the truest sense of the meaning.

This versatile designer has many great seating options which are produced in ay varied materials including a carpet and aluminium combination which sounds just as interesting as it looks. His forms are more often than not very organic in nature and if placed in an industrial setting would provide a great foil to the bare brick walls, looking even more stunning.

A great tip is to keep an eye out for his Chase Longe made from laminating many different materials, from fibre board to PVC and then CNC machining the shape out of the resulting block of colours. Stunning.

If you want to check out his work you can click the image above to go to his website for more images of his works and information about the designer.

Everybody likes shiny.

British designer Demelza Hill integrates the concept of traditional silverware with disposable cutlery. It is a nice way of turning a picknick in the park or any outdoor eating into a stylish three-course lunch or dinner. Great for receptions as well instead of the usual and rather crass toothpick stuck into your food.

Also this proves a good opportunity to practice your perhaps long gone correct cutlery skills. The Snap and Dine is built up in the manner of a formal table setting, so it reminds you in a fun and interactive way how to set a table.

Everybody really likes this and says well done to Demelza, for this and all the other inspiring pieces on her website. You can see for yourself by clicking the picture above to go there.

Well, 21st of September is here and that officially marks the start of Autumn in the northern hemisphere and as my Dad would say, “… ‘t nights are drawing in.”, which to all intents and purposes means it’s getting darker earlier.

This is something I found recently which struck me as a quite nice little object to help fend off the winter blues and help to keep us all warm of an evening. Designed by Wolf Udo Wagner, It’s is a portable fireplace which burns a bio-alcohol and is perfect for both indoor and outdoor use with the light will last for between an hour and a half and two and a half hours. The fuel emits a very low amount of Carbon Dioxide and therefore doesn’t require a Chimney. The piece is available in three sizes and made from fire retardant glass and stainless steel.

Everybody likes a nice fire and when it is presented in such an elegant and simple fashion it is something special. Click the picture above to be linked to the site to get more details and more images.

Recognise it? This is one of the most powerful and successful logos in recent history and the original artwork for the logo has recently been bought by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London for the sum of £92,500 (€117,470).

The story goes back a few years to 1970 when the designer John Pasche was studying at the RCA in London. By all accounts the Rolling Stones were not to happy with the boring ideas produced by their record label and sought elsewhere for a logo which was more to their liking.

John Pasche drew this up for them and it was an instant hit with the band, he was paid the princely sum of £50 for his work and the image has gone on to be one of the most recognisable symbols in the world of music. (The band also are said to have liked the logo so much they paid Pasche an extra £200 as a bonus.) He went on to design for the music industry as Creative Director at a couple of record labels and has received numerous awards for his work in the arts industries over the last 40 years.

Everybody says, nice one John, we love a good logo, especially one which is part of history and will, thanks for the V&A and the art fund in the UK, will remain one for years to come.

Everyone has a bad day occasionally, but sometimes you wish you could just shred its existence. We stumbled upon this yesterday whilst looking for something else (like all the best internet finds) and thought it was worth sharing.

Designed by Susanna Hertrich the principal is obvious but effective. Advancing with time, the shredded remains of yesterday are left to fall to the floor like a huge bundle of string. It could be used as great metaphors for the passing of time, the intertwining of memories and the jumbling up of history. The truth is that it is just cool, and looks good too. We want one, but I know that I would be spending too much time resetting the date so I could just see how long the shredded remains get.

You could also add a huge fan to make a great streamer effect that would really upset your colleagues.

Click the image for more information and other great works by this talented designer.

OK, I’m not into wine that much, but I have to say this is something I would put on the dinner table full of a nice red. It is a sculpture and a Carafe all in one, which brings a wonderful centrepiece to your table. They are made by a French artist/sculptor called Etienne Meneau, who sells these wonderful pieces via the internet, you can click the image above to go to the web blog where they are based to see many many more of them.

The idea that someone has questioned why the traditional Carafe is the way it is, is inspiring to us. It might not be the most usable, might not be the most aesthetically pleasing to everyone, but it is a great example of what can be achieve if you ask the simple one work question… “why?”

The rest of the works on the website remind us of the work of Thomas Heatherwick (see this post SIT OOT for more of his work). Great company to be in.

Everybody says good work Etienne.