Posts in category: Design
Design 04/15/2008
BAND ID Book Now Available!
I’ve been waiting to post about BAND ID until it was actually available and shipping, and it’s NOW AVAILABLE AND SHIPPING.
If you’re a graphic designer, or a music fan, or a tattoo shop, or a magazine, or you own an ad agency, or you’re in a band, or just want a perfect coffee table book that everyone will look at, then this is the book for you.
It’s got over 1000 logos in it, shown big and in full-color, and broken down by genre. It’s 420 pages, hardbound, thick and heavy, it’s got good interviews and stories, and it should be a staple on everyones bookshelf.
Check out the sample pages on the books website, or click right here to download a PDF, and then BUY IT.
Where to Buy
AMAZON $$26.40 / Chronicle $40
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Design 04/08/2008
Google's Zurich HQ
Check out Google’s new headquarters in Zurich. Pretty dope.
Click-thru for a few more photos or see a lot more here or here.
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Design 04/01/2008
Philippe Starck Hates Design Now
Renowned French designer Philippe Starck says he is fed up with his job and plans to retire in two years, in an interview published in a German weekly on Thursday.
“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact,” Starck told Die Zeit weekly newspaper. “Everything I designed was unnecessary.”
“I will definitely give up in two years’ time. I want to do something else, but I don’t know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself …design is a dreadful form of expression.”
Starck, who is known for his interior design of hotels and Eurostar trains and mass consumption objects ranging from chairs to tooth brushes and lemon juice squeezers, went on to say that he believed that design on the whole was dead.
“In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant,” he said.
Starck said the only objects that he still felt attached to were “a pillow perhaps and a good mattress.” But the thing one needs most, he added, was the “ability to love”.
[ via: breitbart ]
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Design 03/21/2008
New Buff Monster Graffiti
If you like graffiti, check out this new piece that Buff Monster just did across the street from my house on the side of Chuck Arnoldi’s studio.
Click-thru for some detail pics:
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Design 03/21/2008
I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE (and it's in Dubai)
Wow, I just saw this story on Design Boom, and I’m pretty blown away. I knew Dubai was blowing up, and we’ve all seen The World and The Palm, but this is the first I’ve seen an overview of where everything is going in the next few years, and it’s AMAZING!
Click through for a few more pics, or just check out the article and 4 pages of pictures on Designboom.com
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Design 03/12/2008
There’s a Craftsman in all of us
I really like this new ad campaign for Craftsman. It was made by Y&R Chicago advertising agency, directed by Ken Erke and photographed by Mark La Favor.
Click-thru for 2 more ads:
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Design 03/08/2008
iPad
Give me one of the on the beach in New Zealand, with WiFi, and I’d be set.
Top New Zealand architect Andre Hodgskin created a sensation when he launched the BACHKIT in 2000, gaining acclaim in international design magazines. Andre has now developed the iPAD, a fresh look at the concept of a simple but stylish lightweight kitset building.
The iPAD is a true kitset bach designed to cover a range of options; it could be a one bedroom holiday home, secondary dwelling, granny flat, office, studio or resort unit to name but a few.
It can be grouped as a series of pavilions to form larger accommodation if required. A single iPAD totals 50m sq with decks of 55m sq and will retail in New Zealand for $125,000.00. Various external cladding and colour options are available to suit individual taste and context.
Of particular note is that the iPAD can be either manufactured off-site and easily transported to its final destination, or shipped as a kitset and erected on site by a licensed contractor.
Click thru for some actual photos.
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Design 02/18/2008
This House is Nicer Than Yours
There’s so much great architecture going on in Venice right now. I know that most of you people live in boring places with normal looking houses, so I’m going to start posting some photos of the cool ones going up around here.
Here’s the first one. It’s got this awesome copper looking corrugated metal that I’ve never seen used before.
If you’re in the neighborhood, it’s right here:
2452 Penmar Ave
And if you’re really interested, this new book is really nice:
Venice, CA, Art and Architecture in a Maverick Community
click for more pics:
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Design 02/07/2008
David Carson is the Best Graphic Designer in the World
David Carson is by far the most influential graphic designer of our time, and he now joins forces with a brand new company called Life on a Board that I’ve never heard of from Virginia Beach, who Carson says is “positioned to grow into one of the most influential brands”.
Interesting.
Looking at their website, it seems like the company’s current image (it’s pretty clean right now) is very different then Carson’s typical look, but I gotta say, I do like their little square Japanese character based logo. It’s cute.
For a new company LOAB must have some cash to toss around, because the services of Mr. Carson don’t come cheap. At all.
One time I went to see David speak at UCSB, waited around for 2 hours (with about 2000 other people), and he never showed up, so I left. I got a firsthand report that he was just walking around downtown Santa Barbara, and decided he didn’t feel like going to the event. So he didn’t.
What a dick! But at least he’s a super-talented dick I guess…
Congrats to LOAB for retaining his services though, can’t wait to see what he comes up with.
Here’s the Press Release:
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Design 02/01/2008
The Nicest Surf Company Catalog Ever.
I’ve been designing catalogs in this industry for a really long time, and I think that this new catalog from UK based Nineplus might be the nicest one I’ve ever seen. Beautifully designed by NBUFFALO, the catalog is a 6“x8” hardbound 128 page book, that looks like something you would pay $20 for at any good book store, but I picked it up for FREE at Mollusk Surf Shop in Venice.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve never actually heard of Nineplus. They’re a longboard based company in England, so I guess because I don’t really longboard much, and I’ve never surfed in England, my ignorance is somewhat justified. But I gotta say, after looking through the catalog, and feeling their wetsuits in the store, I’m leaning towards picking up their Stylist Shortie for the Summer. The neoprene is made by a company called YAMAMOTO, and it’s made mostly of limestone. Supposedly that’s better for the environment (check out this article from treehugger.com for more details).
click-thru to see some photos
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