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Quick graphic design job

// September 6th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Design, Graffiti Street Art & Stencils, Partying

Mikey called last night as I was about to leave for the gym and asked if I was feeling creative. I was looking for an excuse to not go to the gym (it also just started raining). And this is what I came up with. The vase graphics I used were created by Ben from Ben Blogged, which I found on Vecteezy. The font for the farewell text is called Cocaine Sans, and the front i use for the ‘design by Ross’ is called BTSE. I did the whole design in illustrator- and it’s completely vector. The ‘click here for a map’ button links to Google Maps, the link was embedded in the final PDF.

Enjoy Rugby in the Capital of Love

// July 19th, 2007 // No Comments » // Design

A new campaign to lure Londonders to Gay Paris, I am not too sure if it will work. But I think it is pretty hot. Almost as hot as the nude French Rugby Calendar a few years ago.

Kia Ora Kitty

// July 11th, 2007 // 2 Comments » // Design, Fun Stuff

Hello Kitty is now attempting to take over literally ALL cultures as can be seen in this Hello Kitty Maori creation. I adore it and want one!This as created by artist called Joseph Also have a look at some other amazing things on his profile.

Milan Fly Swatter

// May 9th, 2007 // No Comments » // Design, Map Stuff

This fly swatter is based on a map of Milan! I love it! Anyone want to by me one? It is avaiable from Charles and Marie Modern Living 

Netvibes Has Themes

// May 8th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Design

I am a huge fan of Netvibes, and have been using it for over a year now. Over that time, the size of my personal page has grown to 12 tabs, all packed with over a hundred RSS feeds from all over the net. Every now an then Netvibes released new themes, and I have been using the one called corriander for a while which was really clean and easy to read. Now users can create their own themes, or select from a range of canned themes. You can also import themes from myspace and twitter. Now I am using the Veerle theme.

Named after its author, Veerle Pieters, this theme shows nice rounded modules and elegant new tabs. Veerle did an amazing job by pushing the limits of netvibes skinnability. The result is an exclusive theme showing her talent and style.

The new theme editor can also be used to change your header background, and has tight Flickr integration for selecting images.

Millimetres Matter

// May 4th, 2007 // No Comments » // Design, Fun Stuff

Organised by Color [Organized by Color]

// March 7th, 2007 // 2 Comments » // Design, Home

As a kid I used to love big tin boxes filled with 48 different coloured pencils or wax crayola crayons, and I would painstakingly keep the pencils and crayons arranged by spectrum. I even belong to a flickr group that has collections of photographs of coloured pencils (also see condiments, bike racks, and trash cans. Maybe this was a sign that I was destined to fly the rainbow flag.

I still find colours that are carefully organised visually appealing, and I love flicking through Pantone swatches, seeing collections of paint chips at harware stores, or books with fabric swatches, carefully arranged by their colours.

A while ago I saw an article about and artist called Chris Cobb who rearranged 20,000 books the a secondhand bookstore in San Francisco called Adobe Books. The installation was titled There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World. Have a look at some pictures of the installation here. Last year a friend asked me to help arrange things after she had moved house, Mark and I spent an hour rearranging her bookshelf so that the spines of the books were all arranged by colour following the spectrum, I found the result visually very pleasing.

I just came across an article on Swiss Miss titled “How do you arrange your books” and I now want to buy lots of books, with colourful spines and carefully keep them arranged like the pictures above.

Rob Giampietro has a very interesting article “On Arranging books by Color” which looks at the different classification systems for arranging books such as the popular Dewey System compared to arranging them by colour.

organizing books by color allows him to discover new and unexpected relationships between books he knows well already. When two unrelated books are forced to occupy the same shelf simply because of their spine color, the shelver is asked to think about whether they have ideas to share between them

So will book organisation be replaced with the Pantone numbering system? Probably not, but I still think it looks more appealing.

iWant iNeed iPhone iCreamedMyself

// January 10th, 2007 // No Comments » // Design, Map Stuff

Overnight at MacWorld in San Francisco Apple unveiled the heavily rumored iPhone, but in true apple style it has exceeded all expectations. The only bad news is that it will be released in the US in June, Europe in Q4 2007 and Asia (Australia) in 2008. Can I wait? Anyone in London able to hook me up? Maybe I could fly to Europe to buy one (Mark don’t read that bit). The phone comes standard with google maps, maybe I can use that to justify it as a tax write-off

felix 2007 double you

// January 4th, 2007 // No Comments » // Design, Fun Stuff

I found this on Swiss Miss The video is by by doubleyou.com, a Barcelona/Madrid based studio. The music is fab too.

79th Annual Academy Awards Poster

// December 22nd, 2006 // No Comments » // Design

The poster for next years Academy Awards is out. The gleaming Oscar is backed by famous movie quotes including “I wish I knew how to quit you”, ET phone home”, Give ‘em the old razzle dazzle” and “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate”.

The typographic design is brilliant, and the three column layout works really well, with some quotes crossing columns, and the fonts used are carefully matched to the phrase they are portraying. Each quote has been painstakingly sized to carefully fill the poster, and the gentle black fade-off at the bottom highlights the title. Well done to the Los Angeles ad agency TBWA-Chiat-Day for this clean and simple layout, and Photographer Albert Watson shot the Oscar statuette.

The academy plans to send out the posters to the surviving writers of the lines.