Category Archives: Design

recycling art

“A Cloud of Bags Visiting The Prado” by Luzinterruptus was displayed early morning on March 5th. 80 plastic shopping bags were recycled and illuminated with the wind blowing through the installation. Photos by Gustavo Sanabria.
Originally posted on Luzinterruptus.

form i’d like you to meet function

Absolutely brilliant and beautiful design for a USB thumb drive. Who knew?! Get yours today!

mow the lawn

A funny commercial for Quattro. Agency - JWT, New York.
Thanks for the link Jen.

the penny harvest

Found this interesting organization called Common Cents, the organization that created the Penny Harvest. The Penny Harvest is an ingenious and simple program which gives children the power of philanthropy. The program is simple – gather pennies throughout the year and at the end, donate all of your collected pennies as a cash grant to [...]

separated at birth

Its just come to my attention via John Custer that Skittles.com just ripped off Modernista’s concept (and design?) for their corporate site. Wow, talk about being unoriginal and unimaginative.
Oh and here’s the funny part, people are mocking skittles for their blatant rip on Twitter and some of those comments are making it on skittles’s site…. [...]

one free interaction

One free interaction
originally published by Chris Noessel on January 27, 2009
“One free interaction” is a prospective design pattern that gives software and hardware a more humane feel. It exists outside of task flows and the concept of users as task-doers. Instead it sits in the “in between” spaces, suiting users as fidgeters, communicators, and people who [...]

hmm… gotta love the bacon

Click here to add some lovely bacon to your site.

posters

Great new resource of archived type posters can be found here - www.typographicposters.com

infringe this

“NEW YORK (CNN) — You would think that Citigroup had enough on its plate these days, but that hasn’t stopped the financial behemoth from filing a copyright infringement suit against a Brooklyn, New York, pawnshop over a similar logo.
In the suit filed last week in Brooklyn federal court, Citigroup alleges that in using the same [...]

we the people

Beautiful photographs of “Obama’s People” from the New York Times by Nadav Kander. You can see the interactive microsite here introducing the American People to Obama’s top advisers, aides and incoming administration.