Category Archives: Design

Hand-drawn Indian movie posters

Posted on 12/20/2012 by Zed

Source: asiaobscura. Asia Obscura website has posted a huge horde of hand-drawn Indian movie posters. They are awesome! See more here.

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Hi-tech VFX for food commercials

Posted on 11/20/2012 by Zed

Marmalade, a company that specializes in high-speed shooting, gives us a look behind the scenes. Utterly fascinating stuff! I especially love the section on the custom high-speed robot Marmalade created to capture precise moments during their ultra high frame-rate shoots. Source: … Continue reading →

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Movie posters from other angles

Posted on 04/24/2012 by Zed

Brazilian Ad agency Y&R did these movie posters from other angles as part of an advertising campaign for LG’s Home Theater 3D surround sound system.

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Best ad of the day: Drug smuggling is a bad idea

Posted on 03/23/2012 by Zed

Source: adsoftheworld

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Interview with industrial designer Dieter Rams

Posted on 03/19/2012 by Zed

I recently wrote about the influence of German designer Dieter Rams on Jonathan Ives of Apple. This interview with Dieter Rams was done by publisher Gestalten to accompany their book Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams. I … Continue reading →

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A unique Starbucks in Japan

Posted on 02/29/2012 by Zed

Photo credit: Masao Nishikawa via My Modern Met. Kengo Kuma and Associates are responsible for creating this unique looking Starbucks. It is located in Fukuoko Prefecture, on the way to Dazaifu Tenmagu, one of the most important Shinto shrines in Japan. The … Continue reading →

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Taxi: A data visualization of 10,000 cab rides in Manhattan

Posted on 02/09/2012 by Zed

Taxi! is a data visualization project by Tom McKeogh, Eliza Montgomery and Juan F Saldarriaga. It was done as part of a class at Columbia University. Taxi! charts the movements of 10,000 taxi rides around Manhattan over the course of 24 … Continue reading →

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2012 Light Festival in Ghent, belgium

Posted on 01/31/2012 by Zed

Luminarie De Cagna, an enormous church-like building was covered with 55,000 LED lights as part of the 2012 Light Festival in Ghent, Belgium. The second Festival of Lights took place in the town centre of Ghent, Belgium, from 26 January … Continue reading →

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Dieter Rams: Industrial designer

Posted on 01/26/2012 by Zed

Collage used under Flickr CCLi. Credit Flickr User axeldeviaje. Jonathan Ive, head of Apple’s product design, is considered one of the finest industrial designers of the modern age. Few people know that one of Ive’s major influences is the German-born designer … Continue reading →

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