Font driver

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Pierre and Damien of Plmd and Stef Van Campenhoudt (who drives a bit like Kirsty) have collaborated to cut a spanking new font, with a car. Basically the cars movements have been tracked using some clever software by interactive guru Zachary Lieberman and the results are gorgeous.

Boxing water

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Part sustainable water company, part art project, part philanthropic project, and not that new. Boxed Water Is Better they say, is it really? What with it being the fashion to be ‘going all green’ these days, so it was with a healthy dose of scepticism when I came across water in a Tetrapak pack… The …

I’m seeing a pattern

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Kirsty bought me Geometric, for being good last week. It’s gorgeous and I keep sniffing the fresh print and smiling. Printed on heavy matte stock, it features an embossed cover that’s wrapped in an American-style poster and bound with a distinctive rhythm technique. The colourful and monochrome patterns are enough to get any designer dribbling …

Fridge doors leave you cold?

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Fridge magnets are normally a bit crap and the kind of thing your well meaning granny might give you after visiting someplace you never actually wanted to go to. And no, it’s not that now over done rubbish fridge poetry, where you can put together rude sentences but when you read them back it makes …

F*ck the rain

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Spotted on Shirtluv.com, the Fuck The Rain umbrella is a thing of genius. It’s simple fun and more importantly it made us laugh on a crappy Monday morning. The Designers are Artemy Lebedev, Anton Schnaider and the umbrella features a cool carabiner handle so that you can clip it to things like your backpack or …

Lamp posts are cool

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Those tip top Landscape architects Anouk Vogel and cooler than polar bears architect Johan Selbing have just won a high profile competition to design the new lighting and furniture for the Vondelpark in Amsterdam. Their jaw dropping winning entry, called Vondel Verses, includes fabulous kiosks, funky park benches and some nice lamp posts. Each object …

Get minted

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Those lovely people that are make lots of money, The Royal Mint, are running a super competition to design the 2012 edition of the 50p coin. The competition is open all of us who are over 13 years, UK residents and the lucky winner will see their design on the backs of 50p pieces used …

Moosehead packaging

Monday, January 12th, 2009

In the land of product and retailing, a year is not that long to get the all important Christmas gifting packs sorted out and on shelves for those pesky “early bird” shoppers who start in September. The brief to radically step change the Moosehead gifting range. The product will remain the same but the target …

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