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The power of packaging #2
Tuesday March 9th, 2010 0Doing packaging design for tools doesn’t really sound like the most inspirational thing to do. But when you start using nature as metaphors for the design it’s getting more and more interesting.
A hammer, an hammerhead shark
A Saw, an crocodile
A garden hose, an elephant
Designer Marc Monguilod from Barca really did a great job with these packages, [...] -
Photo manipulation at its best
Monday March 1st, 2010 1While most people try to hide the fact they use photoshop to brush up their pictures, there are also artists who obviously distort images. Only in this case Erik Johansson does it so cleverly that you almost start believing in the amazing illusions he creates. Different from a lot of other digital artists Erik [...]
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Creativity can solve anything
Friday February 26th, 2010 0You see an average of 5,000 ads every day. Lets be honest – Most of them suck – . A handful are good. Only a few look and feel like – and indeed really are – art. The most innovative advertising campaigns of our time and the creative rebels behind them are the fascinating subjects [...]
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EU Organic Logo
Monday February 22nd, 2010 1In April of last year, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development announced a competition — open only to design and art students from the 27 EU Member States — that Offers a prize, that money just can’t buy” according to the press release, “The winning logo will be introduced as the official logo for [...]
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Overcoming creative blocks
Tuesday February 16th, 2010 0I do not know what to write. I am looking around, staring outside, tuning the music on and off. Still no ideas.
Welcome to the so called writer block, the concept of an inspiration rut is unfortunately very familiar to every creative in any field. Sometimes ideas just don’t show up to work. Given this, we [...] -
Veltins under the Tannenbaum… Gifts, gifts, gifts!
Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 8I quoted this already in a comment a while ago: “It’s nice to be nice!”, thats what the Ghanaians say. Apparently the Veltins crew are aware of this saying and in full spirit of proving it true. They are sending out a free crate of Veltins design bottles to everyone who submits one of the [...]
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Hundreds of people collaborate to make design magazine cover
Monday November 23rd, 2009 3Some weeks ago we had a blogpost about the first crowdsourced magazine cover, which was orginate from O.K. Periodicals.
Last week I got a mail from William van Giessen (O.K. Periodicals) and he sent us an image of this cover, which is so nice! Hundreds of people sent their ideas and they made the cover in [...] -
Betacup – this great project needs support!
Thursday November 5th, 2009 5This very likable project called the betacup is concerned with the way we drink coffee. Billions of un-recyclable coffee cups a year go to waste!
The betacup’s goal is to eliminate paper cup consumption through the design of a more convenient alternative to the coffee mug.
With their strictly community-driven approach, they want to not only [...] -
jovoto bei Volkssport Design
Thursday October 29th, 2009 2Liebe Community,
wie ihr schon aus dem Newsletter und sicher aus einigen tweets wisst, war jovoto am Montag nicht nur zu Gast beim Symposium “Volkssport Design“, Bastian hat jovoto dort auch vor- und zur Diskussion gestellt.Zunächst ist zu sagen, dass es eine wirklich spannende Veranstaltung war – nicht zuletzt weil das Thema doch vielen Designern und [...]
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Art/Design Review – Illustrative 09
Monday October 19th, 2009 0Berlin has been practically wallpapered with the friendly CMYK-colored pencils that are the funky protagonists of the posters informing about Illustrative, the “leading international forum for contemporary illustration and graphic art”.
Of course, this is something jovoto couldn’t miss and so I went out to the beautiful venue of Villa Elisabeth in Berlin Mitte to [...]